Country music

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldmod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 684 points –
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I had a European friend complain that Americans are so egocentric that they call their music "Country Music." He was also mad we put mayonaise on a pasta and call it a salad.

I am also mad about the second part.

If you want rage, Midwesterners put marshmallows in pistachio pudding and call it salad.

Green Fluff is just a derivative of Ambrosia, which is very much a Southern-States creation. We Midwesterners simply made it better. /j

Jokes aside, my grandmother used to make her own homemade cherry ambrosia. That recipe is lost with Dementia (she never wrote it down either, heh) so I'll probably never have Pink Fluff that good again. Don't knock it 'til you try it.

Pistachio pudding sounds amazing

It's a great dessert. But Midwesterns treat it exactly like a lettuce salad. Like you go to a buffet and people will put pistachio/marshmallow pudding on their plate next to their steak.

What did you eat today?

Oh just some salad

The salad

Do they not use the word country as a synonym for rural? I checked the Cambridge dictionary, it's their second definition listed, even higher than where that definition is listed in Merriam Webster. It's like complaining rock music is made with guitars instead of boulders. Does he also think that country is like the only genre of music made in America? Though some country singers do like to put a lot of nationalism in their music which does kind of confuse things.

I'm a firm mayo by itself as a sauce hater though so I'm with him there. Even more abominable are the jello (or jelly for those in the UK) "salads." It's not a salad!

But Germans have litterally every kind of salad.

Germans will literally put mayonnaise on sliced sausage and call that a salad.

https://www.recipesfromeurope.com/fleischsalat/

TWO salads*

Keep in mind that Fleischsalat is different from Wurstsalat. The main difference is that Fleischsalat is made with mayo to be creamy while Wurstsalat is made with a simple vinaigrette as the dressing.

There’s also Ochsenmaulsalat which is basically just thinly sliced beef mouth with vinaigrette and onions.

thinly sliced beef mouth

I've never heard of "beef mouth" as a cut of meat. What meat is it from? Tongue, cheek, etc...

I love beef cheek if it's cooked right. Low and slow.

And I’m not super familiar with cuts of the head but it’s gotta be check because tongue would be a different word.

It could be lips, also. I have seen beef lips in one of my local carnecerias (Mexican meat market).

That’s a rather strange word to use in the context of beef, because they don’t really have anything resembling human lips. Which part of this, exactly, would you consider “lips”?

I think mouth, or perhaps snout, is a more accurate description here. Anyways, that’s the picture I found on Wikipedia when I looked for more information on where this meat might come from. Apparently it can also include the inner parts of the mouth, however, not the tongue, that’s considered a separate cut.

I'm nit entirely sure but when I saw the package of meat in the grocery store it said "beef lips" and had a stringy looking meat inside. I assume it is the lower lip since the upper seems too small for what I saw.

The recipe you've linked has more than two ingredients. To say that it's 'mayo on sliced sausage' is misleading. We Germans are a smidgen more sophisticated than that.

The onions are optional (frankly never heard of it being used Fleischsalad although it could give it a nice bite), pickle juice and sugar is just used flavor the mayo, salt and pepper to taste is standard for pretty much anything savory. The only REAL other ingredient here are the pickles.

So yes, Mr. German Police, you’re technically correct (of course), but I will count this as an off by one since you COULD just put the sausage, pickles, and mayo together and already have a decent approximation of the dish.

I'm off by one, you're off by one - shall we split the difference and I'll overlook that even being merely technically correct I'm still closer than you, who's both technically and objectively incorrect?

C'mon, no cop is going to give you that deal.

People like you are literally the reason I don't live in Germany anymore.

You sound like the kind of person who'd chew out his neighbor if their kids make as much as a peep during Mittagsruhe but start mowing the lawn at 7am simply because it's legal.

Wow, you have even less of a sense of humour than the average German.

Enjoy your two-ingredient Fleischsalat.

