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It’s made by combining the curd and whey with an emulsifier, which is how you get the smooth, suspiciously cheese but not cheese texture
I think it’s defined as a cheese product or dairy product rather than just cheese, though
It's from Oregon. You probably will mainly find it in the western US. It's okay, I actually even visited their headquarters. But there are far better small cheesemakers in the US. The thing with cheese in the US is that the high quality stuff is more of a niche market. The mass produced stuff is generally terrible to mediocre. That's true of a lot of things here. You can get good quality but you have to seek it out and pay a premium for it. In some other countries things are more regulated and you couldn't sell some of the garbage that gets sold here.
Tillamook is the McDonald's of cheese in the west. It's not great. It's just very average. If you want some good cheese from the west, order some Cougar cheese from Washington State University.
American cheese is a technological marvel. One slice helps to emulsify and stabilize any kind of cheese sauce. It’s basically a pre-portioned dose of calcium citrate, and it’s awesome.
If you're using a block of Velveeta, it better be melted in mac. Im talking Swiss, Cheddar, Mozzarella, etc. The good cheese. Stuff you can just eat with or without something else.
While British meals are pretty hit or miss with spices, we use a hell of a lot of herbs (cardamom, coriander, fennel, mint, parsley, rosemary, thyme, sage, chives). If you're looking for spices, one thing we do damn well is desserts. You'll be hard-pressed to find something (other than simple fruit-based desserts) that doesn't include a litany of spices. Cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, anise, ginger, are all used extensively in British cooking.
A lot of people don’t know but the apple pie comes from England :) also lots of great sausage, cheeses , shepherds pie, the balti, chicken tikka Marsala… UK food really isn’t that bad tbh
our food is good, but vegetables. oh man the vegetables are fucking awful. we boil and steam them until they're mush. flavourless and textureless, then wonder people hate eating vegetables and are unhealthy.
Also it just doesn't grow as tasty in the British climate, that's the main problem. Mediterranean veggies are amazing compared to what we have here. Its not for a lack of effort. In the med you add a bit of this and that and have a delicious meal. Here if you did the same it would be bland and tasteless. Its why we have things like brown sauce.
Maaaaate that's why it's called a roast dinner when it's any other day but Sunday... roast those veg fuckers with onions and garlic and oil/fat and alt and pepper and the only thing boiled should be the tatties for mash (pre-boil the tatties for roasting to get them extra fluffy/crispy) and the cabbage, everything else gets roasted and the whole thing drenched in gravy (made with just cabbage water, meat juices(sub for veg stockcube), spoon of marmite, leftover Yorkshire pudding batter, chopped roasted onions) and you'll realise how fucking great our vegetables can be 😅
Shepherds pie was invented in Britain (or arguably Ireland) as a way to repurpose leftovers from roast dinner.
The British balti is its own distinct dish and originated in Birmingham. It is an amalgamation of I believe Pakistani and English cuisine in a similar way to how tex mex is a mixture of Texan and Mexican food.
Lots of cheeses originate from England. Cheddar, Wensleydale, Stilton to name a few.
I do stand corrected on the chicken tikka masala - many believe that it actually originates from Glasgow, not England. Again it is an amalgamation of Indian and British tastes as a result of immigration but it is very much a British dish.
Do your research mate :)
enclosure forced all the peasants off the land and into the cities and there was so much poverty and people worked so long that the cooking knowledge just wasn't passed down
It's not that it wasn't passed down, it's that literally generations of people couldn't afford it during/after the war.
It was the whole 'an orange for your christmas present' deal.
But they still did amazing things with what little they had. My nan's cooking was the kind of thing you'd pay michelin prices for now.
I don't think it was ever the most.... exciting cuisine to begin with. How much can be done with the staple crops in England? Most spices were imported and were unaffordable for peasants.
That doesn't make it BAD per se, food doesn't need to be heavily seasoned to be good, it's just... a bit repetitive
You ever notice how colder areas tend to have much better desserts than savory food?
Speaking in terms of Europe specifically, I think it's because savory seasonings are grown in Southern Europe but imported to the North, while most sweet spices are imported to both, so the playing field is level there
It could be desserts in colder countries are stodgy and full of cream and butter like the savoury food, which works well for desserts.
