No matter how bleak things seem just remember that in most of the world Ranch dressing isn’t really a thing so cool ranch Doritos are called Cool American flavor
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One of my favorite microgenres of video is Brits trying ranch for the first time. They always go holy shit, this is awesome, there's so much flavor. We take magic for granted everyday in the country paved with gold.
It's been years since I left the UK, but based on the utter domination of the drunken "I'm about to make an enjoyable mistake" dining sector by Indian food I'm suspicious of any story that suggests English people don't enjoy spice.
I am always sceptical of these takes too. Since moving to Texas nearly 15 years ago, I feel like I know more folks here who can't handle spice than I did growing up in the UK.
Part of our culture is telling the guy in the kebab shop to add more hot sauce. White brits might not *create* spicy food, but we most definitely consume it in large amounts.
The three "main" Doritos in shops here are the blue "ranch" ones, cheese (orange) and red "heatwave" (which I'd say are pretty mild, my kids eat them).
To be fair, Europe did seem to know what they were missing since they fought ~500 years of wars to get access to spices. Still, "extra mild" is unspeakably grim
Oh yeah. I was in Nottingham for research and befriended some grad students there. I mentioned I was morbidly curious about the taco place in city centre and they all grimly shook their heads. One woman was from the US and she told me under no circumstances go.
My parents divorced decades ago and lived such different lives they have no stories in common... except one. They both always talk about moving from CA to NJ in the 1970s and how they learned the hard way to avoid East coast "Mexican" food.
There is an abundance of good food in Britain despite the stereotypes, but it is safe to say anything that purports to be Mexican cuisine is usually pretty dire. Think of the UK as a continuation of that diminishing gradient for Mexican food that extends from the SW to NE United States.
Fair point. I haven't spent a ton of time there, but I don't remember thinking, "gah, this food is awful." It was fine. And international, as most places are now. In Liverpool a couple years ago, the best place we ate was a Brazilian steakhouse run (owned?) by Romanian folks
My fellow country dwellers are clearly wimps. I'm OK with chilli sauce up to 1M SHU. Don't know if I could go higher. I've just not had the opportunity to try.
never tried it and never will but the bag is blue and it has cool in the name so i will forever hold the (brazilian) belief that that's mint flavored doritos
True story: I interned with an MP in 1992 on a semester abroad in London after he had a stateside visit to our campus, and he asked me to sneak a few bottles of "Rancho dressing" (his words) into the country when I came.
I don't know why but I had never connected ranch dressing with "cool ranch" and had always assumed "cool ranch" was like...mentholated? Or something? Hashtag confused aussie
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I guess I could have reposted:
The only good thing White America has produced is Ranch
And Brits have those plain cheese doritos in the orange bag which are monstrous good.
My parents divorced decades ago and lived such different lives they have no stories in common... except one. They both always talk about moving from CA to NJ in the 1970s and how they learned the hard way to avoid East coast "Mexican" food.
So that's what Americans taste like