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Michel Boucher[_3_] Michel Boucher[_3_] is offline
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Default Recommend Thai, Vietnamese dish

BubbaBob > wrote in
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>>> The food ingrdients are better in the US than in most of the
>>> rest of the world.

>>
>> Boy, that's a can of worms if ever there was one.

>
> The produce I saw in Viet Nam was universally fresher, better
> looking and tastier than anything I can find in a US store.
> There was also a vastly greater variety available.


That would be because it is produced locally and does not have to
travel thousands of "miles" in refrigerated trucks or train cars to
be sold as "farm fresh" a week after having been severed from its
life source.

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