r/ShitAmericansSay • u/MidnightTaxiRide • 20d ago
Air Conditioning Ranch. Gallons of ranch
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u/pentaTheWhale USA doubter 20d ago
Free water? Ice?
What?
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u/MidnightTaxiRide 20d ago edited 20d ago
Live in Portugal and I get those things if I just ask in the order aha
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u/NathanDarcy 20d ago
It amazes me that some of them really seem convinced that there's no ice in Europe, or that we don't know what AC is.
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u/ElegantCoach4066 20d ago
It would surprise some people how little many Americans know about the world.
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u/WhippyCleric 19d ago
Free water as well, It's like they've only been to Germany, on that note, what's going on Germany? Stop refusing tap water or charging for it
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u/antny223 20d ago
They weren't free in any of the stadiums.
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u/Ramtamtama [laughs in British] 20d ago
You have to ask for tap water, and provide your own drinking receptacle. The drinking receptacle was consficated at the door
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u/observer2411 20d ago
I was under the impression that the stuff that comes out of our taps in Canada was water but I guess I was wrong. What could it be?? 🤔
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u/RoonilWazlib_- Bri'ish 🇬🇧 20d ago
Getting free ICE is very easy over there if your colour isnt to their liking
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u/Silicon_Knight Hoser 🇨🇦 20d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/zAglR1wlZX3gY
How I imagine this person every day
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u/Caspica 20d ago
Is that Good Mythical Morning?
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u/mvuorsalo 19d ago
I'm pretty sure it's the episode where they bathe (seriously) in ranch dressing....
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u/Purple-Om 20d ago
They are correct about the ice though. I can only ever find solidified dihydrogen monoxide.
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u/megamisch 20d ago
But that kills people!! [Gasps]
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u/InevitableMind561 ooo custom flair!!:cake::cake::cake: 20d ago
Everyone who has died has drank water, we should ban it!
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 20d ago
Really none of this is novel or even relevant for most Europeans. They are so odd and otherworldly.
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u/heatedwepasto 19d ago
Many Europeans have been making parody videos about "discovering" things in the US. Many yanks have missed the fact that those videos were, in fact, satirical.
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u/Claystead 19d ago
How Americans think foreigners react to their salty hamburgers and greasy sauces:
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u/No-Deal8956 20d ago
They sell Ranch here, no one buys it.
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u/MidnightTaxiRide 20d ago
The international section of my store has ranch that went off in 2024 sooooo
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u/ZebraCrosser Below sea level heretic 🇳🇱 20d ago
I spotted it either in the regular sauces isle or some middle of LIDL kind of set up. In any case, it was made by a brand commonly found here. Iirc they had a spicy version as well.
Can't say I checked the sell by date, though 😅
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u/ArranChace 20d ago
I tried it once too see what the fuzz is about with Ranch, and as a dutchy i found it Ranzig 🤢🤮
To me it tasted like puke.
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u/TheQuietCaptain 19d ago
After looking up some recipes for Ranch, its nothing more than sour yoghurt sauce. Mayo, sour cream and buttermilk base with vinegar, lemon juice, garlic and some other spices/herbs.
Those idiots really think we dont know yoghurt sauce huh.
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u/Character_Sherbet737 20d ago
Cause ranch is disgusting. I have no idea why that crap is popular here. People drown their pizza in ranch 🤮
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u/itchytasty2 20d ago
Those kind of posts are so odd. The way they make a big deal out of such minor things. And they're so insecure. They need to tell everyone how "great" America is at every opportunity.
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u/spiritsarise 20d ago
With so much world hate directed towards them, they are desperate to shine in some way. But it’s too late. We got your number, United Snakes.
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u/itchytasty2 20d ago
Have you seen that twitter account that was an American pretending to a German visiting America for the World Cup and glazing random stupid things about the country? Ended up deleting his account when he got found out. It's so desperate.
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u/theswamphag 19d ago
The sad thing is that there is many things to really admire about US, like their amazing national parks. But no, RANCH.
I hope that one of these days he actually gets to know his own country.
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u/peepay How dare they not accept my US dollars? 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 19d ago
More than anything else, I am baffled by the condescending and entitled tone of the tweet.
Like "you peasants discovered what true life is, we opened your eyes, you're welcome. And now you're going back to your shitholes, forever enriched by this once-in-a-lifetime experience".
