America has, by a long shot, the most diverse and some of the best food on the plant. Go to one of the big three and you can have 3 star Michellin from every continent or some of the best street meat shit you’ll have on the same day.
America certainly has the most diverse kitchen because it’s a whole fucking continent. It has grasslands, mountains, coasts, lakes, everything and each microclimate you could imagine. I doubt, OTOH, that you’ve ever seen a Michelin rated restaurant from the inside.
I’ve been to one and two star places, never three stars (some day…). America has incredible food if you know what to look for. Some of the best Korean, Chinese, and Indian I’ve had in particular. It’s also a giant country with many immigrants, so it’s kinda obvious that it has good food. And southern food is great too.
I have not doubted that. It has, however., nothimg to do with the kind of cuisine you’d attract Michelin’s attention with. I also know a bit of the more sophisticated American (regional and international) kitchen and it is, IMIO, much better than most people believe. (Piece of cake, because you can get next to everything there.) However, most people also have no idea what the French kitchen or to some extent the more regional parts of the Italian kitchen (or Basque, or Catalan) might be about. I honestly don’t think the US really are playing in that league.
This depends. In my experience anything processed tastes horrible because of chemical and sugar overload. But you can get great ingredients! Much better than here in Germany anyway.
And there are many more diverse great restaurants than in most places in Germany, ngl. In the US, you can go to any small town and find a great homemade style Korean place, or something like that. No such luck in Germany, they’ll serve you 14€ frozen pizza.
(In my experience anyway. These are large countries, so none of this is rule, just personal experience)
The winner is no questions Italy, though. Best pizza I ever had was in 8€ in an Italian town with ~5000 inhabitants. Unbelievable. Only good restaurant there, though, but I’ll never forget the experience.
except they are both grown in the US using such intensive agricultural methods that the produce itself tastes different. US meat is banned in many countries because it’s considered not suitable for human consumption.
on top of that, US fast food franchise culture has destroyed whatever food culture there was.
food is something you eat multiple times a day, if a good American meal is something you have once in a while, it doesn’t count, if Americans eat fast food garbage every day, that’s American food.
there are many large systemic issues that make the American diet garbage. not just “America bad”. Blame corporations and capitalism and all the politicians that were bribed to allow this to happen.
This is the type of guy who grabs strawberries from the supermarket in February, doesn’t wonder how they got there, and compares them to farm fresh in season strawberry. The ability to have a planets worth of diverse food year round is lost on them because they had a shitty supermarket fruit out of season once
I am not judging food culture based on what the rich can afford, or for one special meal. but for what everyone eats
I’ve got bad news then: 90% of everyone’s food fucking sucks. Hope you enjoy the fine cuisine of flatbreads, rice, and an occasional dish that stretches an animal protein so thin you forget it’s there. If you’re lucky there might be some months old fermented junk to season it.
Or maybe you’re just racist and assume that every noble savage has access to fresh fish, fruit and veggies year-round?
Food as hobby or art or cultural distinction is a rich country game. If you’re going to exclude special occasion (or “rich person”) food then you’re deluding yourself to think that food in the USA is worse than any but a handful of countries.
You still are clearly not accounting for how large in area the country is. There are farms that meet whatever standards you are deeming superior. Just because there’s a lot of fast food doesn’t mean there are no high class restaurants.
Europeans love to talk mad shit about how Americans know so little about other countries then drop comments like this, it’s frankly incredible
America has, by a long shot, the most diverse and some of the best food on the plant. Go to one of the big three and you can have 3 star Michellin from every continent or some of the best street meat shit you’ll have on the same day.
America certainly has the most diverse kitchen because it’s a whole fucking continent. It has grasslands, mountains, coasts, lakes, everything and each microclimate you could imagine. I doubt, OTOH, that you’ve ever seen a Michelin rated restaurant from the inside.
I’ve been to one and two star places, never three stars (some day…). America has incredible food if you know what to look for. Some of the best Korean, Chinese, and Indian I’ve had in particular. It’s also a giant country with many immigrants, so it’s kinda obvious that it has good food. And southern food is great too.
