Let me begin.
I proudly embrace the pizza and ranch combination, unapologetically. If this culinary choice offends your heritage, simply avert your gaze.
Let me begin.
I proudly embrace the pizza and ranch combination, unapologetically. If this culinary choice offends your heritage, simply avert your gaze.
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National parks, fuck yeah!
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I love American versions of other cuisines. New York style pizza, American sushi, etc.
By being annoying on Reddit
I love fusion cuisine.
I love when we are actually a happy mosaic, welcoming people from everywhere and letting them make their home here. All the differences they bring make the country richer in every way.
I love when we help spread freedom and stability, making tyrants afraid and strengthening people who are fighting for freedoms.
I love when we get rid of arbitrary rules that force people to live like chattel or live a lie, so that everyone can be free to live the life they want, and we foster a sense of mutual respect among equals, rather than making most people into chattel fearing the lash of cruel overseers.
I love when we invest in science, art, medicine, education, critical thinking, engineering, humanities, and good governance, innovating everywhere.
I love freedom from religion.
I love when everyone feels safe in their homes and communities.
I love when we face up to evil we have done to the planet and to other living beings, and do our best to make amends and make better systems going forward.
I love when we live up to our promise and potential.
I wish we did all of these more. I wish everyone wanted these things to be true.
Halloween! Trick or treating is a beautiful, heart warming, country-wide community event that tens of millions of people participate in every year. Other countries try, but the ways I’ve seen it done are just “go store to store in a mall and collect candy.” Or sometimes trunk or treat. Which America does as well, and its fun and good, but its not the same as going door-to-door. Its just so quaint and cute and neighborly and I love it so, so much. Also, I’ve gotten the response from non-Americans that “I would never knock on a stranger’s door in America, isn’t that how you get shot?” and I clutch my pearls SO FAST because NOT ON HALLOWEEN. 364 days of the year I might agree, but Halloween is the one day of the year when people answer their doors and trust strangers.
My love of air conditioning. No, I do not want to sweat like a pig all summer because it’s natural. No, I do not get sick going from the outside to cold inside. No, I am not uncomfortable with my house set at 68° F.
I love my SUV.
White people tacos 🌮
Shooting sports. I like to drop into a few pistol and rifle matches a year, even if I suck out loud.
Our culture. I get so tired of hearing that we have no culture.
The world consumes our movies, TV shows, pop music artists, etc. It seems that we have no culture because our culture is so ingrained around the world.
The ethos of and insuboordination and individual identity.
Ice in water. Nothing is more refreshing than an ice cold glass of water, especially on a hot day.
I love American culture! We have great movies and music, and I love our cultural value on freedom. I enjoy Americanized cusines, like tex-mx, fusion sushi, italian-american, etc. I also like that we value individuality and pursuing your own happiness. I see a lot of posts about other cultures where basically every generation is miserable, because they’re forced to do what their families want, so no one ever gets to live their lives. I’m glad our culture isn’t like that. I also like the melting pot and how we have so many cultures/races mixed in and how everyone has their own unique history/traditions, yet at the end of the day we’re all Americans.
I was in the UK the summer I was 16 and learned getting your cup refilled at a Burger King or McDonald’s was not a thing. Refills, after ive paid $4 for a soda, makes the insulting price more tolerable.
Ice and air conditioning. It’s about the only flex we have left as Americans, with this shit-show current administration. . .
I shamelessly love putting ice in every drink, even if it waters it down — it just hits different when it’s ice cold.
I do what I want! 😜
Air conditioning. Ice cubes. You’re allowed to have nice things
ice-cold drinks, air conditioning blasting, stuffing my face with tex-mex while watching a bald eagle fly over a national park — and knowing deep down that no matter how chaotic things get, i have the right to loudly complain about it. that’s the american way, baby. 🇺🇸🦅🌮❄️
S’mores, over processed sugar and fire, it’s a beautiful messy delightfully juvenile past time you have to do at Fourth of July to remember what it’s like to be a kid. That one technical challenge in GBB can huff my farts
By using a top sheet.
I proudly embrace the once strongly held belief that our Constitution protects every person, not just citizens.
Ice in my drinks!
Air conditioning inside my house!
A hot dog in my hand!
Ice cubes in clownishly oversized take out cups.
Slurpees
AC
Marksmanship sports. I participate in .22 caliber bullseye shooting matches nearly every month. Had a lot of fun shooting with the ROTC students in high school (wasn’t even in ROTC, I did intramurals because my English 4 teacher was participating and I thought it would be fun to compete against him).
Pop culture. Comic books, fiction novels, animation.
Free bathrooms and drinking fountains
Top sheets. I abhor duvet covers.
Potion sizes & take home boxes. I LOVE knowing I’m going to have a good meal or two the next day as well.
The plains tribes were bad fkn ass. They kicked the shit out of the Spanish, the French and the Mexicans at the time when they were major military powers. The only ones tougher were the Americans
I fucking love Team USA Women’s Basketball
I will be loud and friendly goddamn it, we WILL be come besties sitting next to each other in a bar or in the grocery line.
And velveeta cheese
Flavored iced tea.
As a musician, I proudly play American-made instruments only. Not because of misplaced jingoism or the emyth of exceptionalism in general, but because just there is nothing like a really finely made American acoustic gtr.
Water fountains. The world needs to get with the program and have more public water available.