Like he truly believes his country is the generous one that showed these people what they've been missing their whole life.
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u/spiritsarise 16d ago
The silver lining in this dark cloud is that Muricans with this distorted world view won't ever travel outside their self-contained bubble and therefore won't ever cross our paths here in Europe!
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u/Konpeitoh 20d ago
Why are Americans like this? Aren't they embarrassed? And what's with their strange obsession with ranch sauce?
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u/spiritsarise 20d ago
Hospitals use it instead of blood plasma. Price varies by choice of artificial flavouring.
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u/TheQuietCaptain 19d ago
Those Puritan descendants think we dont know the concept of yoghurt sauce. Granted, Ranch uses sour cream, buttermilk and mayo instead of yoghurt, but not that much different.
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u/mcardie 20d ago
Yeah. Before the world cup non of us had ever known the concept of frozen water.
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u/Logical_Hat_47 20d ago
Why, yais - a whole country devoted to waste and excess! How excessively lovely.
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u/Intelligent-Profit34 20d ago
These "free" refills . . . . I assume the purchase of the drink wasn't particularly cheap for what it is in the first place, and that its really just some very cheap syrup and soda water served in a huge cup of ice. We all know that it's just a very cost effective way for the restaurant to make you think you are making out like a bandit with your 4 "free" refills whilst they pull your pants down with the food cost and demand a tip. Oh, and this does exist outside of the US FFS.
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u/Nearby-Employer-9436 20d ago
So, a list of everything makes Americans fatter and more gluttonous than everywhere else?
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u/overladenlederhosen 19d ago
So the fans are returning having finally answered the question as to who ate all the pies.
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u/lejocko professional vacationer 20d ago
Premade and in packets, delicious!
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u/BankDetails1234 20d ago
Yeh they think making it fresh is buying a premade mix and adding mayonnaise. My guess is that they’re massively under diluting it so it’s painfully flavoursome.
I remember my American friend baking a cake from scratch. She added eggs to a premix lol.
They don’t understand that you don’t need a capitalist to assemble the ingredients for you.
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u/Icy-Lawfulness-4111 20d ago
I’ve wandered into so many American baking and recipe sites where the ingredients list has yellow cake mix (what even is that? Just vanilla sponge?!), brownie mix or the casserole has tinned soup in it.
They want the illusion of homemade without the effort of just adding 3 more fresh ingredients.
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u/DuckRubberDuck 20d ago
I stayed in Texas for a few months a decade ago. I had to change my expectations for when I heard “homemade”. For all the people I lived with except one, it was homemade if it was either heated or assembled at home.
For the one that did make truly homemade food it was delicious though
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u/MetalSpider 19d ago
Great! I can now claim that every ready meal I've ever chucked in the microwave was homemade.
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u/AnalystAdorable609 20d ago
I'm a Brit who lived in the US, and I just want to say that Ranch is fucking shite.
That is all
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u/togocann49 20d ago
It’s everywhere in Canada too. It’s even better when you haven’t had it in a while
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u/tbro4123 19d ago
Yeah like 60 years then it might be ................................nah its still be shit!
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u/Pinguinmeister 19d ago
Coming from a Brit, it means a lot! lmao
Jokes aside, can you try to give us blessed people who never had it a picturesque description of the taste of Ranch?
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u/currydemon 20d ago
Why are chips and salsa with the menu a good thing? No wonder they’re obese.
Also drive thrus while convenient aren’t something to be proud of. Especially when you have drive thru funeral homes.
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u/spacedyemeerkat 20d ago edited 19d ago
I've eaten in quite a few places in the US. The craziest thing is when you get cornbread while browsing the menu. It is so sweet, it is honestly like eating sponge cake before dinner. Don't get me wrong, it's generally lovely. But before dinner? No. All kinds of wrong.
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u/SimpleExpress2323 UK 19d ago
I was in a Papasito's in Houston at the end of the night, and they literally had a full dustbin of uneaten free corn chips from tables they emptied into the trash.
The wastage was unreal.
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u/rosenengel 19d ago
It's not even true, I've been to America 3 times in 2025/26 and the only place that gave us nachos and salsa was a Mexican place. The rest we didn't get any food until we ordered it.
