• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    It could kill a European, if consumed by a European. However, it is consumed by an American, so it kills an American.

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    I don’t know any European that would only eat a slice of pizza instead of the whole thing.

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      The only time an European eats a single slice of pizza is the next morning after they have overestimated their ability to devour the entire thing.

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      I’m on my way home from Amsterdam atm, a slice of pizza was €10.

      I skipped that and left hungry, because i’m buying two pizza’s and a big bottle of coke when i get home in about an hour.

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        Damn, you can get an entire large pizza for $10 at Costco. Granted, your only options are pepperoni or cheese, and the quality isn’t the best (far from the worst, though), but it’ll feed 1-3 people.

        Still, I miss the days when you could a large pizza with unlimited toppings at various chain restaurants for $10. But that was over 10 years ago.

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          You only need to be a cosco member and hopefully not have any previous experience with pizza

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          A large Costco pizza will feed way more than 1-3. I’m not even trying to act like bird food eater here. I’m 225lbs and 6’2” so I know how to eat.

          That said, I absolutely love Costco pizza and my safe zone is like 2 slices because they are enormous.

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          Domino’s still regularly has €5 pizza’s on monday for pickup, at my old job during the late shift we had €17 per person to spend on food and 2 people in the shift.

          We used to order 2 family xxl with their thursday 50% off for second pizza and a regular sized cheeseburger pizza+ drinks for that €34.

          We both ate half our xxl and shared the regular size one, the remainder came home to feed our wives while the company covered the cost.

          They even paid us a pretty decent wage too, but unfortunately the head office decided to build a new automated warehouse right when covid started that ended up only doing 30% productivity and they closed us down as a result.

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      I also don’t know any Italian who eats their Pizza by slicing it up, folding the slice, and shoving it into their mouthes, instead of with knife and fork, like a civilized person.

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      That slice comes from a pie almost half a meter in diameter. That single slice has the surface area of most European pizzas.

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          I live in Germany.

          You underestimate these Costco pizzas. On the 1600 square centimeters, they pile half a kilo of cheese

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    My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It’s worse than having no lid at all.

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      Those new, shitty lids are always slightly on. That’s as “on” as they get.

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      I don’t even know if that counts as on at all. It is really just laid on top partially covering it.

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    I once went to a Polish restaurant and the starter was pork fat on toast.

    And a hazelnut vodka.

    There are many ways for a heart to implode.

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      Pork fat is less processed product and certainly more healthy. America isn’t actually great at much but one thing we do have is the least healthy food to ever exist.

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        Truth. Heart disease wasn’t nearly as prevalent back when we cooked everything with lard. And then Crisco came along, started producing that overprocessed “vegetable oil” garbage, marketed it (and continue to market it) as “healthy”, and people actually fell for their BS. Hell, judging by the amount of downvotes you got, half the public still believes this lie.

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          A lot of this is because people had to do a lot more exercise during the day than we do now. Not that the lard was better for us. This is where a lot of the downvotes come from. Even the rich had to do a lot more walking. If we could return to the amount of exercise we averaged 50+ years ago, you would see a lot of this decline. The next big thing is the amount we eat. We consume significantly more calories now than we used to. In the past 100 years it has increased ~20%. All the while we have been doing less physically. The third big factor is where the shitty food comes in. Having sugar/highly refined carbs added to just about everything promotes over-eating, while also fucking with your insulin production, and other endocrine issues, that promote fat retention, while also increasing addictive eating disorder likelihood.

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          High super consumption has much more impact on heart health than fats as well.

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      Polish hazelnut booze is awful. Granted I only know Solpica, but one shot tastes the whole day and maybe longer.

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    As an European, I cannot comprehend the width of that centre console. 2 drinks side-by-side AND some extra? Must be a full eagle screech wtf is a kilometer V8 mortr truck.

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      When I was a kid, I remember being impressed that my dad’s Dodge Ram could fit an entire laptop in the center console, horizontally.

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      In some cases it’s actually 3 drinks side by side…

      Generally the center consoles of full sized trucks and SUVs is as large as it is because people on construction sites wanted a file cabinet holder center console. So it can hold an 8.5 x 11 or A4 sized paper horizontally in the center with a holder.

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      Fun fact:

      It’s “a European” since the pronunciation starts with “ˌjʊ”. Similar thing with “university”.

      I’m not trying to be a dick but to spread information.

      Ok, that’s all. Thank you for reading :)

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      That be a truck, the center console can be flipped up to have a central seat in trucks where the shifter is on the steering column or besides the radio (dial in Ram trucks).

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      Similar, perhaps. I enjoyed visiting Costco in England and devouring jacket (baked) potatoes with Heinz baked beans (I’m aware this is Lemmy…), Shepherd’s Pie and a hot cup of Yorkshire Tea - so the menu is localised too.

      I don’t remember if they also had the typical American fare when I was there, because I was more interested in the British cuisine I had missed so much. They may have had the froyo and hotdogs. Im certain there must have been pizza, surely.

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    I remember buying a coke in america for the first time and the whole family sharing it lol. The crazy shit we ate in america became our family inside joke.

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          Didn’t your cheese production become too clean to produce the legendary holes?

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            Most of our cheeses never had holes. The ones that did still have them. You should have a look at our famous (although not the best in my opinion) Emmental if you like a cheese with holes (or should I call it holy cheese?!)

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          Hmm that’s like the Indian reservations in Canada and the USA. Never thought about that before. Are they considered to be in Canada/usa? I’m pretty based off of watching Yellowstone that they get passports… anyway now I’m just rambling

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            Its not really like that at all. Switzerland is very much part of Europe and shares European culture and history with the rest of us. That person is just a little bit confused.

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      Fondue, with a starter plate of cured meats and a desert of meringue covered in double cream.

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          Oh and for those thinking this is too much, some even throw in an egg into the cauldron once the melted cheese is gone.

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      Not even that. Their pizza slices are $1.50 and their soda is 0.69¢. idk how much the ice cream costs.

      Edit: pizza slices are $2, I just checked. It’s the hotdog and soda combo that is $1.50.

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    My Costco has an 810 calorie chocolate chip cookie. When I first saw that I was like how tf do you cram the better part of 1000 calories into ONE cookie lol

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      Fat is the most calorie-dense food available. So that’s one big piece of butter mixed with sugar, some flour, aromas, and cacao fat.

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    We are all working class. Don’t let the 1% divide us with their borders.

    It’s clear we all love pizza… together. Solidarity amongst the working class!