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A GST About Who Owns Flavortown
AngelHedgie
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Oh my fucking god if I wasn't going out right this second we'd have a God Damned separate thread about this and it would be so on.
Challenge accepted.
The US is the King of Flavor Town, because not only do we take any and every food from around the world (seriously, NYC has a restaurant to fit any diet and nationality), we then evolve them like culinary Pokémon.
Sandwiches? We took those disgraceful British excuses, and turned them into art.
Pizza? We have four unique schools of pizza here, and going to the wrong pizza neighborhood will get you cut, son.
We have adopted all sorts of mistreated orphaned food from around the world, and made them superstars. We own Flavortown.
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Hahahahahaha no
Off the top of my head Tex Mex and Hawaiian fusion have nothing to do with English food, are huge in variety, and amazing.
We take this beautiful, buttery flaky delight of a pastry:
Turn it over to the black-hearted Lord of Burger Town, and got this in return.
On behalf of 'Murica, I'm sorry France. The croissant deserved better.
Using croissants for breakfast sandwiches though? It's great.
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Not so great at subtle, though.
Subtlety is for second place!
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But the simple realities of geography and population mean America's going to win this.
Britain has one show, and its called "The most Average food in Britain" starring someone who was on doctor who.
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We have so many damned food deserts a bus ride away from freaking Whole Foods.
Yes, it's shitty for you. Yes, it's probably why a ton of people are fat. Yes, it makes you feel disgusting after eating too much.
But godammit, Whataburger is fucking delicious and will be delicious until I die of a heart attack at 38.
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Tasty? Yes. Addictive and probably bad for you? Also yes.
Also the general standard of food quality in the US is pretty low. Not unhygenic low like a third world country, but just shitty all the same. Industrialised meat production and corn shoved into pretty much everything. If you walk into an average supermarket in France or Denmark or Britain you're going to find a higher quality of product than the average US supermarket.
Real talk though: if you aren't from France, Italy, Spain, China, Taiwan, India, Greece or Japan you don't really have much ground to stand on when it comes to claiming your food is the best.
I have had Indian pizza before
it was amaaaaazing
this isn't about the ownership of healthytown, though
this is flavortown
The US, apart from some bakeries who at least try, have some of the worst bread selection I've ever witnessed. I'll grant you nearly every other food, but not bread.
And sausages.
It's just that no one really cares about it as much.
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...you need to go to NYC, and down a properly made loaf of challah with a black and white cookie chaser.
And then repent for how wrong you are.
I mean sure, fair enough. If you're talking purely about average day to day going out to eat even if it's 6000 calories then yeah, a major American city is a great place to be.
If on the other hand you want to go out to eat, you probably want to be somewhere else.
The sheer number of things that a French cook can do with an egg is insane.
If you hit Cancerville, you've gone too far.
Pretty sure most countries have some form of "factory bread", but the limit of a stable San Francisco Sourdough starter (that does not need restarting from the original culture) is "are you in the Bay Area, do you have wet flour, and has it been exposed to the air?" If not, you'd better have a sealed, climate-controlled chamber.
Nah you pretty much definitely want to be in a major American city
Been there. This is one of those "glad you're trying" things. You guys could really step up your bread game. Perhaps it's the next big thing? Greek youghurt has to be passé by now.
Eh there are some really high end american restaurants that do shit with science that is amazing. Yeah on average american food is piling things on, but we do have the high end as well, just with our income disparity probably very few people this board have ever eaten there.
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and you thought i'd forget the corn?!
Nah. It's easy to find places with lower calorie dishes.
High end is kind of its own thing in a global economy. But the average American diet is Piles of Things, Lumps of Things, or Buckets of Things.
I forgot about the low grade guerrilla war that is the American barbecue scene.