/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15749697]

What's the reason behind for very few Americans eat salads and fish?

[Anonymous No.15749708]

>>15749697
gotta eat cheap shit in order to pay rent mostly, that or sugar addictions.

[Anonymous No.15749719]

Americans who live near water, fresh or saltwater, eat fish plenty. However, large swathes of the country are far away from either, owing to it being one of the larger countries geographically. As for salad, I would assume due to the horrific post-war corporate influences mixing with the post-30s mindset leading to the modern disaster that is American cuisine.

[Anonymous No.15749793]

>>15749697
Long ago before long nose tribe took our land and traded it for anti racism anal beads our Chief George Washington started our tribal heritage on Salmon Salads but every thing changed when the Liar Nation attacked

[Anonymous No.15749806]

>>15749697
70% of everything we get from the sea is turned into pet food, and also there’s the fact that fish is more delicate to process before it spoils, so both of these things and costumer demands caused the price to go higher than it should.

[Anonymous No.15749847]

>>15749697
I don’t like eating salads because it is not as satisfying as whole foods. For a meal I just eat a whole vegetable like one cucumber or .5 a pound of broccoli

[Anonymous No.15749856]

>>15749719
>Americans who live near water, fresh or saltwater, eat fish plenty.

This. As you can see in picrel overlay, all of that European coastline matches up to the American interior. As Americans moved west it was easy enough to hunt for meat and then the commercial cattle industry kicked off just as commercial hunting was dying out. But North Atlantic cod is n the east coast and pacific salmon on the west are, and were, huge industries.

>salad is fiber with some vitamins

[Anonymous No.15749858]

I like salads and eat them fairly regularly.

I love fish, but the only fresh fish you get around here is fish you catch yourself in a nearby lake. Of course, you could have it flown in, but that would be awfully expensive.

[Anonymous No.15749863]

>>15749858
what if you pay someone to catch those fishes for you?

[Anonymous No.15749865]

I grew up with salads either being calorie dense like pasta/potato 'salad' or a bunch of leaves with maybe a tomato on a plate
Only later did I realise that that's not what salad is meant to be after reading european cookbooks, maybe that's the problem?

[Anonymous No.15749868]

>>15749697
I don't know why cottage cheese isnt as popular here

[Anonymous No.15749879]

>>15749865
>that's not what salad is meant to be after reading european cookbooks

Explain

[Anonymous No.15749880]

salads year round a new idea thanks to globalization. In the midwest we eat salads when the season makes sense.

[Anonymous No.15749891]

>>15749865
>reading european cookbooks,
source?

[Anonymous No.15749901]

>>15749697
>salads
americans eat tons of salad
>fish
because fish tastes 10x worse than any meat, and we have plenty of land to raise animals

[Anonymous No.15749908]

>>15749697
Salads are disgusting and there is nothing inherently "healthy" about eating plant foods. Just pure nonsense that is passed down from the previous generations and the """"food pyramid""". Even besides this point, americans eat tons of salads and plant products. it's one of the reasons why we are unhealthy

americans should eat more fish tho

[Anonymous No.15749915]

>>15749879
>>15749891
If when he thinks "salad" he thinks fucking macaroni salad, then this flyover probably got his mind blow when he realizes that salads can have tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, and fresh grated cheese.

[Anonymous No.15749924]

>>15749915
I’m curious what he thinks of as different with European salad. I’ve been to Europe and gotten served the same shitty house salad we have here.

[Anonymous No.15749935]

>>15749908
You are the sort of mouthbreathing faggot that validate all the "Americans..." meme on this board, holy shit this is so hopeless.

[Anonymous No.15750009]

>>15749924
look up Greek Salad and Spanish Salad on google images. You wouldn't get served that at Applebees.

[Anonymous No.15750015]

>>15749908
Stop eating potatoes, Grain Brain

[Anonymous No.15750033]

>>15750009

[Anonymous No.15750076]

>>15750033
which exactly of those 8 salads looks like pic related to you?

[Anonymous No.15750081]

>>15750076
Tuscan garden.

