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0 pointssystemvoltage5y ago0 comments

The general jab at the Americans. If I look at Europe food culture with a certain lens, I just see shitty doner kebab places in every corner and turkish grocery/meat stores that smell horrible. Obviously, that lens is cracked, tinted with biases.

Some points are valid though. Honestly, as an American, we've got some awful vegetables and tasteless food just about everywhere unless fat/sugar is added to them. Probably due to the way mass production and transportation of food goes in to the US. It wasn't like that. There is nothing wrong with our soil. I spent some time in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and Korea and the veggies are almost like they grow in your home garden. Go to a store and pick out a tomato and it is impossibly good. America has farmers markets in every city, even in some of the most impoverished cities. But that's not where the majority of the middle class goes to shop for their vegetables.

Try growing veggies in your own garden on American soil and its gonna taste amazing.

Don't worry, Asian population wants malls, walmarts, and giant grocery stores with similar tasteless food. It is happening at a massive unprecedented scale.

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gdebel5y ago

I made clear I have no anti-american views (and I don't feel like US citizens, generally speaking, are so much more open to external opinions than Europeans by the way). The problem is not related to the quality of soil or to the borders but to the fact that we humans have a recent tendency to over-engineer a very natural process : eating simple, normal, things.

pottertheotter5y ago

As an American, I absolutely agree with your original post. I find it so much more difficult to eat good food here unless I pay a ton of money. Good food is also usually the most inconvenient choice.

I also think that our obsession with work hurts us. We don't have time to slow down and cook.

smegger0015y ago

as an american i wish we had a few of their Kebab shopes and a few less Burger joints. within walking distance of my job my option for food i didn't bring myself are two Mcdonalds three other burger chain store, a taco bell, and a little ceasers pizza, there used to be a mom and pop "asian" food place but it caught fire. i would kill for a curry, shawarma, or falafel restaurant. the food available in noncoastal small town america are fastfood monoculture.

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