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b_b  ·  561 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong

We have a similar non-tradition tradition in the States, which is our obsession with "God" in official government stuff. We added the phrase "In God we trust" to money in 1956 and "under God" to our pledge of allegiance around the same time, but despite the fact that this is well known, if you ask any conservative they'll tell you it's always been that way.