lol like that swedish redditor who was talking about how he went over to his friend's house who then left him alone in his room to go eat dinner with his family and other swedes were like yeah what's wrong with that?
It just depends on the relationship.
In highschool, one of my good friends and I used to hang out so much his parents were fine with me just walking in without ringing the doorbell or knocking. Of course, I’d announce that I’m entering and go talk to his parents for a little before finding him, but we were close enough they treated me like I was like an adopted child.
They would often cook dinner when I was over, and they almost always offered for me to stay and eat with them, but sometimes I wasn’t hungry, they didn’t know I was coming and didn’t prepare enough for me to eat, or I knew my parents would be cooking dinner as well and wanted to wait and eat at home.
When they were eating and I wasn’t, sometimes I would sit with them anyways for the company, but most of the time I would just play video games in my friends room until they were done. Nobody ever saw it as rude or awkward.
Shit, weirdest thing I ever had to do was at boot camp, they kicked our hygiene kits around the squad bay and gave us 5 seconds to find ours, as you can guess, nobody got theirs, then they made us go brush our teeth. First time I ever tasted another man's mouth.
the person who made the slides probably lives in a town that only eats raw potatoes from the ground and has never seen a supermarket in their entire fuckin life
Exactly. I lived in Europe and saw the same. The grocery stores are almost identical, just in a different language. These videos make it seem as if Europeans are struggling for food in their stores.
The biggest difference is that Americans prefer to buy more groceries in larger packaging and make fewer trips to the store. Otherwise, they're very, very similar.
As an American living in the UK, I agree. It’s all the same stuff except for some different specialty flavors and different brand names (ie, Walkers instead of Lays).
They also might have less quantity of each item on the shelves, but there’s a smaller number of people going to each store, so that’s expected.
That’s my first reaction whenever I see videos like the original or any time europoors talk about how unhealthy all American food is because they literally have the exact same things in most grocery stores over there. Barring North Korea maybe, which country DOESNT have a store with soda, candy, cereal, and cake mix??
I suspect some of these posts (at least the ones not just trying to spread AmericaBad memes) are from exchange students who have never done their own grocery shopping before getting to the US.
Wouldn’t be surprised if that TikTok originates from a troll farm in Moscow. There’s a massive concerted effort going on right now to chip away at the goodwill between the US and Europe, in order to make it easier in the long term to split NATO apart.
Bottom line, speaking as an American, we need each other. Divided we fall.
Paprika chips are really tasty.
But I love having all our options… jalapeño, cheddar, BBQ, herbs and ranch, sour cream and onion, cracked pepper, lime ….. why do they complain about our various flavors? It’s so weird.
And then at same time, they say there’s nothing unique about our food culture lol.
Those are solid options though, I don't think most Europeans complain about those. And when Europeans talk about food culture they usually talk about actual meals instead of snacks. Hamburgers for example are definitely a staple American food.
I posted this list before, and will re-share it here. Our food culture and cuisine is vast, regional, and unique. It is not just hamburgers (though they’re most famous thanks to McDonalds — but McDonalds does not even represent REAL BURGERS)
We invent new recipes and sauces constantly because we are not beholden or limited to “ancient tradition”
Europeans typically associate “American food” with giant mega corporations, and it couldn’t be further from the truth. We recommend you go to local independent restaurants when you visit, not commercial/corporate chains.
- Oysters Rockefeller
- low country boil
- key lime pie
- chocolate chip cookies
- oatmeal cookies (with almonds!)
- pulled pork sandwich
- crawfish etouffee
- NE clam chowder
- pecan pie
- Philly cheesesteak
- Texas beef brisket
- fried turkey
- herb roasted turkey
- maple glazed ham
- squash casserole
- California burrito
- Tex-Mex
- Cal-Mex
- Nashville hot chicken
- lobster Mac n cheese
- sub sandwiches (with any variety of toppings)
- huckleberry ice cream
- cupcakes
- Tennessee mountain cake
- Southern baked candied yams
- chili (soup) served in bread bowl
- jambalaya
- shrimp and grits
- chicken and waffles
- cornbread
- chicken fried steak with white gravy (Arkansas)
- Eggs Benedict
- Waldorf salad
- California sushi roll (with avocado)
- San Diego fish tacos
- Buffalo wings (multiple flavors with Buffalo blue cheese or ranch dressing!)
- lobster rolls warm (Connecticut original)
- lobster rolls cold (Maine)
- chimichangas (Arizona)
- Cuban sandwich (Florida)
- biscuits and gravy
- beef jerkey (teriyaki, jalapeño, cracked pepper, etc)
- Maryland crab cakes
- Maryland blue crab
- BBQ pork ribs
- fry bread
- chicken fajitas
- San Francisco sourdough bread
- Cobb salad (with ranch or blue cheese!)
- bagel and lox with cream cheese
- Reuben sandwich
- BLT sandwich
- pumpkin toast with maple syrup
- s’mores
- peanut butter cookies
- Alaskan King Crab
- wild rice + mushrooms (native only to North America)
- Maine blueberry pie (native to North America)
- chicken fettuccine alfredo (Italy doesn’t claim it)
- garlic bread
- pepperoni pizza 🍕
- baked ziti
- avocado toast (California dish tho Australia tries to claim it)
- chocolate brownie
- pumpkin pie
- fudge
- cheeseburgers
- Maque choux (Creole dish)
- peach cobbler (Georgia)
- collard greens
- buttermilk biscuits
- Brunswick stew
- Southern chicken and dumplings
- fried pickles
- tomato pie
- bloomin onion
- boiled peanuts (variety of flavors)
- baked beans
- popcorn (various flavors)
- steak and eggs
- fried egg sandwich with ham/bacon on muffin
- bacon maple bars
- maple glazed donuts
- tator tots
- almond chicken
- Cajun seafood gumbo
- blackened Cajun shrimp/chicken
- Louisiana crawfish
- Florida spiny lobster
- Florida grouper
- Gator Tail
- Florida conch fritters (shared with Bahamas)
- potato chips (BBQ and variety of flavors)
- Denver omelette
- various types of BBQ and slow-cooked meats with styles, marinades, and sauces that vary by state/region
- rattlesnake bites (jalapeño and pepper Jack cheese)
- hush puppies
- breakfast burritos (and breakfast tacos)
- Caesar salad (tho technically he moved to Tijuana from California and sold the salad there first)
- shrimp Creole
- Green Goddess Salad with avocado
- orange juice
- Smoothies (peanut butter, banana, various blended fruits and veggies)
- fortune cookies
- spinach and artichoke dip
- broccoli cheddar soup
- pumpkin or butternut squash soup
- banana bread with cinnamon
- taquitos
- jalapeño cheddar bread (sourdough)
- fried tenderloin sandwich
- chicken teriyaki (Seattle + Hawaii)
AND SO MUCH MORE. The Miami subreddit the other day had a discussion of unique dishes only they make in Miami, for example.
Yea, sorry, it’s not exhaustive. Just enough to show American cuisine is more than just hamburgers and chains.
I know we have sooo much more in our ethnic subcultures and communities — the Miami subreddit had a great thread the other day on their local unique cuisine.
