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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't think people really realize how much food has changed in the past few centuries. I was talking with this Pakistani dude and he was telling me about this traditional dish. Like half the ingredients were from the Columbian exchange.

The amount and variety of spices we have is just crazy in a historical context. For most humans for most of human history, meals consisted of grains in a pot, whatever veggies you could scrounge up (which looked very little like they do today), and a little meat if you were lucky.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 6 days ago

Same with Italian food. Tomatoes were only introduced to Europe in the 16th century.

Leonardo da Vinci lived his whole life never knowing what a tomato was.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well at least our Finnish national dish is still traditional. Take cubed beef and pork. Put them in water. Add salt. Put on heat for a sufficient amount of time.

That's it.

Fancy modern versions have peppers and whatnot but traditionally it's just salt.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Salt. Don't forget the SALT

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Um, people eat tacos for breakfast all over Mexico.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Italia is missing out on Chicago Style Pan Pizza and Italian Beef sandwiches. Thank you Italian immigrants for adapting and creating the delicious food.

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

American food is whatever I eat in America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

*Temu versions of our food.

Just like their knock-off version of rugby.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When you bring "your"food across our borders, it becomes "our" food

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Theft is how the English language works, so why not food too? Since the actual English suck at the food part, America is happy to pick up the slack. Some of us are even appreciative of it.

Fuck yeah, bud', I'm here for it.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I just had what I think is such an American fry up for breakfast:

Tater tots, soft scrambled eggs, refried beans, sliced avocado and onion, sharp cheddar, and chipotle salsa.

Cuban sandwich is American - the bread is Cuban (I asked several people from Cuba) and while we have made some foods worse (fast food Chinese) some are better too - there is great Italian American food, certainly, and fusion stuff that is amazing. And fried chicken can be so good. I think we are aquisitive as fuck, both the language (we will take your word and make it part of English) and with foods. For better and worse.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean if an immigrant gets US Citizenship, whatever food they make from then on is technically, by definition "American Food".

I mean like you can't be calling food made by while people "American food" then if a non-white person makes it is not "American"??? Be consistent lmao.

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure someone has tried it, but it would be interesting if a Chinese American whose family has been running a Chinese restaurant in the US for a century opened up a location in Hong Kong.

I wonder if the locals would snub it, or find it kitchy and charming.

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's PF Chang in China, but it's branded as an American restaurant lol

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Which is accurate, but Philip Chiang (cofounder) is a first-generation immigrant whose mother helped bring other-than-Cantonese Chinese cuisine to American restaurants. It's not like a bunch of white dudes were sitting down to appropriate a foreign food culture.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 points 6 days ago

American food is corn syrup.

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