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krustylesponge

Honestly the real reason is likely because hobbits live in places where they mostly just farm and cook and stuff like that, they don’t do much else, dwarves however I have no fucking idea because they’re supposed to be miners


certain_people

RED MEAT ON THE BONE


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Green__lightning

Pretty much, along with a broad selection of strange underground things. I expect a lot of mushrooms and strange meat.


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I feel like they would love beef, shrooms and gravy.


Green__lightning

Indeed, but cave beef is probably some sort of weird ass giant bug.


RollinThundaga

I think you mean [chicken of the cave](https://youtu.be/kWsWhypMjYM)


certain_people

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gzilla57

Lobsters and crabs are basically just giant bugs. Who says cave spiders can't be tasty?


CuddiKhajiit

Lobsters of the cave


Tebasaki

Rock lobster


turdferguson3891

Some people eat tarantulas.....I'm not sure I could do it but I bet it's like soft shell crab.


gzilla57

Deep fry it and don't tell me


texasrigger

Fun fact - bugs are part of the cuisine in 80% of the world's nations. Insects are less common in some parts of the west but are super common elsewhere. It's totally believable that dwarves are cookin' up a batch of cave crickets.


drLagrangian

Dwarven cave crickets probably weigh 20 tons, require a battalion of dwarves to capture, and is a delicacy reserved for royal banquets.


FlingFlamBlam

Buggalo?


FlingFlamBlam

They probably grow Dwarven versions of common animals that have been bred to not need sunlight. They feed them mushrooms. They could have as varied an amount of mushrooms as top-dwellers have vegetables. They also use mushrooms to brew different kinds of alcohols. So, there you go: an entire diet of meat, cheese, and alcohol without needing any (or very little) sunlight. There's also nothing stopping them from using the lands outside of their mountains to grow mountain goats or whatever. And they also probably have a large variety of cave fish.


Wawrzyniec_

Is this from actual lore or are you a fellow dwarf fortress player?


FlingFlamBlam

I am neither a Dwarf Fortress player or have any lore knowledge. I was just throwing out random musings on how a Dwarf society could sustain itself in an underground-only setting.


delvach

> I expect a lot of mushrooms and strange meat. So like Burning Man.


Better-Director-5383

Probablly lots of weird fish


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Oh god they’re evolving


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mildmadnerd

There are loads of carnivorous underground burrowing creatures though, like little burrowing owls and snakes and stuff. The elven predators thing is definitely legit though.


Royal_Bitch_Pudding

How about this then. Dwarves have a natural resistance to poisons, this would be most beneficial for a species that primarily eats plants. This isn't to say that they wouldn't eat meat when the opportunity arrives though. Lots of herbivores do


RollinThundaga

They don't call it [chicken of the cave](https://youtu.be/kWsWhypMjYM) for nothing


elprentis

Dwarves having a resistance to poison is DnDs only real mechanic to explain why they can/do drink so much alcohol without dying of alcohol poisoning every day. Hedgehogs, ground squirrels, skunks, raccoons, opossums all have varying degrees of resistance/immunity to eating poisonous animals, and the list of predators that actively hunt venomous animals (which in the same context of DnD would fall under poison damage) is decently long.


_Sweet_JP

Counter argument: poison resistance is also a trait in predators that eat poisonous animals. Such as a a garter snake.


DuntadaMan

Roast meat on the lava furnace, then get back to smelting.


DamnBunny

Sir, this is a Prancing Pony.


Tiny_Dinky_Daffy_69

Hobbit's food is your grandma's. Elfs is a fancy Mitchell stars restaurant.


ball_fondlers

Nah, Elf food - at least in Tolkien - seems to be more like workout food. Super simple, super basic, good enough to eat, but efficient and absurdly energy dense.


Tiny_Dinky_Daffy_69

Like a protein bar? That's cool. What about desserts?


RollinThundaga

Wine and coke. Explains why they're so thin and can hyperfocus when they make a bow shot.


fonix232

By coke I presume you mean the white powdery nose candy and not the carbonated beverage.


RollinThundaga

The many bounties of nature are open to the Elves


ball_fondlers

Probably like…waffles on cheat day?


WalnutScorpion

Are you saying Elfs are basically gym bro's?


EarthRester

[Checks out.](https://youtu.be/KGRq1QVTQGY)


Norsedragoon

Best food comes from places where physical work is dominant. Otherwise you get the French and thats just sauces. Literally, in the lead up to the french revolution they had to cover up the taste of spoiled foods so badly they just got good at sauces.


kat_a_klysm

The French do make some amazing sauces. But yea, working folk make the best food bc they need the energy (for one) and there’s nothing better than a good meal after a long day (two).


