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they should invent a beach that is always less than 20 mins away from me
"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.
#he doesn't joke about flowers BRIDGERTON (2020—) S03 | E05
im not an animal scientist or anything but i also don't think this is like anthropormorphizing something that's not actually there - has anyone else thought about how insane it is that cats can like. meow questioningly. like that when they're 'asking a question' or confused they will lilt the end of their meow up in tone like we do when we ask a question. this is fucking me up so bad do they learn that from us?????? are they capable of understanding what that means????
i seriously got like moved to tears today when i realized when i'm looking for my cat i'll call his name like "harbor? harbor?" with a lilt at the end of the name and when he doesn't know where i am he meows that way too. he meows like he's calling out a name and i don't. know how to react to that. i left my impression on this little living thing without even meaning to just. because i love him. i didnt even mean to but i did
One thing I appreciate about my cat son is that if he, who knows how it feels to be trapped in a room, so much as begins to suspect that I, his father, am trapped in a room, then he will immediately do everything in his meager power to rescue me
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what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”
That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?
Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food
I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.
(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)
Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.
I LOVE learning about stuff like this :D
that corned beef and cabbage thing you hear abou irish americans is actually from a similar situation but because they weren’t allowed to eat that stuff due to that artificial famine
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Everyone knows Korean barbecue, right? It looks like this, right?
Well, this is called a “flanken cut” and was actually unheard of in traditional Korean cooking. In traditional galbi, the bone is cut about two inches long, separated into individual bones, and the meat is butterflied into a long, thin ribbon, like this:
In fact, the style of galbi with the bones cut short across the length is called “LA Galbi,” as in “Los Angeles-style.” So the “traditional Korean barbecue” is actually a Korean-American dish.
Now, here’s where things get interesting. You see, flanken-cut ribs aren’t actually all that popular in American cooking either. Where they are often used however, is in Mexican cooking, for tablitas.
So you have to imagine these Korean-American immigrants in 1970s Los Angeles getting a hankering for their traditional barbecue. Perhaps they end up going to a corner butcher shop to buy short ribs. Perhaps that butcher shop is owned by a Mexican family. Perhaps they end up buying flanken-cut short ribs for tablitas because that’s what’s available. Perhaps they get slightly weirded out by the way the bones are cut so short, but give it a chance anyway. “Holy crap this is delicious, and you can use the bones as a little handle too, so now galbi is finger food!” Soon, they actually come to prefer the flanken cut over the traditional cut: it’s easier to cook, easier to serve, and delicious, to boot!
Time goes on, Asian fusion becomes popular, and suddenly the flanken cut short rib becomes better known as “Korean BBQ,” when it actually originated as a Korean-Mexican fusion dish!
I don’t know that it actually happened this way, but I like to think it did.
Corned beef and cabbage as we know it today? That came to the Irish immigrants via their Jewish neighbors at kosher delis.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/is-corned-beef-really-irish-2839144/
The Irish immigrants almost solely bought their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef thrown into a pot with cabbage and potatoes. The Jewish population in New York City at the time were relatively new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe. The corned beef they made was from brisket, a kosher cut of meat from the front of the cow. Since brisket is a tougher cut, the salting and cooking processes transformed the meat into the extremely tender, flavorful corned beef we know of today.
The Irish may have been drawn to settling near Jewish neighborhoods and shopping at Jewish butchers because their cultures had many parallels. Both groups were scattered across the globe to escape oppression, had a sacred lost homeland, discriminated against in the US, and had a love for the arts. There was an understanding between the two groups, which was a comfort to the newly arriving immigrants. This relationship can be seen in Irish, Irish-American and Jewish-American folklore. It is not a coincidence that James Joyce made the main character of his masterpiece Ulysses, Leopold Bloom, a man born to Jewish and Irish parents.
Ahh, similar origin to fish and chips in the UK then.
That meal came about either in London or the North of England where Jewish immigrant fried fish venders decided to team up with the Irish cooked potato sellers to produce the meal everyone associates with the UK.
Because while a bunch of stuff from the UK was lifted and adapted from folks we colonised (Mulligatawny soup for example, was an adaptation of a soup recipe found in India and which British chefs tried to approximate back home), some of it was made by folks who actively moved here (like tikka masala, that originated in a restaurant up in Scotland).
Super interesting.
And that’s BEFORE we get into replacing a staple crop! So in the Southern US, you have two groups of people, one who used oats and one who used plantains, and they BOTH replace their staples with corn. And then you get Southern food.
For those interested in a really deep dive on Chinese food in the United States, I cannot over-recommend Jennifer 8 Lee’s Fortune Cookie Chronicles.
i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it
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Okay but the window we see into this lady's constany state of existence is genuinely horrifying, like a twilight zone episode
How wildly cold and individualist and distant must an entire cultural bubble *be* to produce a human being who receives universally kind gestures like free food and drink as presumptuous, creepy, and inconsiderate?
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There's cultural differences and then there's the feeling of walking into an alien spaceship
I think I finally get what "culture shock" feels like
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TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.
No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition's doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition's doctor.
What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, "hold my vodka," and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.
Aye, but let us not forget Jerri Neilson, who, after presenting with breast cancer while on the same research base in 1998, first biopsied her own tumor, then gave herself chemotherapy while continuing her regular duties in terminal condition until she could be safely evacuated.
She had practiced the surgery on raw chicken as directed prior to the actual procedure.
She then went into remission, and lived a rather happy and healthy life until receiving a bone cancer diagnosis seven years later- after which she claimed her life continued to be enjoyable.
Which is to say- Damn, you'd think they'd have some extra surgeons willing to rotate out by now!
DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022) Season 1 | Episode 5
hi guys hi in the new bton set there is a portrait of newton. there is a PORTRAIT of NEWTON kate had to go and be like hey anthony i want a portrait of our dog in our living space. and he was like your dog and she was like no. OUR dog. and you’re gonna commission it and you’re gonna LIKE it and he DID IT he had to pay for someone to sit for hours on end to painstakingly paint this PORTRAIT OF THIS FAT CORGI. literally not crying about this at all btw
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hello my name is Very tiny flying insect i see you’ve got an uncovered beverage outdoors. Can i fall into it and kill myself please please please please please please please please please please
You ever read literary analysis of a work you’re familiar with that’s so good that it makes you feel stupid. Like “oh. Yeah wow you’re right there was so much powerful symbolism and parallels and all that and I completely missed all of it”. And then I feel even stupider thinking “wow that author is so goddamn smart for thinking through everything like that, my basic surface level themes feel kind of embarrassing now ngl”
The funny thing about me posting some of my writing now is that people will comment on things and say how cool it was that I thought to do this and that and half the time I’m just thinking “oh my god. I didn’t even realize that. I wrote the damn thing and I didn’t mean to do that. Do I admit that to them or do I pretend I’m really clever??”