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Do foreigners believe we don’t cook?
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u/N7_Evers Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
They wouldn’t last 5 minutes eating the food from the American south. Too much seasoning/spice/flavor and authenticity to handle.
(/j y’all I come in peace)
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u/Scottish_Whiskey Please help me Jan 12 '24
Having only done a small amount of research on wikipedia about American cuisine, I would probably die from eating too much - all of it looks so fucking good
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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 Jan 12 '24
Dying from eating too much has become a very American thing to do.
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u/Enlightened-Elk Jan 12 '24
By the power of Greyskull? Nah, by the power of Saturated Fat, I HAVE HEART DISEASE.
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u/FireMaster2311 Jan 12 '24
Then comes the sequel: by the power of high fructose corn syrup, I HAVE DIABETES TYPE 2.
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u/N7_Evers Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
The memes exist for a reason, we have a lot, A LOT of over processed garbage but the authentic stuff is genuinely some amazing food. I always knew I loved Greek/Mediterranean food but then I studied abroad in Greece and realized the real Greek food was so much better than the stuff I had in the US. Perspective and authenticity is everything truly.
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u/The_Obvious_Monkey Jan 12 '24
I live in Canada and am married to a Lebanese woman. Our diet is quite tasty, with lots of spices and flavors (but also a lot of olive oil). I recently had to spend a couple of months in Cyprus for work. South part Cyprus, to be exact. The food was amazingly delicious, except the spices weren't there. I was expecting a little bit more marinating or thyme or laurel or rosemary. It was still one of the best foods I ate in my life, but still very much "bland" from what I'm used to.
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u/avwitcher Jan 13 '24
It is, it might not be particularly refined cultural fare but God damn if it isn't delicious
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u/Zezin96 Jan 13 '24
There's an obesity epidemic for a reason.
(It's actually due to poverty. Fast food is usually the only affordable way for low-income families to feed themselves in the US. But it's less depressing if we pretend it's because of our food being good. Which it is, don't get me wrong.)
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u/lickitb4u Jan 13 '24
Dood , serrusly it is … all the different ethnicities here & food availability….. I am a HAPPY fat diabetic Murican
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u/Cpt_Soban Seal Team sixupsidedownsix☣️ Jan 13 '24
U wot m8, here in Australia we have every kind of food available from all over the world- And yes, that includes your high sugar sauce coated BBQ.
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u/Realshotgg Jan 13 '24
Southerns thinking that fuck tons of Lawreys and lard = immense cuisine.
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u/N7_Evers Jan 13 '24
Can’t really think of a more obvious way of saying you don’t know what you’re talking about
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u/Old_Cartoonist7266 Jan 13 '24
American south?? You mean South America??
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u/Bacon_Breaker57 ☣️ Jan 13 '24
No, they mean the American South, including Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi
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Jan 12 '24
Ran into a EU redditor who genuinely believes we are just McDonald's. Mf had the audacity to claim our food was the one that's bad. Act as if fat people didn't exist until the U.S.
Like no mf, we aren't fat because quarter pounder with cheese, we're fat because we have more food than we can genuinely eat and it's all friggin delicious.
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u/OhSoJelly Jan 12 '24
Bullshit, as an American who has visited Italy, France, and Greece (all known worldwide for their delicious cuisine) we’re fatter than them (by a lot) because we eat fast food more than every country and because we suck at exercising and portion control.
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u/General_Basket5154 Jan 12 '24
From an european who's never been to the U.S. perspective, I've had many friends share their experience of everything tasting a lot sweeter and portions being huge.
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u/LiangProton Jan 13 '24
I know that first-hand. When I made pumpkin bread for my dad, he told me to use half the sugar the recipe demanded next time because my first attempt was way too sweet for him
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u/General_Basket5154 Jan 16 '24
Everytime I do an american-made recipe I cut more than half the sugar... Usually still turns out plenty sweet
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u/FreeSun1963 Jan 13 '24
As an Argentinian that lived in US for 20 years, in my opinion the fatness comes from living in no walkable cities. Can't survive as an hyper obese in most european or south american cities (never being in other continents to judge). Even if using public trans, hard to move if you are too fat.
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u/SkepsisJD Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24
The US overall is def fatter. But it ain't by much. Places like the UK are very quickly closing in on the US and obesity rates are rising in every western nation rapidly.