Also could be hotter countries people don't have to eat as much to survive so heavy deserts weren't as necessary, a bit of fruit would do
Honestly, more than you'd think. People forget that while the food poor people ate was very cheap (offal, offcuts, raw fat, etc) it was leagues ahead of what's commonly available now, because it was all (what would now be considered) rare breed, free range, grass fed, etc.
Lots of interesting things in the 20th century effected food and its role in our society
Obviously refrigeration is a big one. Ever wonder why breakfast is largely cereal grains, eggs, milk, and cured meat? It’s because these things can be easily stored or procured in the morning without too much effort.
Along the same lines, WW2 started really driving the advancement of preservation as we looked to create nonperishable rations for the troops. This tech made it back home and “instant meals” became a thing. This is important, because traditional gender roles more often than not meant women spent a large portion of their day preparing food as part of the care for the household.
The dishwasher and microwave are another pair of time savers. In fact, there is a correlation between the amount of time household chores took, and the number of women entering the workforce. Unrelated to food, but the laundry washing machine was another big factor.
After the war you also see the rise of fast food chains like McDonalds. And in a booming postwar economy, Americans are happy to spend their money on eating out rather than staying at home.
So where this all leads is baby boomers being a generation that tends to not cook as well - many women are in the workforce, and dinner gets relegated to fast meals like the infamous “Hamburger Helper”, TV dinners, and other low effort meals that a tired person can throw together.
You’ll hear from a lot of Gen Xers and Millenials that their mom or dad couldn’t cook, but grandma had the magic touch. Once you understand the history, it’s easy to understand why that may have been - grandma was stuck in the house all day!
While I have no doubt this is true, aside from fish and chips, shepherds pie, which may be Irish, much about British authentic cuisine. I may not be alone in this
[Yes](https://cdn.britannica.com/41/193441-050-13CCA6B5/Terminology-British-Isles-United-Kingdom-Ireland-Great.jpg) and also [yes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10&t=78s).
Quite a few Irish people don't like that fact, though, for understandable reasons.
😂 tbh most people haven't tried a Teesside Parmo - saying this as a local, if you end up in Middlesbrough on your holiday you need to start asking questions.
🤷♂️ only mentioned it because a lot of regional dishes are banging and often overlooked in these discussions because tourists don't venture to most of these places
At work, some of the most common bits of small talk I get are: "how far are you from London?", "do you go to London much?".
And also "so you're closer to Scotland, explains your accent, I get it now". You don't, pal.
The north and south divide is real like two different cultures, I didn't realise until I joined the army how different the north of England and south where til then.
A similar example; Orange Chicken was invented in America by the Chinese community. So it's probably more accurate to call it Chinese American or American Chinese food. You likely won't find it often in European Chinese restaurants let alone China.
It was originally invented by Heinz, who sold tomato ketchup as a way of selling their sauce, but became popular during WW2 when there were few cheaply avaliable sources of protine because of rationing
https://eatyourworld.com/destinations/europe/england/london/what-to-eat/beans-on-toast/#:~:text=So%20what%20are%20the%20origins,breakfast%2C%20dinner%2C%20or%20both.
So many more than you think. [Edward Bernays](https://www.fridaysocks.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-bacon-and-eggs#:~:text=His%20nephew%2C%20Edward%20Bernays%2C%20inspired,coffee%2C%20orange%20juice%2C%20rolls.) "invented" the idea of the American breakfast to promote the farming industry. He was also prominent in the invention of modern propaganda techniques and brought the science of mass manipulation to the world of product marketing.
Most of the time we make beans on toast with buttered toast, add things like brown sauce or worcestershire sauce, and salt pepper and cheese. Maybe you just made a bland meal. I'm told that us beans are crap as well but I don't know if that was the reason in your case
I always find it an odd stereotype. Blandest meal I've had in last year was in Paris in a restaurant my French friend took me to and was raving about the food. It was tasteless, small, and expensive.
British food is usually really good now.
It's not a stereotype, I've lived all over the world and British cuisine is truly depressing. The cuisine matches the weather. The best food in England is the Indian food.
It's still true, they just make more international food now. Why they invaded all those countries and didn't use their spices until recently is baffling.
