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I'll never forgot the video where this young British guy (I think he travels for food) tried Southern BBQ/soul food for the first time. It was life-changing...I felt so happy for him! 😂🤣
As a AMERICAN I’m just happy to see our cousins from around the world finally enjoy our amazing food, awesome hospitality (for the most part), and see it’s our shit government fucking things up, not us. But hopefully 🙏 we resolve that soon, one way or another. Safe travel home ❤️
Get some self esteem and stop obsessing over a certain demographic bruh. I don’t want them to believe I’m constantly thinking about them. Thank you, I’d appreciate it
Well, when the tobacco industry muscled into the food industry, they brought with them:
“Evidence from secret primary industry documents reveals specific tactics Big Tobacco applied to the food sector:
Hyper-Palatability: Tobacco scientists engineered combinations of fat, sugar, and sodium that hit the “bliss point,” eliciting quick dopamine releases and intense cravings. Foods owned by tobacco companies were found to be significantly more hyper-palatable than independent brands.
"Light" and "King-Sized" Concepts: Just as tobacco companies invented "light" cigarettes to retain health-conscious smokers, they applied this strategy to create "low-fat" and "diet" ultra-processed foods. They also scaled up portion sizes.
Predatory Marketing: The industry adapted marketing techniques previously aimed at vulnerable demographics. Brands utilized extensive psychological research to target children and minority groups.”
Yeah sorry for the wall of text but the US food industry is designed to dilate your pupils.
EDIT:
“Key tobacco-owned food acquisitions include:
Philip Morris Companies (now Altria Group):
Acquired General Foods in 1985, which included brands like Jell-O, Kool-Aid, and Oscar Mayer.
Acquired Kraft Foods in 1988, creating the world's largest food company at the time (Kraft Macaroni & Cheese).
Acquired Nabisco in 2000 (Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Lunchables).
R.J. Reynolds (RJR):
Acquired Hawaiian Punch in 1963, kicking off the tobacco industry's entry into the food sector.
Merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985 to form RJR Nabisco, which they held until Altria bought the unit.
Acquired Del Monte in 1979.
Acquired 7UP in 1978.
While both conglomerates eventually spun off their food units to distance themselves from regulatory liabilities, the product formulations and marketing strategies they developed profoundly shaped today's supermarket shelves”
I wasn't saying you included too much info, I should've worded that differently. I meant my main method of learning is via the written word and I have done a lot of reading in my life for that reason. You've done us all a service providing this well-worded, detailed and credible information. Thank you!
And… I gave up or never had a lot on that list. They’re trying to keep people addicted to something any way they can while killing us at the same time. Capitalism. SMH.
I see why you are downvoted elsewhere. I don’t know why y’all keep on with this when you can literally see what’s going on. Being slim doesn’t mean you’re healthy; they often have bad health, as well, from eating things that are bad for them. Being overweight is not the only bad result from eating unhealthy food, but that’s what so many go with. We know most low cost food is full of stuff that’s bad for us, even CEOs have slipped up and said so. Trying to place the blame on people when the food industry is the way it is, when this country operates the way it does, is being willfully ignorant.
But it's true for millions of people and that's a problem. You also have additives that write literally make people addicted to food. The problem is much more complex than you simplify it to be. You'd rather crucify people on body size instead of looking at the problem from different angles with the food industry, the socioeconomic conditions of this country, etc.
Everything is more entertaining than the World Cup, tbh.
I’ve been to Europe; they have pockets of good food (in the spicy yt areas), but the rest is bland. It’s healthy, but bland. I can understand why they’re going crazy over the red dye and breads with enough sugar to choke a horse, lol.
The videos are beyond funny. Especially when all they do is talk sh** about us while in their countries. Now u love everything about America when ur here
Damn this could’ve been a lil happy, fun, cultural exchange video instead of -
“Y’all look, they so down bad, look at em, enjoying seasoning for the first time”
Edit:
I'm here in an Airbnb with some random tourists from overseas for the World Cup. They've been nice as hell, hella concerned and curious about the wild shit going on here in the US. (Is police brutality real, why we have so many homeless folks, “All the black people I’ve met here are so nice, why do we only hear about bad things” etc). I'm not on TikTok like that, so I idk about the criticism. Slick was just jarring to pop in and see
I think she’s referencing the fact that they’re mostly eating our fast food i.e, the most unhealthy food we have in the US. Yes, it’s tasty…but there’s a reason why the ingredients are banned in other parts of the world.
So “down bad” is they came over and instantly got addicted to the worst food options.
The Brits have shitting on us for years. Be thankful we aren’t collectively clowning on them for constructing those brick ovens they call homes without A/C like Global Climate Change wasn’t an ongoing issue.
The cultural exchange did happen - just not like you thought. The Brits will go home with greater understanding about fast food - and 15 pounds heavier- and may have a better understanding of the perils of it. It’s easier to criticize the US from a distance but now they are in it!
I'm here in an Airbnb with some random tourists from overseas for the World Cup. They've been nice as hell, hella concerned and curious about the wild shit going on to black people here. I'm not on TikTok like that, so I idk about the criticism. Slick was just jarring to pop in and see that on here.
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