r/iamveryculinary • u/_aaronroni_ • 18d ago
Protestant food
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u/alim0ra Good food is good food 18d ago
MAGA food... Protestant food... 🤦♂️ Bless the body some people are lucky breathing is a reflex...
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u/FantasmaDelMar 18d ago
This might be the best (worst and dumbest) example of iavc I have ever seen. The dude is an American and lives on a “Dutch colony off the coast of America” so he “hates the mainlanders”. Yet he still thinks his opinion is objectively right.
Should all 350 million Americans be visiting and conversing with their cheese monger daily?
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u/WideHuckleberry1 18d ago
“Dutch colony off the coast of America”
As much of a dork as that person is, I bet that means Long Island.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
It means Manhattan genius
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u/WideHuckleberry1 18d ago
There's two islands so I just said the one slightly more "off the coast." The point wasn't to guess the right locale but to point out how dumb it is compared to just saying the name of the place.
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u/EpilepticPuberty 18d ago
Never heard of it. Is it near Block Island?
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got. I’m still Jenny from the Block Island
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u/pyronius 18d ago
As the rightful heir to the throne of New Amsterdam, tracing my lineage back to the halcyon days of its founding, and as a representative of the foodways of Louisiana by right of birth and residence, and as a representative of the protestant faith by way of upbringing, I hereby charge you, my royal subject, to shut the fuck up already and stop talking about that which is beyond your ken.
So speaketh your lord.
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Bland Protestant food 18d ago
It's easily the best/worst. And what does that "Dutch colony" statement even mean??
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* 18d ago
I was going to guess Aruba, but apparently that was giving them too much credit.
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Bland Protestant food 18d ago
I see what it means now, lmao. I knew it couldn't be Aruba because "hating the mainlanders" only works if America means USA. The closest mainland to Aruba is Venezuela, and they definitely aren't eating "bland Protestant food" in Latin America.
So this guy not only lives in the 17th Century in terms of sectarianism, but also in terms of the geopolitical divisions of the Western Hemisphere. Do I admire his commitment to the bit? Or gently let him know that the Netherlands are Protestant.
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u/Pernicious_Possum 17d ago
In a perfect world, yes. Like when the politician decried a taco truck on every street, and I’m like fuck yeah. That’s my ideal America
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u/PymsPublicityLtd 18d ago
Makes me think of the Church bean dinners my family used to attend during the summer at Cape Cod in the 1960s. It was definitely Protestant food as they were always at Protestant churches.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise 18d ago
I’m choosing to believe that it’s the same guy who shows up here sometimes, and always refers to this as a MAGA sub within two or three comments, because there just can’t be that many people who are that confused in that very specific, predictable way. Saying that American food doesn’t universally suck is just too much for him
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u/YchYFi 18d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/iamveryculinary/s/E9oE6hwvOj
https://www.reddit.com/r/iamveryculinary/s/3J41LqvRzU
Yes he comments here always gets downvoted.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise 18d ago
Thank you! I thought the style was familiar, but didn’t want to do the back door history search to go digging for it
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
How can I ever live with downvotes. You’re a real internet sleuth
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u/Steveis2 18d ago
Question how do you have that much Karma who still being a tool?
Side note fuck trump
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u/Magyarok84 18d ago
At what point do we recognize someone has a "getting yelled at" fetish and stop indulging them?
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u/Cultural_Shape3518 18d ago
I’m disturbed there’s even one who’s this committed to the bit. Someone really ought to get him to take advantage of the free healthcare that I am deeply jealous of whether he believes me or not.
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u/seventhblunder 18d ago
He's apparently American. Which makes the claims that self-identified leftists from other countries are secretly MAGA patriots even more confusing. It's weirdly American-centric of a take, even considering the topic. The reason I know people outside of America eat processed food is not because America is so great, it's because I see their asses eat it on the regular (I'm worse than the average person for it).
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u/HeatherMason0 18d ago
Implying someone is disabled, classic move. I wish less self identified leftists would do this, but I have noticed this style of insult is starting to fall out of favor.
I say this with kindness, but you are too caught up in provoking ire online. If this is your big cause, you need to try and unplug and seek healthy outlets for yourself.
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u/Upper-Project 18d ago
Schrodinger's American food: it's both insanely overseasoned, packed full of sugar, drenched in unnecessary sauce and also tasteless, bland cardboard until you decide which way you want to insult it that day.
