Our food system prioritizes profits over health hard. You usually have pay more to eat healthy. It funnels unhealthy food to the lower classes. Poverty and obesity are often correlated here - which is weird.
*Weird historically - poverty usually meant excessively skinny in the past.
I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.
Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)
I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.
It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.
Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…
Edit talking of nachos I fking got some and salsa, thank for the indirect reminder. Although I’m too bothered somehow that they’ve made the chips round instead of triangles.
Edit 2 I’m changing my mind a little as these do get a nice amount of salsa if they’re a little bent
Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.
Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯
Our food system prioritizes profits over health hard. You usually have pay more to eat healthy. It funnels unhealthy food to the lower classes. Poverty and obesity are often correlated here - which is weird.
*Weird historically - poverty usually meant excessively skinny in the past.
It’s not weird at all.
A perfectly natural consequence of laissez-faire capitalism leading what should and shouldn’t be regulated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.
Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)
I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.
It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.
Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…
Edit talking of nachos I fking got some and salsa, thank for the indirect reminder. Although I’m too bothered somehow that they’ve made the chips round instead of triangles.
Edit 2 I’m changing my mind a little as these do get a nice amount of salsa if they’re a little bent
Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.
Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯
Because the ones that “have”, don’t care about the ones that “don’t have”.
And the ones that do care ,can’t help everyone.
As an American, round corn chips are the best, glad you’re enjoying them
I prefer like a bent triangle, then you grab it by the tip and then put as much salsa on it as possible. The chip to salsa ratio is off the charts.
Although these rounds ones have a bit more chip to salsa, their structural integrity is better and didn’t break as triangles often do.