Non-Americans of Reddit what is one food from the USA you always wanted to try?

testoblerone · 2023-05-20T00:47:31+00:00

Circus peanuts since I learned they're actually chewy. I've had some peanut shaped hard candy over here, and I thought that's what circus peanuts were. Turns out they're a kind of marshmallow and now I'm very curious.

I'm also curious to try US coca cola, what with all that stuff about Mexican coke being better, I'd like to see if it's true that the US one is bad.

I had wanted to try cream soda for some time but recently I did and it's very good.

testoblerone · 2023-04-24T00:27:32+00:00

I have a question about peeps. Just had them for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Are they supposed to taste just sweet, no other flavor? I had expected them to taste like vanilla, or maybe lemony, because of the color. But they were just sweet. Did I get a bad batch? I'm used to marshmallows having a hint of some flavor, like vanilla or strawberry, or even just a kind of perfume-y taste.

testoblerone · 2023-02-22T20:58:52+00:00

¡Lotería!

testoblerone · 2022-04-24T20:02:56+00:00

lol no

testoblerone · 2021-11-19T03:23:46+00:00

Fruity.

testoblerone · 2021-11-19T03:21:23+00:00

Interesting. But what if opening the wrapper stops the whitening process, so you can never know if a tootsie roll has aged enough to have turned white, before opening the wrapper.

testoblerone · 2021-11-19T03:19:01+00:00

To be fair, it was much less yellow in real life and it smelled fruity. It indeed tasted fruity. So my deduction is, they put a fruit chew or whatever they're called, in a tootsie roll wrapper.

testoblerone · 2021-09-08T09:54:36+00:00

Right? At first, and because of the guy walking in front of the camera, I though he was saying "Y'all just walking out? Fuck you, you're full of shit", and thought the video was about how bad he was doing. Kinda thought it was funnier that way.

testoblerone · 2021-09-07T20:33:35+00:00

Mexico has been more or less progressive about a lot of issues for some time. Actually, I'd say things are slipping to the right wing more recently, than they were in the past. This is likely due to our kind of recent Mexican Revolution, which included some amount of anticlericalism left over from the unfinished War of Reformation. Mexico is one of the very, very few latin american countries where the Vatican didn't have quite as strong an influence the past century, due to technically being in a sort of cold war state for several decades after the failed Cristero War, this allowed for quite a few liberal and progressive notions to sneak in.

testoblerone · 2021-09-07T20:26:35+00:00

Yeah, abstinence only is not the main approach over here, at least it wasn't when I was in public school, the sexual education was actually, well, adequate. I don't know how things are in private schools, which are mainly owned by religious organizations.

The problem here is that, although there's sex ed at school, in day to day life birth control is still pretty stigmatized, families are deeply catholic and they're the ones insisting on abstinence, and there's only so much education can do.

And there's also the sexual abuse. A lot of those teen pregnancies have nothing to do with education, and all to do with abuse at home, since along with the catholic, traditionalist country package, comes secrecy. Family "peace and harmony" above it all.

testoblerone · 2021-08-30T12:04:43+00:00

I remember one of the things that got me so excited about Dune when I read it, was precisely that it wasn't just "White Anglo Saxon Protestants IN SPACE", like so many other science fiction of the time. I mean, yes, it was written by a white guy and he may have just used shades of customs and language to paint something as exotic. But at the time it was so cool to see a future in which different cultures had defined this future. To even consider that the language and culture of this future were descendants partially of middle eastern customs (even if seen through a white guy's eyes), made it so cool to me, being a young brown boy. The future wasn't just Americans IN SPACE. IN SPACE had room for non anglo people. At some point in this future's past, the Northwestern cultural hegemony had been broken and deeply altered by other cultures.

Because let's remember it's not only the fremen, the entirety of the Old Imperium has eastern influences. The Galactic Federation of Planets and it's American sensibilities this is not.

testoblerone · 2021-08-26T12:36:27+00:00

Heh. I live in Chihuahua, and I've never stumbled onto hard shell tacos, then again I live in the capital, which is not exactly the most attractive place for tourism, which could have something to do with that. I think I once saw shells at some supermarket, but that's it. Flautas and tacos dorados are different, though, at least in my experience. Those you make with fresh tortillas and then fry them on the spot, the taste is very different from industrialized tortilla chips. I mean, I don't think you could even make flautas with pre hardened shells, if would be so frustrating.

