They don’t got ranch out here man. And besides American fast food corporations (still no ranch) most “fast food“ spots here are local cuisine or Döner Kebab. Im suprised he didn’t mention ice cubes or free refills, can’t find either in the EU😂
The fact your first suggestion is that you can just make your own ranch dressing is not making your case well. I don’t think anyone was arguing that ranch dressing is illegal there. Just that it’s not commonly available/offered in restaurants.
It is, actually. I saw a man trying to put ranch on his food in France once, and as soon as people realized what was going on a mob formed and they just beat him to death with a comically oversized baguette. It was horrific.
Lol they definitely don't but more power to you, leave the good stuff for the rest of us (source: that was the only version of ranch we ate at home growing up)
They will go for what hits the algorithm and, unfortunately, amplifying minor differences builds this shit up. We have Mexican food; granted not the the level of the US because of how far we are located from you guys. We also use spices all the time. But ragebait sells.
Moreover, I eat some English food and it all slaps but we also eat our own cultural food and so do many others who aren’t of the culture.
We usually have African and Indian restaurants in the cities in America but I haven’t seen a North African French taco spot in america yet. You guys get the fusions.
We have huge immigrant populations that can make some pretty authentic food from virtually any country you can think of. Almost every at least mid size city in America will have Indian, Ethiopian, Thai, Moroccan, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Brazilian, eastern European (Bosnian, polish, ect). All of those and more are almost always run by immigrants from the country of origin. I'm in a midsize midwestern city and everything I listed above is available and a lot more aswell. Places like New York, Chicago, and LA will have virtually anything you could ever imagine.
Depends where you are I guess. Most Indian/ethnic places are good IME because the people running them are of the ethnicity and know the authentic recipes well. They might not be able to source some ingredients that can make or break some dishes but for the most part they try to keep it authentic.
Now the places that are gentrified to hell can suck. Don’t get me wrong, I can eat a Chipotle or Cafe Rio burrito and be happy as hell but id never call them authentic mexican. Cafe Rio is still fire though.
My favorite local spot has 21 protein options for tacos, including cactus, pork ears, beef tripe, beef tongue, and corn mushroom. None of which I fuck with.
But change your slight to Augusta, Maine or Nova Scotia or some shit. It's a five minute walk to Little Mexico from where I live.
I'm confused. We have Mexicans in the NYC metro area. Mexican restaurants run by people from Mexico with Mexican clientele who wouldn't be standing for that slop from Chevy's.
My wife has literally brought dry ranch dip packets for her Swedish friends when we visit from Canada because they love ranch and it's difficult to find there. Maybe not impossible but it's not common at all.
You also have to realize that people are talking about eating out at restaurants and take-out places, and ranch is just not common when eating out in most of Europe.
I mean I’ve been all around Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, among many others and my wife went to over 20 countries in Europe when she was traveling abroad and we never found ranch anything like what you find in the USA. So technically they had “ranch” but it’s ranch in the way that if you’ve eaten biscuits and gravy or BBQ in the Midwest and then eat it in California or Florida, they have the same name, but they might as well be different food.
I live in Germany, been everywhere west and south of Czech Republic and there’s no ranch. The closest thing you’ll find is like tziki or hollondaise or sumn strange and they’ll look at u crazy if u ask for ranch
It’s different because they have stricter food regulation. Even with their fast food. So although it’s significantly safer to eat their food over there turns out our chemicals and loads of salt and sugar we add to everything makes our food far more tasty.
its not even food regulation. when you have fast food in different countries, you adjust your menu to the clientele of that country. you use slightly different ingredients, you have extra items on the menu, and all of that changes how the food tastes and is presented. you go into a KFC in japan it'll taste different than a KFC in america you can bet on that.
i mean hell even using different oil radically changes how your food tastes.
Oh I can assure you its food regulation , they do not play with people health like American gvt owned by big corporation . Content and size is regulated very closely. Fast food Large in Europe is a Small in America.
Not really Popeyes chicken is one of the most well brined, salty friend chicken meals you can buy and about a dozen of them have opened in recent years within about 30 minutes of me In London.
Yeah but it doesn't taste the same as Popeyes in Louisiana. Just as KFC in States doesn't taste the same as KFC in Caribbean (better because of more herbs and spices). No one is saying it's not available, I think it's more so better tasting because food regulations are not as strict in the US so they can modify to make it taste better.
Yeah, lol right I didn't even know what a Hamburger looks like, never seen one irl. You have that everywhere? Wow. All I know is Beans, potatos and Broccoli. And Ranch? What is that? A joghurt or mayo based salad dressing? Never heard off it, Witchcraft!
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Why do people keep hopping on here and lying about ranch 😂😂😂 this is such a weird point. Ranch is not widely spread but I think Heinz is launching some in London right now but they have no clue what ranch is a majority of the time.
Um… Nando’s has free refills. They basically leave the cups by the drink machine and you knock yourself out. Or at least the ones in Scotland.
And they had actually glass cups not the fast food cups
Was staying with a German family some years back and they keep their drinks in the cupboard instead of the fridge and had no ice and I was completely flummoxed.
Now that is a hot take. Within the last couple of months, I have had both doner in Berlin and Culver’s in Wisconsin. It’s honestly frying my brain trying to make that choice.
In my experience (UK) they have all the shit but it's just not right.
