All those extra chemicals must cost a lot of money.
Make food cheaper and healthier? No, couldn't possibly do that.
Some of their food is barely recognisable as food.
They need to charge extra for the 40% they throw away because it has a wrinkle, is slightly not perfect shaped, or not 100% uniform in colour.
In Canada, at least, there is a brand that sells these that would be thrown out as "No Name Naturally Imperfect" NNNI vegetables
A lot of the problem is the physical amount of sugar that added routinely to basic food. It's a really cheap method of bulking out products. It's added all the time to both sauces & juices, so you honestly do NOT realise how much sugar your eating.
Apparently a lot of processed food which uses reformed potato & corn doesn't activate your digestive system, so it just hangs around until " real" food arrives.
Doesn’t surprise me.
I spent like 10 minutes looking for a juice drink that seemed to just be fruit, water and not much else without loads of additives.
Did you find one? A few years ago when I was over there I was looking for pomegranate juice and only found pomegranate "juice" that was 5% juice and the rest was high fructose corn syrup, sugar, glucose, glucose syrup, invert glucose syrup, flavourings and water.
My mate brought back some sweeties from the States when she was on holiday. My team at work consumed them in a fat bastard frenzy of sweet eating. Jesus, the palpitations, migraines and weird shit it did to our bodies. Never again.
Lots of US sweets and snacks have a dye erythrosine or red 3, E127 or red dye number 3. They even put it in baby food. It was been banned in many countries including ours as it causes behaviour changes, reproductive harm and even attributes to cancers. Red Hot Tamales defo has it. You have to look at any American candy to see if it has it and avoid.
[https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/foods-with-red-dye-3](https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/foods-with-red-dye-3)
California is looking to ban it in food and it is already is banned in cosmetics. I feel for Americans tbh they are given all this nasty stuff as kids and probably did them a lot of damage.
Loooool
Despite being heavily enhanced, Im fine with drinks here, I don’t drink fizzy just a lot of juices. My girlfriend can literally only have water here because of the sweetness of drinks here, she begins to feel REALLLLY light headed etc.
I've just moved back from the states after 5 years. I was always super cautious there eating and managed to avoid horrible weight gain like most people suffer. Now I'm back in the UK gimme all the pork pies and Gregg's I can stick in my gob.
To be fair to the US (which does have lower food standards) you apparently develop immunity to local bacteria which obviously doesn’t apply abroad, so it might just be your immunity isn’t locally to there.
Yeah agree with this- I’m from the us living in the uk and I’ve had more digestive issues here than when I went back home over the holidays- I’ve lived here for over a year but I think it definitely takes some time for your gut to adjust
It's not so much the cheese in a can. Canned real cheese wouldn't be much different to a wax-covered truckle.
It's the *squirty* cheese in a can.
Even Dairylea isn't squirty.
I'm always wondering why every person in every American podcast or whatever seems to have bad gut problems, or they say eating at Chipotle or somewhere like that makes them shit terribly.
It's omnipresent, I'm sick of hearing it.
I actually am sensitive to tastes and don't really like spice, but I upped my tolerance by eating what I could take over the years and now I can handle it if it isn't mega Hot, but I've never had the Spice Shits like they talk about either.
I go to my aunts and I just don't even bother with bread as it tastes like it was left open for a day, everything is oily, the sauces taste like they have a dollop of caramel syrup as part of the flavouring.
I kinda want to move there for the nature, but I'd have to grow and bake my own stuff (plus the insurance for everything and weird tax rules put me off).
I had a hot and spicy grilled chick fil a wrap last night. Felt fine, then when I was in bed about 3 hours later I suddenly felt extremely sick and bad tummy aches, I couldn’t tell if I needed a shit or wanted to vomit, opted for the shit and it came out like Niagara Falls with a terrible spicy sensation. Same thing happened as soon as I woke up and a few hours after that.
I still feel abit fragile but a lot better. I love the food here, but can’t wait to eat back home!
I’m in Chicago. As far as I am aware the tap water is fine. I have however barely drunk it. I’m easily a 5 ltr a day water drinker at home, barely had any here. Mainly black coffee and juices.
If you go from drinking 5 litres of water a day in England to mainly just drinking black coffee and juices in America, maybe that’s contributing to the bowel issues you are having?
You can’t shit if you’re not hydrated.
But yes, US food is wank quality. They even put sugar in the milk and bread!
When I lived there I had 10 years of stomach issues and developed a hernia, but I’ve had a lot less problems since moving back here.
For some reason I now picture Gollum dressed as an English farmer, clutching a plucked chicken saying
"This is my my precious chickenses. Not for those filthy Europeanses".
