American food Pending

Is American food really…that bad? Is it that shitty and addictive? I just read a post about someone going to America and realising how addicting the food is. I’m from Scotland and I’ve never been to America.. is it real slop or is the internet just exaggerating 

american food is awesome, louisianian, tex-mex, and bbq are the best, also actually good hamburgers, especially from old diners are incredible

A lot of the hate towards America food is really towards junk food, like chips, snack cakes and fast food, and never towards meals and dishes. A lot of people cook their own food and there's many restaurants here that make food from scratch, so the hate and criticism is likely from people outside the country who only know about McDonalds and Little Debby or people who don't cook and live off of the 'slop'.

A lot of American food has it's origins from English and German immigrants, which makes it kinda ironic that Europeans love to constantly make fun of American food. So rather than American food being pure grease and preservatives, it's more like a pot roast, grilled chicken, roasted veggies, a baked potato, fried chicken, simmered leafy greens, corn bread, or at least that's what comes to mind if I have to explain the kind of food I eat that I think represents my country.

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>What would the good fast food places be

None of them, if you're concerned about not wanting to eat slop/wanting to healthy, you probably shouldn't be eating any fast food

To echo what Gray and a couple of other people have already said, most people here who aren't idiots just cook and prepare their own food; America is largely agricultural, it's not unheard of for people here to even raise their own crops or only eat game they hunt themselves
For some stupid reason, people seem to be convinced that America is literally only fast food even though it's too expensive to eat only that super often, and very obviously unhealthy

Food being "processed" doesn't mean anything because that could technically refer to food like meat or fruits being cleaned before they make it to store shelves or stuff like chemical compounds being added for flavor or preservative reasons (note that "chemical" =/= "thing that causes cancer and obesity" and that salt and sugar are both "chemical compounds" by definition), you also see idiots complain about food being contaminated also, how do you complain about food being both processed to removed contaminants while also complaining about the food being contaminated (I think when people complain about "processed food", they're referring to like spam and bologna, but you have the option of just not eating either)
You have fringe examples like additives and preservatives being added to food to its detriment, like pink slime being put in some ground beef, or butyric acid and PGPR being put in chocolate, but this can be largely avoided by just eating literally anything else or looking for different/local brands, it's not like the nation that's like 90% farmland and produces most of its own food is starving for options

Europeans have the most fucktarded superiority complex to overcompensate for how dominant America is culturally and need to take any chance they get to feel morally superior despite being sometimes even more culturally ignorant of America than Americans are about European countries, all while turning a blind eye to all of the stupid shit that comes out of Europe every month
and progressive-leaning Americans have been conditioned to hate themselves and their country ever since like 2016, even fucking dumber since every negative thing those ones have been convinced of can easily be disproven by going the fuck outside

Idk man yeah kinda?? Human bodies crave things like sugar and salt and we use biometric stuff ig (insert facts facts facts here) and America uses artificial things that our bodies crave even if we don’t need it, so yeah I would say it could be addictive if you have an unhealthy relationship with food. Our portions are pretty big but also restaurants rely on ppl bringing home leftovers. Also yes, chips (crisps) probably have more seasoning on the sometimes, and the bags are really big, but they usually aren’t filled to the top and are ment for more than one person. The food isn’t unsafe. We have an FDA. But anything over or under the moderation we can take can be unhealthy, but American food can DEFINITELY be addictive and lead to obesity or other things because we do a crappy job at moderating how much we eat without making it shameful or guilt inducing. Thank you for reading my yap. 

guys why is there a pending thing next to the name of this blog am I gonna get banned or something 

(I speak, above all, from my ignorance)

America—like, the United States? (America is the entire continent, geographically speaking); I think all the bad things about American food always have to do with fast food, or some outdated recipe from some random person on the internet (which, yeah, there’s no denying that, usually, looks like cancer in physical form, culinary-wise. Usually, those videos involve “combining random foods—whether they’re greasy or just taste good together—using the unhealthiest cooking methods possible, like frying things that aren’t meant to be fried. The same goes for desserts, which are  something sugary on top of something even sugarier that was previously combined with something else sugary”)

I’m not American, but when I stop to think about it, I don’t know what foods they have, culturally speaking (fast food always comes to mind first, and it turns out that fast food—at least over there—comes from other countries, too).

Besides fast food, there’s more food, I suppose, but what I mean is that I can’t think of a dish that’s unique to that country. Most likely, it’s due to my own ignorance (and my lack of curiosity about the topic).

I honestly don’t care about processed foods and all that (at least, when it comes to ingredients—as for processed fast food, I don’t have a problem with that either; “What did you expect from something like that?” is my question—a redundant or invalid complaint);

I don't know what the argument against processed foods is; preservatives seem necessary to me, as do any chemicals that keep insects away or help produce more food—even if it's of lower quality. I have no problem with any of that; I see it as normal or reasonable

At least in my country, as in others, common (and inexpensive) foods are made with ingredients that replace the original ones (for example, to make it clear: with pasta, the high-quality kind uses durum wheat semolina, while the cheaper option uses bread flour, which manufacturers use precisely because it’s cheaper, and so on). Or take chocolate, where they use confectioners’ coating to pass it off as chocolate (confectioners’ coating being another cheap option, since real chocolate contains cocoa liquor; technically speaking, for example, white chocolate lacks that liquor, which, paradoxically, should disqualify it from being called chocolate—but here we are); or with other products, like grated cheese in a packet that’s actually cheese-flavored starch, or with other Italian products, such as ravioli, which are also made of flavored starch—all pasta, at least in its packaged, quick-cooking form, is an imitation of the real thing)

I don’t know what the point is with that last description. Honestly, I enjoy all kinds of food (except for insects or anything that looks weird); I don’t know what the standard is for judging food, beyond quality and nutritional value.

Yeah I meant the USA, I don’t know why I said American because usually I’m the one correcting people on how America is a continent… I guess I hear the word ‘American’ used more when talking specifically about food

I think when people argue against processed foods, they mean the ones that are barely even real or mixed in with a bunch of other things, like hotdogs and reeeally cheap chocolate. Or things that are manufactured to be as nutritional or safe as possible but ends up looking/tasting like slop, like really plain looking meat like the stuff in lunchables. I don’t have too much of a problem with preservatives and stuff

I do think a lot of people find American food to be gross due thd stereotype on everyone in the USA being overweight, which can be connected to eating fast food of course, and fast food is veerry inorganic looking sometimes. But we have fast food in every other country and it kinda looks the same. I think it’s just because the USA is known for that over everything else that makes their food seem worse. 

the way all of the comments are about shitty fast-food chains and theres nothing about good cajun food or texmex or literally any of the other thousands of actual cultural foods here

reddit and it's self-hating consequences 💔

Yes it’s definitely addicting, sometimes slop, but not quite as bad as the internet makes it out to be. There is still some good American food Thats not highly processed mystery meet, but in large proportions its still really unhealthy.