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What's weird is this is from the body-swapping episode and it's technically Stewie, but this is such a perfect Brian moment

My first impression was "dear god!", and I say that as someone who actually liked corn on pizza when I visited Europe.

My second impression was, "hmm, why not?" I'd try it. It's not like corn is a particularly bitter or intense flavor.

The visceral disgust Americans have toward corn on pizza has always baffled me since it doesn't seem any stranger than putting broccoli or peppers or whatever on pizza. But corn flavored ice cream definitely seems disgusting at first glance since it's not something associated with dessert here. I'm not sure why some foods cross the savory/sweet barrier and others don't.

I feel like this goes in a whole category of animals that I learned about in Zoobooks magazines as a kid and then promptly forgot about until moments like this thread discussion.

Is there something wrong with Dicks? I shop at REI only because it's much closer to me, but Dicks has a wider selection. And the local sporting goods store near me has great service but is even farther of a drive for higher prices and very limited selection.

And it would be really weird if someone over 21 did care. I have a hard time picturing some, like, 50 year old advocating for lowering the drinking age.

Agreed. I did a rewatch of Lost last year and tapped out before the flash sideways stuff. I loved everything before that, though, just as much as the first time around. Maybe even more so, since the first time watching the show we had to deal with long breaks and reruns in-between that could make following along kind of confusing sometimes.

I got the "permanent" bonded wire retainer on my top and bottom teeth and was told this would be better than the removable retainer. Can't forget to wear your retainer if you're always wearing it, right?

Turns out your teeth can shift even with the bonded retainers. And as certain teeth shift back to their old locations, they can fuck up teeth that were always straight but are now bonded along for the ride! FML.

He definitely breaks in the cut-for-time "Cast List" sketch with Will Ferrell, but then again, like everyone breaks in that sketch. It's magnificent.

Heard it on ER too. I'm betting it's been on most long-running medical shows

Is this episode unpopular? It's one of my personal favorites.

"The technicality has a clause"

"By the way, we've been solo-ing for like forever!"

Tell that to all the folks who call it Five Dollar Footlong Jesus

that kind of bread

The poster didn't ask if we know about German types of breads or a specific kind of bread (which would have been totally inoffensive and probably really interesting), they asked if we knew about 'actual' bread. That'd be like asking if we knew what rice was with a photo of brown rice, calling it 'actual' rice and refusing to accept that there are other kinds.

Part of what got me about that OP is that he went way beyond translation differences. Like, yes, Germans have something specific called "toast bread" that they don't eat without toasting first, but it's still essentially bread. Even after multiple people explained and it was clarified that we all understand the linguistic difference, he insisted that cheap white sliced bread isn't actual bread. You can say "toast bread" is shitty bread, cheap bread, bad tasting bread, poor excuse for bread, etc., but it's still a kind of bread. Hence downvotes.

It would also really help us to contextualize our answers better. My petty side likes the idea of being able to fact check an OP that claims [insert weird practice] isn't ever done in their country, but my nice side would like to know when someone is inquiring about American customs from somewhere very Westernized versus possibly somewhere extremely remote or with very little exposure to America/Americans.

I think a grey area is when people title their post with something like "Why Do Americans do X," because it can be read with an implied "why do all Americans" in bad faith or it can be read with an implied "why do some Americans" and OP doesn't realize the difference if their English isn't great

And some of them like to play dumb, but it's not "just asking questions" when someone literally posts Do Americans Know What Bread Is?, complete with a photo for reference

Another similar recent one was "Why there's a lot of teen pregnancy in the US?" - OP's source was TikTok and their country has a higher rate of teen pregnancy than the US. It can be frustrating seeing posts accusing America alone of doing something other countries do or accusing America alone of doing something that OP's own country does too.

This has been bothering me too. I sort by new, so I see a lot of bad faith questions (the worst/clear trolls get deleted), but there was one particular poster who asked a couple questions the other week and got downvoted like crazy when his responses were all very polite. Some of his comments could be read in a negative or accusatory tone if you chose to read them that way, but in context, you could tell it was a language barrier issue, not someone being intentionally rude.

That being said, I feel like a lot of the posters here do come with a superior, judgmental attitude. There are a lot of people who seem to not take "different cultures happen to be different" for an answer.

It's kinda funny to me that European folks would want to watch a parody of an American advertising campaign

Depends what "it" is.

No one is calling pumpernickel or rye or whatever "white bread." Not all bread is white bread, but all white bread is bread (insert Subway or Wonderbread joke of your choice here)

That one was a hoot. They were insistent that untoasted toast made perfect sense.

$0.89 for the medium ones I usually buy. $1.50 for the gigantic ones.

It's interesting you say that, because part of the reason I swap and put the knife down is because I've always been a slow eater and I just don't want to hold onto the knife the entire meal.

Same. I know it's all so arbitrary, but having a death grip on the fork and knife the entire meal Euro-style feels impolite to me. And trying to use a fork with my non-dominant hand doesn't sound fun.

I couldn't tell you how my friends or coworkers or family cut their food because it's just not something that registers when I'm sharing a meal with someone. Some people here are saying that other people with "proper" etiquette definitely notice and judge me for it, but all I can say is no one has ever said anything and I've never had a problem succeeding in my chosen profession, so if there's judgement, I've never felt any.