yeah, it's seriously messed up

only people who have been in these old trad diet places and then traveled elsewhere would understand it.

the "meat" i see on offer in europe, with the exception of maybe former yugoslavia, is all filled out with water and whatever random salts and chemicals, like this chicken i bought recently, so fricking wet that it doesn't brown properly, and causes the tallow i fry in to spit so much that half the tallow ends up on the walls nearby and burning me.