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Food in the US is sh*t. There are great things in the US and UK( from where it comes from), but food is so wrong there. I lived some years in Japan, I enjoyed

by pipio21 10y ago

Food in the US is sh*t. There are great things in the US and UK( from where it comes from), but food is so wrong there. I lived some years in Japan, I enjoyed the food. China, not so much, but is is so big you can find anything, they have gastronomical culture that is different and you have to get used to new flavors. The US totally lacks gastronomical culture. Everything is about money, and quantity. As an Spanish that lives in Germany I am so worried about TTIP and Americans telling us(Europeans) what to eat. Their way of eating is making a big part of the population obese with arteries clogged.

venomsnake 10y ago
A nation of 300 000 000, spanning 4-5 time-zones, 5-6 climate ones and not a single person with functioning taste buds ... what a tragedy /s The blandification and sugarification in the supermarket isles does not represent everything a territory has to offer in the culinary department.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago
  But does have a tremendous effect on the food. Of course you can get good food in the US I have been to many restaurants that were both good in an absolute sense and good value. But you know that there is something wrong when children say "I can't eat this it's too sweet" which is what happened to me when I took my family with me to North Carolina for an extended business trip. In the supermarkets almost everything you can buy is heavily sweetened and seems to be designed for the most childish of tastes.
  - evgen 10y ago
    The problem here is that you do not know how to shop or find a decent restaurant. I can find truly bad food anywhere in the world, the US does not have any sort of monopoly on this.
    - hvidgaard 10y ago
      Look at the other way around. It's possible to find good food if you know good food and keep looking. That is a problem when people grow up with that, they rarely know good food, thus they cannot find it. I can guarantee you, take an average family in the US, make proper food for them for 6 months, and then server a meal that they used to eat. They will find it bland, too salty, and too sweet.
  - chris_7 10y ago
    You need to shop around the outside of the store - that's where the vegetables, fish, milk, yogurt (unsweetened greek/skyr), and eggs typically are, with a stop-by in the flour/sugar/etc. aisle when you run out of those. Alternatively, speciality stores - vegetable markets or farmer's markets, Asian/Mexican markets, etc., buy bread from a bakery, not a supermarket aisle.
    - kwhitefoot 10y ago
      Why should I have to try so hard to find good food? Why isn't it there in the supermarkets? Presumably because the customers are at least willing to buy the junk that is there.
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cylinder 10y ago
You are going to be countered by some Americans who will as usual point to some niche examples. But theres no denying that most of the market for food is terrible. Even many of those upmarket niche examples are terrible because Americans really have underdeveloped pallettes until recently.
chris_7 10y ago
I don't really get this, I've found European food to be fine, but really not any better than here in New York, especially for food that isn't native to the specific country (New York is filled with excellent restaurants for many Asian countries, even though it is obviously not in Asia). Then there's the obvious farmer's market culture here (Union Square especially is a madhouse on Saturdays), and some people do CSAs, food co-ops, etc.

by pipio21 10y ago

venomsnake 10y ago

A nation of 300 000 000, spanning 4-5 time-zones, 5-6 climate ones and not a single person with functioning taste buds ... what a tragedy /s The blandification and sugarification in the supermarket isles does not represent everything a territory has to offer in the culinary department.

kwhitefoot 10y ago
But does have a tremendous effect on the food. Of course you can get good food in the US I have been to many restaurants that were both good in an absolute sense and good value. But you know that there is something wrong when children say "I can't eat this it's too sweet" which is what happened to me when I took my family with me to North Carolina for an extended business trip. In the supermarkets almost everything you can buy is heavily sweetened and seems to be designed for the most childish of tastes.
- evgen 10y ago
  The problem here is that you do not know how to shop or find a decent restaurant. I can find truly bad food anywhere in the world, the US does not have any sort of monopoly on this.
  - hvidgaard 10y ago
    Look at the other way around. It's possible to find good food if you know good food and keep looking. That is a problem when people grow up with that, they rarely know good food, thus they cannot find it. I can guarantee you, take an average family in the US, make proper food for them for 6 months, and then server a meal that they used to eat. They will find it bland, too salty, and too sweet.
- chris_7 10y ago
  You need to shop around the outside of the store - that's where the vegetables, fish, milk, yogurt (unsweetened greek/skyr), and eggs typically are, with a stop-by in the flour/sugar/etc. aisle when you run out of those. Alternatively, speciality stores - vegetable markets or farmer's markets, Asian/Mexican markets, etc., buy bread from a bakery, not a supermarket aisle.
  - kwhitefoot 10y ago
    Why should I have to try so hard to find good food? Why isn't it there in the supermarkets? Presumably because the customers are at least willing to buy the junk that is there.
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cylinder 10y ago

You are going to be countered by some Americans who will as usual point to some niche examples. But theres no denying that most of the market for food is terrible. Even many of those upmarket niche examples are terrible because Americans really have underdeveloped pallettes until recently.

chris_7 10y ago

I don't really get this, I've found European food to be fine, but really not any better than here in New York, especially for food that isn't native to the specific country (New York is filled with excellent restaurants for many Asian countries, even though it is obviously not in Asia). Then there's the obvious farmer's market culture here (Union Square especially is a madhouse on Saturdays), and some people do CSAs, food co-ops, etc.