I think he was referring to pommes frites.
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Theyâre a food group, of course it has a day.
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Well given that potatoes have a day, I am nominating sweet potato fries for their own day. They so deserve it! So delicious.
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I like 'em all, thereâs a brand called Thrasherâs you get at the the Delaware and Maryland beaches that are quite good and lots of people donât consider it a beach trip if you donât stop at a Thrasherâs. The Brits can do them well. But yeah, a nice steak frites makes a pretty tasty meal.
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There you go again, poutine on airsâŚ
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Most Native Americans mark that day as a National Day of Mourning, and with good reason. Columbus and crew arrived with a slate of Old World diseases to which the natives had no immunity nor resistance and thus that set of a series of pandemics that wiped out approximately 60 - 80 million souls. Also, good olâ Wrong Way Chris began the ignoble American tradition of enslaving non-white people.
Knowing that, I canât think of a single reason to celebrate Columbus and the epidemic calamity his greed unleashed upon a hemisphere that was getting along quite nicely thank you for thousands of years.
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O god. There goes this thread.
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Nice one, spuddy.
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Hey, I thought it was a bit cheesy, but seeing everyoneâs reaction was just gravyâŚ
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Italian immigrants (primarily from southern Italy and Sicily) were considered not much better than ex-slaves. There are multiple cases of Italians being lynched in the late 1800s, including a mass lynching in New Orleans in 1891. Italian-Americans pushed the Columbus myth to differentiate themselves from Black Americans. The insidious power of white-supremacy pushes every ethnic group to step on each other, trying to get into the âWHITEâ category.
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Youâre just trying to get under everyoneâs skin and drive a wedge between us.
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Hey, Iâll admit it was half-baked, but I triedâŚ
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Someone needs to knock that chip off your shoulder.
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Donât crinkle your nose at me.
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Also Saint Brendanâs Day.
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Even in unanimity, the aircraft carrier of government takes a long time to execute a turn. I would guess that this will not go into effect until '22.
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It sure as heck wasnât Samsonite.
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Not so much a thread as a shoestring.
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