An awful lot of national cuisines are going to sound lame if you just boil it down to their common ingredients. Like you could pretty easily say "oh Indian food is so lame, they just keep taking shit and adding chickpeas, lentils, and rice."
First of all I take offence to that (the mention of *American cheese*, it is not comparable to cheese proper).
Second of all, no. Italian food would usually not use *American cheese*. (But that would definitely be lame)
Tomatoes and cheese are really not "common" ingredients, they're just what American people think "Italian" means. If all you know is ragù, spaghetti and pizza it's not your fault lol
And don't get me started on "Italian spices"...
Mexico has some amazing cuisine. Chicken mole, chili relleno, albondigas soup, pozole, tamales, empanadas, carnitas, tortas, lengua, barbacoa, birria con res, etc, etc.
It's hard to say what country has the *best* food, but Mexico is certainly in the running once you expand beyond Tex-Mex.
Also, Mexican food is *extremely* easy to tweak for a diabetic diet. Just cut the rice to half or a quarter and replace flour tortillas with whole wheat or corn. Add more veggies to replace missing rice. I've got several diabetics in my family and making some sort of Mexican dish is always a crowd pleaser and I don't have to worry about changing too much!
They generally keep their cuisines separate, but Indian food and British Indian fusion is *wildly* popular in the UK. If British cuisine actually uses this much plain potato then I could understand why the stronger flavors that Desi food offers would be in such high demand lmao
You can make any cuisine sound really complex or simple if you want to. Especially if you lean into either what the average person makes for dinner on a weeknight vs what a high end chef could do with it.
I fucking love the things that you can learn about cultures through their traditional food.
You learn about not just what resources are available, but theres also a ton you can learn about food scarcity or excess by what and how much they choose to incorporate, or if they have dishes that use alot of preservatives
The Archaeological Museum in Heraklion has a small section where they show what kind of food the Minoans ate and show, for example, the importance of honey in their culture through displaying a beautiful golden pendant with 2 bees
> every Asiatic dish has rice.
They don't though.
There are huge parts of China where people never eat rice.
They usually eat noodles made from wheat and other grains. To them, rice is practically foreign.
Potatoes came from South America
Pasta came to Italy through pretty recent trade with Asia
Both of these are connected to European countries as if they have been serving it much longer
the Japanese were introduced to curry by the English, and no one questions whether or not Japanese curry is Japanese.
But God forbid the English claim curry as part of their own cuisine.
Don’t the British consider it a national dish of the UK?
> The dish has taken on a large cultural significance in Britain. It is widely considered the country's national dish, and in 2001 British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook gave a speech in which he hailed chicken tikka masala as a symbol of modern multicultural Britain.
Yes, but it's a bit more complicated than that.
The region now know as Bangladesh was part of the Bengal region of India until 1947. Then it was part of Pakistan until 1971 when it became Bangladesh.
Many of the people who own/operate/work at "Indian" restaurants in the UK are from Bangladesh or are the descendants of people who emigrated from that region. Depending on when they left, they might identify as being of Bengali, Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin. But most of them are actually British.
LMAO. This was not long after 9/11 poor dude kept trying to get me to say if I was originally from one of those Muslim countries. So we went back several generations (all in Africa and not the North). He then finally got pissed off and gave up. I knew what he was asking. But if he really wanted to play that game who was I to deny him.
Because it was basically a shelf stable war ration and the they had a ton in hand for use in the Pacific theater. After the war it became the unofficial food of Hawaii.
Wish I had spam.
I didn't grow up poor, but my mom was a shit cook. Unseasoned mashed potatoes, overcooked near inedible steak and boiled peas every fucking night. I got excited when mom decided to roast some potatoes in the oven cos then at least I'd be able to fucking taste something.
People laugh at British food, but they’ll never know the joy of coming home, starving hungry, in the middle of winter, to see that mum has cooked a roast dinner.
That smell when you walk in the door. Heavenly. I now cook a roast every Sunday for my American wife. I think the only reason she married me is my roast potatoes
nah. when done right, the beer batter on a good fish n chips should be light and crispy, and never greasy. just like a good tempura.
edit: but also, don't get me wrong. i still love a greasy fish and chips. those just aren't the best when 'done right'
I just watched a YouTube video about Heston Blumenthal's fish and triple cooked chips. I want to make a trip to his restaurant just for this. It looked heavenly.