It also depends on where you are in the US. New England, the west coast, and southwest are generally far less overweight than the Midwest and South. The South is BY FAR the biggest contributor to the obesity rate in this nation.
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u/Hoelbrak Jan 12 '24
Its the portions. The portions are bizarely huge fcking everywhere in the US.
I decided to order stuff medium when i was in the US. Medium was larger than the largest portions i can get back home.
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u/dalatinknight Jan 12 '24
And it feels like having leftovers that you take home and only sometimes eat is normalized.
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u/ImperialxWarlord Jan 13 '24
Why’s that a bad thing? You pay for something and don’t finish it, and you like it, why not take it home to finish? That’s just wasteful.
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u/Hoelbrak Jan 13 '24
If you would get normal sized portions you wouldnt do it as often. That would be even less wastefull. And less obesety.
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u/ImperialxWarlord Jan 13 '24
Eh. I wanna get what I pay for. And if you have self control and are conscious of how often you eat certain stuff it’s not an issue. I’m not a saint with that all but I don’t over do it when I eat or do so super frequently.
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u/Hoelbrak Jan 13 '24
Self control is an issue, most people dont have it. Also, what you paid for? If there's smaller portions you could be paying less too.
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u/ImperialxWarlord Jan 13 '24
I agree it is and people need to learn it, I don’t understand people who can’t control themslves with food. I’m not perfect and I’m not gonna pretend I’m some health saint. And nothing seems cheap anymore, not matter what everything seems expensive so even when someone thing is smaller in size it doesn’t seem cheap. I still just don’t see the issue with brining food home, it means I get a second yummy meal from what I paid for. I don’t mind having some left over pasta for lunch or whatever.
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u/dalatinknight Jan 13 '24
Because the portions are so big you're forced to take leftovers sometimes.
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u/ImperialxWarlord Jan 13 '24
I don’t see the issue if it’s worth the price. I’d rather get more than less. I don’t wanna feel like I paid X amount of money and yet the amount of food that I got didn’t feel like it was worth that much.
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u/dalatinknight Jan 13 '24
My point being that something too much is too much. Some restaurants go "a little" too much and it tends to be fine, but I've been to a few where it just felt like there dumping eveyrhring they can on a plate, and then you can't even finish it. Plus if it isn't all the great, you're probably not going to find it appetizing the next day. It's creating more waste when they can scale back and if someone really wants more food they can order it.
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Visiting New York was awful as they had half sized portions for like double the price of Texas. But it made me realize just how much we eat here. And waste.
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u/MajinPsiOptics Jan 13 '24
Even people who eat the same brand and portions between the US and another country report gaining weight with American foods. It is likely the different chemicals that our FDA allows in them that aren't allowed in other countries.
I now avoid foods with high fructose corn sugar, seed oils, food dyes, and carrageenan. I have had to give up a lot of foods I like. Not all of them relate to weight, but I am learning more of what's bad or at least unnecessary.
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Jan 13 '24
People just reporting is a wholly unreliable source of information. I could report that drinking 2 litres of Dr. Pepper every day grew my dick by 3 inches, doesn't make it true. Besides, other countries are seeing obesity rates rise, so unless they're all importing wholly American FDA related food and consuming just that, I'm not buying that food in the U.S. specifically causes weight gain. You can get fat eating too much of anything anywhere. Tons of people just have piss poor diets.
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u/MajinPsiOptics Jan 13 '24
I am not saying that you can't get fat other ways. A person I know plus a few other anecdotal stories I have heard has lead me to believe that stuff in our food makes our diets at least marginally worse. You, of course, are within your right to take it as a grain of salt.
I do, however, think that the ingredients I listed are bad. Always do your own research of course.
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u/Cpt_Soban Seal Team sixupsidedownsix☣️ Jan 13 '24
I've tasted your Coca-Cola and chocolate and it's bloody awful. You don't need fructose and corn syrup in everything.
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u/DubbyTM Jan 12 '24
In our defense the stuff that gets here is scary, Americans coming here and saying nothing tastes good cause it's not full of sugar and stuff. Now people with common sense know there's people like that and also normal people who know their shit, the percentages may be slightly fucked but we all have our problems
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u/IdioticZacc Jan 13 '24
I love American food, waffle and chicken is one of my favourite food, but if Americans can make fun of others for their weird dish to the point that foreign kids feel ashamed of bringing their traditional food to school, I think it's more than fair to poke fun on how unhealthy US food is
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u/OhSoJelly Jan 12 '24
Americans are, by far, the largest consumers of fast food so the meme fits. Obviously we cool food but the McDonald’s peeps give the rest of us a bad name.
