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What's a traditional American food everyone seems to love but you don't? (startrek.website)
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Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who does not like ranch flavoring. To a lesser degree, I don't like apple pie either. Like, if I was served a slice of apple pie and courtesy required me to at least eat a few bites, I would. But I would absolutely not if it was a dish, say, covered in ranch dressing.

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[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hamburgers. Sure, with the right toppings they're OK but the fundamentals of bread and ground beef are just not very interesting. I don't get the obsession.

[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

They don't excite me that much today, but I remember really liking them as a kid, so might be familiarity breeding contempt.

I think that one selling point is in the "fast food" role. They're the one of the few foods that at least vaguely approximates a meal

like, meat, carbs, some vegetable

that you can get at pretty much any hour in a lot of the US. Always some sort of burger joint pretty much anywhere there are more than a few people living together.

Compact, easy to eat without utensils or plate, fast to eat.