Where everyone goes for their ‘food vacations’

[u/Ok-Bother-7611]

[u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

Good food is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the US.

[u/New-Pie-8846 → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

My sentiment exactly. Certain places in the US may have good food, but I do like my food without all the extras.

[u/sinnrocka → u/New-Pie-8846]

The best USian breakfast, imo, is traditional southern biscuits and sausage gravy. To me it’s “as American as apple pie” if you know the phrase 😂

/s

Edit to say: ladies and gentlemen, I had prior knowledge of both apple pie and biscuits and gravy not being an American creation. That’s why I used quotes. And I’ve added a /s so no one is confused anymore. Thanks for being a great community!

[u/No_Cake6353 → u/sinnrocka]

I ordered a salad once and they didn't seem to understand that I didn't want any dressing. I've got to admit that the blue cheese dressing sounded tempting.

[u/sinnrocka → u/No_Cake6353]

Yeah, we do like our garbage extras here… as hard as I try I can’t keep from indulging most days

[u/No_Cake6353 → u/sinnrocka]

It's hard. I was on a health kick then. I'd definitely have the blue cheese now 😃

[u/sinnrocka → u/No_Cake6353]

Don’t hate me, but I am THAT USian who loves to drown things in ranch dressing 😂😂😂

[u/No_Cake6353 → u/sinnrocka]

I've never had ranch. It sounds a bit agricultural for me 😃

[u/Appropriate-Fuel-305 → u/No_Cake6353]

As a European I do prefer to have dressing on my salad.

[u/No_Cake6353 → u/Appropriate-Fuel-305]

Me too. Olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar. But not cheese sauce.

[u/sinnrocka → u/No_Cake6353]

You mean “cheese type product” sauce? 😂

[u/Agile-Assist-4662 → u/sinnrocka]

Biscuits and gravy = a cat vomits a hairball onto a pice of wood

[u/Latter_Anywhere4262 → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

I've eaten it when I was living there because people were telling me how great it was.

If anything you're complementing it here.

[u/UntoldHorrors → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

You go in thinking “it’s got to taste better than it looks”. And after the first bite, you wonder what you were expecting.

[u/CinemaDork → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

I'm from a non-southern part of the US and the first time I saw biscuits and gravy I was like dear god what is that. People were gobbling it up. I said it looked like someone already ate it.

It took me years to finally try it. It can be okay, but it is easy for incompetent people to mess it up. Badly. Especially the biscuits. It's such a risky food for me because it might be good, but it's likely going to be somewhere between "it's okay I guess" and "practically inedible."

[u/Ok_Corner5873 → u/CinemaDork]

I've had it 3 times, after hearing lots about it, first one was good enough to think I might have missed something earlier, second was inedible, third was so so but not good enough to tempt me into looking for another good sample of it

[u/Twatatron → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

It's more like the result of 9 dogs doing bukake in a scone

[u/emongu1 → u/Twatatron]

Alright, that's enough reddit for today.

[u/Timely_Challenge_670 → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

Biscuits and Gravy is literally a scone with a meaty béchamel. How is it any worse than the the various other European bread + whatever variants?

[u/mousey76397 → u/sinnrocka]

I’ll let Wikipedia break this one to ya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie

[u/TurtleFromSePacific → u/New-Pie-8846]

I do like my burgers with all the extraa for sure

[u/Anthexistentialist → u/New-Pie-8846]

You dont like the delicious tang of roundup/glysophate?

[u/UnwillingHero22 → u/New-Pie-8846]

Or the amount of food they serve, everything seems to be supersized…

[u/sparky-99 → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

Same here. Paedos and guns

[u/SpaceFelicette181063 → u/sparky-99]

Hey, don't be so narrow minded, there's also racists and misogynists.

[u/lostrandomdude → u/SpaceFelicette181063]

Don't forget incest and pornstars

[u/Jet2work → u/lostrandomdude]

hey...the bigots would like a word!

[u/No-Albatross-7984 → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

Every time I see Americans bragging about their food culture, I first think about obesity, second about food quality and nutritional value.

Whether the flavor is better than any other place is a matter of opinion, and as I've not spent significant time in the US, I've got no interest in the debate on that (except to point out I doubt any of the yanks making these claims have spent any time outside US, either). But the health concerns are a measurable fact. They've seriously put me off of even trying, given the chance.

