/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19796136
Why is it that every week we have this thread. Is every week in Eurostan american week?

>Goyslop week

>>19796139
It's always America week somewhere.

>>19796136
>McKennedy
every time lmao

Maybe the muffins are good. The rest looks pretty bad. Americans don't eat hot dogs in a jar.

>>19796136
I don't know wtf it is with former 1st world countries and serving pancakes and waffles in a box but this shit is foul. Knock it off all of you.

>>19796145
Kind of like how it's always israel week in america

>>19796149
what about cans?

As an American I'd advice you to get the burgers, the hotdogs, the mac and cheese,the chili, the muffins and the choc chips. All of it looks good.

>>19796153
I've never seen it. I have seen the small potted meat sausages but not hot dogs.

>>19796136
Those peanut butter brezel things look pretty good desu

>>19796153
We just use plastic packaging. Almost no hotdog juice.

>>19796139
It's America week here in Denmark too. It happens pretty often. Maybe every other month or so.

I haven't seen anything I really want to try out this time, though. The burgers are new but kind of overpriced.

>>19796136
>MCENNEDY
they really created the most retarded name they could think of just for this

They have all the Oktoberfest stuff at Aldi here in the US. I stock up on the stone ground mustard and pretzel sticks.

I don't know anyone who uses frozen hamburger patties

>>19796136
the pancakes and chili are nice for what they are

I'm American, but not born nor raised here. I'd get würstchen because I can't get them here and I miss them.
That said, I'd tell you to get the peanut butter and potentially the syrup if you want things which are American but not easily found in the rest of the world. American pancakes are easy to make and everything else either falls into that same category or isn't really something Americans make or eat.

>>19796164
The hamburgers have buns n cheese and are for the microwave I think. The chicken burger is basically one giant chicken nugget.

>>19796153
Yes, they eat canned hot dogs here but Americans don't think of them as /actual/ hot dogs. They call it either beany wienie (if it's been tinned with beans lmao) or Vienna sausage, unaware that this is what "wiener" fucking means.

>>19796162
>stone ground mustard
I'm Swiss-ish (actually, I'm Italian but mum is dual citizen Italian/Swiss; never bothered getting Swissizenship) but live in America. I stock the fuck up whether I find good mustard here. Even the imports are of inexplicably lesser quality so when I do find good stuff, I make sure to buy lots.

American week is the one I like the least stuff from, but the one thing I always used to get is these pulled pork flavor maize crisps, it's my favorite type of crisp but they haven't been sold in my country for like two decades outside of these Lidl ones and occasional imports from UK. Sadly I haven't seen them in a while so I'm not sure they still make them.
But our selection is pretty different than OP in general.
>>19796139
LIDL has these rotating weekly offers when it's American week one week, then French, Italian, British, etc.

>>19796192
For British week, all they offer is weak tea and an unearned sense of entitlement.

>>19796232
kek
but it's not that bad, for British week they have amazing millionaire's shortbread, decent cheddar, and sometimes decent Irish bacon

>>19796240
plus wine gums

>>19796136
>America Week
>Lasagne
Do Germans really?

>>19796192
>pulled pork flavor maize crisps
lol those are just Frazzles

>>19796240
>British week
>Irish bacon

>>19796334
yes, and Frazzles can't be fucking bought here unless imported and that costs too much
we used to have one brand literally like 25 years ago when I was a kid and I loved them, I completely forgot the flavor until Lidl brought these out
kinda annoying, we have like a dozen brands of the Peppies style bacon crisps, and not a single Frazzles knock-off

>>19796136
I recommend to the Bologna Bomb with some Milanese Street Sausage, whipped up by Propaganda Due

>>19796339
Sucks

>hot dogs in a jar

Do Americans really?

>>19796376
No, we don't. Europeans do.

>>19796174
>I'm American, but not born nor raised here
Buddy, you ain't no American

>>19796136
I'd go for the Golden Gate Bridge

>>19796174
To be American is to be raised in America. You will literally never be an American. Your kids could be, but you won't.

>>19796376
Never actually. Europæns do, for some reason.

>>19796376
Americans don't use jars

>>19796387
Not for öt dögs at least

>>19796136
As an American I don't recognize any of this stuff.

>>19796392
you don't recognize peanut butter or muffins or cheeseburgers huh

>>19796386
It keeps them fresh for a long time.

>>19796161
It's perfectly American yet non-American simultaneously

>>19796398
They're hotdogs. Why do you need to keep them fresh? Buy them, cook them, eat them.

>>19796405
Cause only Americans eat 8 hot dogs in one sitting.

>>19796421
Most people only buy hot dogs when they're having a cookout.

>>19796421
https://youtu.be/MFuQz2Txvy4?si=wPH-K1u_KqhPNjZO

>>19796136
do euopeans really?

>>19796136
Do Germans not have fresh ground beef packaged at the butcher’s counter? Where are the numerous cuts of steaks and ribs to smoke?

This all looks like packaged nonsense!

Can a red blooded Amercian please explain what is supposed to be wrong with "MCENNEDY"?

>>19796435
It's not a real name.

>go to Lidl for American week
>walk in the store
>nothing but buckets of corn syrup
At least it’s authentic.

>>19796435
Nothing wrong, just hilarious.

It would be like a Canadian grocery chain opening a store that specialized in Indian food and calling "Dec and Pajeet's Toilet Treats"

Wann kommen die ObamaFinger™ zurück??

