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6mo ago

Too powerful for their Euro arteries

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Where do you think pizza comes from?
- Like all things, we have seized it and made it our own. Like how getting Chinese food in an American restaurant only vaguely resembles Chinese cuisine. 💪
  
  Sure, but the Americanized versions of Italian, German, or Chinese foods were made by immigrants adapting their traditional recipes with ingredients they had on hand.
  
  To be fair Chinese food in Europe doesn't have much to do with actual Chinese food either
  
  I mean, tomatoes are a fruit native to the Americas, so even though pizza was invented in Italy, its invention is still tied to the America side of the Atlantic in some ways. Pizza has a very interesting past!
  
  Also, we Costco-sized it. That is a single slice of pizza in that photo.
  
  It's Chinese inspired American food.
  
  To be fair, most of what I've seen of Chinese cuisine looks like dog yack, so I think we got the better end of the deal.
- Fun fact, in many places, soft-serve ice cream is known as "Italian ice cream".
  What we are seeing here is a slightly botched traditional Italian lunch.
  
  In many places
  In very few places ftfy
  
  slightly
  ಠ_ಠ
- Italian pizza is really different than American.
  
  Yes, usually it's a whole pizza, not one tenth
- You clearly have never had Italian pizza. Not even close.
  Pizza is American unless you want to claim every flatbread is a pizza.

Hah! In Scotland we dip pizza in batter and deep fry it. With a deep-fried Mars bar for afters.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/five-glaswegian-chip-shop-delicacies-11462402
- Time to make a pilgrimage
  
  Get drunk before having it, but if you're coming here you were probably going to do that anyway
- The first big wave of immigrants to the US were the Scotch-Irish, which is where the American propensity to deep fry everything comes from.
  You can aslo the American usurpation and economic dominance over England as those Scotch-Irish getting their revenge.
- Guys, guys, there's no point in intercontinental squabbling, we should focus on the real enemy, uh... teleporting space squid
  
  Wait... is that a reference to the original Watchmen comic?
- I’m calling Gordon Ramsey on your ass.
  
  Gordon Ramsey would deep fry that pizza in wagyu tallow.
- That deep fried creme egg looks naughty

I don't know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.
- The only time an European eats a single slice of pizza is the next morning after they have overestimated their ability to devour the entire thing.
  
  The third whole pizza*
- I'm on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was €10.
  I skipped that and left hungry, because i'm buying two pizza's and a big bottle of coke when i get home in about an hour.
  
  Damn, you can get an entire large pizza for $10 at Costco. Granted, your only options are pepperoni or cheese, and the quality isn't the best (far from the worst, though), but it'll feed 1-3 people.
  Still, I miss the days when you could a large pizza with unlimited toppings at various chain restaurants for $10. But that was over 10 years ago.
- Yes, but you’re forgetting that’s just a light snack to stop them from starving to death on the way home.
- I also don't know any Italian who eats their Pizza by slicing it up, folding the slice, and shoving it into their mouthes, instead of with knife and fork, like a civilized person.
  
  I've seen people rolling their whole pizza to eat it like a Lahmacun.
  In fact it was only one person but I've seen it quite often because we saw daily.
- That slice comes from a pie almost half a meter in diameter. That single slice has the surface area of most European pizzas.
  
  Nope, you deerly underestimate the hunger for pizza over here.

My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It's worse than having no lid at all.
- Those new, shitty lids are always slightly on. That's as "on" as they get.
  
  And they break for like no reason
- I don't even know if that counts as on at all. It is really just laid on top partially covering it.

It could kill a European, if consumed by a European. However, it is consumed by an American, so it kills an American.

I once went to a Polish restaurant and the starter was pork fat on toast.
And a hazelnut vodka.
There are many ways for a heart to implode.
- Pork fat is less processed product and certainly more healthy. America isn't actually great at much but one thing we do have is the least healthy food to ever exist.
  
  Truth. Heart disease wasn't nearly as prevalent back when we cooked everything with lard. And then Crisco came along, started producing that overprocessed "vegetable oil" garbage, marketed it (and continue to market it) as "healthy", and people actually fell for their BS. Hell, judging by the amount of downvotes you got, half the public still believes this lie.
  
  Wow you got down voted for the truth
  
  There’s a lot of options to eat well however
- Hot roast chicken skin chopped onto rice is a meal fit for the gods.
  
  Better than bacon. And I know those are fighting words in some places. Just embrace the schmaltz and let it drip into the rice.
  The key is to get to that skin while it's still hot, but before it winds up in the fridge. You can reconstitute it in a skillet, like bacon, but it's just not the same.
- Polish hazelnut booze is awful. Granted I only know Solpica, but one shot tastes the whole day and maybe longer.
- Zaseka?

