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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think this is really true except with cultural specialties.  In Italy a typical pasta + house wine meal will be much less than any U.S. restaurant.  Germany has super cheap (and delicious) brats and pretzels, same with France and bakeries.  But a typical trip to the grocery store or high-end restaurant meal will be comparable in price.[/quote]

People make much less money. You cannot charge more for meals than people can pay and still, those meals are expensive to italians.

Essential foodstuffs in certain quantities have prices fixed by the govt (a baguette, a liter of milk, etc) BUT the quality of those items has gone down dramatically (essential loaf of bread is garbage now in europe because of high price of flour, it's just full of cheap white flour and additives. To get a good loaf of bread, you have to go to an artisan bakery, but who can pay 5 euros for a loaf of artisan bread  that goes bad in two days when they make 1200 euros a month and rent is 800 euros a month because all the affordable housing in their town is now airbnbs?

The EU wants to cut down on sugar consumption. Sugar is also super expensive in Europe (old colonial sugar plantation contracts) so many sodas use fake sugar (without any labeling other than the ingredient label--EU pepsi, Fanta, etc all have fake sugar in them to save on costs.) Mass produced baked goods also by law have to have less sugar, so the supermarkets replaced the sugar with fake sugar. Yummy sorbitol supermarket croissants!

Yes food in europe is cheaper but it all comes at a price. Obesity is on the rise in Europe, too, and all those food additives ain't helping.[/quote]

Are you saying each European country fixes the price of milk and bread?

What do you mean by old sugar plantation contracts? Most sugar in Europe is from beets grown in Europe. [/quote]

"Another important element of the EU’s external sugar market policies is the presence of preferential market access for African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) countries, under the Economic Partnership Agreements, and for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)"
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/download/77e0723f60776f33c2ed56cfce01439b.pdf/Berger,_Brümmer,_Fiankor,_Kopp_-_2021_-_Sugar_Market_Policies_in_the_EU_and_International_Sugar_Trade.pdf

Price controls set by EU governments for essential food items: https://apnews.com/article/food-prices-europe-inflation-pasta-strike-386319f11769d4070d5fa34d02b000dd

The US also has a complicated milk pricing system: https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wisconsins-place-in-a-bewildering-milk-pricing-system/[/quote]

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