American reacts to American food that's Illegal in other countries

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[@AleaumeAnders]

EU: until proven beyond reasonable doubt that it's not killing you, it's unfit for human consumption. USA: until proven beyond reasonable doubt that it's killing you, it's fit for human consumption. See, not so different after all. One set of laws made for humans, one set of laws made for profit.

[@ChokyoDK]

The best description of the rules I've seen 👌

[@tsurutom]

Like glyphosate. Wait, shit...

[@beldin2987]

And since all humans benefit from profit, its no real difference and totally ok, isn't it ? 😅 And don't say that not everyone benefits from profit, thats evil communist think and not a good capitalist mindset.

[@rast]

FREEEEDOOOOM!!!!111

[@AleaumeAnders]

@@tsurutom "Americans are more likely than Europeans to be exposed to Monsanto’s glyphosate weed killer. That’s in large part because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s calculations to determine allowable levels of glyphosate use are much more lax than the European Union’s. "

[@nickflowthefirst]

Did you know that subway had to cancel their bread in some European countries?? Because it contains so much sugar, it’s basically cake

[@giulianopisciottano8302]

I mean, they can just start advertising it as cake bread or something like that

[@jimmynewf]

that was my take on it too when it was a thing a few years ago lol@@giulianopisciottano8302

[@KingKayn-kh8qi]

For example as my country bulgaria, no1 would eat it. Most ppl switched from coke to soda, cus before 3-5 years they started putting so much more sugar in it. So... Sugary bread, subway sandwich? Would die...

[@Sniperboy5551]

I don’t think that’s true. I think Ireland or Scotland had a court ruling that simply taxed Subway bread as something other than bread due to the sugar content, but it didn’t ban their bread outright. Maybe Subway did reformulate their bread, I don’t know, but I do remember reading about the court ruling.

[@nickflowthefirst]

@@Sniperboy5551 well if you don’t think that’s true, you could’ve just googled it. Would have taken the same amount of time and you would learn something as well. You’d see that it is in fact true and everything would be fine

[@jokanaan2486]

As a European I remember being hyped about Hershey's bar after multiple viewings of Empire of the Sun. When I finally got one, it was absolutely horrible. Still not giving up on Twinkies though and hoping to find some one day.

[@nickryan3417]

Don't rush for twinkies either. I made a point of finding some and bringing them home for others to try. I swear after the first bit my dentist rang up to say that I need an urgent check up. Twinkies are something else entirely... mostly a mix of sugar and (other) preservatives with a bit of dye thrown in for good measure. Once you've tried one, you'll know...

[@sunnie734]

We have a shop in Norwich that sells Twinkies and ...Moon Pies, I think they're called (?). I tried one once, and they're disgusting. They have literally no flavour at all, and are so dry. They also make your mouth gluey. They're gross.

[@jokanaan2486]

Damn, crushing my culinary dreams one reply at a time 😅

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Twinkies are disgusting. The outside is 80% sugar, and i dont know what they put on the inside but the fact it doesnt spoil in 10 years says enough. Never again.

[@JenniferKitchens123]

I personally don’t care for Twinkies, but I’ve seen a few English people who have liked them 🤷‍♀️ I say try them anyway. Taste is very subjective. Best wishes from Alabama, USA

[@miguelyanezlorenzo5037]

As a European, I have to say that most candy products like Skittles, Kit-Kat or Mountain Dew are avaliable here, the thing is that they just take out the harmful/prohibited chemicals for the EU version in most cases, and also reduce the amount of sugar in them. It's just shows that it wouldn't be too costly for companies to take out that crap from US food and make it less hamful, they clearly can afford it here. It's just a matter of maximizing profits whenever possible, and US regulations lets them get away with potentially poisoning people for money. It's just that simple.

[@Knusper-Knoppers]

Never seen Mountain Dew anywhere in the EU to be honest.

[@ludouniversalis]

@@Knusper-Knoppers They were available for a while. The bright yellow was made with beta-carotene rather than Yellow-5.

[@friendlyneighborhoodmemer18]

@@Knusper-Knoppers Literally here in germany...

[@bigdubyuh7901]

you realize almost all of Europe can fit into Texas right? and Texas has more GDP than like 8 countries combined there right?. If they had to do that in the US guess what they might go bankrupt. Just food for thought.

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

Kit-Kat yes. Skittles or Mountain dew? Don't remember ever seeing it in a European store.

[@loke2534]

Some American foods and drinks (like Skittles) are still sold in EU countries. The ingredients have just been "Europe-ified" to make them.. You know.. Safe to consume. On another note, most people from Europe agree that American food has a really odd chemical taste to it. One that genuinely makes a lot of it inedible taste-wise.

Yep... I was like: "But I bought skittles like yesterday"... (Sweden) I guess they don't taste like the original American ones. Just like Mtn Dew...

[@irasan77]

True, you can buy skittles and Mountain Dew in Austria. But there were even protests here against the chlorine chicken when people were afraid there could be a deal during the Trump aera. It was in the newspapers and everything, including photos of horrible chicken😂

[@releasethekraken5039]

Good example of that is Fanta, over here in the netherlands, and probably in the rest of the EU countries, the drink has a yellow colour, while outside of the EU, it's orange.

[@c99kfm]

Hershey's chocolate is made with spoiled (sour) milk and as a result contains butyric acid, a natural preservative. Unfortunately, most Europeans encounter that taste in, well, spoiled milk and vomit, so tasting a Hershey bar for the first time they are likely to make a face and possibly spit it out.

[@carlipicco]

To be fair here in italy I never saw skittles, I just assumed they were like m&m or smarties, kinda like chocolate confetti, I never thought they were some sort of chewing-gum

[@nickwhite6717]

Keep in mind, a lot of these things are available in lots of countries by name, but the contents can be drastically different (better for you) for various markets

[@Nikioko]

What Americans call "bread" isn't bread. It's cake.

[@Philemaphobia]

I call it raw toast.

[@exvex5108]

Lets call it Yoga mat

[@Saufkopp1989]

In Germany we call that Toast and even the cheapest one from a discounter has a better quality than so called American "bread".

[@martijnspruit]

And it's sweet from all the sugar. It has nothing to do with actual bread.