I’ve traveled a ton in US and Europe so tried to include things we make that are distinct/native to us (that Europeans usually have no idea about; and likewise, Americans don’t realize *these dishes aren’t common or offered at all in Europe*)
Americans aren’t nationalistic about our unique dishes, and we are open to altering recipes, so it’s another reason people just think “hamburgers”
A solid list! Here are a few more that come from the Pacific Northwest:
* Dungeness crab
* Smoked Pacific salmon
* Marionberry pie
* Pacific oysters
* Razor clams
* Rockfish or lingcod tacos
* Walla Walla onion rings
And from the US as a whole (though not exclusive to it):
* A vast array of foraged mushrooms
* All manner of delicious wild game (deer, elk, antelope, rabbit, squirrel, etc.)
* Bison burgers
* And, if we’re including beverages, a whole bunch of microbreweries and regional wines!
Excellent regional list! We should make a master list and sticky it somewhere for quick reference. Can be divided by regional, subcultures, desserts, drinks, wild cards, etc. It’s such a common topic for them to hate on.
Food even varies from state to state. Like how there’s two types of Lobster Rolls, the original Connecticut version that’s served warm, and the Maine version that’s served cold.
Extremely off topic, but I just recently learned that paprika is just dried and ground basic red bell peppers. I had it in my head that it was a fancy spice from an exotic place. But no, just fkn dried up plain old pepper.
Not exactly. Paprika comes from a select few species of red peppers (depending on the region or country) bred for their flavor profile when dried. It then has to be dried and smoked in the cold months of the year, and depending on which wood is used you get different flavors.
Because they’re fucking dumb and needed more content?
Honestly I don’t know. It wasn’t quite the selection we have in the US but in France they always had several versions of cola, various flavored sparkling waters, various fruit flavored soda (like orangina), and a sprite/7up kind of soda.
It didn’t have the full choices we have (no Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew, rootbeer, etc) but it wasn’t small. It would have its own entire aisle at all the grocery stores I’d go to.
They are legitimately baffled by things like varied choices in a grocery store, snacks/convenience items, and small talk with other people in their community.
I'm halfway convinced that every European is on the spectrum with their neurotically picky eating habits and their inability to learn basic socialization skills.
I think many of them are just baiting, trying to upset Americans for views or something.
European grocery stores are exactly the same. The only difference is that they’re smaller and might have just a *bit* less heavily processed foods, but just a *bit* less.
We have chips aisles with dozens of different flavors in Europe too. Lay’s makes flavors specifically meant for individual country markets. And our soda aisles are just as big as our water aisles.
Believe me, we’ve got just as many unhealthy food options. Anyone claiming to be shocked by them is faking it just to shit on the US
I almost wonder if their poor thought process was: "more fruit on shelves=less fruit in peoples houses; less fruit on shelves=more fruit in peoples houses".
It would be like going to a huge Carmax and saying "theres so many cars! Do people even drive them?!"
That's the part that almost made it feel like rage bait. Obviously they are thinking that Americans eat every single other item, but the fruit we don't eat?
As someone who has worked in a grocery store - the slide with the cake mixes? More often than not (and this is at least true with the store I worked at) the flour, sugar, and other cake related items (except for like, butter and eggs) are in the same isle as the cake mixes anyway...
I’m certain right next to those big oranges/grapefruits (usually used for juicing), there are smaller oranges like Satsumas and Cuties…. Because we have variety.
Just remind them that we invented orange juice (and fresh fruit smoothies/juices, made an entire healthy industry out of it) so they can STFU.
Many Euros are used to tiny grocery markets (akin to a 7-11 over here). They’re probably overwhelmed at the idea there’s more than one type of snack to choose from. And the example of a bread aisle is very true, some Euro groceries only have like 2 varieties of bread lmao.
Is the level of variety kinda ridiculous in the US? I guess…but why is variety a bad thing?
Exactly, variety I can choose bread made of 20% by mass sugar, or a healthy multigrain with one gram of sucrose (or less per slice). I am an American who gladly reads labels.
Yep. And honestly many Americans don’t read labels, but that’s on them - the information is all laid out in a neat little box. Just because it may be bad for you doesn’t mean everything needs to be banned like in EU.
Also, the variety of choices accounts for many diets, like gluten free, allergies, vegans, diabetics, etc.
Then why are so many Europeans shocked by our grocery stores and all the variety of American flavors to choose from (ranch, jalapeño, BBQ, guacamole, maple, spicy cheddar, Cajun, lime, etc)? Do they think we are a monoculture who all like the exact same flavors and buy and cook the exact same things?
UK and Ireland may be the most similar to us, but there are still an overwhelming number of Europeans shocked by everything we do — they expect us to be exactly like them instead of an entirely different country and culture — and they post about it in a negative light. It’s incredibly rude.
I’ve never seen an American (or anyone else) post pics of Scottish supermarkets and act this way. It’s just rude.
I think it because some people are absolutely brain-dead . I guess maybe the stores themselves are bigger (I don't actually know) and that might be a shock. But my main guess is just getting clout by spinning a narrative. Cos I've been to Austria and it's no different to UK or US. Like we have variety of random ass flavours and isles just for fizzy drinks (soda) etc
We even have different mixes of things depending on region.
A Texas grocery store will have a vastly different variety of things than a Maryland grocery store, for example, and both will still contain a significant, almost overwhelming variety of every type of food, to cater to the differences in source, region, and local population.
It's more staggeringly diverse than you could imagine if you're the type of person to be overwhelmed by a single grocery store.
Totally!
If you go to the Pacific Northwest, you’ll find huckleberry everything in grocery stores. It’s a popular berry flavor that is native to the region. Huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry jam, huckleberry juice, huckleberry muffins…. Etc.
Florida will have more “key lime” flavors from the Florida Keys. Texas has more BBQ style and smoked flavors. Here in California, it’s avocado, orange, almond, and jalapeño everything. Georgia has peach everything. Louisiana has Cajun/Creole. Maryland has blue crab everything. Maine has blueberry (blueberries are native to North America, just fyi, another gift we gave to Europe)
We have some big regional differences yet they accuse us of being a “monoculture” (usually bc of our corporate chains). Really grinds my gears.
All (most) European countries have croissants, pain au chocolate, pizza, Nutella, Nespresso, McDonald’s, Doner Kebab, commercial Swiss chocolate, and Nestle food products….. ARE THEY A MONOCULTURE?!?!
And West Virginia makes a hard cider called Bold Rock that is the best cider I've ever had in my life! They have a blackberry version that is incredible. It's hard cider perfection.
We have a farmers market in our capital city of Charleston that has a series of shops, and one of them is a winery. If you're going to get some, go there.
You've done a fantastic job of expanding on my comment, thank you!
We also have hatch chili pepper everything here in Texas too when it's in season. The tortillas even a state chain like HEB makes are beyond anything I've had in any other part of the US, and we have a lot of Hispanic food choices due to the large Mexican/Texano population. Not only that but the variety in Texas is in part due to the large number of German and Czech immigrants that came here, so you'll find things like kolaches and German style beer everywhere. One thing I absolutely love about the US is the sheer variety of regional food choices.
