/ck/ - Food & Cooking

CHUP WITH ONE EYE OPEN
GRIPPING MY BURGER TIGHT
DINNER FIGHT
CHUP ALL NIGHT
TAKE MY HAND
WERE OFF TO CHUPPING BURGER LAND

>>12692022
There's sort of a thing called "food literacy" which is the ability to discern good quality foods form bad "junk foods". You just have to motivate people to make proactive choices and remind them of how genuinely dangerous bad nutrition is not just for them but for society.

I think one problem especially in America is people don't feel a sense of social responsibility for being fat because there's no publicly funded health care system. It's actually more in the interests of the American medical system for people to become fat and overweight and need medical support. Because the medical system is for profit and not non-profit there's little motivation to encourage people to eat healthy either.

Also the food lobbyist industry in America is disgustingly powerful. Between McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and Coca-Cola the guys with the most money to sway legal laws about food are the biggest suppliers of low-quality food to Americans.

>>12566589
Everyone shits on American food because it's so consistently low-brow and lacking in any kind of elegance or pedigree. Sure you have bakeries in LA that have been using the same sourdough starter for a century, but fast food and processed foods dominate the "average" american palette.

I’m guilty of all of the things posted in this thread including savoring the taste of a small amount of butter straight from the tub.

>>12439694
Hey now, getting better at cooking is literally about admitting you done fucked up. Bad chefs try and insist their failures are okay.

>>12432812
Good lord I have been laughing at these for nearly a decade

>>12388503
>wtf you don't cook the pasta in sauce?
>how do you have flavour in the noodles if you just plop sauce on top and don't cook the noodles in it?