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The three biggest food letdowns of my life were NY pizza, Shake Shack, and In-N-Out.
They were all....fine. I enjoyed my meals. Nothing I couldn't get back home
Whataburger was a nice surprise that I enjoy more than in and out. Chicago Pizza lived up to the hype. Classic Midwest steak and shake was way better than shake shack.
I was in Vegas, next to in-n-out for a week.
Day one, burger and fries and a coke. WTF, that was disappointing as hell, I'd rather have eaten McDonalds.
Day two, look up all the hidden menu bullshit, animal style, with animal style fries. HOLY FUCK that's a different meal.
I tried everything else over the week, but my fav was still animal style.
Their regular burgers are fries are just bland and dry. They need to be loaded with the sauce and the friend onions. They should default to that.
I definitely went for animal style and it was...ok. It was just good sauce on a fast food burger and fast food burgers are never good
For all the negatively, I do get it every time I'm in California (which admittedly hasn't been for years at this point)
I wasn't there for many days, and I had a limited number of meals and money, and you're right, nothing stuck out for me either.
I think the thing to do when you visit a country is to try the things they specialise in. The yanks specialise in "food products" and fast food, so I ate stuff from supermarkets and bodegas, with an exception to the pizza and a few other things with my friend.
Pretzels were interesting, I got a bunch of stuff from Family Dollar, 7-11 and Slurpees were by far the greatest fucking thing I had the entire time I was there, like FUCK MAN, during summer that shit goes down so good, and you can mix and match flavours. I had some japanese food near the NY Library with my friend, the aforementioned pizza and that was about it.
I wanted to try taco bell but somehow fucked it up and didn't find one at the right time. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I did. Also Tamales, as mentioned.
I wasn't expecting much, so I didn't particularly care , especially because of diets and financial constraints.
What ACTUALLY disappointed me was that the tech death power trio I specifically traveled across the Atlantic for had their guitarist sick during the show I went to, so it was a duo.
Man you really missed out, there's so much good food in the US and a ton of options in New York specifically. American cuisine is incredibly diverse (though not more than Europe as a whole) so it's a bummer you think we're all about fast food haha