We’re talking about the US where everything is bland by default.
It’s like asking why you would eat wheat without the bran. For some unknown, godforsaken reason, they remove it here before it makes it to the shelves, and if you want the stuff with the bran intact then it’ll cost extra because that apparently makes it “artisan” or some shit.
And a significant portion of the population here looks at everything beyond the bland defaults as snobby excess. “Why are you eating a cheese I can’t pronounce? Are you a commie or some’n?”
My 4 year old nephews always asks to get the “green stuff” removed from their pizza’s because it looks like vegetables. I imagine Americans the same way.
Edit: seeing the downvotes, I’ll double down with some examples to illustrate my point. Adapting dishes to the American public generally just involves removing vegetables and making it less healthy generally by adding more sauce, sugar, fat and/or salt.
Chinese food -> More sauce and remove the vegetables
Gyros -> remove the fresh vegetables
Burritos -> overload with just meat, cheese, sour cream, remove the vegetables
Tacos -> whatever Taco Bell does, you don’t really want to eat their raw vegetables anyway
Crepes -> remove the fruits, just do nutella and sugar
Pasta/Macaroni dishes -> just cheese (Mac n cheese)
Curry dishes -> just the meats and rice please, remove the vegetables
Why would you ever have a pizza without basil? :o
I like basil too, but it doesn’t need to be on every pie
Why would anyone have the nerve to eat anything I don’t like!?
If you bought “pizza sauce” in a jar you are already in fact eating it and presumably already liking it
I was making fun of the other poster
We’re talking about the US where everything is bland by default.
It’s like asking why you would eat wheat without the bran. For some unknown, godforsaken reason, they remove it here before it makes it to the shelves, and if you want the stuff with the bran intact then it’ll cost extra because that apparently makes it “artisan” or some shit.
And a significant portion of the population here looks at everything beyond the bland defaults as snobby excess. “Why are you eating a cheese I can’t pronounce? Are you a commie or some’n?”
My 4 year old nephews always asks to get the “green stuff” removed from their pizza’s because it looks like vegetables. I imagine Americans the same way.
Edit: seeing the downvotes, I’ll double down with some examples to illustrate my point. Adapting dishes to the American public generally just involves removing vegetables and making it less healthy generally by adding more sauce, sugar, fat and/or salt.
Chinese food -> More sauce and remove the vegetables
Gyros -> remove the fresh vegetables
Burritos -> overload with just meat, cheese, sour cream, remove the vegetables
Tacos -> whatever Taco Bell does, you don’t really want to eat their raw vegetables anyway
Crepes -> remove the fruits, just do nutella and sugar
Pasta/Macaroni dishes -> just cheese (Mac n cheese)
Curry dishes -> just the meats and rice please, remove the vegetables