Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Germans have less preservatives and less sugar in their products as the US.
If you eat a pie, it is fresh. No pink or bright green stuff on it.
The baked goods are good for 2-3 days, not weeks.
Can't beat the taste of fresh prepared food.
Also, when you go in a restaurant in Germany and order food, it is not uncommon that you wait 30-50 minutes until you get served with your dish. I am not sure, but I don't think the cook is slow - it might mean the food is prepared freshly and not precooked.
What do you mean?
I ate a few American things and it was so obvious that the food was fill of preservatives it was awful. But like here I think we have more preservatives than Europe but not as much as America.
Restaurants where I live take FOREVER to cook the food.
Event the fast food was better... the McDonald's in the area have to use local farmers' meats and their pastries are locally baked.
SO GOOD!
Thats not true the pastry and the meat is imported. When I was in McDonalds a year ago I seen a big massive lorry of red meat being delivered and it said 'Brazil'.
Maybe i'm being silly answering these questions because people are talking about mainland Europe and the food is very unique,local there.
Germany seems to take bread and cheese very seriously. I think basic ingredients tend to be more or less the real deal and there are fewer options for super processed, crappy ingredients like Ja!. I also love how herbs come in little pots with soil and you have to pull them off the stems yourself.
I noticed that here I can buy a huge variety of weird tropical fruits and vegetables that are imported year round, but Germany seems to use more localized produce. I noticed the same in Spain.
No. I don't mean herbs that are dried and flaked on to food. If you buy fresh basil for example, in Germany you may see it in grocery stores (Kaiser for sure) live in little pots that you buy individually. If you buy fresh basil here, at best it is just tied together and kept in a plastic container.
Actually I found quite the opposite; many ethnic foods taste way better in America than what they do in Europe. Spanish, Italian, French, Greek and other nationalities food taste better in many American restaurants than what they do in Europe. Obviously this may vary by country and restaurant.
My professor from France said that you can get better French food in NYC than you can find in France.
Food in Sweden is amazing, but in other countries not a fan.
I seriously doubt that anywhere in the US you can eat better than in Italy itself, let alone find better quality products.
PS. Concerning Italian food.
Thats not true the pastry and the meat is imported. When I was in McDonalds a year ago I seen a big massive lorry of red meat being delivered and it said 'Brazil'.
Maybe i'm being silly answering these questions because people are talking about mainland Europe and the food is very unique,local there.
70% to 80% of McDo's meat is national here from what they say. Most of the rest come from Ireland
But it's not because French meat is better, they are certainly buying the cheapest anyway. It's more for marketing, McDo expanded a lot in France by playing the national preference card.
And meat quality vary a lot between European countries. For example Spanish meat is like the one from the US, they add water and salt to fix the water in their meat. Every country does that, but while in France and Germany it's around 15% of the meat's weight, it's more 30-40% in Spain and the US. A professional once told me Australia was the worst, but I never checked.
Good food is good. Bad food is bad. This is true wherever. You can get a can of sh ite in Spain, and organic arugula salad with hand harvested walnuts and artisinal goat cheese in America.
As far as beer, beer purity laws do not ensure quality beer, it just ensures a very limited stylistic variety.
Really? It may not be the best bread, but is better than most.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
