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Am I the Genius?

Italians LOSE IT Over Broken Pasta… But What Makes Americans SNAP?

Am I the Genius?

amithejerk.com

Education, Self-improvement

4.6767 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

Italians can lose it over broken pasta, but what makes Americans snap?

0:06.0

Breaking Italians in front of spaghetti. Oh, okay, serious answers now.

0:10.7

Hearing a request for lemonade and delivering something carbonated. I was visiting England once

0:16.0

and asked for a soda. I'm from New York, and I meant a Coke, obviously. My British mom warned me to ask for

0:21.6

Coca-Cola, and I, at eight, insisted I knew more and asked for a soda. I got something like a

0:27.5

club soda. You know, America has a lot of different regional foods, but as an East Coast guy,

0:33.1

a cheese steak is a really simple dish, composed of shredded up steak with melted cheese on a hoagie roll.

0:39.9

It's so simple I didn't think it could be messed up. And then I traveled some. Wow, I was

0:44.9

frickin' wrong. I've seen a cheese steak made in every wrong combination it could possibly be.

0:50.1

But the worst was ordering a Philadelphia cheese steak on a cruise ship and getting an actual steak

0:54.8

with a slice of cheese melted onto it. I was completely flabbergasted. That's not a cheese steak,

1:00.9

that's just sadness on a bun. That guy on the mildly interesting Reddit who posted a picture

1:07.3

of how the creamer sank to the bottom of his coffee, but he'd put the creamer in the coffee part like some kind of wild animal.

1:14.6

Raisins in the potato salad, at least to some.

1:17.7

I'm convinced someone saw a Waldorf salad for the first time and confused the apples

1:22.0

for potatoes.

1:24.3

Low-fat cheese cheese curds.

1:26.8

I've been getting an insane number of responses to this, and thank you. I just wanted to point out that this is meant to be humorous. I'm a Chicagoan with a son in Wisconsin, and we're up there all the time.

1:36.3

Low-fat cheese curds aren't a real thing as far as I know. It's just a joke, as per the topic. Thank you again.

1:42.3

There was a guy on TikTok visiting from the UK, and they

1:45.9

went to a Mexican restaurant and just poured the salsa over the chips in the basket. That made me

1:51.6

really angry. Ketchup on your prime rib? Straight to jail. Seeing ketchup with any food that

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