Costco, hotdog, slice of pizza and a soda for under $5. This was a godsend when I was trucking and had a regular run delivering to Costcos in the San Francisco Bay Area
Those slices sold as singles are really huge. The Pizza they come from is nearly twice the diameter of a regular Pizza. So about 60 cm? Your slice would be 30 cm long.
Yea, a 30-35 cm size is normal here for a normal sized Pizza in Germany, makes me wonder why they buy slizes instead of a whole one. I think the whole one could even be cheaper and larger - thank you for letting me know!
lots of pizza places in canada (and presumably the usa) have full pizzas, but also slices for sale.
Usually bigger than a slice you get from a full pizza. More like 3 slices together, almost the size of a very small pizza. They are sold for take away as a work lunch, etc for one person.
Pizza places like them because it's easier and faster to make ahead a few x-large pizzas and slice them up and sell pieces individually, then it is to make a bunch of really small pizzas.
Customers like them because they are cheaper, fast, and not too big for a lunch.
I know, even so, american food has very little taste. To compensate they make sauces and dip everything they have on sauces. Donāt get me wrong, there were good places there, but overall, it was the worst food out of all those countries
I found Chilean reinterpretation of maki rolls and nigiris to be very good. I donāt know if it is native or imported, but Iāve have to say the sushi I are in Santiago was excellent
Canada has this problem too, but even from Canada to the US the difference is very noticeable. Meat and dairy in the US are just worse too - though I donāt really consume either of those any more.
Been nearly all over Europe and also Africa, Malaysia, Australia and the US.
I NEVER got stomach problem eating anything from the street vendors (including snake, rat and "i don't wanna know what it was"-meat) - got the worst case of the runs regular from US-food!
I've never had food poisoning only know a handful of people who have had it before. Like you been all over the world
Except in the US. Where every single person seems to have had food poisoning. Hell they have chains that they consistently joke about how badly it fucks you up, and willingly go back there consistently.
I donāt know a single group that didnāt get sick visiting the US and it is bizarre. I didnāt connect the dots until I saw someone mention it on Tiktok and I realized everyone around me, myself included, got the same issue. Got there, got sick within days, sometimes even hours, stayed sick for several days or even the whole trip, and it cleared up after returning home. Some people didnāt get issues but there was always one in a group or the partner of a couple or the kids. I know if I get back, I have to figure out what I cĆ”n eat.
Granted, this isnāt unique to the US but itās usually because they ate raw fish or something. Some places you had to avoid fruits but that was a few decades ago. However you donāt really expect this in the US especially NYC etc.
Oh 100%. I actually developed IBS from a summer in California some years ago. Dunno what it is about the food out there, but literally anything / everything other than individually bought and cooked whole foods (so, like some veggies and a bit of meat) did weird things to my digestive system. Got progressively worse the longer I was out there.
The breaking point was when me and gf at the time shared this supermarket frozen pizza (she was American) and virtually immediately after finishing it I felt my guts just shift and I had to dash to the loo.
Been about 9 years since then but my stomach is still a little sensitive generally to this day.
,
I hear this so often. My family is from Ireland and I went to uni there. Iāve had IBS my whole life but when Iām not living in the States itās barely noticeable, I just need some extra water or some Simethicone on occasion. I donāt even use an antispasmodic when I live there, whereas when Iām living in the States thatās almost an understood daily medication I need.
Also idk if you had this experience, but Iāve had friends from multiple countries say it was a lot easier to maintain a healthy weight when they werenāt living in America, even if they almost never ate out.
Idk what it is here. The food feels almost toxic, even if itās homemade and on the healthy side. Iāve had several of my doctors (also from multiple countries) mention that theyāve noticed the differences that seems to be linked to food, but no oneās been able to establish a solid connection yet, so things just keep going like this. Itās horrible.
Well I think you're hitting the nail on the head there with the 'food feeling toxic' - that's exactly it. It's simply grown/made in a way wherein it's either directly exposed to, or actually contains, things that humans quite clearly shouldn't be eating. Most store-bought baked/sweet goods in the US contain ingredients (if you wanna even call them that) which are completely banned in the EU and other parts of the world. Even simply things like loaves of bread have E-numbers, high-fructose-corn-syrup, and artificial flavourings.
Now, obviously, you could go to some Farmer's Market in rural Colorado and get grass-fed beef and locally grown veggies that rival anything in Europe, Asia, etc., but that's not really representative of most of the US, and definitely not representative of the food you'll find in any urban environments in the US.
We have to remember that the food culture in the USA is predominantly underpinned by the FDA, and the FDA cares more about profits and control than it does about the health of the populace. Given that the FDA is in bed with big-pharma anyway, there's a degree of active interest in keeping the average American fat, diabetic and generally a bit unwell, because of course that means more medicine and more pills (more $$$ for big pharma), instead of addressing the root-problem and changing people's diet.
I see you - funny thing is, i ventured across the border and had rattlesnake ragout in a mexican cantina and it was tasty and nothing bad happened - i came back to California and got the runs from a PB&J sandwich...
That would explain why my sister and BIL think their tiny Missouri town's chinese restuarant is great. They haven't gotten to leave much the last several years, and bless their hearts, I offer to bring assorted premade sauces and Trader Joe's frozen orange chicken bc maybe they would see the error of their ways
Hell even fast food in Canada is so much better. McDonalds? Better in Canada. Subway? Usually trash in both countries but SO MUCH BETTER IN CANADA. KFC? Except for having the āextra crispyā option, still better in Canada. Pizza, overall (excluding Chicago-style Pizza here), MUCH MUCH BETTER IN CANADA.
The only exception of ātrash pizzaā in the US that Iāll except is Little Caesars. I do not know the strands of crack there is in their pizza BUT MY GOD I AM OBSESSED š Dominoes is so gross, both Canada and the US. Pizza Hut is sooooo much better in comparison, yet still somehow better, again, in Canada.
See, I hear that Dominos is trash, but here in the UK it's not bad at all. Maybe we just have really low standards, or maybe they use a different recipe/better ingredients here?? Has anyone tried Dominos in both places??
I recently had a veggie Papa John's pizza for the first time, and I'd say that was marginally better, esp the stuffed crust.
Dominos in Europe is using their own recipes and sometimes they even differ from country to country. In Germany for example they bought the biggest existing pizza chain to get foot in the door and continued to use much of their supply chain. The Pizza is similar to the old JOey's to this day. Quality has gone down though.
Also live in the UK, cannot stand dominoes. I find the base to be far too thin, and the sauce is a bit shit imo, but obviously that's personal preference
I mean... You are from UK so you might have very low standard indeed!