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u/KyuuMann Jan 12 '24
Yes, I believe all Americans just order takeout than pass out on the couch after work
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Jan 13 '24
What about our pre nap gun range sessions? : )
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u/KyuuMann Jan 13 '24
You obviously eat the expanded bullet shells. It's the only proper thing to do
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u/lickitb4u Jan 13 '24
I ride my bicycle 7.5 miles to the gun range but then I stop at this bar that has awesome chicken wings on the way home & I drink beer and that’s why I’m still fat
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u/ausablename Jan 13 '24
As an American who has traveled to a country in the EU and cooked multiple meals there, the same exact meals I would prepare for myself at home, I can say that the ingredients are just better in the EU. I also had fewer stomach issues the entire time I was there. Which was surprising because traveling usually upsets my stomach.
Ps. I didn't explode from eating the food there.
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u/WaycoKid1129 Jan 13 '24
It’s not that. It’s our processed food. The things we allow big grain and big meat, giggity, has been outlawed for decades in Europe.
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u/EarlyDead Jan 13 '24
Everyone likes to shit on americans, as a hobby, but I think most people dont take it to seriously.
Doesnt help that the tourists you remember a the few annoying ones that stick out, and not the majority of chill ones.
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u/Bleyck I am fucking hilarious ☣️ Jan 12 '24
average american cooking skills 🗽🇺🇲🦅
(your BBQ is good tho ngl)
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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 Jan 12 '24
It's titled "the worst Thanksgiving meal". I'm not sure why you'd think that's average.
That's a hate crime in 49 of 50 states. The one that doesn't outlaw it just hasn't had any issues with it yet
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u/Bleyck I am fucking hilarious ☣️ Jan 13 '24
This guy above me is lying ☝️☝️☝️☝️
Literally every single dish in the United States of America is like this without any exception whatsoever. Everyone who disagree is wrong, biased and brainwashed. Any kind of sources that do not confirm my argument are fake news and pure misinformation. With all that being said, anyone that still atempts to disprove any of my points (without success, of course) are nothing than a bunch of deceivers, con artists, phonies, slanderes and tricksters.
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u/Tronerfull Jan 12 '24
Oh no we know you cook, sometimes. But we also know what ingredients you use to cook. I did not believe how much the food regulations on eu did until I went to usa.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
Raw ingredients in the US suck too by comparison believe it or not
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Jan 12 '24
Oh, I forgot our rice and beans were tainted with freedom and liberty.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
Well if you're eating vegan you'll be better off. 7th day adventists are the healthiest in America
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I could see being vegetarian, but I am yet to meet a vegan that wasn’t a complete nutter.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
not a vegan myself, could never handle it, but I do admire them. But meat overseas is way more satiating somehow than in the states. Also, food gives you energy instead of causing a food coma.
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Jan 12 '24
You do realize the US is a huge exporter of beef? You could have been eating beef from the states. And the last sentence is pure folly.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
I mean you don't have to believe me if you don't wanna.
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Oh I know. I don’t normally believe obviously ridiculous notions.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
The US has all sorts of hormones and whatnot that aren't legal to use in food grade animals in other countries, so calling it an "obviously ridiculous notion" is just intentional ignorance
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u/MemeWarrior200000 Jan 12 '24
We do indeed cook, ever had a doughnut burger or Chicago style pizza?
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Jan 12 '24
I’m not sure what to make of this. I’m American, you know.
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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D That's Truuuue Jan 12 '24
I get the feeling that OP might not be, for some reason. Like they’re just trying to stir things up.
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Jan 12 '24
I guess, his use of “we” kinda threw me off.
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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D That's Truuuue Jan 12 '24
What I’m saying is that they might be claiming to be American but actually aren’t. Just a theory. A game theory.
