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swordshrimp t1_j6bq7ss wrote

The tragedy of Canada is they could’ve had French cuisine, American technology and British culture.

Instead they ended up with British cuisine, French technology and American culture.

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OnlyMortal666 t1_j6c9z8q wrote

Luckily they avoided American cuisine!

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Drs83 t1_j6ckzsx wrote

America has amazing cuisine all over. A foodie could live the rest of their life in Savannah Georgia alone and never get bored.

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Mike-T_B t1_j6cvyo1 wrote

America itself doesn't have amazing cuisine. America has amazing examples of cuisine from all over the world. That is the same with Britain, Europe etc.

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OnlyMortal666 t1_j6clc4o wrote

In your experience.

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Drs83 t1_j6cqth1 wrote

Sorry you had a bad experience but the facts are America has amazing cuisine, to say otherwise is ignorant.

I mean, I know it's super edgy and all here on Reddit to shit on America but it doesn't change the facts. I don't even live in America.

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FriedBologna_ t1_j6cyfq6 wrote

Where is this fact? Americans have a horrible palate and cuisine, like all other English speaking countries. We can add Quebec because their food isn't real french and neither are they.

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Rigtyrektson t1_j6d3irw wrote

America doesn't suffer from cuisine nationalism as much as Europe does. American cuisine is burgers and fries sure, but you can get authentic anything in any major city across the entire country.

Also America gets to share claim of TexMex food and I'm pretty sure the world agrees that shits the bomb.

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FriedBologna_ t1_j6d7dqy wrote

Personal opinions, Gastronationalism is the most important thing in gastronomy. Where I said English speaking countries I mean Caucasian, English spoken people. We tend to adopt traditional dishes and "Americanize" them into crappy versions of the originals to sooth our indelicate palate. Hence TexMex even though it's delicious.

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Phatsam1987 t1_j6cnehv wrote

"Rest of their life" like you've got the rest of your life to deal with a failed parachute

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andywalker76 t1_j6cabfq wrote

As much as that sounds feasible, have you ever watched "man vs food"? American cuisine is awesome. It's just the greediness part that sometimes spoils it.

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OnlyMortal666 t1_j6caktl wrote

I lived in the US (Florida). It was very poor quality as a rule. Even the better restaurants were nothing special.

The Publix chain of supermarkets weren’t good. Bread was, well, not worth buying for instance.

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DryEyes4096 t1_j6cnobc wrote

I have a French friend and he can't understand the concept of American bread. I showed him a picture of a loaf of bread and he said "WTF is that?" basically. He was horrified when I informed him that we keep it for more than a week sometimes. (The French often go buy bread in the morning every day).

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andywalker76 t1_j6cb0o4 wrote

I guess good food isn't universal to all States.

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OnlyMortal666 t1_j6cb7s9 wrote

I think the best food (and bars) I’ve seen was in Chicago. SF wasn’t up to much. NYC was “ok”. Boston wasn’t so good though fish and chips in Maine was not bad. I can’t recall food in Seattle.

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Tyfyter2002 t1_j6crbe9 wrote

Either you have much higher standards than me, you just happened to never eat somewhere that wasn't sub-par, or you're only counting food that's distinctly and entirely "American food", and given you've listed so many densely populated locations with relatively high tourism I'd be surprised if it's not the second or third of those.

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FriedBologna_ t1_j6czlry wrote

The best food across the major cities of Canada and US in my experience are the ones within those immigrant communities that speak little to no english. The restaurants that use napkins for dinning clothes and possibly look like they should have been closed down for ungodly reasons. It's the ones that come for a new life without a diploma or degree but a family recipe in their back pocket is what I love.

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andywalker76 t1_j6ccax7 wrote

Man vs food seems to show that barbecue country is best.

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OnlyMortal666 t1_j6ccim2 wrote

I’ve seen the gluttony show before. How he’s not died from a heart attack, I don’t know.

I expect he’s diabetic nowadays.

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andywalker76 t1_j6cddwu wrote

He went vegan and trained for soccer aid after getting the doctor's warning

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Aceof_Knaves t1_j6clnit wrote

Did you disparage Publix!?! Don't say that out loud in Florida!😂🤣😂

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skisushi t1_j6d016f wrote

Ya, I lived in Florida too. You are right about Florida. NY and California, even Texas are better for food.

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AlderWynn t1_j6cxr65 wrote

Aww who’s an edgy little self-loathing European?

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FriedBologna_ t1_j6cxo27 wrote

The current tragedy of Canada is we still have the French.

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Oddquite t1_j6cz6c3 wrote

The British have No culture. All they do is copy other other Europeans & Americans.

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SeanG909 t1_j6cptqd wrote

I mean it's American culture minus the inherent selfishness. That's a win in my books

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Mike-T_B t1_j6cvs3e wrote

American technology 😂 as if that is a sign of quality. I'd rather buy anything made in China over made in 'merica.

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NotOficerP t1_j6cwskh wrote

Well, stuff in " 'merica" are usually made by precision robots and factories while the stuff in China are from sweatshops. Morals aside, the quality of the final product is superior in America. I'm not an American eager to defend the country, I'm in Europe and I can objectively say this.

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mrmdc t1_j6dnfdm wrote

Right? I mean... Apple products are such fucking garbage.

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Mike-T_B t1_j6cyypv wrote

I have to disagree, the quality of American goods is generally poor, look at their cars, the cost is way higher than it should be because people think they are buying quality but what they are actually getting is something designed in America built in China then assembled in America. As a European I would buy European then if not available it's Chinese all the way. Never ever American.

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LordSaumya t1_j6d46il wrote

I understand not liking American manufacturing, but Chinese manufacturing is worse

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NotOficerP t1_j6ebxft wrote

Judging the entire industry of a federation just because you bought a shitty car is not good. Most of the factories there are owned by different corporations and private industries. The quality of a single car can not speak for all the cars, or everything else there

Edit: and the houses are like cardboard boxes because they need to be as cheap as they can to be rebuilt as fast as possible, because of the environmental conditions there. And they can't just make concrete houses as that would have a minimal effect of protection. Just look at Florida.

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c_delta t1_j6d1bxt wrote

Depends on the industry. American tools? Probably in line with the finest stuff from Europe or Japan. American cars? No thanks.

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