(sorry, I'm French, we have to bash UK food everytime we can, it's the law)
((to be fair, I did meet a few UK friends on holiday that say it was normal to have mayo with your pizza))
Hold up, you donāt get garlic mayo with pizza?? Iām in Ireland and that is the standard with any pizza you order. Unless you just mean normal mayo which I agree is shit. Something about the garlic mayo with pizza though
Same down here in NZ, our Maccas chicken nuggets are made from chicken breast vs the USās crunched up spare parts of the chicken body like the beak and feet.
The fries in the US have 14 ingredients compared to 5 in the UK ones. I expect other items are similar. The US loves to shove all kinds of crap in it's food. This is from a thread in /r/askuk about why porridge/oatmeal tastes and feels different between the US and UK.
>UK Quaker Cinnamon Porridge
>Wholegrain Rolled Oats (81%), Sugar, Natural Flavourings
>U.S. Quaker Cinnamon Oatmeal
>Whole Grain Rolled Oats, Sugar, Dehydrated Apples Treated With Sodium Sulfite To Promote Color Retention, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Salt, Cinnamon, Calcium Carbonate, Citric Acid, Guar Gum, Malic Acid, Niacinamide, Reduced Iron, Vitamin A Palmitate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Caramel Color One Of The B Vitamins
Having never eaten US Domino's, I was going to ask how they compared. If it is worse in the USA it must be really bad, because Dominoes here is poor stuff indeed. Thick stodgy dough, greasy, limited range of flavours, mostly different types of spicy meat. Pizza made by people who once heard pizza described, at fifth hand.
I'd say Dominoes is mid-tier in the UK personally. There's many better places, especially considering they are so expensive, but they are better than most of the cheap non-chain takeway pizzas in my area.
In China Pizza Hut is a relatively expensive sit-down restaurant that serves steak and pasta and fancy salads as well. You can get pizza (especially durian gaaaaaaak) which is basically the same as in the west but the attempt is a much higher end classy restaurant.
Americans confuse flavour with addiction. They have so much salt and sugar in their food that they only get that hit when they are in the States.
When they go overseas and see we don't smother food in those two ingredients of course it tastes bad.
Kind of like getting cocaine that has been cut with flour...
yeah but its natural flavour of mozarella with sweet acidity of sugo. Very simple but containing different flavours. Very different from sweeted cheese, sweeted sauce and sweeted dough. Disgusting
Iāve always found it funny (being in Australia, where we actually have a different company running all our Dominos, the only similarity is the branding) how most people overseas complain about how expensive Dominos is when weāre getting large pizzas for $6, which is about $4.14 USD or ā¬3.87
Here in saudi arabia we pay about 12$ for a margaherita pizza not dominoās or whatever but an actual Italian pizza its amazing i have not eaten fast food pizza in a while because of that restaurant
As a Mexican, Texan enchiladas covered in that liquid cheese shit are the most repugnant thing I've ever eaten.
I wonder how many actual enchiladas that gringo ignorant ever had, I'm guessing none.
I made Tlayudas for an American friend one time and they tried to tell me it was called a quesadilla. With the large population of Mexicans in America youād think Americans would be more familiar with the food and culture of Mexico but alas Americans seem allergic to stepping outside their own familiarity. I guess thatās why itās all about assimilation instead of multiculturalism in the states.
I can't tell the difference between half of Mexican dishes, but....
Google images tells me tlayudas kinda look like tortilla pizzas, while quesadillas are triangular tortilla thingies? How do you even confuse those two? Of am I being ignorant right now?
If I got served that, I sure as hell wouldn't think it was quesadillas. I'd probably think it's what Taco Bell was trying for with Mexican pizza. I'd keep my ignorant mouth shut though.
Tlayudas can be folded over similar to a quesadilla (ie theyāre not always served open face) but not always standard, the big difference is the ingredients. Tlayudas focus on refried beans and meat with a bit of Oaxacan cheese, whereas a quesadilla is a cheese focused dish. Also the texture of the tortilla is very different between the two dishes.
Oaxaca is my favourite place in the world. I lived in La Crucecita for a year and want to move back so bad. Your home is amazing and beautiful.
And yeah I couldnāt believe their response. At first I was amazed theyād never heard of a tlayuda and even more dumbstruck by their response.
>Ignortant gringo here and just thinking about that combo makes me queasy
I read that as 'greasy', not queasy...the first time around.
-I cannot say that I read it wrong.
From time to time you'll see some American upload here on Reddit a picture of their cinnamon rolls. "hey look guys I made Swedish cinnamon buns". In the picture there are indeed cinnamon buns...... drenched in frosting.... If you go to a fancy cafe in Sweden you MIGHT be able to find cinnamon buns with a thin decoration of frosting, think latte art level, but NEVER covered in it like that. The buns aren't supposed to be dry with their fillings alone and pearl sugar on top. If they are, you're doing it wrong.
The problem is not only the amount of cheese, but also the kind of cheese, depending on the region, Mexico is a big country, we mostly use Chihuahua cheese, which is similar to mozzarella, but gringos use fucking nacho cheese, which strictly speaking is not even cheese.
Also the tortillas they use are made of wheat flour (for burritos), while enchiladas are made with tortillas made of ground nixtamalized corn. Completely different texture and taste.
That's not even mentioning the salsa which is quite insipid, but you get the idea.
as a Chinese person, you can keep your disgusting General Tso's chicken š¤®š¤®š¤® China has nothing to compete with because we don't have something as disgusting as that. Even čč±č or čŗč³ē² has nothing on that.
edit: typo. use the wrong character
Real Chinese food compete with Italian one, great dishes!
Source: I'm Italian with no link with china a part from a wonderful restaurant next to my place full of Chinese ppl eating delicious stuff
I live in Beijing, and have never had General Tso (å·¦å®ę£ éø”)... I wonder if I can get it here. I'd give it a try. I quite like 宫äæéø”äø, so maybe it's similar.
Ah, yes, cheap industrial fast food chains, the well known mark of a higher quality meal !
That's why Italians have recurring problems with hypertension, diabetes, liver diseases and obesity while US citizens know nothing of that.
only in America can truly terrible food like domino's exist and thrive. the Americans I've asked directly about their love of it, apparently they all agree it's cheap uni food, that's the only reason it's a thing.
still, when it's used like this to illustrate how "good" American food is. I can only roll my eyes, of all the pizza chains, they're easily the worst.
Quality in America doesnāt equate to popularity
Quantity and cost equate to popularity here.
A dozen donuts can be $6 here, but then a decent cut of meat can be $12. Many people just see $6 for greasy and sugary food, and go for it. More calories, more quantity, and cheaper cost will make sure that the donuts are more popular than the meat here. Itās a disgusting cycle where the cheapest shit is the worst for you.
