American things

1. biscuits & gravy
2. rodeo
3. smores or smore’s or smore(s)
4. “a super bowl”
5. stoops
6. speakeasy
7. “high school prom”
8. cheese in a can
9. dr pepper

smore

wtf?

Steely Dan
The Beat Generation

10. "democracy"
11. mac 'n cheese
12. sherrifs

It's s'mores and it's short for some more.

13. those varsity jackets with a big letter on the front
14. propeller beanie hats

15. grits

16. Shriners

https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/shriners-little-cars-1200x800.jpg

monster trucks

bison
bass fishing tournaments
Yellowstone Park

Looney Tunes cartoons

22. tipping

Mate,

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

I mean, don't forget 23. Indigenous Genocide, but, you know.

if we're going down that route let's not forget 24. slavery

and of course 25. egg creams

slavery has existed everywhere for all recorded history. hardly confined to America, although we certainly embraced one of the most brutal forms of it for a couple centuries.

26 white ppl
27 mayonnaise
28 conway twitty
29 all the bad things
30 no good things

31 guns guns guns love guns need guns
32 sabermetrics
33 god

(Holland surely king of mayonnaise though, for better or for worse)

34. (With drawl) PICKUP TRUCK. GIDDY UP COWBOY.

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!"

nah there are beekeepers all around the world

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

the bee population is in global decline, i imagine beekeeping must be pretty stressful

bees live in "tower blocks" in the UK

I meant skin hives — itchy welts caused by allergy or stress

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:34 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think in british english they just call that a rash?

Ha, that's right!

A rash is different than hives. Hives ime are like individual welts whereas a rash is more diffuse and has more points of irritation (many small bumps, for example). You can get them both from contact with an irritant or from mental stressors, but they are not the same thing. ime.

Maybe in BrE the technical term “urticaria” is in common parlance

(Australia has the skin version of hives too ftr. "Hickeys" started to take over from "love bites" in the '90s afaik, as with many other slang terms in Hollywood teen movies. no idea what #youths today call them)

We're lessy fussy about stuff like that over here. I'm sure there are regional names for hives, though I still don't really know what hives are... or is.

Lucky you who have never had a hive! They are utterly unrelated to hickeys aside from being skin welts visible to the naked eye.

I'm sure I have had a hive and I'm sure I just called it a rash!

The NHS apparently calls them hives but I've never heard anyone use that word irl.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hives/

I suppose we should mention zits here as well.

plukes

Exactly.

so this is a list of colloquial names for skin problems?

i had a period of acute urticaria with some angioedema of the eyes and lips recently. lasted for about 4 weeks, responded to antihistamines, was (seemingly) idiopathic.

hive are not fun

(xp) American names for skin problems.

Why is the song "Please Mr. Postman" and not "Please Mr. Mailman"?

Good question.

https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg

why not "carn postie"

having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway

People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)

oh yes!

I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.

yes, yes it does!

Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!

we keep butter in the fridge and I don't really know why. I personally never spread it on anything and only use it for cooking.

I’m dumb

Well if you aren’t going to spread it keep it in the fridge. Put butter to spread on things on the counter. The Tao of butter.

In the Prime Grateful Dead doc, their british tour manager comments that Americans are unusually obsessed with defining "what america is" and I thought that was a good observation, although not much to do with butter

https://www.countrylanekitchens.net/images/products/thumb/butter_bell_antique_white_linen_2.jpg

I have one of these butter bells, a little bit of water in the bottom and it stays fresh and spreadable for weeks

Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!

I store butter in the refrigerator, but the dish of butter-in-use stays out on the counter, except during the hotter months of summer. i'mamericanbtw.

Steve Miller Band, "Greatest Hits 1974-1978"

somebody get me a cheeseburger

Lacrosse

Might want to google that one

La crosse, Wisconsin, maybe.

Is that different from (non-ice) Hockey? Seems massive here in Belgium.

1. biscuits & gravy

... and I'm proud to be an American!

otm

Three Dog Night
Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
The Eagles
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Kiss
Boston
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Doobie Brothers
Grand Funk Railroad
John Fogerty
J Geils Band
Foghat
Styx
Cheap Trick
REO Speedwagon
Kansas
George Thorogood & the Destroyers

there's an odd one out in that list (although it still works cos nobody likes them in their home country)

which

Foghat are British

Foghat? Ohhh, they're British?

like, literally no one cares in the UK

(and I'll be honest and say I got most of those names (incl. Foghat) from a list of 'Greatest American Bands')