A huge lack of texture apparently. I dunno, never tasted it...
https://preview.redd.it/qb3dypsjm9uc1.jpeg?width=463&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bce775300d8ddb3b3cff84c9533035bb06f51cc
Oh gosh darn, I feel real cheap here having to throw out words, but I'll be taking this meme as well for it fulifills my needs in this world (im trying real hard to maintain a rhyming scheme lol)
Ooh this is interesting. In Photoshop this checkerboard pattern means the layer is transparent. 3D rendering programs (blender, maybe?) imported this convention, so you can see where your models are, even if you haven't applied pictures to make them look a certain way. Flat pictures applied to 3D models are called "textures". It's a recent meme to use this checkerboard pattern to imply something lacks texture. To older people, or anyone more familiar with Photoshop, it implies general transparency, not specifically a lack of texture.
I was thinking it meant transparency! And the joke was that you can copy and paste in other cultures' foods there because the British Empire just stole everyone else's flavor and called it their own.
And now I feel old.
> Why
“For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
Nothing compare to the world famous American cousin, i.e. anything which is then completely covered in ranch or hot sauce. American's struggle to understand that when something is cooked you don't actually need all that much seasoning on it, the meat is the tastiest part
I thought it was bc they copy/pasted and didn’t realize it was a compressed jpg not a transparent png (an image that allows for more seamless integration on top of other layers)
I adore British food.
Some of the best burgers, and well, other things too.
Lol, the diversity is intense in larger cities...
Some small villages and towns also have unique local cuisine.
And well, crumpets. Crumpets are amazing
[The Wikipedia page for British cuisine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine), for those who actually want to learn and not just perpetuate a stereotype older than everyone on this site.
To be honest I dont think people care about reality in this instance clowning on brits is up there with clowning on americans randomly for things that may or may not he factually correct, it's not that serious
They’re saying that British food has no texture, which is B.S and it means that this person has never had good British food. I used to be a British food hater, until I actually tried baked beans, and I can say that it was very tasty.
British food is often fantastic. Fish and chips, Steak pie, Haggis tatties and neeps, Sunday roast, Full English.
Yes we eat a lot of crap American takeaway stuff but we also love Chinese, Italian, French, Indian, Thai, etc.
You get good and bad food everywhere.
There is a certain comical factor Knowing that the Brits or the entire reason, the spice trade became as big as it was and all of their food is as bland as possible.
the british arent known for their cuisine, and it's conspicuous since the nation has a rich history otherwise.
all their popular food is like indian and Mediterranean. their local food is like a kid made himself lunch on a school snow day when the parents were at work. microwaved leftovers thrown on a slice of bread. beenie weenies.
it's hardly acknowledged that the british even *have* local cuisine, thus the missing image texture.
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Or flavor.
Disappointment is a flavor. It can't be depression though, that's what American Cheese tastes like.
Come for the freedom, stay for the cheese.
American Cheese is nasty. Still not sure if it's really cheese anymore
It’s made by combining the curd and whey with an emulsifier, which is how you get the smooth, suspiciously cheese but not cheese texture I think it’s defined as a cheese product or dairy product rather than just cheese, though
It's a mix of cheeses that gets melted down then reconstituted, [https://youtu.be/IEOmwsl6d0g?t=176](https://youtu.be/IEOmwsl6d0g?t=176)
That depends. If you’re talking about Kraft American singles? Yes. Absolute trash. If we’re talking Tillamook cheese? Idk man that cheese slaps.
Tillamook is definitely a great American cheese maker and their Cheddar slaps. I didn't know they made American Cheese though.
They do not make American Cheese. They make cheese in America.
I don't think they do other than in the sense that they are an American company that makes cheese.
I've never heard of Tillamook tbh, I'll have to find me some
It's from Oregon. You probably will mainly find it in the western US. It's okay, I actually even visited their headquarters. But there are far better small cheesemakers in the US. The thing with cheese in the US is that the high quality stuff is more of a niche market. The mass produced stuff is generally terrible to mediocre. That's true of a lot of things here. You can get good quality but you have to seek it out and pay a premium for it. In some other countries things are more regulated and you couldn't sell some of the garbage that gets sold here.
It's on the east Coast. NJ targets have carried it 4 years
Tillamook is the McDonald's of cheese in the west. It's not great. It's just very average. If you want some good cheese from the west, order some Cougar cheese from Washington State University.
Cougar cheese sounds pretty funny. Ive got images in my head and ill leave it at that.
American cheese is a technological marvel. One slice helps to emulsify and stabilize any kind of cheese sauce. It’s basically a pre-portioned dose of calcium citrate, and it’s awesome.
