Do you feel American food gets an unfairly bad rep?

[KostasKouvalis]

I recently saw an Instagram post where some European was complaining that they'd never seen so many fast food places per square mile and so much food preservatives.

First of all, American food isn't just fast food, and no one's forcing you to eat it. Secondly, yes, we use a lot of preservatives because many Americans have to drive far to buy groceries, so they will maybe go at most once a week, so we need to put preservatives in our food so it doesn't spoil quickly. But people are missing the bigger picture, in that health doesn't necessarily equate to taste.

And on the flip side, I also recently saw a post from some FRENCH of all people, who ranked the USA number 1 for food and said their favorite thing about the US was the food, because of the wide variety. This is what me and my dad have been saying too.

If you're in the mood for Curry, you can get it. If you're in the mood for a shwarma, you can get it. If you're in the mood for Chow Mein, Jerk Chicken or Tacos al Pastor, you can get those too. And if you want something more traditional like a fat juicy steak or Southern style BBQ, we have that too. Name me another country where you can get such a wide range of cuisines from around the world.

Especially as a tourist, you won't become a fatass from dining on our food for a couple weeks.

Also, this may be an unpopular opinion, but I've found from my personal experience, that more often than not, the American versions of ethnic foods are much better than the originals. Also, our portions here are so large.

[alice55]

Well a lot of américain good taste good in my opinion but in Europe we only know cajun chicken / spices bbq and fast food with muffins cookie and brownie

so the food we know is unhealthy and preservatives is extremely dangerous to the health its not joke i try my best to avoid it as much as I can pesonally. And most european have actually no interest at all in America so they know only the stéréotype most French don’t Even speak English were the worst ah it with the italian and there's also nationalism and proudness about food plus dark / sarcastique humour meaning that Even if they find the food good they re still gonna shit on it just for fun.
but they don’t actually mean it, it’s such a popular things to say rude things here but not mean them. Part of the Charms i guess 😹🤷‍♀️

true American version is often better but cause America is a riche countries so people could améliorante their récipé with their weathl to make it tastier like more méat in italian American dishes which is better nothing beat American bolognse the real version Is not amazing it’s good but it’s a ragu so not what i want.

[KostasKouvalis]

I don't know. The French despite their reputation seem more open minded and appreciative about foods than other Europeans. Italians are by far the worst! There was an Italian girl on here, I completely trashed her country and people, and the one thing she got triggered about was me trashing their food🤣
My mom is kind of like this though. She thinks Polish food is the greatest thing ever invented and everything else is weird and gross.

Pretty much

[alice55]

Well like I said if you see mean French comment about American food it’s just joke cause French love joking about people stéréotypes.
Yes italian are the worst for the food and while a lot of stuff are good a lot of their food is not amazing either and are pretty bland 😹
Or their cake are so dry 🤡
A lot of people are like that with their food

[KostasKouvalis]

It's so cheap and boring. It was peasant and working class food.
Yeah, we tried some cake there and weren't impressed.

[alice55]

True
Well italy was always an extremely poor countries and Even nowadays the south is very poor unlike the north, for so many years a political italian party said they needed to cut the country in half cause the south was a brunch of lazy ass a lot of north en italian (at least in the 2000s) and before were racist against southerner there's Even a movie about a north italian man going in the south and not wanting to 😹

The cake are extremely bad there

[KostasKouvalis]

I went to the north, center and south so I know. They say the futher south you go the shittier it gets, and then there's Sicily🤣

The interesting thing is that like in the US, the poor areas are conservative and the rich areas are liberal.

I describe Rome as a first world city with third world people😂

The food in the north is better because they eat more meat

Didn't you say yourself dream was to eat Pasta Bolognese in Venice?

