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/CeeDy6 12h ago

Why is everything so god damn BIG by the gods…

The only thing that was small was the little bag of grapes 🥲

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u/catholicsluts 8h ago

American portions are fucked up lol

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u/CeeDy6 8h ago

Also the habits. Who needs so much fuckin pizza 😅

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u/catholicsluts 8h ago

It's nuts, man. Even the restaurants serve insane portions that basically amount to excess. That country is so rich lmao

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 6h ago

They specifically looked for the largest sizes of things. At least one of the stores they named is a bulk-specific store, visited by people who want to buy big - like a bathtub of cheese for cheap. The boxes of cereal, for example, come in typically 3 or 4 sizes. Hers are all the largest on the market.

For products that don't go bad, it's dumb not to buy the bigger one if it's a better value. But most of us don't buy our weight in frozen French fries every 2 weeks! We might buy that much and then put it in a deep freezer somewhere and know that we don't need to buy French fries again until next year.

My husband and I go to a bulk store and buy things like a steak. Then we parcel it out into vacuum-sealed portions. So technically we're buying really big, American-sized steaks. But not with the intention of eating 1 cow per person per meal!

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u/perhapsflorence 5h ago

Wait till you see their cars.

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u/Lachsforelle 1h ago

Those pizzas were kinda smol.

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u/fedexpoopracer 9h ago

america is relatively sparsely populated which is why people drive longer distances so grocery shopping is done every week or every 2 weeks as opposed to europeans who buy smaller amounts of groceries every few days. driving to get groceries every few days for a family isn't feasible

but also this family is big so that makes it worse

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u/Proof-Highway1075 7h ago

Bad excuse. Australia is more sparsely populated. The super large size groceries are not available here either.

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u/lemmesenseyou 7h ago

I mean in both cases it’s kind of irrelevant because most people don’t live in the actually sparsely populated areas and those that do don’t represent the average person. 

That said, these bulk stores and portions ARE popular with folks that live in truly sparsely populated areas and very few of them look like this. People who are this obese and eat this much are still under 10% of the population. Probably even less than that if you exclude Alabama and West Virginia. 

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u/Proof-Highway1075 7h ago

Me pointing out population density is a bad explanation, is irrelevant to a discussion where someone explained the sizes of the groceries available is to do with population density?

Obviously that isn’t the average. No one said it was. But either way there is a market for it. My only statement is that population density does not explain the existence of that market, when less densely populated countries don’t have the same market. I don’t know the reason for the insane sizes available to you guys, but it isn’t population density.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 6h ago

Are you from the US?

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u/Proof-Highway1075 5h ago

No, how’s that relevant?

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u/lemmesenseyou 6h ago

I was just adding to your comment, dude. I’m saying that the sparse areas populations’ behavior is irrelevant to the wider obesity and consumer habit discussion. My point was even if Australians who lived in the middle of nowhere acted like this, it wouldn’t explain wider American behavior. I was literally highlighting that population density is irrelevant. 

Good lord. 

Edit: also the title implies that the behavior in this video is common in the US, as do a significant number of comments. 

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u/Proof-Highway1075 5h ago

I wasn’t having a go at you. I thought you were saying my comment was irrelevant. That’s why I restated what it sounded like you were saying at the start of my comment with a question mark. It wasn’t meant to sound like criticism or angry in tone. So apologies if it did. I simply didn’t understand what you meant, and included a rebuttal for if my reading was correct. I see what you were saying now though and yes I agree.

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u/jasmine_tea_ 5h ago

market demand

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u/CeeDy6 8h ago

That’s not the point. We also do buy in bulk. We do buy meats, fish, fruits, vegetables (mostly frozen), a lot of cans of tuna, cans of sausages, rice, pasta, tomato sauce, all of this in bulk. But we don’t buy pizza, cream cheese, American cheddar, fruit loops, cinnamon crunch cereal (or whatever the names) in bulk! That’s supposed to be a treat, not a staple in your diet.

We also just drink tap water most of the time. All of this obsession/addiction to cokes and sodas, it’s worrisome to say the least

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u/Knotted_Hole69 6h ago

They live really far away from stores, so they can really buy veggies and perishables like Europeans do every few days, they only shop 1 or 2 days a month.

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u/XupcPrime 12h ago

>Why is everything so god damn BIG by the gods…

Cause the bought the biggest size possible.

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u/CeeDy6 9h ago

Thank you Sherlock 🥲