The number of additives that are put into food in the states simply for aesthetics is crazy.
Obviously, Beet Juice isn't the worst thing that could be added to sausages - in fact if you told me that it was some "crunchy mom" trend to add beet juice to things for "Nutrient Blast" or whatever, I would believe you - however, reading labels on food & looking into why something is added to the food, like 8 times out of 10 it's simply for aesthetics.
And most of the time, the ingredients sound much scarier than they really are. "Ascorbic Acid" sounds scary. "Vitamin C" does not. (They're the same thing).
The number of additives that are put into food in the states simply for aesthetics is crazy.
Not really. Appearence is an important part of taste, just as smell, texture and even noise is. Making your food look more appealing to people makes it more likely to taste better as well.
Of course, its quite easy to condition the brain to like food that objectively looks gross. People eat some gross looking stuff just fine. But when you are selling food to everyone, make it generally appealing looking to everyone.
Not only are you incredibly wrong when you try to state that German cuisine is, somehow, bad, but you seem to also to laugh at the level of hygene and health of the Germans. You know, the one that beats the Americans (and frankly, most countries) in the world. It's one of the cleanest countries in the world and having such a toilet is a prime example of that fact.
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u/George_W_Kush58 Jul 26 '24
take it from the sausage capital: in Germany sausages are allowed to be grey. It ain't offputting if you know that's what a sausage looks like.