Says the guy who literally got his panties in a twist because I forgot to mention the pickles in a Fleischsalat while making a JOKE.

I pointed out that your JOKE was shit. You're the one who started calling me names, so don't lecture me on twisted knickers.

The only thing I called you was "German Police", are you telling me that's an insult? I thought the police were a respectable and upstanding part of the German people and steadfast protector of Recht und Ordnung.

Come on man, if I had tried to insult you I'd have chosen completely different words, like Fleischsalatnazi, Korinthenkacker, or Oberstudienrat. But I was merely making fun of your complete and utter inability to take a joke because it forgot to mention the obligatory pickles, which, let's be clear, is simply a wonderful example of why Germans are widely regarded to have absolutely zero sense of humor.

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Yeah, I don't get that one either. As a German I've seen plenty of "Nudelsalate" which have pasta and mayonnaise.

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That second one is absolutely disgusting.

It's not a reason to get mad, though.

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SPACE

So Chris Hatfield is the only musician you like?

Space oddity from the ISS.

No. There's also "The Rocky Picture Horror Show", starring esteemed Tony Award nominated actor Tim Curry.

I like musical theater.

This is the first thing that came to mind. I love his rendition of it. Thanks for posting this

Wait till you find out about world music

Waiter: "...served with a country-style..."

Me: "What country?"

Okay. I hate any music that references all of the following pandering terms: trucks, boots, whiskey, blue jeans, dirt, drinkin', beer, and. "back roads".

If you removed the lyrics from almost every modern US "Country" song, they wouldn't be so bad, by holy shit...it's like you can't have a country song without whiskey and blue jeans sung in an overdone Kentucky or Mid-Western accent. It's essentially fan service for country boys and girls. Half of those singers haven't touched so much as a rake in their entire lives and for some reason people make this genre their entire fucking identity.

Stadium country is garbage. Dark country and folk music actually does interesting things with those terms.

Folk makes you feel things. Mostly rage at the capital holding class, but that’s a thing you can feel

Folk makes you feel things. Mostly rage at the capital holding class, but that’s a thing you can should feel.

I think that's the only thing I can feel anymore.

Build community. Rage against the rich is valuable, Lucy Parsons wasn’t wrong about them, but revolution without love of your comrades never goes well. It’s important to have things to be angry for instead of just about.

my favourite country songs remain those featured in fallout: new vegas, they're so brilliantly atmospheric.

I generally don't cry but i can just put on "in the shadow of the valley" to cry on demand, i'm swedish as fuck and yet that song instantly makes me nostalgic for some southern ranch i've never seen

The other 2 thirds of the Earth's surface, obviously. As the greatest song in history says: "...We got no troubles - Life is the bubbles - Under the sea..."

Somebody should make a map with most hated music genre/artist per country.

This is a good indication that I need to go to bed. It took me like a minute and a half to actually get it.

...I am so fucking tired.

This is why I only listen to music from polynesian islands

Antarctica, international waters, and space. Some people argue whether it should be made in rojava or Zapatista held territory

I remember the first time, as an American, that I found out that country music was huge in Australia. That was a mindfuck moment.

there's country music fans everywhere. especially Dolly Parton.

Yeah, buy Dolly is in a class of her own. It was when I found out that Australia had their own country music stars who were writing and performing original songs, even songs about Australia, but in an American country music way, maybe even with the twang. Mind blown.

We talking Reno, Bakersfield, Bluegrass, or hurk Nashville. Cause most branches of country music are good, and then theres Nashville.

Yeah, nah, Tamworth. We have our own branches of country music down here mate.

Blak Country is a seriously cool branch to explore if you're curious about how Australia has interpreted US country music into a localised sub-genre. Swap your mouth organs for a gum leaf and add some yidaki riffs for extra bass.

Can you suggest some artists to check out?

I only like Anarcho-capitalism music made in international waters

Somewhere over the rainbow