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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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[–] _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 (1 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.

[–] 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.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It sounds like your comment is missing some context and nuance. If an immigrant gets US citizenship the US does not then get to claim saag paneer lol

The US could have done something with indigineous food but they did some pretty awful things to those people and refuse to acknowledge much of any of their cultures.

[–] 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.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (25 children)

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.

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 72 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Fun fact: orange chicken was invented by Hawaiian Chinese guys who ran the Panda Express in Honolulu. They wanted to create a dish that reflected the sort of flavors that were popular at Chinese restaurants in Hawai'i. So it's not an "American" concoction. It's rooted in the culture of Chinese in Hawai'i, who were invited to live and work in Hawai'i back in the kingdom days.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 55 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Fusion, mostly. Latino coworker from Texas told me Burritos are neither Mexican nor American, but a beautiful Texas border food fusion. Anecdotal, but the guys son is a professional chef.

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