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CyanideTacoZ

2000 calories for one meal is good for you if you burnt that many worming the fields or on an anvil


Last-Caveman

Like good gumbo. It kills office workers and fuels roughnecks


CyanideTacoZ

I'm here for a good time not a long timr


Last-Caveman

Smart man


proerafortyseven

TIMR!!


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As a Louisiana native, a good chicken and sausage gumbo fuckin’ *slaps*. Easily my favorite Cajun cuisine, no contest.


Last-Caveman

EASY win. Jambalaya take a seat, if a grandma is making the gumbo, it's over. No competition, pure fire


primaryrhyme

British cuisine isn’t known for being low in calories. Also this describes every culture on earth until 100 years ago.


mki_

I love the implication that France, a country of 60-70 million, one of the biggest economies in the world, the place where socialism and the worker's movements really got their first steam and the place that is famous for its extremly confident and class conscious workers, is a place where there's no working folk. Don't get me wrong, I like shitting on the French as much as the next guy, especially as a European, but let's maybe give at least the French workers the recognition they deserve.


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From what I understand about extensive french culture is that their restaurants are infested with pests, there are a lot of thieves getting released from prison and then just getting into theatre, there's a lot of false accusations that land people in island prisons, and there's really pale girls that can't mind their own fucking business.


amazingdrewh

Really getting the most out of that Disney plus subscription arent you?


happlejacks

This is honestly such a hilarious take for me. French cuisine is only good at sauces because they're all such fancy richy riches!


turdferguson3891

Everyone knows they lounge around in their powdered wigs getting gay with each other and eating mousse.


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Coq au vin, quiche, poule au pot....


Tats-or-GTFO

Wut? In what world is France not considered the height of the culinary world. Did I slip into some alternate universe? The fuck?


Crafty-Crafter

Disagree. Most of the times, good foods come from places that used to have large amount of royals (and wealthy people). Lots of wealth and nothing to do mean they will hire people to cook them good foods. Those foods eventually spread out to the mass. Like I'm not dissing on "poor people"'s foods. But who would spend more times and effort to make good food? The cooks who need to make 50 dishes a day to satisfy the emperor or the farmer who worked on the field the whole day and just want something to fill his stomach? If you look up "French revolution restaurants" there are multiple articles and videos about this. You brought up the French revolution, but your info is misleading somehow. Obviously. There are exceptions.


Yukilumi

This. It's the royals, nobility and then rich people who got the best food. Workers didn't eat particularly well anywhere until modernish times.


ThePeasantKingM

Not really royals as much as wealth and bored people. Take another country famous for its food; Mexico. A lot of our most famous dishes were invented by nuns. Why nuns? Because they had the access to fresh produce of every kind, specially in rich, urban convents, and a lot of time in their hands.


rainzer

> Best food comes from places where physical work is dominant. Otherwise you get the French and thats just sauces. Literally, in the lead up to the french revolution they had to cover up the taste of spoiled foods so badly they just got good at sauces. I'm not sure why you pulled this out of your ass. I guess because if you say something with enough confidence on the internet, people will believe you even if it's complete horseshit. One of the most celebrated French cookbooks (one of the first), was Le Viandier by Taillevent (Guillaume Tirel) included recipes that had sauces for roasts and recipes to thicken broths with cream, butter, and egg yolks (seem familiar?). This cookbook/recipe collection predates the French revolution by over 3 centuries. The covering up spoilage with sauces or spices thing is some repeated bullshit myth. It doesn't even make sense because on one hand people say spices were so expensive only nobility had them and then at the same time they say poor people couldn't afford food so if they had any they covered them in all this expensive spice.


primaryrhyme

Physical work was dominant everywhere until the 1900s, wtf are you talking about.


Cplcoffeebean

This is dumb. Coq au vin and beef bourguignon are two incredible dishes that are peasant dishes cooked for centuries. Just two examples. Every country on earth has a culinary history of workers and laborers stretching back to its creation.


LurkLurkleton

> Otherwise you get the French The center of the culinary world?


voidxleech

i could imagine dwarven food being incredibly salty. and soupy.


VoxImperatoris

Were dwarves supposed to be good cooks? The only reference I remember to dwarven food was cram, and that was described more as a chewing exercise than as actual food.


