Do ya ever go a day without thinking about us? We over here minding our business with our Mac n cheese, our empanadas, our taco trucks, our oxtails and our peanut punch.
Maybe if ya had better food ya wouldn’t be so salty all the time.
Edit: I have to make this edit because people keep responding to the “minding our business” thing like they got some kind of GOTCHA comment.
I’m talking about the people minding our own business not the government. If American intervention bothers you so much there’s nothing stopping you from writing to your representatives and telling them you don’t want an American presence in your country.
I used to work in NYC (Midtown) and there was a truck that always had a line that stretched from 6th Avenue to 5th Avenue. If you know how long a crosstown block is, you'd understand that's a line with a least 100 people. For a food truck. With all those restaurants around.
Now they've expanded into brick and mortar even into NJ where I live so I can just order it if I choose.
The halal trucks are a god send. A lot of our food spots are unfuckwitable. The fish spot in Harlem on 145th is a testament to that. That small ass spot always has a long ass line outside… and it’s worth it.
The white sauce alone from those trucks are worth the long lines. Plus it was $5 for a platter of chicken over rice with a side salad. I think lamb maybe costs more.
And they keep that white sauce recipe a complete secret. It is NOT Tzatziki sauce like many websites told me. It's different.
Also growing up (in Brooklyn), my family's favorite spot was a Chinese spot that looked like a damn hole in the hall but had the BEST Chinese food I ever had. They even this one thing, shredded pork baked into a sweet roll. Can't find that shit anywhere.
In fact, most of truly great food places I've eaten from were not fancy places. But they were forever crowded and had long lines.
Anyone who's ever worked in NYC knows that food and how good it is. And it's quick, providing you're not waiting for 100 other pople to get their food before you do.
When I tried making it myself (not "halal" obviously, since that's a very specific thing) that when I realized you needed jasmine rice, not Uncle Ben's boil-in-a-bag white rice.
Well the dish in its entirety is a hodgepodge of multiple dishes from different countries like egypt syria and lebanon.
The authentic recipes dont use the white sauce that is used in halal trucks nor is it tzaziki, its thoum or tahini depending on the dish, also the grills need to be charcoal. Traditionally if it was a plate its usually the bbq skewers or sliced shawarma from the spit served with some parsley, onion, bread covered with this special tomato sauce, and depending on the meat provided you might get tahini or thoum plus some cold and hot mezze plates like hummus, labna, baba ghanoush, etc.
The most authentic stuff in the halal trucks are their falafel wraps. Hard to mess up.
They, probably like every other culture that's brought their food here, adapted it not only to the American pallette but also to what they could safely serve from a truck.
Frankly I couldn't tell what specific ethnicity any of those guys are (Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, etc.). I only know their food is good.
And that probably makes it more "American" than it is anything else.
I'm seriously hungry now. I'm going to make a bootleg version of roasted over yellow rice and pour some white sauce on it (I order extra packets from The Halal Guys... that's the name of the food truck that now restaurants).
Yeah, but we assimilate the best stuff. Sure, we didn't invent that, but we put it in a 64oz cup and enhanced the peanut flavor to George Washington Carver levels.
That said, I've never had nor heard of it. Sounds mostly like a peanut butter milkshake.
Exactly. Sushi and tacos are prime examples of commonplace cuisine if you go to any larger American city. Not taco bell or just California rolls nonsense.
This is IN ADDITION to the specialties of a city or small town based on its history and demographics.
The Caribbeans are still part of the Americas, so by definition it is American. Not from the U.S., no, but still American.
Also, bro Caribbean food is amazing, plus there is a lot of overlap/diffusion of food, like how plantains are becoming a much more common side in the South.
I’m going to need you to head to a local Trini or Guyanese spot right now and pick up peanut punch. It’s usually in a small jug. It’s sooo delicious and it’s filling!
Ceasars and Kings didn't literally receive all of the incomes of the peoples they ruled over. They taxed them. It's not that different from nowadays...
Fair, but the other Roman provinces at least in theory sent their taxes to the Empire as a whole. Egypt was an imperial province where senators weren't even allowed to visit. Last I checked, there's no rules preventing congresspeople from visiting Puerto Rico.
Pah, they had their own sea. They called the Mediterranean the Mare Nostrum, (our sea) because the whole coast around it was theirs. Americans got that?
United States has that too. In America we call them the oceans.