I have not doubted that. It has, however., nothimg to do with the kind of cuisine you’d attract Michelin’s attention with. I also know a bit of the more sophisticated American (regional and international) kitchen and it is, IMIO, much better than most people believe. (Piece of cake, because you can get next to everything there.) However, most people also have no idea what the French kitchen or to some extent the more regional parts of the Italian kitchen (or Basque, or Catalan) might be about. I honestly don’t think the US really are playing in that league.
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meanwhile everyone in the world, who traveled to the US, will tell you that even the produce has no flavor.
US food is objectively terrible compared to other nations.
This depends. In my experience anything processed tastes horrible because of chemical and sugar overload. But you can get great ingredients! Much better than here in Germany anyway.
And there are many more diverse great restaurants than in most places in Germany, ngl. In the US, you can go to any small town and find a great homemade style Korean place, or something like that. No such luck in Germany, they’ll serve you 14€ frozen pizza.
(In my experience anyway. These are large countries, so none of this is rule, just personal experience)
The winner is no questions Italy, though. Best pizza I ever had was in 8€ in an Italian town with ~5000 inhabitants. Unbelievable. Only good restaurant there, though, but I’ll never forget the experience.
USA is big. Like, really, really big.
The food you get in New York City and Waco, Texas don’t have a lot in common.
except they are both grown in the US using such intensive agricultural methods that the produce itself tastes different. US meat is banned in many countries because it’s considered not suitable for human consumption.
on top of that, US fast food franchise culture has destroyed whatever food culture there was.
food is something you eat multiple times a day, if a good American meal is something you have once in a while, it doesn’t count, if Americans eat fast food garbage every day, that’s American food.
there are many large systemic issues that make the American diet garbage. not just “America bad”. Blame corporations and capitalism and all the politicians that were bribed to allow this to happen.
Not if you go to farmer’s markets
And it’s frankly absurd to suggest that the existence of fast food means all American food is bad. That makes no fucking sense.
This is the type of guy who grabs strawberries from the supermarket in February, doesn’t wonder how they got there, and compares them to farm fresh in season strawberry. The ability to have a planets worth of diverse food year round is lost on them because they had a shitty supermarket fruit out of season once
yhea, had the same thing in Spain and the produce tasted like produce.
way to agree with me that US food sucks.
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it is so amazing how you prove my point and pat your back.
there is good food only if you are rich, because nearly all American food is garbage.
yhea, good produce should be the bare fucking minimum, not the maximum.
I am not judging food culture based on what the rich can afford, or for one special meal. but for what everyone eats.
I’ve got bad news then: 90% of everyone’s food fucking sucks. Hope you enjoy the fine cuisine of flatbreads, rice, and an occasional dish that stretches an animal protein so thin you forget it’s there. If you’re lucky there might be some months old fermented junk to season it.
Or maybe you’re just racist and assume that every noble savage has access to fresh fish, fruit and veggies year-round?
i lived in Spain for 18 years, 3 in Palestine, and currently in the US.
90% of the food over there is amazing, even if plant based, and the way you dismiss good regular food is sad and telling.
good food belongs to everyone, it shouldn’t be a luxury, it’s the bare minimum. if you disagree you’ve been brainwashed by American corporations.
Again, 90% of the world doesn’t live in the culinary cradle that is the Mediterranean Sea and Fertile Crescent while also having the funds to support a diverse and interesting diet. About 30% of the world is food insecure. Rice, wheat and maize alone are about 2/3 of human caloric intake. 15 crops account for 90% of all human energy intake.
Food as hobby or art or cultural distinction is a rich country game. If you’re going to exclude special occasion (or “rich person”) food then you’re deluding yourself to think that food in the USA is worse than any but a handful of countries.
You still are clearly not accounting for how large in area the country is. There are farms that meet whatever standards you are deeming superior. Just because there’s a lot of fast food doesn’t mean there are no high class restaurants.
Europeans love to talk mad shit about how Americans know so little about other countries then drop comments like this, it’s frankly incredible
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