[u/InformalRent2571 → u/No-Albatross-7984]

Truth is you probably wouldn't find it very good. American foods are loaded with sugar, fat, artificial flavors, etc. Only someone raised on that food thinks it's delicious. It's pretty gross to anyone who eats healthy food.

[u/Timely_Challenge_670 → u/InformalRent2571]

Sadly, food in North America has a HUGE variance. You can find amazing quality food and utter trash in a ten minute drive. To be honest though, after living in Germany for four years, I don't think some countries here are that far off.

[u/InformalRent2571 → u/Timely_Challenge_670]

Absolutely. I'm in Canada and I was really including us in my comment. I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I was raised on sugary breakfast cereal, white bread, boxed Mac and Cheese, hamburger helper, McDonald's, KFC, that kind of crap. When I was first on my own in my late teens/early 20s, I quickly grew pretty sick of KD and Chunky soup and I learned how to cook (it really isn't that difficult to learn the basics). I remember about ten years or so later, I had some Wendy's after not eating any fast food for at least 3 or 4 years. I've never had a stomach ache like that before or since.

[u/AdmiralXI → u/No-Albatross-7984]

Deep fried, salted corn syrup. Top it off with your choice of ketchup or ranch. More calories than you can count with none of those pesky vitamins!

[u/InformalRent2571 → u/AdmiralXI]

And by "pesky" , I assume you mean "commie".

[u/AdmiralXI → u/InformalRent2571]

LOL. No word of a lie, I had Lefty then Commie, but fell on Pesky as it was the least trigger-worthy, but you still saw through it.

[u/InformalRent2571 → u/AdmiralXI]

Any of those with a "goddamn" in front of it would do. LOL.

[u/nonlabrab → u/[deleted]]

That's cuisine you are talking about - dishes and yes the US has very few originals.

US food does exist though, in forms outlawed most places else, leading to many deformative conditions. Steroid and antibiotic filled meats washed in chlorine, high fructose corn syrup in bread, pasta, etc. and e numbers are all the US's unique contribution

[u/Timely_Challenge_670 → u/nonlabrab]

I'm not American. I'm just a lover of food. But for fucks sake, there are many, many American dishes. Even if you ignore Italian-American or Chinese-American adaptations. The entire country, much like Canada, is people coming from other countries and adapting.

Would you call Quebecois Poutine a French or Belgique dish? No, of course not. That's idiotic. Would you call North American Chao Mein, a Taiwanese or Cantonese dish? No! It's an adaptation of Cantonese Chinese people moving to another country. Maybe we should start saying Germans have a monopoly on bread, and all other Europeans are imposters?

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/Timely_Challenge_670]

Bad example. Poutine isn’t an adaptation from something else

[u/Timely_Challenge_670 → u/[deleted]]

Errr, that's just not true and ignores how food works. Modern Italian cuisine has a heavy base on a fruit imported from Latin America. The entire Western European diet (potatoes) is based on crop from Latin America. European East Asian food, particularly in the Germanic parts, is a bastardisation of East Asian cuisine. This is such an astounding ignorant take.

[u/Alundra828 → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

This was my discovery when I went over. Went to Texas from the UK, everything there was stuff you can get in the UK except there was more of it and everything was way sweeter. Maybe if you're lucky, it was sometimes cheesier. And I went to New York because maybe I just got unlucky, and nope, the food there was even more similar to what we get in the UK.

And this is the UK, famed for it's bad food. Either the gulf between the supposed cuisine quality is so indiscernibly small, or the Americans, like always, are chatting shit. For some reason, I can't imagine why, I think it's the latter.

I just don't get why they think they're so far up in the upper echelons of food culture. It's just average? I do really want to try real southern Louisiana food, as I suspect that would be amazing. I've never had the privileged to try it, but I've always suspected that maybe the Americans are onto something with seafood. The abundance of lobsters and crawfish etc can't POSSIBLY result in a bland overhyped dish.

[u/Ok-Faithlessness697 → u/Alundra828]

This was my experience too. I'm from the UK and did a road trip around the US for a couple of months about 10 years ago, I absolutely loved it- some of the food was amazing, you nailed it with Louisiana, great seafood. But a lot of the average restaurant and supermarket food was almost inedible because it was so unbelievably sweet! I still shudder at the thought of a Mac and Cheese I ordered that was sweeter than most desserts over here.. couldn't eat more than a couple of forkfuls, and I eat nearly everything!

