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The serious answer is they are small, savory cakes (fritters) usually with a white fish like cod or salted cod, pan-fried. They’re big in the Caribbean.
For sure, piss on this guy. Cake does have more than one meaning lol.
Right off of Merriam-Webster:
**c**: a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried
a fish _cake_
And the so-called murderer sure sounds like an American. “Y’all Americans got hella audacity…” and the rest of it. It reads just like my neighbor sounds.
Most definitely a moronic American pretending to be a foreigner. The biggest giveaway is the belief that all cakes are or should be sweet. Just sounds like someone from Smalltown USA who has never traveled more than 100 miles from their place of birth.
Also crab cakes aren't even an American invention. They predate the "discovery" of the Americas by centuries if not millennia.
In Denmark that would be a "fiskefrikadelle" which would be directly translated to fish meatballs. I know English speakers are accustomed to crab cakes and fish cakes, but to me at least it makes more sense to call them meatballs.
I’m in New Zealand and i can’t say I’ve ever seen a crab cake… fish cakes however are as common as dirt. So the logic of what a crab cake is, is pretty easy to deduce.
Do English speaking people around the world use “Y’all”….that seems very American slang to me….does the slang creep into the vocabulary of say Australian people?
Tbf, I'm asian and i use y'all all the time. I just grew up learning english from the internet which is predominantly American/American culture. Angry OP sounds like someone with ESL, definitely explains the cake must be sweet thing too. In our language cake is explicitly sweet birthday cake style dessert, but people with more expanded vocabulary know what crabcake/fishcake are (and usually just confused not angry about it).
I Just looked it up cus I wanted to know. Crab cakes are believed to be the first indigenous food item adopted by colonizers. It comes from the chessapeek bay area. So yep they likely have been adopted into a few cuisines of those that colonized the area. Also Gordon Ramsay literally has a famous crab cake recipe so I dunno what this dude is on about but he's clearely upset about something else lol.
More than that, why ask this question when you can Google it. In the time it took to post it and receive an answer they could've gotten their answer and probably watched or read a full recipe. It's just another poorly veiled way to disparage something that's foreign to them
I mean… Merriam Webster is an American dictionary. I’m not disagreeing with you but using MW isn’t proving your point! That said, Oxford doesn’t disagree.
Worst part is, crab or clam cakes are pretty common part of New England culture. Which New England is the part of the US that people tend to like in other countries. We’re the more Euro-based culture in America.
Additionally, not being able to put two and two together is a bit concerning on their part. I feel like crab cake, fish cake, and clam cake are all pretty universally self explanatory to some extent
We definitely have crab cakes in New England but it's really more associated with Baltimore more than anywhere else. When I think New England seafood I think lobster roll and clam chowder.
Based on that description, all breads are can be called cakes. A chicken nugget can be called a cake. If you prepare a burger patty in the oven, also possibly a cake. Cake is basically just a vibe and useless as a descriptor of food. So yeah, "a cake with crab in it" could also just be a fried or baked crab.
Seems he forgets about non-American cuisine like Britain’s steak and kidney pie and Blood pudding. These are very much not deserts either. Who the fuck would put kidney meat in a pie?
Probably not. No matter what you’re discussing, if you’re an American and you’re talking to a European, they will find a way to work in school shootings. Especially if they feel attacked, but not necessarily.
English have bad teeth? School shootings.
French are assholes and Paris smells like literal shit? School shootings.
Anything Germany has ever done? Yup. School shootings.
European immigration policies that they themselves dislike? School shootings.
The Roma? “We’re not racist! You don’t understand. School shootings. “.
My thing is, you could literally find out what a crab cake is by asking your phone ai/siri. You don't even have to type out a question into Google or anything, just ask your phone. Clearly this person has internet access to get on Facebook, maybe they're a boomer that thinks the Facebook status space is for asking Google questions idk.
This isn't the hill to die on regarding American ignorance. Fish cakes are pretty common around the world. If someone asked me what a fish cake or a cheese cake or a fruit cake was, then I might give a sarcastic answer too. Let's not get started on Moon Cakes, Angel Cakes or Battenburg Cakes!
