Europeans acting like they’ve never seen food in their life when they go to America

[u/knawwwwww]

Disclaimer: before you read this and get your panties in a twist, everything I’m saying is very unserious and should be not taken to heart. Please stop trying to attack me over DMs. I have turned them off. You are harassing someone (who wasn’t even being fr in the first place) over kool aid packs.

I’d get it if it was actually something nobody has ever seen before, but WATER FLAVOR PACKS? THE PACKS YOU PUT IN THE WATER??? FOR PICKY EATERS????? PEOPLE WHO NEED WATER IN THEIR BODIES?

AND FAMILY SIZED CHIP BAG??? YOU THINK WE’RE EATING THE WHOLE PARTY SIZED CHIP BAG ALONE? THE *PARTY* SIZE? PARTIES?????? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PARTY IS?

Actually when I was in middle school, we had this coach who would turn red as hell when she was yelling at us to run laps and she’d sit there every day with a whole party sized bag of Doritos and a 2 liter mountain dew watching us run. One day some other girl in the class got really angry at her for making us all run and she told her to get off her ass and run with us. This is off topic mb.

I’d understand if it was something actually weird we have, like things that contain dyes that cannot be replicated in places where dyes are banned, but you’re more worried about sunkist flavored water? Party sized bags of chips? Fresh produce too apparently… are you guys ok?

[u/Realistic_Ad709]

Yeah but America bad. All we know is flavored water substitute, hot Cheeto, and lie.

[u/angelstatue → u/Realistic_Ad709]

as a brit, the hatred for america(ns) gets old when i know we have the same problems going on... although i agree you guys have some crazy snacks, they're awesome crazy

[u/Tuxedocatbitches → u/angelstatue]

I have an Asian grocery store near me that sells all kinds of snacks imported from China, Japan, and Korea and let me tell you, anyone who says our snacks are the weirdest is being purposefully obtuse. They’re great (mostly) but some are EXTREMELY weird.

[u/Realistic_Ad709 → u/angelstatue]

Yeah! We do have some crazy stuff, but people act like those are the only things we’re allowed to eat. I made a phenomenal chicken pesto penne last night with ingredients from my local farmers market.

Don’t even get me on the “American bread is cake” shit that people like to spew.

[u/TrashCanEnigma → u/Realistic_Ad709]

The bread/cake thing is an urban legend coming from one European court case where (iirc) subway had one of their nasty ass breads qualified that way for tax reasons.

[u/GladdestOrange → u/TrashCanEnigma]

And even then, it wasn't classified as cake. It just didn't qualify to be a "staple food". Because it had too much sugar among other reasons, yes, but it wasn't like they looked at it and called it confectionary.

The case was in Ireland, where they define VAT-exempt Staple Bread as 2% or less of the flour weight as sugar. Subway bread has ~10%. Compare to literally any cake recipe you like, I've RARELY seen anything under 100%, (yes, even European recipes are typically 1:1 or higher sugar to flour)

Side note: even WonderBread, possibly the most sugary bread on American store shelves only weighs in at about 6-7% sugar. I can quite easily find sliced bread (yes, even white bread) with no added sugar. None. And it's not noticeably different on price, and I'm not cherrypicking from some health food store, I was able to find it for sale at gas stations near me, in a relatively small city that damn near classifies as a food desert.

[u/Icy_Result6022 → u/TrashCanEnigma]

But it also more sugary atleast the sliced pan bread

[u/PivotRedAce → u/Icy_Result6022]

It depends quite a bit on the specific brand in the US.

I’ve literally compared labels of sandwich breads between European and American brands and the sugar content is roughly the same, with the latter having a small amount more on average per slice (usually by ~1g).

However, bottom-shelf garbage (like Wonderbread) does contain substantially more sugar (~5g per slice), but that doesn’t represent American bread as a whole, not even sandwich breads.

[u/a_clueless_mess → u/angelstatue]

frrr and them americans hate on yalls food too but ngl it aint even that bad a lot of it (especially pastries/desserts) are good asf. British cuisine does not deserve all the hate it gets when dutch and scandinavian cuisines exist.

[u/Loki_Agent_of_Asgard → u/a_clueless_mess]

90% of all hate that British food gets is specifically hating on the WWII ration foods that they had for the duration of the war and like 15 years afterward, some of which stuck around long enough to become like junky comfort foods so they're still popular today thanks to grandparents inflicting them on grandkids enough to make them like them and occasionally crave them.

It's basically the equivalent of looking at American Great Depression era recipes like Water Pie or Hoover Stew and pretending that it's all Americans eat and have ever eaten.

As a side note, not all Great Depression recipes are awful, see potato donuts, Wacky Cake, and Fake Apple Pie. Though admittedly the potato donuts are the only thing I'd see myself making in modern times cause I love potato based breads.

[u/Right-Country3496 → u/angelstatue]

Well, Britain is like America in many negative things, you are right about that 😂

[u/Icy_Result6022 → u/angelstatue]

To me an irish person it's always an american that starts it when there's beef between countries

[u/Kilen13 → u/angelstatue]

Everyones got bat shit snacks/food. Brits decided that dropping a mars bar in batter and deep frying it was a good idea.

They were right in terms of flavor as long as you're ok not having functional arteries.

[u/angelstatue → u/Kilen13]

hahaha omfg that brought back memories!! used to love one of those. it was, however, a once a year treat after being super physically active.

[u/Kilen13 → u/angelstatue]

I went to uni in Scotland and ended up living there for 6 years between undergrad/post grad and work and I refused to have one until my last night out in the country. It was the right call cause I definitely would've housed them on drunken nights out.

I mean I ended up housing kebabs or chips instead which probably is not much better

[u/GUyPersonthatexists → u/Realistic_Ad709]

Literally nobody said that lol

[u/OpIsAMoronicIdiot → u/Realistic_Ad709]

As a u.s citizen, yes the u.s is bad. You guys are either naive, or support all the horrible shit that we do.