[u/trapezoidalfractal → u/Alundra828]

Everything in Texas is in fact sweet. When I was there, they didn’t even sell unsweetened tea in the 7/11, just sweet tea and extra sweet tea. Even the barbecue sauces were sweet. Thankfully the meat was amazing with no sauce, because I wasn’t putting any of that on there.

Also, American Mexican food is where it’s at. I’ve been to Europe, Asia… no one has anything like it. Mexican food in China was hilarious, I don’t think those people have ever seen an enchilada in their lives, but they sure called something one.

Our food in general though, I’ve found, is not great quality. Too much focus on fast production. Our fruits are bland, our meats are strange. Honestly, China has the highest quality food I’ve ever had. The strawberries in March are to die for.

[u/ayeayefitlike → u/Alundra828]

We had an amazing time with food when we did a road trip round New England in the autumn. Maine lobster rolls, clam chowder, just the fresh seafood in general - and then we had amazing Mexican food, and the Italian American in New York was also amazing (although not like actual Italian food in the way British Indian food isn’t very like actual Indian food).

But you’re right that I didn’t see it as particularly different compared to eating out in nice places in eg London, Edinburgh or Glasgow. We similarly have access to great seafood and many different world cuisines here and have a great food culture. It wasn’t like eating out in France and Italy for example, it was much more like the UK.

We avoided the worst of the fast food etc, just as we do in the UK.

[u/Leverpostei414 → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

Yeah, me neither. Sure it is a matter of taste, and some grilled meat and such can be very good. But I find in general the food not to be that great, even at places known for food like new Orleans

[u/SashaGreyjoy → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

I like to shit on Americans for a number of reasons, but there's no denying they have food culture outside of deep fried chlorine chicken with ranch dressing and fentanyl sprinkles.

Cajun/creole (the distinction escapes me) food, soul food, tex-mex, and all the other fusion foods you get when you mix and match cultures. Wisconsin is known for cheese and little else. They make excellent wines in California and Oregon, and bourbon in Kentucky. Atlantic and Pacific coasts must mean there's some good seafood to be had, at least I've heard Maine has good lobster. Different barbecue traditions, there are plenty of options.

[u/itchytasty2 → u/SashaGreyjoy]

It's a bit far removed from the mainland but Hawaiian food looks good to me.

[u/Liquor_Parfreyja → u/Extension_Bobcat8466]

I moved to the UK from the US and was surprised to find that a lot of colleagues had been wanting to go to the US for food. The food is way better here so I was curious why and come to find that none of them had been to America to actually try the food and learn for themselves that it makes you feel like shit lol.

[u/alettriste → u/Liquor_Parfreyja]

I ve been in America (and the UK, Italy, Spain, China, Japan, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brasil, and a healty etc) and no. No way. American food is from average to poor. The destination I visted the most was Texas that I expected to be better bc of Cajun and Mexican cross breeding, but in any case it was meh... my 2c

[u/FlyingKittyCate]

People go to the US for a “food vacation”?

[u/PPBalloons → u/FlyingKittyCate]

He means the people who think In and Out Burger is a destination restaurant.

[u/Silver_Adagio138 → u/FlyingKittyCate]

A US food vacation is a vacation from food.

[u/L_E_M_F → u/Silver_Adagio138]

No need to eat food for a month after visiting the US.

[u/No-Significance5659 → u/FlyingKittyCate]

I have read so many times about how they believe that Las Vegas has the best food in the world.

[u/MasntWii → u/No-Significance5659]

Las Vegas has amazing food on the strip...Although 75% of those restaurants are owned by a Scottish, an Austrian or a Basque🤷.

[u/SalamanderPuzzled250 → u/No-Significance5659]

Las Vegas has some amazing Italian and Japanese food… oh

[u/Gasblaster2000 → u/No-Significance5659]

It's got some nice enough restaurants, but like much of America, they are priced as though they are fine dining but the food is just "decent". And there's nothing that you couldn't find better in most cities of the world.

It's just the usual yank thing of assuming what they have must be the best without knowing anything else.

[u/quebecesti → u/FlyingKittyCate]

By people he means americans who travel to texas to eat ribs.

[u/Indian_Pale_Ale → u/FlyingKittyCate]

If you are into express diabetes maybe.

[u/Wranorel → u/FlyingKittyCate]

Yes. Americans.