[@osososd]

​@@Saufkopp1989well atleast in USA its not a nazi bread lol

[@marting.8538]

Many Americans naturally believe that their food sets the gold standard. They also perceive their country as the best, most beautiful, and with the highest quality of life. Some might even describe other nations as "shitholes," borrowing the words of a former president. I was in America last month and heard many derogatory and inaccurate comments and opinions about my country (Germany). It's just sad.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I’m from the UK and was watching an American reactor on KZbin. She was watching a video about Britain. At one point she saw a tractor on a farm. She paused the video and said “huh, they have industry in Britain? ok”. For starters the Industrial Revolution started in Britain. But I wasn’t sure if she was surprised we had farms in the UK, or that she was surprised we had tractors. I had the feeling she thought we still used horse drawn vehicles, instead of combustion engines. A lot of Americans are very insular and know nothing of the rest of the world.

[@JeroenJA]

Lol, not a person to keep following longer 😅. To stupifying, unless she was under 15 or so...

[@JarlGrimmToys]

@@JeroenJA Yeah I stopped subscribing to them after that. Then years later I saw her being made fun of on the internet. After she reacted to Eurovision and thought the country of Montenegro was making fun of black people for calling themselves that.

[@jillmortlock8439]

That's because the American education system is set to produce drones not thinkers.

[@PAULOSOUSADIAS]

@@JarlGrimmToys OK, I know who that is. She's beyond stupid, or maybe it's an act to get reactions on her videos.

[@kazz3956]

Your Coke is different than what we have in Australia. USA uses high-fructose corn syrup in their product. That is banned here due to links to inflammation, with risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease. We use cane sugar here in Australia.

[@LMB222]

That. Thanks, Australia for speaking up, as this is *not* a US vs EU problem, but US is just poisoning their citizens.

[@marydavis5234]

You can get soda in the US that has cane sugar.

[@samstevens7888]

@@marydavis5234 from my knowledge the coke cola that has cane sugar, is brought over the border in Mexico and imported. So even Mexico has better Coke cola lol

[@tomeng9520]

Cuba Cola is a soft drink that was launched in 1953 and is thus Sweden's oldest cola brand. The recipe for Cuba Cola is owned by Spendrups in Vårby. Previously it was owned by Nordarom who licensed the right for production to four Swedish breweries. Wikipedia Manufacturer: Spendrups Year: 1953 Drink: Soft drink Taste: Coke Origin: Sweden

[@tusker4954]

Fructose is very dangerous and should be treated as poison

[@atie3218]

I once tried American chocolate that my friend brought me from her trip. It’s the most disgusting chocolate I’ve ever tried. It was overly sweet and tasted just remotely similar to chocolate I’m used to. Since then if I see American food, I don’t buy it.

[@SuzieSimSG]

Tried Hershey, Ben & Jerry, Dunkin Donuts, Amos cookies and gave up. Too sweet.

[@randomdude4669]

Try their licorice if you think the chocolate is bad, its chewy chemical plastic

[@Herr-K-Aus-B-An-Der-W]

I buyed once a Bar of Hersheys Chocolate, a Gasstation nearby had this and iam totaly excited. They taste exactly like these cheap chocosantaclausees on sticks that you can buy at christmas time, if youre german, you now what i mean.😅 Another time id buy Twinkies, i would have them since i watched Zombieland😅 No, there aren't any good, to🙈

[@Coulterculture]

America. Chocolate like hersheys use an ingredient found in vomit to replace the two cups of spoiled milk the original recipe called for. American chocolate tastes like puke and sugar.

[@LumeyBloon34]

It absolutely taste like puke..I thought i was the only one lol @@Coulterculture

[@Aghul]

As a German, I will always stand at full attention when the bread discussion comes up. And ngl, Europeans are right imo when they say that most bread outside of Europe can't really be considered bread - what America and Japan describe as 'bread' is flat-out just cake to us, from how spongy and sugary it is. PS: We do have Mountain Dew here in Germany but it is an entirely different color. Also, Tartar - if done right - is amazing! The meat has to be super fresh from your local butcher tho (and also keep in mind that in Germany, meat products usually have a really short transport from the butcher to the supermarkets. Like, a single day kind of short).

[@Levenhaupt]

Totally agree with bread, Mountain Dew and tartare. In Poland we have both mdew and tartare, but the quality and health demands for the meat sold to tartare is so high that there’s no doubt it can be eaten raw. And tartare is really a meat that can be made, delivered, sold and used in 48 to 72hrs. As for Mountain Dew it tastes different in Europe than in us but it still tastes like cancer. And bread is too holy to consider American bread a bread 🤣

[@DenverStarkey]

you obviously never had american bread and just go by what you hear. our bread is not "spongy" and the vast majority of it is NOT sugary. that is myth prepentrated from a court case about Subway , one specific fast food company that had alot of sugar in their bread. so stop talking sidways out your ass when you haven't actually had american bread.

[@D.e.v.i.n]

@@DenverStarkeyBut had you ever German bread?

[@DenverStarkey]

@@D.e.v.i.n no. but i'm not the one making false claims about something i never had. That was my point. i'm not making any claims about german bread. you ARE making claims about american bread based off a myth that was started becasue ONE god damn fast food company loaded their breads with too much sugar. you can't make any claims on somethign you enver had , and you certainly can't base your reality of Every american bread , off of one company's dishonest effort to make their breadmore addictive. when they aren not even a bread company for the most part , theya re asubway sandwhich company. theior bread standards do not apply to every american bread on the market.

[@Aghul]

@@DenverStarkey I've been to the US several times and did have bread several times. Can't say I was impressed with the taste at any point

[@aurelienduval-arnould4583]

Hi, I'm french and about steak tartare it's not just a raw steak well cut, most a of the flavor came from the sauce which is directly mixt with the steak when preparing it. It's quite nice to eat once in a while. There also is carpaccio which is very thin slice of raw beef with some olive oil and lemon juice and parmesan. If one day you go in a meet restaurant in europe try it, carpaccio might be less shocking for the eye, but both taste great.

[@karlbmiles]

Odd that a Frenchman talks of Carpaccio as though it's French! Well, no wonder you like it.

[@aurelienduval-arnould4583]

@@karlbmiles Never said it was french, but it more than well received like pizzas

[@tagadaki]

As a French, yessss I love Carpaccios and Tartare but I only eat them in really good restaurants. Because of the risk with raw food you have to eat it in some places where they are really good on hygiene and how to prepare it.

[@cordy6890]

Friend of me, german doctor, was working in the us for a while and she recognised that the dead bodys in the area didnt decay in a normal speed because of all the chemicals in the food. Might be unimportant for the dead bodys but important for the living ones? She also recognized that the puberty of her daughters started way too early, made some tests, and found way too many hormones. Stopped letting them eat anything outside the house and the disease stopped luckily. What are you doing to your bodies Americans?

[@kristoffer3000]

You can tell what Americans eat a lot of meat by their neck size, after I got told that I can't unsee it.