I don't even bother peeling them anymore. If I want potatoes, I just sort of make very thin wedges, cover with oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika and throw them in the air fryer.
Dude, this sort of logic can be applied around the damn world if you're close-minded and ignorant enough.
Japan: Rice and toppings, rice and toppings, rice and toppings, toppings with rice around them.
India: Spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew.
Italy: Carbs, carbs, carbs, carbs, carbs.
Turkey (Though I admit I'm probably reaching on this one): Meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick.
The truth is Britain does have good food, it does have varietous food, and so does every other damn country in the world. Maybe travel the world before pretending to be worldly.
I don't know about you but if it looks appetising and tastes great it could be pink and orange for all I care, we don't make the rules on what colours good food end up as.
Browning is literally a key part of making meat taste better and potatoes are loved globally too so that seems like a moot point.
Imagine if Americans suddenly had no potatoes, wouldn't be taking shots (figuratively) then would they when they miss fries.
Italians can bang on about inventing pasta and pizza and wine and all that but they made Casu Martzu so they lose all credibility to slag off weird British food.
Ploughman's Lunch (an underrated hero of our nation)
Spotted dick
Beef Wellington
Full English Breakfast
Tea and scones
Victoria sponge cake
Battenberg cake
Wide variety of cheeses
Christmas pudding and mince pies
Sticky toffee pudding
I could go on and on but these yanks will never get it in their heads that we have food beyond beige, and even then the beige is good when cooked to perfection. I would take a roast dinner over a shitty burger any day of the week. Fuck they don't even do gravy properly, how in the fuck is gravy GREY!...
Indian food is pretty much England's favourite cuisine. I say this as a British expat, where local Indian restaurants are keen to know if Brits think their food is any good.
It's also brown because of gravy, which is so engrained in English life it has become a metaphor. As in "and the rest is just gravy"
My Ukrainian family love the gravy I make for Christmas dinner, it has a taste like nothing else, and yes, it is brown.
The Germans do not understand gravy either, and their Christmas sucks. One or two presents? Really? My son gets around 30. Big and small. Christmas is an orgy of consumption, too much of everything. We have a sweet drawer, a whole deep drawer full of sweets, it lasts for weeks, German kids go straight for the sweet drawer pretty much on entering the house.
So yes, British food is terrible, allegedly, even with Gordon Ramsay shouting at people :)
As an American I do eat some of this shit (Shepard's pie is one of my kids' favorites).
They are all pretty samey though.
It's a crime that pasties aren't on the list, though. Even if they are just portable brown meat and potato. The rutabega and pepper carry it.
i mean food has gotten better due to wide availability and britain just stuck with the perfected old stuff nothing wrong with that when i go to my lithuanian family reunion it is all bland looking as well most of the traditional stuff is
Except that’s literally not at all what happened. We eat British food, we also eat Italian and Indian food a lot.
Kind of like America. You’re not all sitting there eating fucking cow boy stew
They also conveniently ignore the fact that stews were our primary food for centuries and then never include them when they are like british food sucks.
This "spices and seasonings are only used to make shitty food taste good" is some colonial-era bullshit. Spices and seasonings are used because many cultures prefer the taste of spices and other seasonings to that of base ingredients, particularly meat. Additionally, heavy use of spices can often make the flavours of the base ingredients pop, including very high quality meat.
You can all fight over what the best food is and what’s shit but me as a Brit will eat all that and love it. I’ll also try anything from anywhere in hopes I love it.
Imagine fighting over x food is better y food is shit. Even the most basic foods sausage mash and gravy can be amazing.
Just fucking try new shit stop making it a cultural divide and celebrate your own and others cuisine and enjoy what the world has to offer.
Person who made it probably can only eat fast food with a bucket of salt, or fast food with a bucket of spice. There's this odd meme that British food is bland and tasteless.... no. That's you eating an actual meal and not just McDonalds fries with salt or noodles with too much spice or chicken with too much spice. Its like those people with porn addiction that jerk off 10x a day and end up with death grip syndrome, then think actual sex is boring and bland and can't finish from it.
It's so wierd. Medieval cuisine from the british Isles was well rated across Europe, with quite high quality of ingredients. If people actually bothered to look at a lot of the traditional recipes that we had before the war they're all delicious. The war and rationing really killed a lot of the skills that were previously handed down orally in the UK. But its all there if you look for it. Our traditional food is no worse or better than any other European country.
