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Everyday I'm stunned about the low quality food we get served in the US. Walking through a supermarket, reading labels, all processed food is too high in calori

Everyday I'm stunned about the low quality food we get served in the US. Walking through a supermarket, reading labels, all processed food is too high in calories, includes corn syrup and loads of sodium. Ever wondered why a wonder bread can stay good for 2 weeks? Yikes!

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julsonl 15y ago
Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no idea how third-world country food is like (and I grew up on one of those countries). People are tremendously lucky here, and I'm not kidding.
- thenextcorner 15y ago
  Oh, I was not being sarcastic, but you are completely right with regards to third-world country food. My apologies if my comment sounded insensitive, was not intended to do. The point I was trying to make, is that why is such a rich country as the US serving such low quality food.
  - mikecp 15y ago
    To make a profit.
  - julsonl 15y ago
    I guess quality can be relative then. I have some relatives that would purchase these high-calorie, refrigerated foods here and take them back home, and everyone would treat them as if they came from a restaurant, but I guess they're not as educated with regards to caloric intake as Americans (even though we have way lower obesity levels).
hugh3 15y ago
This is a tired complaint. In fact, one of the most tiresome things I find about America is the insistence of Americans upon complaining about how awful things are in America (despite apparently limited experience with how things are in other countries). It's some kind of mark of social status; due to the tendency of lower-middle-class Americans to be irrationally patriotic, upper-middle-class Americans feel the need to be irrationally anti-patriotic as a status marker. Anyway, the other poster is correct: while you can if you're sufficiently stupid go to an American supermarket and fill your shopping trolley with garbage, you can also get a huge variety of amazing high quality food that would be absolutely astonishing to anyone living in all but a handful of other countries, and mega-astonishing to anyone living in any time period prior to today. Your ancestors hoed fields for ten hours a day to scrape together enough nutrition to not die, and you're turning up your nose at a loaf of bread that can feed you for two days, costs the equivalent of 90 seconds' labour, and will remain edible for three whole weeks? Get some perspective! PS. Anyone thinking of replying to say that bread is evil and I should be on a paleo diet: can we just assume we've already had this conversation and get on with our days?
- marquis 15y ago
  When I visit the U.S. I love the variety that's available - it's extraordinary. Whole Foods is a carnival to me and Trader Joes.. I don't know how they do it. My U.S. friends complain about how expensive Whole Foods is, but have they shopped at the Albert Heijn in The Netherlands lately, for comparison? (not that I'm knocking Dutch cheese).

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julsonl 15y ago

Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no idea how third-world country food is like (and I grew up on one of those countries). People are tremendously lucky here, and I'm not kidding.

thenextcorner 15y ago
Oh, I was not being sarcastic, but you are completely right with regards to third-world country food. My apologies if my comment sounded insensitive, was not intended to do. The point I was trying to make, is that why is such a rich country as the US serving such low quality food.
- mikecp 15y ago
  To make a profit.
- julsonl 15y ago
  I guess quality can be relative then. I have some relatives that would purchase these high-calorie, refrigerated foods here and take them back home, and everyone would treat them as if they came from a restaurant, but I guess they're not as educated with regards to caloric intake as Americans (even though we have way lower obesity levels).

hugh3 15y ago

This is a tired complaint. In fact, one of the most tiresome things I find about America is the insistence of Americans upon complaining about how awful things are in America (despite apparently limited experience with how things are in other countries). It's some kind of mark of social status; due to the tendency of lower-middle-class Americans to be irrationally patriotic, upper-middle-class Americans feel the need to be irrationally anti-patriotic as a status marker. Anyway, the other poster is correct: while you can if you're sufficiently stupid go to an American supermarket and fill your shopping trolley with garbage, you can also get a huge variety of amazing high quality food that would be absolutely astonishing to anyone living in all but a handful of other countries, and mega-astonishing to anyone living in any time period prior to today. Your ancestors hoed fields for ten hours a day to scrape together enough nutrition to not die, and you're turning up your nose at a loaf of bread that can feed you for two days, costs the equivalent of 90 seconds' labour, and will remain edible for three whole weeks? Get some perspective! PS. Anyone thinking of replying to say that bread is evil and I should be on a paleo diet: can we just assume we've already had this conversation and get on with our days?

marquis 15y ago
When I visit the U.S. I love the variety that's available - it's extraordinary. Whole Foods is a carnival to me and Trader Joes.. I don't know how they do it. My U.S. friends complain about how expensive Whole Foods is, but have they shopped at the Albert Heijn in The Netherlands lately, for comparison? (not that I'm knocking Dutch cheese).