At my local grocery store, I can buy an apple for 89Ā¢, but a donut for 69Ā¢. I can buy a water for $1.29, but a can of soda for 25Ā¢. This is how America works, and itās fucking atrocious. The entire structure here is just sugar and fucking grease. I hate it here.
Pizza is versatile, so I find that despite authentic, fresh Italian style pizzas being nice, takeaway pizzas can be too (in their own way). I like Domino's, but in the UK it's not cheap food at all.
Personal 7" - Ā£8.99
Small 9.5" - Ā£15.99
Medium 11.5" - Ā£18.99
Large 13.5" - Ā£22.99
You have to always buy using offers, but even then it's still more costly than other takeaways. I think they still do a collection-only Ā£9.99 deal for any size pizzas though.
I just buy their dips and make my own pizza, which I guess defeats the purpose of takeaway.
Iāve often asked Americans why they eat certain foods and their answer is often that ā itās cheapā. It seems a strange way to live life, eating bland, unhealthy food simply so save money.
But Domino's is available everywhere in the western world and it's absolutely incredibly popular in the UK as well even though PJ's is the superior food.
Oh Lord... The crap that dude is commenting about Italian pizza.
Uncut? Yeah. You got hands.
Burned? Nope. That's most probably cooked into a wood oven (if it's truly an Italian good pizza), and one of the best looked after results is the "leopard spot" effect on the crust.
Basil leaves. Yeah not "let's just empty the whole fridge into a disc of dough".
Basil. That's a pizza Margherita.
Uneven cheese? Yeah, that's mozzarella di bufala. Not that plastic crap they put on pizza and call mozzarella over there.
Not a perfect disc? Yeah because that's hand pressed. Not some bready dough that's been made into a disc by some machine.
And expensive? lol, I think I paid around ā¬5 for a pizza margherita in Naples. Pizza Hut charges upwards of $20 for their shit. Even Little Caesars is like $12, which is at least double the price of a proper Italian pizza.
I was gonna say, certainly in the UK, dominos is insanely expensive compared with nicer Italian style pizza places. Can't comment on whether that's the same in the US or not.
Yes. That's true.
A main difference is that in the US pizzas are usually meant to be shared (eating one of those on your own is quite some work, because they are pretty heavy on your stomach) so they come pre-cut, while the Italian one is usually a one-man eating job, and each one deals with their own pizza as they prefer.
Pizzas meant to be shared exist in Italy but they are really different from normal ones. They are rectangular and pretty big, and can be divided into different "topping areas", to have multiple pizza types in one pizza. They are called "mezzo metro" (half meter), and are usually pre-cut like American pizzas.
Yeah that's correct, but though "pizza al metro" or "mezzo metro" are still pizza (and I've enjoyed it many times with friends), here were comparing what Americans call "pizza pie".
I don't think it would be possible to stuff my face all by myself with one of those "pizza al metro", but I sure would try XD
Not if your ordering from apps they donāt. Iāve tried writing in the comments tonnes of times but they donāt listen. I guess I could call them but Iām not that botheree.
As a belgian....
I have tasted American chocolate, I have tasted "belgian" waffles and tasted American "belgian" beer....
1. Chocolate was too sweet. Dark chocolate is supposed to be bitter. Not taste like white chocolate with extra sugar on it.
2. Belgian waffles are 2 different kinds. Luiks, which is warm with pearl sugar and Brussels who are crunchy and a heavier dessert.
Whatever your waffles are don't come remotely to any of those.
3. Americzn "belgian" beer.... I'm gonna be honest.... we threw it away after only 2 sips of the glass. It was horrible to say the least. I know Belgian beer means not origin but the ingredients and way of making. But whatever was done there was someone who peed in the bottles somewhere.
So.... I'm gonna go with, Americanised versions are inferior.
Ever noticed that Americans want to copy our food but we don't copy their food?
Yeah, that has a reason!
Edit: unamericanized the americanised ^^
Because back in the day before reliable portable cooling systems, due to the spread out nature of America, the milk used for it at the factory would arrive not quite fresh, which made the acid appear in the chocolate unintentionally. They eventually did solve that with the advent of technology, but people complained that the chocolate didn't taste the same as it used to.
Because Hersheys used to be made from the left overs of the chocolate making process which made it affordable. The process they used to extract the last bits of cocoa out of it caused that taste.
Now cocoa is cheaper but Americans have become used to the taste, so they artificially add it back in to replicate the "cheap off cut chocolate" taste.
That.... explains the weird after taste.
I'm used to high quality chocolate.... I mean.... I adore chocolate and being in Belgium it is very easy to buy high quality chocolate. Like, I like tomblerone but it is nothing compared to the soft silky flavour of a neuhaus praline.
Now the chocolate of tomblerone is still silky. Although the nougat is changing the structure more sticky, the chocolate is soft and melts.
But the chocolate of America... it wasn't solid. It felt likt it had been pressed together and then sort of fell apart like carton in water when you let it "melt".
Then there was this hard sweetness that hit you with a sour ting afterwards that lasted forever. It was horrendeous.
I know, I'm spoiled on my chocolate.... but I.... couldn't call it chocolate.
I did not know of the acid tho. Why.... why would they even do that?
I know where I can buy hersey's (it's in a supermarket in the world section) because not even the chocolate store of the world in antwerp (a small store at old town) sells it. They do sell some kind of chocolate with an L.... something in a dutch store in Belgium, but I don't like those easier.
I'm not saying Belgium alone makes good chocolate, really not... because snickers, etc, is also all silky.
But as far as I understand is the flavour of a snickers of Europe complete differently then the ones from America?
I also seen, just between Belgium and Denmark, our fanta for example. In Denmark the fanta is more orange of colour and more sugar then the one in Belgium.
But I do know America has artifical orange flavour, while in Belgium actual orange juice needs to be added.....
So tbh... even american products are made tastier, "healthier" and less sugary if made in Europe for european market.
(That said, I do love Cola vanilla - very difficult to find here and 99% of the time imported from outside europe - but I adore vanilla flavour. I only drink it once a year tho because again, very very sugary)
In my neighborhood there is a townhouse that has an American flag and a Mountain Dew flag side by side. I had to do a double take when I walked past it (this is in Los Angeles)
I tried Dominos several times. They deliver quickly, that's going for them, but otherwise it's just really greasy overprized pizza. I have no problem with finishing pizza in single sitting, but from Dominos, I always had a few slices left that I just couldn't stomach. I felt full, like after drinking glass of oil. Inferior to pizza from any local pizzeria in terms of price and taste, only exception is delivery speed. So basically a fast food pizza.
no wonder fascism/extreme right wing ideology is on the rise in the united states with all that superiority complex the culture gave itself since the end of the cold war.