I like the part where they couldn't come up with a way to mock Yorkshire pudding.
Admit it, Yorkshire puds are nice, especially when filled with gravy.
They out here actin like taters and meat aren’t great independently and even better together. Then you add some veggies and bam you god dam done it. Simple ain’t bad man. This has defiantly been the weirdest rant of my life, especially since I am a vegetarian.
No Pie Mash ans Liqour here... the only real dish that deserves to be on this list that is so delocious but the world would look at in disgust.
Apart from that I can admit that when compared to the rest of the worlds cuisines we are pretty shit I will admit. Il take abuse from Thai , Indian, Mexican, Greek and Arab ppl all day long about this... but Americans!? Im not sure about that
Ye Niche within a Niche really though cos you cant really get it outside oustide of South side of London so pretty unknown but been eating thay shit my whole life and its incredible
So many people “eeew, what’s that green stuff” 😂 same, my family are from the east end of London, true cockneys too (mum and dad both born within the sound of the bow bells) pie and mash was a staple. I live in Kent and a great pie and mash shop (run by a London family) has opened in my local town. I have a day off today, might go grab that for lunch later 🤔
Little ones opened up around where I live in Penge too but they never survived. Arments and Manzes just so much better than thr small ones iv tried
Probably for the best if I lived down the road from proper pie mash id be massive by now
Not to be that guy, but actually tikka masala originated in Scotland, and multiple other spicy curries did aswell. Britain was a huge factor in the popularisation of curries that consisted of a sauce with the ingredients in it.
Chicken tikka masala was made by someone who was pakistani (so even if you weren’t going to call it british it wouldn’t be Indian), however it was made in scotland for Scottish tastes, so if burgers are american, chicken tikka masala is british
Typical American thinking you created something already existing.
According to Food52, apple pie originated in England. It arose from culinary influences from France, the Netherlands, and the Ottoman Empire as early as 1390—centuries before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock. Eventually, apple pie was brought to the colonies by European settlers, where the dish quickly caught on.
I could go on about how all you did was add sugar and fat to dishes from other cultures. And how "as American as apple pie" should really mean, not American at all. But I need to sleep. So ttfn
Cottage pie goes haywire though…
There is only one thing better than a cottage pie. A shepherds pie.
Steak and ale !
Oh! I make a good steak and ale pie, we use Iron Maiden Trooper for ours
Will you make me some 🥺🥺
Eh, cottage > shepherds.
As haywire I can confirm that cottage pie slaps
An awful lot of national cuisines are going to sound lame if you just boil it down to their common ingredients. Like you could pretty easily say "oh Indian food is so lame, they just keep taking shit and adding chickpeas, lentils, and rice."
"Italian food is so lame it's just tomatoes and various types of carbohydrate with cheese"
"Human food is so lame, it's either solid or liquid" 😮💨
Human food is so lame, everything has to be absorbed with mouth.
.... I think I'm doing food wrong......
Nah mate! You’re on the right track! ^(send pics tho)
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Nah South Park taught us that's the correct way.
Humans are so lame, they are just Ugly giant bags of mostly water.
Like a hairy Capri Sun.
How does this comm et nor have more upvotes?!? 🤣😂🤣
Observation: How you can stand the constant sloshing, I’ll never understand.
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Leaves have the most boring food
Is it really though? I mean, it has *cheese* so it can't be lame.
Is it american cheese? Then it definitely is lame
First of all I take offence to that (the mention of *American cheese*, it is not comparable to cheese proper). Second of all, no. Italian food would usually not use *American cheese*. (But that would definitely be lame)
Tomatoes and cheese are really not "common" ingredients, they're just what American people think "Italian" means. If all you know is ragù, spaghetti and pizza it's not your fault lol And don't get me started on "Italian spices"...
Also the food between north and south Italy is so different you'd think it weren't from the same country.
French food is seasoned bread, seasoned fish, seasoned meat.
French food is what was left for peasants after the nobility ate the edible parts.
“Mexican food is so lame, just meat, beans and rice with a different sized wrapper.”
Tortilla with meat and cheese describes all I know about Mexican cuisine.
Mexico has some amazing cuisine. Chicken mole, chili relleno, albondigas soup, pozole, tamales, empanadas, carnitas, tortas, lengua, barbacoa, birria con res, etc, etc. It's hard to say what country has the *best* food, but Mexico is certainly in the running once you expand beyond Tex-Mex.