[@hydraian]

To be fair, flour dust can also act as an irritant and may give rise to short-term respiratory, nasal and eye symptoms, or it may provoke an asthma attack in individuals with pre-existing disease. So protecting yourself when working with those quantities is important.

[@QveenRex]

People used to die all the time in the Victorian days from something called baker’s lung. It’s gnarly.

[@yngvekristoffersen7403]

Yeah, bakers lung is almost on par with smoking with all the tiny particles clogging your lungs and preventing the oxygen-uptake, even if the dust itself isn`t toxic.

[@nwerd7584]

Anything in a fine enough powder can also be flammable to explosive in large quantities.

[@Elba.Ginon93]

The dust that papers leave in the office is worse and everyone loves it.

[@pecket]

Tartar can be crazy good! It's feels a bit strange for some people, until they realize it's just "red meat sushi". My father has spent more than 10 years talking about one specific meal that he considers to be the best one he's ever had, and it happens to be a tartar.

[@BLAQFiniks]

Seriously, the best part of helping my mom make grounded meat dishes at home was sticking the meat and onions into a grinder & testing it raw to check for enough spices in my childhood experience... we don't do it anymore, because modern meat production is hazardous~

[@clementcate4730]

And just like sushi, there are ways to make the tartar safe. It's not literally cut from the cow and put in your plate, the cooks use meat from reputable sources, and usually pasteurize them quickly at very high temperature before cutting it. Since the bacteria are at the surface, not inside the muscle, it becomes safe after this step. Also, the piece of meat should be hand-chopped with clean tools, not grounded with a meat grinder that is grinding a lot of non-pasteurized meat, and could contaminate the tartar with the bacteria from other less clean meats. It's close to sushi safety really! And it's not very good on its own lol. A chef will season the tartar in a way that makes it delicious! It should be eaten in small quantity, it's not really a full meal :)

[@dfuher968]

I dont like tartar myself, but most European countries do allow it, coz we have the safety standards to make sure, that the meat is good.

[@kristinaro4380]

Whenever I see a video like this I'm so glad that I live in one of the EU countries with the strictest food regulations

[@Pseudomonasa]

So true "America land of the free" free health issues, free debt, free school shootings every week

[@peterjones6507]

What the US needs is a food agency that is not also a drugs agency.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

Or a market based organization, like the EWG, instead of a government on the take agency.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Or just some actual regulation, the FDA is great when they actually do their jobs properly. Aka when they're not paid off to look away.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@@kristoffer3000 It's not the government's job to dictate what people do or don't ingest. The only legitimate function of government is to protect *individual* liberty.. not gangs, groups or corporations.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know I was talking to someone with an acorn for a brain. The people have to be protected against corporations under capitalism, that's just the way of this dystopian hellscape we're living in.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@@kristoffer3000 And that's what the judicial branch's function is... not an unconstitutional agency. Raw milk, from your own cows, has been "ruled on by the FDA.. not the government's job. Medications that used to be over the counter, used safely for decades, got slammed behind a prescription wall, by the FDA.. it should not exist. If the majority of the people hadn't been indoctrinated by the department of education, they'd be smart enough to protect themselves. Now a fifth of the population can't find Canada on a map. At this point in time, this hellscape as you called it, we need protection from the government allowing an invasion, much more urgently than corporations.

[@mathiasgran5361]

I work in spice production as seen at 1:32, and the safety gear is indeed mainly for us workers. Not necessarily bc its dangerous to breathe in (your nosehairs usually stop them, but certain powders can be irritable to the skin and airways), the staining on your clothes and hair is something we’d rather avoid. Ofc it’s also for santiation purposes.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Its also to prevent workers from developing allergies to the spices you come into contact with frequently. A guy I know worked as a cook for a few years. Eventually went to the doctor for an allergy test. He was allergic to like 98 of the 100 herbs and spices they tried on him.

[@mathiasgran5361]

@@TheSuperappelflapReally depends on the spices. A lot of the raw produce is basically just glucuse and and filler

[@m.p.2534]

About bread and sweets, even as a Canadian, there are no greater joy than going to my local artisanal bakery, smelling the fresh products which just got out from the oven, then buying their nordic bread and loaves with whole sprouted grains to heal my body and soul. (N.B. It's been about 20 years since I've eaten cheap white bread). Plus, that bakery's deserts are to die for, like their pear frangipane tarts for instance, or their old fashioned brownies. Because they only put a minimum of sugar, you can taste the real ingredients, which is a bliss for your palate and intestines. So basically : Real food >>> Chemical food that has been so processed/drowned in additives it's not even food anymore.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Europe: Bread, flour, water, salt and perhaps yeast or some sourdough added, but that's it. America: The entire chemical warfare you could add is in the bread...including way to much sugar.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I think American shopping habits are the trouble. I know people in the UK and in Europe will shop for food several times a week. Normally a big shop at a supermarket every 1-2 weeks. With smaller shops in between for fresh products. Whereas many Americans don’t have access to local shops you can walk to. They have gigantic supermarkets that can be 1-2 hours drive away. So they shop every 2-4 weeks. So they load everything full of preservatives and sugar. To make it last longer. I know an American couple that only shop every 4 weeks. Which is crazy to me. They only eat frozen vegetables, rarely fresh because of it.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@JarlGrimmToys Even with a Walmart around the corner they shop only once a week at most, so the 1-2 hours drive is not the reason really. It's not the norm to drive 2 hours to the next grocery store, is it? Several times a week is right. Sometimes even twice a day...in the morning and in the evening. Getting fresh produce in say Germany is no hard task to accomplish. There's plenty opportunity to do that in walking distance.

[@paulmilner8452]

@@JarlGrimmToys maybe in rural America but the majority have convenient stores far more vast than the UK does , places like new Mexico and the obscure states maybe so

[@karlbmiles]

Sugar is added to bread to make it rise like a tall sandwich loaf. If you don't mind that your loaves of bread to look like a cow flop, you don't need it to rise.

[@Misterjingle]

Honestly, most Europeans live in houses, at least in countries like France, the UK or Germany, and most people will also have to take their car to shop. But it is never 1hour drive away, maximum 20min. @@JarlGrimmToys

[@charlesunderwood6334]

I like the videos showing British kids eating US food; they usually love it. Not surprising. After being in the US I wondered why the food tasted odd- I then realised that all of the sugar and flavour enhancers were making it all sweet and textureless. Essentially US food tastes as if it was designed for a birthday for an 8 year old already high on sugary drinks, not for adults enjoying a meal with a glass of wine.

[@mint7442]

In Ireland we don’t have as many bakeries as other places, but we tend to have fresh baked goods in supermarkets and other places like that.