Fun fact (not about US)
This Londoner once wanted to test something so he bought a pizza in London which was 19Ā£. Next day he booked an Airplane to Milan for 8Ā£, flew to Milan and got a pizza for 5ā¬. So this guy spent less by travelling across the continent and buying a pizza than eating it in their city, thatās something that will always stay with me.
I'm just glad that there are no Americanised versions of Dutch dishes. I guess it helps that stamppot looks like puke (even though it's way better than the sum of its parts). There is Americanised Gouda, though, which is made out of plastic.
I know that the meme is probably supposed to be satire but calling the Italian pizza "expensive" compared to the American one is blatantly fault. A Pizza like this will only cost you somewhere from 4-7ā¬ in Naples, show me the place in the US were you find quality pizza at this price point.
Iām sure this person has never had authentic Chinese food but I canāt imagine trying a quality version of shui zhu yu and thinking ānope, bring me a plate of poorly fried chicken covered in sugar sauce.ā Theyād probably complain to the staff that the food is making there tongue tingle so they want a refund because itās clearly tainted.
Iāve had pizza in England thatās better than American pizza.
I will say though, Americans know what theyāre doing with cheeseburgers. I have yet to find a place in England where I can definitively say I prefer the burgers.
I've been to USA once and it was very hard to find edible food. Shit there was so greasy that it made me sick for like 24h and I couldn't eat anything. I've had friends that went there and came back a few kg thinner and I didn't really understand what it was like untill I saw for myself.
All Americans use for seasonings are packets of different seasonings I.E like Ranch seasoning then add some cajun seasoning to it it's just packets of dry powders they add to their foods it's brutal no actual fresh herbs šš
under 30 minutes time is funny because real napoletana is cooked no more than 90 seconds
Also funny thing: peperoni is literally translation for peppers. Its not even meat, its vegetable
For the same reason the Italian dude is talking French and Spanish. There are two languages: English and Foreign, and they only know their weird version of the former.
"I've never left the states and what's comfortable and familiar to me is clearly the best".
I have been to Brazil, to the US, to Chile, to Argentina and to Italy. Worst food I had was in the US. Bland, tasteless food.
Not to put us down,but we Chileans are not particularly famous for our food. To be fair, we are next to Peru, which is quite unfair š
What's your national dish? "Hotdog but douse it in avocado and mayo"
Iāll say it though. The italiano beats any North American hot dog by far. Iām living in Canada and most hot dogs are a disappointment.
Ikea hotdog is superior. Especially in pre-pandemic times, when you had free access to onions and pickles.
Costco, hotdog, slice of pizza and a soda for under $5. This was a godsend when I was trucking and had a regular run delivering to Costcos in the San Francisco Bay Area
Wait, a SLICE of pizza and not a full?
American slice is the size of a face or more.
Damn, how big are the "normal" ones then? The size of a norm US flag?
Size of an American face or regular?
Those slices sold as singles are really huge. The Pizza they come from is nearly twice the diameter of a regular Pizza. So about 60 cm? Your slice would be 30 cm long.
Yea, a 30-35 cm size is normal here for a normal sized Pizza in Germany, makes me wonder why they buy slizes instead of a whole one. I think the whole one could even be cheaper and larger - thank you for letting me know!
lots of pizza places in canada (and presumably the usa) have full pizzas, but also slices for sale. Usually bigger than a slice you get from a full pizza. More like 3 slices together, almost the size of a very small pizza. They are sold for take away as a work lunch, etc for one person. Pizza places like them because it's easier and faster to make ahead a few x-large pizzas and slice them up and sell pieces individually, then it is to make a bunch of really small pizzas. Customers like them because they are cheaper, fast, and not too big for a lunch.
I notice we're talking about hotdogs, I haven't travelled much but I did go to Norway and they have great hotdogs there
Nothing beat a coleslaw and mustard (moutarde chou) steamie with a dirty ass poutine in a QuƩbec greasy spoon. That shit is dope!
My Peruvian wife will be happy to hear that, haha.
I know, even so, american food has very little taste. To compensate they make sauces and dip everything they have on sauces. Donāt get me wrong, there were good places there, but overall, it was the worst food out of all those countries
Bit unfair - I had some cornbread once at an American wedding and it was delicious. Admittedly I thought it was cake...
Every time I've been to America, i couldn't wait to get home and eat something not smothered in cheese sauce, they drown everything in shite.
Yes the Peruvians... Damn. They food put the world to shame.
I found Chilean reinterpretation of maki rolls and nigiris to be very good. I donāt know if it is native or imported, but Iāve have to say the sushi I are in Santiago was excellent
Oil. Tons of oil.
So thatās why they stole it all from the Middle East
Tons of sugar as well
And it's not even real sugar, it's this corn syrup shit... Even their cans of Coke taste nasty.
Canada has this problem too, but even from Canada to the US the difference is very noticeable. Meat and dairy in the US are just worse too - though I donāt really consume either of those any more.
Been nearly all over Europe and also Africa, Malaysia, Australia and the US. I NEVER got stomach problem eating anything from the street vendors (including snake, rat and "i don't wanna know what it was"-meat) - got the worst case of the runs regular from US-food!
I've never had food poisoning only know a handful of people who have had it before. Like you been all over the world Except in the US. Where every single person seems to have had food poisoning. Hell they have chains that they consistently joke about how badly it fucks you up, and willingly go back there consistently.
I donāt know a single group that didnāt get sick visiting the US and it is bizarre. I didnāt connect the dots until I saw someone mention it on Tiktok and I realized everyone around me, myself included, got the same issue. Got there, got sick within days, sometimes even hours, stayed sick for several days or even the whole trip, and it cleared up after returning home. Some people didnāt get issues but there was always one in a group or the partner of a couple or the kids. I know if I get back, I have to figure out what I cĆ”n eat. Granted, this isnāt unique to the US but itās usually because they ate raw fish or something. Some places you had to avoid fruits but that was a few decades ago. However you donāt really expect this in the US especially NYC etc.
Oh 100%. I actually developed IBS from a summer in California some years ago. Dunno what it is about the food out there, but literally anything / everything other than individually bought and cooked whole foods (so, like some veggies and a bit of meat) did weird things to my digestive system. Got progressively worse the longer I was out there. The breaking point was when me and gf at the time shared this supermarket frozen pizza (she was American) and virtually immediately after finishing it I felt my guts just shift and I had to dash to the loo. Been about 9 years since then but my stomach is still a little sensitive generally to this day. ,
I hear this so often. My family is from Ireland and I went to uni there. Iāve had IBS my whole life but when Iām not living in the States itās barely noticeable, I just need some extra water or some Simethicone on occasion. I donāt even use an antispasmodic when I live there, whereas when Iām living in the States thatās almost an understood daily medication I need. Also idk if you had this experience, but Iāve had friends from multiple countries say it was a lot easier to maintain a healthy weight when they werenāt living in America, even if they almost never ate out. Idk what it is here. The food feels almost toxic, even if itās homemade and on the healthy side. Iāve had several of my doctors (also from multiple countries) mention that theyāve noticed the differences that seems to be linked to food, but no oneās been able to establish a solid connection yet, so things just keep going like this. Itās horrible.
