Why don’t Americans give a f*** about what they eat?

[Anonymous]

But preparing to leave your house and travel shouldn't feel like an episode of survivor In a wealthy industrialized country. I shouldn't have to bring my own bananas and eat them with plain instant oatmeal in my hotel room. We usually stay at a Hampton Inn or similar and now with covid, breakfast consists of a 1000 calorie breakfast sandwich that they instruct you to put in the microwave in your room. Why can't they just hand out fruit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But preparing to leave your house and travel shouldn't feel like an episode of survivor In a wealthy industrialized country. I shouldn't have to bring my own bananas and eat them with plain instant oatmeal in my hotel room. We usually stay at a Hampton Inn or similar and now with covid, breakfast consists of a 1000 calorie breakfast sandwich that they instruct you to put in the microwave in your room. Why can't they just hand out fruit?

Cause... capitalism! You get way less than you pay for! And you must be happy with it, and learn to hunt with Bear Grylls!
Food outside is a game of minefield, and you have to love it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of mental gymnastics done here to justify how crappy the government and food regulations are.

You know, you do have the ability to regulate what you eat/dont eat without the government.

But, you elect the government, to serve you? As do I? Right? So, how come officials that I elected are not serving my best interests? Some democracy! How are you ok with being sold crap?
Bcs you don't have a government that works for you! That is how. You live in some feudal capitalism where you are a pig being fed slop! And you are so stupid, you are ok with it!

+1

These people eat pig slop, are surrounded by it, and consider it gourmet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of mental gymnastics done here to justify how crappy the government and food regulations are.

You know, you do have the ability to regulate what you eat/dont eat without the government.

But, you elect the government, to serve you? As do I? Right? So, how come officials that I elected are not serving my best interests? Some democracy! How are you ok with being sold crap?
Bcs you don't have a government that works for you! That is how. You live in some feudal capitalism where you are a pig being fed slop! And you are so stupid, you are ok with it!

+1

These people eat pig slop, are surrounded by it, and consider it gourmet.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the people shopping at farmers markets, Asian grocery stores and Whole Foods don’t care about what they eat?

I get what you’re saying, and it’s sad that many people don’t care, but a lot of people do.

I serve traditional Filipinomfood at my parties.

Food deserts. Most Americans don't have access to what you list.

[Anonymous]

Junk food should be regulated like cigarettes, including the heavily processed supposedly healthy food that is sold in American supermarkets. Selling a rotisserie chicken injected with sugar? Do it under health regulations. Pumping up your bread with extreme additives and corn syrup? Regulated, preferably with a black box. "Yogurt" with more sugar than a milk shake? No sales to kids at all and certainly not in schools. Doing this would save the country billions in healthcare costs and literally save lives. We have tobacco as a model. We know this works.

But all the reactionary junk food apologists in this thread and elsewhere will do the jobs of the agribusiness corporate lobbyists for them, so this will never happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you know that 1 in 10 Americans has diabetes and 1 in 3 is pre-diabetic?

I’m an immigrant. After living in this country for 15 years I’m now a pre-diabetic. So I’m watching what I eat.

I’m constantly in owe that after documentaries, articles, shows about obesity and diabetes problems in this country the junk food is offered at EVERY corner everywhere you go.

Subway is not allowed to market their “bread” as bread in Europe because its a concoction of some chemicals and fillers. The same with Taco Bell meat.

Forget fast food restaurants. Most restaurants’s food here is low quality.

I’m in Nashville in upscale hotel and for breakfast they offer donuts, muffins, fake eggs and some strange tasting bacon.

My DC goes to a private school and she gets candy from teachers every day. Every event doesn’t go without cookies, cupcakes, cakes, etc. Every American toddler gets a daily dose of fish crackers, animal crackers and orang puffs. They love low quality past with powered cheese. Every kids party has pizza.

Where does it end? What the actual f***?

Why are we not flooding restaurants and stores with high quality food? Why don’t we scrutinise school lunches menus? Have you seen what our kids eat?

Why no one cares about this?


I can tell that OP is from Germany. Only Germans would write a judgmental post like this. <inserteyeroll>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the people shopping at farmers markets, Asian grocery stores and Whole Foods don’t care about what they eat?

I get what you’re saying, and it’s sad that many people don’t care, but a lot of people do.

I serve traditional Filipinomfood at my parties.

Food deserts. Most Americans don't have access to what you list.