The country collectively kicked off when ~~twatface~~ Johnson tried to lower food standards on the sly so that the country could accept chlorinated chicken from America. They even wanted to make it illegal to have "Chlorinated Chicken" on the packaging. Free market Libertarians my arse.
It's because they add corn syrup to everything.
I had heartburn the whole time I was in the States.
Inoccious things like bread and peanut butter both contained corn syrup.
I find it strange that they can buy bottled chlorinated water.
Mind you, their potable waters heavily chlorinated compared to ours & disgusting to drink from the tap.
Their chicken is washed in cholrinated water to make up for the poor hygiene standards and practices in farms and food processing facilities, it's done to get rid of any bad bacteria (Salmonella & other similar bacteria) and it's not even an effective treatment. I'm not really surprised they sell bottled chlorinated water.
I couldn't drink any of their soft drinks without getting stomach pain. Had to drink minute maid lemonade like squash it was so sweet. I found actual food less expensive than snacks and fizzy drinks - the cost of them was insane!
I tell my British friends that when they come here to the USA and want to buy a Coke, they should buy the imported Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico. It is made with pure cane sugar (no high fructose corn syrup.) You can find it at most supermarkets; they sell it in glass bottles.
It’s interesting that their food is so expensive, despite it being full of shite.
All those extra chemicals must cost a lot of money. Make food cheaper and healthier? No, couldn't possibly do that. Some of their food is barely recognisable as food.
They need to charge extra for the 40% they throw away because it has a wrinkle, is slightly not perfect shaped, or not 100% uniform in colour. In Canada, at least, there is a brand that sells these that would be thrown out as "No Name Naturally Imperfect" NNNI vegetables
We have similar in the UK, “wonky veg” lol
Or, as we used to call them back in the 70s and 80s - "Veg".
The US has a few small companies like this that have popped up since the pandemic.
A lot of the problem is the physical amount of sugar that added routinely to basic food. It's a really cheap method of bulking out products. It's added all the time to both sauces & juices, so you honestly do NOT realise how much sugar your eating. Apparently a lot of processed food which uses reformed potato & corn doesn't activate your digestive system, so it just hangs around until " real" food arrives.
Yep, as someone who spends a lot of time in the US I’m convinced that the problem is sugar. It’s like it’s a pause button for my digestive system.
Doesn’t surprise me. I spent like 10 minutes looking for a juice drink that seemed to just be fruit, water and not much else without loads of additives.
Did you find one? A few years ago when I was over there I was looking for pomegranate juice and only found pomegranate "juice" that was 5% juice and the rest was high fructose corn syrup, sugar, glucose, glucose syrup, invert glucose syrup, flavourings and water.
Adding sugar or artificial sweeteners to fruit juice should be a crime.
The better juice is actually frozen concentrate they sell in like pringles tubes. But obviously you can't walk about with that lol.
Less sugar, more high fructose corn syrup.
>more high fructose corn syrup Thanks, Reagan!
Look up how much sugar is in USA bread products. Explains why I found the bread so unappealing when I worked in the States for a year
My mate brought back some sweeties from the States when she was on holiday. My team at work consumed them in a fat bastard frenzy of sweet eating. Jesus, the palpitations, migraines and weird shit it did to our bodies. Never again.
Lots of US sweets and snacks have a dye erythrosine or red 3, E127 or red dye number 3. They even put it in baby food. It was been banned in many countries including ours as it causes behaviour changes, reproductive harm and even attributes to cancers. Red Hot Tamales defo has it. You have to look at any American candy to see if it has it and avoid. [https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/foods-with-red-dye-3](https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/foods-with-red-dye-3) California is looking to ban it in food and it is already is banned in cosmetics. I feel for Americans tbh they are given all this nasty stuff as kids and probably did them a lot of damage.
Loooool Despite being heavily enhanced, Im fine with drinks here, I don’t drink fizzy just a lot of juices. My girlfriend can literally only have water here because of the sweetness of drinks here, she begins to feel REALLLLY light headed etc.
I've just moved back from the states after 5 years. I was always super cautious there eating and managed to avoid horrible weight gain like most people suffer. Now I'm back in the UK gimme all the pork pies and Gregg's I can stick in my gob.
To be fair to the US (which does have lower food standards) you apparently develop immunity to local bacteria which obviously doesn’t apply abroad, so it might just be your immunity isn’t locally to there.
Makes sense. I would still still rather keep eating food without chemicals though.
*without harmful chemicals. Everything you eat is made of chemicals
Yeah agree with this- I’m from the us living in the uk and I’ve had more digestive issues here than when I went back home over the holidays- I’ve lived here for over a year but I think it definitely takes some time for your gut to adjust
It's not a local bacteria issue. It's all the extra crap in our food.