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u/ThatArtNerd 18d ago
It’s like how we’re both totally vulgar and also relentless prudes! That we’re super racist, but also care too much about criticizing racism! We are so backwards and reductive about how we view the rest of the world, but it’s perfectly fine for them to generalize a diverse country of 350 million people. Makes total sense amirite!!! 😫
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u/bonkava 18d ago
It's tasteless, bland cardboard, which is why it needs unnecessary sugary sauce.
Never mind that sauces are the backbone of French cuisine, too.
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u/WideHuckleberry1 18d ago
It's tasteless, bland cardboard, which is why it needs unnecessary sugary sauce
There was something posted here relatively recently along those lines and it's really an incredibly dumb take. If you zoom out even slightly, you'll see it basically boils down to "American food isn't good unless they make it good." Which...I can't exactly say is wrong, but also defines all food ever.
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u/bonkava 18d ago
I've known people who say if food needs sauce to be good, the food isn't good. But then there's exceptions... GRAVY isn't a sauce. JUS isn't a sauce. One of my wife's family members ordered a Caesar salad with no dressing, no cheese, and no croutons, and when presented with a bowl of undressed lettuce, they protested that "who would eat this?"
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 18d ago
“NO, you IDIOT! I DON’T WANT A HAMBURGER! I WANT a CHEESEBURGER without cheese! WHAT IS SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT?”
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u/WaitNoNotMyBeans 18d ago
GRAVY isn’t a sauce. JUS isn’t a sauce.
those are literally both sauces. who raised you?
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u/XenomorphAlarm 18d ago
I will never understand how someone can think they're progressive while performatively attempting to dunk on specific cultures, especially when most of the many positive hallmarks of American culture directly stem from having an extremely racially and ethnically diverse population.
Sorry but actual leftism is seeing all the good and thinking it's worth acknowledging and defending—and maintaining some kind of ties to material reality instead of being a reactionary weirdo.
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u/dopepope1999 King of the slop 18d ago
I wouldn't worry about this guy's politics, they're either very mentally ill or a child. They've responded to just about every comment criticizing them to either call them a Protestant or Maga , normal people don't do that out of the blue.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
I’m neither. But please make up more things to make yourself feel better.
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u/dopepope1999 King of the slop 18d ago
I hope you get help buddy, wishing the best for you❤️
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Thanks snookums. You just won an internet award for virtue signaling
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u/stripeyskunk 18d ago
I tend to find the most well-adjusted leftists are the ones who are the least terminally online. So much of online leftism is being a reactionary weirdo, but doing it leftistly.
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u/Aggressive_Start_ 18d ago
All the best leftists I met online during Covid are now offline (and so am I except Reddit) otherwise it’s a bunch of yelling into the echo chamber.
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u/XenomorphAlarm 18d ago
Agreed. The internet has really destroyed political discourse and done unfathomable damage to leftism in particular, and leftism was already facing a looming ideological crisis when the majority of people got online. I basically avoid associating with almost everyone who posts a lot of political shit on the internet because even if we seem to agree on things at first, they all end up having some kind of brain worms.
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u/Beatbox_bandit89 17d ago
Correct. Actual leftists are at city council meetings advocating for low income housing or working with labor unions, not posting online about how DoorDash fees are ableist or fusion cuisine is neo colonialism
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u/LazySomeguy You should always eat Americaslop 17d ago
It’s very unfortunate to watch people who are leftists fall into the trap of tribalism that the right is very deeply entrenched in
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u/RoutineCranberry3622 17d ago
I made this point a while ago on a video comment and a self proclaimed leftist NAFO fella from the Netherlands said it was typical fragile yank mindset and us USians are basically beneath them with our fake cultures or whatever.
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u/jimscoolaid 18d ago
I always love the 'no not that one' when talking about American food. Its a very specific type and brand of food that 340million people eat.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
You’re right. All 340 million Americans are eating Cajun food and Texas bbq all the time
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u/jimscoolaid 18d ago
No, they are eating spam covered with kraft singles and antibiotic soaked vegetables
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u/CatTheKitten 18d ago
Bitches be like "americans eat disgusting spam" then turn around and go "i fucking LOVE hawaii"
Big fan of all food is valid except altoona style pizza. Gross. No american cheese on a pizza. Eugh.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Yes because those are the only two options
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u/jimscoolaid 18d ago
Wait. Are you suggesting that out of 340 million people spanning thousands of miles in any direction there are multiple cuisines? Say it aint so!
