They seemed like good quality and great designs, but I could never swing $30-50 for a glorified Micromachine to put on my shelf. I'm jelly of people who have them, though!
They are more "scharf", though. It's fun that in English we typically use "hot" to refer to both hot peppers and horseradish.
The development of processed foods in the U.S. is closely tied to the military. They funded research into more shelf-stable foods like "cheese product" and preservative laden bread. Manufacturers appreciate their products expiring more slowly as it helps out their logistics. It's not really anyone's goal to feed us all stabilizers and preservative, but because it's cheaper for big companies it's what we get. There's not much in the way of consumer protection in this area.
Certainly there's good chocolate, but price is a major factor at the grocery store. A big Hershey bar (the size of your hand) is $2 and a similarly-sized bar from a better manufacturer is at least $5.
We pay significant subsidies for corn farmers, but then we have to figure out what to do with way too much corn! The reason everything has corn syrup in it is because it's cheaper than sugar. That's also why ethanol is quite common in gasoline here even though it's bad for fuel economy, power, and engine health.
An entirely separate issue is that we consider corn to be a vegetable, when it's really a grain. Carbohydrates are almost all they have!
I do love SPAM.
Thanks for the new word: Geschmackssache!
Have you never tried it? It's definitely worse, though I'd say it's more wax like. Like everything else here, it's made of mostly corn syrup.
They were traitors. Do you think fighting against your country for the right to own slaves is more conservative than being a traitor for other reasons?
It sounds like you want a blog that lets you categorize or tag your entries to keep them together.
Ich besuche meine Familie nächste Woche, und ich will kleine Geschenke mitbringen.
I know American chocolate is inferior, but I assume it's still a novelty. Some kind of candies probably, too. What else? Many years ago they loved to get boxed breakfast cereal and paper napkins, which seems quaint now.
It's been years since I've seen them, and I'm sure everyone there can buy whatever they want on the Internet, but it will still be fun to bring something.
Any suggestions for an Ausländer?
My parents raised me to always say "yes sir" and "no ma'am", and I automatically say it to service workers and just about anyone with whom I'm not close that I interact with. I noticed recently that I had misgendered a cashier when saying something like "no thank you, ma'am" based on their appearing AFAB, but on a future visit to the store they had added their pronouns (they) to their name tag. I would feel bad if their interaction with me was something they will remember when feeling down. This particular person has a fairly androgynous haircut/look and wears a store uniform, so there's no gender clue there.
I am thinking I need to just stop saying "sir" and "ma'am" altogether, but I like the politeness and I don't know how I would replace it in a gender-neutral way. Is there anything better than just dropping it entirely?
For background I'm a millennial and more than happy to use people's correct pronouns if I know them!
Jerry's Map, by artist Jerry Gretzinger, is a map of a fictional world 50 years in the making.
Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing and updating this map one panel at a time based on random card draws. Over the decades his style and art interests have changed and that's reflected in the map.
I bought a few panels and I love them. I've been aware of the project for years and years. I would love to see it in an exhibition somewhere.
Less Than three should make a heart emoji.
<3
Let's try some more:
Less Than <
Greater than >
Less or equal ≤
Greater or equal ≥
Open bracket [
Closed bracket ]
Open brace {
Closed brace }
Forward slash /
Back slash \
There might be more, but I haven't found them yet.