Sorry, it’s true: The US really does have crappy bread

A staff member puts a French baguette into a bag at a bakery shop in Paris, France. | Gao Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images Have you ever gone on a trip to another country and thought, “Why does the food here taste so much better than the food in America?”  That’s the question Kate called in recently to Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast. “When I was in Japan recently, the produce and the meat were amazing,” she told Vox. “Same thing about food in Europe: The bread, the yogurt just tastes better. Is food actually higher quality elsewhere, or do we just think it is? And if it is