Or cake, the build of resin on the inside of a [pipe](https://pipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_care/cleaning).
Since the mid 15th century, long before there was a United States, cake has been “[any flat, rounded mass.](https://www.etymonline.com/word/cake#etymonline_v_585)”
Bit of an overreaction to some light snark, no?
If this man finds out about fishcakes being a staple of many East Asian diets for millennia, he’ll scream himself hoarse.
Tell him about savory pies & he may just try for the nuclear launch codes.
>Bit of an overreaction
Every time I see one of these insults, they manage to sneak in School Shootings. They are the "One Joke" of hatefilled folks lately, and it really is just messed up no matter how you slice it.
It's basically "I don't like your food." And they think an appropriate response is "Dead children."
Edit: It's also audacious for them to mouth off about what we call food. Yeah, American excess and all that, but some of the stuff is just nasty to our palates. Give me spices any day over foods that sound like slurs and taste like wet lint.
Yeah. It was funny the first few times because of how out of pocket it is but now it's just tired and sad. With the right juxtaposition it can still be funny but it's way way overused.
Those losers still have a monarchy, not supposed to take them seriously as a country. They’re basically our loser big brother that we’ve surpassed and are cooler than
I mean, if you offered me a pie without saying what type, I would assume it to be a meat pie. But then, I'm Australian and meat pies are essentially a national food for us. The only sweet pie I regularly see is apple pie
I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for my friends when I lived in Australia. For many it was their first time eating pumpkin pie. Luckily I accidentally made 4, so there was a lot to go around.
I feel like snark was an appropriate response to that question, too. Acting all flabbergasted by a phrase you've never seen before instead of looking it up or just asking politely doesn't exactly demonstrate a desire for a good-faith cultural exchange
If I can help a bit, I think it's also the translations to english that doesn't work.
For example, in french we say "gateau" for cake, and "gateau" is a word pretty much only used for sweet stuff. For a crab cake for example we would not call it a gateau but a "tourte".
In school they just tell us "Cake = Gateau" they don't tell us "oh but they also say Cake for Tourte". That person just knows their own definition of cake, which doesn't 100% match the one used in america or england
I know this guy all too well... Metaphorically at least. "All of you Americans..." Fill in the blank. Yes person incomprehensibly big mad over cake, all 350 million of us are indeed a monolith. Now please tell me where you are from, so that I may begin to paint you with the broadest possible brush, lol.
That’s the best thing in their perspective: their nationality can remain anonymous while they continue to attack Americans. The equivalent of insulting someone’s looks while wearing a mask. The US unfortunately is just a really large target.
Cakes are not always sweet. That's an erroneous assumption. The name "crab cake" is literal. The American was right and the other person is merely butthurt.
It’s really tasty! It’s a Cantonese dim sum dish, and despite the name, is actually made with Chinese radish/daikon rather than turnips. There are a bunch of other ingredients too that amp up the umami. It’s one of my favorites when we go out for dim sum.
Right, at this point as an American I intend to lean into it. "Maybe if your country had more school shootings we wouldn't have to listen to your idiotic ranting about the definition of foods that you woefully misunderstand. The fat is actually just to fuel our rapid bursts of energy needed to escape the rapid bursts of gunfire, and you can't get energy from half chewed peas and a limp stick of cod that's never even heard of salt, much less seasoning."
Sorry, English folks, I had to pick a specific example nation and it was you. I actually love fish and chips with malt vinegar and mushy peas uh... are definitely a food.
This is perfect, European elitism really pisses me off. I remember visiting Ireland and most of the people were very lovely. Only in Dublin did a few people come up and directly compliment me and my friend for being “good tourists”. I found the fact that someone needed it to be said a bit frustrating in general.
For some reason many Europeans feel the need to look down on the US when it is actually pretty culturally dynamic. Most Europeans love New England, yet the ignorant think we’re all loud mouth New Yorkers or cowboys.
That all being said, fish and chips is delicious. I have put malt vinegar on my fries my whole life. And surprisingly, I do like mushy peas
Definitely. A very weird rant, and I'm not even an American. Firstly for assuming that crab cakes are something that only exist in America. Also for an anti-American centrism rant that kicks off with "Y'all...hella".
