The European View on all things American

[SecretTacoNinja]

And what the hell are Grits?

Huh, surprised no one's answered this. I'm just going to paste this from wiki, since I feel lazy.

"Grits is a Native American corn-based food common in the Southern United States, consisting of coarsely ground corn.

Grits are similar to other thick maize-based porridges from around the world such as polenta. It also has a resemblance to farina, a thinner porridge. Grits can be served hot or cold and as a base for a multitude of dishes from breakfast to dessert, depending on the additives. Additives can range from salt and butter, meats, vegetables, and sugar.

Hominy grits is grits made from nixtamalized corn, or hominy. It is sometimes called sofkee or sofkey from the Creek word."

As far as I understand, you just pour the coarsely ground corn into boiling water, reduce heat, and keep stirring until it's done. I've never made or had it for breakfast while growing up. The one time I did eat it was on a kendo trip for college in Detroit and we stopped at a Denny's (or maybe it was a Bob Evans). Anyhow, one of our Japanese guys ordered it for the sake of the experience and I tried some. I thought it tasted like mushy rice. All I needed was some soy sauce for it and I wouldn't probably mind eating grits at all.

Huh, sounds gross. Thanks for that, although I don't know why it didn't occur to me to look it up myself... <.<

 

[Quantana]

well uhmm... i like family guy and south park
but i realy dont like Amarican beer
real good beer is either from Holland,Germany or The UK (from what i hade ofcours)

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

 

[McClaud]

Woo Socialism.

Such a knee-jerk response. I do not think it (socialism) means what you think it means.

How about we work on programs to lower health care costs so that it doesn't cost someone every cent they have and a loan to get basic surgery or medicine? Like elevating technology standards so efficiency is higher and overriding costs are lower?

That's just good business practice, and has nothing to do with "socialism."

 

[WeedWorm]

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

Yeah, Churchill was a prick, hence why he wasnt elected after the war. He got into power originally because he wanted to fight the Germans and not try to appease like like the PM before him, cant remember his name.
As for "needing" a sense of homour, youd better be excluding Ireland. We got the short end of the stick in Europe but we're the best laugh to go drinking with.
Also, whats with Americans saying theyre from Ireland when theyve never even been here? Srsly, just because youre great-great-great-great grandad went over on one of the coffin ships, doesnt make you Irish. It doesnt even make you Irish American, it makes you American.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

Yeah, Churchill was a prick, hence why he wasnt elected after the war. He got into power originally because he wanted to fight the Germans and not try to appease like like the PM before him, cant remember his name.
As for "needing" a sense of homour, youd better be excluding Ireland. We got the short end of the stick in Europe but we're the best laugh to go drinking with.
Also, whats with Americans saying theyre from Ireland when theyve never even been here? Srsly, just because youre great-great-great-great grandad went over on one of the coffin ships, doesnt make you Irish. It doesnt even make you Irish American, it makes you American.

So ... by that logic ... us Australians can forgive Edmund Barton for introducing the 'White Australia' policy ... which purposely setup limits on how many Asian foreigners we're allowed into the country .... simply because he introduced the world's first Old Age pension, medical welfare, as well as the right for a worker to declare he only wants to work a 9 hour day .. as well as being one the first countries to allow women to vote?

So we can forgive his blatant and open hatred of the Chinese because he did other things right? o.o; How does that argument even make sense ...? Sorry, upon re-reading this .. it may sound offensive .. I understand where you're coming from .. but I don't think's it's good enough to say a Political leader was beneficial if they were majorly flawed in one particular area, even if offset by the fact that they were good in others.

Anyways ... I believe it would be because many Irish were hated by the settled Americans upon arrival ... and so even if you were born in America, you'd still be seen as the son/grandson/greatgrandson of an Irish Immigrant during the Potato famine.

