This writer is a twit who has her panties in a twist.
What a contrived topic. She may have spent some years here, but I did the same in the UK. Now I can tell you that they can turn out some real crap too. So what? One just has to be a little discriminating, in any part of the world.
If one knew what one was doing, the food in the UK was quite good. The same statement can be made about the states or any other place.
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And Tereeeza Heinz is one that helps them turn out bad crap too.
True, and the writer is also copying the currently most popular European taunt about "fat Americans".
Yes, we do have the largest percentage of 'portly' people in the world, and we also have the world's largest collection of diet fads, health food/ vitamin stores, vegetarians, excercise clubs and nudist colonies. The only solution would be to go on the Third World diet, I suupose.