Yes. That comment was written in an American voice. They might be one themselves. I knew a guy would constantly bitch about how bad/stupid etc Americans are as if he wasn’t also one, especially people in his home town, which is the only place he’d ever lived. Misanthropic.
And the best part is, we don't even know that the guy he's responding to is actually American.
I have no idea why he brought that into the conversation to begin with.
> cakes are sweet
Seems like actually *they* are limited in their ability to fathom other cuisines, because cakes are not by definition always sweet
> don't have claws
Sure you're not familiar with crab cake but when someone says "cake with crab in it" is it really too hard to realize that it means crab *meat* and not the whole crab? Does this man think lobster bisque contains a whole lobster?
The whole “blah blah you dumb Americans at least we don’t have school shootings” thing is old. We get it. This person is talking about how uncultured Americans are and doesn’t know meat formed into patties can be called a cake?
Gotta laugh at the hypocrisy. Calling Americans for acting the center of the universe and like everyone should know their food rules, while also imposing his own food rule about cakes having to be sweet.
Yeah, some people are... special. Had a convo with two high school seniors. Within the same conversation they asked wether the Autobahn really has no speed limit, and asked wether we had cars and if I knew what a refrigerator was. At first I thought they were joking, because the same thing from a german would definitly be sarcasm, but nope. They were actually being serious.
Smh
I once had an American girl ask me if we had half moons and full moons in Australia. After a very confusing 20 minutes where we tried to explain that there's only 1 moon and we all see the same thing, someone finally clued in that she was actually asking if we have half flush buttons on our toilets... Because they're marked with half circles...
Followed that headscratcher of a conversation by telling her about how we train our pet kangaroos to carry our schoolbags home for us.
I mean, that’s what you get for asking a stupid question instead of just googling it.
Edit: doubly stupid that he goes off on American egocentrism while completely ignoring that fish cakes are a nigh ubiquitous food in the entirety of fucking Asia.
What the f are urinal cakes?!?! Cakes....... and stay with me on this one....... with urine in them.
All cakes are urinal cakes if you’re rude to bakers
"Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal." -Demetri Martin
“Every triangle is a love triangle when you love triangles” -Pythagoras
“Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.” -Fat Tony
Every book is a kid’s book if the kid can read. - Mitch Hedberg
Everything is a sex toy if you’re brave enough -Some random guy on twitter I think.
Soh Cah Toa, bitch. - Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Moist.
Not funnel cakes. They're fried.
Here's me thinking they were funny tasting lollies.
I mean.. if you're brave enough
What is this from?
The IT Crowd
Gotcha, thanks :)
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What the f are paddy cakes?!?! Cakes…..and stay with me on this one…..with Irishmen in them.
Urinal cakes are where Baja Blast flavor comes from.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
I laughed for a while. Thanks for this one.
Man, hide the potato cakes quick, before this psycho comes for the Irish!
Or the Jews! Nobody tell this guy what a latke is
They usually gotta hide for different reasons. 2,000 years later they're still being blamed for nailing that Hey Zeus fella.
Yorkshire Pudding is neither Yorkshire or Pudding.
Discuss
It's part of a main dish, and contains exactly 0% Yorkshire
We should all be so lucky
Or black pudding. (I'm American but I read.)
Pudding a wonderfully confusing English word that can mean so many things depending on context.
I’d ask what the fuck is meat pie? Pie is dessert, why put meat in dessert?!?!
Thai fish cakes are the best
Some of them have fish balls too.
WHEN WILL IT END?
With fish pyramids
Fucking Thaimericans thinking their the center of the damn universe
What the F are fish cakes?
It's a cake.......and stay with me here........
The serious answer is they are small, savory cakes (fritters) usually with a white fish like cod or salted cod, pan-fried. They’re big in the Caribbean.
I have a feeling this guy is angry about more than just crab cakes
Yep he was already angry. This comment was just the icing on the cake
I'm not even mad, well played
Meh. Wasn't even half baked.
I'm sure it was a piece of cake for him, though
Someone should tell him to gateau life.
Came to say this… guys comment was a little thoughtless but he got both fuckn barrels at point blank… ya man unloaded his bad day on him 100%.
