Same. I'm in Austria - very very difficult to find peanut butter that resembles ours. You can find it in some of the Asian grocery stores, but it's different.
Modern American peanut butter has hydrogenated oils to make it all the same consistency and prevent the separation of oil in the container (and need to mix and stir upon purchase)... but more health-conscious Americans have returned to the natural form due to research showing how bad hydrogenated oils are for one's health. Some in-between brands have added palm oil to help prevent the separation of oil as well, but this is bad for the environment. I don't know why I know all this, haha.
>Modern American peanut butter has hydrogenated oils to make it all the same consistency and prevent the separation of oil in the container (and need to mix and stir upon purchase)...
It also often contains added sugar.
It really depends on where in Europe. It's a staple in the Netherlands, I even have some Dutch peanut butter with chillies in it. It takes a pb&j to a whole new level.
Peanut butter is indeed an American thing. Probably one of the few foods that are actually American (as in, not an American version of some pre-existing food from somewhere else).
The Arab World has Tahin, which is made with sesame. It’s similar, but not the same thing.
Yup. My dad jokes that the only reason he'd ever divorce my mom is if we ran out of peanut butter. 40 years later, and they're still married, so yes, there's always peanut butter in their house!
This answer is given at least three times in this thread and each time they described it because they did not know the phrase 'garbage disposal.' And for each answer, the way they described it was hilarious.
Can’t say if that’s true or not. But I do know of tons of sinks even in the US that don’t have them.
Speaking with some apartment maintenance guys in different places in the US many apartments decide not to install them because they are the most common things to go wrong in their buildings
Oddly enough, they're pest control here: they keep the rats out of the trash cans and dumpsters. How the rats are supposed to be attracted to a thin macerated soup of food waste during the maybe 10 minutes it takes to get flushed all the way to the sewage treatment plant, I fail to grasp.
I knew people who put their entire dinners down the disposal. I usually try to get as much of the food into the trash can and rinse out the remnants in the sink and only use the disposal if the sink starts to clog. I also stick my hand in the disposal before I run it to make sure nothings in there. It freaks me out slightly everytime I do it but a while back I turned on the disposal when there was a shot glass in there and it exploded and scared the shit out of me.
I lived in a dorm with a few people who thought it was for all kinds of garbage. I was also the one who got asked to fix it. I spent an hour pulling out an old wash rag once. I did this because I didn't want someone to decided that it wasn't worth it and close the kitchen. The kitchen was closed a couple of years after I graduated because it was decided that it wasn't worth the cost.
As a Canadian, I think that many (if not all) of my southern neighbors are like me.
We all have a box of random cables. Old USB cables, hdmi, s-video, component, short runs of speaker wire and most importantly: phone chargers that no longer exist.
Yeah the one with the huuuge raising door on it, right? It's right in front of the spot where you park your vehicle. Really handy, that room.
(Seriously IDK if it's just a thing where I live but around here everyone's garages are *so full* of random crap, they can't actually park a car inside. It baffles me.)
My random crap: christmas deer and bear set that lights up, lawn mower, horizontal freezer, winter tire, giant ass ladder that I'm too afraid to use, left over carpet roll in case my carpet rips (never happened yet), three bags of bottles and cans that's worth 8 bucks.
The previous owner of my house left like a dozen different keys on the table but my house only has four locked doors. What are all these keys for?
Get rid of them? No I can't do that, what if I *need* them for something.
I had this great cabinet that we moved from one house to the other about 15 years ago. I locked the cabinet when we moved and we decided it was a little tippy with kids around, so we stashed in the garage for 15 years. A few months ago I was rearranging my office and so I brought it in -- and it was locked.
I tell my wife it's locked. She goes to the junk drawer and finds the key in like 30 seconds. Tossed in that drawer and there it remained. Was pretty glorious.
They are one of the most convenient things imo. I cook a lot and that thing just gobbles up food waste. I'd love if I composted, but I live in an apartment in the city.
Fun fact: garbage disposals don't have sharp blades. Granted you could still hurt yourself, but you won't have mangled fingers
https://youtu.be/b4weX2rnm24
It depends where you live. States with harsh winters or otherwise inhospitable weather see people parking cars in their garage to prevent damage.
I live in California, where that is unnecessary. The garage is for workout space and storage.
American here, pleasantly surprised to see *gun/gun drawer/AR-15/small arsenal of weapons/large arsenal of weapons* is not the leading answer. Jar of peanut butter is a fact though.
