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> I'm not sure if you're American but take a look at the food situation here. Eating out practically anywhere is total garbage food. I'm not sure how old you a

• drewcoo 3y ago
  > I'm not sure how old you are but when I was growing up in America in the 70's, eating out meant either high-end/pricey restaurants or MacDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, or Taco Bell. I grew up in US flyover country and I remember the 70s and that's not the case. There were diners. There were mom- and pop-owned holes in the wall. There were more respectable "family restaurants" that didn't serve what was called "ethnic food" at the time but were certainly not fast food and were also reasonably priced. I remember my 15k-ish population town's one Italian restaurant and its one Chinese restaurant and the short-lived Greek place, none of them chains but all highly Americanized. Half an hour away in a nearby small city there were many more options. > Now you can get Thai, Sushi, Indian, Sichuan, and more. Those are all things we can find in the present-day equivalent of a 70s food court. They're part of the new fast food - mostly garbage.