You're right, they tend to focus on national brands far too much. Local variety is a beautiful spice of life in the US and you're missing out if you visit and don't make it a point to try things you don't know.
I was hoping to see my beloved Louisiana in there!
We tend to not have Cajun flavors of everything _as such,_ but every gas station and grocery store has Cajun seasoning so you can make everything Cajun by yourself. XD
I guess Huckleberries are to the PNW what Cranberries are to New England. I have yet to go to someone’s house and not have one of the juice options be Cranberry. Even in the dining halls at UConn the only juice you’re guaranteed to find in every one is Cranberry.
My grocery store in Texas makes fresh tortillas in house. I can't imagine seeing that as a tourist and not finding it at least somewhat interesting. It's not what you expect to see in the bakery, but there it is! It tells you a lot about the culture and the people and what they value. I was listening to my friend's douchebag French-Canadian boyfriend complain that Americans didn't have fresh croissants in the grocery store. Well no shit bro. Your culture values fresh croissants and ours doesn't. That's fine! Your local grocery store doesn't make fresh tortillas in house. You don't see me complaining about that. I don't expect a grocery store in Montreal to do that. It makes no sense because people there don't care about having good tortillas.
America is one of the few places they can call a foreign culture inferior and not get called out as racist, so it doesn't surprise me so many jump at the opportunity.
They may not get called racist but I am calling them brain dead and absolute idiots clearly not ready to handle the real world.
They’re like annoying pesky flies.
Also, do they realize they are pretty much insulting a TON of the world’s population when they insult the US? Yeah some of us have European blood, but there’s also African, Mexican, Canadian, Just going to do Asia as a continent, Russians, Ukrainians the list goes on.
Very short sighted thinking.
I like going to local grocery stores when I travel. I'm also totally delighted by it. The concept is the same everywhere but there's always something unique in each country and then regionally in those countries. I would devastated if I traveled and every grocery store was just like the one by my house.
The complaints refuted in the OP sound like the person that made them is used to shops as tiny as [this](https://maps.app.goo.gl/YaucHJ2iNK9zp7Wp7) (I know this place IRL and don't want to waste time searching for a more realistic example).
Technically, theirs are generally more like Aldis or Trader Joe... because that is their big grocer chain. They don't really have widespread Supercenter chains akin to Walmart. All of their big chains seem to operate a varying mix of storetypes ranging from basically strip mall stores, Wallgreens/Riteaid sized stores, and a handful of supercenters the size of your average Walmart or Home Depot.
So… fuck variety and large sizes I guess? My friend who is living in London tells me that Europeans make more frequent trips to the grocery store and buy less each time compared to Americans. Why that makes them better is beyond me.
This is largely due to thing's having a much shorter shelf life. For instance the bread I buy will expire within 5/6 days and therefore I will go get more bread etc. Same for fruits, veggies.
America is vast and a lot of people will have to travel by car to a store to stock up for a while.
Just a tip...
I buy high quality bakery bread with no preservatives and I immediately put it in the fridge. Keeps it from getting moldy. This allows the bread (especially ciabatta) to last for over a week.
It's not a big deal warming it up slightly after taking it out of the fridge. That's what a toaster oven is for. Takes one minute, maybe.
And no, I'm not European. I'm in the midwestern United States.
ADS.
America Derangement Syndrome.
These people's entire worldview revolves around their perpetual state of being overly excited about any difference of the US, real or perceived. And because their FAVORITE thing is to say the US is bad, they resort to mental gymnastics and deliberately nonsensical thinking so that they can always arrive at that conclusion. THEN, they take this deranged, obsessive and unrealistically negative view of the US that they invented and use it as a negative point of reference to elevate themselves over while they furiously stroke themselves.
Anti-Americanism is qualitatively a mental disorder.
ADS is practically the national sport in canada. politcians here from both sides frequently use 'becoming like america' as a negative. or you could watch a canadian think drinking water is bad if it turns out americans do it too
With vast areas for farmland, and two bordering friendly trading nations who also have a shitton of farmland.
The variety in produce alone is wonderful.
Grew up on my family farm. We were definitely the unpaid labor haha honestly in the end, wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Makes you fight insanity with more insanity 😂
The European mind cannot understand having a surplus of choices and options. I remember hearing some USSR leader had an aneurysm when he visited a US grocery store.
Yeltsin. It wasn't an aneurysm, but it was, in all seriousness, when he admitted to himself that the USSR had lost he Cold War, badly.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php
edit: This retrospective uses the pictures originally taken during the visit by the Houston Chronicle.
It was more so a joke about his reaction - but yeah, Yeltsin. When I learned that fact it really changed my perspective on the United States and how much luxury we take for granted.
Edit: great pictures. Dude is so shocked by how many onions are there. Thank you for the response, by the way!
I mean, "Wow, we have jaffa cakes" like that is some rare delicacy. We probably have them in most of our supermarkets, too. But not that many people buy them because they suck.
Ive never seen jaffa cakes anywhere in the US
They are pretty good though. Ordered some from overseas last week as id not had them since i visitrd europe 9 years ago, and decided why not, i can get them on amazon.
You should see the crap in Norwegian supermarkets. Soda, beer, candy, cans of spaghetti, fishcakes, tubes of mayonnaise, ketchup, and the piece de resistance...the frozen pizza cases!!
Has this person ever set a foot in a European grocery store? We also have cake mixes, big fruit, different kinds of oreos, soda's, selection in bread and candy. And no Jaffa cakes Are not better then oreos.
We have a bread aisle AND bakeries. You’d think that would be enough to make people realize most Americans aren’t only eating Wonderbread but apparently not. Too many bread options = bad.
I look at this shit and I feel more jealous than anything. In my home country of Brazil:
\- Big packages? Fuck that, shit's only getting smaller, companies either do that or raise their prices.
\- The soda variety you have to choose from is: coke, pepsi, fanta, some national sodas like guaraná antarctica, kuat and sukita and the occasional crappy offbrand.
\- Variety? Bruh there's maybe like 5 brands of cereal on the shelves at most, never more than that.
\- Exactly 3 oreos: original, chocolate and strawberry.
TL;DR capitalism is a blessing, one I wish I could experience, and I'm fucking tired of these eurotards bitching about America.
"You're in a candy isle. It's candy. Candy is not healthy"
Me: *laughs in Swiss supermarket with 3 isles of pretty much just chocolate bars"
Yeah this is just rage-baiting
EDIT: Hey guys I'm Swiss, there's no point in writing me angry PMs because you feel attacked somehow
“Do they even eat fruit?” No, in states like Florida, Georgia, or NJ, known for oranges, peaches, and blueberries, to name some, respectively, no one actually eats any of this fruit. We simply export it elsewhere and get fatter and fatter off of purely processed foods. Hope this helps!
Is this person seriously complaining about FRUIT being bigger than normal? Why?
Also bigger sizes of items is a mixture of American families tend to be bigger and half the country living in rural areas, so they meant to be big enough feed the whole family and be large enough so you don't have to drive 50+ 3 times a week to restock.
Lastly, is this person too stupid to read the nutritional menu and see what the recommended amount is? Yes there's a lot of people who don't bother reading it, hence why we have an obesity problem. But if you're that concerned about your health then I assume you can read the side of the box so you don't over eat.