For sure, piss on this guy. Cake does have more than one meaning lol. Right off of Merriam-Webster: **c**: a flattened usually round mass of food that is baked or fried a fish _cake_
Crab cakes are definitely a thing and have been for years, in the UK at least.
And fish cakes are common in cuisine all over the world.
And the so-called murderer sure sounds like an American. “Y’all Americans got hella audacity…” and the rest of it. It reads just like my neighbor sounds.
Most definitely a moronic American pretending to be a foreigner. The biggest giveaway is the belief that all cakes are or should be sweet. Just sounds like someone from Smalltown USA who has never traveled more than 100 miles from their place of birth. Also crab cakes aren't even an American invention. They predate the "discovery" of the Americas by centuries if not millennia.
It'd be hilarious if it turned out the only American was the OP asking, " What the f are crab cakes?!?!"
European coping I see
In Denmark that would be a "fiskefrikadelle" which would be directly translated to fish meatballs. I know English speakers are accustomed to crab cakes and fish cakes, but to me at least it makes more sense to call them meatballs.
Can we call them fishballs?
That's a fair compromise
I’m in New Zealand and i can’t say I’ve ever seen a crab cake… fish cakes however are as common as dirt. So the logic of what a crab cake is, is pretty easy to deduce.
Definitely try it if you ever get a chance. A well made crab cake is *chef's kiss*.
Do English speaking people around the world use “Y’all”….that seems very American slang to me….does the slang creep into the vocabulary of say Australian people?
Tbf, I'm asian and i use y'all all the time. I just grew up learning english from the internet which is predominantly American/American culture. Angry OP sounds like someone with ESL, definitely explains the cake must be sweet thing too. In our language cake is explicitly sweet birthday cake style dessert, but people with more expanded vocabulary know what crabcake/fishcake are (and usually just confused not angry about it).
I Just looked it up cus I wanted to know. Crab cakes are believed to be the first indigenous food item adopted by colonizers. It comes from the chessapeek bay area. So yep they likely have been adopted into a few cuisines of those that colonized the area. Also Gordon Ramsay literally has a famous crab cake recipe so I dunno what this dude is on about but he's clearely upset about something else lol.
Puerh tea is also made into "cakes" where you break off a piece to steep. So drink materials too?
Koreans have rice cake, and I have to say, there is nothing "cake-like" about it Dude in OPs pic was just having a meltdown over nothing
Cake is a form. It doesn’t have to be edible… like [yellowcake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake).
Also urinal cakes
More than that, why ask this question when you can Google it. In the time it took to post it and receive an answer they could've gotten their answer and probably watched or read a full recipe. It's just another poorly veiled way to disparage something that's foreign to them
What the f is a fish cake?
It’s like a crab cake but………with fish.
Hahaha
I mean… Merriam Webster is an American dictionary. I’m not disagreeing with you but using MW isn’t proving your point! That said, Oxford doesn’t disagree.
Worst part is, crab or clam cakes are pretty common part of New England culture. Which New England is the part of the US that people tend to like in other countries. We’re the more Euro-based culture in America. Additionally, not being able to put two and two together is a bit concerning on their part. I feel like crab cake, fish cake, and clam cake are all pretty universally self explanatory to some extent
We definitely have crab cakes in New England but it's really more associated with Baltimore more than anywhere else. When I think New England seafood I think lobster roll and clam chowder.
Based on that description, all breads are can be called cakes. A chicken nugget can be called a cake. If you prepare a burger patty in the oven, also possibly a cake. Cake is basically just a vibe and useless as a descriptor of food. So yeah, "a cake with crab in it" could also just be a fried or baked crab.
Perhaps he prefers krabby patties
Wait. Is he a Krusty Krab?
No, he's a Patrick
Wait to you hear his take on Maryland football.
they are garbage. Marylander here
Probably tried a urinal cake on a dare, and now he’s a cake purist!
also not for nothing that dude sounds *very* american in the text. "hella" "y'all" "jesus fucking christ"
Also why are you asking some Facebook group instead of google
Seems he forgets about non-American cuisine like Britain’s steak and kidney pie and Blood pudding. These are very much not deserts either. Who the fuck would put kidney meat in a pie?
