"Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
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> On 6/23/2014 2:36 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 6/23/2014 10:56 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>>> Grabbed this quote from Gawker, where a commenter was talking about
>>> American food:
>>>
>>> "She says that compared to food in Ireland (where she lives) US bread is
>>> sweet, nothing is perishable, fresh fruit and vegetables are really
>>> expensive, and the meat is full of water and has a weird texture."
>>>
>>> All true.
>>>
>>> I never understood the widespread practice of adding sugar to bread
>>> dough, and what corporate food production has done to meat is a crime.
>>
>> Sad that she never got to eat real food while visiting. There is crap
>> available but so is real food.
>>
>> The bread I buy has no sugar and no preservatives. Some meat is
>> injected, but good meat is readily available.
>>
>> Fresh fruit and veggies are not expensive in season. It is expensive
>> when we want peaches in January that has been flown in from South
>> America. Most of that stuff has poor taste adn texture too.
>
> She could have found some wonderful foods to talk about, but sadly, bad
> news sells.

I read that book "Knickerbocker Glory Years" where the author poked fun at
food in the UK and made it sound hilariously horrible! Of course I know
that all food in the UK isn't like what he mentioned in the book and he went
out of his way to find unusually flavored frozen foods, candies, etc. I
thought it was a very good book but I didn't come away from reading it
thinking that all food in the UK was horrid. It did seem that they have a
ton of prepared foods that we don't have here but then...

We probably have a lot of prepared foods here that I pay no mind to. I do
buy some prepared foods. But unless it is something that looks fairly plain
like just cooked meat, I tend to skip right over it. And I don't often look
at frozen foods. Once in a while I will buy something but I find that most
of the meals and side dishes are loaded with stuff that I wouldn't want to
eat. But I do go through and look once in a while because there might be
some clearance item or new item of interest.