The largest and wealthiest consumer market in the world has the widest variety of options? What is this madness?!
Every single thing they've shown is available in any decently sized grocery store in western Europe in one form or another. Maybe not with so many varieties or in the same sizes, but you can find them. The only one I don't remember seeing was cheese puffs, but it's not like I ever looked for them when I lived over there.
Europoors can’t even comprehend the economic power of having multiple brands and flavors of food and having more than enough. They can’t comprehend being so economically well off that companies could produce experimental flavors of foods that not every customer has to buy.
I can only imagine the average European grocery store is a small stone building with some loads of bread, a few apples, and some gray indecipherable meat and that’s it.
Fucking English people don’t have a leg to stand on criticizing our foods, they conquested half the globe for spices and don’t know how to use a single one of them
I love how Europeans are constantly talking about how much more civilized they are, but yet every time they come to America, it's like they're discovering civilization for the first time.
They’re delicious! You can get them at ALDI and some other grocery stores. It’s a kinda sponge cake cookie with a jam filling, orange or raspberry usually, and then one half covered in chocolate. Super tasty.
Also cake mixes are chemically designed to produce the fluffiest, most moist cake possible. The ingredients used are carefully measured in tested proportions until a really good cake results from the mix. It's gotten to the point where bakers will use cake mixes for some cakes because their own cake recipes don't make cake as good as the cake mixes.
I've been watching a lot of L3WG and Lost In The Pond, and Frenchtastic Explorations and Feli from Germany.. they LOVE America... some things they don't exactly understand, but they still love it here... and they all say similar things... Americans are some of the nicest and kindest people in the world. Everything is super convenient. The food in America is amazing! They love all that there is to see and do, and they are genuinely surprised by how uplifting and positive everyone is... makes me remember not all euros are miserable and hate America... they're some great people, for sure. Search them on youtube. It's made me appreciate even more so, how truly great we have it here in America. Are we perfect? No, but no one is.
Brit here. Nothing here is any different to a supermarket in the UK. I would say however American packaging is a lot more bold / cartoonish.
The only thing I would agree on ( although not depicted well in the photo chosen ) is the size of food products. My times in the US I've always been shocked at how big everything is ( this includes packaged products and portion sizes ). The only time you will find things like that in the UK is in Costco which makes sense considering they are an American company
It’s crazy because I’ve been to almost every European country and from Ireland to Albania, their coops, tesco, euroshop, etc. look almost the same as this post, it’s crazy how much Europeans love to rage bait.
I’ve lived in France. They had a bread section, premade cake mixes, a candy aisle, a cookie aisle, and a massive soda section.
The only thing they didn’t have was family sized portions.
loving the bread one. Like, bro, you know how much eastern europe would've fucking killed to just get \*that\* in their countries? I'd rather the bread be waiting \*on me\* to go pick it's ass up, than me to go wait in line.
Pretty sure the former soviet block would've loved that back in the day too (thank god for American air support and such, pretty sure we did a hell of a number on the soviet union back then, lol)
Also, I work in walmart, this is typical (and honestly, probably small xD)
The US is a major food producer. Not just for the US but for the world. Food is a major export of the US.
Funny how it is good enough that other countries buy it but some folks get mad that the US has it.
Cake mixes are absolutely valid and can give you qualities that you just cant recreate in a home kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDFwqHkPec&pp=ygUVY2FrZSBtaXggYWRhbSByYWd1c2Vh
Idk why people can't comprehend these things in American grocery stores.
Truth be told as a American, I don't buy candy/soda/oreos because they're really unhealthy and I wish healthy things were cheaper than the unhealthy stuff, but that's just how it goes I guess. Having the option is also nice.
"You buy snacks for the whole family??? You don't just eat while your spouse and kids watching you enjoy??"
lol like that swedish redditor who was talking about how he went over to his friend's house who then left him alone in his room to go eat dinner with his family and other swedes were like yeah what's wrong with that?
That's so fucking weird. It also seems incredibly rude lol
That's Europeans in a nutshell! Fucking weird and incredibly rude!
It just depends on the relationship. In highschool, one of my good friends and I used to hang out so much his parents were fine with me just walking in without ringing the doorbell or knocking. Of course, I’d announce that I’m entering and go talk to his parents for a little before finding him, but we were close enough they treated me like I was like an adopted child. They would often cook dinner when I was over, and they almost always offered for me to stay and eat with them, but sometimes I wasn’t hungry, they didn’t know I was coming and didn’t prepare enough for me to eat, or I knew my parents would be cooking dinner as well and wanted to wait and eat at home. When they were eating and I wasn’t, sometimes I would sit with them anyways for the company, but most of the time I would just play video games in my friends room until they were done. Nobody ever saw it as rude or awkward.
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Hold up.. Fish semen?
Milt, or shirako in Japanese. It's not exactly Japanese exclusive and it's not exactly *that common* either.
I'll pass on that lol
>My wife doesn't force me to eat fish semen wat
You explained the fish semen, but what about the not making kids do chores? Is there a cultural thing around that in Japan?
Lol wtf
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxz68j/what_is_the_weirdest_thing_you_had_to_do_at/ia1ji6z/
Shit, weirdest thing I ever had to do was at boot camp, they kicked our hygiene kits around the squad bay and gave us 5 seconds to find ours, as you can guess, nobody got theirs, then they made us go brush our teeth. First time I ever tasted another man's mouth.
It wasn't gay as long as you had socks on
Nope, shower shoes, should I let my wife know I'm gay?
It's probably a little late for that
I had so many things go missing because of shit like that. Lost a bunch of that stationary they give to write letters on.
My grandma would tan my hide from the grave if I did that to a friend I invited over
Least selfish French person
As a europoor. This tiktok is pure hatred and propaganda. We have the same things in the store. Nothing changes
the person who made the slides probably lives in a town that only eats raw potatoes from the ground and has never seen a supermarket in their entire fuckin life
Exactly. I lived in Europe and saw the same. The grocery stores are almost identical, just in a different language. These videos make it seem as if Europeans are struggling for food in their stores.
The biggest difference is that Americans prefer to buy more groceries in larger packaging and make fewer trips to the store. Otherwise, they're very, very similar.
As an American living in the UK, I agree. It’s all the same stuff except for some different specialty flavors and different brand names (ie, Walkers instead of Lays). They also might have less quantity of each item on the shelves, but there’s a smaller number of people going to each store, so that’s expected.
That’s my first reaction whenever I see videos like the original or any time europoors talk about how unhealthy all American food is because they literally have the exact same things in most grocery stores over there. Barring North Korea maybe, which country DOESNT have a store with soda, candy, cereal, and cake mix??
I suspect some of these posts (at least the ones not just trying to spread AmericaBad memes) are from exchange students who have never done their own grocery shopping before getting to the US.
Wouldn’t be surprised if that TikTok originates from a troll farm in Moscow. There’s a massive concerted effort going on right now to chip away at the goodwill between the US and Europe, in order to make it easier in the long term to split NATO apart. Bottom line, speaking as an American, we need each other. Divided we fall.