>>19796435
it's like if I sold spatzel under the brand name Hanz Fritz, it sounds Bavarian but it's nonsense

>>19796457
That's pretty much a real name, though. It would be more like a brand of German-themed food called "Werlenspatser"

>>19796457

>>19796462
see >>19796458

>>19796382
lmao was wondering why the fuck that was there, is it a vacation or something?
>vacation in San Francisco
might as well go to India considering all the shit in the streets

>>19796485
I went to San Francisco with my mom in 2013, and I realize now that was probably the last time it was a good place to visit. I bought a grocery bag full of weed on Haight street, ate the best Pupusas I've had to this day, and stayed in the top of the Ghirardelli Clocktower. Shit was cash desu

>>19796495
I had family that lived in Marin County and we used to visit the Bay back in the 80s and 90s and it was awesome back then, going to Pier 39 as a kid was fucking mind blowing because the NAMCO arcade was insane never saw anything like that on the east coast, and dim sum in China Town was the best I'd ever had
To hear what it has turned into makes me sad as fuck because of those good times back then, I pour one out for the Bay

>>19796136
The frozen onion rings are pretty good and the frozen McRib thingy is ok, thats about it. Oh wait, they don't have those...again. fuck lidl is getting worse. it's a shame.

>>19796516
Everything comes in cycles, my nigga. Wave's gotta come down for it come up, ya feel me?

>>19796528
I'm picking up what you putting down

>>19796136
Do they do a frozen biscuit breakfast sandwich with sausage patty, egg, and cheese? Those are slop but I love theem.

>>19796136
None of this is american, is this why europeans all think we eat dumb bullshit?

>>19796533
Just don't google "Operation Gladio" "strategy of tension" or "lavon affair"!

>>19796136
>chili con carne
>american

>>19796667
it is though

>>19796136
Just make your own burger bro, why would you buy it out a bag?

>>19796136
Nobody uses a honey dipper for syrup.

>>19796702
My uncle is the only person I know who makes frozen burgers, the Bubba burgers. They are fucking gross and more expensive than just getting 80/20 ground beef. If someone is too lazy to make hamburger patties, they don't deserve to eat.

>>19796139
It's not American without Coca Cola and guns. Sad!

>>19796396
That peanut butter is of a way lighter color than what we have, so no
I didn't see muffins
I've never seen cheeseburgers frozen with the bun, so again no. We can get frozen burger patties but I've never seen that shit.

>>19796136
get those muffins my man

>>19796727
>>19796740

>>19796443
No idea it even existed for it to come back.
>t. Swiss-ish guy from >>19796186 who spoke German as a kid and can still read and understand it but is intimidated to speak it cuz his mum tells him his spoken German is shit : (
At least my Italian and French are perfect

>>19796381
Then neither was John McCain and we didn't see any birtherism about him being born in fucking Panama.
Fact of the matter is, my dad is half American, born and raised in America and by American citizenship rules, he's American because his father is American and he was born in America and I am also American because anyone born to one American parent is an American at birth regardless of whether they were born on American soil or not.
Tough titty, kiddie.

>>19796495
>>19796516
Yeah, I used to visit all the time because I had friends and family in the area, and every time someone would talk shit about San Francisco I'd tell them how awesome it is, and that there were always homeless people. Then they ask when was the last time I was actually there...and I realize it's been over a decade. Apparently it's not the same place anymore.

>>19796727
>I've never seen cheeseburgers frozen with the bun
You never looked hard enough.
I had an employee who used to bring two to work daily to nuke for his lunch. They exist. And they look absolutely fucking vile.

>>19796752
I have seen them at gas stations, but they are literally last resort, I am going to die if I don't eat tier.

>>19796592
>is this why europeans all think we eat dumb bullshit?
Lot's of bigger grocery stores in Europe have "American" sections the same way we have Oriental/Mexican/Kosher sections, with actual imported American foods. The problem is that it's all the kind of shit you'd find in a gas station or drug store, as in, all prepackaged garbage nobody actually eats unless they're in a situation where they have to buy food from a gas station at 2am. They also have fast food (and they fucking love it, no matter what anyone here tells you), and are unironically obsessed with American youtubers. Probably 90% of the e-celeb spam on /ck/ comes from Europeans. So yeah, they have a really skewed idea of what Americans really.

>>19796756
Maybe that's where he got them. I don't understand why he didn't just bring literally anything else lmao
Around holidays, he'd bring leftover turkey (Thanksgiving), suckling pig (Christmas), barbecue chicken (4th of July) etc but outside of that street if thing four times of five, he'd bring these horrible-looking frozen burgers.
I don't understand why they look so bad. Think about it: frozen breakfast sandwiches look decent enough.
At least he always ate fruit and salad with his sad burgers, so he was getting dinner produce in his diet, too.
He's a good guy and I worry that this sort of diet will fuck him up in later life

>>19796769
>street if thing
SORT OF thing

>>19796766
>Lot's of bigger grocery stores in Europe have "American" sections the same way we have Oriental/Mexican/Kosher sections, with actual imported American foods. The problem is that it's all the kind of shit you'd find in a gas station or drug store, as in, all prepackaged garbage nobody actually eats unless they're in a situation where they have to buy food from a gas station at 2am. They also have fast food (and they fucking love it, no matter what anyone here tells you), and are unironically obsessed with American youtubers. Probably 90% of the e-celeb spam on /ck/ comes from Europeans. So yeah, they have a really skewed idea of what Americans really.
she says, passportlessly

>>19796773
Lol. Americans travel abroad far more than Europeans.

>>19796756
>but they are literally last resort, I am going to die if I don't eat tier.
I was truck driver for 5 years and I can tell you in certain rural parts of the country lots of gas stations don't have hot or ready food and it gets very tiring eating beef jerky and chips day in and day out, If you ever had a school lunch hamburger they taste like that, I would certainly take it over some of the meals you get in MRE cases.

>>19796766
It's just stuff for "expats" anon. You can see it in >>19796788; the "American" food includes British teabags & Marmite. It's stuff "expats" crave as a home comfort. It's nothing deeper than that.

>>19796788
>american candy bars somehow sold in sport bottles
See, this doesn't exist in America. It's like they asked a bunch of Europeans what American foods they want to try and they just said, "make me as fat and disgusting as possible because that's what I think of Americans", and then they created new products just for Europe that nobody would actually buy in the US. It's kind of sad, becaue they do it to themselves.

