1989 was remarkable, for sure. My sis was lucky enough to live there, and went to Brandenburg Gate along with thousands of others that very night.
It was the first time in my life I started watching the news regularly (the months & weeks leading up to the fall of the wall - refugees at the Hungarian embassy back when sanity reigned there, the protests, etc. included).
It reminds me that I’m old enough to remember, albeit very vaguely, it being built.
Bangkok certainly sees its share of the world pass through … it even has flights to Reunion!
Being here now, I’d have to say this city has some of the most diverse CPGs I’ve seen in a supermarket. Not to mention, there are separate shops catering to Ethiopian/West African/Chinese/Indian/Kosher/Halal/Japanese/Korean/etc expats.
And let’s not forget the wildly creative Lay’s flavors, as seen in the potato chips thread.
I’m thinking clinical practice guidelines, but probably not in a great store. 
Consumer Packaged Goods
In the Gulf countries, hypermarkets such as Lulu, Géant, and Carrefour also have quite a variety of products, ranging from French and Belgian cookies to Filipino vinegars and Indian chivda (snack mixes with lentils and crunchy things).
We do have both. Coastal pastured dairy cows live a vastly different life from those in Central Valley factory farms, corralled in grassless plots. And beef cattle, whose happy life if short, roam freely in grassy fields in Eastern Central Valley.
“One bad day” is a good way to describe the life of a cow/steer if it is grass fed in a pasture.
Feed lots are disgusting but efficient at packing on the pounds. My family does send most of our calves (all of the steer calves and some of the heifer calves) to auction, which means they will end up in a feed lot and that is the worst part of the operation.
@ZivBnd Great point. We see beef cattle grazing in lush fields in the Delta (hiway 160) and San Joaquin and Calaveras counties (hiway 12), both steers and “nurseries” of mothers and calves. But we have no idea of what happens next. Probably some 100% grass fed, others to feed lots.
We also have happy looking cows in Solano county. I pass this place regularly.
The website says a little bit about what happens when they leave.
The drive from SF to LA is most speedily accomplished by taking I-5. If you do so, about halfway you’ll pass through Coalinga, and right up along the Harris Ranch feed lot. Depending on the wind, you will smell it several miles before you see it.
A coworker gave me a name for it that I still use to this day:
Cowschwitz.
The offerings don’t surprise me given that Filipinos are a large expat group in the UAE and South Asians make up the majority of the workforce (especially manual labour).
But I suppose that’s what we’re thinking about when we think of “multicultural cities” (although I’m not sure how much the UAE embraces the cultures of their migrant workers).
Of course, expat populations are larger than local populations in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar … and beyond a falconry lesson here, and a pearl monument there, I don’t see those three countries doing much to embrace their autochthonous heritage either.
ETA: just realized this is in the not about food forum.
Wisconsin, before being called America’s dairyland, was once a breadbasket state. If our current climate woes continue, that might come back to some of the northern states. I feel for the ag folks in Kansas, Colorado (another source for many foods, especially carrots.) I was just in Utah. Lovely places out that way. But they are already the second most arid in the US, and they produce a lot of meats. Some drastic changes may be coming.
I remember visiting my brother when he lived in Greeley CO. 3 feed lots, 100,000 head (beef) in each. You knew Greeley was coming many many miles before arrival.
Reminded me of this thread.
More than half of foreign-born people in US live in just 4 states and half are naturalized citizens
“More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York”
We have a trip scheduled for Eastern Canada scheduled this fall! Hmmmm…Quebec! That’s sort of Eastern, right? More Eastern than Vancouver.
Do you draw any conclusions from this?
No flyover states and those 4 all have a coastline.
No reasons listed so I suppose we have to speculate.
Interesting.
Only that some parts of the USA are more different from other parts of the USA than many might realize.
I have my thoughts, but none of them are politically correct enough to post.
Definitely Eastern.
Much of Western Canada hates Ontario and Quebec (edit: the province). 
Montreal is extremely diverse.
