Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing

I've avoided all food from America for more than a decade.

Genuinely can't think of anything we eat that comes from there. It's too far for anything fresh and too expensive for anything cheap.
- Look for soy ingredients.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecithin
I never ate American food to my knowledge. Not out of volition but I rarely see American food sold here in Ireland.

They had food and safety regulations?

Beef must contain at least 35% beef to be called beef in the states. That is the level of regulations they had, so now? Does beef need any cow?
- Your beef can legally contain mostly not beef?
I suppose they have regulations for the safety of manufacturers from consumers.

About 10 years ago I worked for a company that wrote software for restaurants' food safety inspectors in South Dakota... All 3 of them... 3 people to inspect every restaurant in the entire state. They were over 5 years behind on some of the inspections.

If that's how food safety was prioritized back then, just think what it must be like today.

Your experience is not universal, but it is also not unique. South Dakota has one of the lowest population densities in America and I think you'll find if you look around that most places similar to it have similar experiences with food safety inspections, in restaurants and in manufacturing, worldwide.

I am consistently shocked how much higher quality the food is in France and The NL when I visit; even the sloppy mall restaurants were higher quality. Paris was off the charts. The worst quality food we had there was above average for here.

Their goods were appealing?

WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get??? Our diet is already 103% high fructose corn syrup. The other 47% is grease!

SOME people tell me that those numbers don't add up, but I checked. They do add up. 103% + 47%. Those are the numbers! What? You think I'm wrong??? I'm using the same math skills they taught in 11th grade at public schools, here in the USA! Basic math! I know my stuff! Even Scott Steiner checked my math. He said it spells disaster for you at sacrifice!

Hey, at least it's HFCS and not lead... You only need to figure it out that lead is clearly a better sweetener and then, as a stabilizer, start using asbestos.
- uhhh it's also lead. I had to switch to a new protein shake brand because the one I was drinking was found to have unsafe levels of lead in it, and it was difficult because several other major brands also had unsafe levels of lead.
  If it's happening in one industry, I bet it's happening in others.
- I give them a year.
You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Lost_My_Mind and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another commentor, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try! So Lost_My_Mind, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Lost, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.
Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business
WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get???
DO.NOT.CHALLENGE.THEM!
With those numbers, we can also explain why Americans are fat.
Regulations so weak they kNoOoOoW they can’t beat you

YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered 'premium' by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.

Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.
- It's the opposite: the state has no responsibility to heal anyone, so they don't give a crap about prevention through regulation.
  They eat exactly as the healthcare system they have.
Can confirm. The UK has some of the most delicious meat I've tasted, and I know for a fact that someone right now living in the EU cringed internally just reading this sentence lol
How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.
- Why do you believe the USA is the richest country in the world?
  You are without a doubt the country in the world with the most debt however.
Do you have a valid source for that claim?
- bleached chickens
- Cheese wiz in cans, banned in Canada.
- are you buying the meat from a butcher that only sources from local farmers? If you can afford that, yeah it's probably on par with what Euros can buy in a grocery store. If you can't afford that, then it doesn't really matter if you're the one cooking it or not, the meat is gonna be low quality.
- I do think that about the USA actually, yes.
- Warming food in microwave isn't cooking.

I was born in a country where my mom constantly worried abot food safety and constantly lectures me about how dangeous food can be, she told me she breastfed me because she didn't trust the baby formulas.

Now we get to experience nostalgia!¹ 🫠

Didn't even need to return to my birth country...

(¹nostalgia of having to worry about food safety again)

👊🇺🇸🔥

Good job moving to hell I guess.
- I didn't choose it lol, I was a kid, no choice
  From memory, the apartment building I used to live in my previous country was looked like it's deteriorating. Air pollusion was horrible.
  It was 2010 when we moved, trump wasn't even a thing.
  From "More Hell" to "Slighly Less Hell" is still an improvement, even if it's still in the realm of "Hell". Too bad Norway didn't accept us.
  Late stage capitalism aside, I kinda enjoyed the internet for the past 15 years... in my previous country, they built a wall around the internet. I didn't even have internet access by the time I left around 2010.
  So... any Europeans looking for marriage so I can get into the EU? /joke
  yeah no... lol. Sorry that I'm not rich and privilaged to get into actual good countries.

It may be shocking that American food can get any worse considering they're 50% corn syrup and 50% microplastics but somehow American corporations found a way, soon they'll probrally start adding sawdust to bread like they used to before the FDA

You think that's bad, milk was so much worse. Companies fed cows leftover brewing grains which made their milk shitty, added cow brain to imitate cream, plaster of Paris to whiten it, and formaldehyde to preserve it. Thousands of kids died because of it and it's a big part of why the FDA was founded in the first place.
- To be clear this was almost 120 years ago
- What?! Yikes
Wood is too healthy for the American population
- Not even real wood, wood thinner and artificial wood pulp made out of microplastics
You should see what we call Parmesan cheese over here.
They already add sawdust to a ton of shit.
- Ja, they label it as cellulose. Technically true and something that does have valid food manufacturing uses, but using it as filler is ridiculous.
Unclear how true this is but I was told years ago that Taco Bell cut their beef with cellulose...so...cardboard so Jokes on you, we may have figured out the sawdust angle years ago. Capitalist innovation baby

No one wants to visit that fascist state anymore.