When I read they had a hundred Elvis impersonators at the centennial party for the Statue of Liberty, I thought, America! Fuck yeah!!!
Also, Ben and Jerry’s chocolate chip cookie ice cream. Our sweets are NEXT LEVEL.
Cheeseburgerrs and the vision of the 14th Amendment. I’m having to cut way back on cheeseburgerrs, but I still embrace them conceptuatlly.
Thank you for reminding me to pick up ranch at the grocery store!!
I kinda hate driving everywhere, but the mental and physical capacity to just drive four hours to someplace without issue is kinda where it’s at
Country music 🫣🫢
I’m told I’m un-American by hating watermelon and apple pie.
Dressing like slobs in public!! Hell yes I’m going to Costco in a massive hoodie, sweats, and slides with socks.
Desire for free speech. No idea should be outlawed. No matter how vile I think it is.
This does not extend to threats. But any idea should be legal to express.
I smile at everyone , and I’m loud and friendly
I proudly drink Folger’s coffee.
It’s mountain grown, the richest kind.
I need a full sized pickup to properly live my best life.
I want to always be able to flush used toilet paper down the toilet.
I eat tacos every day. Nothing more Americano than a taco.
Dressing down. Shamelessly wearing sweatpants or leggings with a comfy shirt to the bank, grocery store, school, ect.
Our desserts. Does anyone make more delicious ones besides the French?
In every way. Hell yeah!
Pizza and ranch, pineapple and pizza, BBQ bacon cheeseburgers, western boots, country music. Conversely, I have a Canadian flag patch on my backpack when I travel abroad… 🤷🏻♂️
The amount of diversity, especially in larger cities. I love it when the whole “melting pot” idea comes into play here.
I think nothing of driving 8 hours in one day to get to a vacation spot, instead of paying for airfare.
Interesting question, I’ve never even thought about my American identity 🧐
There’s two measurement systems: the metric system, and the system that put a man on the moon. (I’m only half joking–I will genuinely defend Fahrenheit over Celsius any day).
I have a 4×4 pickup and a safe full of guns.
I’m also a flaming liberal.
Air conditioning. National parks
Gas in my car. Driving 3 miles to work. Ordering take out.
Edit: country music
Air conditioning apparently qualifies? I’m from southeast Texas and air conditioning is the least controversial religion down here.
Sweet tea, best acquired at barbecue places. Super strong. An insane amount of sugar. Served over ice in giant glasses.
American portion sizes. You do not want to meet me when I am hangry.
I do own firearms. I am not obsessed with them like some people are, but if you break into my house or try to mug me you will not have a good day.
I had pizza and ranch for breakfast!! Hi from California lol
2am Taco Bell drive through snacks.
Safe* ice water served for free at restaurants, often without even having to ask!
*Most places
Cargo shorts and t shirt with baseball hat with sandals on a cruise in Europe.
Bathrooms are free. Hip-hop, jazz, and country music are great. Biodiversity is second-to-none. Our entertainment industry is a juggernaut. Basketball. Taco Bell.
I like to eat cheeseburgers and fries
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Barbecue.
Nothing more needs to be said.
My accent, my huge need for personal space, my constant use of “Ope,” my urge to smile at random strangers when I walk past them even though I don’t know them or like them, my love of ranch, my need to point out every deer I see while driving. Even if I’m alone.
Putting my freshly washed clothes in the dryer rather than line drying them
I always vote. I cannot comprehend people who “just forget” or don’t even bother. People fought and died for this right.
Bought 2 guns at the same time!!
Ice, Halloween and pie. We do pie so very very well
Measuring temperature with Farenheit
Love for red meat. Cheeseburgers, steak, etc. I’m iron deficient, but still.
44 ounce icee baby
It doesn’t bother me one bit to have my toilet and bathtub in the same room. No idea why it seems to bother some other cultures (looking at you, Eastern Europe ). 👀👀 🤷♀️
I lived in China for a long time. I became homesick now and would watch American films, go to an expat bar and drink a beer and have a burger and watch a baseball game, and then follow that up with White House Down in the m movie theatre. We have pretty badass Fourth of July celebrations in our little Hutong, Beer, BBQ, and great too tunes.
We as a nation are amazing don’t let the nut jobs fuck it up.
Writers, composers, choreographers, artists, dancers, and more…
We did contribute more than cartoons and Big Macs to world culture.
Peanut butter and jelly forever!
If you want to go all-out with breakfast, you’re doing it in America. Chicken and waffles. Biscuits and gravy. Chicken fried steak. Eggs Benedict. No one else is on our level.
Bathrooms for everyone in the house. Central HVAC. Grocery stores with multiple departments.
Carrying around a reusable water bottle with me wherever I go
In-N-Out Burger
I love the fact we have actual freedom of speech and not some thin veneer where the police bangs on your door to arrest you for saying mean things on the internet.
Take out and fast casual dining. I don’t want to cook but I also don’t want to have a whole restaurant experience. Let me just grab my food and veg out on my couch.
Being friendly and neighborly to strangers
You can pry my sweet iced tea from my cold, dead, southern hands.
The 4th of July!
I don’t care who is in the office. You damn well bet I’m lighting off fireworks and being in parades.
That and cookouts.
Simone Biles
Ice cubes
I have an American flag at my front door. I won’t let that flag become a symbol that belongs to others. It’s my flag too.