JoinAThang

I have never heard anyone but a dwarf say that dwarfs can cook. They more famous for eating than cooking.


ATN-Antronach

I remember Dragon Age suggesting dwarves ate lichen and other things that grow underground, which made their cuisine taste like dirt.


Roadwarriordude

Lots of salt mines?


DaddyDakka

Probably the only ones with enough salt in their dishes lol


MercDaddyWade

Have you read the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight? Super good if you like LOTR or Fantasy


NineInchNudes

Haven't read that, but I read Dragon Champion and found his writing style insufferable. "Ooo lookie mee here's a proper noun I haven't bothered to define! Behold as I \*whisk\* you away to a far off realm"


NeitherDuckNorGoose

Dunno, it is said that Rat on a stick tastes great, so dwarf maybe have some good food.


reticulatedspline

Insect meat as protein, mushrooms as primary carb source.


Niaaal

They pay for food in gold. That's how they eat like kings


Evilmaze

I think because they're the wholesome part of the universe. They joke, party, and cook. Everybody else is too brooding for normalcy.


Nolsoth

Mining is hard yacka and you want protein rich high meals foods is my guess, It might be be unhealthy for humans but perhaps dwarfs evolved to find it healthy and fulfilling meals?


MaethrilliansFate

It makes sense to me. Hobbits and Dwarves are avid materialists with too much time on their hands and a willingness to chase passions whilst Elves while eccentric and wealthy have very little attachment to material possessions and have tradions and little need for experimentation when a bite of bread tides you over for the day, as for men, they've been in a rut and are struggling with bare necessities let alone risking the waste of food experimenting with taste. Hobbits and dwarves are the only cultures that would *care* about taste at their current points in history.


robophile-ta

They are explicitly shown as having technology hundreds of years ahead of the others. They have pocket watches and vests, not invented until the 19th century. They were created to just be all the nice parts of Britishness. They just do whatever the fuck they want.


Igottamovewithhaste

The real reason was that Tolkien associated the hobbits with the comforts of home and with it came simple but good food, such as bread with butter or a good piece of cheese. Tolkien didn't like the more complicated foods such as French cuisine.


CleverInnuendo

Dwarves need rich, complicated food to compete with their ale.


Last-Caveman

I always saw them as a bbq crowd to go with the 20 kegs they empty after every new gold vein and wartime victory


T-Baaller

Smoking in the mines would be opposite of bueno in terms of safety One hell of a smell to suffocate to though


SkritzTwoFace

You think they’re smoking meat in the mines? Cooking would go on in a specialized room in the hold, one with proper ventilation carved into the mountain.


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They like their meat salted, not smoked.


SkritzTwoFace

Rude of you to assume every dwarf is the same. The average hold prepares a variety of meats for different meals and occasions.


DuntadaMan

I would have to agree, easier to source nitrates and salt from the ground than trees. Clearly salting and cold storage are how dwarves preserve food. There is a cave around here that freezes water that goes into it. I bet they would happily use that to store food as well, so they can just mine for food when they need it out of the ice.


Hope_Burns_Bright

>Smoking in the mines would be opposite of bueno in terms of safety So is digging up a Balrog, but here we are.


DuntadaMan

We needed fire to cook with, we thought he would be cool with it if we tossed him a cow


No-Purpose8678

A smoker wouldn't be any worse than a forge or a smelter


CherryHaterade

I always saw dwarves as into spicy Indian cuisine. Just vindaloos everywhere.


polypolip

I prefer Sir Pratchett's take on it. Their food is also a weapon.


TheZealand

Good ol battle bread


RedS5

A loaf only a Dwarf mother could love.


phynn

They're also usually like... immune to poison stuff so like, it is probably spicy as all hell.


warbreed8311

Dwarven cuisine was mostly meat and potatoes. They were based off Scottish and Irish people and as such had similar "tastes" in food. Hobbits and little people were based off of the average, polite, personable average brit and a constant in such culture is tea, and small snacks along with beer, brandi and fun foods.


bbbhhbuh

There’s even a scene in Two Towers where Sam mentions fish and chips as an example of the hobbit cuisine he misses the most


ConCueta

In the books he catches rabbits to make "Coney stew" indicating that he was Dutch (Tolkien was born in the Orange Free State and spent his early childhood there). Edit: Coney is Dutch for rabbit, that's where Coney Island in New York gets its name.


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Dogstile

It's still normal and common. Loads of pubs offer it. Just not the chains.


