Texas: Beef barbecue, specifically brisket (suck it, Kansas City!), Tex-Mex comfort food (jesus christ I would punch somebody for some proper tamales and chili con carne). Then, for one that's actually lesser known outside the state, good Texas-Czech kolaches and klobascneks are amazing....
Me? Life would certainly be simpler without it. I am also not sure I'm loving the "tip creep" that cashless payment systems are introducing. But I don't hate it. It just sort of is what it is, part of the American landscape. It affects the type of service we receive and the type of personality that will thrive in a tough job....
I had a bit of a discussion with someone on Reddit a while ago about American bread. They claimed decent bread was available in almost every bakery section of every grocery store. All American bread I remember was full of sugar and preservatives, not just the wonder bread type, but also everything else. Since my memory could be...
The USA has literally more than one mass shooting^1^ per day. It has reached the point where these don’t even reach the news any longer unless there’s some special angle to make them “interesting”. The reaction to this, from an outsider perspective, should be “maybe we should do something about the proliferation of...
Like, come on guys, I was in Las Vegas for our honeymoon and we could not find a single place where we could buy a Coca Cola. I thought Vegas was still the USA? What’s going on there?
I haven't left my state, so personally I haven't experienced this, but I am curious to know if other Americans have? I'm sure extreme examples like going from the North to the South are quite different. I've seen my fair share of confederate flags here in the Midwest, but I can't quite image seeing them on every other porch lol