Loved this post at 37Signals asking “Do Americans have bad taste?” What, was that a question? Let us consider the things that America made popular:

• McDonalds – True, we all have our gross fast-food stands, but they started it.
• Walmart – Biggest retailer in the country, richest family in the world, cheapest, tackiest China-import junk you ever saw.
• Velveeta – No one had better ever criticize Vegemite again. At least Vegemite is organic.
• FOX News – Gah! The US government just came out denouncing FOX News as a wing of their Republican party, and everybody’s reaction is “Yeah, so?”
• Disneyland – Fake, cloying, saccharine, brutally capitalistic, and dumped in the middle of a slum.
• “Football” – At least that’s what they call it.
• NASCAR racing – When football is too intellectually demanding.
• Las Vegas – This, to them, is decadent and hedonistic.

We could go on, but let’s just say we stopped there. Know your market! And of course other countries have their downsides too, but Americans are number-one in tacky with a capital plastic lawn flamingo.