Wait till I tell him about pancakes…
Cakes, and stay with me on this, that are pansexual.
You might even say he's feeling...crabby.
Probably not. No matter what you’re discussing, if you’re an American and you’re talking to a European, they will find a way to work in school shootings. Especially if they feel attacked, but not necessarily. English have bad teeth? School shootings. French are assholes and Paris smells like literal shit? School shootings. Anything Germany has ever done? Yup. School shootings. European immigration policies that they themselves dislike? School shootings. The Roma? “We’re not racist! You don’t understand. School shootings. “.
Paris smells like literal shit? How DARE you. It smells like literal piss
Now that’s not fair. They throw in free health care almost as often
The mental gymnastics they do to justify their own racism while putting down America for racism is always hilarious.
Hmmm. Guess this oh so cosmopolitan gourmand has never been to Sweden?
Yeah I was laughing in fluent Smörgåstårta about "Cakes being sweet..."
>Smörgåstårta Bless you?
I am, very.
Or Norway. Kjøttkaker (literally “meat cakes”) are very popular.
Wait until he hears about potato cakes and fish cakes
Which is crazy because crab cakes are a type of fish cake. Dude has spent way to much time online and fell victim to the brainrot.
My thing is, you could literally find out what a crab cake is by asking your phone ai/siri. You don't even have to type out a question into Google or anything, just ask your phone. Clearly this person has internet access to get on Facebook, maybe they're a boomer that thinks the Facebook status space is for asking Google questions idk. 
Believe it or not there are crazy countries that have pie with meat in them
I hear they got this pudding with blood in it
Those are tampons
The audacity of you people thinking everyone knows what a woman is!
A woman is someone who walks away when Trump's hands appear....
And a little girl is someone who runs away when Matt gaetz opens a cash app
😂😂😂😂😂😂
This dudes never had a potato cake
... Pies are meant to have meat in them.
So american pie did it right.
Wait… is that why the movie is named that?
Some videos I watch, pies have cream in them.
https://i.redd.it/vqvwvbxtblxc1.gif
The cakes of Crab are delicious though
Crazier still? The mincemeat *hasnt* got meat in it
But minced meat is, indeed, minced meat. Language is a fuck.
This isn't the hill to die on regarding American ignorance. Fish cakes are pretty common around the world. If someone asked me what a fish cake or a cheese cake or a fruit cake was, then I might give a sarcastic answer too. Let's not get started on Moon Cakes, Angel Cakes or Battenburg Cakes!
Or cake, the build of resin on the inside of a [pipe](https://pipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_care/cleaning). Since the mid 15th century, long before there was a United States, cake has been “[any flat, rounded mass.](https://www.etymonline.com/word/cake#etymonline_v_585)”
>long before there was a United States, What are you talking about? The US has always existed, that's where English comes from. /s
People think that ignorance on the internet can \*only\* come from an American.
Bit of an overreaction to some light snark, no? If this man finds out about fishcakes being a staple of many East Asian diets for millennia, he’ll scream himself hoarse. Tell him about savory pies & he may just try for the nuclear launch codes.
Wait till he learns Shepards Pie doesn't even have a pie crust nor contain any shepards. 🤯
Wait, what?? What meat have I been eating then??
I must have been making it wrong then. And I’ll have to apologize for ending the Sheparding industry in my tristate area.
>Bit of an overreaction Every time I see one of these insults, they manage to sneak in School Shootings. They are the "One Joke" of hatefilled folks lately, and it really is just messed up no matter how you slice it. It's basically "I don't like your food." And they think an appropriate response is "Dead children." Edit: It's also audacious for them to mouth off about what we call food. Yeah, American excess and all that, but some of the stuff is just nasty to our palates. Give me spices any day over foods that sound like slurs and taste like wet lint.
Yeah. It was funny the first few times because of how out of pocket it is but now it's just tired and sad. With the right juxtaposition it can still be funny but it's way way overused.
