We had fried bacon at the Texas State Fair last year. Yes, bacon, fried.
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vorjack
Moderatordeep-fried Moon Pie.
Around here we call that "fair food," because the booths at the county fairs all seem to be trying to outdo one another when is comes to ridiculously decadent fried foods.
Deep fried candy bars. Entire potatoes, spiral cut and fried in one long chain. And the ultimate: deep fried bananas foster cheesecake on a stick.
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i think most state fairs have deep fried pretty every kind of food. even spaghetti and meatballs. i've only heard of such things, but i don't imagine they taste all that great.
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Jabster
MemberWell I seem to have missed a large part of the thread but here goes anyway ...
@Elemenope
I agree that America is a young country but that in itself doesn't seem to account for an "obsession" with ancestry. Australia is a very young country but does no have the same characteristics. In fact you could almost go as far to say they want to distance themselves as far as possible from their British roots (Of course taking simple examples doesn't particularly prove anything). It would seem far more likely that the cause is the number of different immigrants and the lack of integration between different groups. That is one thing that has struck me most about when I was in the US, you don't seem to get a mixing of social/ethnic groups in the way you do here in the UK. It is almost as though the identification with other nationalities is a way of not integrating into mainstream American society.
@Ty
I think even us dullards in the UK understand that the US is a large country and therefore there can be large culturally differences between between different areas. If this was the problem (say American meant nothing) you wouldn't expect the solution to be co-opting the culture of somewhere half way across the world where they have never visited and know very little about. I'm not saying the last part is always true but that's been my generally experience.
@At All
Of course there is American food. It may be regionalised, as you would expect, but it's recognisable as American food.
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Ty
Moderator"you wouldn't expect the solution to be co-opting the culture of somewhere half way across the world where they have never visited and know very little about."
Who was co-opting anything?
I admit I identify most strongly with my Hispanic heritage, if anything. But I grew up in Southern California, east of LA. Or, Mexico North as we call it. I read and speak a little Spanish, ate almost entirely of Mexican cuisine growing up, and watched El Sabado Gigante on TV every saturday morning. Am I co-opting something?
I mentioned the Germanic side of the family mostly because I find the history interesting. I like the idea that my ancestors (on one side) came here to kill the colonists for money, then when the Brits lost and went home, tried to blend in as if they were just colonists too. I'm hoping that some of that combination of bloodthirsty and yet practical is in the genes.
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phrankygee
MemberOh yeah, well how many antelope do you have in Iowa, Mr. Smartypants-joke-facty-check-guy? Huh? Answer me that!
Iowa = Johnny D.
Big flat square boring state = Johnny D and the Antelopes, playing nightly.
Those guys should never have broken up. Johnny D's solo stuff was never the same.
/clever retort
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phrankygee
MemberGood one, Jabster. And for what it's worth, I agree. My parents raised me on margarine, the sadists!
I had to run off and get married before anyone fed me real butter. I'll not go back!
BTW, Margarine is another American invention; one with a very interesting origin story.
[Edit:] no, it is not! I had bought into a margarine urban legend; an old wive's tale! Apparently it goes back to Napoleon, and very little of the "origin" story I thought I knew was true.
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"[Edit:] no, it is not! I had bought into a margarine urban legend; an old wive's tale! Apparently it goes back to Napoleon, and very little of the "origin" story I thought I knew was true. "
what was the story you thought was true about margarine?
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phrankygee
MemberI had heard, in typical friend-of-a-friend urban legend fashion, that margarine was originally developed as a cheap food (or possibly a food additive) to quickly fatten turkeys on turkey farms. Only after discovering that turkeys wouldn't touch the stuff, was it marketed (not very succesfully, at first) for human consumption.
In my brief research on margarine's origins, I found no reference to turkeys at all. But it's a believable story, and it had me going for years, before I bothered to look for specifics.
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phrankygee
Member@JoeB - Rule 34: Is that "...there's porn of it"?
XKCD, right?
@elemenope - I had to use snopes just last night, upon getting an email about how Ollie North tried to warn us all about Osama bin Laden back in 1987 (he didn't.), and how Bill Clinton negotiated Mohammed Atta's release from an Israeli prison in 1993 (Atta was in college in Germany at the time)
@Logan - Bob and Tom are intentionally very cagey about mentioning their location. I guess they want to avoid being seen as merely a regional show.
@everybody - this thread is the most off-topic thread EVAH! Very little of this freewheeling discussion has been about value voters summit... Which was LAST weekend.
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The Rules of the Internet originated on 4chan, which becomes obvious when you read all of them.
This thread is simply following Rules 25 and 26.
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Joe B
MemberIn my summer class this year one of the other people in the class started a story with "a friend of my roommate" and I immediately started taking notes, and that night found the story on snopes.
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phrankygee
MemberWell, know I know the rules. That clears up a few things.
I had someone about a year ago tell me that the Cake was a Lie, but I did not understand or believe him. Now what I have seen cannot be unseen.
New rule - Do not feed phrankygee more cookie dough on the internetz. He always eats it. No exceptions.
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