I'm a Eurofag and even I know that it's retarded to speak in generalizations like these. Maybe decades ago it was more accurate but there's been a push for artisanal produce in the US since the 90s at least and the hipsterization of the past fifteen years only means there's a growing consumer base that's very receptive to it.
There's nothing preventing American producers from making food on the same level as European ones and plenty do. The US has a wide enough variety of climates, opportunities and willing entrepeneurs to facilitate it. I remember reading about an American company that won an international award for making a specialty French cheese of which the hallmark was that it was matured in a fucking cave. The Midwestern family that started the business spent decades learning from master cheesemakers, diligently applying all the traditional techniques, recreating the exact conditions for ripening and the end result was something that was easily on par with the original and received accolades for doing so.
What happened afterwards? They were bought by a French conglomerate. No native-born businessmen had any interest.
That's the problem with American food production. Not the average consumer necessarily, it's the stain the subsidized agricultural-industrial complex has left. Big food producers have invested heavily in goyslop and see anything else as competition, and the average American consumer often has a surprisingly low opinion of what American produce can be due to a lingering reputation of terrible, mass-produced quality. Hence this fucking thread.
Even a lot of savvy, snobby American consumers are generally going to choose champagne from Champagne over one from Napa Valley, or a Saint-Nectaire from the Auvergne over the one made in Wisconsin. It doesn't matter if they've been proven to be the same in quality for decades now, the relative prestige attached to one pedigree compared to the supposed lack of the other is often enough.
We've been seeing a similar phenomenon with weed legalization. Years ago, all of American weed was shitty mexican brickweed trafficked over the border. Since some large states started decriminalizing, we've seen the quality of American weed surge. America has some of the best weed in the world nowadays.
All europoors have is shitty afghan brickweed. Like technically, anyone in Europe could be growing some bomb ass stuff from mail order seeds in their basements, but it's not in industrial quantities to the point where the market is significantly shifted. Your typical affordable street weed in Europe is shit. Like it used to be shit in America.
The one notable exception is Holland because of the unique situation that's been there for decades.
And even that's changing because professional Dutch growers have been relocating to the US for years now due to a massive shift in the comparative legal freedom afforded by the two countries, enhanced by the obvious attractiveness of the American weed market.