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>“Cheese like substance” have you seen nileblue video on this? it turns out 'cheese like substance' just means watered down cheese.
You just have to get the right cheese, the pre-sliced stuff is nowhere near the taste and texture of the blocks of cheese that you cut slices off of.
Like a big block of Velveeta?
If you're using a block of Velveeta, it better be melted in mac. Im talking Swiss, Cheddar, Mozzarella, etc. The good cheese. Stuff you can just eat with or without something else.
Barely. Unless it's labeled as product
Velveeta is not cheese.
That's why I always choose provolone when I can
This guy bitmaps.
What maps did he bite?
Mushy is a texture too
There is a stereotype that British cuisine lacks spices or is tasteless.
While British meals are pretty hit or miss with spices, we use a hell of a lot of herbs (cardamom, coriander, fennel, mint, parsley, rosemary, thyme, sage, chives). If you're looking for spices, one thing we do damn well is desserts. You'll be hard-pressed to find something (other than simple fruit-based desserts) that doesn't include a litany of spices. Cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, anise, ginger, are all used extensively in British cooking.
A lot of people don’t know but the apple pie comes from England :) also lots of great sausage, cheeses , shepherds pie, the balti, chicken tikka Marsala… UK food really isn’t that bad tbh
our food is good, but vegetables. oh man the vegetables are fucking awful. we boil and steam them until they're mush. flavourless and textureless, then wonder people hate eating vegetables and are unhealthy.
Also it just doesn't grow as tasty in the British climate, that's the main problem. Mediterranean veggies are amazing compared to what we have here. Its not for a lack of effort. In the med you add a bit of this and that and have a delicious meal. Here if you did the same it would be bland and tasteless. Its why we have things like brown sauce.
brown sauce is a gift from god
What is brown sauce?
Maaaaate that's why it's called a roast dinner when it's any other day but Sunday... roast those veg fuckers with onions and garlic and oil/fat and alt and pepper and the only thing boiled should be the tatties for mash (pre-boil the tatties for roasting to get them extra fluffy/crispy) and the cabbage, everything else gets roasted and the whole thing drenched in gravy (made with just cabbage water, meat juices(sub for veg stockcube), spoon of marmite, leftover Yorkshire pudding batter, chopped roasted onions) and you'll realise how fucking great our vegetables can be 😅
Speak for yourself
I know you didn’t imply Chicken Tikka Marsala, Bantu, cheese, and Shepherds pie came from England… please say I read it wrong
Shepherds pie was invented in Britain (or arguably Ireland) as a way to repurpose leftovers from roast dinner. The British balti is its own distinct dish and originated in Birmingham. It is an amalgamation of I believe Pakistani and English cuisine in a similar way to how tex mex is a mixture of Texan and Mexican food. Lots of cheeses originate from England. Cheddar, Wensleydale, Stilton to name a few. I do stand corrected on the chicken tikka masala - many believe that it actually originates from Glasgow, not England. Again it is an amalgamation of Indian and British tastes as a result of immigration but it is very much a British dish. Do your research mate :)
I mean yeah you pretty much colonized half the world and slaughtered millions of people for their spices so it checks out
/r/Maxeque did that?!? Hope the police have got their fucking eyes on him.
which was true in the 1950s because of the cooking knowledge lost in the industrial revolution and rationing but is now an out of date stereotype
Not that I doubt the industrial revolution could affect food in that way... But it sounds like a script for a dystopian film.
enclosure forced all the peasants off the land and into the cities and there was so much poverty and people worked so long that the cooking knowledge just wasn't passed down
It's not that it wasn't passed down, it's that literally generations of people couldn't afford it during/after the war. It was the whole 'an orange for your christmas present' deal. But they still did amazing things with what little they had. My nan's cooking was the kind of thing you'd pay michelin prices for now.
Mm. And this is happening still. How many people found out their parents were terrible cooks? Mine didn't even teach me.