>>19796788
>they don't have smores flavored poptarts
Grim

>>19796805
>american candy bars somehow sold in sport bottles
Fuck me you're retarded. Those are drinks. They're not American, they're British, because it's a mix of "not-wherever-this-country-is" food.

>>19796788
lol
That's demonstrably false, picrel.
And I would bet the majority of these Americans with passports are people like me who actually happen to have a connection to some other country.
The majority of American-born-and-raised Americans who've even been abroad have only gone to the Caribbean or fucking Mexico and nowhere else

>>19796804
Yes, there's obviously some British stuff mixed in there, and maybe Marmite and English tea are comfort foods to bongs, but literally no American is craving fucking marshmallow fluff or Campbell's condensed soup after living abroad for 5 years.

>>19796821
Okay and what about the ones who have been there 6 months? Most expats never stay 5 years.

>>19796821
That begs the question: as a Yank, what /would/ you crave after living abroad a while? I live in the US and there are a number of foods I miss from back home so I actually talk about this a lot with Americans and I'm always interested in their answers.
The most surprising one was flavoured creamer. A woman I met at my best friend's wedding said she misses flavoured coffee creamer most of all after living on the Isle of Mann for the last decade (at the time of the conversation, anyway). Surprisingly, she said the local supermarket there is also ShopRite, just as it is in Nuh Joisey

>>19796814
Now post the version where the South isn't included.
>>19796827
6 months doesn't make you an expat. That's a short job assignment, study abroad, or a long vacation.

>>19796839
>Mann
Dang stuck N key.
Here's the Isle of Man ShopRite website. Very 90s Internet vibe:
https://www.manxshoprite.com/
Oh, and she also said British stock cubes have no flavour whatsoever lmao

>>19796839
My American ex would buy A&W Rootbeer & Velveeta whenever she could find it. She even bought Applejacks & Twinkies at times.

>>19796841
>6 months doesn't make you an expat.
If you arrive for a 3 year posting and are at month 6 you're not an expat? When do you become one? Month 7? After 1 year?

>>19796841
>Now post the version where the South isn't included.
Nice notruescotsman cope, but even omitting them, the Southwest, the Prairie States and the Midwest, it really wouldn't change shit much lmao
I'm sorry reality doesn't conform to your arguments but dems da breaks, kiddo.

>>19796814
>The majority of American-born-and-raised Americans who've even been abroad have only gone to the Caribbean or fucking Mexico and nowhere else
Probably because it costs much more money to go anywhere else.

>>19796863
Probably, but even when they go to the Caribbean or Mexico, they never see/do anything. They just go to some resort to eat, sleep and shit for five days. I really don't understand the point of that sort of travel.

>>19796232
>unearned
Britain built the biggest empire in human history

>>19796139
I'm guessing different European countries have "American week" on different weeks

>>19796861
>>19796841
And just to hammer the point further that you're utterly divorced from reality lmao

>>19796869
I didn't earn a hundred bucks gambling when I lost it all again in the same night.

>>19796869
Yeah, I'm sure the guy from Yorkshire who retiles bathrooms and lives off takeaway curry and chips built a great fucking empire lmao

The only McEnnedy product that is actually legit is the oatmeal cranberry cookie
Everything else is just meh or a regular thing in more murican packaging (like the mayos and frozen chicken products)

>>19796839
>what /would/ you crave after living abroad a while?
That's actually a really good question, and something I haven't thought about in a while. I spent a year in England and 2 years in France, and I know at a certain point I started craving something familiar, even if it wasn't something I would normally eat at home. The problem is that America is huge, and diverse, so finding something not only shelf stable, but appealing to *all* of America is kind of hard. I actually live in a different part of the country from where I grew up, so even in the US there are foods I crave but have a difficult time finding. I do know that at no point was I ever eating a fresh baguette and thinking to myself, "I should make a trip over to Monoprix later today to pick up some Pop-tarts."

>>19796861
>>19796878
>people in less poor areas tend to travel more
I don't think you made the point you think you made.

>>19796773

>>19796888
Yes, yes, but you specifically. What do you crave? After being in the US as long as I have? I'd probably miss the fuck out of Sunchips were I to go back home. I don't even eat them very often. Maybe one bag every few years. But I think that I would eventually miss them since nothing else really tastes like a Sunchip.
Another thing might be the Maruchan cheese yakisoba.

>>19796376
lord no..
however i was able to buy a jar of german hotdogs here in the usa.
they're alright... just seems off, the currywurst ketchup though is amazing

>>19796839
Good smoked brisket, and good bbq overall

>>19796881
The empire was still built, just like the Twin Towers were still built, even if they don't exist now

>>19796883
His ancestors did

>>19796893
>The highest percentage off passport holders when is 55%, compared to Europe's 90% +
I think I made the point just fine. Sadly, the only point you've got is at the top of your skull, Schlitzie.

>>19796906
>His ancestors did
His ancestors were probably from Calcutta lmao

>>19796911
>The American posts, in English, from a former British colony
Really makes you think.

>>19796915
Forse preferisci se uso la mia lingua materna?
And you can't take credit for something your kid did (America made English relevant, not you). Usain Bolt's dad didn't get an Olympic medal for his son's achievements lmao

>>19796915
>former
Not the burn you think it is.
You literally lost a war to a bunch of hicks and farmers.
>backed by French and Poles, but still

>>19796907
You're conflating "traveling abroad" with "having a passport". Just because you take a 45 minute train-ride to a non-schengen, European country doesn't mean you've "traveled abroad". If Americans needed a passport to go from California to Chicago, or Texas to Florida, the number of passport holders would easily be in the 90th percentile. Almost all of that "55%" represents people who travel to actual foreign countries.

>>19796921
>The American posts, in Spanish, from a former British colony
Really makes you think.
>America made English relevant, not you
Yet here you are, posting in Spanish. Really makes you think.

>>19796925
>You literally lost a war to a bunch of hicks and farmers.
TWICE!
The Brits re-invaded 20ish years later and lost AGAIN. lmao

>>19796927
>Just because you've travelled to a different country doesn't mean you're in a different country.
Okay.

