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Dasus@lemmy.world 17 hours agoIt’s not weird at all.
A perfectly natural consequence of laissez-faire capitalism leading what should and shouldn’t be regulated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.
Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)
I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.
It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.
Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…
Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.
Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯
Because the ones that “have”, don’t care about the ones that “don’t have”.
And the ones that do care ,can’t help everyone.
As an American, round corn chips are the best, glad you’re enjoying them
I prefer like a bent triangle, then you grab it by the tip and then put as much salsa on it as possible. The chip to salsa ratio is off the charts.
Although these rounds ones have a bit more chip to salsa, their structural integrity is better and didn’t break as triangles often do.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Weird as in historically obesity and wealth went hand in hand and not it’s flipped.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
But armies wouldn’t be made of rich people.
Also also, it’s either diabetes or the HFCS, but Americans have a very distinct, plump look all around. Whereas here it’s often just a huge belly people have and maybe an extra chin or something.
But not all all around Michelin man.
My dad worked at a theme parn in Finland, driving the guests around in a sort of road-train. And he wasn’t a small man by no means, every gluttonous and always thirsty. Died at 70 that’s how healthy he was.
Anyways, he was shocked and told me that he’d never seen “people shaped like that”.
No offense.
Well some probably.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I’m an American and both my parents are huge and in terrible health. Lugging hundreds of extra pounds (2.2 per Kilo) is hell on your body.