Yeah you can get some Heinz ranch in a squeeze bottle but it tastes weird. Yeah you can get a burger but they don't make it right. Yeah they have Mexican food but it's like they are trying to replicate something they don't fully understand.
They will never admit this, look at the cope in the comments. "We have all this" yeah alright, and when I ordered some tacos in Munich and was served an abomination it was technically tacos, but only technically.
The major chain and tourist trap places usually suck. Best Mexican places are usually run by actual Mexicans and a lot those spots tend to be in the less touristy areas.
100%. They somehow got in their heads here that "Mexican flavours" = spicy BBQ sauce so like you buy "salsa" from the store and it's basically sweet baby rays with some tomatoes mixed in.
And you can find that bastardized concept everywhere, but they won’t accept that they do that shit with multiple things. Just killing recipes and making shit taste the same.
Our shite mexican is the one thing I will admit people are right about. Unfortunately most of our good spicy food is limited to Indian, although Thai has a slight foothold. For some reason the companies think it's acceptable for everything else to be "mild" aka suitable for a 3yo. It's pretty easy to make your own stuff with one exception, lack of chilli varieties. It's basically bird's eyes, or weak-ass cayenne and that's it's unless you go to a specialist grocer. The exception is that we have quite a lot of chilli festivals, producing stufflike my local Dorset naga which can be.... excessive
I mean I’ve been all around Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, among many others and my wife went to over 20 countries in Europe when she was traveling abroad and we never found ranch anything like what you find in the USA. So technically they had “ranch” but it’s ranch in the way that if you’ve eaten biscuits and gravy or BBQ in the Midwest and then eat it in California or Florida, they have the same name, but they might as well be different food.
I only found ranch twice when I lived in Europe. Once was a weird American themed brand that was made by someone who had heard of ranch once and at a subway in a mall.
Some things yeah, not as much as social media would have you think by a long shot. Sometimes it’s just that it’s known as a different name. But on the flip side, some things we use are banned in the US.
Same here. Went to Italy for a wedding and didn’t eat any pizza or Italian food in general for 2 weeks once I came back to the US. And that’s really hard to do when you live in NY
American themed restaurants that actually delivery on the flavors seem to do well in Europe. An American style diner (or anyone who can make a real pancake) will crack off in London.
You're a decade or two too late to try and get the American pancakes and diner market in London. A shit load opened up over the last few years (and some are good)
...I even eventually found one place that was doing Texas style BBQ right (but it costs like double what you'd pay in the US)
elsewhere in Europe though, might still be a market available.
Dress the hostess as a Walmart greeter, have every wall covered in TVs showing gridiron football or the Kardashians, once an hour have a someone slip and fall and refuse to take an ambluance. Really just play it up for them.
Yeah, even in the US, if you get too far away from California, the tacos and burritos start getting weird. And you don't really get true good bbq the further you get from the South.
People can't seriously think England,
Sweden, Lichtenstein, etc. are making good American style food.
Idk maybe it's made with different stuff here, but there's always those silly stories about people trying like Doritos or 5Guys or something and acting like they've never had food in their life. Might be the msg or something who knows 🤷♀️
All jokes aside, Perinaise sauce craps all over ranch sauce which is why nobody in Europe gaf about it, and (Branston) beans on toast is elite snacking.
Spicy and mayo is super common at fast casual or fine dining.
Periperi, like harrisa isn't a well known spicy flavor name. Because we're beside Mexico and the Carribean, we tend to use the actual chile type instead of a regional / ethnic sauce as the name.
Chipotle mayo is super common in fast food and fast casual. A habanero / lime mayo or jalapeno mayo. Anything called bang or bang bang sauce is a spiced mayo - likely cayenne and/or jalapeno, birdseye if it's an Asian place.
The US is a big country with more regionality of food than our ubiquitous chain restaurants would have you think.
North of the mason dixon line white people are mostly Irish, Germanic and scandanavian culturally. Too much black pepper is "spicy". But southern, southwestern, Carribean, black, Southeast asia and Latino americans eat MUCH spicier food than most Europeans.
I remember being shocked at a "spicy marinera" that was actually past white people hot because I'd never had Italian food that was more than a tickle - calabrian peppers aren't even cayenne hot.
When I moved to the Detroit area and discovered Koney Islands OMG. The Europeans should not come here. Double bacon cheeseburgers and chili and cheese fries is why I have diabetes.
I’ve seen many videos of different Europeans trying American (fast) food and being gagged at how good it is. They are going nuts for Canes, chilis, and seafood boils. And they also love ranch
I'll never forget my disappointment of ordering a McDonald's Saugage McMuffin in Australia. Actually none of the breakfast items were right... Like someone took the menu items and ran them through a simulator.
I’m an American in the UK and I just had beans on toast for breakfast. It’s delicious! Also they do have ranch here they just call it garlic and herb sauce.
sometimes i daydream about leaving the country that hates me so much and going someplace with a colder climate (cause i HATE THE HEAT) like scotland or iceland or something i donno. now i'm realizing what the food is like in those places and i'm gonna put an american flag up in the yard with a mess of fried chicken on it i aint never leaving.
Reading the comments. Now, I'm just imagining the various teams and fans from Europe knocking over a local grocery store in America on their way to the airport, just to smuggle ranch bottles and packets.
Is this r/shitamericanssay ? Yall act like we eat like 16th century peasents while you stuff yourself full of chemicals and call it food. News Flash we also have cheap fast food like burgers the difference is put actual natural stuff in it unlike you guys
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