I love to dunk on Boston.

Mediocre place with such an inflated sense of relevance. I feel like nobody would notice or care if so many aspects of Boston and people from there didn't think people cared.

Or just walk down Peterborough street: https://elpelon.com

My city seems to have a problem producing good bread at non-insane prices, which means it's also ~impossible to get a decent sandwich at anything but LOLWTF prices, and even then you're rolling the dice that it'll be better than what a totally ordinary sandwich should taste like, and does in cities that don't have this bizarre problem. We're in the heart of wheat-growing country, too. It's really weird.

Our Mexican food's great, though, so we have that going for us.

I truly believe that there should be an exchange program between San Francisco and Boston.

Boston needs a proper taqueria, and San Francisco needs a proper pizzeria.

Boston needs proper Thai food, and San Francisco needs proper ice cream.

Etc.

I agree that those sort of generalizations are unfair and extremely subjective, but I think there is a truth to the idea that some places in the world people care more about food and are more picky about it. If you are well off person and only go to fancier places you see it less, because you are probably always served a baseline quality.

But some parts of the world just have less access to fresh produce, less cultural diversity, etc. That doesn't seem quite so subjective. And there is good food to be found pretty much everywhere, that is not the point.

Well, the problem with these sweeping statements is that there zero objectivity. There is no way to discuss or learn anything about it. There is no way to falsify it.

I could make the most easiest case that Singapore has better food than Dubai. Just because I said so.

I find them silly and not very useful.

Similarly, "I had the best ramen at this place" or "For authentic X food, you have to visit X" or "City X has the worst drivers" (Literally everyone says that about their city).