[Anonymous No.15750090]

>>15750015
i don't eat anything besides dairy, fish, meat, and eggs (besides the occasional chips or chocolate).

>>15749935
ok, please explain why salads and/or plant foods are healthy for us

[Anonymous No.15750094]

>>15749908
Cabbage is a gift from GOD

[Anonymous No.15750097]

>>15750081
I would like you to identify the any ingredient, other than tomato, which you see in both.

[Anonymous No.15750107]

>>15749880
Where can I learn about seasonal eating? I freaked out for ages about circadian chaos

[Anonymous No.15750116]

most of america is landlocked

[Anonymous No.15750117]

>>15750097
Onion

[Anonymous No.15750127]

>>15750094
>>>15749558

[Anonymous No.15750128]

>>15749697
Sorry. If I eat lettuce I will shit it out in a hour. Salads are great when they don't run straight through you.

[Anonymous No.15750132]

>>15749558
hello i am american, i eat the hot dog and the cabbage

[Anonymous No.15750152]

>>15750097
Dude. It’s just a Greek salad. It’s not some delicacy that can’t be found. Is it better than a shit house salad of iceberg lettuce and shaved carrot? Yes. But it’s nothing special.

[Anonymous No.15750200]

>>15749697
Most of the thread has the fish part covered, but regarding salads, it's likely due to the fact a good majority of the US is poor. And when you're poor you want to make your money stretch further.

Produce has a short shelf life, and in some parts of the country is rather expensive to boot when compared to more shelf stable foods like canned goods or frozen trash. Most people would rather pick up food they know isn't going to spoil within a few days, even if it means its worse for them.

There's also the fact that not many people live close to places to even purchase food to begin with. "Food deserts" are a problem, especially in poorer communities, where you can go miles and miles without somewhere reliable for groceries that isn't a convenience store or dollar store. Many of which likely won't offer fresh produce that isn't something like bananas.

[Anonymous No.15750307]

>>15750200
https://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2019/08/27/americas-poorest-are-richer-most-average-europeans-study

[Anonymous No.15750320]

>>15750081
>answering a rhetorical question
Based

[Anonymous No.15750325]

>>15749856
>>salad is fiber with some vitamins
this isn't true, plants have unique phytochemicals which modern science hasn't been able quantify correctly.

if you just substituted plants with fiber + vitamins your health would be poorer

[Anonymous No.15750356]

>>15749908
this.
europeans evolved in cold winter climates where plant foods were minimal. We survived exclusively on meat and fish, and later some dairy.

grain-eating was an extremely recent invention and northern europeans are not fully adapted to it.

A high fat meat based diet, with maybe a few sour berries twice a month, is closest to what we evolved eating.

>>15749935
>>15750015
>>15750094
>>15750325
seething trannies.
all plants have antinutrients. all animals run on protein/fat almost exclusively.

[Anonymous No.15750362]

>>15749856
>picrel
Howdy newfriend! We say "pic related" not "picrel". It's only a few more characters, so I'm sure you can handle using the parlance of this website. Have fun and enjoy your stay!

[Anonymous No.15750406]

>>15750325
Yes i know. Flavonoids are interesting as well.

[Anonymous No.15750834]

I am not a rabbit

[Anonymous No.15751448]

Americans have been hearing about mercury in fish for 30 years. Mercury mercury mercury. Also i personally don't eat fish because I know exactly how polluted the ocean is. Its bad. I'm not a fan of eating micro plastic and mercury.

[Anonymous No.15751469]

>>15749697
"poor people food"
So they think it's their right to eat meat, cheese, and wine every day.

[Anonymous No.15751473]

>>15750362
shut up you sanctimonious gatekeeping faggot

[Anonymous No.15751488]

>>15751473
Not him but i think you're a faggot for saying picrel too. Also... An insecure faggot at that. Sanctimonious? Know how I know you're 13?

[Anonymous No.15751820]

>>15749697
It's healthy, so they avoid it like the Plague.

[Anonymous No.15751915]

>>15751820
Yeah, those salads loaded with dressing, cheese, bacon, and croutons sure are healthy.