<story><title>How we&apos;re scammed into eating phony food</title><url>http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>Not quite the same, but earlier this year I was working in Italy for a few months. I went back to the UK last week and it really surprised me how poor the quality of food is there. I don&amp;#x27;t mean in restaurants, but the actual ingredients you get in supermarkets.&lt;p&gt;In Italy you can go into even the cheapest supermarkets and get tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, where as in the UK they just have no smell. Even tomatoes supposedly grown in Italy were the same (I guess they keep the good ones for themselves).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misja111</author><text>The problem with tomatoes and many other vegetables and fruits is, that they don&amp;#x27;t grow in the UK so they have to be imported. If they would be imported only when they were as ripe and tasty as the ones you saw in Italy, they would be rotten by the time they arrived in your supermarket in the UK. So, they are harvested when they are not quite ripe. They will ripen a bit more during transport but they will never have the same quality and freshness as the food in Italy.&lt;p&gt;TL;DR; if you want to have really fresh vegetables, stick to local and seasonal products.</text></comment>
<story><title>How we&apos;re scammed into eating phony food</title><url>http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lucaspiller</author><text>Not quite the same, but earlier this year I was working in Italy for a few months. I went back to the UK last week and it really surprised me how poor the quality of food is there. I don&amp;#x27;t mean in restaurants, but the actual ingredients you get in supermarkets.&lt;p&gt;In Italy you can go into even the cheapest supermarkets and get tomatoes that smell like actual tomatoes, where as in the UK they just have no smell. Even tomatoes supposedly grown in Italy were the same (I guess they keep the good ones for themselves).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kevindeasis</author><text>I went to Italy once and it opened my eyes on how I should have higher standards on what I eat, when I come back home&lt;p&gt;Edit:  english</text></comment>