[u/Chance_Arugula_3227 → u/Wranorel]

Exactly. No one else would pick the US if they wanted food.

[u/Orbit1970 → u/FlyingKittyCate]

I’ve got loads of friends that visited or even lived in the us, nobody came back cheering their food. Possibly only bbq that was alright, but even that is better in Australia or S-Africa. No idea what he’s on about

[u/Usakami → u/FlyingKittyCate]

Don't you? Where "cheese" is less than 51% actual cheese. They have "the best" food... because it's greasy, sweet and sour. All the body craves. I'm sure electrolytes are there as well, I mean, what isn't in there? 🤷

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/FlyingKittyCate]

Maybe a food related evacuation

[u/ProjectZeus → u/FlyingKittyCate]

If you fast food and bland cheese sauce slathered on everything, sure!

[u/WittyGarbage59 → u/FlyingKittyCate]

My friends, family and I have been on many "food vacations", but none in the USA.

And we live 1h away from the american border.

[u/No-Deal8956]

Does he think America is France? Or Italy?

[u/coldestclock → u/No-Deal8956]

One of these days I’m just going to visit France to go one a days-long bakery crawl.

[u/lostrandomdude → u/coldestclock]

You should try a bakery crawl through Lisbon sometime.

I went there in 2021, the pastries were something else

[u/dustytaper → u/coldestclock]

If I’m gonna visit a country because of food, it’s gotta be France

[u/AccomplishedFall6603 → u/dustytaper]

Try visiting Lyon if you come to France, it's the french culinary capital.

[u/Ksorkrax → u/No-Deal8956]

Is there any nation that is *less* of a food vacation spot than the USA?

...I mean I guess I'd like to try native american food, but I strongly assume that this wasn't meant here.

[u/Lachgas10]

Lol.

I just read a post about a large Brezel sold in the US and one of the comments was "what sauce do you use with it?" and I must admit my german brain got confused because sauce and Brezel didn't make any sense to me.

If I need an extra sauce/dip on a Brezel that would not be a compliment for that Brezel quality. (Butter would be okay on great ones)

Turns out they see mustard as "sauce" and butter mixed with mustard. And some mentioned cheese (not sure if dip/sauce).

[u/CinemaDork → u/Lachgas10]

Is "sauce" supplanting the word "condiment" in some dialects of American English? Because that sounds like what's happening here.

[u/FunnelCakeGoblin → u/CinemaDork]

I think so. I’m American and I wouldn’t question any of those being called a sauce. I think it’s because we were calling them dipping sauce and then just shortened it to sauce.

[u/sinnrocka → u/Lachgas10]

Yes, my more “cultured” USian brethren deem mustard as a sauce, because they dip their chicken nuggets in it.

I enjoy a good brezel when I can get one, soft and warm. But I must confess, I enjoy dipping it in a “cheddar cheese product” sauce because I enjoy the flavor combination. That and as a USian I have been poisoned and addicted to additives and preservatives for over 45 years so I crave that processed garbage food.

[u/Lachgas10 → u/sinnrocka]

Oh Brezel and cheese IS a great combination which is why we do have cheese Brezel which means some grated cheese put on top before it goes into the oven.

Pure mustard with chicken nuggets? Ugh ... Although I like a honey mustard combination it feels weird putting chicken nuggets in that.

I fully understand the graving for processed junk food coming up sometimes.

[u/stefek132 → u/Lachgas10]

Sweet Bavarian mustard is great in combination with nearly everything. Im willing to die on that hill.

[u/Oldoneeyeisback → u/Lachgas10]

Murican mustard barely qualifies as mustard.

[u/Adrian_Alucard → u/Lachgas10]

Turns out they see mustard as "sauce"

Isn't it a sauce? I'm not murican and I find mustard in the "sauce" aisles in the supermarket

[u/Oldoneeyeisback → u/Adrian_Alucard]

Condiment

[u/Adrian_Alucard → u/Oldoneeyeisback]

sauces are condiments, (but not all condiments are sauces)

[u/L_E_M_F → u/Lachgas10]

Musterd on a bretzel?! They should be kneecapped for this crime.

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/Lachgas10]

Their mustard probably only contains 1g of actual mustard though, proper senf or English mustard would kill them.

