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Yes. I love new england clam chowder in a bread bowl with a splash of hot sauce and a liberal dose of black pepper.
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Originally Posted by KathrynAragon
That hasn't been my experience.
It's been in my experience when in poorer neighborhoods. It's actually super apparent in NYC because it's generally such a short distance from poor neighborhood to bougie neighborhood, but I see it in the suburbs of southern california as well where there are poorer suburbs and wealthier ones.
Yes. I love new england clam chowder in a bread bowl with a splash of hot sauce and a liberal dose of black pepper.
It's been in my experience when in poorer neighborhoods. It's actually super apparent in NYC because it's generally such a short distance from poor neighborhood to bougie neighborhood, but I see it in the suburbs of southern california as well where there are poorer suburbs and wealthier ones.
Fresh food is surprisingly hard to find in the USA comared to other countries. Americans cook with crap vegetable oils and eat too much processed food. They also eat few vegetables and not enough fish. It's the quality day-to-day diet that matters, not the variety of the restaurant scene.
Thats not true at all, I'm pretty sure I explained this to another poster a couple pages back.
Fresh food is surprisingly hard to find in the USA comared to other countries. Americans cook with crap vegetable oils and eat too much processed food. They also eat few vegetables and not enough fish. It's the quality day-to-day diet that matters, not the variety of the restaurant scene.
Fresh food is not hard to find here at all. Plenty of road side stands with local fruits and veggies right off the farm in season and plenty of seafood markets where you can get whatever fresh local critters from the ocean or bay that you want.
I think the USA has some nice foodstuff but most of what people know of American food is fast food and that's not a real description of American cuisine at all.
Yeah, America actually has a really rich culinary culture that has definitely been overshadowed by fast food. It's sad that there are people here who are insistent as being as down on it as they possibly can be.
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Would love to taste biscuits n gravy, BBQ ribs, slaw and chilli but I wouldn't go to America for Burgers or deep pan pizza I can get that here...
Hope you can get over to try it someday . Even the burgers and pizza are worth it if you get it at a local place.
I don't remember saying that. Did you forget halfway through, and just continue with your assumption of many years standing that I am wrong, no matter what I say, and then just misquote me to fit?? And then you say you agree with me, but I'm wrong anyway.
By the way, I don't start out with "Things I hate about America". I respond to posters who say "America is the greatest everything in the world", and then I challenge their assumptions if they are groundless. I didn't start this thread. Somebody asked if I thought the US had the best food in the world, and I said No, and explained in considerable detail why I thought that, and why I disagreed with people who said Yes.
I agree with you that there's no place that's an empirical #1 when it comes to the best cuisine, but I don't agree with your statements that American food is "intrinsically terrible." You're basically saying that the best food in the world is homemade stuff, but America doesn't count because its food is awful. This is third grade logic and I know you're better than that, you just choose not to be whenever America enters the discussion.
I do value a lot of your posts about other countries, but you're like All Jazeera: great and insightful coverage overall with a tempered bias, so long as it doesn't involve Israel. You say things like "Americans are severely developmentally retarded," which shows that you have a great difficulty metering your emotions to a point where you can contain ad hominem attacks that overshadow any insight you may have had into the matter. All the same that you react to myopic and baseless "USA #1! WOOOOOOO" posts, I react to myopic and baseless "the USA SUCKS" posts by calling people out on their childishness and ignorance.
I don't have a "years long" assumption you're wrong, I have a months long "what the hell are you talking about?" that's no different from what I say to any other poster who starts to prattle on about something I know is wrong as though it's an empirical fact. I've continued to rep you and have openly agreed with you on things during that time, but that doesn't stop me from calling you out on your bias when you post it in an open forum.
Fresh food is not hard to find here at all. Plenty of road side stands with local fruits and veggies right off the farm in season and plenty of seafood markets where you can get whatever fresh local critters from the ocean or bay that you want.
Yeah, there are farms even in suburban areas. Actually, I'd say there has been a movement of sorts in America towards fresh farm produce and organic foods in recent years.
Maybe it hasn't reached the levels of many Europeans countries yet.
Yeah, there are farms even in suburban areas. Actually, I'd say there has been a movement of sorts in America towards fresh farm produce and organic foods in recent years.
Maybe it hasn't reached the levels of many Europeans countries yet.
I don't know about all over the US, but here in small town Texas, fresh produce stands and organic foods are readily available from multiple sources.
NO...not necessarily! Probably not what anyone might prefer to hear...but NO, America does not have the BEST food in the world; different, diverse, interesting, highly regional...BUT all of it is dependent on ones individual preferences and tastes.
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Does the USA have the best food in the world?
