Comment was not about what is, but what the rest of the world thinks it to be.
And that is not fancy West Coast craft beer or so, but Bud Light and Coors, I am afraid…

TBF, this doesn’t look like a security feature, but just a convenient way to span the chain taut.

Dude’s coming from a Swedish Lemmy instance, so quite probably is a Swede.
Swedes don’t eat Hagelslag, that’s a Dutch thing, so I guess he is entitled to stay ;-)

Especially funny as Pecans are a very American thing, they don’t even grow in Europe.
So probably a significant part of the US population thinks because of this cake that Germans bake Pecan based stuff, while most Germans (me included) haven’t seen a Pecan nut in their whole life. :-)

I just remembered that we have a very similar traditional dish in my home region (although only in the hefty variant with meat and/or vegetables):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sülze
And I also have to say, Schweinskopfsülze (pig head in aspic) is not as bad is looks, but certainly is an acquired taste… :-)

l don’t dispute that (and also that they are probably great - had neither so far, as they are largely unknown here).

It’s just that nobody outside of the States thinks of these when they hear “US food”.

Also: The jello salad is hilarious!
Hadn’t it been a wikipedia link, I would have thought it to be you trying to pull my leg. :-)

That’s quite disputed.
One of the more likely theories states that the bun idea together with the ground meat steak originated in Hamburg, where it was a variant of the common “Rundstück warm”, which has been around since 200 years ago or so.

Dude, Hamburgers are literally named after the non-US city they originally came from…
But I have to admit that the refinement to its delicious present day form is an American achievement!

Last panel gets it wrong, though.

Rest of the world totally thinks that there is such a thing as original American food:

High-caloric, hyper-processed junk containing no significant nutritional value but much too much fat, fructose sirup and carcinogenic substances.
That, and watery beer.

This is solid advice, although in my case it has been a ticket without Zugbindung, as it has been for a work trip.

I got reimbursed 25% one time last year, but had several trips where the delay annoyingly just stayed a few minutes below the magic 1hr mark. :-)

Wow, that must be the most frustrating feeling ever.
“Your halt has been canceled today…”

I wondered why I didn’t remember a mini series to exist - then saw its Rotten Tomato rating…

So perhaps better watch the film instead.
It has a few 60s movie moments, but overall was really fun to watch, with most of the science being surprisingly solid, given its age.

You are confusing that with Galactica from Andromeda out of the “Hello Spencer” TV series.

The “Andromeda Strain” was about human hubris and the reasons we are probably not going to become intergalactic travellers…

Totally.

The Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, so we are already on our way!

Return voyage working out much better, so l am happy again! :-)

Yes, seatbelts and comfortable seats.
Definitely an improvement to the Regionalexpress!

Sadly a thing of the past…

Celebrating sounds very Italian… We Germans just share some sarcastic comments with our fellow travellers. :-)

What happened […]?

The long term effects of privatization and decades of car centric politics.

Or the Swiss.