United States can place one of its several carrier strike groups in any body of water in the world and it will immediately become theirs. Including the Roman's "sea"
The main metric I can think of the Roman Empire would clearly beat the US in is sheer percentage of humanity they directly controlled, which was something like 20% IIRC.
We have greater cultural reach (in terms of percentage of people on Earth we influence) than Rome did just due to technology letting us reach the near entirety of humanity. But, Rome potentially had deeper cultural impact on the people it controlled and the lands it influenced in terms of shaping the systems societies rely on. I say potentially, because much of the modern global order was built by the US and US culture is so widespread it's often not even recognized as such, so.... I don't know how to measure that. There are not that many nations on Earth that don't consume at least some form of cultural product from the US.
We have double the landmass, though if you include the Mediterranean the Roman Empire was nearly equal to the contiguous US.
The hardest thing to answer offhand is our military and economic strength relative to every other nation on Earth, vs Rome compared to its peers. Rome was a hegemonic power, just like the US, it just ultimately had a far smaller reach.
We have more soft power and hard power. We just aren’t as imperialistic as other regimes were. Shit even the Brits had Romans beat, they owned a third of the planet at one point and 64 different countries today celebrate independence from Britain.
We have more in absolute terms, I agree with that, I'm just not sure how we rank in comparative terms.
That is a little tricky because I'm not entirely sure how you define our economic peak, our military peak could be placed at two different points, and those peaks are separated by a decent chunk of time.
In terms of share of global GDP our peak would be 1960, when we held 40% of it. In terms of military power relative to every other nation on Earth, our peak would either be right in the middle of 1945 when we had the biggest Navy and Air Force in human history by a wide margin or around the time of the Gulf War. But in terms of military capabilities, we're at a greater level nowadays in at least some regards.
And I'm not sure how our peaks/the gap between us and other nations compares to the Romans when measured against other peoples of their time. I fully admit that not as familiar with Roman history as I should be, but my understanding is that they kind of always had rival powers/threats around to some extent and weren't really in a "hyperpower" position the way the US was after the Soviet Union fell.
lol, more powerful than the only empire to control the entire Mediterranean ever, an empire that lasted well over a millennia, and basically shaped the entire world we live in today, including the language you just typed out that sentence in?
I put this in another comment but it’s crazier than that. Foreigners on reddit mention Americans even when the post has nothing to do with Americans then wonder why Americans are all over reddit.
Carolina BBQ, biscuits and gravy, fucking hotdogs and hamburgers, and all the fusion of other cultures bringing their food here as well... They are just jealous.
The shear variety of food available in America just shows you how ignorant this person is.
The shear variety of food available in America just shows you how ignorant this person is.
I live in NY. I can walk down the block right now and get authentic tacos, Chinese food, hibachi, pizza, Dominican food, there’s a farmers market, a store that sells just fruits and vegetables, seafood, surf and turf, Jamaican food. Our variety is not to be fucked with.
Variety of food is not and never was America's strong suit with the exception of New York and LA but thats just what happens when you have an international city. Any almost any international city will have what you are talking about. You think the variety in New York is unmatched by the variety in London, or the variety in Dubai?
I see a lot of Americans on here talking shit when they've never left the country. There's better food elsewhere because its also cheaper elsewhere. I can get everything I can get in New York in Dubai for cheaper and probably tastes better (with the exception of local staples like new york style pizza) the problem with the US is yeah theres variety but the variety is scattered around. Like to get a good shawarma thats authentic to how I like it I need to head on down to Michigan. For a great taco I need to go to SoCal or Texas. To get good Jamaican I'd have to go to new york. To get good fried chicken I need to go down to the south. Why cant I just get the good stuff in any big city im at. In Dubai, in London, I just search up the name of the cuisine, and it pops up. Like where the hell can I get a good mandi in the US. Washington DC?
I lived in 5 countries. The UAE, Saudi Arabia, The United States, The United Kingdom. The US is number 3 when it comes to food variety.
Dude .. you can get any of those foods anywhere in America. I don't even live in a major city I can't even name all the types of food near me. Filipino, Italian, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese (sushi with a chef who immigrated from Japan), authentic Chinese, authentic Mexican. You don't seem to be so well traveled in America as you think you are.
It's pretty silly to think you have to go to NY City just to get good Jamaican... America is fucking huge. Hondurans used to drive up with their food truck and serve us the authentic food from their country when I did construction.
alright wheres the mandi? Wheres the good shawarma? Wheres the authentic uygur food? Uzbeki food? Kurdish food? Nepalese food? Ethiopian? Nigerian? Moroccan?
