#taste of country

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku

[blogdemocratesjr]

The Ginja Ninja

[ashtonderoy]

Taste of Country. A job I failed at that was my fault.

Written by Ashton Deroy I got the criticism from someone that I never take personal accountability on this platform. That I am always blaming my failures on someone else. I will admit Ashtonderoy.com is a little Me-Centric. Must be the fact that I haven’t had another writer in a few years. I promise when I have them… Unlike Bay of Quinte Pride. I will pay that writer. Motive: For my fans even…

[agenttommykinard]

sometimes you just need to be honest with yourself and admit that your blorbo probably would have different music taste than yourself

[myraremusic]

the jury votes have never been so catastrophic i think. so many intelligent, well sung songs that got barely any points but sweden again? for real? for a song i will have forgotten in four months? i am still listening to Trenulețul. i will never forget moldova's entry from last year. i will never forget finland's cha cha cha. never. those songs will stay with me for a whole eternity. i called for slovenia, czechia and finland so many times, you deserved so much better <3

[learnelle]

During my mini hiatus I fulfilled my dream of visiting Norway! The most surprising thing was hearing Lithuanian being spoken literally everywhere. My mum and I always speak Lithuanian to each other, so it was incredibly bizarre for people to overhear us and then come speak with us, or to have waiters/shopkeepers switch from English to Lithuanian. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, and I had no idea so many Lithuanians live in Norway! I absolutely ADORED this, it made all the places we visited instantly feel like home. Despite all that, I learned a bit of Norwegian and discovered that it’s literally the cutest language. Language learning is absolutely wonderful

[fucciwilliams]

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

[daughterofcainnnn]

[ifindus]

We did not in fact win that race.

The World Championship in Biathlon 2024 just finished up today! Congrats to France for being the best nation, Norway for getting the most medals, and Sweden for taking their first ever gold medal in a biathlon world championship 🥳✨

Sometimes the Norwegian commentators just say something so weird I need to draw it

[taintedcigs]

salt & vinegar chips are DISGUSTINGGGGG.

[crispyliza]

Fun fact: pomegranate has continued to be associated with death in greek culture even now in modern times. We have a desert called "koliva" that has existed since ancient times that we serve at funerals and memorials, and pomegranate is one of the main ingredients. It symbolizes the soul of the dead and the glory of heaven.

[curapicas]

Imagine that you write children's books for a living. Every now and then, you have to come up with wacky ideas that might entertain children, and managed to have a moderately successful and long career.

One day, you get a strongly worded letter from a "disappointed fan" detailing what you got wrong in a decades old book of yours. One you remember struggling to write; something you spent nights awake to try to come up with fun tastes for the monsters a partner illustrator kindly supplied - although unhelpfully so. Why the heck did he give you a goblin for this?

Anyway, you were actually proud of that one so this letter obviously pisses you off. It's only recently that respected papers about what monster cuisine is have been coming out, anyway. Where they expecting you to actually have tasted monsters?

You want to send an angry reply. Except you notice Melini's Royal symbol in the letter, and it gives you a pause.

[dallasgallant]

All the guys love Elvis, i think you’re legally required to like country there I can also see them as enjoying southern rock etc. specifically outlaw country.

Dally really likes Johnny Cash.

Steve: how come you dress in black all the damn time?

Dally: no reason 🧍‍♂️

[thesuetyouforgot]

UK what are you doing to your liquorice?!? It tastes like leather marinated in espresso...

[novuit]

I'm actually making a little England desktop pet right now and I'm just designing some of his poses for later when I actually need to add my own sprites. I'm coding his dialogue and stuff rn and let me tell you: at the moment, he's a bit twatty sassy but he's definitely the most entertaining

Yes, I want to make his balls clickable. Also, I really want to put him in different outfits to use the built in dress-up feature but I really can't be bothered right now lol, perhaps when I finish this first.