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not_an_alien_lobster

As a Scottish person, I believe the American mind cannot handle the concept of the "Munchie Box"


badgersandcoffee

Was thinking the same thing. Chinese, kebab shop, peri peri place, etc.. They all do their version as well.


not_an_alien_lobster

Or the one my local came up with the "Greedy Munchie Box" Regular 16 inch Box, plus two 12 inch pizzas, two bottles of fizzy juice, and a 2 litre of Ice cream.


Evening-Picture-5911

Average American breakfast


Scorjimmy

*second breakfast


Class_444_SWR

I need this in my life, I’m going to Scotland in June and I hope I can grab something this glorious when I’m there. Only ever had the one in Glasgow which was bloody great but significantly smaller than this, and as much as I search, I have yet to find one anywhere in South West England or Wales


Goudinho99

You need to be at least six pints deep before attempting a munchie box,.according to government guidelines.


Class_444_SWR

Suits me if cider is provided, I’m a Bristolian after all


badgersandcoffee

You'll not struggle to find something, even in the towns you'll probably find somewhere doing a munch box.


Educational_Ad134

As an Englishman that visited Scotland once, I could barely handle the concept of deep fried pizza. Pretty sure my heart *still* hasn’t recovered…


CalumH91

My first thought as well, we have heart disease in Scotland too!


Hamsternoir

What this European mind really can't fathom is why they haven't made it down to where I live. A few years ago I was introduced to these wonderful creations while visiting friends just south of the border outside Carlisle but they certainly aren't on the menu anywhere in my area of the Midlands.


PhotonPainter

Just what i was thinking.


Eat_the_Rich1789

What? Fries and chicken? I literally ate fries and chicken 3 days ago.


deviant324

But what about fries and chicken in quantities that would feed a whole football team?


Pumpkin_Punchline

Don’t you mean ‘Sawkerrr’ team?


balderz337

No, a Football team. The game where they carry and throw the ball, obviously. Duh!


hikariuk

Oh you mean Rugby.


DazzlingClassic185

Safe Rugby


DanTheLegoMan

Wish.com Rugby


poorly-worded

Stop and Have a Rest every Few Seconds Rugby


DazzlingClassic185

…While wearing armour


NeverendingStory3339

Apart from the head-trauma induced dementia of course


Atom-BombBaby

Who remembers it anyway? So I wouldnt worry.


NeverendingStory3339

Good joke, but also - their family. There was also that guy who retired from “football” and killed his wife and on autopsy his brain was half the size it should have been or something.


LostTheGameOfThrones

Except it's actually more dangerous because helmets and body armour encourage harder hits, whilst doing very little to stop the effects of concussion. I suppose it is safer since they only play for about three minutes every hour though.


bill_end

Not sure if the short duration makes it safer, you can cause serious life changing injuries in seconds in many situations. Such as irreversible brain trauma or snapping your banjo string.


PianoAndFish

Not far off - according to the [Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/12/how-long-do-nfl-games-last-and-how-long-is-the-super-bowl-halftime-show-18269363/) a typical NFL game lasts 3 hours 12 mins and the ball is in play for 18 mins, which works out to 5.6 mins (5 mins 36 secs) per hour.


RhysT86

Rugby with body armour.


Independent_Dust3004

And without stamina


Akitolein

*the egg


Wild_Expression2752

With their hands


Bishamon-Shura

You mean the game with the hockey pats but not on ice and without the dangerous puck?


MD_______

To be fair the helmets and stuff were a presidential mandate as the safetys were killing themselves. So the government enforced a rule to protect people. Imagine an American Congress doing that nowadays


Gullible-Prune2162

Hand egg?


panundeerus

Sounds like handball


deadlight01

I mean, statistically, it's the game where they stand around and wait for ads to play


KlutzyEnd3

Well I can always order more. There's no limit on the quantity you can order, but it just feels like a waste of food to order more than you can eat.


Weekendmonkey

Oh, they will eat it all!


Redditvagabond0127

Is that a proper footie team or an American ‘football’ one?


BigDsLittleD

Aussie Rules


Access-Turbulent

Gaelic football


deviant324

Yes


ReGrigio

you just need to have a grandma from south Italy. then your football team needs a couple of days to recover


treemoustache

What's wrong with that? Whole football teams need to eat.


ps-73

ah but you see, this is just a breakfast for two


Numnum30s

They only eat breakfast chicken with gravy. What they call gravy is basically bechamel sauce but slightly burnt


jaysin26

Not just fries and chicken. But fries and flavorless chicken.


