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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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At least in Europe, it definitely seemed fresh fruit and veggies were far more abundant. Small fridges as folks buy fresh more frequently. Read box ingredients and there are fewer fillers in foods. The amount of crap fillers in food in the US makes me angry. Yes you can get cheap products but look at what happened recently with children getting lead poisoning from cinnamon applesauce sold at dollar stores in the US (through brands that used a factory in Equador).

Driving through France, rest stops had fresh prepared foods that included a carving station. It was jarringly different.[/quote]

A lot of what you experience is about where you live in the US vs living in the US.  I grew up in a small town in flyover country, and despite being poor, I had incredible food. I didn't even realize that most of the US was eating mealy, starchy tomatoes and carrots that were basically shelf stable.

If you live far away from the places where food is produced, they alter the veggies etc so that they can endure the trip to your grocery stores and the lont wait til they are consumed.

In the DMV, you can sign up for CSAs or shop at farmers markets.

I used to question whether I was meant to live in the US. Then I realized that a lot of things I disliked about my life were choices I had made or failed to make. So I created a different lifestyle and stayed in the US and have a much better life here than the one I likely would have had in Europe. [/quote]

In the US you pay through the nose for fresh veggies and even when fresh veggies are in season, most of the stuff you find in the grocery stores is from Mexico and elsewhere.  We have tons of farmland but rather than growing food for Americans we grow massive monoculture and industrial crops with nothing else for miles to sustain bees and pollinators.  We made family farms sell out to massive ag conglomerates run by suits who only care about extracting every last penny.  And instead we get crap loaded with preservatives or imported from elsewhere.  It's really a shame that we've screwed ourselves so badly with corporatism.[/quote]

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