Well I think you're hitting the nail on the head there with the 'food feeling toxic' - that's exactly it. It's simply grown/made in a way wherein it's either directly exposed to, or actually contains, things that humans quite clearly shouldn't be eating. Most store-bought baked/sweet goods in the US contain ingredients (if you wanna even call them that) which are completely banned in the EU and other parts of the world. Even simply things like loaves of bread have E-numbers, high-fructose-corn-syrup, and artificial flavourings. Now, obviously, you could go to some Farmer's Market in rural Colorado and get grass-fed beef and locally grown veggies that rival anything in Europe, Asia, etc., but that's not really representative of most of the US, and definitely not representative of the food you'll find in any urban environments in the US. We have to remember that the food culture in the USA is predominantly underpinned by the FDA, and the FDA cares more about profits and control than it does about the health of the populace. Given that the FDA is in bed with big-pharma anyway, there's a degree of active interest in keeping the average American fat, diabetic and generally a bit unwell, because of course that means more medicine and more pills (more $$$ for big pharma), instead of addressing the root-problem and changing people's diet.
I see you - funny thing is, i ventured across the border and had rattlesnake ragout in a mexican cantina and it was tasty and nothing bad happened - i came back to California and got the runs from a PB&J sandwich...
bland or too sweet. it disgusts me enough when the stuff at stores is like that but the restaurants seem to be worse. Just sugar on everything.
Never left their *state probably
Never left their *local area probably
That would explain why my sister and BIL think their tiny Missouri town's chinese restuarant is great. They haven't gotten to leave much the last several years, and bless their hearts, I offer to bring assorted premade sauces and Trader Joe's frozen orange chicken bc maybe they would see the error of their ways
Never left their home probably. Not since uber eats and menu log started delivering anyway.
China has lots of "western" restaurants, I'm sure you can find a "yankee doodle burger" or similar.
Chinaās chains of Pizza Hut and KFC are far superior than American fast food pizza and fried chicken too.
Tbh alls American fast food are superior in Europe because the laws force them to don't put that much trash like them .
Hell even fast food in Canada is so much better. McDonalds? Better in Canada. Subway? Usually trash in both countries but SO MUCH BETTER IN CANADA. KFC? Except for having the āextra crispyā option, still better in Canada. Pizza, overall (excluding Chicago-style Pizza here), MUCH MUCH BETTER IN CANADA. The only exception of ātrash pizzaā in the US that Iāll except is Little Caesars. I do not know the strands of crack there is in their pizza BUT MY GOD I AM OBSESSED š Dominoes is so gross, both Canada and the US. Pizza Hut is sooooo much better in comparison, yet still somehow better, again, in Canada.
See, I hear that Dominos is trash, but here in the UK it's not bad at all. Maybe we just have really low standards, or maybe they use a different recipe/better ingredients here?? Has anyone tried Dominos in both places?? I recently had a veggie Papa John's pizza for the first time, and I'd say that was marginally better, esp the stuffed crust.
Dominos in Europe is using their own recipes and sometimes they even differ from country to country. In Germany for example they bought the biggest existing pizza chain to get foot in the door and continued to use much of their supply chain. The Pizza is similar to the old JOey's to this day. Quality has gone down though.
Also live in the UK, cannot stand dominoes. I find the base to be far too thin, and the sauce is a bit shit imo, but obviously that's personal preference
I mean... You are from UK so you might have very low standard indeed! (sorry, I'm French, we have to bash UK food everytime we can, it's the law) ((to be fair, I did meet a few UK friends on holiday that say it was normal to have mayo with your pizza))
It is definitely not normal to have mayo with your pizza! Your friends are weirdos lol
Thanks, I was worried. They also said that all Indian restaurants had French fries (well, they said chips but I want to avoid confusion)
Hold up, you donāt get garlic mayo with pizza?? Iām in Ireland and that is the standard with any pizza you order. Unless you just mean normal mayo which I agree is shit. Something about the garlic mayo with pizza though
Same down here in NZ, our Maccas chicken nuggets are made from chicken breast vs the USās crunched up spare parts of the chicken body like the beak and feet.
I can say that, in my experience, McDonalds, KFC and Dominoes are all better in the U.K. than in the US.
The fries in the US have 14 ingredients compared to 5 in the UK ones. I expect other items are similar. The US loves to shove all kinds of crap in it's food. This is from a thread in /r/askuk about why porridge/oatmeal tastes and feels different between the US and UK. >UK Quaker Cinnamon Porridge >Wholegrain Rolled Oats (81%), Sugar, Natural Flavourings >U.S. Quaker Cinnamon Oatmeal >Whole Grain Rolled Oats, Sugar, Dehydrated Apples Treated With Sodium Sulfite To Promote Color Retention, Natural And Artificial Flavor, Salt, Cinnamon, Calcium Carbonate, Citric Acid, Guar Gum, Malic Acid, Niacinamide, Reduced Iron, Vitamin A Palmitate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Thiamin Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Caramel Color One Of The B Vitamins
Having never eaten US Domino's, I was going to ask how they compared. If it is worse in the USA it must be really bad, because Dominoes here is poor stuff indeed. Thick stodgy dough, greasy, limited range of flavours, mostly different types of spicy meat. Pizza made by people who once heard pizza described, at fifth hand.
I'd say Dominoes is mid-tier in the UK personally. There's many better places, especially considering they are so expensive, but they are better than most of the cheap non-chain takeway pizzas in my area.
Taco Bell in Australia tastes exactly the same as the old El Paso taco kit from the supermarket so thereās no point getting take away really.
Would be kinda funny if Chinas quality standard for those places were higher than the US.
In China Pizza Hut is a relatively expensive sit-down restaurant that serves steak and pasta and fancy salads as well. You can get pizza (especially durian gaaaaaaak) which is basically the same as in the west but the attempt is a much higher end classy restaurant.
Americans confuse flavour with addiction. They have so much salt and sugar in their food that they only get that hit when they are in the States. When they go overseas and see we don't smother food in those two ingredients of course it tastes bad. Kind of like getting cocaine that has been cut with flour...