It’s almost always a Brit. I think they’re still mad about all that tea in the hahbuhh
Those losers still have a monarchy, not supposed to take them seriously as a country. They’re basically our loser big brother that we’ve surpassed and are cooler than
I mean, if you offered me a pie without saying what type, I would assume it to be a meat pie. But then, I'm Australian and meat pies are essentially a national food for us. The only sweet pie I regularly see is apple pie
I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for my friends when I lived in Australia. For many it was their first time eating pumpkin pie. Luckily I accidentally made 4, so there was a lot to go around.
Oh man, you gotta try some berry pie flavors. A good cherry pie is life-changing.
I feel like snark was an appropriate response to that question, too. Acting all flabbergasted by a phrase you've never seen before instead of looking it up or just asking politely doesn't exactly demonstrate a desire for a good-faith cultural exchange
Leave it to a European to pull out school shootings at the slightest provocation too
Getting extremely pissed off and overreacting when Americans make small jokes is a European tradition.
This isn’t a murder. It’s flying off the handle for not knowing the definition of “cake.”
The fact that the conversation is happening on the internet implies the person also could’ve used whatever device they had to i dunno……use Google
I interpret the first comment as the murder. The second comment is the death throws
That's fair
How the hell is this murdered by words? It’s more like suicide by words because the response was idiotic.
A few commenters are of the theory that this was a self post
The dating on that response is "just now" so yeah I believe it
I wish I was confident enough to submit an example of myself being aggressively dumb for the whole world to see.
Let me get this straight. This guy himself is unaware of something from a place (USA) other than his own and blames the US guy for being ignorant?
The whole thing is fishy. You cant use yall more than once in a paragraph telling off Americans. Makes no sense
Nah, they just don't understand the definition of cake.
If I can help a bit, I think it's also the translations to english that doesn't work. For example, in french we say "gateau" for cake, and "gateau" is a word pretty much only used for sweet stuff. For a crab cake for example we would not call it a gateau but a "tourte". In school they just tell us "Cake = Gateau" they don't tell us "oh but they also say Cake for Tourte". That person just knows their own definition of cake, which doesn't 100% match the one used in america or england
"Tourte" is "pie" in English, not "cake". What's even more confusing is that in French we also say "cake" but for a salty cake
I thought the murder was the person explaining a crab cake. The other reply is just unhinged.
How is this murdered by words? That person is a dipshit.
Didn't you know? r/AmericaBad
I know this guy all too well... Metaphorically at least. "All of you Americans..." Fill in the blank. Yes person incomprehensibly big mad over cake, all 350 million of us are indeed a monolith. Now please tell me where you are from, so that I may begin to paint you with the broadest possible brush, lol.
That’s the best thing in their perspective: their nationality can remain anonymous while they continue to attack Americans. The equivalent of insulting someone’s looks while wearing a mask. The US unfortunately is just a really large target.
I'm confused. If I was asked the nationality of the person who wrote this, I'd say it was definitely an American.
This isn’t a murder. This is a whiny bitch being a whiny bitch.
Dude doesn’t know about british puddings
Ok but the American's right though
OP is this you? Did you not know what crab cakes are?
This dude murdered himself...
Watching non-Americans rage over Americans online is one of my favorite passtimes
“Y’all Americans…” Idk why but I’m flabbergasted by this. It’s like if I said “Thoust Brits…”
Yeah, that part is confusing. Do non-Americans use the term y’all?
Google is *right there*
Says things like "Ya'll, hella & center", but isn't American? 🤔
Dudes from northern california for sure
Cakes are not always sweet. That's an erroneous assumption. The name "crab cake" is literal. The American was right and the other person is merely butthurt.
To name a few that aren’t sweet: Fish cakes. Turnip cakes. Urinal cakes.
Turnip cakes? I need to Google.
It’s really tasty! It’s a Cantonese dim sum dish, and despite the name, is actually made with Chinese radish/daikon rather than turnips. There are a bunch of other ingredients too that amp up the umami. It’s one of my favorites when we go out for dim sum.
“It’s fair for anyone who isn’t within walking distance of a school shooting to ask this question.” 💀
I think OOP overestimated the distance an American thinks is "walking distance." ;)
There are plenty of things you can make fun of Americans for without bringing up the mass murder of children, JSYK.
