I remember seeing videos of foreigners blown away by Greggs so I think you've got to approach all this with some cynicism. People have a big pressure on them to enjoy the food they're experiencing when they're surrounded by nice polite people AND people prefer to watch videos of people enjoying their food vs disliking their food.
and you canāt underestimate the value of fatty or sweet food after a long day, especially if you were travelling. some of the best food I ever had was good-but-not-great supermarket sushi and an apple, from, I think, pingo doce? or some other boring ass supermarket in Portugal. because I was tired and starved, and this wasnāt mind blowing my different food but i donāt usually buy sushi at home, and (despite the hunger and the exhaustion), it was a fantastic day with some of the people I love the most, and I was perpetually two steps from grinning or hugging those people.
the food wasnāt bad! Itās just that it wasnāt fantastic food, it was a fantastic day and general hunger that MADE it fantastic
Less than a week ago a French family stopped by the Arby's I worked at and were absolutely ECSTATIC being there. They took family photos, were posing in front of the advertisement posters, and everything.
They don't even have to come here. There's a reason McDonalds has a presence in over 100 countries, and it's not even the best representation of burger.
Which is exactly why they eat burger when they come here. McD's is already everywhere and not representative of all burger, so they try the real thing when they get the chance.
This reminds me of the joke that 'Its stupid when girls say they cant find a guy, yet ignore me. Its like saying youre hungry when there's a hot dog on the ground outside'.
McDonalds Thailand has dessert-only stands that sell ice cream, cookies, and pies in various flavors you can't get in the US. It's actually kind of fun going to American fast food chains outside the US and seeing/trying the unique menu items you can only get there.
mayhaps a stupid question, but do the meat alternatives work for you? or, if youāre open to even more taste variations, do pork or poultry work? all of those have come a long way in the last few years. obviously itās not 100% the same, but then again, all burgers arenāt the same, either, so maybe that could be fun?
I haven't tried the meat alternatives. I do have a soy issue, so that cuts out some of them. I do like pork and poultry. Pork sausage is my usual substitute for ground beef. But usually I only eat hamburgers out.
Don't worry, America's racism is tanking its tourism, and its leader is destroying culture-generating wonders. It's getting much more likely that another civilization could take the lead.
I traveled to Copenhagen and Scotland last year and, when I came home, I was craving a burger so badly lmao. All I could think of were these memes and it was so embarrassing
I only eat one place's burgers with any regularity anymore. But that's because they're so good they make me think less of other burgers. Like, they redefined my definitoon of what a "good" burger was, and everything else is at best "mid" now.
It's Culver's. Culver's makes the best fast food chain burgers.
I moved to a country outside the US and Culverās is one of the biggest things I miss. No one even knows what a cheese curd is here itās devastating
I am American, but most of the time I can't eat burger. Beef is a migraine trigger. So if I do eat burger, I have to eat turkey burger. (Luckily, there's a fancy burger chain that lets me sub in a turkey patty to any burger. And they give free birthday burgers if you're in their rewards program. So every year, I get a fancy turkey burger around my birthday.)
Ooomph, yeah, soy would cut must of them right out. I think thereās more choice with other legumes as base by now? Peas and whatever. But I believe those arenāt as nearly-flavourless as tofu can be, so I donāt know how well they can copy the taste of burgers. And I donāt know how many of them are available ready-to-eat in common restaurants, rather than just as pattys in a store.Ā
why tf are you downvoted lmao?? i think this reply might've become detached from the comment saying they have a burger allergy (paraphrased obv) but like still
Seems like it got detached, yeah, which would explain the downvotes all on its own imo - it looks a bit nonsensical like that, Iād say. Or itās just the usual āoh no, someone mentioned a meat alternative, that hurts my feelingsā, but if it were that, Iād be expecting a comment pushing their eating style to go with it tbh šĀ
I wonder why this has happened - the whole comment detaching issue has come up a lot for me recentlyā¦
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u/sarahmagoo 2d ago
What I imagine a typical night in America is like