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user-inactivated  ·  4064 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 16 People On Things They Couldn’t Believe About America Until They Moved Here

I've been ignoring this article as it makes its way around cyberspace on the basis that it parrots the "x number of blank about blank" trope that's become the latest sad result of our pathetic collective attention span ...

... but I'm only one person in and I've already seen some incredible insight. So. Wrong was I.

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    President doesn’t automatically become the richest person in the country.

    Infantile and convenient food (and I’m not talking about the fast food). No bones, no spines, hardly ever find an entire fish, it’s mostly filets, very little diversity (little lamb, or duck, hardly ever rabbit, and for fish it’s almost always tuna, salmon, haddock and bass), seedless everything. A lot of things (not desserts) are sweetened, like honey smoked, glazed, etc. Even desserts sometimes look like 5-y.o. were left alone in the kitchen: cookie dough ice cream, oreo cheese cake…