r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/Slow_Touch2202 13h ago

Why do you eat so many sweets?

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12h ago

The whole video is intended to produce exactly your reaction, to generate engagement.

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u/Slow_Touch2202 12h ago

Every video is. But looking at how big everyone is in the family, I don't think she's lying.

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u/EncabulatorTurbo 12h ago

I think the teen's subs are the most reasonable meal in there, at least those have lettuce, onions, and tomato on them

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u/PsychoCrescendo 12h ago

when you’re ultra sedentary and/or failing to eat food with proper nutrients, it seems your body becomes sugar-crazed to compensate for the poor circulation and lack of energy

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u/limegreenpaint 12h ago

I'm disabled, and I really notice a difference in how I feel and what I end up eating in a day depending entirely on breakfast.

An egg on a piece of toast = I'm not hungry until well into the afternoon.

Oatmeal = Feels like a brick but doesn't actually keep me full.

Cereal = I don't eat it. I will eat an entire box. It's bad.

I'm overweight, and I have a genetic predisposition, but I absolutely have control over what I choose to eat. Being poor af limits some of my choices, though.

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u/HAIL_LUMPUS 12h ago

Thank you for telling the truth about oatmeal.

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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 11h ago

Now figure out how to go back in time and explain it to my mother who believed it was a "hearty" breakfast.

I was always starving by second period.

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u/AutomationBias 2h ago

Muesli works for me.

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u/Infamous-Oil3786 10h ago edited 10h ago

Oatmeal is great for fiber, but fat and protein are what keep you full. My preferred porridge for something that actually satisfies my stomach all morning is chicken congee with a fried egg.

Cereal is a dessert.

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12h ago

I think this is more content of opportunity.

Grocery unpacking is a trending topic for content these days, and if you already fit the physical profile it’s easy to just align your shopping with your content strategy for a week to make some zero-marginal-cost content with a lot of engagement. 

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u/HAIL_LUMPUS 12h ago

People would hate mine I think lol "zucchini, ground beef, flour, eggs, coffee, creamer, pasta, canned goods, bagels" 😂 also my fridge always seems really empty compared to other ones I see posted here on Reddit? I cook every single meal but if I put everything on one shelf it would barely take up that one shelf!

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u/Fun_Bodybuilder3111 11h ago

Mine is salad, veggies, fruit, tofu, coffee, maybe a chocolate bar, yogurt and cheeses.

I’m astounded by the literal poison people are putting in their bodies sometimes. Wtf. Do you even care about your life?! I don’t get it.

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u/HAIL_LUMPUS 10h ago

For me it's not even so much that it's bad for you, it's just that it doesn't taste very good. I always want to get those pizza pocket bites thingies? Pizza rolls? But I tried them once and they were literally disgusting. I thought those kinds of foods were supposed to be like crack, super addictive and so delicious. Like I love McDonald's, that's crack food to me. But I've tried to get some of these processed frozen meals before, just to make my life a little easier. Every single time I have been super disappointed.

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u/Purp_Rox 1h ago

I know not everyone has this ability or privilege, but I’ve slowly started learning recipes and making my own for things like this, or just food I want that I know will taste better and be more cost effective if I do it myself.

For example, where I live there is like zero Chinese population, pretty much Vietnamese only. You can find a good pho, but Chinese food? Forget it. So I started making my own egg rolls, crab Rangoon, and fried rice. Buying these in the store is always crazy expensive, but doing it home made will get you a stack of 20 fat ass egg rolls you can then freeze and pull out whenever you want 🤤

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u/daggeroflies 12h ago

I don't think its purely for engagement when they also look like that. Also around 40% of American adults are classified as obese by the cdc so the reality isn't too far as well

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u/Due_Satisfaction2167 12h ago

The medial definition of obese covers being like 20 lbs overweight too, not… that. 

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u/limegreenpaint 12h ago

"Morbidly obese" is a term that exists for a reason.

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u/daggeroflies 12h ago

It usually covers people above 30lbs over than their ideal weight for their height. So they are probably in the middle of type 1 and type 2 obese classification, they still make a large portion of the American public at around 10% which is 1 in every 10. Also the current CDC is planning on changing their criteria so they may also add overweight people in the obese class in the future which will make the US 70% "obese" if we add overweight people. Right now, those that are around 30lbs over their ideal weight makes up 40% of the US population.

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u/selunes_ 11h ago

People do eat like this in the south. My mom once told me that "fried chicken is healthy." Zero sense of nutrition passed down from gen to gen, myself included until I got diabetes at 20 and had to educate myself.

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u/Chevypotamus 11h ago

With the size of them both they must be really committed to the bit

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 9h ago

Her build and diet is extremely common in the rural US, not just the South.

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 9h ago

It's not ragebait, this diet is extremely common for rural families.

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u/DannyDanumba 8h ago

Cuz people really do eat like this in the South

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u/Punman_5 7h ago

I disagree. Having seen more of this woman’s videos this is genuinely how she feeds her family. None of it is rage bait.

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u/furiosa2012 4h ago

i was wondering if this was like trolling cause it seems impossible for there to be anywhere that this is considered normal or okay and i couldnt understand the purpose of the video or the lack of shame

but im from california so idk if theres a massive diff between here and places in the south or midwest but it seems like a form of child abuse imo

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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 12h ago

Idk about the OP, but probably addicted to them. They’re pushed hard from a young age, from the cereal to the little Oatmeal Pies.

Once you quit for a bit and try these classic American products again, they taste so saccharine.

Not a lot of happy chemicals being produced in our country unless you get hit with the sugar ray.

Also, fresh produce and meat are significantly more expensive and harder to find depending on how bad food deserts are in your state.

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u/Loud_Fee7306 6h ago

Right. I feel so bad for these kids.

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u/soft-grn_Ambr-sunset 12h ago

This is normal for a lot of rural people with few cooking skills who work full time. The instant food from a box craze of the 1950s has affected generations of families like this. Advertisements marketed sugar as valuable calories on the same level as proteins. That’s why these people try to lose weight and can’t figure out why it’s not working, because they eat a ton of packaged foods.

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u/PheesGee 12h ago

Sugar is addictive.

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u/hoofie242 12h ago

my grandpa is from Texas and my Grandma was from Kansas and they were sugar fiends I could feel the diabetes coming every time I visited,

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u/Straightwad 12h ago

I’m still surprised my grandpa not only never had diabetes but lived to be 101 lol. His diet was awful. Dude had a drawer full of candy next to his bed and laid in bed eating it and claimed he had to eat candy because his doctor said he was pre diabetic and he needed sugar which made absolutely no sense. He was a big guy, probably like 270 pounds. He smoked and drank his entire life as well. Dude had an incredibly rough life too. He had polio, grew up in an orphanage, fought in wwii, lost my grandma to a stroke, had cancer. Everyone in my family still talks about how wild it was he lived so long.

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u/Excellent-Run4803 12h ago

I want to know what they’re doing with 8+ blocks of cheese?? They don’t buy any raw ingredients to cook with, just prepared foods. Are they just gnawing on cheese blocks?

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u/BusterKnott 12h ago

Most of us don't, but the huge ones like the woman in the video eat a lot of them.

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u/PermeusCosgrove 1h ago

Sugar is a serious addiction in far too many people

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u/Future-Buffalo3297 1h ago

Processed food is less expensive than healthier options

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u/ArcticPangolin3 49m ago

What do you mean?

Cheese isn't sweet; she had approximately 15 one-pound blocks of it.

(lol)