Since moving back to the UK, my palate has been re-awakened to a plethora of fresh fruits and vegetables at shockingly low prices.
It’s not that the quality of produce in the USA was bad, it’s just that Spain is a hop skip and a jump away and their tomatoes are amongst the best I have ever tasted.
The bananas, although from further afield have great flavour and cost 1/3 the price of those in the USA.
This anecdote article isn’t a contest between the two continents, it is merely an observation and something that I have concluded all along, The fresh fruit and veg in this neck of the woods has more flavour, costs loads less and seems to be better quality. That might be down to the fact that the distance from farmer to your supermarket or local greengrocers is shorter.
In reality, you can get good food anywhere, the hard point is the price at the till. In my experience you pay more in the USA overall for your fresh foods than you would in the UK. So I chuckle to myself when I occasionally hear Brits complain about the price of food. They would be laughed out of the supermarket in the US!