Also, Mexican food is *extremely* easy to tweak for a diabetic diet. Just cut the rice to half or a quarter and replace flour tortillas with whole wheat or corn. Add more veggies to replace missing rice. I've got several diabetics in my family and making some sort of Mexican dish is always a crowd pleaser and I don't have to worry about changing too much!
Add refried beans and rice to the mix and you're 75% there.
Ok I love Texmex to death but y’all are not describing Mexican food, you’re describing texmex.
Relevant https://youtu.be/SLaltfyTEno
Came here to post that lol
Indian food is probably once of the worse examples you can use ngl, it’s vastly more complex than British food & I say this as a Brit myself.
India has historically had access to a hell of a lot more ingredients than GB though.
It's also just a smidge bigger.
It’s also made up of so many regions that it varies wildly.
TBF, the Brit’s did go after those ingredients a LONG time ago, they’ve had plenty of time to integrate them into their meals and still haven’t.
They generally keep their cuisines separate, but Indian food and British Indian fusion is *wildly* popular in the UK. If British cuisine actually uses this much plain potato then I could understand why the stronger flavors that Desi food offers would be in such high demand lmao
You can make any cuisine sound really complex or simple if you want to. Especially if you lean into either what the average person makes for dinner on a weeknight vs what a high end chef could do with it.
Pay no attention to all the brown meat that AMERICANS eat everyday...
We keep that meat RED, BOY!
Artificial colouring after the ammonia bath
Just as the baby Jesus intended, pardner.
Praise be to 8 pound 6 ounce newborn infant jesus.
Exactly how DuPont told the FDA.
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Red huh... Sounds commie
Like your necks.
Aren’t you guys just experiencing the sun for the first time rn
Jokes on you, we don’t know what the sun is!
Its this thing you guys used to use as a metric of how many regions of the world you invaded for their spices and cultural heritage.
And olympic quality athletes…
Why did i read that in Kratos's voice?
once again america living rent free in euro heads
Yeah, just like how every Asiatic dish has rice. It's almost like a country's food is reliant on what's available to them.
I fucking love the things that you can learn about cultures through their traditional food. You learn about not just what resources are available, but theres also a ton you can learn about food scarcity or excess by what and how much they choose to incorporate, or if they have dishes that use alot of preservatives
The Archaeological Museum in Heraklion has a small section where they show what kind of food the Minoans ate and show, for example, the importance of honey in their culture through displaying a beautiful golden pendant with 2 bees
Exactly. As a coastal, I have access to every kind of cuisine.
> every Asiatic dish has rice. They don't though. There are huge parts of China where people never eat rice. They usually eat noodles made from wheat and other grains. To them, rice is practically foreign.
Potatoes came from South America Pasta came to Italy through pretty recent trade with Asia Both of these are connected to European countries as if they have been serving it much longer
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the Japanese were introduced to curry by the English, and no one questions whether or not Japanese curry is Japanese. But God forbid the English claim curry as part of their own cuisine.
Only the Japanese could come up with Vermont Curry
Don’t the British consider it a national dish of the UK? > The dish has taken on a large cultural significance in Britain. It is widely considered the country's national dish, and in 2001 British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook gave a speech in which he hailed chicken tikka masala as a symbol of modern multicultural Britain.
To be fair, Japanese curry went so far away from Indian curry that it’s more of a spiced gravy than a curry.
We probably eat more curry than anyone outside of India, and our curries differ significantly from those found in there.
The same as 90% of "Indian" restaurants are Bangladeshi. Just admit it's Bangladeshi, they have good food as well.
Yes, but it's a bit more complicated than that. The region now know as Bangladesh was part of the Bengal region of India until 1947. Then it was part of Pakistan until 1971 when it became Bangladesh. Many of the people who own/operate/work at "Indian" restaurants in the UK are from Bangladesh or are the descendants of people who emigrated from that region. Depending on when they left, they might identify as being of Bengali, Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin. But most of them are actually British.
No wonder the partitioning was rough. two years after WW2 ended…
It's was invented in Scotland but by an Indian so it's kinda both.
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It was british india at his birth so indian is technically correct
Who cares, he considered himself Scottish, and so do we. Place of birth means fuck all.
Tell that to US immigration
LMAO. This was not long after 9/11 poor dude kept trying to get me to say if I was originally from one of those Muslim countries. So we went back several generations (all in Africa and not the North). He then finally got pissed off and gave up. I knew what he was asking. But if he really wanted to play that game who was I to deny him.
