Oil sounds like the likely culprit to me. About a decade ago a bunch of cities, including Chicago, started regulating the types of oil that could be used for frying in restaurants.
People don't actually believe these are anything more than averages with huge error bars right?
I'm sure there are better essays with similar value, but the one that comes to mind is Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Quest...
They refuse to believe that government thus politics is the problem, not the solution
It’s harder to see these days, but where I live in Albany, NY, McDonalds was in the New England region, and we would get the lobster roll “a New England favorite!”
Head a few miles away and you’d be in an area supplied out of New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Western NY. This sort of thing is noticeable if you live in a place that’s sort of a Venn diagram from a distribution standpoint.
edit: I asked Bard about this, and it told me that websites can get the approx. location of their visitors via the Google Geolocation API:
> To use the Google Geolocation API, a website must first obtain a Google Maps API key. Once they have a key, they can add the following code to their website:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY"></script>
<script>
function getGeolocation() {
var location = navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition();
if (location) {
var lat = location.latitude;
var lng = location.longitude;
// Do something with the location information.
}
}
</script>Instead, it's probably being used for an autocomplete widget to help users type in an address.
We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.