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The median American has access to a wider variety of global cuisine restaurants than the median French person does. On the other hand, the median French person
by School-Cotton 3y ago
The median American has access to a wider variety of global cuisine restaurants than the median French person does. On the other hand, the median French person cooks and eats better food in their home (by far).
I suspect the dispute is just because the two sides are measuring different things.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI think it has more to do with the quality of the ingredients. The quality of the average ingredient, both in taste but in wholesomeness is drastically different between the two countries. One simple example that says so much. Check out the differences in food advertising laws. In France it's illegal to advertise non wholesome foods like soda beverages to kids. It's a whole different landscape.
- davidw 3y agoYes, I lived in Italy for a number of years, and a lot of the food is not particularly complex or fancy, but starts from very high quality ingredients. Often in supermarkets, produce doesn't look perfect, but tastes great, because they optimize for taste rather than being something you can transport from LA to Minnesota in the middle of winter in a truck and still look good.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIt's not just quality of ingredients (though that is part of it); it's also culture. Southern Europeans (understood in a broad sense to include the French) are less likely to tolerate regularly eating highly processed food, takeout, fast food, etc. and much more likely to cook at home from scratch than Americans are. Of course, the distributions overlap; there are Americans who eat like the stereotypical French person, and vice versa.
- orange_joe 3y agoI've yet to find a grocery store in Europe that favorably compares to whole foods
- School-Cotton 3y agoThis doesn’t really address my point.