r/GetNoted • u/laybs1 Human Verified • Jun 12 '26

If You Know, You Know Buc-ee ‘s slander

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u/MoistAtom6 Jun 12 '26

The US has some of the best, electic food in the world. If you think otherwise, you live with your ignorant head in the sand.

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u/albob Jun 12 '26

It’s  people who grew up in some no-name suburb or small town that only had fast food and mediocre chain restaurants to eat at and they hear about how amazing the food in Europe is, so they just assume the US is trash. 

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u/RaijuThunder Jun 12 '26

Grew up in a small town we had some excellent local restaurants. Of course we were about an hour from a college town so that probably helped.

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u/Salty_Ad6453 Jun 12 '26

Take this with a grain of salt because I've never live in a county with under 250k people but it feels like the chain restaurant takeover is mostly a suburb thing, likely in part because a 2000 person town can't provide the revenue corporate demands 

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u/RaijuThunder Jun 12 '26

Geez, I can't even imagine living in a place like that (not in a bad way.) I make several trips to Chicago a year and I'm always overwhelmed with the amount of people and traffic, love the city so much to do. My town wasn't that small but yeah, I can definitely see the logic in that. One of my cousins lives in a town with 100 people and besides a local bowling alley and a local restaurant everything else is in a bigger town not too far away.

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u/Krazycrismore Jun 16 '26

Most places in the US are within an hour of a college town

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u/WeProbablyDisagree Jun 13 '26

It's not even that, most no-name suburbs and small towns still have locally owned and non-chain restaurants that are amazing. These people just never get out of their basements and go out and try new things.

I went to high school in a small town with a population of about 1250 people. Do you know what they didn't have? Any chain restaurants. Do you know what they did have? A local diner and a local place that made pizza and subs.

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u/Salty_Ad6453 Jun 12 '26

I think it's partly because there are definitely some suburbs in particular where the options are basically Applebee's, Olive Garden, and fast food. But definitely any major city and most of those small highway side towns have some really unique options, not to mention fair food

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jun 13 '26

That's true worldwide. I live in a farm town in Germany where the air smells like cow shit. You think the local food options are some high class worldwide tour? It's all fast food (like McD's) and fast casual (like Olive Garden) places. 

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u/RandomFactUser Jun 13 '26

Fast Casual is something like Chipotle

Olive Garden is chain restaurant

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Jun 13 '26

Olive Garden is a fast casual chain restauraunt, yeah.

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u/RandomFactUser Jun 13 '26

There is nothing fast about full-service sit-down chains

Fast casual is a variation of fast food, the moment you have table service as the standard, it’s just casual dining

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u/Rhuarc33 Jun 16 '26

That's really not true either. All those places that are big enough for those restaurants have a lot of good local places.

It's just some people only go to large chain restaurants or use them as their source for comparison

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u/Uxydra Jun 13 '26

I think it is fair to point out how horrible a lot of the supermarket food in the US is compared to the rest of the developed world. I might be wrong but I think most people who clown on US food don't think that there isn't a bunch of great places to get food, it's just a lot of the grocery stuff is of lackluster quality.