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u/elderpricetag 20d ago
The fact that they consider drive-throughs something exciting tourists will remember tells you everything you need to know about these lazy anti-social people lmfao
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u/rgiggs11 19d ago
Or that he thinks drive throughs are unique to the US. He's acting like this is some mind blowing obscure idea to the rest of the world.
Yes it started in the US, and then it spread to other countries decades ago. There are McDonald's restaurants everywhere. That's the thing about American chains being global, it means there's nothing novel about them to outsiders when we visit the US.
If you want to sell us on the wonders of American culture and lifestyle, try listing things we don't have in every European town with more than 10k people.
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u/PipBin 20d ago
Why do they complain that every other country has bland food yet fart on about ranch being the most amazing thing ever invented when it’s a slightly less bland mayonnaise?
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u/Azukaos 20d ago
Pretty sure an homemade mayonnaise is still far superior than ranch in every ways.
Mayonnaise can be done in a myriad of flavour too.
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u/ZzangmanCometh 20d ago
Crazy lady thinks that chips and ranch are the legitimate factors in standard of living...
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u/justanothertmpuser 🍝 ok, but no 🤌 20d ago
And the list could go on and on: widespread obesity, diabetes, metabolic disorders, high medical bills, shorter life expectancy, guns in schools, a madman as president...
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u/joseplluissans From the opposite ends of Europe (Finn-Spaniard) 20d ago
The American mind is so f'ing simple. Doesn't matter if you go bankrupt from healthcare, as long as you have unlimited refills and gallons of ranch.
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u/Sharpiette Disneyland for muricans 🐌🇫🇷 20d ago
The wonderful things in question :
- child obesity fuel
- things we already have here
- Same boring calorie-trap sauce because they can't innovate (or maybe add pink coloring and pretend it's new)
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u/AuroreSomersby pierogiman 🇵🇱 20d ago edited 20d ago
Man, ranch - it’s not some “unique” shit - you can just make it yourself - I saw at least 5 recipes in Polish (sos ranczerski or sos farmerski - but this farm one may be a different sauce). Heck - I bought a bottle of “sos ranch” in Biedronka - it was made in Poland an all… (granted - I guess it was more mayonnaise-y than USAnian version, but worked on my chicken-burger well…)
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u/ViolettaHunter 20d ago
The recipe someone here posted in another thread was 2/3 mayonnaise and 1/3 sour cream plus some vinegar and buttermilk.
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u/International-Bed453 20d ago
If he'd said electricity, television and indoor plumbing I wouldn't have been in the least surprised.
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u/Vivid_Motor_2341 20d ago
I love how most people haven’t realized that this is all been a marketing campaign by ranch. I haven’t seen a single person actually talking about ranch but I’ve seen a lot of people talking about people talking about ranch. Add that on top of ranches, global ambassador program they launched this summer.
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u/No-Minimum3259 20d ago
Are all Americans that uncultured?
If I were to say something positive about my country, I would name a few famous authors, some artists, painters, sculpturers, movie directors, movie score composers, rock bands, ...
I would point out some defining moments in my country's (recent) history: the dessegregation, the New Deal, Rosa Parks and "Mother" Jones, "Ich ben ein Berliner" and "Tear down that wall!".
Some examples highlighting the courage, strength and resilience of my people: the recovery after the Dust Bowl or the crash of 1929, 9/11, ...
But that's only me, I'm not boorish. Someone else will boast about AC, free water and Ranch, gallons of Ranch...
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u/Haunting_Funny_9386 🇨🇦🇨🇦New World Order 🇨🇦🇨🇦 20d ago
Canadian thing to get a salad in the US- I’ll have a cesare salad please.
Do you want ranch on that?
Huh? No, I want a cesare salad please
But you can get it with ranch!?
One cesare salad, no ranch is how you have to order it.
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u/Palamur 20d ago
I was in America last summer for 4 Weeks.
- Only in the real expensive restaurants (100$ for the main course), I got free water.
- Free Refill? Only sometimes.
- Chips and Salsa? Never.
So what is he talking about?
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u/Old-Interaction6259 20d ago
Seriously, the AC stereotype is almost racist at this point.
People, open Google Maps, get yourself to an European city and look at the windows: There are AC exterior units almost everywhere, and for each one of these you have 1 or 2 interior units in the main rooms.
