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, what would it take for the US to have food that tastes and feels that good?”

Yes, the fact that you’re in a new and exciting environment is a factor. But you also aren’t imagining things: other countries have different ways of preparing and producing food that factor into what you’re tasting as well. Take the French baguett

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