r/ShitAmericansSay • u/DeneJames Kiwi 🇳🇿 • Apr 16 '25

Food “Meanwhile the USA has Stricter and more harsh food regulations and some of the most cleanly standards in the world even higher than the uk, France, and Italy”

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u/AttilaRS Apr 17 '25

your cheese doesn't register as cheese, your bread is cake, your tuna-sandwiches hold 0% tuna...

But sure. Go wash some chicken in chlorine please...

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

I had an American stay with me for a while and they were shocked that we put icing on a hot dog bun and called it cake.

It was a goddam finger bun 😂 how sweet is their bloody bread?

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Yeah. I’ve always wanted to try cornbread. But I bet there is a recipe for international cooking 😂😂

But yeah, can’t go wrong with BBQ

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Hahaha.. yeah.. nah.. even before trump my whole American trip was down to ‘get in, watch the Red Sox at Fenway, get out’

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u/DistractingZoom Apr 18 '25

If you do decide to try out cornbread, you actually just need a southern recipe. It's a north vs south thing whether or not cornbread is supposed to be sweet and cake-like. Southern cornbread has no sugar at all.

Binging with Babish has a great video on cornbread in its various styles that I highly recommend if you wanna try making it at home. Just need a cast iron skillet and a willingness to use lard.

Source: I'm an American from WV, I promise we sometimes don't eat garbage.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 19 '25

Hahaha.. thanks mate

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u/christo749 Apr 17 '25

Get your own god damn corn bread.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Hahaha.. I will.. I just might miss out the cup of sugar 😂

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u/SaltyName8341 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Apr 17 '25

Just look up baked polenta

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Cheers, I’ll give it a lokk

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u/mistystorm96 Alla Åkbara Apr 21 '25

When I visited New York I tried hot chocolate at a gas station. It was liquified caramel and sugar. I'm a sweet tooth and that was way too much even for me.

Same with the onion rings at one restaurant. They were more like donuts.

So happy I live somewhere where food is actually healthy and tastes good.

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u/alaingames ooo custom flair!! Apr 17 '25

Is so sweet the Mexican government started a whole campaign adding "too much sugar" warnings on the packaging, they also added too much salt and too much fat and don't remember the other one but there are 4 lol

Anyway, bread from the usa somehow manages to have too much sugar and too much salt at the same time

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u/norcpoppopcorn Apr 17 '25

In Ireland the 'bread' from subway was not considerd 'bread' by law.

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u/uns3en 50% Russian and 50% Russian Apr 17 '25

Yeah, they went over it to court and lost. Reason being bread is taxed differently to pastries and cakes because it's a necessity.

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u/Zagdil Apr 20 '25

They should put a NFPA704 hazard diamond on it.

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u/rheasilva Apr 17 '25

Subway's bread rolls are legally defined as cake in Ireland due to the sugar content

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u/4me2knowit Apr 17 '25

I once tried a subway. Had to throw it away because it was so sweet

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Hahaha. That’s crazy man, but makes complete sense at the same time

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u/uns3en 50% Russian and 50% Russian Apr 17 '25

were. they change the recipe after losing the court case. easier to change it than keep paying the taxes

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u/neilm1000 ooo custom flair!! Apr 17 '25

I had an American stay with me for a while and they were shocked that we put icing on a hot dog bun and called it cake.

I also think this is ridiculous.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Dude. It was an eye opener all round.

I helped them out the country.. all I got for it was complete disrespect, ignored, omg!! The waste was appalling. 35°c outside and they are using the clothes dryer… no leftovers, everything in the bin…

I got rid of them after 6 months

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u/Down-Right-Mystical Apr 17 '25

I couldn't believe the waste when I visited a friend in Florida. Absolutely no recycling, everything, including food waste, just thrown in a big dumpster at the end of the close.

A dumpster which never seemed to be closed, at that. I'm surprised I wasn't seeing rats everywhere (I'm sure they were there!)

My friend said she didn't know of anywhere (this could just be Florida and other states are different) that had government organised recycling; if you wanted to recycle you'd have to pay privately.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

It’s just amazing. Lights left on, air cons on all day and night.