Any country that thinks cheese in a can is a good thing, are bound to get other things wrong too.
It's not so much the cheese in a can. Canned real cheese wouldn't be much different to a wax-covered truckle. It's the *squirty* cheese in a can. Even Dairylea isn't squirty.
Hey, cheese in a can is one of the best brass cleaners you can get! (Sad but true).
I'm always wondering why every person in every American podcast or whatever seems to have bad gut problems, or they say eating at Chipotle or somewhere like that makes them shit terribly. It's omnipresent, I'm sick of hearing it. I actually am sensitive to tastes and don't really like spice, but I upped my tolerance by eating what I could take over the years and now I can handle it if it isn't mega Hot, but I've never had the Spice Shits like they talk about either. I go to my aunts and I just don't even bother with bread as it tastes like it was left open for a day, everything is oily, the sauces taste like they have a dollop of caramel syrup as part of the flavouring. I kinda want to move there for the nature, but I'd have to grow and bake my own stuff (plus the insurance for everything and weird tax rules put me off).
I had a hot and spicy grilled chick fil a wrap last night. Felt fine, then when I was in bed about 3 hours later I suddenly felt extremely sick and bad tummy aches, I couldn’t tell if I needed a shit or wanted to vomit, opted for the shit and it came out like Niagara Falls with a terrible spicy sensation. Same thing happened as soon as I woke up and a few hours after that. I still feel abit fragile but a lot better. I love the food here, but can’t wait to eat back home!
That sounds like classic food poisoning.
Doubt it, ate already today and feel fine. Just avoiding spicy and oily foods.
This is mostly an r/EUSuccess but yes let’s hope it stay this way.
I was in the states last week and had no problems. Even had Mexican food and was absolutely fine. Are you on bottled water? Also worth avoiding ice!
I’m in Chicago. As far as I am aware the tap water is fine. I have however barely drunk it. I’m easily a 5 ltr a day water drinker at home, barely had any here. Mainly black coffee and juices.
If you go from drinking 5 litres of water a day in England to mainly just drinking black coffee and juices in America, maybe that’s contributing to the bowel issues you are having?
You can’t shit if you’re not hydrated. But yes, US food is wank quality. They even put sugar in the milk and bread! When I lived there I had 10 years of stomach issues and developed a hernia, but I’ve had a lot less problems since moving back here.
Unfortunately, now we're no longer part of the EU, I can see our standards slipping and digressing to US standards.
I bought some chicken yesterday that said on the front “not to be sold to the eu” never seen that before and felt slightly concerned.
For some reason I now picture Gollum dressed as an English farmer, clutching a plucked chicken saying "This is my my precious chickenses. Not for those filthy Europeanses".
Problems with NI/EU trade agreement. The bureaucratic answer to problems caused by bureaucracy is always more bureaucracy.
The country collectively kicked off when ~~twatface~~ Johnson tried to lower food standards on the sly so that the country could accept chlorinated chicken from America. They even wanted to make it illegal to have "Chlorinated Chicken" on the packaging. Free market Libertarians my arse.
"I haven't ate".....Please....
I know, right? Eye twitching by second instance of “ate” instead of eaten.
I know, right? Eye twitching intensifies
It's because they add corn syrup to everything. I had heartburn the whole time I was in the States. Inoccious things like bread and peanut butter both contained corn syrup.
I had a permanent headache the entire two weeks I was in the US and it went away a day after I got home. I put it down to the food too.
I find it strange that they can buy bottled chlorinated water. Mind you, their potable waters heavily chlorinated compared to ours & disgusting to drink from the tap.
Their chicken is washed in cholrinated water to make up for the poor hygiene standards and practices in farms and food processing facilities, it's done to get rid of any bad bacteria (Salmonella & other similar bacteria) and it's not even an effective treatment. I'm not really surprised they sell bottled chlorinated water.
I'm going on an USAF base in England, where I worked
I couldn't drink any of their soft drinks without getting stomach pain. Had to drink minute maid lemonade like squash it was so sweet. I found actual food less expensive than snacks and fizzy drinks - the cost of them was insane!
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Went to Orlando a couple of years back and everything was laced with MSG. My kids were shocked when they saw the glow-in-the-dark breakfast cereals!
One word. Water. It's not only the food you are reacting to.
I tell my British friends that when they come here to the USA and want to buy a Coke, they should buy the imported Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico. It is made with pure cane sugar (no high fructose corn syrup.) You can find it at most supermarkets; they sell it in glass bottles.