>>19796933
Not him but europeans travel to different countries more than americans do because your entire countries are the size of our individual states, less people in America have passports because our country is a third of a whole continent that we're allowed to travel anywhere in freely without getting stopped by border guards every 2 hours

>>19796939
this

>>19796136
>bacon on the side
>not on the burger, under the cheese
do yuropoors really?

>>19796931
>Spanish
Top fucking kek.
You got me. That was a masterful bit of trolling and I didn't expect it. I have no pithy retort. I kneel. I know it's practically impossible to tell in text, but I'm not even being sarcastic.
Friends?

>>19796927
>a German visiting Morocco hasn't traveled abroad
>a Pole visiting Turkey hasn't traveled abroad
>a Swiss visiting literally anyfuckingwhere hasn't traveled abroad
lmao

>>19796586
This is one of those foods that's shit, but really good all at the same time. It's like schrodinger's biscuit.

>>19796939
>less people
Nice grammar, retard

>>19796933
>a·broad
>/əˈbrôd/
>adverb
>1. in or to a foreign country or countries

>for·eign
>/ˈfôrən,ˈfärən/
>adjective
>1. strange and unfamiliar

>b-but tEcHnIcAlLy they are different countries so you're wrong!
Paris is the same distance from Vienna as San Diego is from Sacramento. I don't give a shit if they speak different languages and have different cultures. Getting on a train for a few hours doesn't make you any more worldly than driving Route 66.

>>19796953
the chad descriptivist vs the virgin prescriptivist

>>19796839
Maybe just the sheer variety of pizza lol.

>>19796957
>All European countries are identical
>All American states are identical
Typical fucking retard.

>>19796145
Thats a dell xps m1210

>>19796957
...
You.
Don't.
Need.
A.
Passport.
To.
Travel.
To.
Vienna.
From.
Paris.
As.
An.
Euro.
Pean.

So the point you think you've made js fucking moot. Meanwhile, I can take a ferry from Tarifa in Spain to motherfucking Tangier Morocco and it would take less than two hours (and I'd need a passport to do so).
See >>19796949
A German, Pole and Swiss would need a passport to make any of those trips.

>>19796949
>a German visiting Morocco
>a Pole visiting Turkey
>a Swiss visiting literally anyfuckingwhere

Literally no different than,

>a Minnesotan visiting Cancun
>a New Yorker visiting the Caribbean
>a Buckeye visiting literally anyfuckingwhere

>>19796986
That's.
The.
Entire.
Fucking.
Point.
You.
Absolute.
Fucking.
Retarded.
E.
S.
L.
Moron.

>>19796136
>Brezel

>>19796986
She's going to argue that traveling to another country that speaks another language and has another religion AND IS ON ANOTHER FUCKING CONTINENT also doesn't count because reasons, just you fucking watch.

>>19796997
Those are foreign countries. I already made my argument >>19796988

>>19796988
Except the Minnesotan and New Yorker won't leave the resort in either place LMFAO
>implying Ohioans need passports to go to Pittsburgh

>>19796995
Not making the point you think you are, Travis

>>19797005
They don't need passports to go to Florida and California and Puerto Rico.

>>19796995
No, the point was leaving the Schengen zone. You don't know what that is, do you?

>>19797005
>>19797011
Oh, or Hawaii either. You can visit pretty much any kind of environment on the planet without needing a passport if you're American. Europeans need a passport to go anywhere tropical.

>>19797011
>Americans don't need passports to visit America
You don't fucking say.

>>19797021
see >>19797018

>>19796667
don't let the canadians hear about the maple syrup

>>19797018
>Europeans need a passport to go anywhere tropical.
False. I can go to Guadeloupe and several other tropical places. You do know what Guadeloupe is, right?
You wouldn't argue from a place of risk ignorance, would you? Nah. Couldn't be.

>>19797025
America produces 95% of the world's maple flavored corn syrup product.

>>19797018
>Europeans need a passport to go anywhere tropical.
You uh...you might want to check a map. Especially for France, Spain, Portugal & even the Netherlands.

>>19797025
arr rook the same

>>19797031
Yeah, and you have to fly a lot fucking farther to do it, and you need a passport to visit neighboring islands. Nobody's traveling to fucking Caribbean without a passport, novacations.

>>19797037
see >>19797042

>>19796136
I've never heard of McEnnedy in my life.

>>19797042
>Nobody's traveling to fucking Caribbean without a passport
You sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_territories_of_members_of_the_European_Economic_Area

>>19797042
>Yeah, and you have to fly a lot fucking farther to do it, and you need a passport to visit neighboring islands.
lol
That's a nice goalpost you've moved there, kiddo. Where will it go next, I wonder?

>>19797044
Yeah the Canary Islands. So far away.

>>19797053
>>19797054
You are delusional if you think people with the money to travel to the other side of the planet are going to kneecap themselves by going there without a passport. You've never traveled in your life.

>>19797005
>Not making the point you think you are, Travis
The point is that you're acting like those are completely foreign countries and I'm saying they're not that different than American states (yes, they are obviously more different than most States, but all still "European" in their sensibilities and culture). The passport argument is irrelevant because you could just as easily go to a non-Schengen country right next door. The train from Paris to London takes about as long as a flight from Paris to Vienna. You can drive from fucking Venice to Zagreb in half the time it takes to drive from San Diego to Sacramento.

>>19797059
The Canary Islands are shit and only a dumb fucking Spaniard would want to go there anyway. Cryptokikes and cryptomuslims, every last one of them.

>>19797025
There is no maple syrup in the OP.

>>19797061
I know the concept is confusing to you but you do not need a passport to travel to European territories in the European Union or EEC, and that includes a whole bunch of places that aren't in Europe.

>>19797064
Calm your tits Cleetus, you can't afford the hospital bills.

>>19797062
Oh yeah, and what the fuck is "Travis" supposed to mean? I'm picturing a ginger kid.

