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[โ€“] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This seems to happen with Beer too. Yes, America makes shitty beer but also lots of great beer.

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The problem is not the fact that they put foreign stuff into it. The problem is that they still call it "beer" then. Or "chocolate".

This is fraud. They should outright forbid that!

Do you still call it water when there is 25% sand and 25% cement in it?

Do you still call it running when they sit down and rest after every 10 meters (or feet or whatever)?

[โ€“] essell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Do you still call it running when they sit down and rest after every 10 meters (or feet or whatever)?

No, I believe Americans call that "Football"

[โ€“] crocswithsocks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

10 meters is something like 100 miles, right?

[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

The only Miles I know is Miles O'Brien, and he calculates the light years.

[โ€“] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very true. You can get great locally made beer in every single state. The US has an incredible brewing scene, you can find the highest quality examples of almost every kind of beer in the US. You can also find plenty of the disappointing mass produced bullshit beers just like in every other beer drinking country. I feel bad for all the beer lovers who buy into that bullshit and think its representative of US beer because they are really missing out. There's plenty of things to criticize the US for but a lack of quality beer or chocolate is not it.

[โ€“] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

plenty of things to criticize the US for but a lack of quality beer or chocolate is not it.

It most definitely is. Things which are called "chocolate" or "beer" in the USA are often unfit for human consumption and at least they wouldn't be able to call these beer/chocolate in Europe.

[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They have the commoner stuff and the rich people stuff, and because the rich people stuff exists they get to claim it as better.

Americans are all temporarily embarassed millionaires, thats why they bote against their own interests.

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago

Yeah you genuinely do have to treat us like we are in a cult.

The difference between USians is at any one point how much do we realize we are trapped in a cult?

Most of the time I am self aware, most.