Ty
Moderator
"Americans do not get to insult other people's chocolate. It either smells and tastes of vomit, or has all the consistency of chalk over there. Foul doesn't even begin to cover how bad US chocolate is. "
Only if you buy shitty chocolate. You buy a hershey bar, you get what you pay for.
My wife is a chocolate fiend, but never buys anything less than 85% pure.
Ebon Badger
Member
The worst chocolate we have here is cadbury's or galaxy, both of which are actually edible, some would say tasty. Hershey's isn't remotely edible. Lord knows what the chocolatiers in mainland Europe think of the stuff.
@Ursa
something traumatic in the 16th century would be the reformation.
Kodie
Member
It's easier to do much better than Hershey's.
In January of 2003, I temped at one of the worst offices ever, for the most terribly annoying, racist, and self-centered boss I've ever had. In 2 months I was there, he went on 2 vacations, so it was kind of nice he wasn't there, but he brought back chocolate for everyone from his ski trip to Switzerland. Sorry, but maybe he picked this up from a gas station in Switzerland, 'cause it tasted like a Symphony bar. I'm not able to gauge a phenomenal difference in the qualities of chocolate. If it's that really cheap nasty stuff they use for hollow Santas and gold coins, just about anything wrapped in foil, any chocolate novelty has a good chance of being pretty gross. Above that nasty level, I'm not really impressed with expensive or specialty sweets shop chocolates. I've actually told boyfriends of the past to skip the heart-shaped box on valentine's just get me a bag of snickers.
Helped a friend eat a 5lb. Hershey bar once, barely got half way through.
The saga continues... trolling inmalafide's website is hours of fun since you can cause racist men's rights movement activists to look dumb...
Edit - I mean "dumber than normal".
Sigh... I never understood the racist fear of miscegenation. Also I feel dirty, like I just had sex with a watermelon. I need to find better ways to spend my time.
Mark the Pilgrim
Member
Avicenna:
Sigh... I never understood the racist fear of miscegenation. Also I feel dirty, like I just had sex with a watermelon. I need to find better ways to spend my time.
Don't know what to say about the watermelon thing, but the whole concept of miscegenation is ridiculous. I can sort of understand why someone would be afraid of their culture dying out, but to be afraid of inter-racial liaisons is to deny the very history of the human species. With the exception of a few, the vast majority of humanity has been mixed in with various ethnic groups. Races come and go, it's the natural order of things.
I'm a mongrel myself, so call me biased. But on another note, I had a discussion with a friend not too long ago about what it means to be English. We're both ethnics and were born and brought up in London, but he refuses to call himself English and instead prefers to say British as English relates to whites only. When describing myself, I use English and British interchangeably depending on whom I am speaking to, but I think a sizeable proportion of ethnic minorities who might have grown up here probably would prefer the 'British' label over the English, Scot or Welsh labels.
I don't remember that post specifically, but speaking as a non-American, I do find it quite comical:
"My great-great-great-great-great grandfather came on a steamer from Limerick. All my ancectors since him were born in the USA and none of us have seen Ireland outside of Murphy's Bar on Main Street. I'm Irish American".
Sorry, but no you're fucking not! You're AMERICAN!
Kodie
Member
I had that guy at fencing insist I'm German. I'm 1/8 German on 2 sides adding up to only 1/4. He also insisted I call someone who is Asian "Korean," as if I had a chance to know that. I don't like labels like that. I tell people I'm American, and everything else is horseshit, it's my last name, whatever. 1/8 German last name and here the longest. I have 2 sides more recent immigrants from non-German countries and assimilated. I hear stories of my great-grandfather chastising his own wife for not speaking English enough, but I also read (and I got ahold of these more recently) newspaper articles and eulogies of him and how much he loved America. He actually only came for a visit for one summer but he loved it here, and stayed, and found a wife here who had come with her family from the same country. This in contrast to my other great-grandfather who went back to his village (on a boat, mind you) in Europe for a 2nd wife (my great-grandmother) when his first wife died.
Those stories tell me a little bit about the person that I didn't know before but nothing of this rich culture I'm supposed to embrace. I'm from America, and I'm American, 4th generation at the most recent, I'm not going to list 5 or 6 nationalities I'm no part of, except that's what people really want to know when they ask! It is more difficult to have this conversation with people more recently descended from immigrants or immigrants themselves. I really think the children of immigrants assimilate more than they realize - it gets watered down pretty quickly, but they are still so proud.
My mom is from Venezuela, so I get to properly say that I'm half Venezuelan. On my dad's side, I'm plain ol' Texan (although there is plenty of Scottish in there... my middle name is Ross*, after all).
:D
*Ross is my grandmother's maiden name. Her mother's maiden name was McCullough. My great-grand mother's great grandparents came over from Scotland... and they were all Presbyterians... which my grandmother is still today.
On my grandfather's side, my first ancestor in America come over from Brittain in 1687. So, I'm 13th generation American there. Oh, yes, and I'm Ethan Allen's great-great-great-great, etc. grand niece.
Mark the Pilgrim
Member
By way of England, I am East African, Black Caribbean, German, French and possibly some other European/Indian mixes (we also have a rumour that one of my Great-Grandparents was Chinese-Caribbean or Aruban). And I suppose if you go down the Caribbean route I'm West African, but we don't want the list too long. Wouldn't want to look like some immigrant.
You must log in to post.
