> The reality of food in America, outside of a few high-status neighborhoods scattered around the US, is that most people don’t prioritize the varied experience

> The reality of food in America, outside of a few high-status neighborhoods scattered around the US, is that most people don’t prioritize the varied experiences of eating at a diversity of bespoke restaurants, and so the median food eaten in the US is not from some well reviewed Indonesian place on the Upper East Side, or from that really cool Bolivian place in Alexandria. Okay, but like the median food eaten in France is not fresh baguettes and pate either. So then this is still not a fair comparison. But I think there is largely some truth that the US mostly inherited a Northern European food culture that valued utilitarian foods that preserve well. The idea of getting fresh groceries every day to Americans is pretty abhorrent.