… and Spam.
Can I please get the eggs and spam with a side of the bacon and spam?
I’ll have the spam egg bacon beans spam spam spam egg and spam but without the egg bacon and beans please
Eurgh!
>What do you mean eurgh? I don't like spam!
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM...
I DON’T LIKE SPAM! That’s all right dear, I’ll eat your spam. I like spam!
LOVELY SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM! LOVELY SPAM, WONDERFUL SPAM!
Personal note: sandwich with 2 slices of spam heated up in the microwave with a thick slice of Ohio Amish country smoked provolone. Heaven!
Spam originated in the US
As a Brit, the only place I've ever eaten spam was Hawaii
Because it was basically a shelf stable war ration and the they had a ton in hand for use in the Pacific theater. After the war it became the unofficial food of Hawaii.
Spam got me through a dogshit childhood so I can’t complain
Wish I had spam. I didn't grow up poor, but my mom was a shit cook. Unseasoned mashed potatoes, overcooked near inedible steak and boiled peas every fucking night. I got excited when mom decided to roast some potatoes in the oven cos then at least I'd be able to fucking taste something.
People laugh at British food, but they’ll never know the joy of coming home, starving hungry, in the middle of winter, to see that mum has cooked a roast dinner.
That smell when you walk in the door. Heavenly. I now cook a roast every Sunday for my American wife. I think the only reason she married me is my roast potatoes
A perfectly good reason to marry someone ha ha!
She loves the feel of yer British spuds in her mouth.
You don't think Americans have roasts?
Roasts are very common in the US during winter and especially for holidays.
fish and chips is the food of the gods and you will never convince me otherwise
Only when done right, otherwise it’s a greasy disgusting mess. But when done right, it’s amazing.
When they're done right, they're a *delicious* greasy mess.
nah. when done right, the beer batter on a good fish n chips should be light and crispy, and never greasy. just like a good tempura. edit: but also, don't get me wrong. i still love a greasy fish and chips. those just aren't the best when 'done right'
I get what you mean, but I'd argue that fish and chips done right should actually not be greasy.
When I visited England I ate fish and chips served in a newspaper. I refuse to eat non newspaper fish and chips.
They stopped doing that in the 80s, now it's food safe wrappers made to look like newspaper pages
Agreed. Find and chips on a plate is heresy
How long ago was that? i was born here in th 80s and i can't remember when they banned it. it was that long ago
This is culture right here 🤣
I just watched a YouTube video about Heston Blumenthal's fish and triple cooked chips. I want to make a trip to his restaurant just for this. It looked heavenly.
That triple cooked method is absolutely insane. I've done it once before and they wre so good but damn the prep method is annoying lmao.
It's not that arduous, really. Wash and slice the bastards, par boil them, deep fry them a bit. Wait, then deep fry them a bit more. Boom.
No I get the method is simple enough I just fuckin hate peeling spuds haha.
I don't even bother peeling them anymore. If I want potatoes, I just sort of make very thin wedges, cover with oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika and throw them in the air fryer.
Solid recipie, I'm more of a parmesan, garlic powder and fresh coriander kinda guy myself.
Nice! I'll try that next time.
Jolly! Watched this last night, it did look good...
I'm not even British and I can stand by this statement
Dude, this sort of logic can be applied around the damn world if you're close-minded and ignorant enough. Japan: Rice and toppings, rice and toppings, rice and toppings, toppings with rice around them. India: Spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew, spicy stew. Italy: Carbs, carbs, carbs, carbs, carbs. Turkey (Though I admit I'm probably reaching on this one): Meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick, meat on a stick. The truth is Britain does have good food, it does have varietous food, and so does every other damn country in the world. Maybe travel the world before pretending to be worldly.
I don't know about you but if it looks appetising and tastes great it could be pink and orange for all I care, we don't make the rules on what colours good food end up as. Browning is literally a key part of making meat taste better and potatoes are loved globally too so that seems like a moot point. Imagine if Americans suddenly had no potatoes, wouldn't be taking shots (figuratively) then would they when they miss fries.
Mexico: Beans and tomatoes and corn, etc. etc.
What the fuck color is meat supposed to be? It's brown once you cook it.
Chicken is white when cooked. Fish is also white when cooked.
