Parts of American culture that have never really been imported outside the US

beans and syrup makes sense if you like boston baked beans with molasses. which reminds me i was reading about this sticky situation the other day.

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16114442_1634984573473752_5585640463727518990_n.jpg?oh=fe09e02db39e9be6263968da1f47112f&oe=59074331

when my mom made crepes she called them swedish pancakes.

Also I always hated the name 'eggy bread' for some reason

this, as well as "cheese toasties" makes me think the UK must have a cutesy name for every common food.
"Are you making hot dogs?"
"What's a hot dog? These are Piggy Wiggy Cakes."

eggy bread sounds like that moronic adspeak "melty cheese"

when my mom made crepes she called them swedish pancakes

That's what they're called on the IHOP menu also

genuinely shocked to learn that people in the states grew up eating maple syrup

my understanding was that the stuff down in the states was pancake syrup, which was made of artificially flavoured high fructose corn syrup

i always thought maple syrup went mainstream relatively recently (15-20 years or so) in the states

the image of american syrup i had growing up:

http://www.auntjemima.com/images/products/syrups/original.png

pancake syrup started as a downmarket maple syrup afaik?

If you’re wondering where Aunt Jemima or Log Cabin syrup fit into this picture — these common table products are not real maple syrup. The tagline for Log Cabin, which is made with sugar, is “Authentic Maple Tasting Syrup for over 120 years.” This careful wording is intentional and crafted to avoid false advertising claims. (Most brands of maple-flavored pancake toppings are made with corn syrup.)

Revolting garbage.

There might be a class divide on real maple syrup, and/or even more so a geographical one. The Northeast and Northern Midwest are places that maple syrup actually comes from. Some ppl still use the fake stuff but probably fewer than elsewhere in the country, particularly in Southern states. However it's true that even in the north, inexpensive diners and truck stop-type places they probably only have fake.

I will use whatever is provided with few complaints but would be confused if a nicer place had the fake stuff

When I was a kid we used cheap shit (Aunt Jemima, etc.) 'cause we were poor, but one year we went on vacation to Vermont and fucking loaded up on real maple syrup.

my son practically mainlines Mrs. Butterworth syrup. I don't really get it. We have real maple syrup, but he refuses to touch it.

The cheap stuff is sweeter than the real thing. Kids like sweetness more than complexity.

i grew up in new england and i've had plenty of both. living in western mass however is just a way more syrupy existence. it's everywhere. vermont right down the street. maple soda. maple candy. even the TREES are made of maple.

Even though we lived close enough to maple sugar bushes that we went there on field trips, I ate that cheap pancake syrup shit growing up in Ottawa too tbh. I knew, even as a kid, that it was garbage compared to the real thign.

*thing

Ha, yeah, my neighbourhood coffee shop in Worcester makes a maple cappuccino with Vermont maple syrup. It's sort of gross tbh but I admire the spirit.

i had real maple syrup growing up in northeast ohio. it's pretty good syrup here. most of this part of the state is wooded so it is readily available. i also liked the fake stuff growing up too.

i lived in new england for 9 years and real vermont syrup was everywhere, it was great. but even diners in new england often use "pancake syrup"

you can get maple syrup in pretty much any big french or english supermarket. bordeaux even has a skate shop called "sirop d'erable" - https://www.yelp.de/biz/sirop-d-erable-bordeaux

also the majority of maple syrup is produced in canada

i almost feel like fake syrup goes best with fake waffles. eggos + corn syrup just makes more sense.

"but even diners in new england often use "pancake syrup"

in the diner i go to in town you have to ask for the "real" syrup. costs extra.

all the good stuff that i buy here at the supermarket is local mass/vermont stuff. it's awesome.

i would take you guys to all these sugar house breakfasts if you visited. yuuuuuuuum.

https://70c97aaea282a207d81b-f84eee09323602e80e90b9678fa5fc9b.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sugarhouse.jpg

maple syrup on snow. is that a thing in europe yet?

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/11066788_10206041636937595_3606791368384939557_n.jpg?oh=cb7cb2a36af572de6376b754a021764c&oe=59093F51

also the majority of maple syrup is produced in canada

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:25 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right. it is actually hard to find real VT or other US maple syrup in regular grocery stores. even in whole foods it's mostly canadian stuff

quebec mafia iirc

not that hard in nyc, so i guess im glad i didnt move

maple syrup > rent

yeah, big syrup is no joke.

http://america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/4/canada-syrup-cartel.html

"Of all the states, Vermont has the largest appetite, with the average resident consuming almost 11 pounds of maple syrup per year. The national average is significantly less, almost registering half a pound."

Obsessed w maple syrup. Love it with yoghurt. Lol

it's so good on oatmeal. or any hot cereal.

this is a reverse question. every five years or so someone on ilm reminds me that grime existed. it only existed in the states for about five minutes when people bought a dizzee rascal album (mostly the college crowd i don't know how many hip hop fans bought it) and played it twice. kinda like the streets. everyone here was really just waiting for a new prodigy album to buy. anyway, is it hyper-regional now or is grime a thing anywhere outside the u.k.?

it's arguably more popular now in the US than it ever has been!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/31/british-mcs-stormzy-jammz-little-simz-krept-konan-novelist
http://www.nme.com/blogs/festivals-blog/grime-invasion-of-america-769756

etc

Pro-life terrorism.

i will take your word for it, tracer hand. i know there are people who still like drum & bass in the states. i don't know who they are, but i'm pretty sure they exist.

at least 4 college radio stations across 3 different cities i've lived in all have/had drum & bass hours on the schedule

(u.s. cities obv)

The very first episode of Spooks (Not called Spooks in the U.S.) that I watched was about anti-abortion bombings. But, to be fair, the anti-abortion Brits were led by an American.

Talk about far-fetched.

Pro-life terrorism.

otm. this is strictly a US cultural phenomenon. and in typically US fashion, there are plenty of people who make money off it.

beloved los angeles college radio station kcrw used to go hard on jungle/dnb nights in the 90s

best dj sets i heard at that time because vancouver was musically lagging by a decade at that point

scott i share your skepta-cism

There's an actual root beer thread but this is where we talked about root beer last month so eh.

I bought a fizzy drink in the local Chinese supermarket, not knowing what it was, but the can looked kind of Dr Pepper-like so I figured why not. Opened it, familiar smell, kind of like Germolene... wait, didn't I have a drink which tasted of Germolene last month too?

Oh yes. I appear to be drinking Chinese root beer, more or less. https://starkravingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/wonderful-world-of-root-beer-watsons.html

(My can just says 沙示, but even if it had said Sarsae I don't think I'd have made the connection to Sarsaparilla, though it might have made me think of Sarson's vinegar which might have dissuaded me from buying it...)

I was in China for ten years before I tried Sarsae. It's like rubbish watered down root beer. I did live on Watson's soda water for a year or two though. I never did get over the absurdity of the only manufacturer of American-style soft drinks being the nation's biggest drugstore chain.