The truth about European food: Experts weigh in on whether it’s better than the U.S.

If you’ve ever been to Europe, you might have returned raving about the food—French bread, Italian pasta, Portuguese seafood, Spanish tomatoes. But while the cuisine in European countries is famously tasty, increasingly people have taken to social media to claim the food also boasts superior quality.

“Can we just talk about how not once when we were in London and Paris did either of us feel like s--t after eating, feel bloated, or just feel flat-out disgusting?” one TikTok user posted last year.