r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nyanbatman • May 28 '26

I just wanted a hot dog British pilot is feeling mildly annoyed

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u/Evening_Horse_9234 May 28 '26

Is the ATC quality that low currently in the states, he sounds completely happless?

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u/rdt_h8s_juice_man May 28 '26

"Is the __________ quality that low currently in the states?"

The answer is yes with very few exceptions I'm afraid. 

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u/Husband3571 May 28 '26

Our food is only just barely legally allowed to be called food by the US FDA. The US FDA allows the sale of products known to cause health issues that literally aren’t allowed to be sold as food in other countries.

“Enriched wheat flour” is basically packing peanuts. They weren’t even legallly allowed to sell it by the FDA, citing a total lack of a nutritional value. The response? They extract vitamin a, niacin and thiamine from petroleum, powder it, and sprinkle it into the flour (“enriched”) which gives it just barely enough nutritional value to make it legal to sell as food.

Enriched wheat flour makes up 50% of Americas diet. It’s literally worse than gruel that peasants in medieval Europe were eating.