And that being the case .. if you cant be seen as an American ... nor if you aren't seen as an American by other americans ... then you can take pride in being an Irishman.. the proud .. the belittled ... the workmen of workmen that built many of the roads and slaved (toiled is perhaps a better word, but they were paid less than the African American workmen ...) in many mines.

 

[WeedWorm]

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

Yeah, Churchill was a prick, hence why he wasnt elected after the war. He got into power originally because he wanted to fight the Germans and not try to appease like like the PM before him, cant remember his name.
As for "needing" a sense of homour, youd better be excluding Ireland. We got the short end of the stick in Europe but we're the best laugh to go drinking with.
Also, whats with Americans saying theyre from Ireland when theyve never even been here? Srsly, just because youre great-great-great-great grandad went over on one of the coffin ships, doesnt make you Irish. It doesnt even make you Irish American, it makes you American.

So ... by that logic ... us Australians can forgive Edmund Barton for introducing the 'White Australia' policy ... which purposely setup limits on how many Asian foreigners we're allowed into the country .... simply because he introduced the world's first Old Age pension, medical welfare, as well as the right for a worker to declare he only wants to work a 9 hour day .. as well as being one the first countries to allow women to vote?

So we can forgive his blatant and open hatred of the Chinese because he did other things right? o.o; How does that argument even make sense ...? Sorry, upon re-reading this .. it may sound offensive .. I understand where you're coming from .. but I don't think's it's good enough to say a Political leader was beneficial if they were majorly flawed in one particular area, even if offset by the fact that they were good in others.

Anyways ... I believe it would be because many Irish were hated by the settled Americans upon arrival ... and so even if you were born in America, you'd still be seen as the son/grandson/greatgrandson of an Irish Immigrant during the Potato famine.

And that being the case .. if you cant be seen as an American ... nor if you aren't seen as an American by other americans ... then you can take pride in being an Irishman.. the proud .. the belittled ... the workmen of workmen that built many of the roads and slaved (toiled is perhaps a better word, but they were paid less than the African American workmen ...) in many mines.

Is that first part aimed at me or what?
Anyway, yeah, the Irish were probably hated when they first arrvied but that was hundreds of years ago. These days, I cant imagine anyone, well most people, giving a shit about what the natives think. And thats if they even meet one. They can take all the pride they want in being an Irish desendent, calling themselves that would be grand, but calling themselves Irish, as if theyre born and bred, here is just annoying.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Right, I'm very much a citizen on Great Britain, and as such I'm very much British. Now, there tends to be a thing that America doesn't get Europe, and no doubt visa versa, even something as simple as sport. Football in America resembles rugby in Britain, but British football is the same in every other part of the world (soccer for those across the pond)

recently I joined my University's American Football team and well, I very much see the appeal and can't get enough of it.

What University are you part of? Are you in the league? Because I want to know if my team will be facing yours.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

Yeah, Churchill was a prick, hence why he wasnt elected after the war. He got into power originally because he wanted to fight the Germans and not try to appease like like the PM before him, cant remember his name.
As for "needing" a sense of homour, youd better be excluding Ireland. We got the short end of the stick in Europe but we're the best laugh to go drinking with.
Also, whats with Americans saying theyre from Ireland when theyve never even been here? Srsly, just because youre great-great-great-great grandad went over on one of the coffin ships, doesnt make you Irish. It doesnt even make you Irish American, it makes you American.

So ... by that logic ... us Australians can forgive Edmund Barton for introducing the 'White Australia' policy ... which purposely setup limits on how many Asian foreigners we're allowed into the country .... simply because he introduced the world's first Old Age pension, medical welfare, as well as the right for a worker to declare he only wants to work a 9 hour day .. as well as being one the first countries to allow women to vote?

So we can forgive his blatant and open hatred of the Chinese because he did other things right? o.o; How does that argument even make sense ...? Sorry, upon re-reading this .. it may sound offensive .. I understand where you're coming from .. but I don't think's it's good enough to say a Political leader was beneficial if they were majorly flawed in one particular area, even if offset by the fact that they were good in others.