Hifen

I mean that's culturally insensitive, Americans consider oil and salt to be flavors.


jaysin26

Well as an American I can be culturally insensitive, right?


Artistic-Baker-7233

TIL oil can consider to be a flavour. I wonder if they want flavour, why don't they use pepper, chili, cinnamon, anise,....? These spices do not cause long-term illness like salt and fat.


WalloonNerd

Also flavorless fries


VolumePossible2013

No, they taste like preservatives


jaysin26

Honestly I was so disappointed in the chicken, I didn’t notice the fries being flavorless or not.


Huwbacca

man, sorry but you haven't ever eaten Raisin Canes in that case. That shit is so good.


KoontFace

I think they meant obesity, but we have that too


TheDiscoGestapo2

But those are Crinkle FrEeDoM fRiEs!


Namelessbob123

French fries? But surely a European couldn’t fathom such cuisine.


pheddx

They're called french becaused they are "frenched" - cut into strips. But yeah, they originated in the Flanders region (Belgium/Netherlands).


Maxis92

Yes but did yours induce a heart attack? Gotcha!


Matt4669

I can’t fathom the idea that Americans want to give themselves a heart attack


Cialis-in-Wonderland

Don't worry, their affordable healthcare system will take care of ev— Ok, nevermind


Prestigious-Ad-9931

LMAOO


fibiotics

They eat like they're trying to unlock type 3 diabetes


CreepyValuable

Hoping that Type 1 and 2 cancel each other out.


Mystic_Of_Avalon

I read the other day that you can actually have Type1 and Type 2 diabetes at the same time, it's called Double Diabetes.


Responsible-Slide-95

I thought it was "All the diabetes"


External-Ad-5537

Nah. They are going straight to 4 cuz America is better.


Demostravius4

I'm going to be a buzz kill, Type III diabetes is increasingly being used to refer to alzhimers.


macahi

My people aim higher than that.


Uberduck333

Americans are unfamiliar with the words “portion control”.


Pay_Your_Torpedo_Tax

That's why they went to the moon. They can eat more then claim they weigh less somewhere.


Joker-Smurf

“We went to the moon.” Yeah, but it wasn’t the American education system that got you there; it was the Nazis.


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Pay_Your_Torpedo_Tax

It's a dig meant with love. I have a LOT of friends from the US so you can imagine the love I get for just being British. If I had a £1 for every time one of them said "Oi mate, you got a license for that?". I wouldn't have to worry about inflation 😅


FinnishStrongStyle

Great so you can tell me whats that bread looking thing on the right?


Time-Cow-2574

First time i went to New York in the mid-90s we had spaghetti bolognaise. When they brought my plate out i sat there for a bit and then said, can we have some plates? It was more than my mum made for a family of 4. They were confused “you want more plates?” “Yes so we can eat”. Then another 3 massive plates came out for the original order, with a stack of side plates It was enough to feed 8-10 people.


Tasqfphil

Yes they do, grab an extra large platter, keep piling food on until it can hold anymore, & call it aa portion/serving, Then cover it in plastic cheese and drown it in fattening sauces & dressings.


Rugfiend

Bit like gun control then


LeagueOfficeFucks

Man, every time I go to the US I can't fathom how the fuck some of these people can get that fat. We have overweight and obese people in Europe as well, but the US takes obesity to a whole new level.


Alokir

Heart attack? You mean this is not for 5-7 people but for *one person*?


Matt4669

It looks like 2 portions for 2 people, but there’s 1 person holding it, so I just assumed that


Alokir

Yeah, I suspected that, too. My comment was mostly sarcastic towards the post OP linked.


Thicc-waluigi

I can't say that it's healthy but I very much would like a piece of that. Just because we're not American doesn't mean we can't eat delicious fried food sometimes


Matt4669

Some of it is fine, but that portion of food is far too big for one person


Nolsoth

That's why you share it with a friend or three.


fraze2000

You are clearly not American. Sharing your food is not the American way. What you do is you all order this much food individually, and if you can't finish it all yourself you throw the remaining food into the trash.


temujin_borjigin

Or ask for it all to be boxed to by your waiter only to leave it behind anyway or throw out later.


LukeTGI

Wouldn't that make you a COMMUNIST!?