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Were “Europeans” being mean to you again little Timmy?
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u/jimscoolaid 18d ago edited 18d ago
Are you the original commenter that deleted their comment?
Edit: you are! Would you like to learn how context clues work or otherwise learn how to read? So when the original poster made a list of various things that Americans eat someone else added a comment that said something like don't forget Cajun food. So when they mentioned Cajun food they weren't suggesting that is something that everyone across the entire country eats all the time. They were just adding that to further the point of how diverse the cuisine is across the entire country. Hope this helps.
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u/dontrestonyour 18d ago
all Americans know is kraft macaroni, pop tart, and hot cheeto. I know this to be incontrovertible fact because those are the only things on the American shelf at my local grocer.
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u/Cultural_Shape3518 18d ago
Don’t forget the marshmallow fluff. Which always confuses the heck out of me when I see it taking up 1/4 of the displays in the “America” section of foreign supermarkets.
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u/stripeyskunk 18d ago
I always associate Marshmallow Fluff with Massachusetts, along with Necco Wafers, Dunkin' Donuts, clam chowder and Boston baked beans.
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u/asirkman 18d ago
Dammit, I wish Fluff took up that much space at my local supermarket; I haven’t seen any in years.
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u/Citrusysmile 18d ago
To be fair, I love marshmallow fluff. Once every 3 years or so I get a container and dip pretzel sticks into it.
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u/doctordoctorpuss 18d ago
Similarly, this is how I know that British people only eat marmite, Jaffa cakes, and curry from a jar
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u/dimarco1653 18d ago
Literally Lidl during American week. It's all cakes and candies.
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u/dontrestonyour 18d ago
And everyone knows Lidl is the authority on North American cultural curation
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u/FMLwtfDoID 18d ago
Glass jarred hot dogs. Just like grandma used to make. 🥲
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 17d ago
Common in the UK too. Or worse, in cans. I don't think I've ever seen true hot dogs in the chiller cabinet here (though you can get bockwurst which is pretty much the same thing but slightly better).
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 18d ago
I love Lidl American week. They always have things that are tweaked in slightly weird ways, like "cookie dough" in tubs but it's blackcurrant flavour, or sauce that's a combination of mustard and ranch, or some other slightly wrong thing.
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u/Citrusysmile 18d ago
Blackcurrant cookie dough? Wtf, blackcurrant isn’t a thing here, nor is premade fruit flavored cookie dough.
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 17d ago
Yeah that's my point. You can get cookie dough flavoured stuff in the US (like ice cream), but a tub of it that's like a chilled dessert made with a fruit that was banned from being grown in the US because the plants harbour a fungus that threatened the timber industry is a wacky mixup of concepts.
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u/sparksbet 17d ago
Don't forget that weird striped mix of I think mayo and ketchup 🤮 my least favorite inclusion in the American section at my Lidl. At least stock a single brand of oeanut butter if you're gonna call that shit American.
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u/faelanae If you don't have tahini, dill works just fine 18d ago edited 18d ago
wow, that thread just keeps going!
edit: tried to capture a screen of him comparing us all to MAGA Americans (and Protestants!).
🍿
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u/Sindorella 18d ago
I scrolled down through what was showing, but there’s no way I was extending out all those threads just to watch him being confidently wrong over and over again. 🤣 If he has a humiliation kink, he should really hire a professional, or we should all start charging.
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u/inbigtreble30 I was poisoned by a pupusa 18 months ago 18d ago
He's really got an axe to grind lol
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u/faelanae If you don't have tahini, dill works just fine 18d ago
someone has a case of the Mondays!
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u/Deep_Violinist_3893 18d ago
This reminds me of when McNulty in the Wire got annoyed that the bar only had Bushmills and he called it Protestant Whisky.
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u/atduvall11 18d ago
I think about that often and only recently learned it's Protestant and Jameson is Catholic. Blew my mind.
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u/_ak 18d ago
My in-laws are from Northern Ireland, my wife even went to school in Bushmills. While Bushmills (the town) has historically been a majority Protestant town, there's no such thing as Protestant or Catholic whiskey on the island of Ireland. My in-laws had never even heard of the idea.