[@mikaelhugg1112]

Steak tartar is super good and we eat it here in Europe all the time. You can get it in most of the restaurants but it’s easy to do it yourself as well. I do it approx twice a month, usually on Fridays as a weekend kickstart food (with a glass or two some nice red wine) ☺️

[@petracastro6021]

Yes, I like it, too. You have to deep freeze the meat for at least a week in order to kill possible parasites. The Italian Carpaccio is also raw beef, but is served in very thin slices.

[@D3nn1s]

I wouldnt generalize, its not really a thing in switzerland oe germany, though germany has mettbrötchen in the north which is raw pork. Youre right though tartar is delicous. I guess thats what you get if you make all your citizens afraid of salmonella and other things while simultainiously trying to poisen your citizens while also having no public healthcare lmao. We ate raw cookie dough which contains one raw egg all the time as kids.

[@dfuher968]

I dont like it myself, but many ppl do, and u can get it at a lot of restaurants here in Denmark. Theres also special tartar meat available in the supermarket, if u want to make it urself. We already have high food safety standards and regular testing of all meat, but the tartar meat is extra tested for safety, so ppl know, they can eat tartar riskfree.

[@mareksimon1220]

Well steak tartare is safe in here, because we keep strict veterinarian control over the farms and butcheries. If even one person would get salmonella from it, the national bureau for health would investigate the company which can lead to the loss of license. Plus it's used from the most expensive cut so the butchers selling it keep it as high quality as possible. They even keep it in one piece and mill it once you pick it at the pult, right before your eyes so you know it's as fresh as it can get. You can also make one at home too. The meat by itself is kind of bland, that's why we add multiple seasonings and other ingredients, but overall it's super tasty. And expensive :D

[@dontgetmadgetwise4271]

I would be more concerned about food handling and handlers between farm and your table.

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

Never got the point of steak tartare, give me a nice rib eye steak, I'll brush it in oil, salt and pepper, and then flash fry it in a hot pan. Ooh, just remembered, there are rib eyes in the freezer...

[@rotciv1492]

Mi limited add-on as a Spaniard. We do have skittles here, traditionally renamed as "lacasitos". However, they were never nearly as shiny as those I'm seeing in American videos(try and google lacasitos). And now I know why... Thing is. A lot of American brands products have been modified for European standards. Like the orange Fanta using actual orange juice in Europe. Or the McDonalds fries having like 14 ingredients in the USA, while in Europe they are made of potatoe, dextrose and salt.

[@Jrock-Rue]

Swedish person here, Skittles & Mountain Dew exists here but the ingredients have been changed. The same goes for m&m but you won't find them at your regular grocery store. Also I heard that when it comes to American chocolate they contain some chemical that makes it taste like vomit.

[@Ciiran]

You absolutely would find all three of those in a regular grocery store in Sweden. re: the vomit taste of american chocolate, look up butyric acid. disgusting.

[@noncanot]

not a chemical that makes it taste like vomit, it's literally the same chemical that is found in vomit. I have tried this american chocolate (that contains butyric acid) and i cannot understand how anyone can eat that outside some no puke challenges or smthing.

[@frankhooper7871]

The reason you don't have local bakeries selling proper, fresh bread is the same reason they're rapidly disappearing here in England. Because of the convenience of doing a 'big shop' in a supermarket that sells everything. I have friends who bemoan the closure of their local bakeries and butchers, but when asked where they buy their bread and meat, the answer is invariably one of the big supermarket chains. Re steak tartare, an interesting aside is that in the Netherlands you often see a variety of it served on bread and called 'filet Americain' - American fillet

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Stupid ppl get stoopid goods.. There are thousands of small bakeries in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia...what does this list tell about The UK? It says, you suck at everything!

[@YuzumiNoya]

That being said, support your local small shops and bakeries !

[@harlequinems]

Yeah, I hate people like that, the ones who moan that the local shops are too expensive so they only use supermarkets, then the local shops close down and suddenly it's a national tragedy 🤦‍♀️

[@annasolovyeva1013]

In Russia we have it the other way During the Soviet era, they banned little bakeries and opened big mechanised bread factories. In the modern decades, bakeries sprawled like mushrooms, now in sleeping districts they're like everywhere. They don't only make better bread, but sell sweet and savoury buns and pies and offer hot drinks to go, being a place for people to meet indoors, to teenagers to drop in before/after school, and also to grab bread. Our scale of urban sprawl means that they have a lot of demand

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@harlequinems Yeah, me being in Germany. I'd rather pay three times more money on bread from a local bakery, than ever buying shelved plastic bread... So...what the eff are you doing over the pond, huh?

[@harrybarrow6222]

I lived in California for 14 years. I loved the fruit and vegetables, but I worry about the pesticides used (some banned in the EU). The problem is that food producers are more concerned with marketing and profits than food quality. I remember that tomatoes looked great, but had no flavour.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Those tomatoes come from greenhouses, probably Dutch ones in fact, although some local greenhouses are popping up in the USA as well. We produce tomatoes, carrots, lettuce etc so cheap that farmers in third world countries cant even compete with our prices on their local markets. As for the pesticides, dont worry, the EU just voted a few weeks ago not to ban Roundup here so we have it just as bad.

[@twoflyinghats]

California imports Australian oranges and other fruit and vegetables in their winter when it's spring or summer harvest season Downunder.

[@dfuher968]

@@TheSuperappelflap Not quite. As with American food brands, Roundup in Europe is also a different recipe than in the US, coz all the banned chemicals have to be replaced for sale in the EU.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@dfuher968 none of the chemicals in roundup are banned in EU, they had a vote on it last year and voted not to ban the glyfosate

[@KrunchyJD]

Coca Cola is sold in Australia, and I can confirm it tastes different. I was told that its different in the US, and when I met some American tourists I bought them an Australian sold Coke. They said it tastes different and actually liked it better. The main difference is that we dont use High fructose corn syrup in anything really. Its still not good for you here, but its Sugar, not Corn Syrup.

[@Ryuuoo_]

Yes, that is true it have little variation on recipe, depending where it is sold.

[@PeacefulSeraph]

In Mexico it has real sugar not corn syrup as well

[@skindred1888]

In America, people commonly refer to the recipe given around the rest of the world as...Mexican coke as they mostly import it from there.

[@MegaRazorback]

HFCS is outright banned in Australia in terms of making things out of it but you can import things that have it in already in limited numbers.