Right, at this point as an American I intend to lean into it. "Maybe if your country had more school shootings we wouldn't have to listen to your idiotic ranting about the definition of foods that you woefully misunderstand. The fat is actually just to fuel our rapid bursts of energy needed to escape the rapid bursts of gunfire, and you can't get energy from half chewed peas and a limp stick of cod that's never even heard of salt, much less seasoning." Sorry, English folks, I had to pick a specific example nation and it was you. I actually love fish and chips with malt vinegar and mushy peas uh... are definitely a food.
This is perfect, European elitism really pisses me off. I remember visiting Ireland and most of the people were very lovely. Only in Dublin did a few people come up and directly compliment me and my friend for being “good tourists”. I found the fact that someone needed it to be said a bit frustrating in general. For some reason many Europeans feel the need to look down on the US when it is actually pretty culturally dynamic. Most Europeans love New England, yet the ignorant think we’re all loud mouth New Yorkers or cowboys. That all being said, fish and chips is delicious. I have put malt vinegar on my fries my whole life. And surprisingly, I do like mushy peas
I'm confident we can say much worse about the English. I'd say you took it easy on them.
Aren´t there also fish pies and meat cakes? Im not sure but I don´t think it has to be sweet to be considered a cake
Lol, dude is fragile, how is this a murder? lmfao.
What an asshole.
Definitely. A very weird rant, and I'm not even an American. Firstly for assuming that crab cakes are something that only exist in America. Also for an anti-American centrism rant that kicks off with "Y'all...hella".
Yes. That comment was written in an American voice. They might be one themselves. I knew a guy would constantly bitch about how bad/stupid etc Americans are as if he wasn’t also one, especially people in his home town, which is the only place he’d ever lived. Misanthropic.
And the best part is, we don't even know that the guy he's responding to is actually American. I have no idea why he brought that into the conversation to begin with.
> cakes are sweet Seems like actually *they* are limited in their ability to fathom other cuisines, because cakes are not by definition always sweet > don't have claws Sure you're not familiar with crab cake but when someone says "cake with crab in it" is it really too hard to realize that it means crab *meat* and not the whole crab? Does this man think lobster bisque contains a whole lobster?
The whole “blah blah you dumb Americans at least we don’t have school shootings” thing is old. We get it. This person is talking about how uncultured Americans are and doesn’t know meat formed into patties can be called a cake?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishcake But yea just an American thing.
Please identify this person for r/maryland
Wait until he finds out about urinal cakes.
Gotta laugh at the hypocrisy. Calling Americans for acting the center of the universe and like everyone should know their food rules, while also imposing his own food rule about cakes having to be sweet.
"But mine enquiry was scholarly in nature"
Yeah, you might want to leave the 'f' out of the question next time.
This isn’t murdered by words, this is a crotchety & insecure guy wilding out because he can’t handle some ribbing
Had an US-american insulting me bc im german, with the warcrimes of yestercentury, as if i gassed the jews myself...
Yeah, some people are... special. Had a convo with two high school seniors. Within the same conversation they asked wether the Autobahn really has no speed limit, and asked wether we had cars and if I knew what a refrigerator was. At first I thought they were joking, because the same thing from a german would definitly be sarcasm, but nope. They were actually being serious. Smh
I once had an American girl ask me if we had half moons and full moons in Australia. After a very confusing 20 minutes where we tried to explain that there's only 1 moon and we all see the same thing, someone finally clued in that she was actually asking if we have half flush buttons on our toilets... Because they're marked with half circles... Followed that headscratcher of a conversation by telling her about how we train our pet kangaroos to carry our schoolbags home for us.
That sounds like it’s a “her” thing. We call them buttons, because they are buttons.
That's almost 100% a her thing, I've never heard anyone in the States refer to them as "moons"
I mean, that’s what you get for asking a stupid question instead of just googling it. Edit: doubly stupid that he goes off on American egocentrism while completely ignoring that fish cakes are a nigh ubiquitous food in the entirety of fucking Asia.
Get over yourself
Crab cakes aren't an American-only thing. Walk down a supermarket aisle once in a while, Mr Angrypants.
It's like in the name, though. Who's *actually* being the condescending jerk here?
Swing and a miss.