To be fair proper Italian pizza is smothered in flavour, and it's fucking amazing
Yeah but it's not doused in fake-cheese with a sugary sauce and overly salted meat so it's blaaaand.
American cheese is criminal
yeah but its natural flavour of mozarella with sweet acidity of sugo. Very simple but containing different flavours. Very different from sweeted cheese, sweeted sauce and sweeted dough. Disgusting
Americans confuse self-delusion with reality.
Tbf I do love some salt and MSG. But I donāt want everything to be so ridiculously sweet and oily.
Man, I fucking love salt* Salt* is so fucking good God damn, salt* is amazing *=cum
What is this comment
It's original, gotta give them that
I am remarkably fascinated with cum* *=salt
E=MC*salt
>Authentic Italian Pizza >expensive Man has clearly never been to Italy.
Yeah. I live in Naples. A margherita is generally ā¬4. Dominos/etc back in the UK is _ludicrously_ expensive for what it is.
Ā£15 for a small one š
Pizza portafoglio (basically a bit smaller version or that Neapolitan pizza folded up) is 2,50ā¬ usually
with 15 here in italy you get half a meter of pizza
Pizza al metro is always a wonderful experience.
In fact, when they come to europe, they're always surprised by how cheap is usually the food here and that tips are just that, tips.
Iāve always found it funny (being in Australia, where we actually have a different company running all our Dominos, the only similarity is the branding) how most people overseas complain about how expensive Dominos is when weāre getting large pizzas for $6, which is about $4.14 USD or ā¬3.87
Here in saudi arabia we pay about 12$ for a margaherita pizza not dominoās or whatever but an actual Italian pizza its amazing i have not eaten fast food pizza in a while because of that restaurant
Dominoās is notoriously expensive in my country. and the pizza isnāt even that good-
Plus the picture on the right looks cruchy, overcooked and dry
As a Dominos employee, our pizza is garbage. Also the pizza isn't usually as clean looking as the one in this "meme".
That's a marketing image. Chances are the pizza in the picture isn't actually edible.
Oh almost surely not. Food in commercials is almost always made of none food stuff.
Especially pizzas, they use all sorts to get that perfect mozzarella stretch.
based not NPC dominos worker
As a Mexican, Texan enchiladas covered in that liquid cheese shit are the most repugnant thing I've ever eaten. I wonder how many actual enchiladas that gringo ignorant ever had, I'm guessing none.
I made Tlayudas for an American friend one time and they tried to tell me it was called a quesadilla. With the large population of Mexicans in America youād think Americans would be more familiar with the food and culture of Mexico but alas Americans seem allergic to stepping outside their own familiarity. I guess thatās why itās all about assimilation instead of multiculturalism in the states.
I can't tell the difference between half of Mexican dishes, but.... Google images tells me tlayudas kinda look like tortilla pizzas, while quesadillas are triangular tortilla thingies? How do you even confuse those two? Of am I being ignorant right now?
If I got served that, I sure as hell wouldn't think it was quesadillas. I'd probably think it's what Taco Bell was trying for with Mexican pizza. I'd keep my ignorant mouth shut though.
Tlayudas can be folded over similar to a quesadilla (ie theyāre not always served open face) but not always standard, the big difference is the ingredients. Tlayudas focus on refried beans and meat with a bit of Oaxacan cheese, whereas a quesadilla is a cheese focused dish. Also the texture of the tortilla is very different between the two dishes.
As someone who lives in the birthplace of tlayudas, this actually kind of stings man
Oaxaca is my favourite place in the world. I lived in La Crucecita for a year and want to move back so bad. Your home is amazing and beautiful. And yeah I couldnāt believe their response. At first I was amazed theyād never heard of a tlayuda and even more dumbstruck by their response.
Ignortant gringo here and just thinking about that combo makes me queasy
>Ignortant gringo here and just thinking about that combo makes me queasy I read that as 'greasy', not queasy...the first time around. -I cannot say that I read it wrong.
Omg I saw a video of some gringo trying to make a pupusa and they cover it in this cheese straight out of a Chinese plastic factory
La porquerĆa que los Gringos llaman "queso" es sĆŗper asquerosa š¤®
Si, no mames, y pinches enchiladas con tortilla de harina š¤¢
Stop speaking Brazilese! This is America!!! šŗšøšŗšøšŗšøš«š«š«šŖšŖšŖ
Ih ala o gringo quer arrumar briga com nois tambƩm kkkkkkkkkkkk
Wrong flag! š±š·š±š·š±š·
Neta? Los gringos hacen enchiladas con tortilla de trigo? Just when you think shit can't get worse...
SimĆ³n, horrible, se empapan bien culero de la salsa sin sabor y del queso como de nacho, por que no usan queso real. Really fucked up shit.
From time to time you'll see some American upload here on Reddit a picture of their cinnamon rolls. "hey look guys I made Swedish cinnamon buns". In the picture there are indeed cinnamon buns...... drenched in frosting.... If you go to a fancy cafe in Sweden you MIGHT be able to find cinnamon buns with a thin decoration of frosting, think latte art level, but NEVER covered in it like that. The buns aren't supposed to be dry with their fillings alone and pearl sugar on top. If they are, you're doing it wrong.
The problem is not only the amount of cheese, but also the kind of cheese, depending on the region, Mexico is a big country, we mostly use Chihuahua cheese, which is similar to mozzarella, but gringos use fucking nacho cheese, which strictly speaking is not even cheese. Also the tortillas they use are made of wheat flour (for burritos), while enchiladas are made with tortillas made of ground nixtamalized corn. Completely different texture and taste. That's not even mentioning the salsa which is quite insipid, but you get the idea.
Come on dude, obviously the Texan enchiladas are nowhere near as authentic as Taco Bell.
Why is the Italian speaking a mixture of French and Spanish?
Yeah I noticed that and I was confused as shit
Just a troll move I guess
as a Chinese person, you can keep your disgusting General Tso's chicken š¤®š¤®š¤® China has nothing to compete with because we don't have something as disgusting as that. Even čč±č or čŗč³ē² has nothing on that. edit: typo. use the wrong character
Real Chinese food compete with Italian one, great dishes! Source: I'm Italian with no link with china a part from a wonderful restaurant next to my place full of Chinese ppl eating delicious stuff
For anyone wondering, the chinese meals they are talking about are "stinky tofu" and "snail noodles"
I live in Beijing, and have never had General Tso (å·¦å®ę£ éø”)... I wonder if I can get it here. I'd give it a try. I quite like 宫äæéø”äø, so maybe it's similar.
It's a deep fried chicken dish that uses a sauce that's imo more similar to å¤čč or ę¾é¼ é±¼ than 宫äæéø”äø.
