It’s fine: you can find anything you want.
But you have to suffer posh places and step markup.
I just want some decent unpasteurized cheese.
Joke aside, I was more thinking of culinary traditions.
Like cooking things from the season, from scratch and eat it with other human beings around a table.
US friends: that when I look at you like barbarian : when you shovel food in your mouth between you desk and break room.
Get a table, look at your food! Talk to another human about his food. Share food and diner time.
No, it was pretty clear you were a smug Frenchmen from the start
Your version of "civilized nation" means socialist state that provides free healthcare often fraught with long wait times, terrible quality and no choice. Healthcare industry working with state to make sure there is no accountability and corruption running rampant. My version of "civilized nation" means private industry providing cheap healthcare with market forces enforcing affordability and quality.
We’re established that all life are equals and each humans deserves rights.
Not out of kindness but because it yields more cohesive and resilient societies.
All places are civilized in one way or another, more in some aspects depending on the locality .
In my books, Démocratie in Switzerland is more advance that anywhere else in Western Europe for instance.
But more robust social nets would help shield workers and their families from hick up in supply chain or markets. Preventing unwanted ripple effects.
If that make it socialist, so be it. That word has lost most of its meaning from me. Let’s talk policies and not political classification.
Also, civilized societies have come up a long time ago with appropriate social nets that mitigate the hurdle of unemployment.
And our food is vastly superior.