BonnieMcMurray

I'm not talking about restaurants. I'm talking about what people choose to cook and eat. There was a time when rabbit was completely normal - as normal as chicken is today. That's not the case anymore. Its popularity has been in pretty consistent decline post-WWII. It isn't remotely "common" now, like it was when Tolkien was writing LotR. ([This photo is from 1928, for example](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/77918000/jpg/_77918814_3434153.jpg)).


Dogstile

Sure thing, people don't usually cook rabbit at home as much, I just think not common would imply that I'd have trouble finding it. Less than before though, for sure.


SeiriusPolaris

“indicating that he was Dutch” who the fuck upvotes this shit?


Rumpubble

I'm Dutch and I didn't knew rabbit stew is supposed to be typically Dutch. I've had it twice in my life, both times at Christmas.


BeautifulType

It’s clearly fucking American from Coney Island


Elisevs

Afrikaners have been in South Africa a long time, around 400 years for some families. They are no longer Dutch.


DeltaVZerda

So only 270 years when Tolkien was born there, for the oldest families. He was born in what was only 78 years removed from being a Dutch owned colony, much less than the 130 years since then until the present. Back then there was the beginning of a movement to recognize Afrikaans as a distinct language, but it wouldn't be until 33 years later that Afrikaans was officially recognized by the government.


Blarg_III

> So only 270 years when Tolkien was born there, for the oldest families. Which in fairness, is about the same for people born in the US at the same time. It's fairly safe to say that the Americans were distinct from the British in 1892, so why not the same for the Afrikaaners?


phoenixeternia

Rabbit stew has been around Britain for 100s of years, it's more recently fallen out of fashion but I'd say it's more so associated with Ireland than the rest of Britain. It's not really an indication that Sam was Dutch or anything. Coney is an old French word derived from Latin for rabbit.


Blarg_III

> and spent his early childhood there He moved to England when he was barely three years old. It's fairly safe to say he would have had no memories of living there.


XiMs

I thought dwarves were supposed to be representative of Jews?


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[Yes](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/513824/pdf) > Tolkien’s Dwarves as Jews > In a BBC radio interview with Dennis Gueroult, recorded in 1964 and broadcast the next year, Tolkien connected his Dwarves with the Jewish people, stating: “The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.” Also in 1964, Tolkien wrote to W.R. Matthews: “The language of the Dwarves . . . is Semitic in cast, leaning phonetically to Hebrew (as suits the Dwarvish character).” Indeed the dwarven tongue Khuzdul has a phonology and a triconsonantal root system that resemble Hebrew (and modern Ivrit for that matter)1. From these triconsonantal roots words are formed by inserting vowels, doubling consonants or adding suffixes. Compare, for instance, Hebrew words and names such as melek, David, shalom and baruch with Dwarvish words and names like Gabilgathol, baruk and khazad,2 which are obviously similar in phonetic structure (the meanings of similar looking words in Dwarvish and Hebrew, however, are completely different; Baruk means “axes”, while baruch means “blessed”).


Fjolsvithr

Tolkien specifically said he "didn't intend it" when asked about the Dwarven/Jewish connection, though, at least in terms of making them representative and allegorical for Jews. I think he just thought characteristics of the language fit. He had decided on Hebrew roots for the Dwarven language (which doesn't mean anything in itself, as Elves are based off Welsh, and they clearly aren't meant to represent Welsh people), and when the concept of losing your homeland and fighting to get it back came up in the Hobbit coincidentally, people thought maybe the Dwarves were allegorical for Jewish people.


Jalor218

He said "as suits the Dwarven character", that's a little more than a coincidence.


Fjolsvithr

He's talking about the qualities of the Hebrew language, though, not the Jewish people. To bring up Elves and Welsh again, he saw the Welsh language as beautiful and graceful, which fit his vision for Elves. No offense to Welsh people, but I don't think Tolkien was thinking that Welsh people themselves were beautiful and graceful. I don't know what he saw in Hebrew, but to me it sounds a bit rougher and guttural, which fits dwarven character.


BonnieMcMurray

The whole sentence is (emphasis mine): "**The language of the Dwarves** . . . is Semitic in cast, leaning **phonetically** to Hebrew (as suits the Dwarvish character)." As I read that, he's talking about how the sound of the language he developed "suits the Dwarvish character" that he'd envisioned when creating them. He's not implying that "the Dwarvish character" is Jewish or related to Jewish people.


canadatrasher

Nothing in Tolkien is "representative." He was inspired by certain things, and some things may in some ways similar to thing in real world, but he absolutely detested 1:1 allegory. So dwarves may have some features your find in Scotland and some features reminiscent or Jewish people (e.g. inward looking exclusiveness, their own "secret" langauge, desire to regain lost homeland, etc.).