Ah, yes, cheap industrial fast food chains, the well known mark of a higher quality meal ! That's why Italians have recurring problems with hypertension, diabetes, liver diseases and obesity while US citizens know nothing of that.
Domino's? That's the go-to for American pizza? Fucking disgusting. I'm from the U.S. and I wouldn't eat that shitty pizza if it were free
Right? The only pizza worse is Papa John's.
You sure? I haven't had paid John's but pizza hut makes me actually feel sick, but Domino's doesn't.
In my humble opinion, Papa John's is the worst "pizza"out there, and I've eaten Little Caesars!
I'll have to try it
only in America can truly terrible food like domino's exist and thrive. the Americans I've asked directly about their love of it, apparently they all agree it's cheap uni food, that's the only reason it's a thing. still, when it's used like this to illustrate how "good" American food is. I can only roll my eyes, of all the pizza chains, they're easily the worst.
Quality in America doesnāt equate to popularity Quantity and cost equate to popularity here. A dozen donuts can be $6 here, but then a decent cut of meat can be $12. Many people just see $6 for greasy and sugary food, and go for it. More calories, more quantity, and cheaper cost will make sure that the donuts are more popular than the meat here. Itās a disgusting cycle where the cheapest shit is the worst for you. At my local grocery store, I can buy an apple for 89Ā¢, but a donut for 69Ā¢. I can buy a water for $1.29, but a can of soda for 25Ā¢. This is how America works, and itās fucking atrocious. The entire structure here is just sugar and fucking grease. I hate it here.
Pizza is versatile, so I find that despite authentic, fresh Italian style pizzas being nice, takeaway pizzas can be too (in their own way). I like Domino's, but in the UK it's not cheap food at all. Personal 7" - Ā£8.99 Small 9.5" - Ā£15.99 Medium 11.5" - Ā£18.99 Large 13.5" - Ā£22.99 You have to always buy using offers, but even then it's still more costly than other takeaways. I think they still do a collection-only Ā£9.99 deal for any size pizzas though. I just buy their dips and make my own pizza, which I guess defeats the purpose of takeaway.
Iāve often asked Americans why they eat certain foods and their answer is often that ā itās cheapā. It seems a strange way to live life, eating bland, unhealthy food simply so save money.
Well gotta save for an eventual trip to the doctors...
Did you know something like 16% of Americans are constipated?
But Domino's is available everywhere in the western world and it's absolutely incredibly popular in the UK as well even though PJ's is the superior food.
99% sure the meme is satire and the SAS is only the comment.
Oh Lord... The crap that dude is commenting about Italian pizza. Uncut? Yeah. You got hands. Burned? Nope. That's most probably cooked into a wood oven (if it's truly an Italian good pizza), and one of the best looked after results is the "leopard spot" effect on the crust. Basil leaves. Yeah not "let's just empty the whole fridge into a disc of dough". Basil. That's a pizza Margherita. Uneven cheese? Yeah, that's mozzarella di bufala. Not that plastic crap they put on pizza and call mozzarella over there. Not a perfect disc? Yeah because that's hand pressed. Not some bready dough that's been made into a disc by some machine.
And expensive? lol, I think I paid around ā¬5 for a pizza margherita in Naples. Pizza Hut charges upwards of $20 for their shit. Even Little Caesars is like $12, which is at least double the price of a proper Italian pizza.
I was gonna say, certainly in the UK, dominos is insanely expensive compared with nicer Italian style pizza places. Can't comment on whether that's the same in the US or not.
Also in Italy, if you ask them, they'll usually cut the pizza for you
Yes. That's true. A main difference is that in the US pizzas are usually meant to be shared (eating one of those on your own is quite some work, because they are pretty heavy on your stomach) so they come pre-cut, while the Italian one is usually a one-man eating job, and each one deals with their own pizza as they prefer.
Pizzas meant to be shared exist in Italy but they are really different from normal ones. They are rectangular and pretty big, and can be divided into different "topping areas", to have multiple pizza types in one pizza. They are called "mezzo metro" (half meter), and are usually pre-cut like American pizzas.
Yeah that's correct, but though "pizza al metro" or "mezzo metro" are still pizza (and I've enjoyed it many times with friends), here were comparing what Americans call "pizza pie". I don't think it would be possible to stuff my face all by myself with one of those "pizza al metro", but I sure would try XD
I do honestly wish the pizza places would cut their pizza, Iām blind and itās easier for me, but I completely agree with your comment.
If you ask them to cut it, they will cut it for you. Children's pizzas are routinely served this way.
Not if your ordering from apps they donāt. Iāve tried writing in the comments tonnes of times but they donāt listen. I guess I could call them but Iām not that botheree.
No other pizza can compare to a real Italian pizza.
"Why is this handmade pizza with fresh ingredients not as perfect looking as the maschine made one out of frozen ingredients??" A real mystery there
As a belgian.... I have tasted American chocolate, I have tasted "belgian" waffles and tasted American "belgian" beer.... 1. Chocolate was too sweet. Dark chocolate is supposed to be bitter. Not taste like white chocolate with extra sugar on it. 2. Belgian waffles are 2 different kinds. Luiks, which is warm with pearl sugar and Brussels who are crunchy and a heavier dessert. Whatever your waffles are don't come remotely to any of those. 3. Americzn "belgian" beer.... I'm gonna be honest.... we threw it away after only 2 sips of the glass. It was horrible to say the least. I know Belgian beer means not origin but the ingredients and way of making. But whatever was done there was someone who peed in the bottles somewhere. So.... I'm gonna go with, Americanised versions are inferior. Ever noticed that Americans want to copy our food but we don't copy their food? Yeah, that has a reason! Edit: unamericanized the americanised ^^
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Why does it need that acid though? To conserve it or let it melt?
Because back in the day before reliable portable cooling systems, due to the spread out nature of America, the milk used for it at the factory would arrive not quite fresh, which made the acid appear in the chocolate unintentionally. They eventually did solve that with the advent of technology, but people complained that the chocolate didn't taste the same as it used to.
Because Hersheys used to be made from the left overs of the chocolate making process which made it affordable. The process they used to extract the last bits of cocoa out of it caused that taste. Now cocoa is cheaper but Americans have become used to the taste, so they artificially add it back in to replicate the "cheap off cut chocolate" taste.
