[dffdsa432]

It's strange how you are being downvoted when my foreign friends say the exact same thing. They say that the food at the restaurants we go to have a different smell from the food back home.

[plugin-baby]

Maybe when your friends travel, they change too.

[lozenge]

The other possibility- that the climate and soil are different- is too absurd?

[jodrellblank]

Your friends say "the Chinese food in America doesn't taste the same as the food back at home"?

Or your friend interrupts a restaurant owner - a restaurant they've never eaten at - and says "you call that 'authentic' food? I doubt it."

[mixmastamyk]

“You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you might want or wish you had at a later time.”