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Is that Los Angeles, Latin America, or Louisiana?
Context clues tell us it's Los Angeles. I'm sure there's plenty of people who eschew sugar and additives everywhere but in LA there's the whole industry of people who have to run around weighing 15 pounds less than skinny but still appear attractive and healthy and smiley or they won't get work.
(Whereas in the Midwest, cream cheese and butter are needed daily, 10 months of the year, to prevent one from freezing solid.)
The difference between the Midwest and LA is also how fresh the produce is. Most of the produce in the US comes from California so it would make sense that the biggest metro areas closest to the fresh veg and fruit would focus on eating healthy and nutritious foods. The Midwest is the home to some incredible cheese and ice creams, likely much more dairy as a whole. The amount of cow in Midwestern meals is what one would expect the same way proximity to the produce influences CA cuisine.
Clearly it's Latvia.
It ain't Louisiana. Nary one of them is how they cook down there.
La: so you gotta keep cookin that roux…