Good question.
https://i.imgur.com/0dqHJfl.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
why not "carn postie"
― insecurity bear (sic), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
having A/C on 24/7 but keeping the butter in the fridge 24/7 anyway
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
People keep butter in the fridge? (Assuming you mean butter that is in the butter dish to be used soon, not backup butter)
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
oh yes!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
I don’t know if people who do that. It would make the butter hard to spread.
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
yes, yes it does!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Wait, Je55e?!! Hello!
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
I’m dumb
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
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.
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
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
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
― Je55e, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Steve Miller Band, "Greatest Hits 1974-1978"
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
somebody get me a cheeseburger
― Dan I., Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse
― S-, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 10:52 (three years ago) link
Might want to google that one
― rob, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
La crosse, Wisconsin, maybe.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Is that different from (non-ice) Hockey? Seems massive here in Belgium.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
1. biscuits & gravy
... and I'm proud to be an American!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
otm
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
Three Dog NightGrateful DeadCreedence Clearwater RevivalTom Petty & The HeartbreakersThe EaglesLynyrd SkynyrdBob Seger & the Silver Bullet BandKissBostonStevie Ray VaughanThe Doobie BrothersGrand Funk RailroadJohn FogertyJ Geils BandFoghatStyxCheap TrickREO SpeedwagonKansasGeorge Thorogood & the Destroyers
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
there's an odd one out in that list (although it still works cos nobody likes them in their home country)
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
which
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Foghat are British
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Foghat? Ohhh, they're British?
like, literally no one cares in the UK
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
(and I'll be honest and say I got most of those names (incl. Foghat) from a list of 'Greatest American Bands')
― Leighton Buzzword (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglinkMight want to google that one― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― S-, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:52 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rob, Wednesday, September 9, 2020 11:37 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
What am I missing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America,
International lacrosseFurther information: List of national lacrosse organizations
Lacrosse has historically been played for the most part in Canada and the United States,
― Peter Greenaway's Fleetwood Mac (S-), Monday, 26 October 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
It ain't no Ultimate Frisbee, brah.
― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 29 October 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Lacrosse was created long before "America" (or Canada and the United States) existed
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
by Native Americans though...that's very much an American thing!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
The name is from French, reflecting that Europeans first observed and recorded it in French Canada, well before there was a US, as Rob notes.
If what you want to say is "lol preppy jock frat bros amirite," just say that
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, October 29, 2020 9:57 AM (nineteen minutes ago)
I am not Native American, but I have a hard time believing that they* would agree with this erasure of their cultural identity and political sovereignty.
* Obviously "they" are not a univocal monolith, but the Iroquois Nationals are called that for a reason.
If you want to make a thread cataloguing cultural practices created by the indigenous people of North America, I guess you could do that, but this is not that thread. For example, consider this post from upthread:
I mean, don't forget 23. Indigenous Genocide, but, you know.
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:21 (three years ago) link
I guess the question comes down to what "America" is. Don't think it's unreasonable to describe it geographically, as a land mass.
(true though most of the posts itt have taken the title to mean "United States" things)
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
In that case, is Rio de Janeiro an American thing?
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
In that case, again, I guess it depends on what you mean by "American."
My Uruguayan gf would probably answer yes, and bristles at the interchangeability of "U.S." and "America"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
The Uruguayan States of America.
― peace, man, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Totally cool with this exapbded definition btw: tacos al carbon? American. Samba music? American. Pierre Trudeau? American. Cali Cartel? American. Falklands war? American. Chichen Itza, the Yukon gold rush, Macchu Picchu, poutine: American things.
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I guess we're just pretending the continents in this hemisphere are not called "America" w/ different modifiers
Anyway, this is obv. not the thread for that...I'm just not sure the lacrosse post is "wrong"
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Hay mexicanos, norteamericanos y norte-norteamericanos.
― pplains, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Beringea, Fidel Castro, tomatoes, potatoes, ska, reggae, soca. American things.
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young. Americans.
(And by the way let us call out Ireland and Italy for appropriating our cuisine, and France for our smokes; you're welcome.)
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
what
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
I'm just not sure the lacrosse post is "wrong"
Because 99% of the entries in this thread are about the United States, and I'm not sure why you would pretend otherwise
― rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Okay, go there if you like. The mesoamerican ball game practiced by pre-Columbian Mayans in what is now Mexico is as American as lacrosse.
(Mexico being in North America.)
Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh - Americans? How about Oscar Hijuelos? Joni Mitchell? Frida Kahlo?
(Not to mention that there is significant controversy about how many continents there are and the divisions between them. The distinction between Europe and Asia is way more fuzzy, in fact. Is Bibi Netanyahu an Asian?)
― Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
like I said, this isn't the thread for this, it's obv. "U.S" things and a repository for Tom D. cross-Atlantic peeves...but even in that context the idea
Macchu Picchu:U.S.::lacrosse:U.S.
is just p silly. I just don't think the poster -S is so far off. Lacross has origins in North America and is HUGE in the mid-Atlantic, not so much afaik in say, Spain, or Thailand
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
it's also probably uniquely "American" in this context as discussed in the quid-ag thread:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/squash-lacrosse-niche-sports-ivy-league-admissions/616474/
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
I mean, potatoes originate in south america, but I don't think if I said "loaded baked potato skins" was a U.S. American thing anyone would bat an eye.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link