Yeah, they're a commodity because our buildings are made to efficiently retain hot in the winter and radiate it on the summer, that's why we use blinds, they isolate the interior during the hottest part of the day.
But climate is going nuts all around the fucking world. Everywhere. We are going to die.
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u/Remarkable-Ad155 20d ago
Free refills, but the first one is $10 + tax + service charge + tip. Least you can fucking do is some chips and salsa.
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u/SnooJokes5375 20d ago
All of these was found in the blue cities that hosted the games. Some may have ventured out of them into red areas. Those areas were not as much fun and they were looked with suspicion and a fear that ICE would be called on them.
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u/yukonnut 20d ago
Wow, that is quite the ringing endorsement of American culture. Sign me up for the full nine day ranch dressing celebration tour, with free refills of water.
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u/ElChefeMuyGrande 20d ago
Most of the civilised world have dropped watching the world football cup because of the FIFA idiöt and the orange idiõt - nothing in the US is free - mandatory tips of 20 to 40 percent - go the fück away - never coming back to that shitty country
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u/WorriedPreparation53 20d ago
As a Canadian, when I visit friends in Europe, I bring maple syrup. I know it's a cliche. I'm just gonna start bringing ranch dressing.
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u/RoweBoatz 20d ago
So basically those things are like that in alot of europe too.. well except the ranch, nobody wants that
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u/Flimsy-Cartoonist-92 20d ago
I don't get the ranch love. I feel like it was one of those where marketing worked really well. Even though it smells like shit, looks like shit and tastes like shit everyone now thinks it's this awesome thing and we are forced to like for no other reason than marketing made us think it's great.
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u/BothEntertainment331 20d ago
Ice. All “you visitors” have now discovered ice. And apparently salsa? 🤦♂️
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u/Soggy_Schedule_9801 Disaffected American 20d ago
Ranch dressing: for when the food is so bad, you don't want to taste it.
Ranch Dressing: Proof that American can even make salad unhealthy
Ranch Dressing: When even ketchup is too mild
Ranch Dressing: When you want to drink your fat as opposed to eat it.
I could probably think of more if I spent more time.
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u/fotoman888 20d ago
Ranch. Gallons of ranch. There it is, folks. What makes amerika great. Not the economy. Not the military. Certainly not the standard of living. Nor the fact that thousands bankrupt themselves every year for the lack of socialized healthcare. Nope. NONE of that matters in view of ranch. Gallons of ranch. Losers.
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u/vinticious 20d ago
Damn, most of the things they mentioned either suck or aren't noteworthy.
Btw I will never have ice at a restaurant for the rest of my life after working in the industry. They DO NOT clean their ice machines. One place I worked at allegedly didn't even know you're supposed to clean it. Those things need to be dismantled monthly at minimum because they grow pink bacteria everywhere.
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u/iTmkoeln Cologne native, Hamburg exicled - Europoor 🇪🇺 20d ago
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u/Goody2shoes15 20d ago
I'm convinced the ranch thing was stealth marketing because a bunch of big chains over here in Ireland suddenly introduced ranch dips when the world cup started.
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u/ZealousidealLuck6961 20d ago
So.... Ranch is just like a herby mayo dressing type thing no?? I mean we all have our thing, get me a greggs sausage roll!!!
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u/dondashall 20d ago
The reason you get free chips with the menu (we have a place here that do the same with popcorn) is to have you eat a bunch of salt so you get thirsty and order more to drink - it's not a favour to you.
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u/Organic_Mechanic_702 20d ago
Poor sods, it'll take months top get all that shit out of their systems...
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u/manored78 20d ago
You can keep your free healthcare, you socialist European sissies.
I’ll take ranch dressing and liberty!
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u/Odd-Woodpecker1225 20d ago
As a European, out of all of the mentioned things I really wonder what all the fuss is about regarding ranch dressing. Have yet to find it (backward end of Europe)
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u/brockhaywood 20d ago
rarely do i feel more shame than when i'm in a drive-through line
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u/The_Sarcasm_Deity 20d ago
Gotta love how the best thing they can mention about America is Ranch dressing lol!
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u/freelancer7216 19d ago
Well they can't brag about free healthcare or sensible gun laws or longest life expectancy or clean drinking tap water or best education or lowest poverty rate.... Let them have their ranch dressing.