All of these cuisines are abundant in Dubai.
I currently live in Riverside CA. Yeah we have japenese food, thai food, italian food, mongolian BBQ (which is really american food) but we aint got no good Mediterranean, we aint got no good ethiopian food, we aint got no good manoushes, we aint got no mandi at all.
And my city is considered a better town compared to other cities in the region excluding LA of course. In San Diego, where is the mandi? Where is it?
You havent seen true variety in the same place
I have
Dubai has everything. Literally all cuisine. We even fucking have a north korean restaurant.
Like theres variety and theres VARIETY. America is better than a lot of places thats for sure. But its not the best or even close. Im sorry.
Edit: to add to your point. Yeah America is huge, thats the problem, you cant get good concentration if your country is huge. If the place is small with the same amount of cuisine thats more variety per capita. And im saying that even with a smaller population, Dubai has more variety for cuisine than new york in absolute terms.
I mean this thread is absolutely full of Americans totally unprompted going on rants about British food they've never even tried so maybe we're the ones who should be asking 'do ya ever go a day without thinking about us?'
I looked at every single link and these people are nuts. It’s always Europeans too. This faux superiority complex that they have is too much. Someone posts a picture of the sky. Europeans- “Americans could never. They don’t even have a sky over there.” Sick lol
Look you have good food but don't pretend like you're minding your own business. America most certainly is not minding its own business on a global scale.
I’m talking about the people minding our own business not the government. If American intervention bothers you so much there’s nothing stopping you from writing to your representatives and tell them you don’t want an American presence in your country.
This some ignorant shit. Read this again to yourself and maybe see why its ignorant.
Edit: when a country becomes big enough, you do not have a choice over its influence. The same shit said by Europeans towards americans is being touted by americans towards chinese people. Does this mean, china lives rent free in americans' heads? What about the border issue? Americans can't seem to stop thinking about people in other countries. They seem to live rent free in americans' heads. Oh we need to bomb gaza, oh we need to stop our ties with israel for bombing gaza. Americans SURE DO love minding their own business.
It's funny because that picture is taken from a blog who wrote about and tried to recreate a recipe from the 1390s (probably why it's got history in the title)
If American intervention bothers you so much there’s nothing stopping you from writing to your representatives and telling them you don’t want an American presence in your country.
?? What Representative is gonna care that my social media feed is full of American news?
Who wants to bet the Americans complaining about people dunking on their food never made fun of food from other countries
That part of my comment was about people commenting about how Americans aren’t minding their own business. A lot of us are, but what the government does is something else:
"Minding our own business with our constant wars around the world, our constant meddling in other countries' politics, our constant destabilization of other economies, our constant exploitation of resources and people...omg just let us live"
Your country shoves itself down every other english speaking country's throats. 80% of the English speaking internet is catered for the US. And you out here saying that American food is great because you have Mexican food and Mac n cheese...
Rent free bitch, I’mma have myself some bbq with jalapeño cheddar sausage in your honor tonight. If you don’t like it, get off Reddit, or get off the internet all together - US created both anyway you’re welcome 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nonono, you see you’re confusing The Internet with the World Wide Web. The internet was, in fact, created by and for the US - specifically by DARPA and the internet as we know it was called ARPANet before becoming the Internet. Sure, web and networking came before the internet but to say the Internet wasn’t created by the US is like saying smartphones weren’t invented by IBM because CPUs already existed.
being painfully obtuse doesnt make you right dumbass.
Arpanet was nothing like what we have today. The world wide web however is so much more similar to what we have today.
The US invented a primitive version of a shared drive. CERN invented the internet.
You’re still confused my man. It’d be kinda weird to create something and not improve on it, let alone open it up to the world to continue improving on it. Doesn’t make my original statement any less correct.
Also what’s with Redditors resorting to cute little insults when they realize they’re wrong? 😬
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Do ya ever go a day without thinking about us? We over here minding our business with our Mac n cheese, our empanadas, our taco trucks, our oxtails and our peanut punch.
Maybe if ya had better food ya wouldn’t be so salty all the time.
Edit: I have to make this edit because people keep responding to the “minding our business” thing like they got some kind of GOTCHA comment.
I’m talking about the people minding our own business not the government. If American intervention bothers you so much there’s nothing stopping you from writing to your representatives and telling them you don’t want an American presence in your country.