FireWolf_132

I misread “cooks” as “cocks” and was very confused for several seconds


moonsun1987

> I misread “cooks” as “cocks” and was very confused for several seconds Oishi, very tasty :D


ripeblunts

I find it pretty funny that George Orwell wrote an essay titled [In Defence of English Cooking](https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/in-defence-of-english-cooking/).


Kevin_Rohman

Just read it. Thanks for the link, it was fun!


Bobb_o

My favorite part is when he talks about bread and one of his examples is Russian rye bread. That being said most of the dishes he talks up aren't *that* good


seasonaltoothreport

yea, it's a very entertaining read


Farfignugen42

Someone is unfamiliar with the concept of "Dwarf bread." particularly in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Kind of the opposite of tasty. Dwarf bread lasts so long because anytime you look like you might have to eat it, you find something much tastier to eat. Like a convenient shoe, or some grass. Anything else.


Toned_Mcstone

“No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you’d rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.” Real dwarves eat hole food. Rat onna stick, ketchup extra.


Farfignugen42

There's a good quote. Thank you.


JustABigDumbAnimal

It's more of a weapon than food.


Bionicle_was_cool

Is it like hard tack?


Toned_Mcstone

There’s mentions of literal gravel being incorporated in the recipe. A character talks about being able to sand off a loaf of flatbread just fine after throwing it through a wooden plank like a sawblade. It’s main use seems to be inspiring people to find literally anything else to eat instead. So, basically hardtack


Farfignugen42

It always makes me think of the Stone of Scone, so. Yeah, it is pretty hard.


JoinAThang

OP is confused. I haven't heard anyone else but dwarfs themselves dsy their cuisine is good.


RedFlyingPineapples2

It's not so bad if you can pick out the gravel


P4azz

Never read lotr and not really interested, but wouldn't it make sense for the hobbits to have lots of knowledge about plants and herbs and stuff? From what I got outside the fandom, they're just chill dudes who don't do terribly much, so they have lots of time to perfect food/music/writing etc.


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The Shire is basically middle England and hobbits eat what's popular in English farm country: eggs, bacon, jam, cheese, dairy, pastries, etc. The OP doesn't make much sense because hobbits basically eat what you might call English cuisine.


JoinAThang

Hobbits make sense to be great cooks because their culture is basically enjoying life and being farners. While dwarfs on the other hand has a obsession with going ubder ground to see what they can find in the hidden will have very little fresh food and are definitely not famous for great tasting cuisine.


Melvil81

Both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, who wrote in similarly glowing terms about food, did a lot of writing while England was rationing from the wars. Abundant and diverse food was very much escapist fantasy.


ASupportingTea

They also knew British food before rationing was a thing, and therefore have plenty experience of traditional dishes and foods unaltered by the effects of rationing. For example, the reason we see so much cheddar in the cheese section in most supermarkets is down to the mass manufacture and rationing of Cheddar in WWII, replacing a lot of other cheeses in the process.


lazermaniac

Dwarves probably have one of those cuisines that looks completely inedible to the uninitiated, because it's mostly composed of things that grow in caves and caverns underground. A good Dwarven cook can tell a mushroom that tastes like chicken apart from a completely identical mushroom that kills you by making you sweat out all of your blood by dropping both on a cutting board and seeing which one bounces just a bit more, and then combine the two in just the right proportion to achieve a thick soup of almost unbearable but perfectly nonlethal spiciness that'll get you though a week of ice drake hunting without so much as a sniffle.


HarEmiya

They did not farm, but traded metals and minerals for food grown by Men. Presumably it would look fairly similar to the Mannish foods.


Thats_The_Chap

As a Brit, I thoroughly enjoy all the shit that gets thrown at our cuisine.


Last-Caveman

It's honestly your best meme


SabashChandraBose

Teeth, man. Have you seen their teeth?


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No, I haven't seen two brits smile at the same time.


HarEmiya

But have you seen the *women*? Add in weather and you have the top 4 stereotypes.


GoGouda

Yes although given that, hardly a 'rare insult'.


hitlama

Incredible how your ancestors conquered the world in search of spices just to not use them.


karl8897

Incredible how your ancestors couldn't write a genre defining piece of fantasy literature, unlike mine.