[@nausicaa8179]

@@PeacefulSeraphMexican coke is soooooo good oh my god

[@PsychoticEwok]

Fun fact people that work in food production especially with powdered ingredients are using the PPE to protect themselves, flour and powdered vitamins are known to cause respiratory issues for people that work with them then the people cleaning machinery are working with chemicals that are capable of causing chemical burns and again respiratory issues for different reasons to flour and powders

[@M0UAW_IO83]

EU: OMG, that's got rat poop on it, you can't sell that US: Meh, it's not got much rat poop on it, it'll be fine

[@vallejomach6721]

'the desire to be annoying to other people' - that really speaks volumes.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

If you're not a steak tartare fan you can still get very close to it by ordering your steak "blue." It's almost as raw but it is warm and it comes in one piece.

[@Sevarrius]

I was often hyperactive as a kid, I was actually diagnosed with ADHD. My favourite sweet was smarties.(do they even have those in the US?) Turns out some of the colourings and additives they used in the smarties back then was a BIG offender in ADHD behaviour in kids. They switched out those colourings and additives some years later due to new legislation banning them, other elements in the recipe have also been changed over the years. Of course it was a good thing but I can't eat smarties now as they don't taste anywhere near as good. However I do know that those colourings and additives are completely legal and widely used in the US to this day. For context I'm in the UK. I don't have kids yet but I know when I do I'll be steering them towards fruit rather than giving them chocolate and candy.

[@angelousmortis8041]

US Smarties are not like UK Smarties. Those are chocolates covered in a candy shell like M&Ms, American Smarties are a pressed powder candy.

[@Barnaclebeard]

Buddy: "I feel bad about all the factory farming." Also buddy: "Steak is a thing I can feel good about." Pick one.

[@GuzziHeroV50]

I've seen warning labels on American candy and soda (pop) here in the UK. They warned of dangerous levels of sugar and non approved chemicals.

[@danchmelar7111]

Yes, Tartar steak is really popular in Czechia. You can find it in some restaurants, and usually all family celebrations with catering comes naturally with big bowl of Tartar, toasts and garlic to swipe your toasts with. Really delicious and no health problems for anyone. It can be dangerous with some cheap shady places that offer it tho. You should definitely pick some normal or even better place to order it.

[@Scarlett.Granger]

Tartar is really good in all European countries that have strict food safety/supply chain rules for it. It's basically the same Japan does for sushi. America (US) just doesn't often have such good regulations so it's not really safe in lots of places and people get confused

[@daleykun]

5:29 it's funny you say that - here in the UK, Subway had their bread subject to extra taxes as it had so much sugar in it that it was legally classified AS cake. Most US bread also meets this same threshold.

[@beatricenilsson4530]

They sell m&m in sweden but they had to change the letters to capitol M&M instead of the m&m in US. Because marabou already used the small m as a branding for their chocolate in scandinavia. I think it is resonable since marabou has been here since the 50's. 😊❤ 🇸🇪 my son is working at one of their factories that are making it... I get lots of free chocolate 🎉🙌🍫

[@ChristianThePagan]

A friend of mine used to be a merchant sailor. According to him the factory baked bread they got in US ports didn’t mold like normal bread, it smelled moldy but didn’t look moldy. The trick was to toast it until it was good and black, scrape off the coal layer and you wouldn’t smell or taste the mold either.

[@pwootjuhs]

It probably smelled sweet from all the sugar americans put in bread, which is not a smell we usually connect to bread. We do however connect it to mold, which, combined with the fact that mold is not an uncommon sight on old bread, might have made the impression that the bread is moldy while it was not. The toasting probably just disassembled the sugar, removing the sweet smell and leaving the coal as the only solid product

[@lozinozz7567]

We have a Bakery chain in Australia called Bakers delight. Their bread and most bread from a baker is waaay better than supermarket. Supermarket bread is like they made it from the sweepings off the floor.

[@moholera2340]

4 years ago I spent 6 month in the US as an exchange student, I dropped a few kilos because I couldn't eat well, not only is some food loaded with lots of chemicals but the taste was different too. Even the popular brands like McD tasted nothing like the ones we have here, I swear their patties are probably half meat and halt something.

[@docdat3468]

We in Europe have the great cola with Cane Sugar and not high fructose corn syrup

[@ferret1962]

I'm from Poland and my family loves tatar. We eat it at every family gathering or celebration and I no one ever got sick or parasites from it. Cow's meat is safe to eat raw, since the cow doesn't consume meat or anything off, just grass or feed usually. I love tatar with diced pickles and onion

[@Evikaefi1]

I love Tatar. Austrian speaking. ❤

[@inspectorbutters166]

Another thing about American Bread: Even if the additives wouldn't be in there, American companies would not be allowed to market it as bread in Germany. With an average of 13.06 grams of sugar per 100 grams of bread, it would have to be called Stuten, which looks like bread but is officially considered to be a cake. Even then, it would have a relatively high sugar content, since the average Stuten contains 9 grams of sugar per 100 grams of dough.

[@PhillipDavison-iy2gh]

We buy lovely bread in UK, wholemeal, brown, soda bread, sticks, white bloomers seeded or unseeded similar for bread rolls, more expensive than supermarket bread but really tasty

[@kamiladankowska5145]

Steak tartare served with some onion, pickles and marinated mushrooms is quite popular dish in Poland. Of course not for every day consumption! It has to be the finest quality beef sirloin from trustworthy source so the meat is very expensive. But you can find it in most traditional restaurants. It tastes really good with some butter and good quality bread, the texture is very interesting and flavour is nice. But as I said it's rather a delicacy than everyday meal.

[@Pentax67]

Maaaan I’m so glad to be French. Here in France our bread is 100% natural made in bakery with real ingredients from farms. Bakeries are everywhere here and it’s no easy job. They get up at 02:00Am Morning to cook break and cakes. Also No broiler chicken, many chicken have open fields . Farm animals receive love here and cuddles. ❤️

[@thewitchprince8887]

Same in Turkey, i can't even eat a day or two old bread bc it feels stale so i toast or dry it to make galeta/panko. Can't imagine living somewhere that doesn't have good bakeries with fresh baked goods

[@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia]

Unfortunately, there are still animals raised in very poor condition in France and other European countries. Not all our meat/eggs/milk come from happy farm animals. However, there are strict regulations and I have the feeling that's it's easier to have access to healthy animal products here compared to other countries. But totally agree with you on the bread part. Even supermarkets have great bakery sections, you can find very good bread pretty much everywhere. 😋

[@TheSuperappelflap]

French bread isnt bad, especially the pain complet, but I still prefer my big brown Dutch loaves, best bread in the world.

