re: Does food outside of LA suck?

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How so? I've never really heard of people comparing the shrimp between the states.
I'm guessing the Royal Reds from Alabama and Florida deepwaters would be considered better than La shrimp.

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Just the non-chain non-corporate restaurants along the Alabama Gulf coast but also Mississippi and Florida at least until Pensacola seem to serve a higher quality shrimp. There are some that don't. One popular Mobile area Icon serves shrimp that taste like they came frozen from Vietnam, but the Mom and Pops seem to serve a better quality shrimp than I got in Louisiana. The Louisiana shrimp just don't seem as big, as fresh, or cooked as well. That won't stop me from ordering half and half fried shrimp and Etouffee just about anywhere along I-10/12, just always thought the shrimp back home were better, we just can't get the Etouffee part, and when we do, it tastes like the can it came out of. There is good along with the not quite as good.

Now, don't get me wrong, all of them, in all those places, were still quite delicious, and the typical dishes in Louisiana are unique, I just always felt like the typical good shrimp at a good restaurant along the coast was better in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.

I will be happy to learn otherwise. And I never knew what chicken stew was, and never like red beans and rice, until I went to Louisiana. Best chillie I ever had hands down was cooked by an Acadianan.

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How so? I've never really heard of people comparing the shrimp between the states.
I'm guessing the Royal Reds from Alabama and Florida deepwaters would be considered better than La shrimp.

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I can only really compare Louisiana and Florida, but Louisiana shrimp tastes a little... muddier? while the Florida shrimp taste a bit cleaner. Really only noticeable when boiling. Fried, it's all the same.

I mean outside of New Orleans & Lafayette, most of the food sucks.

Some of the worst food I've had outside La. is when eating at restaurants that think they cook "Cajun or Creole" and that shite is usually pretty bad.

It's like they think if they add some Tony's and Tabasco to the dish it makes it authentic Cajun food.

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I’m in se Asia

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Those night markets are ridiculous. The options are endless and everything is good and cheap.

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The difference lies in the cheap, hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Some of the best food in NOLA comes from those types of places, but in other cities, it’s the blandest, crappiest food you’ll ever eat.

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Generally you have to live in a place to find the good hole in the walls.

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Does food outside of LA suck?

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Yes.
LA has the best food other than Mexican, Pizza, BBQ, Thai, Italian, Chinese, Steak, Burgers, Deli’s, Japanese/Sushi, Cuban and Greek.

The biggest difference I see is not at the restaurants but at peoples homes.

North east, mid west, folks can’t cook worth a shite at home.

Go read the United States of Arugula. Since about 1960 there has been an explosion in interest in cooking, eating, drinking, and all other manners of the culinary arts. People are much better cooks than they were a generation ago and have more food knowledge. Restaurants across America are interesting and varied. We eat much better than ever before and have more access to cuisines and ingredients.

Do some places still have a lot of bad restaurants? Sure. But overall the rest of America has caught up to Louisiana (assuming they were ever really behind).