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If you are American, what is the most American thing about you.


I’ll start.

My love of ice in beverages.

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I love football.

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I don’t but I’m a lady.

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How do you define American? Is someone who came to America from another country as an adult, but expects to live here the rest of their life, an American?

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That's the second most American thing you can be.

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What’s the first?

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Anyone who feels American. Of course I’d say living here for at least a week is a requirement but if someone longed to live here, spent 90 years pining to do so, did so and passed away a few hours or minutes after achieving their goal, I’d say they count.

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I love football. I only speak English. That's pretty American.

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As a Brit, I have to smile at your comment.

Love you Yankees and your strange ways!

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What part is strange?

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Limeys call Soccer Football, the language you speak is from England too, but with a few misspellings! 😉

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True!

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I came across a bit of information the other day that pointed out Merriam Webster’s dictionary changed the or from our in many words for political reasons. I.E.: flavour.

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Rio is “taking the piss” out of you. He’s sarcastically and passively aggressively mocking you for calling North American football football and your claim that you speak English, which he probably considers an inferior, polluted dialect.

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I’m not mocking CoreyHaimFan, it was just an observation, jeez lighten up. 😉

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lol So we don’t speak an inferior, polluted dialect?

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-> Love you Yankees and your strange ways!

Lol says the Brit. You guys are the real weirdies.

We’re mostly fat and stupid. At least it’s an excuse. What’s yours?

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So it’s Un-American to be bilingual or poly-lingual?

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I guess my blood. I am a melting pot—French, Native American, some black, and possibly Scandinavian. My daughter’s father is Dutch-Irish so my baby is all mixed up, lol. We are rainbows.

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'We are rainbows' made me smile

Nice outlook👍

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☺️

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I guess my blood. I am a melting pot—French, Native American, some black, and possibly Scandinavian. My daughter’s father is Dutch-Irish so my baby is all mixed up, lol. We are rainbows.


Thank you creole femme, that was beautiful.

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🙏

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I’ve never thought ice in drinks was an ‘American thing’.
Ice in cold drinks or soft drinks in a pub for example is a standard thing here (UK).

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Well, I’ve never been there. In France and Italy, they didn’t years ago. In South America, they will give ice in places that cater to American tourists. In places for the locals, usually its considered an odd request.

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Interesting....but it’s definitely normal here in the UK, usually offered, given without request, or on request. ☺️

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I don’t know how anyone can drink a Pepsi or a Sprite at room temperature, but it seems to be the norm in many places. It’s been years, but we stopped ordering soft drinks, because it was such an issue over ice.

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What was the issue with the ice?

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When I was in Europe in the 1980s, if you asked for ice with your drink, they made a big deal over it. The waiter would comment to the other waiters about it. He would bring over the hostess to be sure he understood you correctly. He would yell to 3 or 4 bus boys to go find ice. After the big production, they would bring a glass with 3 ice cubes at the bottom.

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Lol! What country was that?

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That happened in France and Italy.

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I find I get a better experience when I do as the Romans. So I don’t ask for the ice lol

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> In places for the locals, usually its considered an odd request.

That’s what I thought! I suppose it depends on where in the world you are.

When I lived in Miami, I noticed most people eating well cooked meat, whereas in colder climates, people like it rare.

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It definitely does depend where you are, and who you are....whether you have ice in your drink or blood in your meat!

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Haha! Sounds like a haiku:)

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Curious. I never knew there was any association between climate and how people order meat.

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When I was a kid we would eat Steak Tartare at Christmas as a treat lol.

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Was it a treat? I’ve never had it. I had a friend who described it as the worst meal ever. Maybe it was just him.

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It’s basically ground beef that you put on toast and eat with little garnishes like cornichones, shallots, rye bread.

I believe it’s history began in Russia, went to Germany and the French liked it.

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But beer is room temperature in the UK.

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Usually yes

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>But beer is room temperature in the UK.

Another thing about being de USA!

I could enjoy the crappiest, watered down chilly beer so much more than the tepid, tastiest, most complex brew in the world.. 🤷‍♂️

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I see!

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I sometimes eat bizarre, deep fried foods at county fairs. :)

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Pickles, Snicker bars, onions, cowboy boots, saddle horns, you name it!! ;)

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You can taste the creeping death they contain... They're other worldly good!! :)

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So they’re fried in vegetable oil? What’s the batter made of?

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lol. I love how distracted you got that made you forget what you were late for.

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lol Here is Marcus Aurelius in the 160’s in an equestrian sculpture and he certainly has no saddle!

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman/middle-empire/a/equestrian-sculpture-of-marcus-aurelius

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> sticks of oleo

lol

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Like what’s the funniest deep fried thing you’ve seen?

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I’ve had deep fried butter. It basically tastes like a butter soaked pancake. Tasty stuff. Twinkies and Oreos are the best.

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> deep fried butter lmao!

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I felt like a disgusting pig as I ordered it but I felt like God was nutting in my mouth as I ate it.

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I can see putting it on something but I might get sick if it was too much plain butter.

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It wasn’t actually like biting into a chunk of butter. It all seemed to have melted into the batter.

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I still think it would give me palpitations.

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If you have a decent diet and take care of yourself mostly, I say indulge if you have the opportunity to try some.

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My love for Starbucks and 90s boyband music😊

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What’s your fave boyband song?

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A bunch of them.

1) "I want it that way"
2) "Bye Bye Bye"
3) "It's gonna be me"
4) "Everybody (Backstreets Back)"

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Ha! I like the Bye Bye Bye video with the girl puppet master lol

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Yeah Nysnc is cool but I was a much bigger Backstreet girl 😄😅🙃🙃

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Haha! Everybody was so fun to dance to in the clubs!

Cute Halloween vibe video too. That’s a remix, right?

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Yeah catchy song :)

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Lol :)

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I bought an old McDonalds building and live in it. When renovating it, I painted a giant confederate flag on one side of the building and I sit on the roof and shoot at any savage injuns that come near.

Also, I weigh 800 pounds and I don't much take to no book learnin'.

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I bought an old McDonalds building and live in it. When renovating it, I painted a giant confederate flag on one side of the building and I sit on the roof and shoot at any savage injuns that come near.

But do you have big city boy streets smarts?

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