Anyways ... I believe it would be because many Irish were hated by the settled Americans upon arrival ... and so even if you were born in America, you'd still be seen as the son/grandson/greatgrandson of an Irish Immigrant during the Potato famine.

And that being the case .. if you cant be seen as an American ... nor if you aren't seen as an American by other americans ... then you can take pride in being an Irishman.. the proud .. the belittled ... the workmen of workmen that built many of the roads and slaved (toiled is perhaps a better word, but they were paid less than the African American workmen ...) in many mines.

Is that first part aimed at me or what?
Anyway, yeah, the Irish were probably hated when they first arrvied but that was hundreds of years ago. These days, I cant imagine anyone, well most people, giving a shit about what the natives think. And thats if they even meet one. They can take all the pride they want in being an Irish desendent, calling themselves that would be grand, but calling themselves Irish, as if theyre born and bred, here is just annoying.

Well it was aimed at the argument that Churchill was good simply because opened aggressions with the Germans. Rather than just being seen as total dick and that was his one redeeming quality.

I don't know ... I think its purely a matter of pride. I agree with you though, I'm half British pastoralist ancestry ... like 6th generation or some crap like one ancestor on my father's side paid for a ticket to start up a farm near the colony at Botany Bay.

And like you say however, I wouldnt call myself British, or British-Australian .... and my mum is Filo but I don't consider myself Filo either <.<;

"Different folks different strokes" - I guess?

 

[kaiZie]

Right, I'm very much a citizen on Great Britain, and as such I'm very much British. Now, there tends to be a thing that America doesn't get Europe, and no doubt visa versa, even something as simple as sport. Football in America resembles rugby in Britain, but British football is the same in every other part of the world (soccer for those across the pond)

recently I joined my University's American Football team and well, I very much see the appeal and can't get enough of it.

What University are you part of? Are you in the league? Because I want to know if my team will be facing yours.

Staffordshire Stallions, in the northern BUAFC =]

 

[monkey jesus]

A dummy is a fake nipple and it does pacify a baby so they are both correct.

Alanis Morrisette was either ahead of her time and was being ironic that a song about irony was not about ironic situations or she does not own a dictionary.

Churchill was a war leader and made decisions that none us would ever be able to make.

I was in the States for a while and whenever people found out I was English they all said "Tata!" whenever I left. I didn't know the best way to respond to show the same level of knowledge of their culture, in the end I just shot at them.

 

[vamp rocks]

the main beef i have with America is the trade embargo on Cuba... ill be damned if i cant smoke a Cuban cigar just because of one incident in Cuba


Note: I?m not being offensive towards Cuba, if I have offended you in any way... i am sorry, just ignore what i have said.

but if u agree with me.... DAMN STRAIGHT! lol XD

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Right, I'm very much a citizen on Great Britain, and as such I'm very much British. Now, there tends to be a thing that America doesn't get Europe, and no doubt visa versa, even something as simple as sport. Football in America resembles rugby in Britain, but British football is the same in every other part of the world (soccer for those across the pond)

recently I joined my University's American Football team and well, I very much see the appeal and can't get enough of it.

What University are you part of? Are you in the league? Because I want to know if my team will be facing yours.

Staffordshire Stallions, in the northern BUAFC =]

Nice. Mine is Buckinghamshire Buccaneers, used to suck balls but now we are getting much better. We don't face you this year it seems, maybe next year. ;¬D

 

[Chaz D]

Any Europeans want to know the biggest difference between east and west, just visit the menu on the American Burger King website.

Personally, I like the "Loaded Steakhouse Burger".

 

[Spacelord]

Any Europeans want to know the biggest difference between east and west, just visit the menu on the American Burger King website.

Personally, I like the "Loaded Steakhouse Burger".

Also, the Burger king does not have 'small'. They don't even want to serve the kind of pussy that orders the small order. Fuck off, you skinny freak, go eat some tofu or whatever, we only have normal, big, and KING.