I don’t know about the rest of the country, but I live in MoCo and there are tons of Asian and Latino markets and regular grocery stores, in addition to Farmers Markets and WF. The Asian and Latino markets have inexpensive foods. Nevertheless, there are a lot of obese people here. While there are food deserts, I don’t think most of the 70+% of overweight live in a food desert or even can’t afford food or transportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of mental gymnastics done here to justify how crappy the government and food regulations are.

You know, you do have the ability to regulate what you eat/dont eat without the government.

But, you elect the government, to serve you? As do I? Right? So, how come officials that I elected are not serving my best interests? Some democracy! How are you ok with being sold crap?
Bcs you don't have a government that works for you! That is how. You live in some feudal capitalism where you are a pig being fed slop! And you are so stupid, you are ok with it!

+1

These people eat pig slop, are surrounded by it, and consider it gourmet.

I don’t eat pig slop. We have every type of food imaginable available. Pick what you want to eat. No one has to eat pig slop and the government isn’t forcing you to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of mental gymnastics done here to justify how crappy the government and food regulations are.

You know, you do have the ability to regulate what you eat/dont eat without the government.

Yet without government regulations, food manufacturers would not disclose their ingredients or nutrition info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food should be regulated like cigarettes, including the heavily processed supposedly healthy food that is sold in American supermarkets. Selling a rotisserie chicken injected with sugar? Do it under health regulations. Pumping up your bread with extreme additives and corn syrup? Regulated, preferably with a black box. "Yogurt" with more sugar than a milk shake? No sales to kids at all and certainly not in schools. Doing this would save the country billions in healthcare costs and literally save lives. We have tobacco as a model. We know this works.

But all the reactionary junk food apologists in this thread and elsewhere will do the jobs of the agribusiness corporate lobbyists for them, so this will never happen.

Absolutely. And tax the hell out of it.

And I like junk food!

[Anonymous]

That’s not true that farmer’s markets, Asian supermarkets provide enough healthy choices. This is not enough.

Go to any regular supermarket. 50%-75% of the food there is processed junk infused with sugar, salt and other chemicals. Most restaurants in US serve food infused with salt, sugar, additives. Kids lunches at schools and college cafeterias food are junk.

A small bottle of Sprite has 64g of sugar. How many kids know this, you think?

They need to tax sugar and refined flour. Cookies should be very expensive. Sodas should be a luxury.

We had great success with cigarettes. We can do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Junk food should be regulated like cigarettes, including the heavily processed supposedly healthy food that is sold in American supermarkets. Selling a rotisserie chicken injected with sugar? Do it under health regulations. Pumping up your bread with extreme additives and corn syrup? Regulated, preferably with a black box. "Yogurt" with more sugar than a milk shake? No sales to kids at all and certainly not in schools. Doing this would save the country billions in healthcare costs and literally save lives. We have tobacco as a model. We know this works.

But all the reactionary junk food apologists in this thread and elsewhere will do the jobs of the agribusiness corporate lobbyists for them, so this will never happen.

Absolutely. And tax the hell out of it.

And I like junk food!

+1. And OP will be the first in line to protest 😂

[Anonymous]

That’s not true that farmer’s markets, Asian supermarkets provide enough healthy choices. This is not enough.

Go to any regular supermarket. 50%-75% of the food there is processed junk infused with sugar, salt and other chemicals. Most restaurants in US serve food infused with salt, sugar, additives. Kids lunches at schools and college cafeterias food are junk.

A small bottle of Sprite has 64g of sugar. How many kids know this, you think?

They need to tax sugar and refined flour. Cookies should be very expensive. Sodas should be a luxury.

We had great success with cigarettes. We can do this.

Why are you trying to impose your values and choices on everyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That’s not true that farmer’s markets, Asian supermarkets provide enough healthy choices. This is not enough.

Go to any regular supermarket. 50%-75% of the food there is processed junk infused with sugar, salt and other chemicals. Most restaurants in US serve food infused with salt, sugar, additives. Kids lunches at schools and college cafeterias food are junk.

A small bottle of Sprite has 64g of sugar. How many kids know this, you think?

They need to tax sugar and refined flour. Cookies should be very expensive. Sodas should be a luxury.

We had great success with cigarettes. We can do this.

Why are you trying to impose your values and choices on everyone else?

You're welcome to buy and consume whatever you'd like. I fail to see what's imposed here.