>>19797068
Everyone who is doing that has a passport.

>>19797073
>Everyone who is doing that has a passport.
Nope. I know you're desperate for your made up imaginary argument to be correct but it just isn't. You can do it with an ID card.

>>19797076
Dumb ESL.

>>19797076
see >>19797061

>>19797068
To be fair, if you're not French, you do have to tell Paris of your plans in the overseas departments before traveling, even if you're an EU citizen so while a Dutchman can fly from France to Réunion without a passport, he'd need to tell them that he plans to travel to Mayotte in order to do so. Still not a passport, tho, and easy as fuck to do.

>>19797064
Another meter further for the goalpost. Are you trying for the record, Travis?
You can do it! I believe in you!

>>19797078
>>19797079
You can travel from France to France without a passport. This isn't complicated.

>>19796139
It's a metric thing

>>19797089
Time passes at half the speed for Europeans, but they gain knowledge and experience at only 1/3 the rate.

>>19796136
All of this screams carb crash

>>19797088
Never said you couldn't. Reread it until you understand, dummy.
>>19797087
>Travis
My name is Zach. Attention glowniggers reading this: I am a patriot, and I am not afraid of you. I'll dox myself if I want. Praise Christ.

>>19797101
>entire thread of yuro vs murrican bickering
>somehow the /fit/ faggot shows up and manages to be the most insufferable of the lot

>>19797102
No you said you imagined that anyone who did would definitely have a passport because you're desperate for that to be true. But it isn't.

>My name is Zach.
lol dude weed

>>19797072
Oh, I use that name to refer to Americans. The only people I ever hear of named "Travis" are Americans and it seems to run the gamut of social class. I don't think anyone is named Cletus anymore and even if they still were, the name kinda carries connotations of lower class, anyway, which I'm trying to keep out of the discussion.

>>19797062
>EUROPE IS EUROPE!
Which is why I used the examples of Turkey and Morocco, Travis, you big silly.

>>19797107
It is true. cope + seethe

>>19797110
>"It is true! It is! Cope and seethe!" you cope & seethe
Okay.

>>19797113
I accept your concession.
btw DO NOT google "strategy of tension" "operation gladio" or "lavon affair"

>>19797110
Why would I need a passport to travel from France to France if I'm French? Do you need a passport to travel from Babyjesusburg to Babyjesusville if you're from Babyjesuston?

>>19797117
>need
Never said you did.
>You are delusional if you think people with the money to travel to the other side of the planet are going to kneecap themselves by going there without a passport. You've never traveled in your life.
This is plain English.

>>19797062
>The point is that you're acting like those are completely foreign countries
My man Europe has 24 official languages across 4 main language groups. There are entire countries that don't speak the same language. Shops are hyper local to one or two individual countries or even individual regions within countries. You can travel 100km and be in an entirely different place speaking a language you can't understand eating food you have never seen. You are far more likely to be in a "foreign" country travelling Europe than moving from one state to the next in the USA.

>>19797108
Travis is definitely a name...it's just not that common, and like you said, doesn't really hold any particular connotation. Just seems like a weird choice.
>EUROPE IS EUROPE!
And that was my entire point about how dumb the passport argument is when you need a passport just to travel to England or Croatia.

>>19796136
chicago food is real american food

>>19797116
>I accept your concession.
lol jk you're a fucking idiot and you're still wrong
>>19797118
>Never said you did.
No you just imagined everyone does because you're desperate for that to be true because you're wrong and you know you're wrong and you're seething about it.

>>19797127
>because you're wrong
I am right.

>>19797119
I understand and acknowledged that European countries differ more than US states. The point is that even in spite of those differences, the proximity makes them not really that "foreign". Even if you can't speak the language, you have a pretty damn good idea of what they're up to in Spain or Germany if you're from France.

>>19797121
Those are really big hot dogs.

>>19797118
False premise. How is a vacationer to Réunion kneecapping himself by traveling there without a passport? See >>19797080
Do you think this hypothetical Dutchman wants to travel to Mozambique or Madagascar?
How many of the Cancun visiting Americans mentioned earlier bother to travel to Cuba or the Caymans during their stay?
Answer: practically zero, since they seldom leave the resort, if at all.

>>19797094
Don't you mean 0.333333333333333333333333334 times the rate?

>>19797132
>I am right.
You've never been right in your entire life.

>>19797087
NTA but you're a giant faggot and you probably live in a shithole like Estonia

>>19797145
>rounding up at the 27th integer
I hate metric fags so god darn much.

>>19797143
>>19797147
It all has to do with Propaganda Due, the Bologna Bombing, and FM 30-31B.

>>19797152
>I'll just pretend to be retarded
Of course.

>>19797120
>Croatia
Except I don't. I have literally traveled to Dubrovnik with nothing more than my ID, no passport necessary. Croatia isn't Schengen, but travel there isn't restricted, either.
idk about UK post brexit but I think the same holds true there, too.

>>19797154
>retarded
What's retarded about false-flag terrorist attacks committed on civilians on behalf of the CIA / NATO?

>>19797149
I live in America, lol. I'm >>19796186/>>19796174

>>19797156
Then go one or two countries East, or hop an EasyJet to Iceland...you get the point.

>>19797166
Not needed for Iceland, either lmao.
Just ID.
>countries east
Pick one.

>>19796186
>they call it either beany wienie
Nobody calls it that. Even the 5 year old's who are the only one eating it. And Vienna Sausages are /not/ hot dogs. And the name "Vienna Sausage" literally came from the use of the word "wiener", dum dum. People are only "unaware" of that in the same way that people are "unaware" of what SPAM means.

>>19797166
>Go from Croatia to Iceland without a passport, I dare you!
Okay?

>>19797156
>idk about UK post brexit but I think the same holds true there, too.
You won't be able to use an ID card for the UK from November, I think.

>>19796186
Vienna sausages are closer to spam than hot dogs, and they aren't particularly commonly eaten. They're considered absolute bottom of the barrel poorfag food by most people

>>19797176
>Nobody calls it that.
I got the spelling wrong.