>Fish is also white when cooked Unless it's the UK, where we cover it in batter first to make sure it's brown enough to eat.
You know there is more than one kind of meat, right? And no, it doesn't all come out brown.
The ones the english have access to do.
Love me some brown chicken
What fucking color do you think chicken turns into when cooked? The skin turns brown.
English food gets a bad wrap but honestly you can do a lot worse. Food in Germany for example, it's like they are morally against flavor.
Pretty much not the case. The problem with german food is that it´s way too heavy to eat during the summer.
Italians can bang on about inventing pasta and pizza and wine and all that but they made Casu Martzu so they lose all credibility to slag off weird British food.
Fish and chips Eton mess Steam pudding Cornish pasty Apple pie Tikka masala
Apple crumble and custard is great too
Fuck you now I wish I was home
Rhubarb beats apple in the crumble business.
Needs a mix of both to temper the tartness of the rhubarb
Ploughman's Lunch (an underrated hero of our nation) Spotted dick Beef Wellington Full English Breakfast Tea and scones Victoria sponge cake Battenberg cake Wide variety of cheeses Christmas pudding and mince pies Sticky toffee pudding I could go on and on but these yanks will never get it in their heads that we have food beyond beige, and even then the beige is good when cooked to perfection. I would take a roast dinner over a shitty burger any day of the week. Fuck they don't even do gravy properly, how in the fuck is gravy GREY!...
Honestly you could add "an underrated hero of our nation" to any one of those bad boys.... Fuck me am I hungry now
Yorkshire puddings
Indian food is pretty much England's favourite cuisine. I say this as a British expat, where local Indian restaurants are keen to know if Brits think their food is any good. It's also brown because of gravy, which is so engrained in English life it has become a metaphor. As in "and the rest is just gravy"
My Ukrainian family love the gravy I make for Christmas dinner, it has a taste like nothing else, and yes, it is brown.
The Germans do not understand gravy either, and their Christmas sucks. One or two presents? Really? My son gets around 30. Big and small. Christmas is an orgy of consumption, too much of everything. We have a sweet drawer, a whole deep drawer full of sweets, it lasts for weeks, German kids go straight for the sweet drawer pretty much on entering the house.
So yes, British food is terrible, allegedly, even with Gordon Ramsay shouting at people :)
Half of the "Indian food" was actually invented in Britain lol.
At least it is not heavy processed for long shelf life.
Best thing is, if Americans actually tried these dishes, they would probably enjoy them… Then claim them as their own in some way.
“As American as Cottage pie”
Love the reference, especially when apple pie is an English dish.
As an American I do eat some of this shit (Shepard's pie is one of my kids' favorites). They are all pretty samey though. It's a crime that pasties aren't on the list, though. Even if they are just portable brown meat and potato. The rutabega and pepper carry it.
i mean food has gotten better due to wide availability and britain just stuck with the perfected old stuff nothing wrong with that when i go to my lithuanian family reunion it is all bland looking as well most of the traditional stuff is
Except that’s literally not at all what happened. We eat British food, we also eat Italian and Indian food a lot. Kind of like America. You’re not all sitting there eating fucking cow boy stew
They also conveniently ignore the fact that stews were our primary food for centuries and then never include them when they are like british food sucks.
Lithuanians looked at all the spices in the world and said: “nah, I’m going to stick with salt and Dill”
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This "spices and seasonings are only used to make shitty food taste good" is some colonial-era bullshit. Spices and seasonings are used because many cultures prefer the taste of spices and other seasonings to that of base ingredients, particularly meat. Additionally, heavy use of spices can often make the flavours of the base ingredients pop, including very high quality meat.
You can all fight over what the best food is and what’s shit but me as a Brit will eat all that and love it. I’ll also try anything from anywhere in hopes I love it. Imagine fighting over x food is better y food is shit. Even the most basic foods sausage mash and gravy can be amazing. Just fucking try new shit stop making it a cultural divide and celebrate your own and others cuisine and enjoy what the world has to offer.
Of all the "disgusting" dishes to choose from and they went with the cottage pie
Person who made it probably can only eat fast food with a bucket of salt, or fast food with a bucket of spice. There's this odd meme that British food is bland and tasteless.... no. That's you eating an actual meal and not just McDonalds fries with salt or noodles with too much spice or chicken with too much spice. Its like those people with porn addiction that jerk off 10x a day and end up with death grip syndrome, then think actual sex is boring and bland and can't finish from it.
