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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.
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?
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.
I prefer the Made in Yurop word "youse" myself.
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.
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.
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.
Okay so your argument is basically that language never changes and never evolves? Because it wasn't a second person singular 300 years ago it can't be one today? All right. That seems silly but you do you.
For the life of me I can't understand you why you keep linking the same Wikipedia page to a word nobody is talking about. You're continually making the argument that the word you is not a second person singular while still using the word you as a second person singular. Thou art utterly absurd. I'm going to block you now.
Colloquially English lacks a second person singular? "You" is not colloquially used? That's your assertion? 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.
You sound utterly insane.
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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.
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