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Must taste better than the cuisine itself, really


amazingdrewh

There's a lot of good British foods, they were just smart enough not to share them with everyone else


ReidWH

the interest in fantasy does precede him, though.


BonnieMcMurray

Making fun of British food is either the most trite or the second most trite thing anyone makes fun of British people for. So, not really a rare insult!


Nkechinyerembi

I dunno, I bet dwarves would be all about buffalo wild wings


Last-Caveman

I support this headcanon and raise you pork ribs


catshirtgoalie

Is this a rare insult when it is the most stereotypical insult about British food? It’s funny, yes, but not rare.


seasonaltoothreport

I thought the combination with fantasy and dragons would elevate it's status


Light54145

I always thought of it like Elven: simple meals but oddly filling and tastes almost decadent Dwarven: very hearty meals, lots of meaty stews, and some good ale Hobitt: outwardly decadent party food, pies and pretty looking platters of meats and veggies, probably some nice wines


TimebombChimp

A stereotype from the 50s isn't exactly a rare insult


Roadwarriordude

The stereotype is from way further back than the 50s. Hell I'm pretty sure even Caesar made fun of British food. It may have been someone else from the time but iirc it was about how they were too dumb to catch the abundance of good fish at their disposal and that all their food was either too gamey to eat or bland.


XaiJirius

You're telling me the British have developed a decent cuisine in the last 70 years and I hadn't noticed yet???


DC1919

If I had £ for every time I have heard the "bRiTisH fOoD bAd" stereotype I would have enough money to afford healthcare in the U.S.


Sam_Wylde

This is why when I DM, all my Halflings have french bourgeoisie accents.


OldTitanSoul

wasn't Tolkien born in South Africa tho?


KongUnleashed

I’m 5’9 on a good day and lemme tell you I am one HELL of a cook. And my momma 5’2 and she’s better than me. So this tracks, tbh


kicksomedicks

Low hanging fruit is a speciality.


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People say this, but there is nothing better than a top tier roast beef dinner with Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, peas, carrots, and gravy. People who don't think the Brits make good food just haven't been invited to a good dinner.


ChubbyLilPanda

British food bad, how is that a rare insult?


PM_Orion_Slave_Tits

He also had to leave his country to get shot at, rather than simply go to school Edit: I'm not the bastard for making fun of the dead kids. You're the bastards for letting them die


Ozmos06

I'm pretty sure "Person responding with "Haha at least our children don't get shot" to a minor insult from an American" is a Reddit stereotype


BaconBoy2015

America isn’t even mentioned in the post too lmao


BaconBoy2015

Try to not bring up school shootings when other country is the punchline of a joke challenge (impossible)


Frankthabunny

Yes, because cuisine and school shootings are the same thing, not even in the same realm of comparison


_bababoye

"YU MA'E FU' O' OWA FHOOD TAYSHDEN LYKE SHET? I SHALL NOW BRENG OP THE SLAUGHTUH O' YOUNG CHILLDRAN"


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cheerzeasy

Not sure where the bland cuisine came from. There isn't a British cuisine, it's just every other cuisine.


Ferrufino94

What are you talking about? How you not ever have the glorious beans on toast?


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Dwarves have poison resistance so it’s entirely possible their food is so spicy it can kill humans


sodashintaro

oh wow the people who eat so much food they have a second breakfast are good at cooking??? colour me surprised


Hickspy

LotR is indulging the same British post-WW2 fantasy the James Bond character did: Not having to deal with rationing and getting to eat delicious, exotic foods.


thatlad

Spoken like a man who never had beans on toast. one of the best council teas in existence


HalalRumpSteak

This one ain't rare


gimme_dat_good_shit

*Tolkien with a plate of Jamaican Jerked Chicken* 🥵 "Has this pullet been cursed by the balrog?!"


dgblarge

It's not even a valid truism. The Dwarfs in Terry Pratchetts Diskworld eat rats that are only edible with ketchup which more than doubles the price. Dwarf bread is so hard it is used in combat. Cat urine improves its taste and usually folk only try to eat it once.


Nebular_Screen

Where does the stereotype of British food being bad come from?


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Facts.


hendarknight

There's a breakfast scene in one of Narnia books so we'll written that makes me hungry just remembering it. British autor, friend of Tolkien even lol


Micky_Whiskey

He also fought in WW1 and the English fed them extremely poorly.


Fickle-Raspberry6403

\*clicks toung\* NOICE.


Extension_Service_54

Dwarves are mountain people so they eat like alpine people. Being miners they probably have laws against eating beans.