I love the States

 

[hell4raizer]

I'm halfway through reading this thread so sorry if someone said this: you know what's fucking awesome? Paulaner, beer from Munich. costs me $40 in america for a case and it's well worth the money to import.

 

[Taizan]

European beer is often considered to be better than Yank beer, especially from that little place known as Belgium!

 

[Dirkie]

Living next door to Belgium (Holland) i agree on the beer, the Belgians do a great job on that.
On politics, well... we do have a bad political correct Harry Potter impersonator as a president, go figure.

I don't get any sort of big ball games, soccer is the easiest to understand i guess, 2 teams of 10 people on the field, 1 on each short side and everyone has to leave the field alive.

I eat fries/chips whatever the UK or US people call those fried square potato bars with majonaise, and i like it. Somehow this seems to be causing hilarity in the rest of the world.

Ice, now thats fun, Amercians have Icehockey and are also doing fine on figure skating, we have Sven Kramer - someone who is blistering fast on very long distances on ice, somewhat like nascar, but without car, no nas, no road as well, the track has a similar form.
Americans have Shani Davis, somehow a black guy who's amazing in something no-one expected him to be, speed skating.

More crazy things... Dutch means we have an amazing amount of foreign countries, we're too small to invade anything bigger than Luxembourg and as a country we're in general too soggy to be invaded.

Other bits of view on Americans are pretty basic, as a whole group of countries it's a pretty big bunch of "we can take the world for breakfast and then go off doing something fun" but the people as individuals as far as i got to know them are just the same as everywhere else, intelligent, misinformed and disliking the weather.

 

[kaiZie]

Yeah, Euro beer wins all. No question about that. Duvel just beats everything in my personal opinion. A sweet, fine tasting 9% beer that warms your heart...and your face. Seriously, your face feels warm after drinking one =]

And another thing...going back to the Burger King thing just above, do they really not do a small?? or is the wording just different? Is it one of those things where it's got messed up on the line from the USA to the UK? or do they really only have 3 sizes? And in any case, I don't think thats really fair to drop a size just because people might order it! I remeber reading on the burger king chip bags that it says "Have it your way". What if I want my way to be a small order of chips (fries)!? Why should I be penalised?

 

[Zeke the Freak]

3. Guns N' Roses.

LOL right.

American music is disgraceful.

First of all, fuck you, you arrogent, close minded, band wagon hoppin, dick badger. I love american music.

Since when did Europe become this one country ...? And when the hell did Europe suddenly become a bastion of Liberal freedom and awesome that farts sunshine and rainbows? ;

The way some people write on this forum you'd think that every single person within Europe all held hands and danced around a maypole in some collective celebration of the spirit of Humanity.

Europe (From Iberian Peninsula to the Kamchatka Peninsula ... yes yes I'm including Russia..) .... has born the greatest collection of arseholes ... the world has EVER .... EVER ... seen. And this isn't some Knee jerk poke at Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini ... it seems every new generation of Humanity there is an arsehole of arseholes being born in Europe ...

Collectively .... 'Europeans', as people like to group them, NEED a *good* sense of humour .... because one look at it's history would be enough to bring most people to tears ...

So I don't see why Europeans rip on 'Americans' (why is it people group Europeans together ... but never Group all nations within North and South America as 'Americans' ?) ... because I'd take having GWB by an arsehole power of 10 as a political leader before I would take an autocratic Churchill ....

You got some good points there, man. Kudo's.

Im not gonna lie though. Euro alcohol is freakin awsome. But i still perfer to stay here in the states, where we're a good ocean away from any country that could possibly have the power to invade us. Were we have the *allegedly* most kick ass army in the world. Where my rights are assured that i will have a hefty stockpile of Guns and Ammo when the *inevitable* zombie invasion finally arrives.

Most americans beleive in god because our founding fathers (A) were christian and (B) put the words "one nation under god" in our pledge of allegence.