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So typical of a lib to say somethng like "worst [thing]" without being able to say why.
The funny thing, when I was a kid it was just kind of common knowledge that American fast food sucked.
They assume they have the entire weight of the status quo backing them up so they can just throw around definitive declarations and expect everyone to automatically agree with them
The worst part is that they are right about this
Well, akshually...
When you compare American fast food to what's available internationally, it comes out quite ahead. I mean, have you ever been to a Jollibee's? When I'm back in the States I always have to hit up Dairy Queen, Sonic, Church's fried chicken. Those are awesome. Freaking steak fingers at DQ served piping hot are to die for. The gravy, the gravy...
i've heard that foreign KFC is rather better than domestic, don't know about any of the "better" chicken chains
This is just not true. :( A bunch of menu items aren't there, notably biscuits.
All foreign fast food chains are better than in the US, especially if the country has a pretty set in street food culture, and the only market niche they can fill is some performative, mid-range, fast casual offering because they won't compete with the cheap and tasty as fuck stuff that normal working class people eat.
EDIT: I meant "foreign versions of American fast food chains". Imagine, McDonald's in Europe or something like that.
All foreign fast food chains are better than in the US,
I'm an international and I gotta say this just isn't true. Nobody beats US fast food. Other areas, sure...but fast food? America invented the fast food restaurant.
especially if the country has a pretty set in street food culture
Street food is gross. They don't have running water nor hot water and get caught using ditch oil all the time.
No way, I'm Australian and my favorite fast food is sushi and Chinese.
American fast food is addictive so you think you want it, until you actually eat it, at which point to wonder why you wanted it in the first place. I always feel like shit after earing McDonalds or KFC, but I never regret buying sushi.
I’m Australian and my favorite fast food is
Well, that explains a lot. America has so, so much more than the garbage of McD or KFC, but I guess you'll never know. The glory of Sonic or Dairy Queen or Hardee's cannot be surpassed. You're really missing out. :(
Maybe one day I'll visit and try them and I can decide for myself lol. The food you guys export to us tho is bleh.
I can at least say with confidence that Australian food sucks though, especially our fast food
Anyone who likes fried chicken doesn't go to KFC. It's terrible. Church's or Popeyes. KFC is worldwide, but if you find yourself stuck at a train station and out of options, their chicken burger is about as good as you can do. The actual fried chicken is not good and does not hold a candle to real fast food fried chicken.
Anyone who likes fried chicken doesn’t go to KFC. It’s terrible. Church’s or Popeyes
cool i don't think we have those around here
It's literally the most egregious example of hyperbole I've ever seen, in the history of all human communication.
You've never seen hyperbole so huge, it's enormous, just magnificent and colossal and beautiful. Really... really great stuff. :thicc-trump:
every American "fusion"* restaurant, say Korean-Mexican bbq, is actually a three way Korean-Mexican-American. This becomes apparent when you visit another country, say India, and you notice that their Chinese food is actually Chinese-Indian food. Anyway I wouldn't be surprised to see a three-way fusion in another country
* not the suburban "fusion" orange chicken factories where they serve generic "Asian" food
Pizza hut used to be a lot fancier in the US, too. it was never fine dining but you used to be able to go to a Pizza Hut or Domino's or a dozen others and sit down at a table and have your pizza brought out to you.
Oh yeah forgot about fast food. Subway has the aloo patty in the US now. Same with KFC in India, I knew a girl who went there on special occasions.
In Vietnam, there are places doing a repatriated version of Vietcajun soul food made by Vietnamese immigrants in the American South. That probably counts because of all the French influence.
Yep, foods get changed when crossing between cultures to be more appealing to the next culture.
If there’s one trait that is relatively consistent across all styles of American cuisine is that we like things to be heavily sauced. Americans do not appreciate dry food the way they do in some other places. American Snack food notwithstanding of course.
True but I guess more specifically what I mean is that “too much sauce” is rarely a culinary sin American cuisines the way it can be in traditions like French, Japanese, or Italian.
Japanese uses sauces? Huh. I didn't know that, and I'm someone who likes Japanese food quite a bit.
What did you think soy, ponzu, mirin, warishita, or curry sauces were?
Dipping sauces. And curry is Indian. Hardly central to the cuisine like sauces are to French food.
Japanese curry wouldn’t exist without Indian curry, but its a different experience entirely. Its mildness and use is more like gravy than an Indian curry.
How are dipping sauces not sauces? And many of them are on top of food as served, not dipped. Look at a picture of okonimayaki or katsu and tell me that's not a sauce.
Also, I would definitely not say they're central to Japanese food, but the way you put your first comment, you seemed to not know they existed at all.
Jeez, I said I'm someone who likes Japanese food quite a bit, you think I've never used soy sauce or tentsuyu?
These aren't central to the cuisine like they are in French food. You can't eat anything French without a damn sauce.
chili are good once in a while.
I'm sorry I recognize all these words but the semantic meaning of this sentence is beyond my ability to comprehend.
He respects tex-mex tacos with the crispy gringo shell :chefs-kiss:
I'm not talking about Taco Bell. I mean the restaurants you can find in San Antonio.
a tex mex restaurant actually serving crispy shell tacos would be potentially criminal
95% of the mexican restaurants in San Antonio are mex not tex. You gotta go to at least Austin for tex mex. If you see a Taco Bueno you've gone too far.
Ground beef, Velveeta, rotel, flour tortillas, fish bowl margaritas, nachos, caesar salad (really); free unlimited totopos and salsa Mexicana, honorable mention to fajitas & burritos although not actually tex mex. Refried pinto beans made with lard, Spanish rice made with rotel mandatory with all plates. Numbered menu items or entirely renamed dishes to avoid even referencing in passing any actual Mexican cuisine.
Plastic, laminated table cloths, red plastic 40oz textured glasses, parking lot is >80% beat to hell pick up trucks, borderline racist decor and merchandise. If you hear anyone speak Spanish at any point, automatic disqualification.
Fajitas are definitely a Tex-Mex dish. Try ordering them in Mexico and they'll look at you like you just grew a third eye in your forehead.
It's carne asada with a different name. I'll grant you chicken fajitas, though.
Maybe it's changed in the past 15 years since I've been. 🤷 Or rose-colored glasses.
Please walk a little ways down the street from Trudy’s and go to Taco Joint, it’ll change your life. Nothing against Trudy’s, but taco joint is banger
Depends on what kind. In Mexico, they use double corn tortillas for their tacos, and the fillings are quite different. Tex-Mex has flour tortillas and those savory fillings we all know and love.
You can tell if a cuisine is any good or not by seeing if there are any restaurants outside its home area. Texas BBQ? Yes. Alabama BBQ? No. Mexican food from the interior of Mexico? I have yet to see one except for the USA. Tex-Mex? There's a whole chain of Tex-Mex restaurants in Chengdu.
I used to live pretty close to a new orleans style restaurant and it was one of my favorite places to eat, their po boys and fried green tomatoes were insanely good. It's a shame those places are kinda hard to find where I am now.
stop posting about some famous chinese boomer challenge [impossible]
Hot take: American trash food is fucking delicious. It is horribly unhealthy, but I do not care.
Like 30% of the US land mass was colonized by the Spanish before the Anglos stole it in various wars.