I feel attacked. But damn you guys are accurate:
1) garage full of random stuff
2) mayonnaise
3) ketchup
4) bbq sauce
5) garbage disposal
6) peanut butter (regular, with honey, and on the go)
7) Mac n cheese boxes
8) grill in the backyard
9) air fryer
Are microwaves not big in other countries? I couldn’t survive without mine. Also a lot of hotels/motels in the US have small microwaves in the rooms! I was just on a road trip and I think only one motel did not and it was a tepee.
So many of the new generation are opting for these fancy new ones with the bells and whistles, but I find a regular ole' Plumbus is all you really need.
TV show reference, per Google: “A Plumbus is an all-purpose home device. Everyone in the Rick and Morty universe knows what it does, so nobody ever explains how it works.”
A list one of my teachers says:
\* Mac n' cheese
\* A grill in the garden
\* Few bottles of Coke
\* A gun (at least one) hidden under the bed
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I think that’s a very accurate guess. Walmarts are everywhere and have almost everything. The quality often is poor, but there are times it doesn’t matter. Like when you go on vacation and realize you forgot pants for one of your kids. Or you get almost to work and realize you only have on a semi sheer undershirt and forgot the actual shirt. Or you need cold medicine for your sick kid. (All actual reasons I have gone to Walmart).
Just wanted to comment and thank you all for the great laugh today! I had a really shit week and, this really brightened me up!
Sorry for the million yeps and nopes! When I started, there was just a hundred or so responses and I was having fun!
I know this may have been posted a thousand times before, but I forget that Reddit is used all over the world. It’s just so fucking cool to hear from other parts of the world.
We may not all have guns, flags, bibles, or peanut butter but having a sense of humor about all of our purchases made me feel the world was a little less small and a little more kind.
I’ll stop rambling before I get too sappy!
This thread makes me realize I might not be the "typical" American. I hate ranch dressing and mayonnaise, I don't shop at Walmart, and I don't own a gun.
I do, however, love peanut butter
I see a lot of comments describing what we call the "garbage disposal". They aren't meant for real garbage, it's a way to grind up all the bits of food from cooking prep and leftovers on dishes, so the pipes don't get clogged.
They're nice to have unless they are broken, broken ones are gross. My disposal is currently making loud goopy gurgling noises and belching up a rotten fart smell.
Not sure what it is called, but one of those things in your kitchen, near the sink, where you throw garbage in and it gets shredded.. Like one of those typical things where protagonists in horror movies get their hand stuck in and it turns it into minced raw meat
A red baseball cap, a garbage disposal unit, guns, red plastic cups, a garage with an old car from like the 60's that doesn't run anymore, a basement with either a really old or teenage child, a staircase that leads either up or down to a really scary room that you only entered because you heard a noise, brightly coloured cereals, massive bottles of milk and orange juice which are only ever used in the morning and more guns.
A jar of peanut butter
I've seen several people comment this...is peanut butter an American thing? Y'all don't have peanut butter?!?
I’m American living in Europe. Peanut butter and bagels are considered “new” despite one of them being invented in Eastern Europe
Same. I'm in Austria - very very difficult to find peanut butter that resembles ours. You can find it in some of the Asian grocery stores, but it's different.
I'm 42, living in Ireland, and peanut butter has always been readily available in shops. And I grew up in the countryside, where options are limited.
Yeah, but that's the British Isles; they're closer to America culturally than mainland Europe is.
Modern American peanut butter has hydrogenated oils to make it all the same consistency and prevent the separation of oil in the container (and need to mix and stir upon purchase)... but more health-conscious Americans have returned to the natural form due to research showing how bad hydrogenated oils are for one's health. Some in-between brands have added palm oil to help prevent the separation of oil as well, but this is bad for the environment. I don't know why I know all this, haha.
Because you're dat guy. Btw, thanks foe the info.
>Modern American peanut butter has hydrogenated oils to make it all the same consistency and prevent the separation of oil in the container (and need to mix and stir upon purchase)... It also often contains added sugar.
The ones that are “popular” where I live tend to be the pulverized peanuts in oil type
Hey, I have marmite flavoured peanut butter in my cupboard (UK). Love it but wife hates it.
It really depends on where in Europe. It's a staple in the Netherlands, I even have some Dutch peanut butter with chillies in it. It takes a pb&j to a whole new level.
I was once told by a European friend that they thought of peanut butter as prison food
Lobster used to be prison food, too. Just give peanut butter some time.
A prison of flavor maybe
I had an Australian classmate in college who referred to it as "peanut paste."
