When it comes to food, American style is a mystery

When it comes to food, American style is a mystery

Carl j chan

I thought humans had free will. But food made me think more. To me, fish sauce tastes terrible. But if I was born in Fujian, China, or I was Vietnamese or Thai. I mean, if I grew up eating fish sauce. Would I think it was delicious?

If I grew up in the US, would I consider "honey chicken" a delicacy? If I was used to eating sugar from a young age.

If food is about the neural circuits of "first experience" in the brain, then what about free will? Is what you think is "delicious" really "delicious"? Or is "delicious" just a compulsive repetition of the first experience.

Honestly, I used to think that pizza all over the world was the same as in Chicago. I've eaten pizza many times, and not once, and I mean not once, did I find it "delicious".

I often say that I can't tell the difference between fresh pizza and frozen pizza. Just like many Americans can't tell the quality of rice. Since I had local pizza in Pittsburgh PA, it completely changed my worldview. It turns out that pizza is delicious.

Back to the subject of many Americans not being able to tell the quality of rice. No matter what type of rice, Americans usually pour a lot of soy sauce on it, or stir in "yum sauce" like drinking water. I doubt that American "yum sauce" has much to do with Japanese.

I can't understand how anyone would pay for the horrible fried rice in those Chinese restaurants!!! Seriously!

I know how Chinese-owned "Japanese restaurants" make those sauces. Like yum yum sauce, it's usually just regular mayonnaise, then add extra sugar, and garlic powder. This is a terrible combination, and some Americans are obsessed with it like they're obsessed with heroin!

American taste is a mystery.

I watched a YouTube where a guy said he never cared for Chinese food, but once he tried the "honey chicken" ,he said: oh my god, it's heaven!

God, if the Chinese in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan knew there was "honey chicken" in the world, I think they would question life!

I ordered the Vietnamese lemongrass chicken. God, it was just fried chicken, soaked in lemon grass syrup. That restaurant has been in business for many years, which shows that there is a market for this horrible Lemongrass in syrup.

I know that the British add sugar to their hot tea. But I remember the first time I had "sweet tea" in the US, I felt like I was tasting something alien. God, how could anyone think of adding such horrible sugar to ice tea!

By the standards of the American left, they could easily label me a "Sugar phobia".