"Simone Kerby" > wrote in message news:<4046C770.6723.1DCF0FD@localhost>...
> AMERICAN FOOD vs EUROPEAN FOOD
>
> In general, which offers a more healthy diet?
>
> Americans tend toward fast foods, either take-out
> or home cooking that does not take too much time
> to prepare.
>
> In Europe, people still spend hours over a hot stove.
> People still stop at the market on the way home from
> work instead of weekly or monthly shopping as in
> North America.


Interesting...I've read that France is McDonald's single most
profitable market outside of the US. IIRC there is a French chain
that offers nothing but frozen food for sale...and it's very, very
popular.

Many people in Europe shop just like Americans - in bulk and at huge
supermarkets, which in Europe are called "hypermarkets" (the
hypermarket being a French invention). They drive their cars to the
Tescos or whatever that litter the outskirts of most European cities
of any size - it's the same from Newcastle to Krakow to Palermo to
Oslo. Growth of this kind of shopping has been especially rapid in
the former Eastern Bloc states....

Here in Chicago I shop just like an "old - fashioned" European - I
shop several times a week at smaller stores for my vittles. Don't
have a car, so I don't drive to Costco or wherever to shop, I walk or
take the bus. There are a lot of us like that here ;-)

US - style fast food has established healthy footholds all over
Europe, from Paris and Rome to provincial Russia and other former
Communist states. Some of these firms are US, some of them are home -
grown e.g. in Germany you can find "Schnell Imbiss" outlets
everywhere, and there is a chain in Russia that offers "home - style"
Russian food fast and cheap. They mostly use the same marketing ploys
and technologies as McDo's, etc. Pizza is a very popular fast food
both in the States and everywhere in Europe - is this a "US" or
"European" phenomenon...???


>
> What are your favorite American dishes?
>
> What are your favorite European dishes?
>
> What are your thoughts on the difference in these 2
> styles of cuisine?


There is increasingly a "world cuisine" that comprises stuff like Tex
- Mex, Asian (stir fry and sushi) hamburgers, Italian, fish and chips,
and many other things. In pretty much any city of any size all over
the world these "cuisines" are readily available. You can great sushi
in Vladivostok and pretty good Singapore noodles in St. Paul and
decent hamburgers in Kathmandu and tolerable pizza in Havana and and
fajitas and margaritas in Bangalore and Southern BBQ in London and
quiche in Beirut...etcetera, etcetera, etcetera....

And what about those "Irish" pubs that are ubiquitous absolutely
everywhere? Those are big world - wide chain operations, not the
result of some disgruntled Irish ex - pat wanting to open up a wee bit
'o the old sod at the airport in Osaka or in downtown Santiago....

I declare your questions as to preferences, then, as moot :-)

--
Best
Greg