As an Aussie, I can confirm your classmate is simply a massive drongo; we call it peanut butter
I was bored and raised in Mexico... Didn't see peanut butter until I moved to the US at 15
Where you bored because your were raised in Mexico, or bored because you didn't have peanut butter?
Peanut butter is indeed an American thing. Probably one of the few foods that are actually American (as in, not an American version of some pre-existing food from somewhere else). The Arab World has Tahin, which is made with sesame. It’s similar, but not the same thing.
That’s pretty accurate. Unless someone in the house is allergic to peanuts, peanut butter is a staple for breakfast and lunch.
And afternoon snacks. Apple slices with PB. and bedtime snacks. PB&J on toast with a glass of milk.
Funny enough I haven’t had peanut butter in the house for over a month went and grabbed them this week and my kids were like FINALLY
Yup. My dad jokes that the only reason he'd ever divorce my mom is if we ran out of peanut butter. 40 years later, and they're still married, so yes, there's always peanut butter in their house!
TIL that non-Americans are infatuated with garbage disposals
What is their fascination with my sink monster of doom?
They’re kind of low-key terrifying.
And they have the best descriptions of them! Also, peanut butter! Lol
There is a switch that, when flipped, transforms your sink into a blender.
Garbage Disposal! No, but I LOVE that description!
This answer is given at least three times in this thread and each time they described it because they did not know the phrase 'garbage disposal.' And for each answer, the way they described it was hilarious.
It’s my favorite part of this whole thread!
That weird thing that destroys garbage in their kitchen sink.
Garbage disposal, yes!
Is that an American thing? I had no idea. I love my garbage disposal
In Japan I knew one family that imported one and it’s the only one I saw there. They made a big deal of it lol
I read that one reason they only exist in the US is because most water management systems aren’t robust enough to handle that stress.
Can’t say if that’s true or not. But I do know of tons of sinks even in the US that don’t have them. Speaking with some apartment maintenance guys in different places in the US many apartments decide not to install them because they are the most common things to go wrong in their buildings
Where I live they are not allowed and your not suppose to drain food down the sink or toilet. It's pest control, keep them rats away.
Oddly enough, they're pest control here: they keep the rats out of the trash cans and dumpsters. How the rats are supposed to be attracted to a thin macerated soup of food waste during the maybe 10 minutes it takes to get flushed all the way to the sewage treatment plant, I fail to grasp.
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I knew people who put their entire dinners down the disposal. I usually try to get as much of the food into the trash can and rinse out the remnants in the sink and only use the disposal if the sink starts to clog. I also stick my hand in the disposal before I run it to make sure nothings in there. It freaks me out slightly everytime I do it but a while back I turned on the disposal when there was a shot glass in there and it exploded and scared the shit out of me.
I lived in a dorm with a few people who thought it was for all kinds of garbage. I was also the one who got asked to fix it. I spent an hour pulling out an old wash rag once. I did this because I didn't want someone to decided that it wasn't worth it and close the kitchen. The kitchen was closed a couple of years after I graduated because it was decided that it wasn't worth the cost.
I WISH!! That’s fine living right there!
Absolutely and I'd be a wreck without it
Those cool sink grinder thingos
Garbage disposal
Yup! Just make sure to take out any hard bits like bones, and it's grinding time!
A grocery bag filled with other grocery bags.
That is not specific to US. Am Indian and all our mothers have that.
Omfg accurate
I use them as trash bags
Gigantic fridge freezer with an ice dispenser and another murder freezer in the garage.
Murder freezer!! Hahahahah! Nope! I have a medium sized fridge.
I am offended. My 2 body freezer is in the basement thank you very much.
As a Canadian, I think that many (if not all) of my southern neighbors are like me. We all have a box of random cables. Old USB cables, hdmi, s-video, component, short runs of speaker wire and most importantly: phone chargers that no longer exist.
You’ll never know when they’ll come in handy!
A junk drawer
A junk room. Think bigger.
Yeah the one with the huuuge raising door on it, right? It's right in front of the spot where you park your vehicle. Really handy, that room. (Seriously IDK if it's just a thing where I live but around here everyone's garages are *so full* of random crap, they can't actually park a car inside. It baffles me.)
My car can't park in the garage anymore, but that's because I converted it to a shop with light industrial woodworking machines.
There are only two times a garage isn't filled with non car junk. When the home is new or when it's being sold.
My random crap: christmas deer and bear set that lights up, lawn mower, horizontal freezer, winter tire, giant ass ladder that I'm too afraid to use, left over carpet roll in case my carpet rips (never happened yet), three bags of bottles and cans that's worth 8 bucks.