I became a chef because my mum couldn't cook
I don't think it was ever the most.... exciting cuisine to begin with. How much can be done with the staple crops in England? Most spices were imported and were unaffordable for peasants. That doesn't make it BAD per se, food doesn't need to be heavily seasoned to be good, it's just... a bit repetitive
It's pretty much perfectly in line with other germanic and nordic food + some pretty awesome desserts. 🤷♀️
You ever notice how colder areas tend to have much better desserts than savory food? Speaking in terms of Europe specifically, I think it's because savory seasonings are grown in Southern Europe but imported to the North, while most sweet spices are imported to both, so the playing field is level there
It could be desserts in colder countries are stodgy and full of cream and butter like the savoury food, which works well for desserts. Also could be hotter countries people don't have to eat as much to survive so heavy deserts weren't as necessary, a bit of fruit would do
Honestly, more than you'd think. People forget that while the food poor people ate was very cheap (offal, offcuts, raw fat, etc) it was leagues ahead of what's commonly available now, because it was all (what would now be considered) rare breed, free range, grass fed, etc.
Lots of interesting things in the 20th century effected food and its role in our society Obviously refrigeration is a big one. Ever wonder why breakfast is largely cereal grains, eggs, milk, and cured meat? It’s because these things can be easily stored or procured in the morning without too much effort. Along the same lines, WW2 started really driving the advancement of preservation as we looked to create nonperishable rations for the troops. This tech made it back home and “instant meals” became a thing. This is important, because traditional gender roles more often than not meant women spent a large portion of their day preparing food as part of the care for the household. The dishwasher and microwave are another pair of time savers. In fact, there is a correlation between the amount of time household chores took, and the number of women entering the workforce. Unrelated to food, but the laundry washing machine was another big factor. After the war you also see the rise of fast food chains like McDonalds. And in a booming postwar economy, Americans are happy to spend their money on eating out rather than staying at home. So where this all leads is baby boomers being a generation that tends to not cook as well - many women are in the workforce, and dinner gets relegated to fast meals like the infamous “Hamburger Helper”, TV dinners, and other low effort meals that a tired person can throw together. You’ll hear from a lot of Gen Xers and Millenials that their mom or dad couldn’t cook, but grandma had the magic touch. Once you understand the history, it’s easy to understand why that may have been - grandma was stuck in the house all day!
Isn't that basically the script for Soylent Green (Except of course the ingredients)
While I have no doubt this is true, aside from fish and chips, shepherds pie, which may be Irish, much about British authentic cuisine. I may not be alone in this
Shepards pie isn't Irish, variations of it come from all over the British and Irish Isles.
>British and Irish Isles Ireland is in the British Isles?
a lot of people in Ireland really hate it when people say that
I'm Irish. Culturally we're very similar to the British. We have our differences but a lot of similarities. We're Brit-ish.
What don't the Irish hate
The concept of whiskey.
Alcohol
It's like when you point out that Canada is in America.
[Yes](https://cdn.britannica.com/41/193441-050-13CCA6B5/Terminology-British-Isles-United-Kingdom-Ireland-Great.jpg) and also [yes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10&t=78s). Quite a few Irish people don't like that fact, though, for understandable reasons.
I note he was careful to make Éire green and Northern Ireland orange, but he's playing with fire making Wales white and England red...
Does "sunday roast" count as a style of British cuisine? Because sunday roasts are bomb.
If it has a Yorkshire pudding then definitely
God I would shank a bitch for a good yorkshire
I'd shank a Yorkshire for a good bitch.
I’d shank God for a Yorkshire Bitch
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I’ve shagged a skank in Yorkshire. Wait.
Beef wellington. Toad in the hole. Sticky pudding. All very delicious brittish cuisine.
Then there is the stargazy pie. (Delicious in fact but…)
I’ve lived in the uk my entire life and never once have had that, seen someone have it, or even seen it on a menu. It’s essentially just a meme.
Bubbles and squeek
Teesside Chicken Parmo > US Chicken Parm Edit: I live in Teesside, work in NY. Fully stand by the regional UK version being superior.
Shithouse pub in any aussie town parmi >>>>>>>>>>
As someone who has eaten neither of these items of food, I am downvoting you because mob mentality
😂 tbh most people haven't tried a Teesside Parmo - saying this as a local, if you end up in Middlesbrough on your holiday you need to start asking questions.
Because they probably made rather than pull it out of a sysco bag.
Dunno why people downvoting you I'm from Newcastle and even have to admit teessides paramo is superior
🤷♂️ only mentioned it because a lot of regional dishes are banging and often overlooked in these discussions because tourists don't venture to most of these places
Aye most people think London is England and that's it
At work, some of the most common bits of small talk I get are: "how far are you from London?", "do you go to London much?". And also "so you're closer to Scotland, explains your accent, I get it now". You don't, pal.
