This one time someone tried arguing with me and trying to say that american food is fine and europeans only don’t like it cause they’re snobs and that it should be imported without regulation because “free market” or whatever, and I was just like “my fellow american, I’ve been eating this garbage my whole life and I can tell you with confidence that the difference in quality between it and European food is palpable. You don’t even need lab testing to tell you american food is garbage.”

And he basically just changed his tactic from calling me a snobby european to calling me a euraboo, and continuing to deny that there’s anything wrong with american food and that European regulators are simply trying to capture the market. So I asked him if he’d be alright with importing Chinese cars to the US and he basically had an aneurysm. Fucking capitalists, man…

I was feeling pretty gaslit though. No matter how many facts and research I gave him about industrial practices and corporate capture of regulators, he just kept denying that there’s any problem and doubling down that the real problem is European countries refusing to import this garbage, and waxing eloquent about how the consumers deserve to be able to choose to ear american-produced garbage food if they want to. I kept telling him nobody wants too and he was like “so let people import it,” not seeing how businesses would inevitably choose the cheapest option thereby taking away the consumer’s ability to choose the higher quality locally produced and healthier options…

This took place on lemmy, too. Wasn’t even reddit.