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“…Gas? GAS! GAAASSSSSS! MASKS ON! MASKS ON GODDAMN IT! OH GOD TOO LATE!!!!”
~Residents of Irwindale, CA
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The American Evolution Of Seasoning and Spicy Foods
Posted in America's Best Foods, America's Greatest Fun Facts
Tagged America, Candy, Capsaicin, Capsicum frutescens, chicken, chili peppers, Edmund McIlhenny, Edward Avery McIlhenny, jalapeño peppers, John Avery McIlhenny, Motel 6, Rough Riders, salt, seasonings, Spicy, Spicy Food, Sriracha, steak, Tabasco, Teddy Roosevelt
“Come on man, just put this hat in your shirt and walk out. Don’t you want to be cool like us?”
~The Cool Kids
People steal shit. If that surprises you, we’re sorry. Here are a few more doozies for you: People enjoy sex, fast food is unhealthy, and emails from strangers with a poor grasp on English asking for money tend not to have honest intentions. Welcome to the real world, junior, we play for keeps.
Yes, there many categories of theft, but the most commonly occurring one would have to be shoplifting. And in this economy, it should come as no surprise that there was a 6% increase in reported shopliftings between 2010 and 2011. Shoplifting is so rampant in this country that there is even an organization called the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, or NASP, whose sole purpose is to deter you from shoplifting while maintaining a website that doesn’t understand how color schemes work.
So when Adweek posted an article about the top 10 most shoplifted items, we were interested. Not because it is American to shoplift (it’s not) but because it’s Americans doing the shoplifting, and we secretly hoped that they were at least picking out things that fell into our definition of “Hell yes, that’s American.”
And for the most part they did. That’s why, we here at AFFotD are here to present…
AFFotD Discusses and Interprets the 10 Most Shoplifted Items of 2011
That’s a really harsh punishment. Letting everyone know you shop at Walmart. Yeesh.
“Oh great, we’re giving the machines fucking knives now?”
~John Connor
As Americans, we’re better than most people at just about everything, though Japan has us edged out in the “being weird” categories. For the longest time, Japan took their “being weird” expertise and used them to perfect the art of the Vending Machine. While Americans use vending machines for their fatty snacks, sugary drinks, and cancery-y cigarettes, Japan took one look at the concept and thought to themselves, “panties.”
And since vending machines with soiled panties isn’t quite Japanese enough, they decided to add vending machines that sell lobsters, eggs, porn and, fuck it, cars. Japan overreacted to us coming up with the idea of vending machines like we overreacted to Pearl Harbor by using Little Boy.
But, in our own small way, we may have finally caught up to the Japanese in the vending machine field. You could even say we’ve outdone them. It’s all part of this month’s…
AFFotD’s News Item of the Month: America’s Meat Vending Machine
Posted in Strange Foods
Tagged America, News It, Smart Butcher, steak, Vending Machine
“This is the most depressing list I’ve ever seen. Those poor Vegans. Please, just take a big old bite out of my flank. I want you to be happy.”
~A cow
Ever since we sent [REDACTED] on a trip into torture and madness not seen since Apocalypse Now, we’ve tried to distance ourselves from the terrifying, un-American creatures known as “Vegans.” We didn’t know much about them, but we knew they didn’t like meat, and that’s more than enough reason to hate them with every fiber of our beings. “Oh, but AFFotD, that’s blind, irrational hatred, isn’t that wrong?” you may ask, and we would retort, of course not. If we didn’t have blind, irrational hatred, we’d have settled this country by “peacefully cohabiting with the natives” and where would that leave us now? With a lot fewer casinos and a lot less stories about smallpox blankets. Could you imagine such a terrifying world? We try not to.
But after a while, we began to develop a curiosity about these soulless (we can only assume) harbingers of soy. Here’s what we knew about Vegans (through assumption). They don’t eat meat unless it comes from human babies, they don’t have souls because the only way to acquire and maintain a soul is by devouring the life force of other animals, and they never shower because if they did their white-person dreads would immediately thin out when they touch water.
