Americans invented apple pie, and also saved it from being bad British food

[u/TeacupUmbrella]

Context: a post about how the earliest apple pie recipe we have from England had no sugar in it (since it's from the 1300s) and so they sweetened it with other fruits and such.

Yep, America invented apple pie like 400 years before America even existed, and also save it from being bad British food.

[u/SilverellaUK]

They are the number one nation for imprisoning their citizens.

[u/Viking18 → u/SilverellaUK]

Quantity of people who think angels are real and defense spending as well. Aside from that, bugger all.

[u/neilm1000 → u/Viking18]

Quantity of people who think angels are real

As an aside, over half of Icelanders believe in elves.

[u/letsgetawayfromhere → u/neilm1000]

That’s different, because elves aren’t angels (and vice versa).

[u/Available_Cod_6735 → u/letsgetawayfromhere]

And Elves are real. I saw a documentary with battles and everything

[u/kamizushi → u/Available_Cod_6735]

Yeah I think I saw that documentary. Something about a boxing ring. Or maybe some other kind of ring idk I wasn’t paying attention.

[u/auntie_eggma → u/kamizushi]

It was a fairy ring. They all really wanted to trip balls on mushrooms.

[u/DonChaote → u/auntie_eggma]

Understandable

[u/Worried-Ad-6593 → u/kamizushi]

It was king of the ring, where the elves anointed their ruler: Eoghan Härt

[u/anomalousBits → u/kamizushi]

Something about a boxing ring

RIP Shamus Young.

[u/E420CDI → u/kamizushi]

The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the Plumber

[u/Alittleholiercow → u/letsgetawayfromhere]

Plus you don't mess with the Icelandic elves.

[u/IrishViking22 → u/Alittleholiercow]

Same with Irish faeries, you never pull down a faerie tree.

[u/clusterjim → u/Alittleholiercow]

Especially with all the Trolls there too. Elves are the least to worry about.

[u/InformalHelicopter56 → u/neilm1000]

To be fair, elves are fair older than angels so I am inclined to believe them far more than angels.

[u/poop-machines → u/neilm1000]

They don't actually believe that, though, right?

It's gotta be like some tongue in cheek "oh yeah, elves are totally real".

[u/andytimms67 → u/neilm1000]

But elves are real 🧝🏻‍♀️

[u/TheCubanBaron → u/Viking18]

Privately owned guns, gun crime, knife crime, violent crime, mass shootings, school shootings

[u/ChronicBuzz187 → u/Viking18]

Come on guys, that Newsroom monologue had a few more good points about the US, lets hear it :D

[u/Misha_x86 → u/ChronicBuzz187]

They used to stand for smth. I just don't know when.

[u/X2seraphim → u/Viking18]

What you saying about angels? 😂

[u/Caddy666 → u/SilverellaUK]

yeah, but literal slavery is absolutely fine.

"The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

-source https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment

[u/StellaNavigante → u/SilverellaUK]

*El Salvador Entered the Chat*

[u/TopAngle7630 → u/SilverellaUK]

National Debt,

[u/moonlit_fores7 → u/SilverellaUK]

They hate the idea of the welfare state, but not too smart that their taxes are paying for the prison state, and subsidies given to all the private prison operators. Basic welfare support is so much cheaper than prisons and would reduce crime caused by poverty significantly

[u/No-Minimum3259 → u/moonlit_fores7]

Bu... But... That would be socialism!!!

[u/forgottenlord73 → u/SilverellaUK]

El Salvador surpassed them in the last decade on a per capita basis. Interestingly, it's one of the few times where mass incarceration did work, though the pace guarantees that a large percentage of innocent people were jailed - possibly exceeding the number of guilty jailed - and a number of political opponents are also getting thrown in for good measure, but it did go from one of the highest murder rates to one of the lowest in the world

[u/sleeplessjade → u/SilverellaUK]

And number 1 in childhood obesity.

[u/PotatoAmulet → u/SilverellaUK]

Land of the free 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🗽🦅