I was in a supermarket the other day, looking for a non-food item that I thought they may have. I walked through their produce department. As I left with nothing in hand, a "greeter" said to me, "Did you find what you needed?" I replied that I wished her store sold food. She squinted at me and said, "We don't sell food?"
I cooked for my sister and took her to a good restaurant. She was born and raised in the USA and I was not. She had never tasted such food, was her comment.
Recently, I had a run-in with 365 brand pomegranate juice. It's grape juice, I believe. Certainly not pomegranate
I'm so fed up that I'm going to not only make my own bread, ice-cream, etc, but my own juices too. Going to buy a juicer.
The only problem left is the ingredients. My sister, after having my ice-cream, bought an ice-cream maker but lamented how her chocolate ice-cream tasted nothing like mine. She bought a locally-available brand in Kroger (most likely Hershey's). I mail-order Valrhona. Having decent ingredients is difficult in the US. I'm a bit luckier than most because I live on the Mexican border and therefore get a bit more because the local demand matrix is different from the rest of the US.