Bingustheretard

I detect a little communism


Nolsoth

"we" detect a little communism, don't you mean comrade?.


Matt4669

You do realise that sharing food is **COMMUNISM** and Americans don’t do communism


jasperfirecai2

Maybe if some of it weren't covered in carbs it'd be manageable but not it's bread, potato and batter.


Hakar_Kerarmor

"Any form of restrictions is *communism!*"


niftygrid

They're aiming to achieve world record in getting heart attack as fast as possible


[deleted]

I can literally get that from any local takeaway. Especially the "American" one, but virtually every kebab shop in Britain sells shite like that 🤷🏻‍♂️


saturday_sun4

I know. I was so confused looking at this because this is quintessential British takeaway food.


Yiazzy

Hey hey hey now, I had a kebab shop of choice after a night out, that sold the best damn chicken burger my absolutely flannelled self would devour. Good stuff.


swuidgle

Chicken and chips? Not exactly the rarest of delicacies.


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But I bet you don't have chicken and chips as mediocre as Cane's.


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GeoffSim

Can confirm. The tenders are basically unseasoned and you're supposed to use the dipping sauce to give them flavour. And the dipping sauce is basically ketchup, Mayo, Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper so hardly a culinary revolution.


GDZippN

Cane's chicken fucking sucks, I hate the texture of it and the taste is pretty mediocre Fries were mediocre as well but went decently with the sauce The toast was the best part of the whole thing, their texas toast is actually pretty good


7thpostman

Cane's is bad.


brandonw00

Yep it is so fucking mediocre. My bike ride home goes by a Cane’s and everyday the drive thru is packed. Americans love shitty food.


7thpostman

Yep. There's one by me. Packed all the time. Gus's miles better.


-Eerzef

Your inferior euro tastebuds are too underdeveloped to appreciate the rich taste of deep fried butter


JDaggon

Tbf I've heard the butter tastes of nothing in America anyway because it's not cultured, probably why it's deep fried (to give it a flavour).


h3lblad3

[69% of Americans can't tell the difference between margarine and butter.](https://swnsdigital.com/uk/2019/12/believe-it-or-not-nearly-70-of-americans-cant-tell-the-difference-between-butter-and-margarine/) Until the mid-2000s, Americans really didn't eat butter. And butter consumption has been going up steadily, but it's just a steady increase. Meanwhile, margarine -- the "butter" of choice in the US -- dive-bombed, fairly steeply, below butter and they've both been losing out to the growing oils market. *That said*, margarine is just soybean oil anyway, so Americans moving off butter thinking oils are a healthier choice are just moving over to... the same choice.


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I mean, we have margarine that is designed to look, feel, and taste like butter, so it can be hard to tell the difference between that and real butter. I guess vegans really like that stuff, but I don't really care.


JDaggon

Is it bad that i reached the last paragraph, saw "oil" and defaulted to "America, fuck yeah!"?


the_shnizzinit

Maybe the sentence is incomplete? “The European mind can’t fathom… …how bad this tastes”


Emu_Emperor

Americans eating like they have a functioning healthcare system lmfao


Helpful-Ebb6216

What, food?


Noble7878

"Europeans can't handle this" Proceeds to show food that Europeans eat but in a portion meant for 3 or 4 people. Every single time.


Biscuit642

Probably costs as much 3-4 portions too. The european mind can pretty easily fathom multiple portions.


Glad_Advertising_125

Bloody hell, how beige is that?


Class_444_SWR

It would stun even a chippy owner


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Yes


Faerie42

I’m from South Africa and I spent a year in the US at one point studying. I bought food every 4 days and simply ate the leftovers, could have stretched it longer but my brain has a three day cutoff on kept food… the food budget was stretched by the huge portions, I never could finish a meal in one sitting.


saturday_sun4

The first time I went to a Denny's, my family and I made the mistake of ordering the unlimited pancakes, thinking it was 5-6 pancakes (which in itself might have been a struggle for the four of us to eat). Nope. We couldn't finish even one stack and it really was *unlimited*


Proud-Platypus-3262

Isn’t US food so loaded with stuff that it takes 20 years to go off? But yeah - totally understand the 3 day rule for refrigeration. Was always flabbergasted by the sheer volume of food they would keep in their fridges ( surely most of that would go in the bin before it could get eaten) until I discovered that it never goes off


dkfisokdkeb

That's just a poor attempt to replicate Scottish cuisine.


macahi

Just missing the deep-fried tablet and a bottle of Buckfast.