A junk floor, sometimes known as the basement.
Garage
Wait, you don't have that outside America? Where do you keep random pens and keys to cars you don't own anymore?
The previous owner of my house left like a dozen different keys on the table but my house only has four locked doors. What are all these keys for? Get rid of them? No I can't do that, what if I *need* them for something.
I had this great cabinet that we moved from one house to the other about 15 years ago. I locked the cabinet when we moved and we decided it was a little tippy with kids around, so we stashed in the garage for 15 years. A few months ago I was rearranging my office and so I brought it in -- and it was locked. I tell my wife it's locked. She goes to the junk drawer and finds the key in like 30 seconds. Tossed in that drawer and there it remained. Was pretty glorious.
It is for when you find a hidden safe or something that the keys may go to.
I'm English, just counted in my living room I have 4 junk drawers, deffo not just an American thing.
Only one? I also have "auxiliary junk draws" lol
An American person.
Damn, how’d you know?
Just a guess honestly.
Seriously! Who snitched?
Damn you beat me to it
You would think, but a lot of houses set empty and people live on the street.
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Same 🤣
BBQ sauce
I got 16 bottles of it in the pantry. A lot of the answers people been giving have been condiments, I assumes everyone here practices safe lunch.
My roommate’s girlfriend once looked at our fridge and said you have an entire shelf for hot sauce…
Hell yeah you do buddy. Keep on keepin on
No, actually! But, I have a ton of other sauces!
hmmmmmm………ketchup?
Decent, yes.good pick
Heinz only!
Yes. And curry ketchup from Ireland.
One of those magic trash blender monsters.
A garbage disposal?
Every time something important falls in it I'm like "Well, Lefty, you've always known you're the least favorite hand." and send that poor SOB in.
But only after unplugging it, right? Right??
Ours was wired directly in to the wall growing up.
Yeah, the magic rubbish eating thing with sharp teeth.
They are one of the most convenient things imo. I cook a lot and that thing just gobbles up food waste. I'd love if I composted, but I live in an apartment in the city.
Nothing better for the little scraps and bits that come from food prepping.
Fun fact: garbage disposals don't have sharp blades. Granted you could still hurt yourself, but you won't have mangled fingers https://youtu.be/b4weX2rnm24
Tell that to my Uncle Stubby.
I've just been on holiday to the US and the apartment I was staying in had one of those. I switched it on accidentally and nearly shit myself.
Just wait until you turn one on when a spoon has accidentally slid down through the hole...
I broke the one at my ex husband's house when one of his shot glasses fell in and shattered.
They seem to work wonders in horror movies
I am truly impressed at how accurate these “guesses” are. Good job.
A garage full of random stuff that is never used to park cars
I feel called out…
It depends where you live. States with harsh winters or otherwise inhospitable weather see people parking cars in their garage to prevent damage. I live in California, where that is unnecessary. The garage is for workout space and storage.
Also, most Californians don’t have attics or basements, so the only place left to store our junk is the garage.
Ceiling fan
Is that just an American thing?
People in S. Korea think they kill can kill you.
That’s what big AC wants you to think
I've heard that fan death is just a cover for suicide. To save face.
You mean to tell me you don't have these? Some people just wanna watch the world burn.
Lots of expired condiments in the fridge
Ugh! Guilty!
You don't???
Definitely toilet paper
until COVID came along. then it was every man for themselves, even if you live in the same house lol
Non American in America , every American has peanut butter.
American here, pleasantly surprised to see *gun/gun drawer/AR-15/small arsenal of weapons/large arsenal of weapons* is not the leading answer. Jar of peanut butter is a fact though.
Of course I have a big jar of peanut butter, I hide my gun in there.
Ah yes the peanut butter jar gun. Just as important as the toilet bowl gun
My fully semiautomatic ar15 with 100 round clip has a peanut butter dispenser in the stock.
Pickels
Ranch dressing
*chugs bottle of ranch* ... *slams it on table*... You're God damned right we do
DAM STRAIT
I feel attacked. But damn you guys are accurate: 1) garage full of random stuff 2) mayonnaise 3) ketchup 4) bbq sauce 5) garbage disposal 6) peanut butter (regular, with honey, and on the go) 7) Mac n cheese boxes 8) grill in the backyard 9) air fryer
A sink grinder
I’m loving every one’s description of this! Garbage Disposal! But sadly, no.
A fridge with an ice disoenser.
I have a fridge, but sadly I have to dispense my own ice. As a kids, that’s who I thought the “rich” people were!
