So anon blames an entire country for their shitty life choices?
I donāt remember the last time I ate fast food. Iām sure when I did, it was nothing like this - oh, it still sucked - but all I got was a burger and iced tea.
Though I completely agree restaurant portion sizes are insane anywhere. I akways get 2 meals out of a āservingā, often 3.
Compare this to all the other Europeans saying how absolutely fucking delicious American burgers and food in general is.
Deliciousness and oversized portions are not, in fact, mutually exclusive
True, but if you can have both, why not? You donāt have to eat a whole combo yourself, my SO and I usually share an order of fries, donāt get sodas, and get our own burgers. If we go to a sit down restaurant, weāll usually share an entre and maybe order an extra side if we donāt think itās enough.
The real issue is that in American food they are much more willing to throw out the idea that food should be healthy and nutritious for profit and quantity.
Itās more that the restaurant industry is so big and specialized over here that if you want to eat healthy there are establishments for that, and if you want OPās experience there are others for that. If you want the freshest, healthiest menus with scratch-made dishes you patronize local businesses. If you want the name brand dishesāmost which are precooked and reheatedāyou go to one of the nationwide chains.
I donāt think Iāve heard any European say this about American junk/fast food even once.
About the only thing I think Iāve heard in regards to flavor is āsickeningly sweetā and āeven stuff thatās not supposed to be sweet is sweetā.
Yeah, if anything it is known for sugar in everything thatās not supposed to be sweet and corn syrup where youād expect normal sweetness from sugar. And absurdly large portions.
Personally I have only tried some of the more āfamousā sweets such as twinkies and reecies or whatever itās called, and I found both disgusting. The former are just weirdly greasy cake dough filled with teeth hurtingly sweet goop, so intense you canāt taste anything else. And the other made me gag after just a small bite and was entirely too sticky for my taste.
I also tried imported āoriginalā Mac and cheese and that stuff was just repulsive too. Weirdly bland and the consistency of snot.
Why do europeans insist on eating the worst american foods? Twinkies barely count as a food theyāre like 99% preservatives
Iām currently vacationing in Japan and have slimmed down a lot in just a week of walking, eating smaller healthier meals, and taking the train everywhere. America has a truly fucked standard of living. I donāt want to go back to driving and eating shitty oversized unhealthy meals while also tipping.
youāve āslimmed down a lotā in a week? did you also give birth this week? or is this a bias?
Itās not a bias itās a fact. My shirts are way more loose on me and Iāve been walking an average of 15,000 steps a day. Whatās it to you anyway? Are you upset someoneās making a valid criticism about American transportation and eating habits?
Because itās a week lol youāre talking about losing water from sweating, stored sugars in muscles from exercising, and a teensy bit of fat loss. you havenāt ālost a lotā youāre just on vacation
whatās it to me? I like to tell people when theyāre wrong in the internet. you said something stupid. hello.
lifestyle change and public transit are great but youāre just on vacation. and this is coming from someone who lived over a decade in the Americas and Asia both.
I walk an average of 15k steps on a slow day. Before I got promoted out of the shipping dept I used to do 30k/day before I left work, then still had to run errands and do things, now itās usually more like 10k-15k at work (and some bodyweight squats while I stand at my desk because why not) and go do things. All of this (and hereās the part that will shock you) was in America. You donāt have to be in Japan to walk, even if you donāt walk for work thereās always āexercising.ā
Basically youāre saying āusually at home Iām sedentary as fuck but since here Iām a gawking tourist Iāve been doing a modicum of cardio, and it has affected me exactly as expected, but instead of give myself credit for the work I did and realizing I could take this lesson back home Iām going to turn it into some weird contest and continue to blame my environment.ā
It is possible to eat healthy here too, though that is admittedly harder especially if youāre dead set on not cooking, yet there are healthy to go options if you know where to look still. Buy a used bike and eat healthy at home, you donāt have to have cool foreign shit to look at while you do it, thereās probably a nice park or trail nearby you can have cool local nature to look at too. Or travel a lot and use that as an excuse if youāre privileged enough, whatever, but make no mistake you donāt have to.
Depending on your starting state/condition, you could slim down a noticeable amount during a week, sure.
you could also just say random shit on the internet too, wonder which is more likely
look i think America is a torturous shit hole just like the rest of lemmy but the above point is just fucking stupid
Malnourished european can not handle a real meal.
Explain how we are malnourished when ONE burger contains EVERY food group. You canāt.
I wonder what the nutrition is of the average fish and chips meal. That would be a slightly more reasonable comparison, wouldnāt it?