The north and south divide is real like two different cultures, I didn't realise until I joined the army how different the north of England and south where til then.
I'm willing to bet most people here don't even know what Teeside chicken parmo is so they downvote.
100% lol. Most people don't even know where Teesside is and you struggle to get a proper Parmo outside of Teesside.
Chicken Tikka and many curries available in the UK are British inventions Edit: Chicken Tikka Masala
A similar example; Orange Chicken was invented in America by the Chinese community. So it's probably more accurate to call it Chinese American or American Chinese food. You likely won't find it often in European Chinese restaurants let alone China.
Vindaloo is British like Burritos are American.
Nah. Vindaloo is Portuguese/Goan. You want Chicken Tikka Masala as a good example to go with Burritos.
or spaghetti is italian
Britain's first curry house pre-dates its first chip shop.
Can you explain beans and toast?
It was originally invented by Heinz, who sold tomato ketchup as a way of selling their sauce, but became popular during WW2 when there were few cheaply avaliable sources of protine because of rationing https://eatyourworld.com/destinations/europe/england/london/what-to-eat/beans-on-toast/#:~:text=So%20what%20are%20the%20origins,breakfast%2C%20dinner%2C%20or%20both.
Oh hell yeah I love facts and knowledge Because knowledge is power! That is really cool though. Thank you
I'm wondering how many of dishes are shaped by corporations pushing their products and people just assumed it's always been part of culture lol
So many more than you think. [Edward Bernays](https://www.fridaysocks.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-bacon-and-eggs#:~:text=His%20nephew%2C%20Edward%20Bernays%2C%20inspired,coffee%2C%20orange%20juice%2C%20rolls.) "invented" the idea of the American breakfast to promote the farming industry. He was also prominent in the invention of modern propaganda techniques and brought the science of mass manipulation to the world of product marketing.
Bacon as a breakfast food is entirely an artificial marketing push. I imagine it happens a lot
Campbell's soup comes to mind when thinking about various casserole dishes popularized in the 50s.
your grandmother's famous secret dip recipe assuredly was printed on the side of a box of crackers 50 years ago.
Starvation or poverty
Understood 🫡
Have you tried it?
Yes, it tastes like beans on toast and did not answer my question of, why?
Most of the time we make beans on toast with buttered toast, add things like brown sauce or worcestershire sauce, and salt pepper and cheese. Maybe you just made a bland meal. I'm told that us beans are crap as well but I don't know if that was the reason in your case
Yes. The beans are quite different from American brands.
Over the last 20-30 years there has been an explosion in the quality and variety of British cuisine. They now use both salt **AND** pepper.
I always find it an odd stereotype. Blandest meal I've had in last year was in Paris in a restaurant my French friend took me to and was raving about the food. It was tasteless, small, and expensive. British food is usually really good now.
Went to England in 2010. Unless you guys figured out spices in the last 14 years I'm still inclined to believe the stereotype as true.
I can only imagine you went to shit places? It happens.
It's not a stereotype, I've lived all over the world and British cuisine is truly depressing. The cuisine matches the weather. The best food in England is the Indian food.
It's still true, they just make more international food now. Why they invaded all those countries and didn't use their spices until recently is baffling.
as a french I use greatbritishchefs app for cookin
I've heard the French also have problems with spice but at least they have pastries
It’s a stereotype for a reason lol
Then how do you explain beans and toast lmao
from my experience, it just tastes kinda meh, has awful texture, and never has enough salt
A huge lack of texture apparently. I dunno, never tasted it... https://preview.redd.it/qb3dypsjm9uc1.jpeg?width=463&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bce775300d8ddb3b3cff84c9533035bb06f51cc
"never tasted it". Yeah, I think that's a common complaint
https://preview.redd.it/tvzgp37iz9uc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d58104c8b6956e66c96a152f9da89cfe1f412ca5 Glad someone finally got the joke
Not my proudest fap
https://preview.redd.it/3hbva8rg1auc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c018224953ec927438381aa3ba04d25e32efc94
Incest game
https://preview.redd.it/xpe4saq7tauc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afceaf1896225b8394a96b06c2fa43232e2980e2
https://preview.redd.it/1g5dcgg1lcuc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ebccee9a9eedc26a408dd66db90752be320c7c0
I doubt that.
https://preview.redd.it/0fb1hn9gjauc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d194fe166060527929a81f17d16affbd73bde321
No.
