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Americans are goofy af "criss cross applesauce" bitch that don't even rhyme
- Am American, I know the phrase criss cross applesauce, but have never heard it used seriously. I've always said and heard, cross legged. Years ago it was called Indian style but I haven't heard that in years.
  
  Yeah, was Indian style as a kid in the early '90s. Little kids need some mnemonic device to literally just not fly off the face of the earth, and so that was the replacement they came up with. Cross-legged just doesn't grab a kid's attention like mashed apples.
- uk we say "cross legged" or "cross leggéd" if you're feeling Shakespearean
  
  Fun fact: in Hungarian we say "Turkish sitting" (törökülés).
  
  I'm always feeling Shakespearean
- Is this a quote? I don’t understand how it doesn’t rhyme.
  
  It does in an American accent, I guess
  In my accent (UK), "cross" rhymes with "boss", and "sauce" rhymes with "horse". Pretty sure boss and horse don't rhyme.
- I need an example pronunciation of how it doesn't rhyme because the only way I can hear it in my head rhymes. I've never heard of this name for the seating method though.
  
  Cross rhymes with boss, toss, moss, loss, Ross.
  Sauce rhymes with horse, coarse, force.
  So for them to rhyme you would either have to say "crawse" or "Soss"
- I think that was the transitional terminology from when they used to tell kids to sit "indian style"
- BEHOLD FOR I (a brit) HAVE RECORDED AUDIO!
  this is why the phrase "criss cross applesauce" does not rhyme in British English. cross rhymes with boss, sauce rhymes with horse. Criss cross applesauce. (sorry for quality - I didn't realize my phone mic was such garbage)
  
  Yay vocaroo! Can someone record the same phrase in British?
- I literally has this exact conversation back when I saw this on Reddit.
  "History always repeats itself" or something.
- Rhymes in my dialect.
- We called it sitting Indian style. Idkw.

That's not true. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-photo-owl-sitting-crossed-legs-822881945319.
Cool image though and funny meme.
- Ahhh yeah you can see it, there's a bit of fluff that looks like it's the right leg going over, but it's just fluff.
  Owls are 90% fluff, so this checks out.
- You're a lot of fun!!
  
  I mean hey its important to note that its not scientifically accurate. I think its a nice meme though as it really does look like criss cross applesauce.

They are learning.
- We need to make them some prosthesic hands.

I guess I have extra big news for you: !birdsarentreal@lemmy.world
- Always remember the acronym A.V.I.A.N.:
  
  A - Birds V - Are I - Not A - Real N -

This is what they look like without feathers. Demon birds.
- I think that's a hawk.
  Owls have sausage eyes, they are fixed focal length and go back into their skulls, leaving very little room for a brain.
  Edit: with a reverse image search, it seems I'm not the first to say this. My guess is that this is just dodgy taxidermy - maybe it was an owl, but taxidermy is notoriously bad at eyes.