


- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Rentlar ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 14•2 months agoRedNote users, while you’re at it, can you show Americans some high speed electric trains and get them interested in it? Thanks.
comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months agoLet’s start basic, we don’t want anyone to get overwhelmed. How about the high-speed line in Morocco, Africa? (186km/115mi long HSR section at up to 320km/h / ~200mi/h)
davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English6•2 months agoThey hate us for our freedom fries.
AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) 3•2 months agoWestern food is regarded with bemused horror in China. There’s a retired English engineer who lives there whose wife posts videos of him making the sandwiches he eats for lunch: he has a bit of a following, who refer to him as Old Dry Keith.
comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months agoIt’s cherrypicking, but apart from TV and cartoons who are likely to exaggerate, my impression of US school lunches is from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and Jamie looked like they were about to cry.
I say cherrypicking because it was considered one of the most obese towns in the USA, Huntington, West Virginia, but it’s absolutely dystopic. Soylent Green would be a step up, nutritionally.
edit: I can’t easily find the scene of the kids eating, but this two minute clip goes over Jamie’s disappointment at the food products being served. “I’d never seen kids being given pizza of any kind for breakfast before.” “Do you really recognise any of those ingredients?”
NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months agoCoincidentally, just a few weeks ago Tasting History With Max Miller made the same iconic pizza that many of us fondly remember eating as kids for lunch/breakfast at school.
comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago‘Pourable pizza crust’ is a new one for me, I wonder which shapes would be fun. I suppose the stage of food technology at the time ended up forcing the food to be healthier, Max is dealing with ingredients I can name and buy rather than the cyanocobalamin and thiamine mononitrate in modern day rations pizza. Thanks for sharing!
Always cool to see the BPP social programs mentioned.
That_Devil_Girl ( @That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months agoChina has historically been quick to ban foreign web services authorities don’t approve of.
Apparently the US does too.