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FWIW The few times I was in the US I noticed a couple of things different from my country: 1. We drink water/coffee/tea all day (mostly without sugar), in the U
by teekert 8y ago
FWIW The few times I was in the US I noticed a couple of things different from my country: 1. We drink water/coffee/tea all day (mostly without sugar), in the US I see sodas constantly (ok, usually light). Also, US guests here always ask for the soda machine while we constantly offer black coffee and water. 2. Portions are huge! One cannot go home with even a trace of hunger. Whereas here, it's ok if it at least tasted nice. 3. Almost all food was sweet, have some Asian wok food? Extremely sweet chili sauce on top. 4. Unlimited refills of soda. It's nice but you drink a lot :) 5. 4 p.m. snack? Out come the pastries (sugar and flour glued together with butter)! Here we may have a cookie or some fruit among my colleagues at least. 6. Breakfast? We have yogurt with muesli or a sandwich (meaning we put a 2 micron thick slice of cheese on the bread) and perhaps a boiled egg. In the US: The smell of Fried potatoes fills the room! 7. Pizza: Have a good pizza here and the sauce is just tomatoes and some garlic. Have a US pizza (sure we also have them here) it's sugar and salt all the way. Better drink 5 glasses of water 1 hour after eating over 10 mg of salt or you will get a headache. 8. We usually cook ourselves, from fresh vegetables and meat or fish. In the US it's much more common to eat out. It's very unlikely to pile sugar and salt into a home cooked meal. 9. I haven't seen the situation in schools but one hears these "pizza is vegetable" stories from the US, here the kids only drink water in school (at least ours, it's not obligatory but parents provide the drinks and most of them get water) and a piece of fruit. During lunch they get about 2 slices of bread with meat or cheese or chocolate sprinkles (hagelslag).
At least that was my experience. Of course, I loved the burgers and after a few days of them you start to get that real craving for them. I love burgers and I love fries.