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I enjoy food, but only food that actually tastes good. Considering how terrible most restaurant food is where I live (Los Angeles), and from others’ cooking, I

I enjoy food, but only food that actually tastes good. Considering how terrible most restaurant food is where I live (Los Angeles), and from others’ cooking, I don’t think most people actually enjoy food or even know what it’s supposed to taste like. I think they just eat it and it makes them happy because they’ve been conditioned that way. Whenever I have the opportunity to dine at a foreign restaurant, or in a foreign country, or with someone who is simply a good cook, the food is much better. There is something wrong with America’s food. EDIT: A good example of this is Costco’s chickens. They are just a salty mess. I had a meal recently where there was some good homemade food coupled with that chicken as a disgusting centerpiece. I didn’t eat very much of it.

theshrike79 4y ago
> There is something wrong with America’s food. Most definitely. There are multiple anecdata of people coming from US to anywhere in Europe and eating whatever they can find - and still they lose weight and feel better. It's just the fact that in the EU producers need to prove their ingredients aren't harmful. In the US they just need to prove they aren't literal poison, and even that's ok if the amounts are small enough and you lobby the correct senators. Or just the fact that Subway's bread is legally considered cake in Ireland, because it has too much _sugar_ in it.