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- Arlington, Virginia
I stumbled upon this really interesting comment in /r/AskanAmerican discussing German influences on American culture had the World Wars not marginalized it to the extent it had done.
Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below.
Are there any other diversions we might see in this scenario?
Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below.
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Oktoberfest would be as big as or bigger than St. Patrick's Day.
[*]The Green Bay Packers would use German in chants and stuff, the same way the Minnesota Vikings have a gjallarhorn and say "Skol!"
[*]Existing Midwestern food would be respected as an actual cultural variant rather than just viewed as poor-people food.
[*]Everything in America involving hotdogs would be replaced by bratwursts the way God intended.
[*]Sauerkraut would be an actual food. "Southwestern sauerkraut" would've arisen naturally by the merger of Hispanic spices and German pickling to fill the cuilnary void currently slowly being filled by kimchi.
[*]Rich fatty spreads based on braunschweiger (the American name for a type of pork liver sausage, just like how beef patties are hamburgers and hot dogs can also be called frankfruters) would be around to fill the culinary place currently occupied by guacamole. Perhaps the avocado revolution may never have happened in the first place if these had become popular.
[*]Beer cheese soup would take its place alongside lobster bisque. We'd be talking about "German cucumber salad" instead of tzatziki. "Schnitzel" would get bastardized and become a name for anything fried and breaded like fried chicken or fried fish instead of specifically the ones pounded flat.
[*]Polka would be weird, but it would be around, like mariachi.
[*]Wisconsin bar culture would spread beyond Wisconsin to encompass much of the North.
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Are there any other diversions we might see in this scenario?