>>19797188
I have never heard another irl human being utter the words "beanee weenee" in my entire life.

>>19797196
see >>19797161

>>19797200

>>19797196
Not surprising. It's not like you've spoken with anywhere near the majority of Americans or anything. Neither have I or anyone else. The whole "America is huge" argument cuts both ways: Euros who've never visited are ignorant of the sheer vastness of the country and Americans who seldom leave their particular corner of it are, too.
Example: do you know what pizzazz is? It's an utterly disgusting pizza variant from Philadelphia. Thick-ass crust topped with American cheese, pickled banana pepper rings, raw slices of tomato and a few shakes of oregano. Five million people in the Philly area are aware of it, but they're a fraction of the entirety of the US, even if that's no small number

>>19797207

>>19797208
Forgot pic lol

>>19797175
>pick one
Uhh...Romania? Fuck if I know. Last time I was there there was a border check and passport stamp for Hungary and Czech Republic.

>>19797214
Definitely not for Romania and as for Hungary, lemme look it up. Things could have changed under Orbán.

>>19797208
But franks and beans are not a regional thing. I grew up in fucking Hawaii and remember my dad cutting up hot dogs and putting them in canned beans when my mom was away for the night because he had no clue what children eat. Is beenie weenie really a regional thing like pop vs soda? Or is it just a name brand you'd never hear spoken if you don't work in a grocery store doing inventory?

>>19797214
>Romania
Nope.

>>19797222
Not for Hungary, either.
I mean, I could just show an ID and I'd be good to go but you as a non EU citizen visitor, you'd absolutely need a passport, I would guess.

>>19797222
Hungary is in Schengen.

>>19796136
The fuck the diarrhea inducing amerislop. Your're sleeping on the halloween pizzas with squid ink in the base

>>19797227
>passport or another identity document acknowledged by the Romanian state
So like, a library card?

>>19797232
Normally a national identity card.

>>19797223
Not him but it's just a brand, I've seen canned beans with chopped hot dogs go by a few names and Beanie Weenie is one of them. That said it's not really common, if most people want chopped hot dogs in anything they'll just buy them separately do it themselves because it tastes better, and it's usually added to mac and cheese, not beans. It's definitely not an "all americans do this" kind of thing

>>19797223
I've heard people saying it.

>Hawaii
Oh, I think we've spoken before. I'm the guy with the hapa dad. He was born and grew up in Brooklyn, tho.

>>19797230
Is it? I was unaware. Hard to keep track when I no longer live in Yurp

>>19797241
Since 2007, and Orbán is a cunt but he isn't stupid.

>>19797144
For you.

>>19797244
Orbán is based, and a lot better than any of the other cucks in power in Europe.

>>19797237
>definitely not an "all americans do this" kind of thing
I think it's just one of those things that isn't really common these days. I'm kind of old.
>>19797238
There are a few of us here, but I've definitely talked about hapas before.

>>19797244
Well good. I liked Budapest when I visited as a kid (but I was, like, 12 years old so wtf do I know).

>>19797196
I have. They are called beanee weenies. it's exactly what it is.

>>19796192
I had something similar while visiting Norway, a bacon and Dijon flavor, pretty damn good.

>>19797151
I love my 28cm cast iron skillet

>>19796136
yuros wanna be us so bad lol

>>19796839
Unironically probably American cheese. I’m sure I’d love having access to the finest cheeses from France, Switzerland, Spain… but sometimes you just want a really gooey grilled cheese.

>>19797915
yer mum luvz mine, m8

>>19797926
We have them, too. In fact, my family use them to make fondue since they help the other cheeses melt and not split. It's a cheat's method but we dgaf

>>19796174
Liking peanut butter automatically makes anyone an honorary American patriot.

>>19797933
Oh neat, in that case probably real maple syrup then. I heard that’s hard to find over there

>>19796174
Mac and cheese and popcorn are pretty popular here, but I don’t know if they’re not popular in Europe.

>>19797933
it's just not the same
American processed has a chemical tang that Yuro cheese can't replicate

>>19796136
The lidls in my area still has marshmallows from their last american week months ago, just can't sell them at all even at a reduced price.

>>19797968
Make rice krispy treats

>>19797962
As an Euro living in the US, they taste the same to me. Or, at least, they taste like the deli American, not the individually wrapped singles.

>>19797969
Do you think Total treats would taste nice? I like Total (and Product 19 when that was around) but I understand most people find it off-putting.

>>19796376
Americans eat hotdogs from a can instead.. Look at Vienna sausages. They are absolutely disgusting. They taste like wet cat food logs.

>>19796921
really cringe how americans deny how widespread english was before TV because of the british empire. such massive copium

>>19798042
The number of English speakers in Europe skyrocketed after WWII, though.

>>19798042
You are not very smart.

>>19798035
Vienna sausages are poverty food for the lowest strata of society, no one with any self respect eats them

>>19798106
I had pacus I used to feed them to from time to time.

>>19796139
>Why is it that every week we have this thread. Is every week in Eurostan american week?
Lidl, the store that ad is from does these themed weeks and they have stores all across Europe. It seems they have a set list countries they go through and then start all over from the beginning. I have seen german, mexican, italian and french weeks.

>>19797156
>Croatia isn't Schengen
we entered schengen this year.
but yeah, you just need a national id, not a passport.

>>19798487
In America, I like the Spanish weeks since Spanish cheeses are my favourites. They oddly sold curry tapas skewers once. They were delicious and I don't usually buy prepackaged foods like that. For French week, I like to buy the snails.

>>19798501
Well that's super. How square is your head, Croatbro? In my country, we stereotype Croatians as having square-shaped heads

>>19796136
The mac & cheese, hotdogs, and frozen pancakes will be pretty close to the real thing, the rest will be disappointing and weird

>>19798628
>disappointing and weird
so like your life?

>>19797927
that's odd, yours loves my tomme blanche!?

