US vs Global Food Quality

Interesting... or maybe it's the lack of processed food choices in other countries? Food providers/chains have not optimized for scale and price yet?

Food in the US is sh*t. There are great things in the US and UK( from where it comes from), but food is so wrong there.I lived some years in Japan, I enjoyed the food. China, not so much, but is is so big you can find anything, they have gastronomical culture that is different and you have to get used to new flavors.The US totally lacks gastronomical culture. Everything is about money, and quantity.As an Spanish that lives in Germany I am so worried about TTIP and Americans telling us(E

dunnobut i doubt their food is as processed as most of the food in the US is.

It's the convenience. Bad food is much more convenient in the US than good food. In other parts of the world, south east asia for example "good" food is as equally if not more so convenient than bad food. And even bad food actually tends to come in smaller portion sizes, making it less bad overall.

Maybe it's also related where you grow up and what's available there in a certain category.Anecdote: When I visited London for the first time in the 90s, they also had these wrapped sandwiches in the fridge and they were SO MUCH BETTER than anything I had ever gotten in a German supermarket near where I lived. I am not saying we don't have proper food here and I'm not saying they don't have good restaurants there, but this quick "pop into a supermarket and find s

I've been here (in the US) 3 months now, working in a near identical environment.1) Sweet things like muffins or cakes are generally unbearably sweet to me in comparison to what I expect in similar products in other countries (Australia, EU)2) The cultural integration of the consumption of these foods appears to be higher in the USA; donuts at morning meetings, krullers and bearclaws on desks and tables for all-hands, quarterly meetings, etc - feels very high given that I am working i

It's not just quality of ingredients (though that is part of it); it's also culture. Southern Europeans (understood in a broad sense to include the French) are less likely to tolerate regularly eating highly processed food, takeout, fast food, etc. and much more likely to cook at home from scratch than Americans are. Of course, the distributions overlap; there are Americans who eat like the stereotypical French person, and vice versa.

I don’t know if that’s true. I currently live in Europe but lived most of my life in the US.I’ve had amazing Italian and Indian food, and more authentic, in Amsterdam, than I ever had living in the US (lived in multiple cities and regions). Also incredible fresh Mediterranean food in Amsterdam and Switzerland, in addition to Mediterranean countries.I’ve had delicious food in the US, but it was usually so good because of fat/salt content. When I have good food in different European cou

I've never been to France but as a midwesterner, I can confidently say I have easy access to a wide variety of farm fresh fruit, vegetables, and meat. I still often choose to eat fattier, saltier foods with lots of preservatives, but that doesn't mean it's unavailable. Whether that makes my cuisine "worse" depends entirely on the metric you're using.

"And those two people likely don't eat remotely as well as Facebook or Google employees."That probably depends on your cultural background.Whenever I was in the US and worked for large tech companies I found the food too fat, too sweet, (interestingly same things like Kellogs are totally different in the US than in Europe), too much artifical flavor, too much cheese, too much toppings, large unhealthy portions.The water and Cola tasted like Chlorine and were undrinkable