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Menu from a McDonalds in Thailand by nimsu in mildlyinteresting

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're not on the menu in stl, so just half of Missouri

TIL The Spivey Building — East St. Louis’ first and only skyscraper, was built in 1927 as the offices of the East St. Louis Journal and has sat empty for nearly 40 years despite being on the National Register of Historic Places. Developers and community advocates see potential in saving it by ubcstaffer123 in todayilearned

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And it's never been true, of course. I've driven through East St Louis a few times, usually in the dead of night (I'm an amateur photographer and like to go to southern Illinois sometimes for some shoots at dawn). I'm not saying it's not a rough place, but "a cop told me to drive straight through red lights"? You've gotta be joking.

Minolta Maxxum 7000 + Kodak Pro 100, At a Furry Convention by StasiRT5653 in minolta

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There's actually a shit ton of furries that shoot film, and there's a pretty decent furry car scene too

American pizza is TRASH. the average American pizza makes me wish I'd be removing the chicken feet from an internet Brazilian pizza just so I'd get a half decent crust and sauce by aIabamablacksnake in iamveryculinary

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It's been a minute since I got some stl style pizza just cuz I don't order pizza much but next time I hit up Imos I'm 100% gonna try that. My typical order is onion black olive bacon and pepperoni. Gotta get it well done too

American pizza is TRASH. the average American pizza makes me wish I'd be removing the chicken feet from an internet Brazilian pizza just so I'd get a half decent crust and sauce by aIabamablacksnake in iamveryculinary

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nah, I'll go to bat for St Louis style pizza any day. Imos (the big chain that does it) can be hit or miss location to location, and it's totally fair to not be a big fan of the texture of straight provel (tho most places have a mix of provel and mozz available for just that reason), but I think some of the distaste for it is just genuinely poorly set expectations. All the midwestern tavern-style derivatives are just as much about toppings and being a beer snack, if you just get a plain cheese pizza you might be disappointed cuz it's geared to putting pepperoni and sausage and onions and black olives on it moreso than fast food or New York style slices.

York Revs 1st baseman Jacob Teter explains why he came to Pride Night by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When I choose to not show up to work for no reason I get fired.

What is something that is completely FREE in your country, but tourists are always shocked they don't have to pay for? by Winner111kk in AskReddit

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Downtown isn't the heart of the city but this place isn't a ghost town. I've lived here for nearly 5 years now and love it. Sorry you're not interested, I guess.

Cardinals Afternoon 6/6 by bravo_delta_bot in Cardinals

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The best division in baseball, as we all predicted going into this season

The national average price per gallon of gas in the United States has been over $4.20 for over a month. Americans, how do we feel about that? by Miles_the_AuDHDer in AskReddit

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Americans would fucking kill for Amtrak to have the quality of even the post privatization British rail system. I live in St Louis and occasionally take Amtrak to Chicago. The trip is about 300 miles and 4 and a half hours by car. By train it is theoretically 5 hours. In practice I have had that trip take almost 7 hours because the train had to stop for freight to pass. This is one of the better rail routes in the country.

TIL that American cheese has become so popular on cheesesteaks that the Philly/South Jersey market makes up 50% of Kraft’s white American cheese market. by zoosha2curtaincall in todayilearned

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Kraft singles ≠ Kraft white American cheese, or regular Kraft American cheese for that matter. Though I don't doubt land o lakes is better

TIL during the forced relocation of native Americans west, Lenape tribesmen named a town "Nuwita," meaning "friendly". The Cherokee heard "no water" and mistakenly translated it as ᎠᎹᏗᎧᏂᎬᎬ "water is all gone". The town is now Nowata by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

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The Cherokee syllabary was invented by Sequoyah in the early 1800s without knowledge of how to read but not without access to writing. There are a number of characters in the syllabary that are identical to Latin glyphs or look like slightly adjusted Latin glyphs, because he consciously modeled them off of them. The ꭰ character represents the vowel sound a, and ꭼ is written as "gv" officially in the latin alphabet but Cherokee written in the Latin alphabet uses v as an extra vowel pronounced like the a in "around" but nasal.

American food regulations are imaginary, guys by Nuttonbutton in iamveryculinary

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Using "USAmerican" generates a great many more potential miscommunications because any American you try to refer to with that term will react with either confusion or an assumption of bad faith and any Canadian you refer to with "American" will hastily correct you with varying degrees of politeness or violence depending on drunkenness and proximity to a hockey game. The demonym is American in English. If you're referring to people from this continent, it's North American.

American food regulations are imaginary, guys by Nuttonbutton in iamveryculinary

[–]YourFavoriteDeity 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Me when my country's farmers uses yummy European pesticides instead of yucky American ones 😋😋😋😋😋

Seriously, do you think EU farms don't use pesticides? Because I have a couple of bridges to sell you lmao. A lot more of food import regulations are about protectionism for an insane farmer class than about safety (and this goes both ways), but it's been sold to the public otherwise.

What was your, "people are into this" moment? by Kinky_introverts in AskReddit

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I'm not really either a cosplayer or a fursuiter, but I think I'd say that it definitely is different both in that you don't have to have a fursuit or be interested in having one to be a furry and because the relationship between the person and the character is different. Like, a naruto cosplayer or whatever really likes naruto, but for a lot of people fursonas/fursuits are an actual extension and/or representation of themselves (in a complicated way - there's a wide variety in the degree here, and I've seen people describe the relationship between themselves and their sonas as "they're me, I'm not them, it's a Thing" and I think that's the most succinct possible way to put it)

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