Europeans like to scoff at American gluttony, but an underrated factor in the US obesity crisis is that American food is just unreasonably good. Not fine dining specifically, but the average sports bar or taqueria or diner food is just much tastier than typical Euro equivalents

@dioscuri It's drenched in fat, salt and sugary sauces which makes it addictive to your brain, but it's not good food. The average restaurant in Europe serves better tasting food without any of the processed shit, high fructose corn syrup or additives. It has to be bait.

@HiddenMeTrash @dioscuri It’s not good food, no. It probably is tastier though because of the things you listed. The point is, most people do not care, as they don’t know what they are „missing out“ on. Tasty ≠ good.

@volksalgorithm @dioscuri Oh I'm sorry do you consider Tastier and chemical free food to be worse? What the hell kind of standards do you have for good food?

@HiddenMeTrash @dioscuri I only said that the food would probably taste better. Obviously not everything in the US tastes better than in Europe and vice versa. The US has the „advantage“ of all the additives, that admittedly, make food taste better,given that our brains are programmed to find them better