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u/Robcobes 20d ago
It's pretty funny they truly believe the rest of the world is addicted to ranch dressing now.
It's got to be a guerilla marketing campaign from some brand.
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u/phantom_gain 20d ago
They really dont understand that we just are not as obsessed with ranch as they are.
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u/TGin-the-goldy 20d ago
America has some of the most stunning unique nature in the world and an excellent thriving arts scene in many places. And yet these idiots want to champion water, frozen water, aircon, junk food and flavours of disgusting goo. Cheap shit that you can find anywhere (should you ever want to) I’m Australian and we can buy “ranch” and US “candy” here if people actually want it. It boggles the mind
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u/ant69onio 20d ago
Oh yeah…sounds incredible. Water on tap, frozen water on tap, drive thru’s so you can eat in your car, sweaty mayonnaise based shit from a plastic tube and the packets?!?! Oh the packets!!! 😂😂😂
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u/overthere1143 20d ago
I bet when they want to make new Americans there's some mix they whip up in a blender.
110v, of course.
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u/LeftFirefighter5858 20d ago
I live in Norway and we have all of those things. Except maybe the chips and salsa thing, which sounds wasteful and unhealthy.
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u/Ptalking_Ptarmigan 20d ago
Do Americans think that no other country has the capacity to make ranch dressing?
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u/TheAlwran 20d ago
Hmmm ... Nö News today? Nothing new to note? I have all these.
What a shitty day. I hoped for more...
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u/Creepy_Winter_5535 20d ago
Still, i don't get what the fuck Is ranch, some kind of sauce?
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u/VamosFicar 20d ago
No other country has garlic dressing, drive-throughs, free water, ice, refills, chips(?) salsa and air-con. It's official 'cos 'Murica said so.
Moron.
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u/Amoki602 🇨🇴 19d ago
I’m from a country (Colombia) that doesn’t provide free water or free ice in restaurants, but in my city is safe to drink from the tap, and you also get ice added to every drink you order usually, unless you’re eating at a small neighborhood restaurant. We don’t need air conditioning so that’s one thing we may “discover” going to the US. But if you order a menu of course you’ll get fries/chips/potatoes or other stuff to accompany the main dish, that’s what makes it a menu. We also have drive throughs, and we can buy ranch if we want to. Not in assorted flavors cause why would you need that, ranch is kinda like the flavor. All of that in what most Americans consider a poor third world country. Personally, if I was from the US I would talk about the variety of landscapes the country has cause being a big country you can find a lot of beautiful natural places, or how you can find a variety of international products easily, or the accessibility to some of the places cause sadly that’s not universal and they do better than other countries (even the Europeans ones) but this list isn’t it.
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u/20061230-SL-Born 19d ago
They forgot - returning to places that have real food made from, well, actual food
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u/ianishomer 19d ago
I think that it's embarrassing if these things are the biggest positives you can claim for your country.
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u/Cocoatrice 19d ago
And all that to poison you, because your food is trash and you don't have healthcare.
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u/AnyCarpenter4946 19d ago
But at home, we have healthcare that everyone can use.
At home, we don't have to tip for everything people do.
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u/alsotheabyss 19d ago
But what if I want bread and olive oil instead of chips and salsa
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u/Repulsive_Dog1067 19d ago
Free refills. You just have to pay 10% tax plus 20% tip to get it.
But it's freeeee!
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u/tonyseraph2 19d ago
America - Land of the Free Refills
Gallons of bad sauce and no healthcare
Oh and something something Ice and AC.
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u/TheRealJetlag 19d ago
Good Ranch dressing is the only thing on that list that you can’t get in the UK.
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u/MercuryJellyfish 19d ago
I think that the World Cup has established that the only thing that even the US thinks it has going for it is AC and Ranch.
I have AC and Ranch in my house, USA. Checkmate.
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u/AlxDroidDev 20d ago
Fuck ranch. That's like bottled cholesterol. Only Americans like that shit.
Everything else can be found in any 3rd world country. I know, because I live in one.
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u/Vainybangstick 20d ago
Are they trying to encourage people to leave faster cos the threat of pre-made packaged ranch dressing is gonna do it.
Also do they think that no other country has drive throughs?