• Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    4 days ago

    It’s not just the US that has bland restaurants and/or is afraid of spice.

    I’ve been to restaurants in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Austria, and Bulgaria.

    I’m sure there are places that spice things up more and some of the restaurants were really good, but some were also some of the most bland food I’ve had at a restaurant.

    It’s the same thing in the US; there are places that won’t put any spice on and there are places that will leave you crying the food is so hot and everything in-between.

    Also every “Mexican” food dish I’ve had in Europe has just been bad. Y’all are doing it wrong.

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      3 days ago

      And on the other hand I don’t get the obsession with putting so much spice into your dish that you can’t taste the ingredients. “Seasoned” does not automatically mean “so much chilli pepper that it makes you sweat”.

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      3 days ago

      Greece. Food is usually good, but spice is a totally foreign concept.

      And Mexican food in Greece is hilariously bad. Like they can’t even Google a picture of nachos?

    • MBM@lemmings.world
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      It’s not just the US that has bland restaurants and/or is afraid of spice.

      First time I hear this stereotype lol, I’ve only ever heard it about European countries (basically all of them that don’t border the Mediterranean)

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      Also every “Mexican” food dish I’ve had in Europe has just been bad. Y’all are doing it wrong.

      Where in Europe? In Spain there is a large Mexican community, I hope they make it somehow right.

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      Probably varies depending on where you live. I don’t even live in a big American city, but we do have access to a wide variety of restaurants including very spicy ones (they have non-spicy options of course, but there’s plenty of places that serve spicy dishes from all over the globe.

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      4 days ago

      We never said the US was afraid of spice. We said they think butter is a spice