From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC,

this is Frekenomics Radio on Marketplace.

Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.

Time now for a little bit of Frekenomics Radio that moment in the broadcast every couple of weeks

where we talk to Steven Dubner, the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name.

It is the hidden side of everything, as it usually is.

Dubner, it's good to talk to you.

Good to talk to you, Kyra, and I have a question for you.

Of course, you don't mind.

That's kind of the way these things go, isn't it?

On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate America's food?

America's food.

Okay, big topics.

Eight, seven point three.

Yeah, all right.

So was there a right answer or a wrong answer?

No, there's no right answer.

I was curious to know, because you know why?

We love to complain about our food.

We're going to be coming out called an economist gets lunch by Tyler Cowan.

And he explains how he puts it, American food got bad.

And some of the explanations are really interesting.

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