Every worthwhile American cuisine has one of four origins:
1. Invented by ethnic minority that wasn't allowed to eat regular food
2. Invented by cult to stop masturbation
3. Asshole customer, chef revenge
4. World's Fair
1. Invented by ethnic minority that wasn't allowed to eat regular food
2. Invented by cult to stop masturbation
3. Asshole customer, chef revenge
4. World's Fair
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And not everyone is happy about it!
Actually sounds kinda good though
Canned ingredients and pre-mixed blends do feature in some recipes, because a) time-savers & b) the recipes were ads for those products
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/graham-crackers-were-supposed-to-be-a-sex-drivesuppressing-diet-food-15675399/
literal religious extremism anti-masturbation flakes
how does that correlate with masturbation 😭 what science did they have for this lmfao
But this is extremely interesting
https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-potato-chip-saratoga
The #3 twist is always "But they loved it".
2. GRAHAM CRACKERS
3. POTATO CHIPS
4. ICE CREAM CONE
1. corned beef sandwich
2. corn flakes
3. nachos
4. hydrogenated shortening maybe? most of the other stores seem to be fake
https://www.seriouseats.com/food-history-1904-worlds-fair-st-louis
The answer is Boy Scouts, not food. Sorry contestants.
Gonna throw this peanut butter powder into some chocolate ice cream and smooth it out with some Irish cream and a stick blender in a moment though.
https://bsky.app/profile/tanngrisnir.bsky.social/post/3k5yc2rtkcg2v
The customer loved them.
Also practiced genital mutilation on children, BTW.
Salad that’s just lettuce & hard ass croutons
PLAIN TEA/ DIET POP
My food needs legs.
5. Was here already
American ingredients have been adopted into the cuisine of MANY cultures!
I was floored when I found out that Road to Wellville was based on actual events. I can never look at a box of corn flakes the same way...just blushing running down the cereal aisle while avoiding eye contact with the Kellogg's logo
My mother's family is from Mass. I wonder if they ever ate there...
i love those
perfect story so it must be true
I should remake the Twitter thread I did on them fundamentally altering the squirrel populations of Michigan both because they were obsessed with genitals and some thinly veiled racial assumptions as well. YES ABOUT SQUIRRELS.
The black squirrels abound.
Kelloggs has a dark, weird history for sure.
https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2019/03/21/john-harvey-kellogg-battle-creek-michigan-eugenics-race-nazis/3202628002/
and i'm not talking about that shitty fast food joint, i'm talking REAL PETROS
(literally made for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, and it's literally our only culinary cuisine)
Never stop learning I guess...
Also, some of the plains BBQ styles are in the same weird limbo for me
Biscuits and gravy
Macaroni and cheese
Fried chicken
Barbecue, many pork preparations
Collard greens
Rice and beans (different than the Mexican dish)
These foods are often referred to as comfort foods, too
ie Moscow Mules, Buffalo Wings, Chop Suey, Chefs Salad....
He owned a taco shop, and noticed that the hotter the taco sauce was, the quieter the obnoxious drunks got, so he decided to make the hottest sauce ever by adding pure capsaicin.
Now there’s thousands of super hot sauces, of course.
Kellogg was a weird guy
The elder Kellogg made the flakes as a healthy breakfast food, and separately advocated that bland food would decrease the urge to masturbate.
And the younger Kellogg, who founded Kellogg's, decided to make the flakes with sugar, making them decisively not bland.
Incidentally, basic flaked only barely have sugar in. That why things such as sugar Frosted Flakes exist and people sprinkle milk and sugar on them.
5. Ethnic minority trying to make do with local replacements for unavailable elements of their cuisine
but that might just count as (1)(b)
And there's also "Stolen from indigenous people, or reimported from Europe where stolen Indigenous American foods had been taken."
You can’t just post that and not go into detail.
Also, you know people came to the US… from other places, right?
Your other commentary makes sense, now.
Okay, this has been *loads* of fun, but it’s past time to mute.