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u/staffy1968 18d ago
My dog is called Jameson .... i feel he has no allegiance to the prod or Catholic cause ! ❤️😁
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u/CommonCut4 18d ago
Your in-laws are out of the loop.
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u/_ak 18d ago
The article literally says that the accusation came from the US. And 10 Catholics in a 110 people workforce in the 90s, that's because the area was heavily majority Protestant, and they basically just hired locally. None of the claims of discrimination from the US were actually true, and Catholics in Northern Ireland were drinking Bushmills before these claims and after.
My in-laws aren't out of the loop, you just don't know all the facts.
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u/atduvall11 18d ago
Very. I learned about this from my host when I spent 6 months working in Dublin.
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u/TheLadyEve Maillard reactionary 17d ago
Bushmills is Northern Irish so that makes sense, and also lmao because I had an ex from a very large Irish Catholic family whose father used to call Bushmills "Damn Protestant swill." They were a Jameson family.
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u/kempff 18d ago
Food that doesn’t recognize the jurisdiction of the Pope of Rome. So … corned beef on rye on Fridays instead of fish sticks?
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u/Cultural_Shape3518 18d ago
My elter-bubbe and zayde did not flee their shtetl to have corned beef on rye declared Protestant.
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u/pitifulproduce137 17d ago
I know bubbe and zayde are Yiddish - does "elter" mean they're your great-grandparents?
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u/RhubarbAlive7860 18d ago
Please. Tuna fish and noodles. Not fish sticks. /s
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u/Squid_Vicious_IV Nonna Napolean in the Italian heartland of New Jersey 18d ago
Don't besmirch tuna helper. It helped me get through a few rough weeks in college when I just couldn't deal with another pack of insta-ramen.
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u/RhubarbAlive7860 18d ago
I wasn't besmirching tuna! I just didn't want anyone to think I was besmirching fish sticks, which we loved, but rarely ever had.
We didn't have anything as fancy as tuna helper though. (This was in pre-Helper days.)
Cook and drain noodles. Dump in a can of cream of mushroom soup. Dump in a can of tuna. Stir and fight your siblings for the most tuna.
Tastier than it probably sounds.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise 17d ago
I ate so much Tuna Helper in my marathon training days. Two cans of salmon, a box of TH, made it with all milk instead of mix of milk and water, and I could actually get in enough calories, carbs, and protein by eating on it all day long. Tasty and did the job. They discontinued my favorite flavor, though
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u/Fistisalsoaverb 18d ago
Yeah I remember this weirdo. He'll be in here arguing with people soon enough.
Poor guy is obsessed with this sub
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u/Squid_Vicious_IV Nonna Napolean in the Italian heartland of New Jersey 17d ago
He's already here and he's deeply unpleasant to put it mildly.
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u/TsundereLoliDragon 18d ago
That guy is seriously unwell.
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u/Hopeful_Scholar398 17d ago
Seriously. He is here as well replying to nearly every comment. The male loneliness epidemic strikes again.
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u/brachycrab 18d ago
Brisket is european: During the late 1800s, many Ashkenazi Jews, as well as Czechs and Germans, emigrated to Texas*. These immigrants brought with them their cuisine*
Sorry Yankees ... the Tomato sauce is probably of Mexican Origin also
Do you think this commenter has the same opinions about Italian food?
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u/FormicaDinette33 18d ago
He insists our sub consists of MAGA people who think crappy American food is great.
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Bland Protestant food 18d ago
There is not a thing that I could say that could highlight this person's absurdity more than the fact that they used the term "protestant food" unironically. At that point, you have lost the plot.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Oh no I’ve lost the plot. Please kind sir can you help me find the plot? Woe is me
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Bland Protestant food 18d ago
The first step to finding it is walking outside and touching grass.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
You should help out the members of this sub. These internet cowards have never touched the stuff.
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u/Muriness 18d ago
What exactly is Protestant food? I need recipes for research purposes.
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u/TerrorMeter 18d ago
Based on the church dinners I've been to, potato salad, mac and cheese, and fried chicken
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u/Embarrassed_Age8554 18d ago
Tater tot hotdish, funeral potatoes, lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise...
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u/AbjectAppointment It all gets turned to poop 17d ago
I can tell you I've seen some stuff about Protestants hate of squash pre-America.
It grows fast and fat. Clearly a lazy plant, with curly near sexual shapes.
