“Complain all you want, you’ll eat that lobster and like it.”
~American Prison Guards, 19th century
As the America Fun Fact of the Day offices have previously established, very little is more American than American food. Hamburgers and Hot Dogs form delicious links on our obesity food chain, but they also allow us to show off our gastronomical creativity. Hot Dogs by themselves can’t totally destroy a bun during the course of consumption, so Chicago-Style toppings were invented. Hamburgers felt too healthy when they were just patties of ground beef on a bun, so someone decided to put cheese, bacon, and, fuck it, a fried egg on top of it.
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America is the nation that discovered bologna, and then decided to fry it and put it in sandwiches. America is the nation that, when they found out they arrived too late to discover the recipe for mayonnaise, decided the next best thing was to figure out a way to combine it with potato chips. America is a nation that realized that a butter churn can be used not only to make delicious, fattening butter, but can also be an easy way to make sexual jokes when the women of the house used it. We have a rich history with unhealthy, inexpensive foods, though we do try to forget that year long stretch back in ’07 when Rachel Ray was culturally relevant with that whole “30 Minute Meals” nonsense.
And that’s why today’s America Fun Fact of the Day is about Lobster. Nature’s accidentally delicious mistake.
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