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Having moved from the US to the EU recently (but having visited for 25+ years). Yes, the food is better in the EU.
The US food is over processed sugar infused sawdust unless you work hard to get specialized and direct from small farms sources.
Here in the EU I walk to any corner store or street vendor and it's consistently amazing.
Horse shit. Unless your actual complaint is you have to drive to get there.
The VAST majority of towns have multiple sources of fresh healthy food, in just about every grocery store.
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Uhhh... As an American who's spend a huge amount of time abroad as well, I always baffles me how hard it is to eat healthy in the US. The healthy things cost more (fresh local produce, local meat, etc) and the cheapest shit is always the worse for you with ultra processed crap everywhere. Not that you can't find a plethora of ultra processed elsewhere, it is just more expensive in much of the world.
The fact that you have to work to eat healthy in the US and spend more to do it, is absolutely a fact.
And that's not even getting into the interesting quality of dishes you'll get in regional difference throughout Europe as well as the rest of the world. Whereas, the US seems to thrive on selling the same food everywhere. Burger, Pizza, Hot Wings, chicken strips, house salad (with tomato, carrots slivers, maybe cucumbers), etc, etc. I swear you go into any random restaurant in the US off a road trip, it's the same food and you have to work hard to find something interesting like steak tartare, or freshly made pasta, or a real greek salad without lettuce (like the Greeks do!), or impala steaks, or even a decent duck confit.
Even saying this is making me enjoy the fact I don't have to fight with avoiding a Kroger, Walmart, and even now the Whole Paycheck, to find a local chain and be horrified that even they are selling Chiquita Bananas and Hass Avacados. I do miss my local ethic shops for their flair, but I'd rather have my cafe Paella and a amazing glass of house wine that isn't totally $50.
/r/IamveryCulinary shit.ย
None of this has a basis in reality. You walk in, there are giant sections of veggies, cheap, some local, some of it season because strawberries don't grow in February. It'll be right next to the literally hundreds of pounds of local unprocessed meat.ย
Y'all have intervened fantasies about the food supply here.
It has a basis in reality, as I have physical visited 40+ countries in the world and lived in some crazy remote places. I've walked markets in 6 of the 7 continents of the world, and Antarctic doesn't have supermarket on the Ross side, just the station stores. And that's just what I've seen over 25 years of traveling for work and pleasure. I have my biases, as we all do, but I'm happy to admit how that changes my perspective. The US is the only northern hemisphere country other than Mexico itself that has a chance at being good Mexican, but it's still not the same as street food in DF or even Veracruz. That's one of the many biases, I'll absolutely admit.
You are an ignorant biased prick who clearly just wants to troll. I'd be happy to talk journals and other "hard data" but as is apparent in your other comments you don't have an open mind enough to admit you are ignorant, biased, and likely worse. Good luck on your sarcastic journey through life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Did I say all? No most..ย
But now that we're part reading comprehension, I can point out that food deserts exist in Europe as well. Both in the rich counties and those pesky Eastern ones you like to block out of your head.ย
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36360732/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143622823003156
https://www.slowfood.com/blog-and-news/how-food-injustice-impacts-lives-in-europe/
Y'all notice the lack of truly hard data. Turns out the yuros just ain't monitoring and it's highly likely through correlation to be very underreported.
Don't even get me started on Asia.
Oh my god the fucking fragility and whataboutism.
No one ever said other countries don't have food desert problems. They absolutely do.
Your original comment is just disingenuous when there are millions of people suffering because of the in the US, and millions more elsewhere as well.
Do you not know what most means? If I said billionaires owned most of the wealth would you be screeching over is usage?ย
What about 85%+ and my usage of most do you most specifically take issue with?
First of all, speak English, this isn't Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville.
Secondly, oh no "hard data" on European food deserts? Because we really don't have them like the US. Even if our cities tried planning as shit as yours, around a completely car centric culture, they really can't because the routes and buildings that have existed for centuries just don't allow for that. And that's saying if we even had someone doing that. We don't.
Compare public transport and social security in EU vs US.
Stark contrast.
Compare design philosophy of cities.
Stark contrast.
Compare to American food regulation.
Stark contrast.
I know you never want to admit that the US is worse in anything, but now you're just genuinely being ridiculous.
In the US you sometimes literally can't walk out of a neighbourhood, because anything surrounding it is private land and there's no curb to walk on. So get driven over or shot by some angry land owner. And that wasn't me making that up, word for word for Americans said in a thread not long ago.
I can walk through any fucking field or woods I feel like, no matter who owns it.
