Oh sure.

I don’t think so; isn’t that Stone Cold Steve Austin?

I love a grilled PB+Banana. Like a grilled cheese, fried in butter. They’re fantastic!

It looks so much cooler here than it actually is!

Ahhh. Thank you.

I can’t tell what you changed!

That’s extremely interesting, thank you for sharing it!

Thanks.

They seemed like good quality and great designs, but I could never swing $30-50 for a glorified Micromachine to put on my shelf. I’m jelly of people who have them, though!

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Ezpz. 24th 2nd guesser.

Obviously a lucky and generally good first word, then a lucky guess second.

They are more “scharf”, though. It’s fun that in English we typically use “hot” to refer to both hot peppers and horseradish.

The development of processed foods in the U.S. is closely tied to the military. They funded research into more shelf-stable foods like “cheese product” and preservative laden bread. Manufacturers appreciate their products expiring more slowly as it helps out their logistics. It’s not really anyone’s goal to feed us all stabilizers and preservative, but because it’s cheaper for big companies it’s what we get. There’s not much in the way of consumer protection in this area.

Certainly there’s good chocolate, but price is a major factor at the grocery store. A big Hershey bar (the size of your hand) is $2 and a similarly-sized bar from a better manufacturer is at least $5.

We pay significant subsidies for corn farmers, but then we have to figure out what to do with way too much corn! The reason everything has corn syrup in it is because it’s cheaper than sugar. That’s also why ethanol is quite common in gasoline here even though it’s bad for fuel economy, power, and engine health.

An entirely separate issue is that we consider corn to be a vegetable, when it’s really a grain. Carbohydrates are almost all they have!

Really!? Are they not common in Germany?

I don’t know! It seems like a fun idea, though.

I do love SPAM.

Thanks for the new word: Geschmackssache!

I wouldn’t have guessed ranch! Thank you.

Thanks!

Several have said this- seems like a good bet.

Have you never tried it? It’s definitely worse, though I’d say it’s more wax like. Like everything else here, it’s made of mostly corn syrup.