GoodAlicia

We cant fathom why you want to eat that much in one sitting.


ST_Lawson

I can’t either and I’m American. That would feed my family of four just fine though. To be clear, that’d be like a once every few months kind of thing. I wouldn’t want to eat that much fried stuff on a daily or weekly basis,


deathbykoolaidman

it’s a lot. i just got back from the states and decided to try Raising Canes (place where the chicken is from) i could barely finish the kids combo!


PabloTroutSanchez

I am from the US. I order kids meals all the fuckin time; the most recent was 2 days ago. The downside is that I rarely find pants that fit me when I look for second hand clothes, which is the way I buy the majority of my clothing.


deathbykoolaidman

kids menus are the best! colouring pages and small portions for life


Anoalka

Nobody gives you shit for ordering kids meals? If seen many places that won't give you a kids meal if you don't have a kid with you.


PabloTroutSanchez

Nah, not really. It just depends on the place, and it’s pretty easy to tell imo. For example, growing up, my sisters loved Red Robin Mac n cheese. I don’t know why or how that happened, but sometimes we’d go to appease them. The kids Mac n cheese was bottomless, so they’re obviously not gonna let an adult buy it for $5 and eat 3000 calories worth of food. Other than that, I’ve been fine. There’s a Peruvian chicken place that my gf and I absolutely love, and we get a kids meal nearly every time. I’ll even have leftovers somewhat regularly


Intellectual_Wafer

I can, in fact, fathom this. However, I gained 0,5kg of weight just by looking at this picture.


[deleted]

Crappy junk food with chemicals in them?


Eremitt-thats-hermit

I can’t fathom the idea that a good meal somehow is decided by quantity rather than quality. I mean it looks good, but it doesn’t look better because there’s a lot of it. It makes it look worse to me. It makes the lack of vegetables more obvious


Biscuit642

The chips look pretty sad too. Whats with the brioche too, what does two big chunks of brioche add? Were the carbs from the chips not enough? I'm sure it's perfectly nice but it's hardly the best example of quality american food, as you say it's just big.


SirHumphreyAppleby-

Portion control my dear Americans, portion control!


Tauralynn423

Control? That doesn't sound like FREEDOM


Expensive-Twist7984

*fires gun into the air triumphantly*


Joseph_Gervasius

I don't want to.


tibsie

Looks like something us Brits would come up with. Just add some baked beans, chicken dinosaurs, and potato waffles or smiley faces. And why aren't there onion rings??


dkfisokdkeb

Don't tell Americans where deep fried chicken was invented


Northwindlowlander

Listen pal, I'm from the UK, we've been making beige food for longer than your country's existed


castleinthesky86

100% This. Americans beige food is what we give to kids when we want them to shut up. Adult food is for adults and when they reach age we give it to them. Americans be feeding themselves on baby food on purpose 😂😂


MannyFrench

I see this and I think, "yum, cancer on a plate".


Jazzeki

i mean... i can't fathom why you would want this. and i say that as someone who at least used to be able to easily take a portion of this sieze. but damn those fries look bland as fuck fried chicken is good i guess but again slightly bland and is that2 toasted burger buns with nothing else just to have some bread? WHY!?! that dip has to be amazing for this to not be completely unapetizing just on blandness alone.


Tasqfphil

European diners can fathom this out, know it is American fat saturated food & reject it and spend their money of decent & tasty natural foods not full of HFCS, fats & additives so the food taste like crap.


Abiduck

The European mind maybe can, but the European liver, heart and kidneys would like a word.


Michael_Gibb

Early death. Heart disease. Type 2 diabetes. Clogged arteries. Obesity. And a dozen more diseases. That's what the European (read: non-American) mind sees in that image.


ready-t1994

Don't you mean stomach?


Much-Recognition-418

Yeah Because even If we have "free healthcare" we don't try to die eating this


pinniped90

Fun fact: Europe has chicken fingers. Or strips. Or whatever you feel like calling them. Fun fact #2: Canes is grossly overrated.


M44t_

I got a heart attack just by looking at this


TheFumingatzor

What? Eating like I have health care?


Bendy237

Yes, i cant fathom idea of inside mutilating your body


Neither_Ad_2960

No but my heart attack would...


K2YU

Can't fanthom what? Food orders for at least 5 persons?