Oh akd also everyone's not strapped so even if they did get mad, my chances of getting shot are way smaller.
The US is a garbage country and the sooner you accept it the sooner we can fix it.
All right I have to push back here, y'all is a perfectly good word. We don't have a good second person plural in English. It serves a very good purpose.
No, you lack a second person singular, but that's just because thou refuses to employ it, not because it doesn't exist.
Personally I'd prefer using the already existing 2nd person singular instead of starting to use "y'all" for a second person plural, but my opinion doesn't really matter here, so you know, fuck me and you do you.
Buddy what on Earth are you talking about? You is the second person singular, its also 2nd person plural hence my comment. You all, or y'all, on the other hand is strictly 2nd person plural.
You is used as a second person singular in modern Southern-American English (ie Bumfuckcousinfuckernowhereville), but "thou" is the existing and non-used second person singular.
Why would you even ask about this when it's so fucking easy to Google it?
Note that it doesn't say "completely unused or archaic". No. It's largely archaic, and mostly replaced by the second person plural "you". MOSTLY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
You seem to not know English well so I'll just note that "mostly" means a different thing than "completely." And "remains in use" means it's still used.
He didn't write "the second person singular is used for the second person plural", but the other way.
Thou are just dead wrong, which is very easy to check, but thou will never admit to it.
What on Earth are you babbling about? I didn't mention the word thou in my comment. You said that English lacked a second person singular.
You is the second person singular. Not just in southern America but everywhere. You used it multiple times already. The fact thay thou is also second person singular is irrelevant. You typed all of that for no reason whatsoever.
Like I said, you'll never accept being wrong.
You don't understand the basics of linguistics and currently you're arguing against an established fact. Your opinion doesn't matter fuck all.
Just because you don't use a second person singular (ie the colloquial language lacks one, especially in Southern Usa) doesn't mean you don't have one.
No matter how much you cry and whine, you're still wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
I know "y'all" have a hard time with literacy and English in general, but even you should be able to understand what "remains in use" means.
Yet thou said "everywhere", almost as if thou is having trouble accepting thy mistakes...? ;>
Yeah I'm not understanding your argument either. Are you arguing that "you" is not a second person singular in Modern English? It sounds like you are but then you also are using it currently so I'm confused.
It's not. And this really isn't complex.
If you shit in a bucket, that doesn't make the bucket a toilet seat. If you use a stone to hammer in a nail, it doesn't become a hammer. It's still a rock, and eveyone would refer to it as a rock.
Hell, you could use a nail-gun as a hammer. And thus kt would be "a tool to help nails go in", but it wouldn't be a hammer, per se.
"You" is not a second person singular despite being used as one.
This really isn't complex, you guys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
"Plural forms." "Used as."
What's so hard to understand about this I don't get it.
Colloquially English lacks a second person singular? "You" is not colloquially used? That's your attention? Even though you use it in multiple times in your comment and you're clearly understanding my use of it? Just want to clear that up cuz it seems insane.
Like I said, you'll never admit to being wrong. You're literally incapable.
Here, let me just make this even simpler for you with an example, as I know you Americans have difficulties with anything intellectual
Okay, so, imagine having a fancy new nail gun. Except you don't know it's a nail gun. And you just use it to bang in nails. Just because you use it as a hammer doesn't make it one. If your boss came along and said "we need to nail things to this wall", you'd correctly get the right tool. However, if your boss said "get me a hammer" and you got the nail gun you stupidly use to hammer in nails, your boss is gonna laugh at you.
You is used as a second person singular. If you spoke any other languages or even raid the starting paragraph of the short Wiki article I linked twice already, you'd know why it is exactly so that it is a second person plural used as a singular, and not the other way around.
But no, because you're illiterate and cognitively lazy, but can't admit it to yourself, you just simply will never admit to being wrong. We could have a professor of linguistics here telling you this, and you'd still continue your tantrum.
I know you won't understand this, but in my native and agglunative language, we use second person plurals to show respect. That's how it was in English as well, but since English isn't agglunative, it doesn't really affect the grammar around it much, so it was easy to just default to the second person plural, because that was safer than accidentally offending someone. This is literally stated in the article you refuse to open (because it proves you wrong.)
Notice how it says "plural forms USED AS"? No? Can't even address the article or the history or anything actually objective? Just "wyaaa wyaaa wyaaa I'm not wrong bcus bcus bcus ur stoopid"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#History
I've seen this tantrum literally a million times.
I prefer the Made in Yurop word "youse" myself.
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