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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone give some examples of how the food in America is supposedly so much worse?  I have travelled and lived abroad and overall I just don’t see that.  We have a lot of choice in the US that in many ways makes it easier to have good food.  I don’t choose to eat at places like McDonald’s.  Certainly some countries have better options for certain things — eg Irish butter versus American butter, Chilean mollusks versus American.  But for instance Chile is so meat/fish focused it’s hard to find nice salads and vegetables.  That’s true in many countries in Europe as well.  In many countries it’s hard to find nice fresh dairy.  I’ve been to some countries where the restaurant food was even more salty than American restaurant food, which amazed me as I find American restaurant food way too salty.    
I do think that because other countries have fewer choices for food they tend to serve more stuff that is local and in season.  But it’s  pretty easy to eat that way here too, if you give up variety.

Different issue but I’m also not impressed with OP being impressed by Singapore and Thailand.  That’s like trump raving about the airports in Dubai.  That efficiency is built in the back of a lot of misery.  No thank you.

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Do you live under a rock?  Think about it.  The US is capitalism.  There's hardly any mom and pop restaurants around anymore because it's so hard financially to manage them.  I come from that world and had no desire to takeover my parents' very profitable restaurant years ago.  It's just really hard with rents, etc.   without this level of cooking, what you're getting is processed foods from Ruby Tuesdays and Olive Garden.  Maggianos and Fogo de Chao is not where it's at.  If you eat around the world it's a lot more wholesome.  The whole culture of food here, Chickfilet aside, is about cheap convenience.  Even Chickfilet and they are prob the best in this regard.  The food here sucks compared to the rest of the world.  We eat more toxic  unhealthy ingredients than anyone else.  Skittles is banned in so many places in the world because the ingredients are seriously toxic but like the honey badger, we don't care![/quote]

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