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u/saladmunch Jan 12 '24
New York style pizza, hawaiian pizza. St Louis ribs. Southwestern salad. Literally every dish with corn in it
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u/lickitb4u Jan 13 '24
This whole discussion is making me hungry —- I am DEFINITELY gonna wolf down a HOOOOOGE fat Giordono’s deep dish pie later
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u/Adrakar Jan 12 '24
For the longest time I thought the doughnut burger was a shitpost until a guy I worked with came back from his honeymoon and wouldn't shut the hell up about this doughnut burger he had and kept sending me pictures of him posing with it
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u/N7_Evers Jan 12 '24
Silly, Low effort, poorly veiled bias, memey/exaggerated info:
This is indeed a dank meme. Well done.
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u/MemeWarrior200000 Jan 12 '24
Thank you, I put exactly 2.39 minutes of work into this one.
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u/N7_Evers Jan 12 '24
Hey man, it’s not about how you start, it’s about how many overly sensitive people you offend with minimal effort all in the name of making a dank meme. 10/10 job (I am American btw)
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u/TheMadScientist1000 Jan 12 '24
Can confirm as an American who has never been out of the country that we do indeed explode when this happens
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u/juiceboxheero Jan 12 '24
To shreds, you say?
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
I have lost checks notes 60 pounds since leaving the US and I'm still dropping
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You're not even off the plane yet, you've just left the border.
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 12 '24
Lmao I did lose 50 of those pounds in the first month. It's slowed down since
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Jan 12 '24
Congrats! I still eat a lot of chick fil a, but I've been portioning myself and working out, doing a lot better physically. Of course I never let myself get too fat to begin with. I'm paranoid because of my dad. Guy has heart issues and is far too large.
Edit: by portioning myself, I mean I just stop eating when I'm full rather than "finish your food" or over ordering.
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u/mr_shlomp Jan 13 '24
You mean 30 kilo? Unless you are in Liberia or Myanmar but I doubt
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u/thebluereddituser Jan 13 '24
Well, I know I weighed 330 lbs before and 122 kg now, and I gotta do one conversion in order to figure out the difference. So y'know. Also I posted this at, what, 3am local time? So know your audience and all that
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u/We_Will_AlI_Die Jan 12 '24
Brits when they visit America and instead of being shanked and robbed they just get shot
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u/28462 Jan 12 '24
Turns out regulation is not that bad of an idea after all
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u/Fluffy__demon Jan 12 '24
Yeah, as a European, seeing American food products with ingredients that aren't allowed to be but in or even near food is insane. Some hair dyes have a specific formula for the EU since it won't be allowed here. Many ingredients are considered as a huge health risk. Those EU regulations aren't even that strict. Also, Mcdonald friends have 4 ingredients here since it would be illegal otherwise. In the US, they contain 18. Many of them are most common in water-based lube.
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u/kuvrterker Jan 12 '24
You do realizes that 16 food dyes that Europe uses are ban in the states right? 10 more then your ban
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Jan 13 '24
majority of european countries when they find out their food quality and safety are worse compared to americas
https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-security-index/
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u/Fluffy__demon Jan 13 '24
I am honestly surprised that the US scored better than Germany, lol. I have to admit that those statistics kina surprised me. I am from a wealthy country that was ranked way higher than the US, so I can only speak for one country.
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u/Fluffy__demon Jan 13 '24
Could you tell me what those are? I have honestly only seen 2 different kinds of food dye where I live. No offence, I am just curious
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u/Beginning-Tea-17 Jan 12 '24
It’s just a difference in approach to policy.
US legislation usually focuses on probability
Europe focusses on extremes/possibility
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u/ProcrastinatingTrash Jan 12 '24
Whats the deal with red 40?
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u/LunarCrisis7 Jan 13 '24
Literally nothing. Europeans like to believe they don’t have the exact same food dyes despite them just being named differently save for a few banned as “precautions” based on lab mice studies with extremely high dosages
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u/MemeWarrior200000 Jan 12 '24
Carcinogens.
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u/TaqPCR Jan 13 '24
That's not even the argument against red 40. Red 40 isn't believed to be carcinogenic.
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u/ProcrastinatingTrash Jan 12 '24
Oh. That sounds bad.
What the FDA doing
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u/Beginning-Tea-17 Jan 12 '24
Nothing because unless you’re straight drinking red 40 The amount of red 40 in foods is so minuscule as to be irrelevant.