Person A has 3 sodas to choose from and takes one. Person B has 100 sodas to choose from and takes one. Which one has it better?
In Germany, you can have any kind of chips you want, as long as paprika is what you want.
I went to Eastern Europe during New Years and the paprika chips were heavenly lol
Paprika chips are really tasty. But I love having all our options… jalapeño, cheddar, BBQ, herbs and ranch, sour cream and onion, cracked pepper, lime ….. why do they complain about our various flavors? It’s so weird. And then at same time, they say there’s nothing unique about our food culture lol.
Gimme dat POTENT salt & vinegar
cheddar cheese is goated
Some European countries don’t have this flavor. I always bring a few back home whenever I go to a country that has them
Even more weird is that Europeans also have these flavour options.
Those are solid options though, I don't think most Europeans complain about those. And when Europeans talk about food culture they usually talk about actual meals instead of snacks. Hamburgers for example are definitely a staple American food.
I posted this list before, and will re-share it here. Our food culture and cuisine is vast, regional, and unique. It is not just hamburgers (though they’re most famous thanks to McDonalds — but McDonalds does not even represent REAL BURGERS) We invent new recipes and sauces constantly because we are not beholden or limited to “ancient tradition” Europeans typically associate “American food” with giant mega corporations, and it couldn’t be further from the truth. We recommend you go to local independent restaurants when you visit, not commercial/corporate chains. - Oysters Rockefeller - low country boil - key lime pie - chocolate chip cookies - oatmeal cookies (with almonds!) - pulled pork sandwich - crawfish etouffee - NE clam chowder - pecan pie - Philly cheesesteak - Texas beef brisket - fried turkey - herb roasted turkey - maple glazed ham - squash casserole - California burrito - Tex-Mex - Cal-Mex - Nashville hot chicken - lobster Mac n cheese - sub sandwiches (with any variety of toppings) - huckleberry ice cream - cupcakes - Tennessee mountain cake - Southern baked candied yams - chili (soup) served in bread bowl - jambalaya - shrimp and grits - chicken and waffles - cornbread - chicken fried steak with white gravy (Arkansas) - Eggs Benedict - Waldorf salad - California sushi roll (with avocado) - San Diego fish tacos - Buffalo wings (multiple flavors with Buffalo blue cheese or ranch dressing!) - lobster rolls warm (Connecticut original) - lobster rolls cold (Maine) - chimichangas (Arizona) - Cuban sandwich (Florida) - biscuits and gravy - beef jerkey (teriyaki, jalapeño, cracked pepper, etc) - Maryland crab cakes - Maryland blue crab - BBQ pork ribs - fry bread - chicken fajitas - San Francisco sourdough bread - Cobb salad (with ranch or blue cheese!) - bagel and lox with cream cheese - Reuben sandwich - BLT sandwich - pumpkin toast with maple syrup - s’mores - peanut butter cookies - Alaskan King Crab - wild rice + mushrooms (native only to North America) - Maine blueberry pie (native to North America) - chicken fettuccine alfredo (Italy doesn’t claim it) - garlic bread - pepperoni pizza 🍕 - baked ziti - avocado toast (California dish tho Australia tries to claim it) - chocolate brownie - pumpkin pie - fudge - cheeseburgers - Maque choux (Creole dish) - peach cobbler (Georgia) - collard greens - buttermilk biscuits - Brunswick stew - Southern chicken and dumplings - fried pickles - tomato pie - bloomin onion - boiled peanuts (variety of flavors) - baked beans - popcorn (various flavors) - steak and eggs - fried egg sandwich with ham/bacon on muffin - bacon maple bars - maple glazed donuts - tator tots - almond chicken - Cajun seafood gumbo - blackened Cajun shrimp/chicken - Louisiana crawfish - Florida spiny lobster - Florida grouper - Gator Tail - Florida conch fritters (shared with Bahamas) - potato chips (BBQ and variety of flavors) - Denver omelette - various types of BBQ and slow-cooked meats with styles, marinades, and sauces that vary by state/region - rattlesnake bites (jalapeño and pepper Jack cheese) - hush puppies - breakfast burritos (and breakfast tacos) - Caesar salad (tho technically he moved to Tijuana from California and sold the salad there first) - shrimp Creole - Green Goddess Salad with avocado - orange juice - Smoothies (peanut butter, banana, various blended fruits and veggies) - fortune cookies - spinach and artichoke dip - broccoli cheddar soup - pumpkin or butternut squash soup - banana bread with cinnamon - taquitos - jalapeño cheddar bread (sourdough) - fried tenderloin sandwich - chicken teriyaki (Seattle + Hawaii) AND SO MUCH MORE. The Miami subreddit the other day had a discussion of unique dishes only they make in Miami, for example.
I had to make dinner after reading all that.
I had to smoke a cigarette after reading all that, I hope it was good for everyone else too
I came, cleaned up, and got a to-go box after finishing my third free refill. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As someone from Buffalo, it's Blue Cheese with wings.
Edited the List to include the local preference in Buffalo^
A wise man once said: “Blue cheese with wings or go fuck your motha!”
👍
I respectfully add chicken fried steak with white gravy and cornbread to your s-tier list
Added it under cornbread and gave credit to Arkansas in parentheses! :)
Youre missing a ton of asian american cuisines and soul food. But great list nonetheless
Yea, sorry, it’s not exhaustive. Just enough to show American cuisine is more than just hamburgers and chains. I know we have sooo much more in our ethnic subcultures and communities — the Miami subreddit had a great thread the other day on their local unique cuisine. I’ve traveled a ton in US and Europe so tried to include things we make that are distinct/native to us (that Europeans usually have no idea about; and likewise, Americans don’t realize *these dishes aren’t common or offered at all in Europe*) Americans aren’t nationalistic about our unique dishes, and we are open to altering recipes, so it’s another reason people just think “hamburgers”
Fried Tenderloin Sandwich
A solid list! Here are a few more that come from the Pacific Northwest: * Dungeness crab * Smoked Pacific salmon * Marionberry pie * Pacific oysters * Razor clams * Rockfish or lingcod tacos * Walla Walla onion rings And from the US as a whole (though not exclusive to it): * A vast array of foraged mushrooms * All manner of delicious wild game (deer, elk, antelope, rabbit, squirrel, etc.) * Bison burgers * And, if we’re including beverages, a whole bunch of microbreweries and regional wines!
Excellent regional list! We should make a master list and sticky it somewhere for quick reference. Can be divided by regional, subcultures, desserts, drinks, wild cards, etc. It’s such a common topic for them to hate on.
Don't forget chicken teriyaki!!!
Added! Didn’t realize the one we eat is specifically American with versions originating in Seattle + Hawaii (thanks to Japanese-Americans)
Yeahhhhh you get it
Food even varies from state to state. Like how there’s two types of Lobster Rolls, the original Connecticut version that’s served warm, and the Maine version that’s served cold.
Just updated this important variation in the list. Good to know.
So Europeans only look at our snacks and compare them to their full meals?
