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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they were very rude (surely they could have just said “no thanks I’m full” or something?!) but I have also experienced that sometimes people from other countries have heard things about food here and are genuinely scared of it, maybe rightly or wrongly. I had friends visit from Germany and they asked me a million questions about milk (they have toddlers who would be drinking it) and were really scared about hormones and antibiotics and the various different labels. I’m also from the UK and as I’m sure OP knows, box mixes are really uncommon there so I guess they were just thrown by it. I know it sounds odd, but I also found the concept of box mixes extremely strange when I first moved here. [/quote]

I agree— they were extremely rude. One brownie won’t kill you.

But, having lived in several other countries, people everywhere are rightly or wrongly very concerned about American food. Sometimes they’re right (a lot of our food is crap), sometimes they just perceive their cultural food as superior to everywhere else. It was funny to have people in place, for instance, go on and on to me about how Americans eat McDonald’s every day and are so unhealthy, but they themselves smoked and drank heavily from young ages— and all McDonald’s in the country were absolutely packed!

Anyway, your guests were super rude, and I don’t think it matters that maybe they’re right, save you trying to serve them arsenic or something. But I’ve experienced similar lectures/concern about American food everywhere. [/quote]

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