#9: There is no confusion on my part as a cook or my friend who worked in the food industry as a "taster." .
My wife and I bought fresh groceries and produce in Paris France and Tokyo Japan and ate like the natives during the day on picnics.
At night, we went to eat where the locals ate, not the tourist spots.
When I was single, I did the same in Thailand, Turkiye, and Germany. I bought local produce and ate picnic style. At night, I ate with the locals.
Food and produce taste better overseas because they are fresh, are less chemically-processed, and use different pesticides than US food. I can see the difference when I shop in the foreign grocery stores.
Check out the additives, dyes, and GMOs found in US food compared to the EU: blog.ansi.org
I was having a discussion with a black friend of mine here in Winston Salem. He was like a lot of you, talking about immigration and what Trump is doing. He then pivoted and started complaining about housing prices. Saying how in the hood you couldnt buy a house cheap anymore. He started whining about gentrification and how poor blacks cant afford rent anymore. I said "Who do you think is replacing blacks in the hood"? I asked him to look at all his new neighbors. He actually realized they were almost all Hispanic. I asked him what he thought the results of all that unfettered immigration that Biden did by letting in the rest of the world unchecked. I said, "Did you really think that was going to have no effect on blacks"?
For the first time, I had a progressive tell me I was right.