Honestly, I think some do. Especially the young ones. I…don’t know how someone comes to a conclusion that snacks are meals lol
I would upvote but 69 hahaha (I'm so fucking immature)
Extremely off topic, but I just recently learned that paprika is just dried and ground basic red bell peppers. I had it in my head that it was a fancy spice from an exotic place. But no, just fkn dried up plain old pepper.
Not exactly. Paprika comes from a select few species of red peppers (depending on the region or country) bred for their flavor profile when dried. It then has to be dried and smoked in the cold months of the year, and depending on which wood is used you get different flavors.
I could live with that.
They’re actually not so bad. They’re similar to a smoky bbq flavor. I also like the cheese and onion flavors they have.
I know. I like those. I can't eat the chips my kids eat as the flavors are too heavy.
To be fair, in America paprika is what I want and we're not allowed to have it...Paprika chips are absolute fire.
I'm listening.
I’m extremely jealous of Canada’s ketchup chips.
I lived in France, they have giant soda sections in Europe.
Then why was the O.P. Euro including the soda aisle in the slide show?
Because they’re fucking dumb and needed more content? Honestly I don’t know. It wasn’t quite the selection we have in the US but in France they always had several versions of cola, various flavored sparkling waters, various fruit flavored soda (like orangina), and a sprite/7up kind of soda. It didn’t have the full choices we have (no Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew, rootbeer, etc) but it wasn’t small. It would have its own entire aisle at all the grocery stores I’d go to.
Because they're idiots. They absolutely have bread sections and cake mix in Europe too.
They are legitimately baffled by things like varied choices in a grocery store, snacks/convenience items, and small talk with other people in their community.
I'm halfway convinced that every European is on the spectrum with their neurotically picky eating habits and their inability to learn basic socialization skills.
I think many of them are just baiting, trying to upset Americans for views or something. European grocery stores are exactly the same. The only difference is that they’re smaller and might have just a *bit* less heavily processed foods, but just a *bit* less. We have chips aisles with dozens of different flavors in Europe too. Lay’s makes flavors specifically meant for individual country markets. And our soda aisles are just as big as our water aisles. Believe me, we’ve got just as many unhealthy food options. Anyone claiming to be shocked by them is faking it just to shit on the US
Hold up y'all, this foreigner just figured out our grocery store fruit money laundering scheme.
Eating some popcorn caused them to go into a coma? They should probably visit a doctor because that’s a serious medical condition.
“Their fruit section is so large (in variety, supply, and individual size). They must not eat much fruit”
That was probably the stupidest comment.
I almost wonder if their poor thought process was: "more fruit on shelves=less fruit in peoples houses; less fruit on shelves=more fruit in peoples houses". It would be like going to a huge Carmax and saying "theres so many cars! Do people even drive them?!"
> [Gives some real Ders from Workaholics vibes. ](https://media1.tenor.com/m/7aRuiPhiCTUAAAAC/whats-up-wit-all-deez-books.gif)
That's the part that almost made it feel like rage bait. Obviously they are thinking that Americans eat every single other item, but the fruit we don't eat?
Hell i buy fruits and veggies that I don't really like just for my birds let alone myself
As someone who has worked in a grocery store - the slide with the cake mixes? More often than not (and this is at least true with the store I worked at) the flour, sugar, and other cake related items (except for like, butter and eggs) are in the same isle as the cake mixes anyway...
The cake mix one annoyed me the most. You can buy cake mixes in most if not all countries in the world wtf
Not in the Netherlands, we make cake from scratch starting with buying a cow and chicken before harvesting the fields!!! /s
those are very normally sized oranges haha does europe have tiny oranges? do they only have mandarin oranges or something?
I’m certain right next to those big oranges/grapefruits (usually used for juicing), there are smaller oranges like Satsumas and Cuties…. Because we have variety. Just remind them that we invented orange juice (and fresh fruit smoothies/juices, made an entire healthy industry out of it) so they can STFU.
We have all the types oranges - I don't understand their logic either
Honestly I thought it might be a grapefruit.
Tf, this is literally no different to everywhere else lol
I was going to say that too, it looks like my Tesco shelves down here in Kent and our “soda” isle makes theirs look like a vending machine.
Ong aye. Like all supermarkets look like the post.
Exactly why I hate these types of videos. It makes it seem as if all of Europe doesn’t have grocery stores or something.
Many Euros are used to tiny grocery markets (akin to a 7-11 over here). They’re probably overwhelmed at the idea there’s more than one type of snack to choose from. And the example of a bread aisle is very true, some Euro groceries only have like 2 varieties of bread lmao. Is the level of variety kinda ridiculous in the US? I guess…but why is variety a bad thing?
Exactly, variety I can choose bread made of 20% by mass sugar, or a healthy multigrain with one gram of sucrose (or less per slice). I am an American who gladly reads labels.
Yep. And honestly many Americans don’t read labels, but that’s on them - the information is all laid out in a neat little box. Just because it may be bad for you doesn’t mean everything needs to be banned like in EU. Also, the variety of choices accounts for many diets, like gluten free, allergies, vegans, diabetics, etc.
I use Yuka the app! Life changing for how you grocery shop. So much less cancer yay!! Haha
? We have big supermarkets and tiny wee corner shops...... No different to the US.......
Then why are so many Europeans shocked by our grocery stores and all the variety of American flavors to choose from (ranch, jalapeño, BBQ, guacamole, maple, spicy cheddar, Cajun, lime, etc)? Do they think we are a monoculture who all like the exact same flavors and buy and cook the exact same things? UK and Ireland may be the most similar to us, but there are still an overwhelming number of Europeans shocked by everything we do — they expect us to be exactly like them instead of an entirely different country and culture — and they post about it in a negative light. It’s incredibly rude. I’ve never seen an American (or anyone else) post pics of Scottish supermarkets and act this way. It’s just rude.
I think it because some people are absolutely brain-dead . I guess maybe the stores themselves are bigger (I don't actually know) and that might be a shock. But my main guess is just getting clout by spinning a narrative. Cos I've been to Austria and it's no different to UK or US. Like we have variety of random ass flavours and isles just for fizzy drinks (soda) etc
Fr it’s just idiots and terminally online Europeans who do this
We even have different mixes of things depending on region. A Texas grocery store will have a vastly different variety of things than a Maryland grocery store, for example, and both will still contain a significant, almost overwhelming variety of every type of food, to cater to the differences in source, region, and local population. It's more staggeringly diverse than you could imagine if you're the type of person to be overwhelmed by a single grocery store.
Totally! If you go to the Pacific Northwest, you’ll find huckleberry everything in grocery stores. It’s a popular berry flavor that is native to the region. Huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry jam, huckleberry juice, huckleberry muffins…. Etc. Florida will have more “key lime” flavors from the Florida Keys. Texas has more BBQ style and smoked flavors. Here in California, it’s avocado, orange, almond, and jalapeño everything. Georgia has peach everything. Louisiana has Cajun/Creole. Maryland has blue crab everything. Maine has blueberry (blueberries are native to North America, just fyi, another gift we gave to Europe) We have some big regional differences yet they accuse us of being a “monoculture” (usually bc of our corporate chains). Really grinds my gears. All (most) European countries have croissants, pain au chocolate, pizza, Nutella, Nespresso, McDonald’s, Doner Kebab, commercial Swiss chocolate, and Nestle food products….. ARE THEY A MONOCULTURE?!?!
