KOOL A.D. PRESENTS: A "SCREEN CAPTURE"

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A VISIT FROM AUNT BOOB: AMERICA UBER ALLES

My deutschlanding pal LLDGD hipped me to the Germanic people's own brand of Americana, primarily taking the form of America's greatest pleasure/downfall: FÖÖD!

I don't even know what this is... it provides me with the same consternation that astronauts must feel when they see Space Food.

This is from a big grocery store's "America Week." The paragraph translates to:

That's delicious! That is American food -- spicy, hearty or sugar-sweet! With McEnnedy you'll find main dishes, side dishes, and desserts in the good old American tradition. America, the land of a thousand sauces, burgers and sweets, now nearby in your Lidl store!

And features ads for such classics as:
Apparently Hamburger Sauce is different than Ketchup, which has it's own modifiers:
I think the Ketchup Barbeque would go well with these:
Elsewhere in die vaderland:

Nick The Easy Rider also makes things like "Gaucho" seasoning, popcorn-mais ("popcorn corn"), and "peanutbutter" (no translation). Also apparently Nick is a real guy, as here are some pix from his fotogalerie:
And in finality, two items that I'm surprised have yet to infiltrate the American market:
Pizza Obama - with seafood. (?)
Pizza USA - with meatsauce and feta. (!)

Ready-fried, with Curry Dip! ( :D )


Unfortauntely though, doesn't seem like Germans like everything American.

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Obama: The South Asian Angle

Sohale Siddiqi (also Hal Siddiqi) was the best friend and roommate of Barack Obama while he attended Columbia University in the early 1980s. He is identified as “Sadik” in Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father. Obama describes Saddiqi as “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana and snorted cocaine. Siddiqi was from Karachi, Pakistan and came to America from London on a tourist visa. He overstayed his visa becoming an illegal alien.

Obama and Siddiqi would go out together and enjoy the nightlife of New York City. Siddiqi claims Obama stopped using drugs when he arrived at Columbia. Obama eventually moved out when Siddiqi’s partying began to interfere with his studies. [Link]

Obama had an international circle of friends — "a real eclectic sort of group," says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India. As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis. [Source]

(Brought to my attention by SepiaMutiny.)

Not only were their wilder Indians in the 1980's, who look awesome, but our new President used to hang out with them in hood-ass apartments in New York? I've always been a fan of New York in the 70's and 80's - one of my obsessions. It's the reason books like Please Kill Me and the photography of Ricky Powell appeal to me so much. It's the reason I love the band Television. To imagine a young Obama living in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, two of the five residences Columbia lists Obama as having lived in while attending the school, in the 1980's in New York is just something else. He lived in Brooklyn before it was the cool thing to do. To imagine Obama living in the Upper West Side with a Pakistani wilder while I myself crashed many a night on the couch of two good friends in an apartment on 106th that we called "The Rat Hole" is another little way dood's brought hope into my life. And those boots are cool.

Oh and as for Sohale Soddiqi, I will find this Pakistani man and I will chat his ear off...

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