Oh come on, I'm tired of hearing about US beer from people that don't drink real US beer. Yeah, the domestic big seller beers like Budweiser are pretty crap, but there is an incredible craft beer scene. Look at brewers like Stillwater and Dark Horse, or even bigger ones like Sierra Nevada. Even European brewers like Evil Twin now have US based breweries.

Other countries have excellent small-scale beer producers too. But some of them also have quite good mass-produced beers too, which is my entire point.

Like someone else, you're trying to compare American small-scale products against mass-produced international goods, as if other countries don't also have very good small-scale producers.

Of all the foods to call out, you choose pizza??

Name any pizza joint outside of Naples, and I bet I can find half a dozen in the US that have a superior take on the style.

Pizza is a good key here in my mind because if you consider what americans call 'deep dish' pizza - the rest of the world calls that a flan/quiche/tart/pie. And then there is the insistence on calling all pizzas, 'pizza pie'. Pizza and Pie are two different foods, with very little in common besides dough and an oven.

> superior take on the style.

Im sure there are people who would tell me the same about american beer, or american cheese, or american bread, or any other food. I'm sure there will be people who claim american-style Thai food is better than authentic Thai food.

I've been to a few countries, and literally the only food I've found that is consistently the same experience is Indian food.

However, even taking that into account, America somehow manages to make its own 'versions' of food just so much worse compared to the rest of the world. The obsession with quantity, and the ridiculous use of corn syrup probably plays a factor here.

> american beer

Is superior to almost all other beer, aside from a few outliers, such as the stuff the Trappist monks produce. It's all subjective though, because what you (general you) think tastes good, tastes like watered down swill to my taste buds, or just nasty (Czech beer for instance).

Our cheeses are rather good too, though not the pre-packed brand name stuff.

Really, the thing is, the US is huge, and there are a lot of mom and pop, or small time businesses that are local or regional. People come visit here, go to a chain store, and think that Kraft is the only cheese we sell, or see Budweiser and think that's the only swill we make. No, craft beers here blow all of your brand name beers away, hands down. (all IMO, of course)

You're complaining about what you assume is compared, and then doing the same thing.

You admit american mass-produced products are terrible, compared to their international equivalents, and then go on to claim that US 'hand crafted' products are better than the mass-produced products of other countries.

well the WTC ruled against the US using COO naming recently in the beef trade and it probably occurred elsewhere. So how do you label without having someone claim its unfair trade practices?

Can you provide some kind of reference so I know what the heck you're talking about?