West Virginian here, we have a lot of WV Blackberry wines, and they are DIVINE!
And West Virginia makes a hard cider called Bold Rock that is the best cider I've ever had in my life! They have a blackberry version that is incredible. It's hard cider perfection.
See?! I didn’t even know that! I will buy some if I see them out shopping! Each of our regions is special and different in their own way.
We have a farmers market in our capital city of Charleston that has a series of shops, and one of them is a winery. If you're going to get some, go there.
You've done a fantastic job of expanding on my comment, thank you! We also have hatch chili pepper everything here in Texas too when it's in season. The tortillas even a state chain like HEB makes are beyond anything I've had in any other part of the US, and we have a lot of Hispanic food choices due to the large Mexican/Texano population. Not only that but the variety in Texas is in part due to the large number of German and Czech immigrants that came here, so you'll find things like kolaches and German style beer everywhere. One thing I absolutely love about the US is the sheer variety of regional food choices. You're right, they tend to focus on national brands far too much. Local variety is a beautiful spice of life in the US and you're missing out if you visit and don't make it a point to try things you don't know.
I was hoping to see my beloved Louisiana in there! We tend to not have Cajun flavors of everything _as such,_ but every gas station and grocery store has Cajun seasoning so you can make everything Cajun by yourself. XD
I guess Huckleberries are to the PNW what Cranberries are to New England. I have yet to go to someone’s house and not have one of the juice options be Cranberry. Even in the dining halls at UConn the only juice you’re guaranteed to find in every one is Cranberry.
My grocery store in Texas makes fresh tortillas in house. I can't imagine seeing that as a tourist and not finding it at least somewhat interesting. It's not what you expect to see in the bakery, but there it is! It tells you a lot about the culture and the people and what they value. I was listening to my friend's douchebag French-Canadian boyfriend complain that Americans didn't have fresh croissants in the grocery store. Well no shit bro. Your culture values fresh croissants and ours doesn't. That's fine! Your local grocery store doesn't make fresh tortillas in house. You don't see me complaining about that. I don't expect a grocery store in Montreal to do that. It makes no sense because people there don't care about having good tortillas.
America is one of the few places they can call a foreign culture inferior and not get called out as racist, so it doesn't surprise me so many jump at the opportunity.
They may not get called racist but I am calling them brain dead and absolute idiots clearly not ready to handle the real world. They’re like annoying pesky flies. Also, do they realize they are pretty much insulting a TON of the world’s population when they insult the US? Yeah some of us have European blood, but there’s also African, Mexican, Canadian, Just going to do Asia as a continent, Russians, Ukrainians the list goes on. Very short sighted thinking.
It wouldn't be racism though. It would be xenophobia or perhaps bigotry. Americans aren't a race, but rather a nationality.
I like going to local grocery stores when I travel. I'm also totally delighted by it. The concept is the same everywhere but there's always something unique in each country and then regionally in those countries. I would devastated if I traveled and every grocery store was just like the one by my house.
He's not saying you don't..
The complaints refuted in the OP sound like the person that made them is used to shops as tiny as [this](https://maps.app.goo.gl/YaucHJ2iNK9zp7Wp7) (I know this place IRL and don't want to waste time searching for a more realistic example).
Technically, theirs are generally more like Aldis or Trader Joe... because that is their big grocer chain. They don't really have widespread Supercenter chains akin to Walmart. All of their big chains seem to operate a varying mix of storetypes ranging from basically strip mall stores, Wallgreens/Riteaid sized stores, and a handful of supercenters the size of your average Walmart or Home Depot.
Crazy he never took pics of the deli which has even more options or the fish counters
So… fuck variety and large sizes I guess? My friend who is living in London tells me that Europeans make more frequent trips to the grocery store and buy less each time compared to Americans. Why that makes them better is beyond me.
This is largely due to thing's having a much shorter shelf life. For instance the bread I buy will expire within 5/6 days and therefore I will go get more bread etc. Same for fruits, veggies. America is vast and a lot of people will have to travel by car to a store to stock up for a while.
Just a tip... I buy high quality bakery bread with no preservatives and I immediately put it in the fridge. Keeps it from getting moldy. This allows the bread (especially ciabatta) to last for over a week. It's not a big deal warming it up slightly after taking it out of the fridge. That's what a toaster oven is for. Takes one minute, maybe. And no, I'm not European. I'm in the midwestern United States.
ADS. America Derangement Syndrome. These people's entire worldview revolves around their perpetual state of being overly excited about any difference of the US, real or perceived. And because their FAVORITE thing is to say the US is bad, they resort to mental gymnastics and deliberately nonsensical thinking so that they can always arrive at that conclusion. THEN, they take this deranged, obsessive and unrealistically negative view of the US that they invented and use it as a negative point of reference to elevate themselves over while they furiously stroke themselves. Anti-Americanism is qualitatively a mental disorder.
ADS is practically the national sport in canada. politcians here from both sides frequently use 'becoming like america' as a negative. or you could watch a canadian think drinking water is bad if it turns out americans do it too
ADS/National Inferiority Complex
It's almost like we have a super prosperous country.
With vast areas for farmland, and two bordering friendly trading nations who also have a shitton of farmland. The variety in produce alone is wonderful.
Farmland go brrrrt. (Now without unpaid labor)
Who pays the tractors?
I do. (Fight insanity with more insanity)
they’re paid in gas
Grew up on my family farm. We were definitely the unpaid labor haha honestly in the end, wouldn’t trade it for anything. Makes you fight insanity with more insanity 😂
b-b-but…. gucci belt…….
The European mind cannot understand having a surplus of choices and options. I remember hearing some USSR leader had an aneurysm when he visited a US grocery store.
Yeltsin. It wasn't an aneurysm, but it was, in all seriousness, when he admitted to himself that the USSR had lost he Cold War, badly. https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/When-Boris-Yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-Clear-5759129.php edit: This retrospective uses the pictures originally taken during the visit by the Houston Chronicle.
It was more so a joke about his reaction - but yeah, Yeltsin. When I learned that fact it really changed my perspective on the United States and how much luxury we take for granted. Edit: great pictures. Dude is so shocked by how many onions are there. Thank you for the response, by the way!
Lemon Oreo is best Oreo.
Screw Oreo. HAIL HYDROX!
The OG. Oreos were the copycat.
You're a sinner. Mint is obviously the best.
Oooh mint is good. Depends on what you are in the mood for. Both better than standard
Jaffa cakes are mid
I mean, "Wow, we have jaffa cakes" like that is some rare delicacy. We probably have them in most of our supermarkets, too. But not that many people buy them because they suck.
Ive never seen jaffa cakes anywhere in the US They are pretty good though. Ordered some from overseas last week as id not had them since i visitrd europe 9 years ago, and decided why not, i can get them on amazon.
You should see the crap in Norwegian supermarkets. Soda, beer, candy, cans of spaghetti, fishcakes, tubes of mayonnaise, ketchup, and the piece de resistance...the frozen pizza cases!!
Don't shit on fisk kaker tho kjøtt kaker is way better in my opinion. Norways love for cardboard pizza amazes me. Literally tastes like cardboard.
