To you sure, but lots of people enjoy food. And Americans enjoy eating complete dogshit, being among the most obese and revolting (to the eyes and to the nose) people on the planet. Maybe it'd be a pretty cool thing if they at more like the Italians.
Frame this on the wall as the most succinct way to sum up the utter capitulation people face in supporting these tariffs.
Yes they are raising taxes and making everything more expensive for Americans.
Yes they are disrupting the raw materials needed for domestic manufacturing supply chains.
Yes their policies change so frequently and capriciously that it's impossible for American businesses to make medium-to-long term plans.
Yes the president and his family are personally and directly benefiting from these policy decisions. Yes they are directly accepting gifts and payments, including jets, TikTok board seats, and brazenly corrupt contributions to their personal cryptocurrency.
All of that is acceptable, and technically food doesn't need to taste good anyway.
> All of that is acceptable, and technically food doesn't need to taste good anyway.
Food doesn’t need to taste good. This is America, not some mediterranean country: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/31/archives/food-on-enjoying... (“This American attitude toward food has been formed by two important elements in our national thinking, both functions of our national history. One is the he‐man ideology developed during our pioneering past which holds that it is effete to demand finesse in cookery (or in any other cultural activity, for that matter). The other is our Puritanism. The Puritan nourishes himself (grudgingly), for God has so organized the universe that he must. Possibly he suspects that the chore of eating was imposed on him as a penance for his disgraceful gourmandise in connection with an apple.”).
Of all the things in my post to address, the fact that you are pulling some random NYT opinion piece from 1975 to say “actually it’s more American to NOT enjoy food” only reiterates my point.