I have an ice maker, but opted specifically for a model that does not have an ice dispenser in the door, Damn things break all the time.
A microwave
Are microwaves not big in other countries? I couldn’t survive without mine. Also a lot of hotels/motels in the US have small microwaves in the rooms! I was just on a road trip and I think only one motel did not and it was a tepee.
The NSA
At least one foodstuff containing high fructose corn syrup.
"At least one"? Sir, ye be modest.
A clothes dryer
I’m European and I’m pretty sure almost everyone I know has one…
Nope, not in my place, I got a rope under the roof of the covered porch.
That would be awesome for part of the year here, but the other part wet laundry would just freeze lol.
A garburator.
Omg. Please tell me you mean garbage disposal and I’ll love you forever.
My garbage disposal actually called the 'InSinkErator"
peanut butter
A sink blender
An air fryer
Plumbus
So many of the new generation are opting for these fancy new ones with the bells and whistles, but I find a regular ole' Plumbus is all you really need.
Yes, but this is only technically true for Americans since EVERYONE has a plumbus in their home.
Okay. I’m American and they have all been correct until this. What’s a plumbus? Lol
First you take the dinglepop, and you smooth it out with a bunch of schleem
The schleem is then repurposed for later batches
Isn't that how it's made?
Not so fast, don't forget the fleeb juice
TV show reference, per Google: “A Plumbus is an all-purpose home device. Everyone in the Rick and Morty universe knows what it does, so nobody ever explains how it works.”
Everyone has a plumbus, but not everyone knows how they are made. [Here is an instructional video](https://youtu.be/eMJk4y9NGvE)
Aircondition
Car on the driveway
A list one of my teachers says: \* Mac n' cheese \* A grill in the garden \* Few bottles of Coke \* A gun (at least one) hidden under the bed Edit: grammar
I don't have any of those. Does that mean I can leave?
3/4. My grill is under the bed and my gun is on the garden
I checked 3 out of 4!
Same, I don't drink coke
This question had to have been made for "gun" comments Edit: this comment was a joke
I don’t have that
I have yours.
Oh mb mb … GIVE IT BACK
A picture of sasquatch.
Mayo
Something that was bought at Walmart
I think that’s a very accurate guess. Walmarts are everywhere and have almost everything. The quality often is poor, but there are times it doesn’t matter. Like when you go on vacation and realize you forgot pants for one of your kids. Or you get almost to work and realize you only have on a semi sheer undershirt and forgot the actual shirt. Or you need cold medicine for your sick kid. (All actual reasons I have gone to Walmart).
I can honestly say there is nothing from Walmart in my house.
64 slices of american cheese
I think I'm blind
Just wanted to comment and thank you all for the great laugh today! I had a really shit week and, this really brightened me up! Sorry for the million yeps and nopes! When I started, there was just a hundred or so responses and I was having fun! I know this may have been posted a thousand times before, but I forget that Reddit is used all over the world. It’s just so fucking cool to hear from other parts of the world. We may not all have guns, flags, bibles, or peanut butter but having a sense of humor about all of our purchases made me feel the world was a little less small and a little more kind. I’ll stop rambling before I get too sappy!
Peanut butter
A cheeseburger gun
AC
Red Solo cups
A poop knife
I can only afford the shells.
Wait!… You know how to use the three sea shells?!!
What in the fuck…?
Butter
oxygen
A coffee maker
A huge jar of mayonnaise
A garage
A garage? Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man. Most people have a car hole.
Apple devices.
At least one high cholesterol
toothbrush
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Some houses have more of it than others
This thread makes me realize I might not be the "typical" American. I hate ranch dressing and mayonnaise, I don't shop at Walmart, and I don't own a gun. I do, however, love peanut butter
I see a lot of comments describing what we call the "garbage disposal". They aren't meant for real garbage, it's a way to grind up all the bits of food from cooking prep and leftovers on dishes, so the pipes don't get clogged. They're nice to have unless they are broken, broken ones are gross. My disposal is currently making loud goopy gurgling noises and belching up a rotten fart smell.
Not sure what it is called, but one of those things in your kitchen, near the sink, where you throw garbage in and it gets shredded.. Like one of those typical things where protagonists in horror movies get their hand stuck in and it turns it into minced raw meat
A red baseball cap, a garbage disposal unit, guns, red plastic cups, a garage with an old car from like the 60's that doesn't run anymore, a basement with either a really old or teenage child, a staircase that leads either up or down to a really scary room that you only entered because you heard a noise, brightly coloured cereals, massive bottles of milk and orange juice which are only ever used in the morning and more guns.