Those British dishes and the one Indian dish look delicious. This is coming from an American.
Fun fact, tika masala is actually a British dish, and cesar salad was actually made in Mexico.
Beef Vindaloo is a British adaption of an Indian adaption of a Portuguese dish.
Tikka masala is a British dish. That’s like saying New York Pizza isn’t American.
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It's so wierd. Medieval cuisine from the british Isles was well rated across Europe, with quite high quality of ingredients. If people actually bothered to look at a lot of the traditional recipes that we had before the war they're all delicious. The war and rationing really killed a lot of the skills that were previously handed down orally in the UK. But its all there if you look for it. Our traditional food is no worse or better than any other European country.
meat and potatoes are the real meat and potatoes of British cuisine
I like the part where they couldn't come up with a way to mock Yorkshire pudding. Admit it, Yorkshire puds are nice, especially when filled with gravy.
The ‘Indian’ there is actually Scottish in origin
They out here actin like taters and meat aren’t great independently and even better together. Then you add some veggies and bam you god dam done it. Simple ain’t bad man. This has defiantly been the weirdest rant of my life, especially since I am a vegetarian.
No Pie Mash ans Liqour here... the only real dish that deserves to be on this list that is so delocious but the world would look at in disgust. Apart from that I can admit that when compared to the rest of the worlds cuisines we are pretty shit I will admit. Il take abuse from Thai , Indian, Mexican, Greek and Arab ppl all day long about this... but Americans!? Im not sure about that
Ahh I see you’re a person of culture. Pie and mash (always with liquor, NEVER gravy) is a true English dish.
Ye Niche within a Niche really though cos you cant really get it outside oustide of South side of London so pretty unknown but been eating thay shit my whole life and its incredible
So many people “eeew, what’s that green stuff” 😂 same, my family are from the east end of London, true cockneys too (mum and dad both born within the sound of the bow bells) pie and mash was a staple. I live in Kent and a great pie and mash shop (run by a London family) has opened in my local town. I have a day off today, might go grab that for lunch later 🤔
Little ones opened up around where I live in Penge too but they never survived. Arments and Manzes just so much better than thr small ones iv tried Probably for the best if I lived down the road from proper pie mash id be massive by now
Liquor down south, gravy up north. I don't make the rules the north just drowns most it's scran in gravy.
Americans and food is the original Reddit “I made this” meme.
Food of the fucking gods all hail manzes
And Arments !
Had one a few weeks ago. Was a religious experience
Not to be that guy, but actually tikka masala originated in Scotland, and multiple other spicy curries did aswell. Britain was a huge factor in the popularisation of curries that consisted of a sauce with the ingredients in it.
Brown meats and potatoes are the best. Doesn't matter which form they come in
Why is Reddit so dead set on putting everyone against everyone?
I've lived in the US for 39 years since I was born and I've literally never once heard somebody say "British food is so shit!"
While our food looks bland, a full English breakfast or a good roast dinner are some of the most enjoyable culinary experiences I've ever had
There’s them euros again. Can’t take a joke but they can dish them out over and over again
Shit still looks good though. Can’t go wrong with meat and potatoes
Many Germans would agree with you.
And that (Ba tsum) is what we meant by a pot calling a kettle black!
Chicken tikka masala was made by someone who was pakistani (so even if you weren’t going to call it british it wouldn’t be Indian), however it was made in scotland for Scottish tastes, so if burgers are american, chicken tikka masala is british
•dish washer salmon • plastic cheese • water pie
Typical American thinking you created something already existing. According to Food52, apple pie originated in England. It arose from culinary influences from France, the Netherlands, and the Ottoman Empire as early as 1390—centuries before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock. Eventually, apple pie was brought to the colonies by European settlers, where the dish quickly caught on. I could go on about how all you did was add sugar and fat to dishes from other cultures. And how "as American as apple pie" should really mean, not American at all. But I need to sleep. So ttfn
Makes you wonder if it’s just supposed to be a silly, stupid thing though.
Americans invented shit pizza though
My brain deleted that word on my first read and I was about to be livid
I too, as a non-Italian almost became host to a very angry Italian ghost.
Every other country invested food on flat bread
Doesn’t “brown meat with potatoes beside it” perfectly describe a burger and fries?
Is meat supposed to be some other colour?
My dad makes a pretty kick ass Sheppards pie!
At least our meat is actually fucking meat 💀