[alice55]

Yes 😹
Sicily is know for mafia and agrumes
Same in every country

Well sometime they don’t Even pick up the trash h off the street so 🤡

I prefer the south more olive oil and pasta the north have heavy cream, polenta and red meat good but bad for the health and make you fat

Yes but that was when I was a child I still want to go during the carnaval cause its so pretty there but the food is gonna be so exoensive 🤡😺

[KostasKouvalis]

I don't know if it still is, but a while ago, Catania was ranked as the most dangerous city in Europe. Some YouTuber got robbed there at gun point outside his hotel. My dad wanted to send me and my mom there, but that was before we knew it was so dangerous, and everyone says half the Sicilian population are legit psychos, so I don't know if I want to go there now. Mainland Italians are already crazy and Sicilians from what I heard are even crazier!

I know. What surprises me most about Romans is they're so proud and defensive of their city, yet they deface it with trash and grafitee. We saw grafitee in places that are really difficult to get to.

Oh, you're talking about food. Yeah. I hate red meat. My meat needs to be well done or at least medium well.

Oh, you posted about it a while ago. I didn't wanna say anything, but that would be an expensive and crappy meal. You can still eat it there, but off the main tourist areas.

Yeah, I've seen the Carnival. It looks cool, but weather is bad that time of the year. I always wanted to see the Carnival in the Caribbean, but now I don't think I would, because it's expensive and crowded. And I saw a culture show in Aruba that had a Carnival performance, so it's close enough.
I'd love to see Cajun Mardis Gras though. Not the Mardis Gras in New Orleans, but the true Cajun Mardis.

Yeah, Venice is already expensive to begin with. I wanted to stay in Venice instead of Rome, but it was so expensive, so we only stayed one night. Food, you can find cheaper stuff off the tourist streets, but transportation is expensive and accommodations in the Old Town are expensive.

[purplepoppy]

In Europe if you go to an American restaurant it's usually just a glorified burger joint with tacky decorations on the wall. You'll pay silly money for a few ribs and a basket of oven chips. You can get exactly the same thing for a fraction of the price in any tavern.

I'm sure the USA produces good food but apart from the above we just dont see the variation on offer here.

[KostasKouvalis]

I think your McDonald's is better than ours though

[purplepoppy]

Nah trust me our macdonalds are shit.

[KostasKouvalis]

I haven't tried yours, but I'm not surprised considering your country isn't exactly famous for it's food

[AI Opinion]

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[DryGermanGuy]

No. Its majority is highly processed industrial food full of sugar, fat and sodium, the qualitatively good minority is to be paid in high "deli-prices".

[KostasKouvalis]

But does it TASTE good?

[DryGermanGuy]

The few products I tried so far, I didn't like. Probably because I already knew German or European equivalents to them. I'd say the best food in the United States you get in smaller, family-owned restaurants.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah. I agree that international versions of McDonald's for instance are better

[DryGermanGuy]

I tried a few famous sweets (Oreos, Skittles...) and was not impressed.

[KostasKouvalis]

Yeah, European sweets are much better

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Hmmm more precisely I think the US diet has a really bad rep yes, since obesity rate in USA does hit headlines across the ocean since my teenage hood probably. About food itself, well, I don't think US food really exists. It looks more like food in US than US food, since everything looks borrowed from other countries, which is logical, the country is too young to have developed traditions.

[KostasKouvalis]

Aside from maybe some Southern dishes and some weird combination dishes.

[OneViewpoint]

No, American food is absolutely horrible from the standpoint of cuisine and health. There isn't really much American cuisine beyond fast food and soda. Packaged foods in supermarkets are a carnival of preservatives, dyes, sugar, and fillers. Almost everything else is imported from other cultures via immigrants.

French, Italian, Polish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Spanish, Greek, Mexican, African, Greek, Turkish, French, Middle Eastern.

[In_Trance]

American food get's what it deserves
The additives and chemicals are poisonous
The portions are ridiculous
Empty calories with little to no nutritional value

[red-lipstick-girl]

American cuisine kills too many pests

[KostasKouvalis]

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

All that foods you post are awful.

[convo_king89]

Like Donald trump

[jahaims]

Nope, we have the most poison

[Anonymous]

No, I don't.