>>19797927
Would have been funny if you weren't speaking 3rd world English and making middle school tier jokes.

>>19796136
the pork/beef burgers are even worse than mcdonalds, literally inedible.
lasagna is as bad as you'd expect especially if you know what homemade tastes like.
hot dog sausages are good, absolutely nothing wrong with them.
muffins are low tier, the chocolate ones are a little better.
peanut butter is fine.
pancakes are surprisingly good if you're too lazy to make them yourself.
maple syrup is complete trash, just sugary water like every other maple syrup in german stores. you have to order it online, even amazon has decent stuff

>>19796192
>British
there is no british week in germany. what do you get during british week besides cheddar?

>>19796839
I live in the southwest US and you can't walk ten feet without tripping over a taco truck or decent tex mex place yet from my understanding that type of food kinda barely exists outside America. So probably that.

>>19799188
>literally inedible
I've never encountered any unspoiled or unburnt food that wasn't edible.
I honestly don't understand how people can dislike a food so much that they can't eat it.

>>19799337
I ate at a taco place in stockholm which had real mexicanos working in the kitchen and those tacos were awesome

>>19797208
We have parisare in the north of sweden which is like a hamburger with thick sausage slice instead of a patty and I've never heard anyone not from there bring it up, and this is just a region of a million people in a rather small country. Every country has regional dishes and stuff that only they really are aware of, especially the more historically developed countries like france and italy where you might have thing that only exists in a single town and has a history of a few hundred years.

>>19796158
>Almost no hotdog juice
This is an outrage.
t. sosig water aficionado

>>19799198
few kinds of cheddar
few types of bacon(the good Irish bacon I mentioned and the English "back bacon" that's all lean)
Bunch of sweets - the caramel shortbread, regular shortbread, fudge, chocolate mints, etc
Some frozen stuff, fish and chips, as well as thick cut chips separately, I think also Scampi at some point but I haven't seen it in a while.
Marmalade
And some other stuff I'm forgetting but definitely much smaller selection than like Italian week.

>>19796136
If they have peanutflips you should 100% get those. I never had them before until I moved to Europe (Austria) and they are UNREAL. Like peanut butter cheetos. Also it was very funny to me that they are marketed in Austria like an American snack.

>>19796149
Your hotdogs are generally beef. Ours are generally pork. We get the refrigerator packets too.

>>19799481
marmite
digestives, custard creams, wagon wheels / tea cakes
really strong mustard
clotted cream
scone baking kits
frozen cornish pasties
frozen other pasties (cheese and onion, steak and pepper)
frozen sausage rolls
eccles cakes
sandwiches in the triangle packets
fake percy pig gummies
crisps with stupid flavors like prawn cocktail, cheese and onion, pickled onion

>>19799492
yeah, we only get like half of these here I'd love to try
>marmite
>clotted cream
>scone baking kits
>pasties
>sausage rolls
but definitely haven't seen any. Looks like country by country variance is pretty high, I thought their distribution network was more international.

>>19796136
What do Deutschbruders think of American Aldi's "German Week"? We get canned potato soup, soft pretzels, frozen spaetzle, various deli-sliced ham/salami, beer mustard (actually nice), and various sweets. I just don't know what Germans actually eat these days besides doner kebab to carry the EU's economic burden of all those Italians and Greeks lazing around in the sun all day.

>>19799509
I think America and all of its ignorant savages should die screaming.

>>19799513
you know nothing of America

https://youtu.be/qcmjY7qz_Pg?si=dKZnlfHShSidm_5D

>>19799516
Would you be surprised to know that I am currently in America right now? Cuz I am.
Changes nothing.
>she thinks I'm gonna watch whatever that is
lol

>>19799521
that mæns nothing

>>19799522
Eh. I'm bored. You're boring.
>and it means I'm currently in America right. this. minute.

>>19799509
The spätzle should be fine, a far cry from home made ones but hey you just have to throw them in a pan and you're done.
What are "German Style" pickles - Salzgurken? I hate those.
German lentil soup is underrated but I never had a canned one.

>>19799377
oh yeah in case anyone wondered

>>19799529
Nigga, that's a fried bologna sandwich lmao

>>19799531
sort of, yeah

>>19799545
I fucks with it.

>>19796136
Don't get any of that stuff. It's a cheap imitation of food that is already the lowest common denominator in the US. I'd recommend just making something from scratch with an american theme.

>>19799341
you should try those refrigerated burgers. everything that makes burgers great, the dark brown crust of the patty, the melted cheese on top, the toasted buns with a delicious sauce... none of it is there. refrigerated burgers are the worst food you can buy at a grocery store besides canned ravioli, this is no exception

>>19799481
I guess that explains it because germany has been dominated by dutch and swiss cheese for a long time, british cheddar is still not that popular. our LIDL has some nice new scandinavian cheese now and the spanish and italian cheese during those weeks is really good as well but for me english cheddar is pretty basic in comparison.
german bacon is already some of the best in the world so there's no need for that either.
shortbread probably needs really expensive ingredients (butter) to be good, the stuff I tried was very disappointing but I think that's mostly because the industry would never use the necessary amount of butter and even if they did it would never be decent butter because it's twice as expensive as shit butter

>>19799635
If you ever stop by umeå you should have one

>>19796839
I paid a small fortune to get chips and salsa sent to me while living in the UK

>>19796804
>expat
>>19796821
> literally no American is craving fucking marshmallow fluff or Campbell's condensed soup after living abroad for 5 years.

Go to literally any decently sized US college town and you'll see grocers with Indian/Asian/etc sections because of how many students they have from there. According to those students their selections are also retarded, so we're all just throwing darts at what foreign visitors want

>>19796136
The are just regular items that are already sold everywhere

>>19800393
in socialist countries like europe you have to eat what the state tells you
if they say eat american food you eat it

>>19800393
>>19800530
all these different country themed weeks are the best thing about LIDL because you get to try new stuff but american week is as basic as it gets. the selection used to be much bigger too.
the real highlight this week is the god tier garofalo pasta for 1.24€

>>19796888
>I should make a trip over to Monoprix later today to pick up some Pop-tarts

Currently in France and the Pop Tarts are insanely expensive. Also they only have the worst flavours. I've never seen them in the Monoprix near me though, only in specialty shops or randomly in some specific Auchan.

