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In France, we have a name for French-door fridges, it's American fridges...
by Solortho 3y ago
In France, we have a name for French-door fridges, it's American fridges...
- ponector 3y agoAs French fries, which actually should be Belgian...
- fmajid 3y agoNope: https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/2018/08/01/37002-20180801ARTFIG00017-non-les-frites-ne-sont-pas-belges.php https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/2018/...
- NullPrefix 3y agoI enjoy American food - pizza is my favorite and Chinese would be the next best thing
- bee_rider 3y agoAmerican food is fun, we took everybody else’s food and then deep fried it. How could someone not enjoy it, right?
- saiya-jin 3y agoWhat you call 'American pizza' is basically just Italian focaccia with just more stuff on top, with very thick bland crust. Literally nobody in Europe eats pizza in such a form, not in restaurants at least, and for Italians living in Italy that would be a proper insult. Then in my experience there is simply too much on top of it, especially too much cheese, so 1/2 of US pizza is way more filling and has tons of calories compared to full one down here. I am not commenting on taste which may end up more than fine, just looks. But that thick crust adds tons of empty sugar calories to the food that originally doesn't have so much.
- glandium 3y agoThe french in french fries is about the cut (french cut, aka julienne), not the affiliation t a specific country of origin.
- Twisell 3y agoIt seem even funnier. From my research. The "side by side" standard US frige is what we call in France American fridge because it has two door and look so oversized and fancy compared to the standard fridge in france. The US "french-door fridge" take the oversizing a step further by adding a third door on the bottom of the "side by side" design. We don't even have a name for theses fridges as nobody buy theses, so I guess we'd call them big American fridge. Symmetrically EU "regular fridge" probably don't sell in the US because it's perceived as too small. An thus is probably called small/tiny fridge.
- goriloser 3y agoI wonder if EU fridges are smaller because people buy food more frequently, but in smaller quantities. Because the grocery shops are closer.
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- mewpmewp2 3y agoWhy do Americans have so big cars then? Seeing the cars was most shocking thing for me when visiting US.
- bee_rider 3y agoLower population density and bad zoning means the trip to the grocery store is farther, so you only want to go once every week or two. So, you get a bigger car, to fit more groceries and a bigger fridge for the same reason. Then, some stupid person fills their car completely with groceries, can’t see out the back window, and backs into you. So, you get a still bigger car, so they can’t possibly help but see you, and then you crash into them, and it goes back and forth until we are driving around in these land-ships.
- cassepipe 3y agoAn evolutionary arm race then Funny but it seems more complicated : https://youtu.be/oOttvpjJvAo?si=1KfRQYKZLdg4d5Bo https://youtu.be/oOttvpjJvAo?si=1KfRQYKZLdg4d5Bo
- quickthrower2 3y agoLike the “Vietnam” War
- dieulot 3y agoAmerica means “french-door” as in https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/French_door https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/French_door
- x86x87 3y agoyup. it's the doors themselves. wr took that to describe the doors on a fridge.