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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   4069 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 17, 2023

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You need to cook/toast the pop tart.

As a non American I had a great time eating around the US while I was there. But I avoided trying out foods from the movies and headed straight for yelp or eater/zagat reccomendations. I knew some of the shit from movies would be ass, it doesn't take much imagination to figure out that a twinkie is going to taste like cardboard.

I did get bamboozled with American chinese food though. That shit is literally as sweet as candy. Orange chicken, never again. There were some excellent non American chinese restaurants in NYC and Boston though.

You need to cook/toast the pop tart.

I did! It made it even drier, if anything.

Sampling the candy and processed stuff was more for the experience, not to get something that I expected to be genuinely enjoyable. The US for sure had some very good food and drinks as well; the craft beer is especially good compared to the naïve opinion of the Americans as shitty-beer drinkers.

Craft beers in the US push the boundaries on what beer can be. At the same time, it doesn’t scale all that well.

Americans shitty beer reputation is purely based on the big brands major products, which are impressively consistent, but otherwise pretty mediocre (nice to drink on sunny days at the ballpark though).

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