[@tartoflan]

En réalité, nous avons pas mal d'additifs et de traces de substances potentiellement nocives comme des pesticides présentes dans nos baguettes, mêmes dans les traditionnelles, donc peut mieux faire... mais c'est sûr que c'est pas du "pain" américain! - oh, et on a de l'élevage industriel pas top pour les animaux aussi. Je ne sais pas dans quelle ferme tu as grandie, mais ce n'était pas une ferme industrielle, ça c'est certain

[@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia]

@@tartoflan En même temps, vu la pollution globale de la Terre, dans à peu près tout ce qu'on mange il y a des pesticides, des produits chimiques et d'autres substances qui n'ont rien à faire là. Même en essayant de manger le plus sain et naturel possible, c'est difficile d'y échapper. Mais je trouve qu'en France on est pas trop mal lotti de ce côté-là, il y a bien pire ailleurs, et pas seulement aux États-Unis. Mais je suis totalement d'accord avec toi sur les conditions d'élevage des animaux. J'adorerais que ces animaux vivent tous dans des conditions parfaites au grand air avec de gentils fermiers qui les chouchoutent, mais on sait bien que ce n'est malheureusement le cas que dans les jolis contes pour enfants...

[@sabrinacarli6461]

Steak tartar is a delicacy in Italy and many more European Countries, but to be consumed the quality of the meat has to meet the standards of hygienic laws and usually the cow meat used to make it is from grass fed cows that live a healthy lifestyle in the countryside or mountains.

[@SleepyFen]

Skittles are not banned in Norway, and are also not banned in Denmark. It's possible that their list of ingredients are altered for the European market, though. And as for the M&M's, they're also not available in Norway. Marabou is a brand of chocolate - they sell plates of chocolate like the one depicted at 21:20, but they also sell other kinds, like the M&M's kind, which is where the conflict arose. So the video trying to equate the two to cause a stir feels misleading at best. Overall I'd take what's in that video with a bit of a gain of salt. It feels poorly written (GMO isn't shorthand for genetically modified *organisms*) and lazily researched.

[@Madeth91]

Im surprised that beef tartare is uncommon to you. It's pretty common as a starter in Austria. With the right ingredients it's awesome.

[@ethrean9367]

In France, almost every meat specialized restaurant has it on the menu as a main dish. I personnaly love it (steak, chive, shallots, capers, raw egg yolk, worcestershire sauce and tartare sauce, served with french fries and salad), it's clearly one of my favorite dishes. (but yeah, less and less popular)

[@giuliabird8422]

it's pretty common in australia too - the US needs to catch up

[@denisesmith8086]

From what i have heard from other americans your bread is so sweet could be classed as cake , in the uk its neutral so can be used for both sweet and savory foods, i make my own bread in a breadmaker no nasty chemicals , just flour , a little oil , tiny bit of sugar and salt , skimmed milk powder and warm water and its fantastic

[@schnelma605]

2:45 Titanium Dioxide in food in banned in the European Union

[@jessiejanson1528]

I'm surprised they didn't mention gluten. Normal bread gets hard within 24 hours. Bread from grocery stores however is loaded with massive amounts of gluten. Gluten keeps bread soft, so while it sits for 8 months, it will still be soft when you buy it. It stays mold free thanks to anti mold chemicals they add. The massive amounts of gluten has caused people to become allergic to it, but most symptoms are mild so people never realize it and it's often misdiagnosed as something else where they treat the symptom not the cause. There is a test available but it's only for one specific symptom out of a potential 50. So most forms of diagnosis is when they have ruled out every other possibility and only gluten is left so then they take it out of their diet to see if the symptom goes away and if it does you get diagnosed as having a gluten allergy. However because there is no test it's not a scientific diagnosis and can't be used in a study. So gluten allergies are really a chicken or egg problem. There is no test to determine if you have it, and no scientists are interested in making a test, so no studies can be done where the results would be accepted as scientific. So while they are scared of yellow dye number 5, they just close their eyes when it comes to gluten.

[@squids3820]

there is a book called Ultra-Processed People that shows how bad modern food is. it is very similar to this video but goes more in-depth and also takes a look into how people eat in general and how companies profit from the chemicals they put in food. it was worse then I expected.

[@RomainHDL]

On the Tartar (and carpaccio and sushi, actually), animal food that are consumed raw *can* be consumed safely so long as those have been frozen at heart first (and unfrozen just before consumption, call it a couple of hours maximum). Any reasonable place with hygiene standards will follow these procedures, and most Western Europe countries enforce them by law. This could close down a restaurant if not followed strictly. And why do we eat it, mainly for taste, as everything else.

[@slaninkaSK]

I am living in czech republic and here its very usual to eat beef tartar. It is served in most restaurants and pubs. Personally, I eat it maybe once a month.

[@Philemaphobia]

I thought it’s pork tartar in Czech Rep. oops

[@RebelGirl0309]

Skittles aren't banned in Sweden or Norway just the US ones, We have our own Skittles manufacturer that uses EU-approved ingredients! So before anyone thinks that you can't find Skittles in Sweden, you can find them here and they're tasty!!! They might just taste a bit different lol

[@irbaboon1979]

European here : yes, steak tartare is great, highly recommended! If you’re squeamish you should give German “met” a try, it’s fresh raw minced pork, very safe to eat. In Netherlands we have this stuff called “filet American” which is basically raw meat. It’s really nice on proper bread roll…note:actual bread of course :) If you ever hit Europe and are willing to open your mind and keep in mind our food culture is very different and quality, hygiene, etc are all highly controlled you will surely have a few nice experiences.

[@Philemaphobia]

Met and Mett are two very different things in Germany. First one is a fermented honey wine ;)

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

local bakeries and even homemade bread makers can't escape the glyphosate conventional wheat crops are sprayed with AFTER harvest.. allegedly to dry them faster. In Germany, before the EU happened, their public pools were using ozone, not chlorine to purify water. Rye and ginger is pretty common..it's light colored bubbles with whiskey. Coke has different recipes in different countries because of high fructose corn syrup...that's how it's not banned elsewhere.

[@cybercat1531]

They are indeed also wearing the PPE to protect themselves from the food ingriedients, Continuous repeated exposure to bulk industrial quantities of powdered sugar, paprika, ,flour, and other powdered ingredients will soon lead to you having sinus issues along with your lungs being well seasoned and constantly coughing up a curry mix XD

[@littlerave86]

Any questions you state as to why companies would use unsafe additives in their products can be answered with "money". It's all about money, and nothing else.