Joke's on us. Remember the 'great deal' for 15% tariffs? Guess what was included in that. Yep: Better access to the EU market for US agricultire products and the axing of what they call "unfair" trade barriers. Which includes among others plant-health measures, health regulations, vehicle safety regulations and more generally easier mutual recognition of assessments of conformity.

Was anything signed? Last I read, it was only some kind of oral promise.
- Not that I know of. There have been discussions around putting some of that into legislation though. I'm not sure about how serious that is, since most of all of this is done behind closed doors.

Wrong meme template. This one is for when you see somebody else getting in trouble for a thing you're doing wrong too.

What you wanted was something more like the Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no! Anyway..." template.

European food safety regulators aren't the best according to OP, so not entirely wrong
- Nothing is perfect but EU food regulations are pretty fantastic.
- AFAIK eggs are done 'differently' (with pros and cons compared to the processing in the US, but no clear winner) and there's more access to certain types of raw milk products, but otherwise it seems to me that Euro regulators are more cautious than US ones. I think in a lot of cases new stuff here is "allow it until it's proven unsafe," while there it's more often "ban it until its proven safe."
A meme template can be used in different ways than its first user originally intended, doesn't make it wrong... If it's funny, it works. The end.
- I agree since memes shouldn’t be limited to one way.

The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.

I seem to be out of the loop. What happened?

The EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
https://time.com/7336883/epa-pfas-pesticides-health-risks/
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/fda-proposal-asbestos-testing-talc-cosmetics
Trump blames others but Washington air crash comes amid upheaval in US aviation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-plane-crash-analysis
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
- These things are for sure what’s giving me anxiety as an American. I’m trying to start a community garden for those who live in apartments and cannot grow their own food. Otherwise I don’t know what to do. It seems history teaches us revolting is the only way out of this but I don’t see Americans actually doing that. They will not even strike.
- From the first article:
  Worse, there is no firm definition of exactly what a PFAS is—at least in the United States. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which works with 38 member nations including the U.S. to foster international cooperation and economic growth, defines PFAS as industrial chemicals that have at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom—which is a carbon atom with two or three fluorine atoms attached to it. There are about 15,000 species of chemicals that meet that standard. But the EPA has pushed back, broadening the definition to two fully fluorinated carbon atoms. “The final definition does not include substances that only have a single fluorinated carbon,” the agency wrote in its formal report in 2023—during Joe Biden’s presidency. That change is worrying.
  A minimum of 2 fully fluorinated carbon atoms instead of 1 is NOT broadening the definition. That's narrowing it.
- Ass cancer is the price for freedum!
- wait what. how do I not know this being an American?
something about how food is dangerous in America now. bites into hamburger I dunno, I only have like 100 rare diseases now.

Eating food is now a lottery in the US. The EU and UK abhor the idea of needing to wash chickens in bleach. Standards are ready so poor that this isn't sufficient to keep people safe. [Edited, managed to type "for lunch" instead of "in bleach". One handed typing on train excuse]

Wash chickens lunch?
- I assume they are referencing the US practice of washimg chicked carcases in chlorine.
  The EU claims that allowing that type of washing makes producers less incetiviced to avoid bacterial contamination elsewhere in the production chain and therefore more likely to expose customer to disease. US companies treat the animals like shit, and treat the meat like shit and then argue that washing the carcases in chlorine solves it and makes it a more competetive product that they really want to sell on the EU market.
  The US market only ever optimise for cost. So they get shitty products. Since they have lots of monopoly going on, they get shitty and expensive combo. Other markets try to make 'good products' competetive and regulate markets, so the products available will be good and reasonably priced.
  Allowing sub standard US products on the market will make for more expensive and more dangerous products.
- My typo, corrected now. One-handed typing on a train does not always work well.

I think a lot of Americans would be surprised, like I was when I moved here, that EU stores will sell chicken products from China, but not the United States.

That's crazy, hahaha

The worry is that your family will go to the US and eat something awful and become maimed.

The secret trick is not going to the US until radical changes in their government.
The world is a big place with many things to see, just choose some other country for your vacations.
- Oh I’m staying away it’s just that I’m worrying about others who aren’t paying attention to the wickedness in Uncle Sam.
Haha! I already avoided going to USA for being the fucking leech sucking all the blood of the world, now I extra super duper avoid it!

Tin Foil Hat time: So what the gov/corps wants to do is make those people who cook their own food become sick/distrustful of safe food so they buy the heavily processed premade products from the tobbacco...I mean FOOD companies filled with all their artificial ingredients that hook you into a junk food addiction downward spiral.

....now that I say (write) that out loud (virtually) it doesn't sound that far fetched

Wait why would premade foods be better than making your own
- They're not, highly processed foods are made with 'addictive chemical's. This is what the tobacco companies saw in the food market and why the bought up all the food processing companies.
  So if real food is bad you're going to get the 'safer' product.
filled with all their ~~artificial ingredients~~ that
filled with all their artificial intelligence that

This means the EU follows next, since they are all puppets. Time to grow our own food.