The people who brag about their food are some of the least worldly people in the world who somehow believe that NYC has the best examples of the world’s food thanks to immigration yet no where else can produce NYC’s dishes despite the massive emigration from the city.
NYC has some art. I'll give them that. I don't mind seeing it. We're talking historic stuff, not the absolute retarded contrived nonsense any of the hip kids make there. That scene is a joke.
But NYC has always been a shithole. For everything. There has never been anything special about the city other than it's outrageously dirty.
They all think they're smart, cultured people too (like you indicate) but they're objectively stupid and don't know jack shit about the world.
Frankly, some of the best food I've ever had was in the back side rooms of little homes, basically legit mom and pop places that were part of their houses which they opened up to make some scratch.
This is as true in France and Italy as it is Guantamala and Honduras. Real food made with care served with real conversation among salt of the earth people.
Or fuck, escaping the heat in a dirty shack in some backwater in the South and popping a God damn cold beer with an old timer missing half his teeth who's telling you the stories of his crazy ass life while you shell raging hot boiled peanuts that feel like they're stripping the flesh right from your tongue they're so spicy and he keeps scoopin' out more from his dirty crockpot and lightin' up cheap smoke...
Gimme that any day of the week over NYC pretentious dick suckers.
Okay. I'm done. Obv I feel strongly about this.