[@ccccc12]

I’ve been working night shifts in a bakery for 16 years now and me along with 4 other co-workers we make and bake over 5000 pieces of 500grams bread and there is over 30 various types with different seeds,oils and flour all made fresh by hand ever single night . How can you even compare American pre packed ,industrial ,regular T-550 flour bread with tons of sugar,yeast and other chemical peservatives and emulsifiers. There is no comparison between European and American bread . 😀

[@FneK-ue9oh]

In France steak tartare is very common, mix raw meat with red onion, parsley, capers, pickles, ketchup, mustard, worcestershire sauce and tabasco, sometimes raw yolk like in Czech

[@kathrinbauer5358]

This clip makes it look as if companies in the US just thought "Oh, look at this food. Let's throw in some dangerous chemicals" and people saw it on the shelves and thought "Oh, that potentially toxic food is so much better than the real food we've been eating until now"

[@icekristall1700]

in germany we don't eat tartare, we actually more likely eat raw pork. With very high health regulations but still some risk. It's delicious.

[@marekbambule5129]

Yeah, steak tartare in CR "tatarák"..love it, we do not that bad meat like in US, so we can eat it without fear even rare. In EU cant be used drugs like in US (HGH, Steroids etc.)

[@heron5045]

Steak tartar is actually safe and yummy IF it came from a calf, cow or bull that was not kept in crowded farms (thinking of our small traditional farms in the alps, with up to 20-30 animals per farm, where the animals spend part of the year on the hillside); the animal was butchered in a hygenic environment, hung to bleed out, and then prepared for consumption in a timely fashion. The meat may be frozen before preparation, but not refrozen. With warchester sauce, pickles, red onion, pepper, salt and pickled capers- yum Even here, I am hesitant to use supermarket-meat, and use whenever possible meat straight from the farmer

[@gilibran]

Mac Donalds US does not send food all over the world, it's a franchise and the ingredients have to comply to local laws. Each country/region produces it's Mac Donalds food localy, from beef for the burgers to chicken for the nuggets, milk for the shakes and icecreams to the patato potatos and the bread for the buns. Same goes for all from MacDo to Burger King to Subway to Kellogs and any US food company you can find in the EU at least. Mars, Snickers, Bounties etc. etc.almost every product from the Mars company for Europe are made in Veghel in the Netherlands with the same recipe but without a single ingredient from the US. There is a Coca Cola factory in Dongen, also the Netherlands producing Coca Cola with EU approved ingredients for the EU market. If it is food imported straight from the US it has to have a clear label and packaging showing it's from the US without a doubt if they want to sell it in the EU. I have never been to the US myself, but from everyone i know that has and been to Macdo or BK or Subway or any of the others you can also find int he EU they all agree, the EU stuff tastes better and is better. I hear the same from US expats up to some stating outright that EU Macdo "junkfood" would be considered a healthy culinary diet in the US. It's baffling how US food standards are accepted by the US public, they dont get away with it in the EU for good reasons.

[@christiner302]

The difference between US and European safety laws. In Britain and Europe we have to prove that additives and chemicals are safe to consume; in the US the proof required is that an additive is dangerous. There is a vast chasm between the two.

[@feha92]

5:20 no, bread is not just bread, when we are talking about leavening ingredients. Have you ever tried eating bread that was made without yeast? It is way worse - unless using specific recipes and intending to use the bread in a specific way, where a thick hard brick is preferred. And even when buying bread of different brands, you can notice a huge difference in both taste and texture and sheer useability (can you butter the bread without it falling apart?), just from minor differences in ratios or the cooking process etc. So I can understand that people used to a specific leavening ingredient might be loathe to buy bread made with another. 9:50 I think it isn't banned here, but either way, the reason europeans don't seem to play as much games as you do is a simply one: timezones. That and segregated lobbies due to latency (caused by an entire ocean) means even if we play at same time we avoid playing with americans. 16:50 unsure due to language differences, but I think I have eaten steak tartar a couple times? If it is what I think it is (essentially just raw ground beef with spices and stuff), then I am not exactly much of a fan of it (I find it edible, and with the right sauce maybe even tasty. But I prefer a steaked steak over it), but can see why ppl who like blue-rare steaks would like it. Generally, it is considered way more healthy of an option too, for same reason uncooked vegetables are - more nutritious where heat hasn't ruined as much nutritionally. But just like sushi (and vegetables), you need to be sure that the animal was healthy and had no parasites or such (and that no such thing or other diseases has contaminated it during processing).

[@binaryglitch64]

0:15 "So I know which foods to cut out of my diet ...before I put the die back in diet" That's very fitting because it's usually the dye (food coloring) that gets U.S. food banned in other countries. This is also handy if you goal is eating healthy... you know, so you don't end up putting the die in diet... Why is it so handy? Cuz it makes it easy to avoid potentially bad foods, just avoid unnaturally brightly colored foods. That basic and _easy to follow*_ & understand rule of thumb can reduce the amount of dye you eat making your chances of eating bad-for-you-foods much less likely, and can be done without reading.** *easy to follow... except for the fact that it's hard to find, as heavily dyed food is so prominent. ** I count 'read the room' as a form of reading... signs from nature to me are read just like any other sinage... I don't look at reading as something that's only applied to text... nor only to human languages. We can read the colors of our food, so technically I lie when I say no reading is required, as in my broad view of what reading means one would still be required to read. That being said, I think you know what I mean when I say no reading required.

[@dabdoubeh]

Not long ago, I saw froot loops in the international aisle, and I picked it up because I was so curious, I'd heard so much about... I had one piece straight out of the box the taste SHOCKED me lol. I expected it to be sweet but not to taste like the worst candy ever. I cannot imagine having a bowl of that.

[@woodcats1]

Interesting about M&M's! Here in Norway the Maribou equivalent, called M's, are a household name, everyone knows them (very popular cinema snacks!). I can understand why they wouldn't be happy about introducing a new brand that looks (and tastes) almost identical.

[@Why-D]

How in the world could Swiss companies (French, Austrian, Belgium, ...) make the best choclates without any of these colours?

[@MrChiddler]

New Zealand actually makes the best chocolate. Whitakkers is better than any European chocolate I have ever eaten

[@romana316]

Huh, you also cannot find them in Norway unless you go to specific shops. I don't think they're banned though. Norway just taxes imports very highly in general. But your average grocery store will sell "m peanuts", which are basically just peanut m&ms but they're all brown, so they avoid any weird dyes.

[@Yoroiful]

16:55 Steak tartare is delicious, but you're right, it does look disgusting. I'm pretty sure you would like it, as beef (even raw) is rather tasty. Meat over in the EU is inspected very closely, so the risk of getting sick or having a parasitic infection is very low.

