Yeah we are looking at the positives…let’s go 
Italians live a pretty easy life in terms of work life balance.
To me this is just laziness. Italian groceries aren’t expensive and good fresh food is widely available. I can go to the grocery a buy the best olive oil produced locally for example.
It’s sad to see even Italy is going down the path of consuming more ultra processed foods as well.
That’s a bit of a bummer on the usual cheap factory slop trend.
But as far as cheap and readily available. Every country has their staples. Taiwan does as well, but they may not appeal to everyone. As an example, I loath cabbage. But when I leave Taiwan for more than a couple weeks I start craving it as it’s simply the best I’ve ever had. What a weird thing to crave, farts in vegetable form.
You are the only one to miss cabbage from Taiwan. I’m not even big on vegetables but when I eat cabbage elsewhere, I’m just thinking I wish it was a Taiwan cabbage
If you guys think Taiwan cabbage is good you probably haven’t had good cabbages in your lives. Cabbage heads …only joking.
Winter cabbage is ok here up in the mountains but there’s a lot of bad cabbages too. Taiwan is generally too hot to grow them well.
There’s just this very distinctive sweet taste in the cabbage in Taiwan that’s pleasant.
I went to Ding Tai Fung in London recently and got the cabbage and was reminded again that it’s not the same taste.
Yes it’s definitely a very different taste. I prefer the bitter tasting ones .
When I look at it, in Europe most of the stalls would get shut down the first day because of being hygienic hazard.
In Taiwan, some of the stalls look like they haven’t washed them since 1994.
Hehe. That’s why it’s grown best in cooler areas like the mountains. I give full credit to the plant breeders here. They do some excellent work on creating superior varieties of veg.
I don’t even mind a shredded cabbage hamburger anymore haha.
But I don’t think the cabbage is better here at all lol. It just tastes ok when gotten fresh up the mountains. I’m from a cold weather country so obviously will taste better there. Anyway pointless to argue about personal taste. Same with potatoes and carrots in Taiwan…urghh.
Not exactly an everyday staple.
You’d be surprised.
Very true, but many a taiwanese variety is grown in cold places like Canada…i cna speak for Ireland, for sure. When they use the US, Dutch etc varieties, meh. For me the plus side of taiwnaese cabbage is the breeding excellence as well as rhe logistics excellence. Same reasons with berel nut being superior here 
Could very be I grew up with just basically “American” standards in Canada, which is normally basically a lower standard. So I find it amazing here compared to perhaps Asia, europe? And so on. The cabbage here trumps the f*ck out of the stuff in us/Canada, that’s for sure. It’s funny depending it, as I find most brassica foods to literally be farther air in solid form 
Change that gravy yo “gravy” and use dshredded pizza cheese. That poutine be in every trailer park. That’s just a Friday, a change up from kraft dinner or microwave sumthin. At least potatoes are sprayed less than cabbage. The local grown ones suck and don’t do summer, bummer. But we have excellent sweet potatoes and actual authentic yams all day 
I don’t know a single person in Canada that eats Poutine every day as a staple meal.
They all die of heart attacks pretty quickly 
Well, I know half a dozen Canadians and they all eat poutine for all three meals every day.
The first rule of Poutine Club is we don’t talk about Poutine Club.
