American things

35. 99.9% of all "cultural appropriation"

36. $$$

37. Road Trips
38. Self Help
39. Seminars on how to flip properties with no money down

40. Hawaii

41. Grand slams

42. Brian Wilson

43. drive-in cinemas

44. john cena

(19)45. the atomic bomb

(19)46. Donald John Trump

Just sayin some of these things aren't exclusively American. They're everybody's!

47. Superhero movies for "grownups"

48. jack kirby

49. jack ruby

27 mayonnaise

27 "ranch"

ranch-style houses

Ranch might be the most american word there is. The sound of it, the meaning, the house style, the dressing. It's 100% American.

https://i.imgur.com/IOlj6Lw.jpg

51. Saturday Night Live and dozens of comedy series and comedians no-one's ever heard of.

... no-one else, that is.

Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though

I mean there are all these british comedians called "Jimmy Pram" or "Tolliver Whelk" or whatever that the britishers on the board seem to reference a lot.

52. happy endings
53. late night shows
54. hyper-capitalism
55. "football"
56. "soccer"

Italians
Irish

57. Barack Hussein Obama
58. Velveeta

Misuse of the collective clause when referring to sports teams

Every nation seems to have its b-list comedy that doesn't escape its borders though

Saturday Night Live is b-list?

'Math'

American comedy is painfully unfunny. There's no real bite, no real cynicism, it always has to be nicey nicey in the end. A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.

today, sure. I think SNL at its best (maybe 80s-early 90s) was good exactly because it captured and spoofed that wide-eyed lack of cynicism. Kevin Nealon comes to mind, and all of the fake commercials. Since at least Will Ferrell and maybe going back to Chris Farley and Adam Sandler though the style of comedy has been very "I AM BEING FUNNY RIGHT NOW! DO YOU SEE ME BEING FUNNY!"

(kind of a dumb comment I guess since Nealon overlapped with Farley and Sandler)

snl national lampoon and mad magazine none funny none ever funny

A or B list, SNL fits that bill surely.

I wouldn't know, I've never seen it.

Clips I've seen look dire though.

'Mr. President'

59. gunz

60. Patriotism

61. "GET IN THE HOLE!"

'Math'

perfect

62. sports
63. the hospital
64. vacation

The hospital?

65. institutional racism perfected
66. bumper stickers
67. trailer parks

Italians
Irish

-darraghmac

68. 'erbs

69. Missing out u's from words and -er endings instead of -re.

70. hispanics

The hospital?

― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:51 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well if we're contrasting U.S. and UK usage, only we (always) use the definite article

71. Mexico, central america, south america

72. Porches & yards.

73. Bros
74. Dudes
75. Broads

Happily yes

I wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages

Baked beans?

I guess “baked beans” is probably an American thing

saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍

brb making brown sauce

sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

i just use "fancy" to mean "gay"

mind you i mean every word to mean "gay"

saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

see i don't read it that way, i have these arguments with my second oldest brother, who lives in cincinnati and is thus obligated to defend their disgusting idea of "chili", despite his being a chef. what he says is "as long as you think of it as a red sauce and not chili it's fine". "red sauce", "brown sauce", "white sauce", to me these are respected culinary terms.

I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce

also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd

_ Happily yes_

I wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages

itt: brown sauce, pasted colons

I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff

Great stuff, especially on a square sliced sausage in a roll.

Brown colons are an international phenomenon

when I worked at Chevy's Fresh Mex in the early 2000s, there was a marinade for the fajitas that was called out on the menu as "Agua Negra".

one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER", and like the more he went on it didn't seem like he was kidding. I should have just told him we put feces in our food cos he seemed unwilling to believe me that we weren't poisoning the food and advertising it on the menu.

in actuality it's just a soy-sauce based marinade, something like

1 cup Soy Sauce
2 cups Pineapple Juice
2 tablespoons ground Cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons minced Garlic
1/4 cup freshly squeezed Lime Juice

also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)

you're wrong, silby

wrong on the internet

i'm terribly upset about this

one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER"

― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)

punish him by making him listen to the doobie brothers until he learns more spanish

I feel like _a_ red sauce as opposed to just “red sauce” have different connotations but I may be splitting hairs. The latter being the most commonly known sauce of that color in the local cuisine. I’d default to italian-american cuisine’s very generic tomato-based concoction, which is probably labeled marinara if it has actually flavor, and maybe just called red sauce regardless if it’s in someone’s home

damn, Chevy’s Fresh Mex. haven’t thought about that one in a minute

fp’d wins for capeschism

x-post - THank you MH that is correct.

Sibly the whole of the UK would prob want to fight you for saying baked beans are American but they are and even beans on toast is! Am American ad exec at Heinz came up with the concept to sell the beans over here and it took off. Do not ask me why I looked this up recently.

How could Cincinnati chili be bad? Spaghetti is good. Chili is good. I do not see the issue.

Taking an hour and a half to make pasta with pesto and a green salad

oh and garlic bread, next to the pasta.

I've never eaten beans on toast, why would I want to eat soggy bread?

Never??? Even I've tried it. If you toast the bread well it takes a while to get soggy but I'm with you on that.

thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

If I have tinned baked beans these days I add some spices, usually of the cayenne/smoked paprika type to make them more interesting. It's ok as a side for some piri piri chicken wings or spiced potato wedges.

thread sleeping on this wikipedia detail: "The word keh (茄) means 'eggplant'; tomato in Cantonese is 番茄, which literally translates to 'foreign eggplant'."

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

― mark s

what does "eggplant sweatdrops" translate to in english, i see those emoji all the time

cum

missed Kate's post at first and thought u were saying this^ was purely an American thing

im guessing cantonese ilx be 🔥

― mark s, Wednesday, May 1, 2024 2:19 AM (ten hours ago)

花橋
福耀

https://www.cantonese.asia/portal.php?mod=view&aid=776

(s/o to the 2(?) posters that will roll their eyes at my primary school humour)