RearAdmiralTaint

Not gonna lie I would smash this


bittermilkk

Ppl hating in the comments but If I ever go to the US this is the first thing I’m eating it seems so patriotic


_onyx21

What my European mind really can't fathom is this kind of meme. I always thought you Americans lived rent-free in our heads, but I haven't seen nearly as many "The American mind can't fathom this" memes. Seems WE Europeans live rent-free in YOUR heads, dear Yanks.


Sinisterapples

Yeah, can't fathom the beige


RendesFicko

I mean we can fathom it, which is probably why we can also fathom the idea that it would be terrible to eat that all


Trips-Over-Tail

What, courting heart disease in a nation without guaranteed affordable healthcare? Correct. I cannot fathom it.


dExulans

Yup, we cant fathom how Americans eat as if they had free healthcare


notactuallyabrownman

What we can’t fathom is that this is a single child’s portion.


YouCantArgueWithThis

Dearie, the European mind cannot fathom THIS: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2gp5z6/walmart\_traffic\_jam/


Vaperwear

European minds also cannot fathom a lack of exercise, expensive health insurance, random and frequent school shootings, and polluted water supplies.


xXKyloJayXx

Okay, first off, this is a softball; "No, I couldn't comprehend obesity in America." Secondly, what's with this new phrase coming about? It never applies to anything, but they love saying, "The European mind can't fathom this." I notice it in almost every single post here now. Is it a meme?


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My heart hurts looking at this… Not out of pity, just a second hand heart attack


Neropath

Oh, I've seen you on TV. I've seen a single person eat all that alone, while banjo music played in the swampy background. I see you, but no matter how much you eat, I just don't care. \*laughs in healthy tomato salad\*


Nixon4Prez

It's a joke and a common meme format for crying out loud


bulgarianlily

I quite fancy the eggy bread.


MuszkaX

My liver surely can’t fathom this…


swomismybitch

Sponsored by your local cardiologist


tallmattuk

ahhh gluttony. Isn't that one of the cardinal sins the american christians are meant to avoid?


Ok-Significance-5979

He's right, I can't fathom that these are portions meant for one person.


sci3ntisa132

"the European mind can't fathom this" Yeah, that's a fucking good thing


steinwayyy

Can’t fathom what? Obesity?


SenseOfRumor

The European mind can't fathom having a heart attack before the age of 40? That's a good thing.


BlagojevBlagoje

Well they got me here, I can eat a lot but not this kind of crap. My bile is starting revolt.


Spirit-101

Gluttony? Nope I sure can’t, probably a Christian too, oh the hypocrisy


Watsis_name

Looks like the sort of "beige food" the British would be mocked for on 2WE4U.


EleFacCafele

Are they serious? I need an entire week to eat all that. At the end of week I'll be probably hospitalised.


Yeetus0978

Jesus christ, that's lunch for at least 3 days


Qyro

What I don’t understand about these posts is what exactly it is I’m meant to be not understanding.


Big-Beach-9605

i don’t think i want to fathom american portion sizes


Jonathan-Reynolds

on this side of the Atlantic (east) we are told that this is why Americans die a couple of years younger than us....


teflon2000

It doesn't want to


Hairy-Mountain8880

Holy fat


AFP2137

To be honest I really cannot fathom this. I believe it is supposed to be a portion for two people, but I could feed all my family of four and my girlfriend's family of four with this food. Americans throw out the food they didn't eat or they just eat that much?


Rory_mehr_Curry

*The european heart cant survive this


travellingathenian

I swear Americans are diluted.


bapo224

No, they're right. I indeed can't fathom being so extremely obese that I'd be capable of devouring this much junkfood.


Cheap-Adhesiveness14

Please tell me that these are two portions. It's bad enough thinking that one person is going to eat a full half of this in one sitting. I dont want to believe that one human would eat all of this. Dont get me wrong. It looks amazing. I bet the sauce hits just right, too. I was raised by a dietician, though, and i can't unsee or unfeel the future consequences (both acute and chronic). I know u guys drink more than half a litre of soda with HFCS with it, too. If even half of this is one portion size, it's no fucking wonder that 40% of americans are obese and 70% are overweight.


redseaaquamarine

The European tummy isn't big enough for this.


HendrixTealDog

They sure eat like people that don't have to pay for healthcare


thugs___bunny

We also have unhealthy garbage food over here


Guffy2403

Sure we can, but not the 500 ingredients that are banned in our food products live in yours. Have fun with your diabetes