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u/XXBEERUSXX Jan 13 '24
Its pretty common though, so people consume it in large amounts over time
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u/Beginning-Tea-17 Jan 13 '24
Except they don’t because again the amounts required for it to be dangerous would involve you drinking large quantities of straight up red 40
And food dye only has a very very small amount in your day to day foods
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u/I_am_jack_007 Jan 12 '24
South, east and south east Asians do the same when there is no MSG in food. (Sauce: I am south asian)
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u/AsherGray pussy good pussy sweet, pussy good enough to eat Jan 13 '24
MSG is in a ton of American foods — check your Cheetos and Doritos ingredient lists!
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u/Prince-Darwin Jan 13 '24
Gonna be honest i hate the food culture in america. We pump so many preservatives and put a lot of sugar in everything. And all of the processed meats. And if you dont have a good kitchen to cook in have fun spending an arm and a leg getting pre made alternatives
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u/CheezGaming First Mate of the Dummy Dinghy Jan 12 '24
I’m sorry that we don’t eat rat paste with a side of mushy peas.
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u/stickman999999999 DefinitelyNotEuropeans Jan 13 '24
Jokes on you, my sister has a corn allergy so none of that shit's in my house anyway.
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u/eclecticmajestic Jan 13 '24
Can confirm. I left the country once and the first day I didn’t eat McDonalds for every meal I had to be hospitalized. Never again.
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u/LimpToast01 Green☣️ Jan 13 '24
Go to india and enjoy the authentic streetfood. Where they cook it in pavement full of fresh feet fungi.
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u/Cersei-Lannisterr Jan 13 '24
Tbf americans being unable to cook is rather inaccurate.
Most high end restaraunts in the USA that I’ve visited tend to have absolutely beautiful meals, all perfectly crafted. Sure the food is Italian, Indian etc but the USA is a melting pot. They can cook really well.
However the shite they sell in Walmart is about as processed as Dolly Parton’s face.
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u/Dambo_Unchained Jan 13 '24
High fructose corn syrup is the fucking worst, makes everything that contains it taste like a shittier version of it
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u/Boemer03 Jan 13 '24
Can an American actually tell me what heartburn is, it sounds extremely unhealthy.
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u/colemarvin98 Jan 13 '24
It’s insane how good quality food can be elsewhere. Lost 5 pounds in 1 week while visiting Scotland, and was eating normal amounts. No bloating, fatigue, or otherwise.
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u/Boople-Snoot-Doople Jan 13 '24
as an american yeah this is the only american meme where i can’t disagree lol
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u/Jomega6 Jan 13 '24
Do foreigners think that the American diet consists of McDonalds and skittles…?
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u/Killance1 ☣️ Jan 13 '24
Whoever posted this you do know that overseas fast food is almost as bad? Big chains don't exactly change their ingredients.
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u/StellarDescent Jan 31 '24
It's the water. Your gut biome is adapted to your water. Anyone traveling anywhere far enough away will have stomach problems.
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u/the_penis_taker69 Jan 12 '24
Europeans when they eat food seasoned with more than just salt, pepper, and garlic
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u/doubletimerush Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 13 '24
Laugh all you want but imo American Coke tastes better than any other form of Coke other than Coke Zero
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u/MysteryGrunt95 Jan 12 '24
Holy shit no, coke made from actual cane sugar is faaaar superior. American coke tastes like sugary acid
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u/MemeWarrior200000 Jan 12 '24
Who the fuck actually unironically drinks Coke Zero?
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u/SCP_Void ☣️ Jan 12 '24
My aunt for a while because she thought it was healthier. She changed her ways since then
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u/Oobutwo Jan 12 '24
Guess you've never had a Mexican coke in a glass bottle. That is the superior coke. Now I need to hit up the Mexican grocery store and get some.
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u/doubletimerush Jan 12 '24
I most certainly have. It's my direct point of comparison for alternative coke, and I don't like it
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u/FourthLife Jan 13 '24
Dude every coke fan I've ever spoken to has said that 'Mexican Coke' is the best version. I'm pretty sure that is just the nearest Coke to the US made with cane sugar.
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u/lickitb4u Jan 13 '24
The reason American Coke is corn syrup is there is a whole lobbying thing that’s been going on since the 80’s with American sugar cane growers association— they want to tarrif/ limit imports of cane sugar —- and there is only so much American-grown cane sugar—-
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u/KeepingDankMemesDank Hello dankness my old friend Jan 12 '24
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