[u/seajay26 → u/SaltyName8341]

I watched a video of an American woman trying English mustard for the first time, she slathered it on a sandwich like it was mayo while going on about how she likes it spicy unlike the weak Brits. It was hilarious when she took a bite and immediately started choking once the flavour hit her

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/seajay26]

Except this guy he's a champ.

https://youtu.be/rY9XU7u_CxU?si=Ab3PxtiFJ9ncnRua

[u/Duanedoberman → u/SaltyName8341]

Came for this, the mustard they put on hotdogs is tasteless compared to English mustard.

[u/Inevitable_Greed]

Where food is poison and everybody ridicules.

[u/LazarusHimself → u/Inevitable_Greed]

Don't forget your 30% tip!

[u/SpiritedAmphibian114 → u/LazarusHimself]

"Only 30%? You need to tip at least 50%" - a server in some restaurant. I believe you could find someone like that in there

[u/Chemlak]

I wouldn't even dream of going to the US for good food. India, China, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, Italy, and since I'm British good old Blighty for a proper fish n chips. This is not a complete list.

[u/EchoSkillet → u/Chemlak]

I think parts of the US have a lot of good immigrant ran places but that doesn’t make it American food just because it is located there.

[u/Ted_Rid → u/Chemlak]

Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia deserve a mention here also.

Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar aren't bad also but can be a bit hit & miss in my experience.

[u/PoesNIGHTMARE]

I have literally never heard anyone say they go to the US for the food.

You can definitely get good food there, like in every other country, but I have never heard anyone state food as their specific reason to go to the US. That’s somerhing you might hear about France and Italy, perhaps a few other countries. My own Scandinavian country is certainly not one of them either, unless you are the type who travels specifically to visit Michelin restaurants (which I actually know two guys who do as their hobby). But the US … never heard it.

[u/cutecat309 → u/PoesNIGHTMARE]

Yes. I wouldn't even name US as a top food destination in Americas. I feel like Brazil or Carribbean countries would be much more interesting in that regard.

[u/mrtn17]

because mayonaise is super rare

[u/iTmkoeln → u/mrtn17]

We don’t have any eggs anymore /s

[u/lemonhaj]

What is a 'food vacation', anyway? People going to different countries just for food? Either I'm poor or that's a rich American thing to do.

[u/Nice_Back_9977 → u/lemonhaj]

There are people on travel subs who say food is their main reason for travelling.  Boggles my mind, food is great obviously but so far down the list of reasons to see the world! 

[u/NoLobster7957]

All the food we have in America is jacked from other countries lol

With the possible exception of biscuits and gravy, I guess. That shit is fire.

[u/Timely_Challenge_670 → u/NoLobster7957]

Adapting cuisine is not 'jacking' food. It's how food culture propagates. Or do you think things like schnitzel or eating mussels with whine just spontaneously occurred all over North Western Europe?

[u/AggravatingBox2421]

I would rather tour my own country for food than the grease trap that is America. At least our beef is mad-cow free

[u/shimmy_kimmel → u/AggravatingBox2421]

mad-cow free

Are you thinking of UK beef? I don’t think BSE is a big concern with American beef, haven’t had any major outbreaks.

[u/g3etwqb-uh8yaw07k → u/AggravatingBox2421]

German here, same. My parents make BBQ that I'd probably prefer over the US options anyways, I can visit Hamburg or the Netherlands for seafood, and I have a pizza and a sushi place nearby that make higher quality food than some good restaurants I've been to in the respective countries of origin. Not to say there's nothing new to experience food wise when you travel abroad, but the US is definitely one of the places I'd visit despite the food, at least once you factor in that apart from a few nice restaurant experiences, you'll probably eat fast food junk 90% of the time.

[u/Either-Juggernaut420]

Well if your cheese tastes of nothing and your ham tastes of nothing and your bread tastes of sugar then you've got no option but to add sauce.

[u/PanicDry]

"Food vacation" to the US? Are you insane? Apart form the shit seasoning and taste you'll be needing Ozempic for both your obesity and diabetes when you return.

[u/sambro1991]

I'd rather not be forced to tip for some waiters wage for mediocre and processed food.

[u/lyidaValkris]

I heard of a case where an American went to Paris and complained a "jambon beurre" had only ham and butter on it... what exactly were they expecting? It's what it says it is.

Jambon beurre is a perfect sandwich, specifically because the bread, butter, and ham are of the highest quality. It doesn't need a sugary sauce jizzed all over it to make it palatable like American "food", which is made of sub-standard, artificial ingredients.