>>19797121
is a deep dish pizza just a quiche? I've never had one so im curious.

>>19801947
It's 7264916379 layers of cold cuts and cheese topped with sauce.

>>19801947
Do you even know what a quiche is? Or are you just retarded?

I wouldn't buy most of that stuff
Things like popcorn and pancakes are retardedly simple to make yourself and will turn out better
The only things that might be worth it are the chili, the syrup, and the peanut butter if you don't actually have any around usually

The burgers look like they would be shit but that IS amerikkkan culture when you buy things like fast food or have someone else cook. The flat hyperprocessed stuff is common for people to use if they don't want to form patties out of ground beef themselves. That would be a genuine experience.

Real shit though, the only thing that would actually define american products for me having lived all around the world is supplements. It's a pain and a half to get anything even mildly useful from "chemists" and other sources of drugs in Europe and elsewhere.
Aptly an American week of ACTUALLY hard to get goods in europe (or wherever) would look like a GNC ad because you can pretty easily imitate american cuisine (usually of better quality) with local ingredients

>>19796160
Why? American food will literally kill you, regardless of where you are and regardless of your countries regulations.

>>19801968
lmao yes I know what a quiche is but I've never heard of this kind of pizza before. It just seems like an eggless quiche if your only frame of reference is that picture. Don't be so offended anon

american pancakes have to be made by moms(grandmas are moms)

>>19796136
>What would the Americans here recommend?
I wouldn't recommend a thing in this picture, other than american style bacon if dry cured and thick sliced or applewood smoked, or crunchy natural style peanut butter, actual maple syrup (if it is real maple), and maybe the frozen garden burger which is a decent freezer staple for a random mood. Garden burgers are only good when pan seared til browned well, and given good amount of toppings like grilled onions and peppers, avocado and tomato slices, maybe an aioli.

Most americans know to stay away from frozen ground beef preformed burgers. They are frequently low quality and recalled for ecoli from time to time.

>>19796136
get some of those burgers in a bag. everybody here eats burgers from a bag all the time

>>19801947
>is a deep dish pizza just a quiche? I've never had one so im curious.
deep dish pizza is NOT like quiche Iwhich savory egg custard and is baked in a traditional pie crust).
Deep dish is just pizza flavors, ie seasoned tomato sauce, italian sausage with parm, and lots of mozzarella 3inches thick, with a crust that is more like yeast risen buttery brioche bread crust. It is knife and fork meal, not eaten in the hands. Most people are utterly full after one rich slice. Look up Lou Malnatis to find some video press.
Even Chicagoans eat the other kind of pizza as much as their deep dish mood. It's like do you want simple spagetti or a baked dish like stuffed shells. Mood.

>>19796727
>I've never seen cheeseburgers frozen with the bun
Look more closely in the frozen foods section of the supermarket because they definitely exist. You might be thinking "A cheeseburger isn't that hard to make, why bother freezing the entire thing?" Because I guess it probably saves time and makes things easy maybe.

>>19803017
Just checked out a video, it seems decent and easy enough that I want to try it now. Unfortunately nowhere near me serves it so I have to make it myself. I don't have a high-rimmed pan or skillet but I'll try with the dutch oven.

>>19803043
He has more locations in chicago than Dominos, I am sure. It's simple and delicious.

In the US, there is a Giordanos copycat Lou's pizza sold frozen at Aldi.

>>19798106
I occasionally eat them...

>>19796136
Be careful, there's some very sensitive americans who can't handle the bantz in this thread and started their own what they really eat.

>>19803298
Americans are like a fantasy species with conflicting lore across numerous cultures as to their diet.

>>19803298
The funny thing is, nothing in there is remotely typical for an American diet lmao IE the thread ain't shit else but cope

>>19796997
>She
Why are you doing this?

>>19797108
You have crippling autism

>>19803395
You have crippling transgenderism.

>>19803320
>the american posting american food isn't real
>source: just trust me

>>19803412
>she says, as she eats her duck a l'orange, okonomiyaki, sauteed camel and other typically American foods

>>19803420
>no, just trust me guise, pizza is NOT a common food in america!

>>19803398
>calling it "transgenderism" instead of "tranny" or "troon"
Just outed yourself as a crossdressing pervert there, dumbass

>>19803432
>she says, transgenderedly

>>19803298
Lol. You got completely btfo in that thread and waited till non-American hours to come back here and whine about it.

>>19803475
>9am on a Sunday isn't "American hours"
Thank you for proving that Americans don't actually go to church, despite all their posturing otherwise, you godless fuck.

>>19797926
Everyone uses american cheese for burgers here.

>>19803500
Nobody on 4chan goes to church you loser.

>>19803541
I went last week (well, to meeting, not church; quaker) but chose not to this week.

>>19803632
Don't quakers just sit around in a circle until someone feels like talking about whatever random thing pops into their head or something? That's not really church.

>>19803638
No they strafe around in a circle going HUH HUH HUH HUH HUH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvaU9CaSeCE

>>19803638
That's called silent worship or waiting worship and it depends on the meeting. Mine does that, yes, and it's part of the reason I didn't wanna go this week, lol.
Other Quakers, particularly those in Africa and the Americas outside of the "coastal elite" areas have meetings more similar to typical Christian churches, complete with a preacher and pews and hymns. I think that they, like us, still don't have any set clergy and the preacher rotates among the Friends of that meeting while our meeting lack any preaching at all. We focus on a personal relationship with God, the Unknowable or Most High and speak (bearing of testimony) during waiting worship only when moved by the Spirit to do so.

>>19796788
>American flag
>Yorkshire tea

>>19796151
kek