“My parents eat MEAT so I think it’s WRONG. I learned that at the college that they paid for me to go to from a professor I was sleeping with.”
Well, for a while this inherent knowledge satisfied us. But, after months of not even thinking the word “Vegan” we suddenly developed a strong urge to learn about all the foods that they are not allowed to eat. This may or may not have something to do with putting trace amounts of cow’s blood in the water supply and then buying billboard space that says, “HEY VEGANS! HOW’S THE COW’S BLOOD TASTE? IT’S IN YOUR FUCKING WATER, HIPPIES!”
God, the look on their faces is going to be priceless. Well, time for us to get formal, and focus on…
Foods of Enjoyment (Ignored by Dastardly Vegans)
“Meat: It’s totally worth killing for.”
The following is a list of foods that Vegans can’t eat. It’s not comprehensive, but it is comprehensive as far as things that Americans need. And we’re not exaggerating here. If an American goes a month without eating any of the following food and drink items, they turn into a male Chinese government official. Even our women. All Vegans are secretly Chinese government officials, is what we’re trying to say.
Posted in America's Greatest Fun Facts
Tagged America, beer and wine, Bees, broth, dairy, honey, lobster, seafood, steak, Vegan, what a vegan can eat
“Goddamn it Japan, you’re DOING IT WRONG!”
~America Fun Fact of the Day
Every once in a while, the man who we hired to read news stories out loud to us (because…reading? Eww) comes across something shocking, disturbing, and downright terrifying. We don’t know what these stories are going to be, but we have expectations for worst case scenarios. For example, there could be a report about state banning liquor. Maybe an article about people turning poop into beef. Or, God forbid, a story about parasites live in potato chips and cause your face to melt.
Of course, we never run into anything like…wait. What?
…No…
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Oh God no, no nooooooooo.
Don’t make us do it… Don’t make us make this…
AFFotD’s News Item of the Month
Posted in Japan
Tagged AFFotD News Item of the Month, AFFotD News of the Month, AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, America, Japan, Kobe Beef, poop steak, steak
“Seriously, are you guys going out of your way to find articles like this just to piss me off?”
~Johnny Roosevelt, AFFotD Editor-in-Chief
Other publications pretend to know what’s “American” (COUGH FORTUNE MAGAZINE COUGH), and they generally have distressing views on what they feel makes this country great. Rarely is whiskey mentioned, knife fighting is virtually nonexistent, and C. Dale Petersen as always remains below the radar (which, to be fair, is how he prefers it). But it’s not every day that we stumble across an article that leaves us convinced that it is an act of sabotage against the American way of awesomeness. An article that is so inconceivably un-American that to call it “Why America is Still a Great Place to Live: Thirteen Things I Love About this Country” is more insulting to us than watching someone take a piss on the National Monument. But here we have Mike Adams, who goes by the name “The Health Ranger,” deciding to tell us what’s great about America for a site called…Natural News? Just take a look at all the things that are wrong about this picture.
First of all…nature? Fuck nature. How many times do we have to say that? Plus, the site has more half-assed ads for questionable products meant to rip you off than a Scientology phone book. But look in the top left corner (wait…shit, which one is left…Make the L’s, make the L’s with your hands) yeah, the top left corner. Do you see what we see? CHINESE!? SPIES! THEY’RE SPIES! When we’re all stuck speaking Chinese in 2035, you can blame Natural News for paving the way.
So right off the bat, we have some concerns. Plus, everything is green, but it’s that “Save mother Gaia” bullshit shade of green, not that “Money, bitches!” shade of green. Besides, the title seems to imply that there’s something wrong with loving America. Why did he throw the word “still” in there? It should be “Why America is a Great Place to Live” with a picture of someone doing push-ups with one hand while chugging a beer. We…hesitantly began reading the article, even though the author sort of looks like Lance Armstrong if he had been born in Wisconsin and once got out of date rape charges.