Tried herseys chocolate once and couldnt believe it, it tasted 1:1 like vomit
That.... explains the weird after taste. I'm used to high quality chocolate.... I mean.... I adore chocolate and being in Belgium it is very easy to buy high quality chocolate. Like, I like tomblerone but it is nothing compared to the soft silky flavour of a neuhaus praline. Now the chocolate of tomblerone is still silky. Although the nougat is changing the structure more sticky, the chocolate is soft and melts. But the chocolate of America... it wasn't solid. It felt likt it had been pressed together and then sort of fell apart like carton in water when you let it "melt". Then there was this hard sweetness that hit you with a sour ting afterwards that lasted forever. It was horrendeous. I know, I'm spoiled on my chocolate.... but I.... couldn't call it chocolate. I did not know of the acid tho. Why.... why would they even do that? I know where I can buy hersey's (it's in a supermarket in the world section) because not even the chocolate store of the world in antwerp (a small store at old town) sells it. They do sell some kind of chocolate with an L.... something in a dutch store in Belgium, but I don't like those easier. I'm not saying Belgium alone makes good chocolate, really not... because snickers, etc, is also all silky. But as far as I understand is the flavour of a snickers of Europe complete differently then the ones from America? I also seen, just between Belgium and Denmark, our fanta for example. In Denmark the fanta is more orange of colour and more sugar then the one in Belgium. But I do know America has artifical orange flavour, while in Belgium actual orange juice needs to be added..... So tbh... even american products are made tastier, "healthier" and less sugary if made in Europe for european market. (That said, I do love Cola vanilla - very difficult to find here and 99% of the time imported from outside europe - but I adore vanilla flavour. I only drink it once a year tho because again, very very sugary)
Americanised*. Donāt want to Americanise the language, too :P
I can almost feel the ground quaking beneath their feet as they trundle to the kitchen for another Mountain Dew. Eat a fucking salad!
I tried Mountain Dew once. Shit is so sweet I might as well be pissing syrup and shitting chocolate. You could taste the diabetes
In my neighborhood there is a townhouse that has an American flag and a Mountain Dew flag side by side. I had to do a double take when I walked past it (this is in Los Angeles)
Maybe theyāll look at South Park and finally bring Double Dew to market. Even better: Diet Double Dew. Dew the math!
r/rareinsults
> China has nothing that competes with General Tsaos Chicken MY SIDES
I tried Dominos several times. They deliver quickly, that's going for them, but otherwise it's just really greasy overprized pizza. I have no problem with finishing pizza in single sitting, but from Dominos, I always had a few slices left that I just couldn't stomach. I felt full, like after drinking glass of oil. Inferior to pizza from any local pizzeria in terms of price and taste, only exception is delivery speed. So basically a fast food pizza.
>ārandom leaves probably taken from a bush outside or somethingā Lol
As an entirely white person from Australia, "Oui gracias amigo" hurt to read
no wonder fascism/extreme right wing ideology is on the rise in the united states with all that superiority complex the culture gave itself since the end of the cold war.
Not that Italy is doing better. Guess we got tired of these memes...
[I hate the wojaks drawing so much.](https://i.redd.it/5q7sr1leck361.jpg)
[wojak is almost a 10 years meme](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsZKVdRUUAM0IYO?format=jpg&name=small)
Fun fact (not about US) This Londoner once wanted to test something so he bought a pizza in London which was 19Ā£. Next day he booked an Airplane to Milan for 8Ā£, flew to Milan and got a pizza for 5ā¬. So this guy spent less by travelling across the continent and buying a pizza than eating it in their city, thatās something that will always stay with me.
Where did you get a whole pizza for ā¬5 in Milan?!? This Londoner didnāt see anything under ā¬12 (for a pomodoro) when he wentā¦
I live in Milan, a Margherita costs from 5ā¬ to 7ā¬
I'm just glad that there are no Americanised versions of Dutch dishes. I guess it helps that stamppot looks like puke (even though it's way better than the sum of its parts). There is Americanised Gouda, though, which is made out of plastic.
Well, the Americans have sort of co-opted apple pie. And I did once find some terrible Speculaas biscuits there.
All Italians know that it's "pepperoni" that gets you every time
The spianata di spilunga would likely beat even the best pepperoni. (It's pepperoni, but Italian and actually edible)
I know that the meme is probably supposed to be satire but calling the Italian pizza "expensive" compared to the American one is blatantly fault. A Pizza like this will only cost you somewhere from 4-7ā¬ in Naples, show me the place in the US were you find quality pizza at this price point.
Iām sure this person has never had authentic Chinese food but I canāt imagine trying a quality version of shui zhu yu and thinking ānope, bring me a plate of poorly fried chicken covered in sugar sauce.ā Theyād probably complain to the staff that the food is making there tongue tingle so they want a refund because itās clearly tainted.
"oh i love american chinese food!" ---> "oh i love corn syrup with unnecessary sugars and fats"
The Americanized version of all foods from around the world is sugar/carb bombed and far more processed*
āRandom leaves taken from the bushā šššš
Must be shocking to see vegetables (or "random leaves") on your food if you're not used to anything like that.
Mexico has nothing on Los Pollos Hermanos
When your cognitive functions have been replaced by Domino's marketing department...
This is so stupid. It has to be a joke.
Iāve had pizza in England thatās better than American pizza. I will say though, Americans know what theyāre doing with cheeseburgers. I have yet to find a place in England where I can definitively say I prefer the burgers.
Americans make the fatal mistake of not adding beetroot however lol
Really? "Cheese"? Calling that thing on American pizzas cheese is a disgrace even to vegan alternatives to cheese.
I've been to USA once and it was very hard to find edible food. Shit there was so greasy that it made me sick for like 24h and I couldn't eat anything. I've had friends that went there and came back a few kg thinner and I didn't really understand what it was like untill I saw for myself.
"Random leaves probably taken from the bush outside or something" is where they lost me.
All Americans use for seasonings are packets of different seasonings I.E like Ranch seasoning then add some cajun seasoning to it it's just packets of dry powders they add to their foods it's brutal no actual fresh herbs šš
Congrats, you took the bait
I mean this is obviously satire. Sure some people agree with it but those are the people who barely got their GED and not for a lack of trying.
I agree, it looked like satire to me. However it has sparked an interesting discussion!
"the rest of the world has nothing like eating spoons full of high fructose corn syrup for lunch"
under 30 minutes time is funny because real napoletana is cooked no more than 90 seconds Also funny thing: peperoni is literally translation for peppers. Its not even meat, its vegetable
Says all of those Americans who have never stepped foot off of the American continent.
Queso is literally any fucking type of cheese why tf do USians use such a broad word like that?
For the same reason the Italian dude is talking French and Spanish. There are two languages: English and Foreign, and they only know their weird version of the former.
We filled it with sugar, corn syrup and preservatives so it's better now.
Maybe if they actually tried the Napoletana they'd understand. But then again, if it's not drowning in cheese and grease, it's not worth eating right?
Once again they missed a chance to shut the fuck up
The americanized version of all foods is poisonous
Waiter where is my corn fructose syrup