American stuff I like:
- American whaling songs of the 19th century
- Real, New England style clam chowda, followed by a perfect 1-3/8 pound Maine lobster,
the whole damned bug too, not just the tail. And quahogs stuffed with spiced cornmeal.
- Browning and Ramo machineguns of WW1 thru Vietnam era.
-
General William Tecumseh Sherman. He cracked the back of the rebel south right, not screwing
around like we are now in Iran and Afghanistan, building schools and hospitals over there on
my tax money. (Isn't it 'war' when you make enemy cities blaze like Dresden, 1945?) Sherman
did it right and they named a tank after him. He ripped up hundreds of miles of rails, burned crops,
slaughtered or commandeered any useful draft animals, destroyed industrial machinery, and fed
his armies off the enemy's food stocks, leaving them in deprivation. (Nothing new here, Napoleon
and Genghis Khan did the same thing thing.) Key quote from Maj Henry Hichcock: "... to acquaint
the
people of Georgia with the
misery which attends war..."
- The P-51 Mustang was a nice American plane, and so was the DC-3.
- Combines and large agro-machinery made by New Holland and John Deere. We feed the world.
- The Oregon Trail and its pioneers.
- 1960s American muscle cars. No catalytic converters, no delay when you punch the pedal to the floor,
6mpg, 400+ cu in engines, 400+ shp, and screw those f_cking communist greenie-weenies. VARRROOOM!!
- American-made 100% rye whiskey
- Bayou foods (boudin, andouille, almost any alligator dish) Southern BBQ styles, Texan BBQ - nuclear chili.
- The sign atop Mt. Washington mentioning the highest recorded wind speed ever:
231mph.- Casinos in Las Vegas, NV
- The 'high chaparral,' as in the landscape, not the TV show. Speaking of the TV show:
http://www.thehighchaparral.com/ David Dortort passed away over last Kumoricon...
- Composer Aaron Copeland
- American painters Eric Sloane, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth
Other Non-Asian (non-weeaboo) stuff I like:
- Austrian and German-made machine pistols, Mercedes automobiles
- French wines, especially Bordeaux, Chinon, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and Cotes du Rhone
- Swedish and Lithuanian foods. French Canadian foods and grade-D Maple syrup from Quebec
- Russian sausage, tea with a spoon of jam in it, and vanilla ice cream from the Moscow train station,
chilled with dry ice.
- Swiss optics and sewing machines
- Choral composers Ralph Vaughn Williams, Christopher Tye, and John Sheppard
- Polar explorer Roald Amundsen
- Captain Henry Hudson, and Captain James Clark Ross
- Drs. Gerhard Domagk and Josef Klarer of (Bayer AG - the comany that produced aspirin) - these
guys discovered sulfanylamides. Google 'em, and see the millions of lives they saved.