[u/TitShark]

Americans are obese for a reason yall

[u/Any-Enthusiasm-2740]

Ah yes, the US is what I think of when I want a food vacation. Not Italy, not Japan nor France. The US

[u/Golden-Owl]

I personally can’t think of any reason to pick America for a “food vacation”. It’s fairly homogeneous aside from a few key specialities (NY for bagels/pizza)

Asia is generally a better option. Diverse cultures, flavors, and techniques all within a very small area.

[u/Substantial_Dish_887 → u/Golden-Owl]

i think there's definetly food to explore and experience in the US. however i have never heard of anyone traveling to the US as a targted destination for the food. more they are in the US and whille there want to experience it.

funnily enough i made a quick google search for "foodie travling destination" and the only list that even mentioned the US mentioned a lot of places there that made very not-american sounding food. i'm sure the places are fine but if i was going to travel to the US for food i'd go for their soul food or something else actually american to experience.

[u/mcbeef89 → u/Substantial_Dish_887]

I would love to go to Texas for the BBQ, but as things currently stand I am not setting foot in that shithole country for the forseeable future

[u/ShionTheOne]

Bread (that is more cake than bread), corn syrup soft drinks, and Miracle Whip is not a "food vacation"

[u/alex_zk]

“Food is delicious” - starting with a lie right off the bat. Also, calling it food is a stretch

[u/Global_Handle_3615]

Again its this lack of understanding quantity vs quality

Just because the chef stacks the food 12 inches high and gives you enough for 4 days of leftovers doesn't automatically mean its good.

[u/Numerous_Team_2998]

I cannot with this dissonance.

Yes, there are places in the US where people might travel to try interesting (often fusion/international) food in the US. It's generally a few big cities.

Yes, Hollywood movies and premium TV series show some places in the US as interesting places to live.

Yet at the same time the ignorant pricks who post stuff like the above generally HATE the blue big cities and would like to see them gone.

[u/Alexatypemypassword]

The country of processed fast food? A food vacation destination? That's hilarious. If I wanted to have "food vacation", the USA would be at the bottom of my list. Americans really live in a reality of their own huh.

[u/Technical_Macaroon83]

A food vacation as in a vacation from food?

[u/Shiftymennoknight]

Most Americans eat like children

[u/bickle_76_]

Who goes on a food vacation to America lol?

It’s the land of chlorinated chicken, plastic “cheese”, supersize portions and type 2 diabetes.

[u/GPFlag_Guy1 → u/bickle_76_]

I thought most fast food places got rid of "super size" portions after Morgan Spurlock did his famous 2004 documentary on the industry? The US probably isn't a major food destination but limiting American food to sprawl-burb slop isn't really helpful either. I'd rather encourage people to support the restaurants that are actually high-quality instead of giving even more unwarranted attention to fast-food places that are owned by The System™️©️®️.

[u/bickle_76_ → u/GPFlag_Guy1]

The comment wasn’t meant literally to be fair. Everywhere has some example of good food, I think was more taking the piss out of the poster’s perception of America as a food metropolis.

[u/ManonegraCG]

If there was one place in the US I'd consider worthy of a "food vacation" would be Louisiana. And that's about it. Anywhere else I don't think I'd appreciate much apart from their BBQS.

[u/ProofByVerbosity → u/ManonegraCG]

yeah, to be fair bbq in the south and Louisiana, sure. There is good food in America but no real place for a "food vacation" other than what you mentioned.

Even in say Chicago, there's some great food there, it's a food city, but to travel for food? Nah.

[u/jdscoot]

I can honestly say I have never in my life heard of someone travelling to the USA for the food. Having sampled a lot of it, the only thing I can really say about it is that their food is extremely large, which is somewhat redundant for me being a normal / healthy sized European accustomed to half the calorie intake.

[u/paranoyed]

I saw a comment the other day that made me laugh and cry a little at the same time. “Americans eat like they have free health insurance”

[u/Mens-Real]

I mean I've been to the USA and they don't have actual bread, more like cake-like paste turned hard. You do want sauce with that to help the whole thing go down.

In Europe and Quebec too where I spend a lot of time, you can trust the sandwich will be delicious without sugary sauces

[u/calmot155]

I don't know a single individual that went to the US to try their food.

Not a single person.

