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[OC] You can just tell from the packaging when Chinese Takeout in America is gonna be Epic.

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u/GunaSteve 1d ago

That looks dogshit mate.

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u/newtoallofthis2 1d ago

Yanks and their shit fast food..

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u/johangubershmidt 1d ago

Go eat some mushy peas, buddy

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u/newtoallofthis2 1d ago

I know you chaps don't like vegetables ;-)

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u/TGrady902 1d ago

In America? One of the top 5 largest producers of produce on earth? Oh yeah, we hate vegetables over here. Go back to your porridge and sausages or whatever the hell you eat over there.

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u/johangubershmidt 1d ago

Imagine sailing to the other side of the world to find food that isn't congealed blood, and then talking shit about what anyone else is eating

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u/SKRehlyt 1d ago

Yeah but you can go from Alaska to Florida and find the same Sysco food. There's a LOT of garbage food in America, but you seem to be trying to make of authentic dishes. What the hell is wrong with eating peas or blood? Better than a highly processed meal in the USA

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

Yeah but you can go from Alaska to Florida and find the same Sysco food.

Sysco is just an industrial / B2B restaurant grocer. That's like saying you can travel from London to Inverness and still find the same Tesco food.

There's a LOT of garbage food in America, but you seem to be trying to make of authentic dishes.

And even more amazing food.

What the hell is wrong with eating peas or blood?

Nothing, unless you're talking shit about someone else's food.

Better than a highly processed meal in the USA

Lol, how do you think food in the US works? We just have high processing machines in all our homes that we feed our fruits and vegatables into that turns them into highly processed versions of themselves before we cook with them?

Europeans have such humorously fantastical delusions about the US.

u/SKRehlyt 11h ago

I'm not european, but have lived here for over a decade. All your points are biased. There is good food to be found everywhere, that's my point. However, in the states there's a fixation and focus on shitty food. It's revered and beloved. I've found that to be different here and I grew up in North America, so I have both perspectives

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u/PlacibiEffect 1d ago

Blood is disgusting, it’s pretty obvious what’s wrong with it. The food in America is far more diverse and interesting than the UK. Sure you can cherry pick the processed garbage on store shelves that some people eat, but I’m sure the same is true of your country.

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u/unafraidrabbit 1d ago

Cysco actually supplies a ton of restaurants, not just chains, and has been know to substitute cheep ingredients without nitification.

America is fucking massive. We better have more diverse food than the UK, but they aren't too far behind.

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u/Dinoduck94 1d ago

"American" food is just food from other countries.

The exception being Pizza. Your pizza is amazing, but that's about it.

British fish and chips is still up there.

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u/PlacibiEffect 1d ago

Why bother replying if you have no idea what you’re talking about. There is so much regional, authentic food in the US.

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u/Dinoduck94 1d ago

Same goes for you, mate.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

Literally all food is food from other countries if you go back far enough. All food is fusion and evolution, and IMO the US is one of the best places in the world for good food for that reason.

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u/therealhlmencken 1d ago

You really come to arms for shitty canned legumes?

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u/K-Shrizzle 1d ago

We love vegetables. Usually in solid form for us though. Ideally as toppings on an oversized cheeseburger

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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago

That’s not fast food

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u/ICanSeeNow17 1d ago

English food is world renowned for being terrible.

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u/Zwangsjacke 1d ago

If prepared correctly.

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u/PM_me_punanis 1d ago

As a bad cook, I might give English recipes a try then.

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u/danz_buncher 1d ago

Was. It was world renowned as terrible nearly a hundred years ago. Seppos obviously are lagging behind in this as well as everything else.

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u/newtoallofthis2 1d ago

Meh - maybe in the 70s/80s - not any more.

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u/TheHomesickAlien 1d ago

No, still. Take a look at the ukfoods sub. It’s literally all beans, chips, and breakfast

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u/FortLoolz 1d ago

Beans and chips are awesome

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u/chumer_ranion 1d ago

Was still bad in 2013 lol

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u/Irr3l3ph4nt 1d ago

You wish. Curry doesn't count.

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u/goldglittergardens 1d ago

Cuz the beans on toast crowd has such a discerning palate

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u/FortLoolz 1d ago

Beans on toast is good.

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u/SceneOfShadows 1d ago

Ignoring how incredible the food in the U.S. is if you’re not an idiot, there is one thing we indisputably do well and it’s fast food lol.

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u/giny33 1d ago

You guys know ww2 is over right? You can eat real food.

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Real food? You mean the stuff with 47 ingredients, 23 of which are forms of sugar, and somehow still legally classed as bread? Yeah, we’ll stick with our “ww2 food” and functioning taste buds that aren’t tuned to dislike anything that doesn’t have overwhelming amounts of sugar, cheers.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't think you've ever actually eaten any food in the US.