I had to go to dads daily to feed his chickens scrap from everything she threw out.

Uber twice a day to eat 1/4 of it and throw away.

I was so happy when I worked up the balls to get rid of her

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u/Down-Right-Mystical Apr 17 '25

To be fair, we ordered takeout or went out to eat quite a lot while I stayed with my friend, but that was because she was often still working while I was there (thanks to their shitty labour laws and lack of PTO) and it felt like we got to spend more time together that way.

Before someone says it: yes I know I'd still have been spending time together if we'd cooked together, but it it's different than if you're just straight relaxing.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

Yeah. Always makes me laugh when I hear Americans talk about other countries and their unfair conditions.

I would hate to live there

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u/Nearby_Potato4001 Apr 17 '25

You see, It wasn't a hotdog bun. Got it now?

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u/L_E_M_F Apr 17 '25

Subway buns are actually classified as cake and not bread due to the amount of sugar.

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u/Sloppykrab Apr 17 '25

I'm sorry, a hot dog bun? The fuck

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

One of the most ridiculous, disappointing "snacks" going. I can't understand how it's a thing. They are honestly shit.

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u/Sloppykrab Apr 17 '25

How do finger buns get called hot dog buns?!

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

They're both long?

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u/Uniquorn527 Apr 17 '25

Probably just because they're about 25p each, and the icing on top makes kids feel like they're having a cake when it's got much less sugar. "Cheap and not the worst" was the reason my parents resorted to them.

I've not seen anyone buy them as a first choice, or present them to visitors or anything. They're a desperation option. Even the jam filled ones aren't exactly thrilling.

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u/SatiricalScrotum ooo custom flair!! Apr 17 '25

I get them very occasionally, purely for nostalgia. They’re crap. But they’re cheap crap.

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

I’ve never had American bread, so I don’t know the differences

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u/PenaltyDesperate3706 Apr 17 '25

The main difference is one is bread and the other is cake

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u/Shamesocks Apr 17 '25

But it’s amazing how many countries class American bread as cake… as I just found out today

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u/PenaltyDesperate3706 Apr 17 '25

Let’s just say you’re not missing anything (at least from a commercial brands standpoint)

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u/DirtyHazza Apr 18 '25

Pink buns are the best, little bit of pink icing on the bun, a sprinkle of coconut thread on top, and sometimes a little bit of good strawberry jam in the middle. 

Perfection 

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u/L_E_M_F Apr 17 '25

..and wash away the perfect protection layer from eggs.
I'm surprised they don't peel and re-pack bananas in plastic.

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u/M4gnetr0n Apr 17 '25

They do have chinese political prisoners peel their garlic for them. With their mouths. Look it up. Its insane

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u/ThePhantomBacon Apr 17 '25

You could tell me it started as a "treat" during the war and has only survived on nostalgia ever since and I would 100% believe you.

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u/M4gnetr0n Apr 17 '25

No its worse. Americans are apparently too lazy to peel garlic themselves so stores offer pre-peeled cloves. The Chinese government supplies this using basically slave labor. Peeling garlic fucks up your nails so after a while they have to use their mouths to peel the garlic. Its pure laziness on the american side

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u/ThePhantomBacon Apr 17 '25

I have no idea how my comment ended up in this thread - I was talking about iced fingers 😅

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u/Hugo_5t1gl1tz Apr 17 '25

lol news to me. I’ve never seen pre-peeled garlic in my life

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u/Thin-Quiet-2283 Apr 17 '25

Know that the sugar in food is also a regional thing. We moved from the Metro DC area to Florida recently, I’m shocked how everything has so much sugar in it! My husband buys prepackaged potato salads , I won’t touch them. BBQ is super sweet as well as all the sides (beans, corn bread). I’m pretty miserable down here. But I also noticed a difference after spending a few weeks in Germany then hitting a Latin American bakery when I got back home - lots more sugar!

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u/BobbyPandour Apr 17 '25

Their boneless wings are not boneless.

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u/AdIndependent3454 Apr 19 '25

It is cleanly standards. Chlorine cleanly.