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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She doesn't have the job because she's smart.

She has the job because she's on their side.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Anything else would be DEI...you libtard

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bottle of A1 sauce in real life. What is it? I’m American but from Louisiana and we have different sauces.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is unlikely to be helpful, but it tastes almost exactly like HP sauce.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the only sauce you can use with their printers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And damn, is it expensive. Sold in 2ml bottles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have never heard of HP sauce but thank you for giving me something else to search online.

Google doesn’t work anymore but it seems like ketchup but Worcestershire? Is that close?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A1 sauce is made from raisins, so the consistency of ketchup but tastes like raisins and black pepper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Pretty close.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I have never heard of HP sauce

Don't worry. Pretty much the same as Dell sauce.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Odd you havent seen it being from the south…but that’s probably for the better! It’s Steak Sauce. Meant to be put on steaks…it’s in all major grocery chains and usually on the tables at most restaurants serving any sort of a steak menu. Bottle is shaped like a Worcestershire bottle, but has a white label with a big A1 on it. I never cared for it so at this point couldn’t even tell you what it tastes like. If a steak needs a sauce, then it’s not a good steak.

With that said, i’ve seen it used as a marinade ingredient, or more complex sauce ingredient- so it’ll still have its uses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think steak sauce is a thing in South Louisiana. Prime rib gets a horseradish/sour cream sauce. Au jus is common with steak. But we also tend to eat more seafood than beef so the standard sauces are something like Crystal Hot Sauce, Tabasco, etc. Ketchup for making cocktail sauce. (A lot of places serve oysters or whatever with a little cup of horseradish and you decide how spicy your cocktail sauce will be by adding ketchup and stuff.)

I’ve definitely eaten more calamari than steaks. So, by no means is this a universal concept. I’ve just never seen anyone put A1 on anything.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point, any AI, even the Filipino powered one, would be an improvement over any Trump appointed Secretary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Well, they probably use AI a lot already, so I'm not sure

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Mmmmmh steak...

Homer Simpson staring at the sky with an absent expression on his face. He's thinking about food while drooling from his opened mouth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Might as well dump some A1 on every IEP in a state on the wrong side of the Mason Dixon line…. (and lord knows that ‘AI’ is already involved)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

that steak looks terrible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.

You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Needs more micro greens. Handfuls and heaps of micro greens and micro carrots

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The carrots are greens are made out of plastics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't let A1 distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

first of all you're not shittymorph, and second of all, I believe we prefer meta shitposts about beans around these parts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

One too many chairshots to the head.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As a descendent of German migrants, I’m officially dropping the “American” from “German-American.” I no longer want to be associated with this level of stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

then you aren't german at all.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I always find this kind of silly. You were born and raised in the USA, so you're American, whether you like it or not. There's people saying they're Irish American despite 3 generations having passed, so when does it end? Am I Dutch-Norwegian because my great grandmother was Norwegian and came to The Netherlands?

No, I'm Dutch, I was born and raised here without influence of the Norwegian culture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm a French-german-dutch-viking-celt-englishman.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Racism, that's the word you're looking for! So well implemented that the victims keep it going without any influence from the group that "has the right" to just call itself American without any prefix.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

But in the US it is a cultural thing. Like Italian-Americans have a different culture from other Americans and from current day Italians. The US is a big place, with many different cultures and people like Europe. It's like if I said to you that you are European so stop calling yourself Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Your comparison between "European vs Dutch" and "American vs Irish-American" is fundamentally flawed.

Nationality vs ancestry are different concepts. Dutch is my current nationality, defined by citizenship, language, culture, and shared social experience. Being "Dutch-Norwegian" would mean I hold dual citizenship or were raised in both cultural contexts simultaneously. Most Americans claiming to be "Irish-American" have no citizenship, language fluency, or authentic cultural immersion in Ireland.

The cultural disconnect is stark. What Americans call "Italian-American culture" has diverged dramatically from actual Italian culture over generations. It's become a distinctly American phenomenon with superficial cultural markers rather than authentic representation. When Irish-Americans visit Ireland, locals often view them as simply American tourists because the cultural gap is so evident.

With each generation, the cultural connection weakens substantially. By the third or fourth generation, what remains is often reduced to stereotypical elements like celebrating St. Patrick's Day or eating pasta on Sundays. This selective cultural picking isn't equivalent to genuine cultural identity.

European identity framework differs fundamentally. In Europe, identity is primarily based on where you were born and raised, your language, and your lived experience – not distant ancestry.

Many Americans who claim hyphenated identities have minimal knowledge of their ancestral country's modern culture, politics, or social realities. They cling to outdated or stereotypical notions that no longer reflect the actual country.

Comparing a continental identity (European) to a national one (Dutch) is not the same as comparing a national identity (American) to a hyphenated ancestral one (Irish-American). The Netherlands exists within Europe; "Irish-American" does not represent a legitimate political or cultural subset of America in the same way.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, that's a load of bullshit, the only cultural aspect to it is racism. It's just used as a way to divide people, there's "real Americans" and then there's the rest.

There's a shit ton of black Americans that will never just be called Americans even though their family has lived on US soil much longer than the family of some of the white people who are just called Americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do they speak a different language, have their own celebrations or social groups?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

yes. There are still people who speak an Italian dialect, there are even people in the US who speak a German dialect or even Chinese. And they have their own celebrations beside the American events. Like many Chinese-American families have been there for generations and still speak Chinese and celebrate Chinese holidays, should they stop calling themselves Chinese-American?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Speaking a heritage language or celebrating occasional holidays doesn't justify claiming a nationality you don't possess.

Most "hyphenated Americans" cherry-pick pleasant cultural elements while remaining disconnected from the contemporary realities of those countries. The vast majority don't speak their ancestral languages or meaningfully participate in authentic cultural practices.

There's a significant difference between recent immigrants maintaining strong cultural ties and 4th/5th generation Americans with minimal connection claiming the same identity. Americans also inconsistently apply this logic, often identifying with only one ancestral line while ignoring others.

When "Irish-Americans" visit Ireland, locals don't recognize them as Irish in any meaningful sense—revealing the fundamental disconnect between claiming an identity and being accepted as authentic by actual members of that culture.

These hyphenated identities ultimately function as American cultural constructs rather than genuine connections to the nations they reference.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's just being part of a minority no matter where you live. White Americans don't all celebrate the same things and don't all talk the same way, with some of them being nigh impossible to understand if you weren't raised around people who speak like them, yet they're just called Americans. Hell, if you were raised in the USA and have Danish parents no one will call you a Danish-American as long as you don't have an accent, but if you are of Latino origins and your family has lived on US soil since before the USA was a thing you will be called a Latin-American. It's just racism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, yes, yes.

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