> As an American I feel like it's common knowledge that we have shit food options.
If you live in a medium to large city in the United States you have great food options, but most people ignore them and go for the easy stuff.
> I don't know who is supposed to be shocked by the assertion that American food is worse than European food.
The article was probably intended more to play to the “America bad, Europe good” meme that permeates social media, not to shock people into some revelation.
The reality is that America does have good food options if you go looking for it, but it also has large amounts of convenient and processed foods for people to choose from. Turning this into another culture war topic isn’t really helpful.
If you live in a medium to large city in the United States you have great food options, but most people ignore them and go for the easy stuff.
> I don't know who is supposed to be shocked by the assertion that American food is worse than European food.
The article was probably intended more to play to the “America bad, Europe good” meme that permeates social media, not to shock people into some revelation.
The reality is that America does have good food options if you go looking for it, but it also has large amounts of convenient and processed foods for people to choose from. Turning this into another culture war topic isn’t really helpful.