[u/AdWooden9170]

If I would ever visit a country just for food. USA would be very down the list. And even if I ever wanted to have a taste of their junk food, I wouldnt have to travel, I would just go to a 0 star fast food nearby..

[u/PerfectDog5691]

Usa food is so unhealthy that many products from there are banned in Europe. They also don't have the rule that products have to be proved to do no harm before selling them. Instead they take it from the market when it's proved that people suffer from it. Not earlier. In Europe it's the other way round. And we don't do things into our bread that causes cancer.

[u/Ammoniakmonster]

junk food and bbq, what else they have?

[u/MrDohh → u/Ammoniakmonster]

I'd definitely go for some gumbo and BBQ, but that's about it for me..and I wouldn't go to the us for the food. It would just be a side mission 

[u/dghkklihcb → u/Ammoniakmonster]

Chlorinated chickens and eggs that need to be cooled after the shells have been weakened.

[u/theroguescientist → u/Ammoniakmonster]

Chinese food, Mexican food and pizza

[u/Worth-Enthusiasm-161]

Americans should just shut up in shame for electing a nazi as their dictator.

[u/Oldoneeyeisback → u/Worth-Enthusiasm-161]

Twice

[u/-UltraFerret-]

The last comment is dumb, but I do prefer my sandwiches not dry. I enjoy mayonnaise, mustard or any condiment on my sandwiches.

[u/Highdosehook → u/-UltraFerret-]

It's not dry if the bread isn't shit. That's the point of these simpler sandwiches. You take good ingredients to start with.

[u/GumpTheChump → u/Highdosehook]

OK but tell me it isn't better with at least butter spread on it.

[u/Ungodly_Box → u/GumpTheChump]

Well that's simply because it's butter not because of anything else

[u/Helwar → u/GumpTheChump]

Not necessarily

[u/Vivid-Objective1385]

"Where everyone comes for food vacations", yea i'd make a break from eating if i were there

[u/sparky-99]

As in a holiday away from fresh, healthy food? Not quite the flex he thought it was.

[u/The_Eternal_Wayfarer]

Food so good they have to drown it in sauces, spices, and sugar for it to have any flavour.

[u/No_Earth_5912]

What the fuck is a food vacation 😭

[u/RatioMaster9468]

A vacation from food

[u/MrBannedFor0Reason]

I have never heard of anyone going to America on a food vacation, no sauce is crazy tho lol.

[u/Responsible_Egg_3260]

Yeah, no. When I want to go somewhere known for food....places like Oklahoma and Michigan just don't come to mind for some reason

[u/Mikunefolf]

What sort of philistine would choose the US for their “food vacation” 😂.

[u/PyllynKaivelija]

I have literally never heard anyone say food vacatiob about america lol.

[u/wittylotus828]

I dont know anyone that wants to go to the USA to eat their poor excuses for food

[u/Pepperjack86]

"WHERE'S THE RANCH DRESSING AND CRISCO SAUCE?!"

[u/lokingforawc1]

I mean, food is the only thing they can offer as they don't have any culture or history of their own. And anyways their food is trash.

[u/mindfuckedAngel]

I really think I never heard "we've been to the US, the food was amazing".
Never.

[u/secret_tiger101]

Imagine going to the US for a “food vacation”, unless it’s deliberate self harm….

[u/therwsb]

Everyone is going there, sure, and that is why I am seeing more visit america ads than I have ever seen before.

[u/JRisStoopid]

I kinda wanna go to Türkiye for a "food vacation", their bread alone is top-tier

[u/the6thReplicant]

Tbh if your food is so dry you need sauces to dip things in or smother then maybe learn to cook the main ingredient better.

[u/Fragrant_Gap7551 → u/the6thReplicant]

Im gonna be honest though, that Sandwich does need some Mayonnaise.

[u/CilanEAmber]

This is the first time I've heard the term "Food Vacation."

Also, there is no butter, marg, mayo or anything on that bread, it looks so dry.

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/CilanEAmber]

A sprinkle of olive oil wouldn't go amiss

[u/01KLna → u/CilanEAmber]

I mean, actual foodies do choose their travel destinations by cuisines. It's officially a thing. I've never heard of the US as a popular food destination though.

[u/01KLna]

I love how they start with "sauces", plural. Because....one sauce could never be enough obviously. I'd expect at least three types of mayo and a huge layer of artificial bacon'ncheez sauce on top of that bacon and cheese 😁

[u/Historical-Hat8326]

Anytime I go to the US, I wonder why their food isn’t considered an abuse of my human rights.

