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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2024
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Ragebait, am European, love American Food!
Heresy! There must be rivalry between the continents in all things!
In Europe, the portions are European sized. In the US, they are whale-sized.
In Europe you pay 20€ for a semi decent micro Burger some Hipster slaps together, wearing black Nitrile Gloves thinking his shitty minimalistic "Burger-~~Shop~~Artisery" will become the next big joint.
I think both cultures have their issues when it comes to food. Europeans are just more pretentious about it.
America has pretentious, expensive burger joints though, and Europe has fast food. The real battle isn't "American vs. European", it's "the people in power vs the people that aren't", in both places. Trying to draw divides like "Europeans are more pretentious about their food" is just a distraction from that.
I don't know where you live, but either you live in an expensive city, only eat burgers at hipster places, or are memeing. I can still find perfectly good burgers for 12€ in my city and they fill me up. It's not necessary to get stuffed and roll back home like a US landwhale.
Where do you live? I'm in The Netherlands and I don't think a burger/fries combo can be had under €17 at any restaurant in the country, with the exception of American fast food chains (which are kinda trash). I think restaurants in this country are very expensive compared to the average in Europe.
Exaggeration for the sake of the Argument. The US has loads of small restaurants and fusion kitchens with local diversity (soul food). Regarding the amounts I don't mind to have a "cheat day". I was at SaltLick BBQ in Texas and I was sad when I was filled up because of how good it was (Brisket!! pecan Nut Pie!!! Spearribs!!!!!!!!).
While I love me a cheese assortment with fine wine in Europe or similarly awesome food.
It's just hard to compare fine dining with food you just want to inhale asap.
You compare literal apples to oranges (and are pretentious about it, sry).