“Ha ha! Plausible Deniability!”
Posted in America's Greatest Fun Facts, China
Tagged America, Boobs, Bourbon, C. Dale Petersen, Canada, China, Flamethrowers, Fortune Magazine, Freedom of Speech, Fuck Nature, Hamburgers, Hollywood, hot dogs, Johnny Roosevelt, Kill Bill, knife fighting, Lance Armstrong, Michael Bay is a Hack, Mike Adams, National Monument, Natural News, Red Dawn, Schindler's List, steak, Steven Spielberg, Teddy Roosevelt, The Health Ranger, There Will Be Blood, Ulysses S. Grant, Whiskey
“No, anything but this assignment. ANYTHING BUT THIS ASSIGNMENT!”
~REDACTED
As journalists, we take our duty to the public very seriously. This nation has over 300 million residents, and not all of them understand the American nature of chugging a beer after dropping a hot dog into it (we call it dog bombing, and it requires a relaxed esophagus and a particular blindness to shame.) So sometimes, we have to rub elbows with those that operate outside our rules. Those that shun hot dogs, hamburgers, steak even. To really get inside the heads of those that spurn these things that are so inherently American, we needed to do a little investigative journalism. Much like Nellie Bly risked torture to uncover the evils of the mental health system in the 1800’s, Gunter Wallraff spent two years to uncover the human rights violation against immigrants in Germany, and Larry David smuggled himself onto the set of Hannah Montana to discover Billy Ray Cyrus’ evil sex dungeon, our investigators were required to go above and beyond the call of duty.
That’s right. We sent someone into the Dragon’s Lair. We sent someone…to a vegan restaurant.
Truly…the thing of our nightmares
And now, for the shocking truth behind a restaurant that dares not to serve meat…eggs…or cheese, here is the report from our Undercover reporter, whose name has been redacted so that his family would not leave him upon discovering he had consumed food that never took advantage of an animal at any point in it’s preparation. Here is his shocking tale.
Posted in America's Greatest Fun Facts, [REDACTED]
Tagged America, Chasing Amy, chicken, chorizo, Dogma, french onion soup, Fuck Nature, Hamburger, Hooters, hot dogs, Kevin Smith, steak, Vegan, White Castle
“Oh my God, this steak is so good I can taste it’s soul.”
~Ted Turner
There’s an old story that we at the America Fun Fact of the Day offices like to tell to really amp us up. And by “old story” we mean “a heritage myth we stole from some Indians and tinkered with, because, you know, America.” It talks of the Bear and the Cow. The Bear was the most feared animal in the forest, able to rule the forest mercilessly, this being before the existence of C. Dale Petersen. All animals fled his path, and hunters to him were like hot dogs inside orange-vest hot dog buns. Brother Bear knew no fear, and had never experienced pain. Then, one day, there was a cow stampede in the forest. These fat cows, lumbering, came in such great numbers that Bear had to climb a tree to evade them, only to look down in despair to see his youngest cub directly in the path of the oncoming bovine charge (Bear was sort of a shitty parent, to be fair). Right as the Bear grimaced, preparing for the death of his child, Brother Cow stopped in his tracks, directly in front of Bear’s cub. The rest of the herd ambled past, and when the dust settled, Cow stood in front of the cub, and in his mouth was a blade of grass, which he gave to the cub. Brother Bear was so relieved that he climbed down, and said to Brother Cow, “You have saved my own dearest child. Thank you, Cow, you truly are a noble creature.”
Brother Bear and his cub then ate the shit out of that Cow, because steak is fucking delicious.
Posted in America's Greatest Fun Facts, Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Steaks
Tagged America, Cows, Medium Rare, Medium Well, Rare, steak, Well Done
America Fun Fact of the Day 