Simple if statment not working
<p>I have this simple code which is supposed to work but it isn't working. The if statement never seems to be true.</p>

<p>JS:</p>

<pre><code>$(document).ready(function(e) {
  var country = "United States";

  $.each($('select[name="country"]').children('option'), function(){
    if($(this).text() == country){
      alert("found");
    }else{
      console.log("Not found");
    }

  });

});
</code></pre>

<p>HTML:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;select name="country"  value="" &gt;
  &lt;option value="0" &gt;Afghanistan &lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="1" &gt;Albania &lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="2" &gt;Algeria &lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="3" &gt;American Samoa &lt;/option&gt;
  .
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</code></pre>

<p>I get no errors in the console.</p>

<p><a href="https://jsfiddle.net/ftLa6dyf/" rel="nofollow">JsFiddle</a></p>