“Italians would have to try really hard to make Italian food bland and unappetizing (unless we are talking Piedmontese..)”
Not taking the side of these ungrateful layabout complainers, but no matter how “good” the local food is (Thailand, for example), I get very sick and tired of the food after a few weeks in just about every country I travel to. I live in a fairly small city in the scheme of things, but there is restaurants literally from all over the earth here, and there are great asian and mexican markets to obtain unique ingredients to make almost anything. In most of the rest of the world, you have to be in a pretty large city to even remotely have the diversity of food the average american town has.
They should have thought about that before leaving their home countries.