As an European, I cannot comprehend the width of that centre console. 2 drinks side-by-side AND some extra? Must be a full eagle screech wtf is a kilometer V8 mortr truck.
- When I was a kid, I remember being impressed that my dad's Dodge Ram could fit an entire laptop in the center console, horizontally.
- In some cases it’s actually 3 drinks side by side…
  Generally the center consoles of full sized trucks and SUVs is as large as it is because people on construction sites wanted a file cabinet holder center console. So it can hold an 8.5 x 11 or A4 sized paper horizontally in the center with a holder.
  
  They can also fit 3 across the front a lot of the time
- That be a truck, the center console can be flipped up to have a central seat in trucks where the shifter is on the steering column or besides the radio (dial in Ram trucks).
- Fun fact:
  It's "a European" since the pronunciation starts with "ˌjʊ". Similar thing with "university".
  I'm not trying to be a dick but to spread information.
  Ok, that's all. Thank you for reading :)

Italians will cook your pasta inside a whole wheel of cheese. Spaniards deep fry pork belly and serve it as a snack. Last time I was in Eastern Europe I thought something was a sweet only to discover it was a lump of straight-up pork fat. Just raw. To munch on.
Americans may be more consistent at eating gross murderfood regularly and in large quantities, but they sure aren't the only ones to have it.
- The big difference is in the details.
  Italians dont cook your pasta in that wheel. They throw it in there and shove it around. Its no comparison to that center console by any stretch. The countries that munch on raw fat are usually freezing cold and very rough in terms of manual labor conditions. People burn through double the amount of calories or more if they have heavy manual labor and cold climate.
  Maybe not the spaniards though. ;)
  
  You've never been to the Po Valley. We fry mortadella here.

I live in Scotland, our chip shops do deep fried battered pizza. Get on our levels.
- They probably have that at a state fair here in the US. They deep fry everything there, even Oreos.
  
  State fair's only around for one time a year, my local chippy is open all year around.
  
  Deep Fried Butter. Stick of fat wrapped in carbs fried in more fat. I don’t think that can be topped.
- We do have deep fried cheesesteaks
  
  I think maybe I could go for some deep fried cheesecake
- Fuck you now I'm craving a half pizza supper and a deep fried mars bar but the nearest proper chippy is thousands of miles away back home in scotland 😭
- I'm ever astonished at the variety of deep fried stuff at Appalachian festivals and fairs. All these stalls trying to one-up the rest with the lengths they are willing to go into hot fat depravity. Grease-boiled confections and savories of every niche. A healthcare nightmare. But this is a region steeped in despair. It's tough to heap blame on folks giving up.
- Or a piece an' Macaroni Pie. Carb in Carb in Carb. I'm sure you could get the pie battered too in the right chip shop.
  
  If you eat a battered macaroni pie in a roll and down it with Irn Bru, Highland Cathedral will start playing out of nowhere.

You know, Costco exists in Europe as well, with the same food order menu.
- I (an American) had actually never heard of Costco until I moved to Japan. Where I grew up we had Sam's Club, but no Costco, so when I got to Japan and the other foreigners were talking about how they love getting the chance to go down to Costco, I had no idea what they were talking about.
  Didn't see a Costco in person until a few years later.
  
  You merely adopted the $4.99 rotisserie chicken.
  I was born into it, moulded by it.
  Why you didn’t see the $1.49 hotdog meal combo until you were a man.
  
  Sam's club is superior anyway. They have a larger and more stable selection at the same or better prices.
- Well I for one did not know that actually!
- Similar, perhaps. I enjoyed visiting Costco in England and devouring jacket (baked) potatoes with Heinz baked beans (I'm aware this is Lemmy...), Shepherd's Pie and a hot cup of Yorkshire Tea - so the menu is localised too.
  I don't remember if they also had the typical American fare when I was there, because I was more interested in the British cuisine I had missed so much. They may have had the froyo and hotdogs. Im certain there must have been pizza, surely.

The real crime is eating that in your car
- Be me using FSD to hold pizza in one hand, drink in the other, while I mow down children with reckless abandon
  
  This should be our citizenship test.

I remember buying a coke in america for the first time and the whole family sharing it lol. The crazy shit we ate in america became our family inside joke.
- I too enjoy coke more with some company if you catch my drift
  
  As long as it's a different straw for every one.

Looks like half the calories of a swiss fondue. We are not really European though.
- Swiss
  We are not really European though.
  😂
  
  It's like saying Canadians are Americans. They do live on the American continent but are not part of the United States.
- not really European
  Wdym by that ?
  