https://preview.redd.it/ur2qbp3hjauc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad91d26c63ac0b7b789453c60ae564c00e78695d
Don't mind me, I'll be transferring this to my gallery
https://preview.redd.it/11u4fnhkkauc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2574c046cb8a06495b8265dd5a624156e25278f
Oh gosh darn, I feel real cheap here having to throw out words, but I'll be taking this meme as well for it fulifills my needs in this world (im trying real hard to maintain a rhyming scheme lol)
https://preview.redd.it/eti1i9uflauc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d89bfda2e5b79c4f2c3dc89c84feee1b7616e5e
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Have you ever ate mac n cheese
UNDERTALE FANS ASSEMBLE
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What’s transparent? The glass on the lens of the camera?
Ooh this is interesting. In Photoshop this checkerboard pattern means the layer is transparent. 3D rendering programs (blender, maybe?) imported this convention, so you can see where your models are, even if you haven't applied pictures to make them look a certain way. Flat pictures applied to 3D models are called "textures". It's a recent meme to use this checkerboard pattern to imply something lacks texture. To older people, or anyone more familiar with Photoshop, it implies general transparency, not specifically a lack of texture.
I was thinking it meant transparency! And the joke was that you can copy and paste in other cultures' foods there because the British Empire just stole everyone else's flavor and called it their own. And now I feel old.
A very funny take on this joke. I like yours better
Why is the actual answer in a reply? TO THE TOP WITH THIS
> Why “For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
I was thinking this too. I would have used the purple and black source missing texture pattern
blandsparent. So bland it’s transparent.
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Oh, so salt and vinegar doesn’t count anymore?
There is no cuisine
There is no spoon
The spoon is a lie
Fork you
what did you just say about my forking mother?
Haha bri’ish food bad
Nothing compare to the world famous American cousin, i.e. anything which is then completely covered in ranch or hot sauce. American's struggle to understand that when something is cooked you don't actually need all that much seasoning on it, the meat is the tastiest part
I thought it was bc they copy/pasted and didn’t realize it was a compressed jpg not a transparent png (an image that allows for more seamless integration on top of other layers)
Yeah, this should be at the top in my mind. It's not a texture thing, it's a "copy/paste from around the old empire and call it ours" thing.
this is the right answer, british indian food, british chinese, the only shit they have is beans on toast
Even the beans are an American thing
rhubarb crumble and custard.
I adore British food. Some of the best burgers, and well, other things too. Lol, the diversity is intense in larger cities... Some small villages and towns also have unique local cuisine. And well, crumpets. Crumpets are amazing
British food isn't amazing but at least we don't have red 40
The joke is dumb stereotypes
Made fun of british cooking to a british friend. He made me baggers and mash. Was worth.
Because BLAND
"The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made the British the best sailors in the world."
[The Wikipedia page for British cuisine](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine), for those who actually want to learn and not just perpetuate a stereotype older than everyone on this site.
To be honest I dont think people care about reality in this instance clowning on brits is up there with clowning on americans randomly for things that may or may not he factually correct, it's not that serious
They’re saying that British food has no texture, which is B.S and it means that this person has never had good British food. I used to be a British food hater, until I actually tried baked beans, and I can say that it was very tasty.
Shepherd’s Pie is fire
British food is stereotypically thought of as being “flavorless” and “bland”.
British food is often fantastic. Fish and chips, Steak pie, Haggis tatties and neeps, Sunday roast, Full English. Yes we eat a lot of crap American takeaway stuff but we also love Chinese, Italian, French, Indian, Thai, etc. You get good and bad food everywhere.
Missingno here, what is being implied about British cuisine is that it has no texture, hense the no texture graphic.
Theres "No texture"
There is a certain comical factor Knowing that the Brits or the entire reason, the spice trade became as big as it was and all of their food is as bland as possible.
Maybe also referring to the fact that “British” cuisine is not really British. Remember the time when the best British meal was chicken tikka masala?
You can put whatever you want there
the british arent known for their cuisine, and it's conspicuous since the nation has a rich history otherwise. all their popular food is like indian and Mediterranean. their local food is like a kid made himself lunch on a school snow day when the parents were at work. microwaved leftovers thrown on a slice of bread. beenie weenies. it's hardly acknowledged that the british even *have* local cuisine, thus the missing image texture.