-
Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:- Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
- Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
- Access to private conversations with other members.
We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
US food standards vs the rest of the world
- Thread starter SomeRandom
- Start date
ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
Everybody should try it at least once, with whole milk. Its so sweet and unforgettable.So, I guess Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs are out of the question?
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Shudder. My housemate adds sugar to her already sweetened cereal.
I can tolerate raisin bran, but she will add a tablespoon of sugar or two to a bowl.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It can be hard to find healthy options though. That's what really sucks. It's all loaded with preservatives and other added not-so-good things unless can afford to buy it without, or have the time to make it all.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Too true. I tend to cook from scratch because it is cheaper, better tasting, and healthier than processed foods. Mostly because it is better tasting. And with experience it takes less and less time to prepare your own. Learning how to do so is what takes time. If you make one dish at a time it can take forever, but if you organize you can cook and prepare several dishes at once.
I realized that while going grocery shopping with someone with diabetes. Finding low-sugar or sugar-free stuff, along with low-fat and healthy items isn't as easy as finding the junk food. It's more expensive and more effort to eat healthy. It's just easier and quicker to stop at the drive-thru. That's the sad truth.
Another sad truth is that health food tastes terrible. My mother was into health food, and I always had some kind of anxiety whenever eating with her. She had some kind of cereal I called "gruel." (The irony was, she was in rather poor health during the last 30 years of her life.)
If and when they can ever make health food taste like Twinkies or Big Macs, then they might be on to something.
American food is... well, its not really uniform.
Chances are huge that if you are going to a restaurant, your food is going to be unhealthy; likely loaded with preservatives and at least partially prepared days before. Yes, the portions are huge, but most of us take at least part of it home with us and put it in the fridge, where we either have it for lunch the next day, or forget about it and rediscover it in a new form two weeks later.
Though our restaurants serve pretty similar things, homes in different regions tend to cook different things. What makes a 'meal' in a psychological sense varies. You can often guess what groups of people immigrated to what area based off of the local cuisine, which is further influenced by what crops will grow well.
Another major factor is how much money a person has. (Probably like that everywhere.) Our poor do tend to eat higher processed, quicker to prepare 'foods', simply because they're immediately cheaper and easier to prepare. Cooking from scratch can be immensely cheaper down the road, but few have time to cook like this(America is also known for spending too much time at work, where people then pick up fast food on the lunch hour). Higher income people generally eat healthier, as they have the cash to prepare things that would be labeled "10 Healthy Dishes in 15 Minutes"(and always has at least 1 or 2 ingredients that financially equate to a poor person's meal).
Chances are huge that if you are going to a restaurant, your food is going to be unhealthy; likely loaded with preservatives and at least partially prepared days before. Yes, the portions are huge, but most of us take at least part of it home with us and put it in the fridge, where we either have it for lunch the next day, or forget about it and rediscover it in a new form two weeks later.
Though our restaurants serve pretty similar things, homes in different regions tend to cook different things. What makes a 'meal' in a psychological sense varies. You can often guess what groups of people immigrated to what area based off of the local cuisine, which is further influenced by what crops will grow well.
Another major factor is how much money a person has. (Probably like that everywhere.) Our poor do tend to eat higher processed, quicker to prepare 'foods', simply because they're immediately cheaper and easier to prepare. Cooking from scratch can be immensely cheaper down the road, but few have time to cook like this(America is also known for spending too much time at work, where people then pick up fast food on the lunch hour). Higher income people generally eat healthier, as they have the cash to prepare things that would be labeled "10 Healthy Dishes in 15 Minutes"(and always has at least 1 or 2 ingredients that financially equate to a poor person's meal).
Odd....I live in Ameristan, & my bread has no preservatives.
For the record guys, when I visited Cali, I literally gained like 5 or so kilos in like a week. Which I think is a pound or more (not up on my US measurements.)
Just throwing that out there
Just throwing that out there
That reminds me. In Australia we do actually sell most of the US cereals. But the vast majority have so much sugar that they are literally sold exclusively in lolly (candy) stores. Because that’s how they are categorised
It's funny because the cereal companies have tried to demonstrate that they've been listening to the criticism of their products, so they removed "sugar" from some of the names. "Sugar Frosted Flakes" just became "Frosted Flakes." "Sugar Smacks" became "Smacks," which somehow made me not want to eat it anymore. "Super Sugar Crisp" became "Super Golden Crisp" - although I think it's the same thing as "Smacks."
Did you eat from homes or restaurants primarily?
I gain 5 kilos by walking in the door of a restaurant.
Yazata
Active Member
This thread seems to me to be confusing government food standards with cultural dietary habits.
And comparing the United States with the "rest of the world" doesn't make much sense, since "the rest of the world" is a big place and includes many different kinds of traditional diets along with many versions of food processing and storage standards (ranging from strict to none at all).
I live near San Jose California and I'm not really aware of any sort of distinctly Californian diet. Our local food is kind of international. We eat Mexican one day, Italian the next. Or it might be Chinese one day and Thai or Indian the next. Lots of Asian food around here. There's less and less of the older style 'meat and potatoes' cuisine imported from Europe that was consumed by previous generations. If visitors find portions are too large, remember that nobody is forcing you to eat all of it.
As far as FDA standards are concerned, I expect that they are equivalent to first world standards around the world, perhaps with some minor differences here and there that places like the EU might choose to exploit to protect their own farmers. American food standards are better than health standards in many poorer parts of the world. You aren't going to get Monteczuma's Revenge from eating American food.
And comparing the United States with the "rest of the world" doesn't make much sense, since "the rest of the world" is a big place and includes many different kinds of traditional diets along with many versions of food processing and storage standards (ranging from strict to none at all).
I live near San Jose California and I'm not really aware of any sort of distinctly Californian diet. Our local food is kind of international. We eat Mexican one day, Italian the next. Or it might be Chinese one day and Thai or Indian the next. Lots of Asian food around here. There's less and less of the older style 'meat and potatoes' cuisine imported from Europe that was consumed by previous generations. If visitors find portions are too large, remember that nobody is forcing you to eat all of it.
As far as FDA standards are concerned, I expect that they are equivalent to first world standards around the world, perhaps with some minor differences here and there that places like the EU might choose to exploit to protect their own farmers. American food standards are better than health standards in many poorer parts of the world. You aren't going to get Monteczuma's Revenge from eating American food.
Well fair enough. I did eat a balance. Mostly because I was curious to try your eateries. You guys have like 30 or so chains that I wanted to try. Holy damn. I can eat fast food here all the time. But eating out in Cali quickly made me sick. Still good though lol
Haha. Well I suppose that’s one PR strategy lol
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Oh my goodness, no. Half the time from what I guess is we take the rest of the food home, forget its in the refridge, and toss it. That or we try to heat it up and find out fast food isn't great when reheated.