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[Thomas Shey]

And paradoxically, it’s even worse if you’re in a community where _________ is heavily supported and practiced. If you go to a karaoke bar in a music city like LA, Chicago, NYC, Austin, Nashville, St. Louis, Detroit or Minneapolis, odds are good you’re going to hear people as good as or better than the artists whose songs they’ve singing.

Try cooking creole food in NOLA, or BBQ somewhere in Texas.

Try being an American surfer walking into a beach in California or Hawaii for the first time to sign up for a competition.

You see this a lot with YouTube covers; since they're fishing in the massive pond of anyone with some gear who can upload a video, you've got people who's covers are as good or better than the originals.

 

[TerraDave]

IME, it's unpopular with Americans who think that our country does everything better than other countries. Also France thinks that it perfected bread with the baguette.

Obviously the US is not a contender in this fight. But thinking that is the limit of bread in France, is like not knowing the difference between a fougasse and a brioche.

 

[Aldarc]

Obviously the US is not a contender in this fight. But thinking that is the limit of bread in France, is like not knowing the difference between a fougasse and a brioche.

It’s not that France is limited to the baguette, just that they view it as bread perfected. In terms of number of bread varieties, it’s no contest: it’s Germany by a country mile.

 

[Hussar]

I have to admit though, a fresh baguette bahn mi sandwich while sipping Vietnamese coffee sitting in a cafe in Ho Chi Minh city is just this side of heaven.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are definitely some sandwiches (and other dishes) for which the French baguette is unequaled. Bahn mi & po’boys, for instance. And the croissant can elevate many sandwiches as well.

But I could say the same kind of thing of other countries’ breads, too. A classic ham & Swiss with mayo (and maybe mustard) reaches its pinnacle on pretzel bread, IMHO. Reubens don’t taste quite the same without a good rye or pumpernickel.

I can’t say I’ve had a bread that works better for boules than sourdough. (Thank you San Franciscans…and Egyptians!)

 

[Aldarc]

My partner comes from Soest, a small town in German Westphalia that claims the original pumpernickel bread. Actual Westphalian pumpernickel is an entirely different beast from American-style pumpernickel.

 

[Cadence]

As we learn more about head injuries, some professional sports will need to change their rules or parents will stop allowing their kids to play. We may see a future where players can't head the soccer ball and the NFL starts running low on talent as parents steer their kids towards other games.

CTE dangers have been widely known for a while to anyone who follows anything news wise though, right? For American football, it feels like not much will change because a huge chunk of the country doesn't believe news they don't want to hear and/or medical science they don't want to hear.

I wonder if it might have started changing already if more Americans had health insurance and if the health insurance companies were still able to easily not cover pre-existing conditions and counted playing football as one of them.

My guess is that it will change when either (a) some big lawsuits against colleges or high schools come around and insurance companies stop offering coverage to the universities/schools/districts/coachs, or (b) the Pope or a bunch of US Catholic Bishops decide it's real and prevalent enough, and that they should care about kids getting brain damage so that all of the Catholic schools drop it, or (c) same but California governor and statehouse (although this might just make a dozen other states like it more).

 

[Velderan]

My partner comes from Soest, a small town in German Westphalia that claims the original pumpernickel bread. Actual Westphalian pumpernickel is an entirely different beast from American-style pumpernickel.

One thing I learned living in Italy for 3 years is eating something made in the city it originated in and made the way it traditionally was made is usually a pretty different thing. Even within the country something originated in, there can be a pretty noticable difference in how food is prepared from the city or region it came from.

 

[Cadence]

If someone doesn't understand how _____ and ______ and _____ got ______ _______ back when, just look at the playbook of _____ and _____ and _____ today. Literally every single person who is ______ to ______ for . They are all the kind who would have fallen for ___ or _______ or _______ (not the _____ for the most part, just the regular _____ and then denied the other ______). The world would be _____ if they ______ their ______, but I would take them all _______ if that's the only choice.


(_____'s here because I don't hate the mods and don't want to be banned. _____'s on social media because I am a coward and want to keep my job.)

 

[Jd Smith1]

As we learn more about head injuries, some professional sports will need to change their rules or parents will stop allowing their kids to play. We may see a future where players can't head the soccer ball and the NFL starts running low on talent as parents steer their kids towards other games.

Not likely. In many states, including Texas, football would continue even if they added land mines to Middle School+ gridirons.