Northern Europe:
Southern Europe:
You can use exact same line for “Butter Europe/ Olive oil Europe” It was one of the many reasons for rise of Protestant movements because the Vatican wanted to classify butter as an indulgence, because olive oil was used for all the oils where they were. Butter was seen as gross and a sin.
Other traditional historical culinary divisions of Europe are beer/wine and white bread/dark bread (or wheat/rye).
Based vegan Vatican.
Incidentally, both not native to Europe.
Europeans taking shit from other continents and making it theirs. It feels like there’s a metaphor or something…
I just went through all the things I think Europe does well or is known for, and I can’t think of anything that doesn’t either originate somewhere else or has been made better elsewhere. With the exceptions of cars(which doomed us and is still debatable euro cars are the best), wine(depending on how you categorize Georgia), and olive oil. Someone correct me if I’m missing something
Edit: does French bread count?
Watches
Pizza
Lots of musical instruments such as piano and violin
Electronic music
Gold, while it’s unknown when and where exactly gold started to be mined the oldest artifacts found are from Bulgaria.
DemocracyBut you will struggle coming up with examples of others countries as well. There are few countries that invented something and are still the best at. So much stuff was just invented so long ago. The only county where this is somewhat easy is the US with some technology.
Ok now do America
Movies, jazz, and airplanes are still tops, even if movies are shit compared to ten years ago Hollywood is still the champ money and cultural impact wise, invention can be co-claimed by the French but the largest early exposition took place in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Ga. Boeing and Lockheed have yet to be toppled despite both having serious issues recently and there being more competition. Jazz was invented here and while it’s good elsewhere I still thing it’s better along the Mississippi. Still amongst if not the largest exporter of food too.
The US is fucked and shitty but it’s not like we don’t do anything well
Edit: added a k to the end of took
Large scale electrification, nuclear deterrents, continental cargo rail
The first and last are for sure good but I think Japan has it better on the first and Europe on the third but I could be wrong. The middle one for sure but I dunno if we can count that considering we struck first and last in the nuke race
Tomatoes are from America though
Potatoes too.
Homo sapiens also doesn’t originate from Europe.
South America specifically.
They gave us all the good stuff besides tobacco
Beer is good too, and did not come from America
No but there is a LOT of good beer in America, not the big three Bud/Miller/Coors but the microbrew scene in the US is crazy. Belgium still holds the title but the US ain’t a beer slouch.
And on the subject of hooch, while it might not be uniquely American to distill whiskey, moonshine culture is pretty distinct
Actually, America does have several whiskeys that cannot be cultivated anywhere else. Bourbon HAS to come from America, just as Scotch is from Scotland.