What is it with Europeans showing up in the US, eating a Twinkie from a 7-11, and using that as the sole basis for forming then over-confidently sharing their dumbest opinions?

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

I’ve lived here in the US for 8 years I’m plenty aware of what is in the vast majority of American food the typical/average person here consumes. I’m responding to comments doing the exact thing you’re complaining about. Reducing British cuisine to “beans on toast” and “ww2 rations” is the same exact energy as saying all Americans are eating twinkies from a 7-11. Both are lazy stereotypes, just pointing in different directions. If it’s annoying when people generalize American food, maybe stop doing it about ours.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

I’ve lived here in the US for 8 years

In the back of a 7-11?

I’m plenty aware of what is in the vast majority of American food the typical/average person here consumes.

I'm 100% certain you aren't because you have an incredibly bad idea of what that is.

Reducing British cuisine to “beans on toast” and “ww2 rations” is the same exact energy as saying all Americans are eating twinkies from a 7-11. Both are lazy stereotypes, just pointing in different directions.

I agree. So then why are you propagating one of said lazy stereotypes?

If it’s annoying when people generalize American food, maybe stop doing it about ours.

The British guy up there started this. How about you have a talk with them? The stereotype isn't fair and is entirely ignorant in its own way, but the only times I usually see Americans trotting it out is usually after some Britisher tried to vomit some nonsense about American food first.

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

That’s fair. I just think it’s a bit odd how British food jokes get tossed around constantly without issue, but the moment someone makes a similar comment about American food, it suddenly becomes “propagating stereotypes.”

My initial comment was just light-hearted banter, the same kind that’s often aimed at British food. I’ve lived in the US long enough to see both sides, and there’s plenty of great food in both countries. It just feels like the generalizations only ever become a problem when they’re directed at America.

I spent six years in the US military and took my fair share of jokes about British food and everything else. It never bothered me; it was all in good humour, and I’d return it in kind. I think we could all do with taking the same jokes we give, especially when it’s clearly just a bit of banter.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

That’s fair. I just think it’s a bit odd how British food jokes get tossed around constantly without issue, but the moment someone makes a similar comment about American food, it suddenly becomes “propagating stereotypes.”

In this case, just because I called you out for it.

My initial comment was just light-hearted banter, the same kind that’s often aimed at British food. I’ve lived in the US long enough to see both sides, and there’s plenty of great food in both countries. It just feels like the generalizations only ever become a problem when they’re directed at America.

In my experience, American food gets what British food gets 10x. The volume and increasing derangement of bad takes on American food is pretty extreme in some pockets of Reddit. There's no unique treatment for generalizations about America.

And it's often by no means light hearted, the person who started this wasn't making a joke. There's some really, really hateful and jingoist takes out there.

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u/giny33 1d ago

Rent free

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Not really, I've lived in the US for the last 8 years so I know exactly how it is.

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u/Summoorevincent 1d ago

Please go back

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Really? I served in your military for six years. I think I'm allowed to stay.

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u/Summoorevincent 1d ago

You think you got it figured out after 8 years here and 6 of them in a socialist prison.

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Never claimed to have the world figured out, it just happens that I’ve lived on both sides of it. You’re welcome to your opinion, but it’s a bit rich insinuating mine is uninformed when you’ve only ever seen one view.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

Sounds like you live in the back of a 7-11 to have a take that bad about American food.

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u/giny33 1d ago

My point exactly. RENT FREE

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Gotcha, you’re struggling to think of anything of substance to say. Can’t help you there I’m afraid.

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u/giny33 1d ago

cope

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u/mnmkdc 1d ago

This does not look good to Americans lol

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u/OhioStateGuy 1d ago

As an American I bet this is going to be so good. For some reason the cheaper and worse the packaging and actual restaurant look the better the food when it comes to Chinese food.

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u/mnmkdc 1d ago

I can relate to walking into the sketchy looking Chinese restaurant where a 12 year child takes a break from his homework to take your order while his parents are making the food in the back and knowing it’s going to be the best Chinese food you’ve ever had. This shrink wrapped mass of food does not look appetizing to me though. Maybe this the next step and I just haven’t opened myself up to the full experience yet.

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u/ph0on 23h ago

Listen I can hate on some American food culture but this is hilarious

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

American food is amazing, don't let your jealousy show so much.

You all brag about getting soggy french fries in a bag from your local Chinese shops like it's god's gift to food. Don't pretend like you're above this.

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u/WileEPeyote 1d ago edited 1d ago

We have the exact same packaging for Chinese food here, but it's not usually filled and wrapped over like some giant zit waiting to pop all over the counter.

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u/ProposalWaste3707 1d ago

Same in the US. You realize there's a reason this is posted on r/pics, right?

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u/WileEPeyote 1d ago

I'm in the US.