I don't think I have ever seen such a ubiquitous presence of types, varieties and chains of junk food in any country I've been to. Oh and they love their cheese on everything. They even have cheese in dessert! No complaints here. I could inject the stuff.
And you are probably thinking America is worse. Nuh arghh. At least America has healthy options, organic ones too. In fact, they have even combined junk with organic ingredients therefore making it healthy. E.g. Chipotle. The Mexican God food! And yes... I do have food porn pics of it stashed away somewhere...
Junk food is even more accessible here. It is literally cheap as chips, more socially acceptable and delivered 24 hours. And Kuwaitis' actually utilise this 24 hour service. I remember going to someone's house for a family lunch and I was surprised to see that they had ordered take out to entertain us. On another night, we had ordered in. I tallied our purchased items at 13 and it cost us 3 Kuwaiti Dollars, which is 9 AUS dollars. Crazy. That meal could have fed 6 people.
As a consequence, more people order in than prepare a home cooked meal and I was junk food-ed out. It is just more cost effective. In fact, most Kuwaitis' don't really know how to cook, or clean for that matter. They all have maids. The population has a serious overweight and diabetes problem and in world stats they sit in the top 10.
Who would have thought right?
Welcome to Kuwait, the junk food nation.
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