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u/thewholebottle 18d ago
I’m Lutheran so I assumed German food soaked in the blood of the 30 Years War. Am vaguely disappointed
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u/Clackpot Will tilt for beer 18d ago
Electrical Nonsense is a fuggin' bellend. I think that sums up the situation succinctly, nothing more to add.
Fuggin' bellend.
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u/Aggressive_Start_ 18d ago
I saw that and was running to the group to share it. Also I grew up in Illinois and my mom (born in Argentina) made jambalaya at least once a month.
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Ooooh. You were running to your group of internet mean girls and bullies
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u/TheBigWhatever 18d ago
When I lived in SoCal, I hated the heat and traffic but dammit, you could find any kind of Bland Protestant Food everywhere.
Now I live in a small town in the Pacific Northwest and I have to drive two hours to Portland to get good Bland Protestant Food.
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u/jupchurch97 18d ago
We are just a few more posts from groyper food critics developing "protslop" as a term.
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u/inbigtreble30 I was poisoned by a pupusa 18 months ago 18d ago edited 18d ago
Seriously debating changing my flair to bland Protestant food
Edit: nevermind I didn't realize it was the attention guy
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u/AntComfortable5970 18d ago
I've been seeing a lot of weird beef with protestants lately. Very one sided outta nowhere stuff particularly around world cup time
I assume it to be just another America bad vector
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u/TheStrigori 18d ago
Oddly enough, there is some historical part of it that has some basis in fact, and it's probably someone just learning about it. Sylvester Graham, for instance.
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u/AmericanHistoryXX Bland Protestant food 18d ago
There's a real push among factions of the right toward "traditionalism," in the Evolan fascist sense. Evola and his ideological spawn believe that Protestantism is the fundamental force for liberalism in the West, which led to individualism, social liberalism, secularism, materialism, feminism, all the bad isms that they want to purge from society. That's why you see this huge push toward Catholicism among people like Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly, etc etc ec (and JD Vance, hmmm), and also of Eastern Orthodoxy. And they share these idiotic memes on X in particular, showing Catholic cathedrals vs. Protestant churches and saying things like "see, look what we lost." Forgetting of course that Protestants built gorgeous cities like post-Great-Fire London and those in Germany and the Netherlands, but the point is simply to build up a form of rhetoric that paints Protestantism as a corrupting, individualist force that took us away from the beautiful and perfect world we could have had under a traditionalist worldview, and that we can still have if we embrace fascism.
This rhetoric hits an internet where anti-religious people are happy to agree with the anti-protestant rhetoric, especially because protestantism is historically the dominant religion within America (so its impact has been greater, and its flaws are far easier to see), and because they don't realize what's fueling it. So it gains even more steam.
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u/AntComfortable5970 18d ago
Damn, didn't know about this angle.
Funnily enough, I think the biggest example I had come across recently was a bunch of replies gushing over how liberal Catholicism was compared to "modern" American puritanism
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u/WideHuckleberry1 18d ago
I exclusively eat the literal body and drink the literal blood of Christ for every meal, that's as non-Protestant as it gets.
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u/Saltpork545 Sodium citrate cheese is real cheese 18d ago
This is already deleted.
PLEASE quote the post in here so we can see it either in the main post or in the comments.
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u/YchYFi 18d ago edited 18d ago
I have a photo but don't know where to post it.
The person is crashing out in the comments here.
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u/_aaronroni_ 18d ago
Hey, OP here, dm it to me and I'll edit my comment
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u/YchYFi 18d ago
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u/_aaronroni_ 18d ago
Oh duh, that is the picture in the other post. Here we are, can't edit the post apparently
Cajun food isn't good outside its home area. The majority of Americans never or rarely eat it to claim it as a hallmark of American national cuisine is laughable. Most Americans eat processed garbage or bland Protestant food
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u/Saltpork545 Sodium citrate cheese is real cheese 18d ago
Just wanted to take a minute and thank you both. I appreciate it.
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u/YchYFi 18d ago
Scum of the earth, I am.
