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dinosaurjam:

thetasteoffire:

songofages:

voxiferous:

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ace-and-ranty:

memecucker:

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?

Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food

I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.

i think the halal snack pack is a good example of this in australia.

Corned beef & its presence in Irish-American immigrant diets (as a result of their close proximity to Jewish neighbors, esp in New York) is another good example. 

I actually didn’t know this stuff! Huzzah for learning.

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korolevx:

healthbyholly:

There’s nothing wrong with swearing at any job. That’s not “profanity.” people can speak however the fuck they want and swearing shouldn’t be censored in the first place, it’s not “offensive,” no words are (aside from slurs and whatnot). “Swear” words shouldn’t be treated any differently than any other words.

There’s also nothing wrong with displaying your body however you want at any job or anywhere in general, as the body is also never offensive.

one day we will live in a society where my barista is completely nude and he calls me a bitch for ordering a pumpkin spice latte

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McDonald’s facts

bikwin5:

• The special sauce used in Big Macs still remains a secret even to this day. While dataminers have found a number of data involving the ingredients, the optimization algorithm remains unknown.
• McNuggets were once thought to be procedurally generated via metaball physics but this has been disproven since. What we do know about McNuggets is that a normal texture is applied to the surface to give the illusion of bumps, when in fact the model is made up of very few polygons to reduce costs.
  
• All items in the drive thru are not rendered until they are actually taken out of the bag. Physics do apply to them however, so watch out
  
• The reason why hamburgers, etc look “better” in promotional content is because the low detail models and textures are used in the restaurant instead. If they did use their high detail models at all times, McDonald’s would have to start dedicating more costs to their worker processes.
  
• “All day breakfast” was not possible for a long time due to a glitch where any breakfast data would get corrupted when served at an irregular time. This was fixed in an update that took advantage of faster GPU clock speeds. There have been a few successful attempts to get corrupted breakfasts since, with hash browns producing the most interesting results.
  
• The McFlurry machine was intended to be released in an update years down the road, but it was rushed due to time constraints and now we have the infamous buggy and unoptimized mess.
• I would like to give a fact on the new “Grand Mac” but even the bun’s data is encrypted so it’s currently impossible to even view any of it. 

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