[@dkeegan5654]

100% mate… US has very few regulations for advertising .. which means many US labels at best mislead or even lie with no repercussions

[@rebelsbeautycorner]

wait you dont have bakeries... thats shocking. In most european countries we usually have at least one bakery in every town, and they always sell fresh bread. They start baking at 4 in the morning. we put our bread in the freezer, and defrost them when needed. Because they dont have artificial stuff and sugar in them they go stale quickly. But when they are frozen you can keep them for 3 months, and it will still taste good when defrosted.

[@Jinx661]

most foods and drinks in the UK won't find artificial colours and flavours, it will tell you on the package.

[@Hyxtrem]

I do eat Steak Tartare as I'm a big food lover (and thanks god, I was born in France), either Beef or Horse (horse taste stronger), and it's really good. You do need a nice seasonning for them, like olive oil, salt, capers, parsley, pepper, onions and mustard. This is a true delight. Yes we do have theses "parasites" (named Toxoplasma gondii) but actually they do change our behaviors into being either more aggressive or caring. That's all there is to it. It's not disgusting. To me, american cheese is the definition of DISGUSTING xD !

[@splodge561]

Do you eat snails?

[@Hyxtrem]

@@splodge561 Of course man. Snails are a delight, i'm not joking. That's a lot of work tho, and when you cook them, the smell is pretty rough, but once it's done, it has really nice flavor, and unlike the smell, pretty fin.

[@splodge561]

@@Hyxtrem 🤮

[@Hyxtrem]

@@splodge561 poor creature XD

[@splodge561]

@@Hyxtrem it certainly is😂

[@StephSinalco]

Steak tartare is absolutely delicious ! Of course, you have to pick carefully where you order it or how you do it at home. If the meat isn't correctly stored, there are safety hazard, yep.

[@jamesstevenson6720]

Steak tartar is great! I wouldn't eat it in America but with high quality safe meat, prepared correctly, its great. Had it as street food in Madrid last year

[@smolPjusk]

my country even got prime energy drink to change their recipe as it contained vitamin A being above national regulations and 579 mg of caffeine per litre which is above the Norwegian legal limit of 320 mg and it got banned by the food safety authority. But we got our own variant with the legal amount in 2024, which is nice. thank you Norway protecting us from American food and drinks

[@Felizhja]

The chocolate one, in Norway we have a chocolate called Kvikk lunsj,(Quick lunch) and it looks just like Kit kat, and might be the reason Kit kat was banned here.

[@SquatCobbler-Cry]

Everything foodwise packaged in America is processed, eat fresh. Veggies, fruits, small bakery items are good...off the bone sliced turkey with no sodium.

[@5688gamble]

A local bakers that sells only cakes? I'd call that a patisserie! A bakers has bread and savoury snacks!

[@Virtualblueart]

Its funny, M&Ms were popularised and introduced her in Holland by the movie E.T. Before that, they didnt sell them.anywhere. Bur there was a local brand like the nut ones IIRC called "Treats".

[@Hodoss]

16:37 Yes, I like raw beef, yum yum! Steak Tartare is pretty common here in France and other European countries. I also like Carpaccio, thin slices of raw beef with a marinade, Italian dish, but has spread to France and I imagine other neighbours. If eating raw beef is deemed dangerous in America, then there is a problem with the food industry's hygiene, makes me suspect they tend to sell meat that is contaminated or kinda rotten.

[@mrsquid_]

many of these brands aren't upright banned but their recipe is changed significantly.

[@ClearlySkies]

In germany we still have Skittles but with a few "less" concearning food dyes

[@shotgunmasterQL]

That titanium dioxide thing was news to me (I do live in Europe) and it also sounded somewhat familiar as a compound/ingredient, so I checked a folic acid supplement I take on and off. It's the cheapest one with the highest number of pills per package/best price for weight, and it does use titanium dioxide, which gives the pills a pretty dark yellow or orange color. Probably should stop taking them/switch to another one that lacks the ingredient...

[@futavadumnezo]

Let me make something clear as day: European foods are not far off, actually they started using less natural sugars and bow glucose syrup is in almost everything, dextrose and maltodextrose, shit tons of artificial sweeteners and colouring, preservatives, and a boat load of other chemicals. If you look at an ingredients list at anything it's just artificial sugars and a bunch of chemicals. That's why I just cook at home and don't care for sweets or snacks. I just snack on nuts and seeds (yes haha i eat nuts).

[@marcellaacone7085]

In Italy we had the Skittles, once, but almost 30 years ago. I don't know how they taste, as I've never had the phisical time to find them in shops.

[@Vemperor666]

German here - I love Skittles and the last time I checked, they were pretty common in supermarkets. 😀

[@Pseudomonasa]

Yes they are, but just as with everything American here it has a completely different recipe and is made with higher safety regulations. Red colouring is mostly made out of beet root or small bugs, we use sugar from sugar beets or sugar cane instead of disgusting high fructose corn syrup and if there is azo-coloring (btw used also for tattoos and even those are getting banned) they have a big fat hazard warning just as cigarettes do😂

[@misssunnydee]

Your local bakeries don't have bread??? What the hey! 😮 Every Friday I have a small market around the corner with a bakery that sells all kinds of bread, buns and cookies, but if I can't go there I have a Turkish bakery on 500 meter, a small bakery that sells pies, cake, cookies AND the most common bread & buns on 300 meters, and another bakery that sells mostly bread and croissants et al + specialised holiday items. Oh, and my supermarket has a fresh bread corner, too. (But you need to be there before 10AM or most is gone). And that's just in my neighbourhood of the suburb. In the rest of the suburb there are plenty others, and in the centre of the city there are several bakeries that either focus on sweet or bread. I'm Dutch, and like the French, we consume A LOT of bread, so I guess that's part of it. But when I lived in Greece, where they prefer filled sweet or savoury pies over bread, I could also find a local bakery with bread (I just asked where my favourite lunch place got their bread, because it wasn't that obvious to find fresh regular bread😂).

[@Paroxid]

Skittles aren’t banned in Sweden. I don’t know if they’re made different for the Swedish market but we definitely have skittles.

[@olympejacquel8609]

I am french, I love steak tartare, and I consume it occasionally (once every other month I'd say?), but I've also eaten bleu steak (like rawer than rare but more cooked than raw) every Saturday since I could chew. The point is, French meat is safer to consume raw than American meat anyway, because I've never fallen nor heard of anyone around me falling sick because of raw meat. And we are legion in France, those of us who like our beef raw.

[@barnabuskey3956]

They also say they can eat pounds and pounds of foid everywhere else but they dont say its because its less filling.

[@Zraknul]

Dust masks make a lot of sense when you start working with high volumes of powders, even if it's something like flour. Look up Baker's asthma.