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I don't know about a full on conspiracy, but it's no secret that in the US they put a lot of additional sugar into products you wouldn't think had them.
by Drakim 9mo ago
I don't know about a full on conspiracy, but it's no secret that in the US they put a lot of additional sugar into products you wouldn't think had them.
- spiderfarmer 9mo agoI was in the US for 4 weeks as a tourist, the amount of additional time and effort it takes in the US to eat healthy is mind boggling.
- nwienert 9mo agoWhere did you visit? I don't think I've ever lived in a city where it wasn't trivially easy to find healthy food in abundance.
- spiderfarmer 9mo agoEvery day another city or village in 4 different states. I won't go into everything I saw or noticed while staying there. HN doesn't like criticism of the US.
- rjdj377dhabsn 9mo agoAre you sure the difference didn't mostly come down to being a tourist in temporary accommodation vs having access to a familiar grocery store and your home kitchen?
- wtcactus 9mo agoI experienced the same, and no it isn’t. In Europe you don’t expect your bread to have added sugar, for instance. That tasted disgustingly. You also don’t normally expect sweeteners in your meat. Those sauces are also disgusting. Good beef meat (and in the USA there’s very good meat), needs only salt and maybe a bit of pepper. Not those weird sugary sauces they put in the USA. Seriously, for someone from Europe, some food in the USA is just disgusting (and it’s not due the quality of the ingredients, as those are usually very good) but due to the stuff they add on top.
- wil421 9mo agoWhat kind place were you eating at the puts sauce on steak? Are you complaining about a BBQ restaurant, they are notoriously unhealthy.
- wtcactus 9mo agoOne of those places, was a very fancy restaurant in Washington DC, with photos of presidents dining there hung on its walls. So, let’s not act like it’s not something normal there. These sugary sauces are everywhere in the USA. From low level to high level eating places.
- t-3 9mo agoPutting sauce on steak is blasphemy for a lot of people. It's not something normal unless it's the customer adding it to their own meat.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoThis is true for A1 or ketchup. If you order a steak au poivre, it’s gonna have sauce.
- t-3 9mo agoFrench food having sugary sauces has nothing to do with American food having too much sugar though, and I'd wager 99% of the US has never heard of steak au poivre. We may know of pepper steak, but that doesn't always have sauce.
- ceejayoz 9mo ago> What kind place were you eating at the puts sauce on steak? You've never had a steak au poivre or a red wine reduction? Sauce is good enough for Ruth's Chris. https://ruthschris.net/blog/choose-best-entree-complement-steak/ https://ruthschris.net/blog/choose-best-entree-complement-st...
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- oklahomasports 9mo agoAll the ingredients you get in Europe you can get in the US easily
- eru 9mo agoMost of them, sure. But I doubt all of them. Just like you can't get all the different American ingredients in Europe. Hell, you can't even get all the European ingredients in all of Europe. Good luck finding all the Danish ingredients in Italy.
- bmicraft 9mo agoTruly spoken like someone who's never been out of their region.