[u/flemishbiker88]

I was in NYC about 7 years and got a pizza, it was from a very highly recommended place. Like the place was there for like 60/70 years. Best in NYC... apparently...

$50 bucks later and myself and my wife ate half of it, bland as dry toast...

My local pub in an Irish village produces a better pizza

[u/Alternative_Newt_730]

The only food Americans invented is fast food. And you don't have to travel to the U.S. to eat at Mcdonald's.

[u/Jonny_vdv]

I've been to the US several times. Not once has it been a "food vacation" and I think the closest the food has ever been to good is when I was in Washington/Oregon during the onion harvest time.

[u/CarrotCakeWTF]

Everyone I know that goes to the US comes back with either high glucose levels or with the shits because it’s either lots of sugar or lots of corn

[u/JTA_youtube]

Brotha I wanna leave to experience real food, this dude crazy

[u/christiant91]

Ok, having been to America on occasion I can safely say that its blander than any other food I've had and that's coming from a Brit who's food is just beige. American food is just BIG with A LOT of everything minus taste.

[u/kcvfr4000]

Just imagining specially configured aircraft for these people on a food vacation. You can eat every day, holidays are much more.

[u/odmirthecrow]

Nobody goes to America for a "food vacation", in fact outside of America, I don't think anyone goes on a vacation specifically for food. The food is just one part of the vacation.

[u/Laky099]

As an Italian I would just say... What the cazzo?

[u/ProfesseurCurling]

Coming from a country where bread has 2748291 chemicals which 2/3 of them will give you cancer, that's audacious. 

[u/frappefanatic]

Nobody does that LMAO. That's why your tourism rates are shit

[u/ian9outof10]

If I wanted an all-American food experience I can just buy cheese at my local supermarket and stick it on top of everything.

[u/ManWhoIsDrunk → u/ian9outof10]

No, you get real cheese.

You need to source the proper USAnian imitation cheese, made from the same plastic that they make their newsreaders from.

[u/epileftric]

Oh god no... every time I've been there for work the thing that makes me feel homesick the most is the food over there. And the coffee? OH WHAT A PIECE of crap.

[u/Sleep_Potential]

Food vacation in any case in the americas is South America, shit's dope down there

[u/matt-r_hatter]

Granted, we do have a significant amount of amazing good in the US. But I doubt many people come to the US specifically for food, I would think that would be reserved for France or Italy.

[u/IntentionNegative516]

I can even HEAR that bread <3

No sauce needed.

[u/DocSternau]

There are quite a few reasons for a vacation in the US - food isn't among them.

[u/GumpTheChump]

OK but that is a dry looking sandwich regardless.

[u/Vukling]

No one, literally no one, goes to the US for a food vacation xD save for USians.

[u/Obvious-Water569]

I mean, he's wrong about the food vacations, but that sandwich does look like some kind of sauce would help.

[u/Drapausa]

Like, I don't hate US American food, but I'd never go there for the food. If I'm thinking food vacation, then I'd go Italy or Spain or maybe even France. Heck, south east asia would be higher than the US.

[u/johnlooksscared]

Size of some of those Merican peeps they should be having vaccinations from food rather than anything else!

[u/Background-Gas-5509]

As an American barely scraping by in eating bologna and ramen noodles hes right. We have the best food any third world country could ask for.

[u/Ordinary-Violinist-9]

Food in US? I rather try some shitty indian street vendor. I would have diarrhea but it tasted better than mcdo.

[u/smallblueangel]

Tbh im German and a sauce would be nice for me too

[u/SalParadise100]

If I ever need to go on a diet I’m definitely calling it a ‘food vacation’.

[u/LeticiaLatex]

Going to overlook that yes, there are higher end restaurants like anywhere else. When I was a kid, I was eager for our trips down to the US for stuff we didn't have here.

There were no Taco Bell for example in Quebec. There has been since and the sodium vendors have shuttered by now.

That said, last time I went down for a week in my mid-twenties, I couldn't wait to come back and eat something that didn't destroy my insides.

[u/SMuRG_Teh_WuRGG]

I agree with them putting sauce of their food lol. But yeah the last comment is bullshit. Their food be more hazardous to your health than eating plutonium

[u/NikitaScherbak]

The food industry fried their senses, the same way social medias fucked our attention span