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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American food, period. [/quote]

What don't you understand? 
And do you mean specific items that were invented in America only, like the ice cream cone? [/quote]

Why is it so gross in terms of fat, and dominance of highly fatty meats and ridiculously sugary desserts to the point of nausea?  American style cheesecake is nasty.  How can anyone possibly eat a slice of it and say they feel good after it?  Take another example, peach cobbler, all of the cupcakes, various pies…..American desserts are always sooooooo ridiculously sugary, heavy, and just flat out gross. Go to countries with great food cultures like Japan, India, Italy, France, etc. and you’ll see their sweets are often no where near as heavy and sickeningly sweet.  Something as grotesque like cheesecake factory or Cinnabon would not be invented in those countries. It’s just weird how Americans love bags of sugar for dessert.

Portion sizes alone make American food weird.  Why are you getting enough food for 3.5 people as a dish at many American restaurants?  Super weird. The coke sizes alone at a fast food place?  Weird.

I also don’t understand the appeal of Thanksgiving dinner.  Everything tastes like cardboard, it’s super fatty and almost all carbs and fat with very little balance of flavors.  Bland junk. Other foods like potato and macaroni salads, tuna salads, chicken salads, deviled eggs….gross gross gross.  Why are these staples at American parties ?  Basically, throw a ton of mayo into stuff and call it a salad.  So gross.   Don’t even put a plate with green bean casserole in front of me. Yet another disgusting garbage dish.

American foods are weird, because there really aren’t too many dishes and many other ones are basically invented by major food corporations to use as many of their products as possible.  Pumpkin pie?  lol.  What a garbage pie, because you know you’re all using highly processed factory crap like canned pumpkin, condensed milks etc.  So many ‘American foods’ are simply dishes invented by corporations and are nothing more than highly processed junk. [/quote]

You shot yourself in the foot with your ignorance. As a long term expat in various countries (12+ years) in different parts of the globe, you really have no idea what you're talking about. American desserts are so sweet but not... India? [i]India[/i]?! You've clearly never been to India. And let's not even talk about how sweet so many desserts are in France or Germany. Plenty of European countries slather their baked goods with mountains of sugary sweet icing glazes.

America has fantastic food and fantastic produce and meats. Not all food is great, but not all food is processed either. I've been baking amazing fruit pies this summer, blueberries and sour cherries and raspberries, all from American fruits grown in Pennsylvania and sold at local farmers' markets. We eat so well in this country without having to think about it. And you can eat horribly in all the countries you mentioned. It's entirely up to you.[/quote]

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