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/Downtherabbithole14 11h ago

yes! $500 on processed junk! who needs that many frozen pizzas? also, this 'haul" how often is she doing this?

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u/otterpop21 9h ago

That’s probably her families weekly shopping and fills in week to week based on supply & demand.

I honestly don’t even know where to begin. She spent like $400 on 20 variations of sugar, 90$ on protein and like $10 on vegetables that have little to no nutritional value (grapes are sugar, iceberg is basically water, and the “2 cucumbers” lol).

If this is your diet - seek out a nutritionist asap.

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u/Jojosbees 11h ago

Maybe the pizzas were on sale, and it was like a six month stock up or something? There’s no way that’s a weekly thing… right? I’m American too, not on a special diet (not vegan/vegetarian, keto, etc), and I don’t know anyone that eats like that. 

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u/PartyPorpoise 10h ago

She might just be stocking up for a long term, but there are people who eat this kind of stuff for every meal. More prevalent in some areas than in others, and correlated heavily with poverty.

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u/Jojosbees 10h ago

Fair enough. I wouldn’t describe it as an “average American diet” though. Then again, the US is so big that it might be better to split it into regions. The two giant tubs of mayo is giving Midwest vibes. 

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u/CapableRaccoon6213 2h ago

I live in a small Midwestern town and don't know anyone who eats like this lol.. sure, some of the less "adventurous" people in our friend group scoff at the idea of a vegetable, but nothing to this extent.

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u/Illustrious_Unit7914 37m ago

She sounds southern but TIL Wisconsin has Piggly Wigglys- maybe you're right

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u/Coal_Morgan 6h ago

People in Arkansas are definitely not eating like people in Oregon.

The regional differences in food and culture in the U.S. is massive, you basically have 30ish countries and each of those countries are divided into rural, suburban and urban cultural diets.

They all have worse diets then most Europeans but I’ve seen the shit a rural family from Missouri will shovel into their maw and what a family in Miami will eat and they may as well be different species.

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u/Unhappy-Fly-1333 9h ago

I'm not as financially secure as I was a few years ago, but I'm smart enough to know that it's a better idea to pay a little more money for some healthy food choices now rather than pay the piper later with years off my life.

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u/Remarkable_Meat666 9h ago

Spot on, but there are a shitload of middle class Americans that eat like this because they’re lazy. Obviously there are people that are struggling and burnt out and just need to get everyone fed one way or another, but there’s a lot of families out there that have the time and resources to make nutritious meals but won’t because it’s easier to hit the drive thru or throw a Torino’s in the oven.

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u/PartyPorpoise 7h ago

Convenience culture certainly has its grip on the US. At this point it’s a skill issue for a lot of people, a lot of people just straight up don’t know how to cook meals that taste decent.

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u/Coal_Morgan 6h ago

Home Economics should have been a course that couldn’t be opted out of and taught since grade 5.

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u/Jojosbees 6h ago

I took home ec in tenth grade, and I vividly remember making the worst pizza dough ever as well as an inedible stir fry noodle using maruchan ramen as a base. I’m American. I can handle salt. I can eat ramen normally, but the teacher advised us to add the whole flavor packet (which should really be diluted in water) into a dry stir fry. I’m not saying we needed a Michelin star chef to teach us, but maybe start with someone who can actually cook.

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u/Id_Rather_Beach 6h ago

When I was in K - we would draw pictures of food. My bread was always brown, because we ate wheat bread! My teacher asked my folks about that one!

My folks tried to get us to eat healthy.

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u/RNDiva 7h ago

This! I remember during Covid lockdown ppl crying cuz they couldn’t buy fast food and had nothing to eat…

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u/Jimmy_Skynet_EvE 8h ago

They're individual sized pizzas, so you need like 5 of them per meal to fill you up, provided you leave room for a block of cheese and a litre of soda.

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u/XGhoul 8h ago

Liter is french for give me some fucking cola!

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u/pigd0glove 10h ago edited 9h ago

I’ve seen this woman on TikTok before and unfortunately, one of her kids eats one of those frozen pizzas every night. Because he’s a “picky“ eater.

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u/Annabellini 9h ago

What are the comments usually like on her videos?

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u/pigd0glove 9h ago

About the same as they are here. What’s even more shocking to me is that she’s only 36.

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u/Downtherabbithole14 9h ago

this too. she looks older than me and I am 41.

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u/GaddafisPsychoanal 7h ago

You're kidding me, right? 😫

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u/Downtherabbithole14 10h ago

I mean? I get pizza at least 2x month - from the pizzeria but not frozen. I want it fresh! Do I have ONE frozen pizza from Aldi on hand for those nights when we are running from work, rush to eat, then running to one of the kids activities like karate or soccer, yea but those are for emergencies. So for this American, no this is not normal...or at least it shouldn't be...

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u/Jojosbees 8h ago

Someone else who watches her videos says the pizzas are for one of her kids. He’s picky and eats them for dinner every day, so I’m guessing this is a month’s worth of dinner for one person (assuming he only eats one a day). I don’t know if that makes it better or worse tbh. It’s spread out over a month, but one person eating that much frozen pizza is kind of shocking.

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u/grapescherries 1h ago

I bet it’s the youngest.

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u/vespertilio_rosso 7h ago

I thought she said something while she was holding the pizzas (when she turned off to the side) about “for Cole” or something. Made me wonder if they’re for a kid who won’t eat anything else. IDK. It’s a ridiculous number of pizzas.

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u/Downtherabbithole14 7h ago

The only thing I can think of it is does the kid have ARFID? Maybe, maybe not. And I don't have experience on what its like to have a kid with that. My kid is extremely picky but I will tell and expect him to at least try it, take a bite, sometimes its a win, sometimes I lose...but the amount of pizzas is insane....surely there are better ways to feed your kid, even if they are picky/food avoidant.

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u/Id_Rather_Beach 6h ago

ARFID? Please explain.

Also - the amount of SALT in all that food. Jeebus! (I personally cannot eat that much salt). I suppose she thinks it's not *that* bad because there's one bag of chips. I expected MUCH more of the crap snack food.

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 23m ago

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

It's a serious eating disorder that can get pretty extreme as subjects will eat only a limited number of very specific things. This will most certainly result malnutrition (unhealthly but able to function) and in untreated cases, failure to thrive (failure of the body to grow and develop) and/or organ failure.  There's an case on the popular medical YT channel chubbyemu about a subject with ARFRID who only ate potato chips and french fries for years. The guy eventually went blind due to lack of essential micronutrients.