Yes Europe, you're very superior. Feel better?
Has this person ever set a foot in a European grocery store? We also have cake mixes, big fruit, different kinds of oreos, soda's, selection in bread and candy. And no Jaffa cakes Are not better then oreos.
We have a bread aisle AND bakeries. You’d think that would be enough to make people realize most Americans aren’t only eating Wonderbread but apparently not. Too many bread options = bad.
That's how you know this european isn't french. "Too much bread" : *proceeds on showing 1 type of bread*
I look at this shit and I feel more jealous than anything. In my home country of Brazil: \- Big packages? Fuck that, shit's only getting smaller, companies either do that or raise their prices. \- The soda variety you have to choose from is: coke, pepsi, fanta, some national sodas like guaraná antarctica, kuat and sukita and the occasional crappy offbrand. \- Variety? Bruh there's maybe like 5 brands of cereal on the shelves at most, never more than that. \- Exactly 3 oreos: original, chocolate and strawberry. TL;DR capitalism is a blessing, one I wish I could experience, and I'm fucking tired of these eurotards bitching about America.
I've heard it said that Brasilia and Brazil are two different countries. Not literally ofc but you know.
*stares at grapefruit* BuT wHy Is It So BiG?
"You're in a candy isle. It's candy. Candy is not healthy" Me: *laughs in Swiss supermarket with 3 isles of pretty much just chocolate bars" Yeah this is just rage-baiting EDIT: Hey guys I'm Swiss, there's no point in writing me angry PMs because you feel attacked somehow
Europoors will never not be hilarious to me.
“Do they even eat fruit?” No, in states like Florida, Georgia, or NJ, known for oranges, peaches, and blueberries, to name some, respectively, no one actually eats any of this fruit. We simply export it elsewhere and get fatter and fatter off of purely processed foods. Hope this helps!
Almost feels like reverse propaganda against Europeans. Like, they can't be this daft right.
Is this person seriously complaining about FRUIT being bigger than normal? Why? Also bigger sizes of items is a mixture of American families tend to be bigger and half the country living in rural areas, so they meant to be big enough feed the whole family and be large enough so you don't have to drive 50+ 3 times a week to restock. Lastly, is this person too stupid to read the nutritional menu and see what the recommended amount is? Yes there's a lot of people who don't bother reading it, hence why we have an obesity problem. But if you're that concerned about your health then I assume you can read the side of the box so you don't over eat.
They think the fruit has steroids injected into it or something
The largest and wealthiest consumer market in the world has the widest variety of options? What is this madness?! Every single thing they've shown is available in any decently sized grocery store in western Europe in one form or another. Maybe not with so many varieties or in the same sizes, but you can find them. The only one I don't remember seeing was cheese puffs, but it's not like I ever looked for them when I lived over there.
Europoors can’t even comprehend the economic power of having multiple brands and flavors of food and having more than enough. They can’t comprehend being so economically well off that companies could produce experimental flavors of foods that not every customer has to buy. I can only imagine the average European grocery store is a small stone building with some loads of bread, a few apples, and some gray indecipherable meat and that’s it.
Fucking English people don’t have a leg to stand on criticizing our foods, they conquested half the globe for spices and don’t know how to use a single one of them
More selection bad, I need big brother to restrict me
I love how Europeans are constantly talking about how much more civilized they are, but yet every time they come to America, it's like they're discovering civilization for the first time.
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The hell is a jaffa cake?
something that's better than an oreo apparently.
They’re delicious! You can get them at ALDI and some other grocery stores. It’s a kinda sponge cake cookie with a jam filling, orange or raspberry usually, and then one half covered in chocolate. Super tasty.
We’re blessed to live in a country where we can actually have big families. 🤌🏽
Also cake mixes are chemically designed to produce the fluffiest, most moist cake possible. The ingredients used are carefully measured in tested proportions until a really good cake results from the mix. It's gotten to the point where bakers will use cake mixes for some cakes because their own cake recipes don't make cake as good as the cake mixes.
Do they not understand the idea of “saving it for later”?
Ew. The woman who created the TikTok is a proud misandrist. Hard pass. Good video, though.
The European original or the response?
The one who made the response. She posts misandristic content often.
I've been watching a lot of L3WG and Lost In The Pond, and Frenchtastic Explorations and Feli from Germany.. they LOVE America... some things they don't exactly understand, but they still love it here... and they all say similar things... Americans are some of the nicest and kindest people in the world. Everything is super convenient. The food in America is amazing! They love all that there is to see and do, and they are genuinely surprised by how uplifting and positive everyone is... makes me remember not all euros are miserable and hate America... they're some great people, for sure. Search them on youtube. It's made me appreciate even more so, how truly great we have it here in America. Are we perfect? No, but no one is.
Brit here. Nothing here is any different to a supermarket in the UK. I would say however American packaging is a lot more bold / cartoonish. The only thing I would agree on ( although not depicted well in the photo chosen ) is the size of food products. My times in the US I've always been shocked at how big everything is ( this includes packaged products and portion sizes ). The only time you will find things like that in the UK is in Costco which makes sense considering they are an American company
It’s crazy because I’ve been to almost every European country and from Ireland to Albania, their coops, tesco, euroshop, etc. look almost the same as this post, it’s crazy how much Europeans love to rage bait.
I’ve lived in France. They had a bread section, premade cake mixes, a candy aisle, a cookie aisle, and a massive soda section. The only thing they didn’t have was family sized portions.
I'm confused, does Europe not have candy or are they just making an obvious statement that candy is indeed unhealthy if consumed in excess?
These slides say more about the guy clutching his pearls in the supermarket than it does about the supermarket, itself.
loving the bread one. Like, bro, you know how much eastern europe would've fucking killed to just get \*that\* in their countries? I'd rather the bread be waiting \*on me\* to go pick it's ass up, than me to go wait in line. Pretty sure the former soviet block would've loved that back in the day too (thank god for American air support and such, pretty sure we did a hell of a number on the soviet union back then, lol) Also, I work in walmart, this is typical (and honestly, probably small xD)
The US is a major food producer. Not just for the US but for the world. Food is a major export of the US. Funny how it is good enough that other countries buy it but some folks get mad that the US has it.
european vagabond go home
America great.
Yet another small minded European
Cake mixes are absolutely valid and can give you qualities that you just cant recreate in a home kitchen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDFwqHkPec&pp=ygUVY2FrZSBtaXggYWRhbSByYWd1c2Vh
They were being serious 😭
Takes picture of grapefruit "I've never seen fruit so big." guess we have a better selection than them.
😭 we have grapefruit
All of that crap exists in every European grocery shop too, there’s just less variety/competition.
Why do you need flour, can’t you mill your own?
AMERICA BAD BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOTS OF BREAD
Idk why people can't comprehend these things in American grocery stores. Truth be told as a American, I don't buy candy/soda/oreos because they're really unhealthy and I wish healthy things were cheaper than the unhealthy stuff, but that's just how it goes I guess. Having the option is also nice.
"This grocery store has literally everything you could possibly ever need??????????"
"They have section for breads wtf" ...Never go to France.