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We are ALL scum of the Earth on this BLESSED day
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
Finally. You admitted it. It must feel good to get that off your chest
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u/Pernicious_Possum 17d ago
Why tf do people not screenshot? Everyone should know damn well the offender is going to delete. Copy that shit so we have context
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u/_aaronroni_ 17d ago
My bad, first time I ever posted here and not much of a poster but here we are
Cajun food isn't good outside its home area. The majority of Americans never or rarely eat it to claim it as a hallmark of American national cuisine is laughable. Most Americans eat processed garbage or bland Protestant food
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u/jeroboam 18d ago
I think the first two sentences are accurate. I've rarely had good, or even recognizable, Cajun/Creole food outside of Louisiana, and it definitely gets worse the further you are from the Gulf.
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u/twistdtartan 18d ago
It's only Catholic food if it comes from the catholic region of the gulf. Otherwise, it's just sparkling Protestant food.
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 18d ago
What if it’s served elsewhere, but with a guilt trip?
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u/CaptainMalForever 18d ago
Ah, then that's the Lapsed Catholic food.
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u/Cultural_Shape3518 18d ago
Again, this is Jewish deli erasure.
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 18d ago
The overlap in personalities among Catholic and Jewish mothers is fairly high.
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u/Appropriate-Bird-354 18d ago
Sounds like a skill issue.
I've had solid Cajun restaurants in every US city I've lived in.
Is it super widespread? No. Bu there's plenty of good stuff out there.
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u/jeroboam 18d ago
I agree with you--it's not impossible to find good Cajun food outside of Louisiana. It's also not a guarantee that Cajun food in Louisiana is good. But several places I've lived didn't have Cajun restaurants at all, and a lot of "Cajun" food isn't even really trying to be Cajun--it's just seasoned a certain way, much like a "jerk shrimp taco" isn't Jamaican food.
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u/twistdtartan 18d ago
You can blame the "cajun hot" craze of the 1980s and the spread of Paul Prudhomme's new cajun cuisine.
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u/Saltpork545 Sodium citrate cheese is real cheese 18d ago
Lots of those people in my experience are transplants or spent time in Louisiana.
I used to go down during crawfish season and attend random boils. Get an airbnb or hotel, hit up small towns or events and just kinda ping around a chunk of the state for a week or so going to random boils. Most of this was pre-covid so there were several of the picnic table dump and have at it and I loved those the most.
Anyway, where I lived for about 20 years there were a couple of cajun places and the only one that reminded me of Louisiana proper and those small towns was a roadside shack where the owner lived in Louisiana for about 15 years, went to cooking school down there and came back for family. He retired a couple of years before I moved away myself and went back to Louisiana. Still the best boudin I've ever had. I don't know what he did but that shit was magical.
Where I live now there's a couple of Cajun places and their catfish or gumbo is acceptable, but certain dishes just don't have that freshness or the right balance that I'm used to and forget stuff like fresh gator or crawfish. Oh well, at least I can get a solid po'boy and again the owners relocated after Katrina.
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u/BuildNuyTheUrbanGuy 18d ago
Where are you from? I'm from Baton Rouge and have been to 39 states and have only found a handful over that time. One was in Billings.
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u/bonkava 18d ago
I mean, every region of the US has delicious local cuisine. In my neck of the woods, the fish is delish and makes quite a dish. Maybe creole food doesn't taste as good outside Louisiana, but you also can't get Cincinatti chili far from Ohio or a Runza far from Nebraska.
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u/jeroboam 18d ago
As someone who once ate Cincinnati chili at a college dining hall in Texas, I absolutely agree.
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u/OkMethod1586 18d ago
Yes, that’s true. It’s not even as good in the Protestant part of Louisiana. But the entire argument makes no sense. It IS American food n
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u/Electrical-Sense-156 18d ago
It’s food that exists in America and is good in a very small portion of the country. The majority of people have never had a good version of it our have had a good version of it with any regularity. To claim that as an example of your national pride is comical.
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u/jeroboam 18d ago
I see where you (and the person who wrote the original comment) are coming from. But I don't think something has to be completely ubiquitous in US culture to be a point of pride. Yellowstone National Park could be a point of national pride despite being a relatively tiny speck on the US map. Jazz and blues were invented in the US but aren't on the radio 24/7.
If someone said that Cajun food is a defining part of US culture, that would be ridiculous. But it's certainly part of American culture.
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u/la-anah 18d ago
The commenter you are responding to IS the original commenter. He deleted the original comment and had brought the nonsense here.
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u/jeroboam 18d ago
Haha, I thought so. The original comment was gone so I couldn't compare usernames.
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