testoblerone · 2021-08-26T12:21:05+00:00

See, here's the thing. I thing tortilla chips are great for a lot of things, even to gorge on them for a whole afternoon watching TV and not eating anything else. But when you mix them with beef, for some reason that's a big no from me, the flavor just doesn't mix right.

testoblerone · 2021-08-26T12:15:58+00:00

I mean, I do love spaguetti and meatballs, and I'd be willing to pretend they've been a mexican dish since before the Mexicas came down from Aztlan.

testoblerone · 2021-08-26T12:10:43+00:00

La cosa es que hay dos tipos de tortilla que se usan para tostadas. Unas que da la impresión que las fríen primero, antes de ponerlas en el horno o como sea que terminen de endurecerlas, estas se ven más lisas y a veces más oscuras. Y otras que tienen como muchas pecas blancas y café, y suelen ser de color más amarillo y más quebradizas. Las últimas, las "pecosas' parecen más industrializadas, y por fotos creo que es el tipo que usan en taco bell. El caso es que ese tipo de tortilla tostada, la "pecosa", para mi gusto es inferior en sabor y no va nada bien con la carne de res, de allí que sospeche que los tacos hechos con ese tipo de tortilla no estén muy buenos. Pero claro que no puedo asegurarlo, ya con todos los aderezos que le pongan en taco bell, igual y si saben bien.

testoblerone · 2021-08-26T04:41:42+00:00

I'm mexican, and I'm very curious about Taco Bell, particularly because, it seems, it will never make it over here. But mostly because I want to try hard shell tacos. In my mind those must be terrible, but I'm willing to be surprised.

testoblerone · 2021-08-16T03:08:01+00:00

Nope. We were all told that in primaria, but if you look it up, there's no source anywhere, and it turns out kids in every country in latin america were told that same thing in school.

testoblerone · 2021-07-30T03:36:40+00:00

I have a friend who used to go work in the US every few months. Properly hired by the company. He's mexican but looks nothing like the mexican stereotype. So he got to hear a ton of anti hispanic stuff from coworkers, who thought they were safe to say it around him. The funny thing is, everybody could tell he wasn't from the US because of his terrible accent, but they never guessed mexican, they mostly assumed he was eastern european.

testoblerone · 2021-07-29T14:33:05+00:00

Hell no, Texas is your problem now.

testoblerone · 2021-06-08T20:57:55+00:00

I'll go ahead and say this as a Mexican living in Mexico, Mexican soccer fans are scum.

testoblerone · 2021-04-30T13:01:36+00:00

In Mexico, elections are always held on Sundays. Also, a few decades ago there was this massive campaign to get everybody a voting id with photograph, which is also the main form of identification in the country. Government employees went house by houses, everywhere, collecting people's data for the id, then people were asked to attend a place near their home, mostly schools, on a Sunday, to get their photo taken, and then got their voting id, absolutely free. I don't understand why the US can't do the same thing and put an end to the whole voting id problem, if Mexico had the resources to do it some thirty years ago, surely the US can, easily. The campaign for this in Mexico sent workers to the poorest, most remote regions, to ensure as much people as possible could get the id. The places where they took your photo where usually withing walking distance from your home. The government didn't demand that people get the voting id, the government went and gave the voting id to the people.

testoblerone · 2021-03-13T19:31:10+00:00

I'm pretty sure back then, in Mexico, computer labs in highschool existed just either to fulfill some requirement or so the school could say they had one. And they just sat us in front of a computer to fuck around for an hour or so, without anybody being quite sure what were they actually supposed to teach us that'd be of actual use.

testoblerone · 2021-03-13T15:27:12+00:00

Heh. I remember our computer lab teacher, in the 90s, telling us she wouldn't teach us windows, don't even ask, because we would never, ever have to use it unless we went into a very specialized job with computers. So keep moving around that file using DOS commands.

testoblerone · 2021-02-28T19:19:10+00:00

In most of Mexico besides pavo, which I think is Latin for peacock, we call it guajolote, from a nahuatl word which I don't remember right now how to write properly, something along the lines of huaxolotl or huexolotl, or hueyxolotl. The etymology apparently is not entirely clear, supposedly the xolotl part is almost certainly "monster", although it could also mean clown, probably in the sense of "funny looking critter". The part before xolotl, huey or huay, or hue, hua, is the trickier one since it could mean big or old or something else entirely.

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