  Switzerland is geographically in Europe but we are not part of the European Union. We don't want to share our cheese.
- On which continent are you then?
- Fondue, with a starter plate of cured meats and a desert of meringue covered in double cream.
  
  As it should be! But please make sure it's either a "moitié moitié" or a full vacherin cheese.

As someone on a diet: fuck OP for posting this

I recommend looking up what an Irish breakfast roll is. Thank me later.
- 🤤

European here. Can confirm. Got heartburn just by looking at this picture.

My Costco has an 810 calorie chocolate chip cookie. When I first saw that I was like how tf do you cram the better part of 1000 calories into ONE cookie lol
- Science! That feels like those extremely strong nicotine pouches, it's just too much of the good stuff crammed into one small thing.
- Fat is the most calorie-dense food available. So that's one big piece of butter mixed with sugar, some flour, aromas, and cacao fat.
  
  Yeah if you've ever made your own sugar cookies, you start them by taking a warm stick of butter and folding in several cups of sugar.
- So an adults daily calorie intake is covered by ~3 cookies? That's insane

And all of that is around $5-6!
- If true, that explains a lot. Where I'm from the pizza slice alone costs that much.
  
  Costco is unique in its food court prices, they must be heavy into loss leader territory at this point. It was a really good deal back before covid, and these days it's basically daylight robbery compared to anywhere else.
  Not only that, but the food kiosks (at my local location, anyway) don't scan your costco membership either, so you can just walk in the exit and get some food without signing up.
- Not even that. Their pizza slices are $1.50 and their soda is 0.69¢. idk how much the ice cream costs.
  Edit: pizza slices are $2, I just checked. It's the hotdog and soda combo that is $1.50.
  
  $2 pizza and $3 ice cream/ smoothies here, YMMV.
  
  Their pizza slice is only $1.50
  Where?
  The pizza slices haven't been that cheap around me since ever. That's the price of the hotdog combo. Everything else is $3+ with the chicken bake being the most expensive at almost $5. I'd kill for $1.50 Costco pizza 🤤

Why would you get the ice cream/froyo AND a soda?
- Can you go to Costco without getting a hotdog?
  
  I've been a member for 3+ years and literally never bought the hotdog. Why would I go to Costco hungry? That sounds like a good way to buy a bunch of junk I don't really want.
  
  Hot dog is optional.
  The $5 rotisserie chicken is not
  
  I’m vegetarian, so i can no longer eat those. It’s all good tho.
  
  Genuinely don't like their hotdogs at all. Not at bad as IKEA but there's something just off about them.
  
  Team pizza and churro here! Never the hot dog
  
  It's actually illegal to eat a hot dog that is not a Koegel in Michigan.

We are all working class. Don't let the 1% divide us with their borders.
It's clear we all love pizza... together. Solidarity amongst the working class!

Did shrinkflation not hit america? Everything in that photo is huge, and it's not like the car is small. Even while having a huge car as the background, the food looks huge.
- Seems to have happened to everything but Costco's food court. I guess it's a strategy to get people in the door. Their hotdog/drink combo is still $1.50.
  
  But as of a few months ago, they're no longer available to non-members. And the hot dogs are indeed a loss leader, a delicious loss leader.
- It's very much a thing unfortunately its everywhere. this is just from costco a wholesale retailer you need a paid membership to shop at, hence the large portions and cheap price on it.
  
  Also, the CEO is adamant about keeping it that way.

I don't know why but those ice cream things make me physically sick to look at sometimes. That amount of sugar in one sitting is borderline lethal for me.
- now imagine drinking it after you just had Pizza+Soda
  
  Man, I feel sluggish. Let's get a sugar coffee drink!

That’s your daily 2,000 calories right there.

Canadian costco has poutine.

If you really want to throw them through a loop, tell them how much that cost you.

I'm from the Midwest and never had Costco food before. Tbh, it'd probably kill me too, lol.

The meal is what it is. Collieries for a whole family dinner
But how wide is that center console of your car? Double cup holders side by side?
I can barely have my coffee in my VW FOX and still change to the top row of gears without tripping it over...
- See, the Americans don't do stick shifting
  
  Lose weight: drive a stick.
  Driving stick, saves lives!

This could kill a European
If it didn't contain so many banned ingredients

Why there is only one slice of pizza?
- He ate the rest before he could do a photo
- One slice of Costco cheese pizza has like 700 calories
  
  What diameter?

Obesity is a natural reaction to an unnatural food environment

Fuck, now I want pizza
- I have now had homemade pizza that was delicious but word of advice
  Don't eat a whole pizza for breakfast and lunch combined at the same time
  
  Two separate pizzas for breakfast and lunch, got it.