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The distinctive features of a Tibetan fox

You can tell a lot about a culture from its grocery stores, and especially its convenience foods Picard is for people with jobs and families. They’re short on time. Picard solves by selling flash frozen foods in an extraordinary variety. But the ingredients are very different from what you’d get in the US for similar products. Take “mozzarella sticks”: Picard’s version: mozzarella 41%, wheat flour, water, green pepper 4.1%, green chile, potato starch, corn flour, salt, yeast, powdered whole egg from free range chickens, turmeric, sodium caseinate, baking powder, garlic extract, onion extract, spice extract, white vinegar, garlic A Walmart version (TGI Friday’s): Low-Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Water, Wheat Flour, Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Soybean Oil, Modified Food Starch, Contains Less than 2% of Salt, Egg Whites, Dried Garlic, Dextrose, Spices, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Nonfat Milk, Onion Powder, Caramel (Color), Paprika Extract, Sugar, Yeast, Yellow Corn Flour, Sodium Alginate, Methylcellulose; Marinara Sauce: Tomato Puree (Water, Tomato Paste), Distilled White Vinegar, Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Spices, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate as Preservatives French culture is a food culture. They need the convenience, but aren’t willing to compromise in other ways. They still want the traditional food prep techniques and ingredients. The US isn’t. A lot of Americans are fine eating what’s basically an industrially manufactured food product

Enormous rat in the NY Subway

Fnaf fans when I show them a video game movie that has actual real emotional beats in it's film and it's not just a fanservice slop fest

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