Poor Person: I need food stamps so I don’t starve.
Conservative: That’s lazy. Get a job.
Poor Person: Fine. I got a job, but it doesn’t pay enough. The minimum wage needs to be raised.
Conservative: Still lazy. Go to college so you can get a better job.
Poor Person: Fine. But I’ll need financial assistance to afford college.
Conservative: Still lazy.
Poor Person: Fine. I went to college, put myself in debt, and got a degree. But the only jobs I can get without experience are unpaid internships. Businesses should be required to pay their interns.
Conservative: …
Conservative: Still lazy.
Poor Person: How the hell do you expect me to get out of debt?
Conservative: It’s your own fault. You choose to go to college even though you couldn’t afford it.
Poor Person: But you’re the one who keeps telling poor people to go to college. Are you saying that I’m lazy if I don’t go to college, and lazy if I do?
ppl who think that saying “I love you” to someone a lot makes it lose it’s meaning are so boring literally what could make you think that? if someone tells you they love you like 3 times in an hour it means that 3 separate times they were sitting there and thinking about you and how wonderful you are like. smh. say I love you to everyone that you love as often as possible bc sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are people who love you
Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”
If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.
Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)
Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.
From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.
the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.
volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.
so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.
of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.
it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.
Reblogging because I honestly never thought about it but yeah, this lines up.
ok? so how often do americans eat home-cooked food? cause on tv people often say they’re at the same restaurant/diner 3-4 times a week…
that’s common in middle and upper classes where people have more money to spend on nights out, and that’s okay! especially w the middle class, they’re supporting their community in an important way! but most of us poorer folks can’t afford to eat out often bc it’s cheaper to make an entire box of spaghetti with a jar of sauce for 4 bucks total (making meals for three or more days) than it is to pay 15 bucks for only 2 meals tops, or double at fast food restaurants if you want anything close to the same proportions.
most of the culture this post revolves around was created and is continued by the working class and poor communities who in the end rely heavily on the group rather than the individual. I can’t speak personally for urban areas but I live in farm+mountain country and the local church is always putting on huge meals. REALLY big ones have admission to help support the church (sometimes they even print flyers to get everyone’s attention) and pay for food that isn’t donated/brought and made by congregation and community members but a lot of them are free. The fire house is the same way.
even with individuals in town, I’ve been offered more dinners at work by customers than I can count, especially on holidays. yeah the community has its problems but when everyone knows everyone, we all get fed one way or another.
Listen, Twilight could have been completely solved if they had just chosen a college over the Grand Forks high school. Like? Y’all look 18 forever? I know college seniors who look 16, it’s cool. They don’t eat? Man we’re poor too, y’all don’t see me eat ever. Y’all glitter in the sunlight? It’s cool I went to a rave once too, that glitter shit it hard to get off. Like c’mon. Why would you wanna be in high school for a milenia anyways.
Also why would you wnt to take the same classes over and over? With college they could pick and choose. Like imagine.
“Dude are you sure you want to do History again? Last time you tried to fight the professor.”
“Screw it I’m majoring in the arts. They look like they know how to have fun.”
“Why are you majoring in maths? It’s boring.” “It’s the only thing they don’t keep changing.”
“You’re just taking a bunch of random classes. What even is your major this time?” “Partying.”
tony stark is just such a stupid character. hes like if batman sucked. literally every one of the avengers has powers that make them basically unstoppable but tonys like “i have enough money to solve poverty but im going to help the american imperial machine instead”
ahhh weapons kill people! gotta stop making weapons! *gives my best friend, a military commander, a wearable tank and calls it the “War Machine”*
instead of saying “i want to kill myself” whenever something bad happens to me as a result of circumstances beyond my control i’ve started saying “i’m going to kill god” and it’s honestly done wonders for my self-esteem
steve: i punched so many nazis… i spent years punching nazis, i went around the country punching hitler and singing showtunes… how are there still nazis? i kind of died to get rid of nazis and there are still nazis!
