You may not care, and that's fine, but > every ingredient imaginable available globally is utterly false. My wife and I have been traveling in Europe for the

You may not care, and that's fine, but > every ingredient imaginable available globally is utterly false. My wife and I have been traveling in Europe for the last couple of weeks. We've had maybe three or four meals in restaurants, and mostly gone to grocery stores and cooked in our Airbnbs. The array of (only) locally-available breads, pastries, meats, cheeses, wines, yoghurts - heck, even breakfast cereals - is incredible, and of fantastic quality. We just traveled <100 miles, and are sad we can't find our favorite cheese from the last spot (the visually-similar one here is a pale reflection), but the sausages we bought last night were outstanding. Virtually none of what we've bought are anything we've seen before - like, there are global-commodity brands, too, but we're avoiding them: trying new things is the point of traveling! By the way, very little of this is in speciality shops, and none of it comes at a high price. We're going to normal-people shops (boulangeries in France count as normal-people shops) - even some of them chain stores - and paying way less for groceries than we would in the US. (Seriously, way, way less - even before adjusting for the "nice-cheese premium" at Whole Foods, or wherever.) Again: if you don't like trying new foods, it's fine. I'm not trying to change your mind. It's just, fuck off with your ignorant opinions about how the world works, and the judgemental attitude about what other people enjoy doing.