People think Britain doesn’t use spices. Read Mrs Beeton’s recipes from the 1800s. It’s ALL the herbs & spices and it really hasn’t changed that much.
What do you guys think tea is made of?
Dammit Hony, now I need to order yet another good Darjeeling Fall leaf tea…
Haha, with such a reply I might have to get one myself to try. I love tea.
it was never about spices i think. they just wanted to sail around the world and do stupid shit
No, no it was all about subagitation and money. You know, the thing us crackers do best.
No, no it was all about subagitation and money. You know, the thing us crackers do best.
Subagitation? The fuck does unlawful intercourse have to do with this? (I had to look this goofy word up in a dictionary because it’s so unusual)
Well fack my spell checker and lack of tea. But to be fair, there was a LOT of unlawful sex involved too.
I’m wondering if they meant subjugation
ITT people believing the self-deprecating jokes white cultures have been telling about themselves are actually 100% true
It’s not that though. It’s Americans doing the same overused “joke” about UK, completely different country. You can’t self-deprecate another culture.
Funny how much the yanks bring this up to distract from their own food culture.
Nonsense. You can’t bite into an American meal without immediately tasting a wonderful selection of flavours, like:
- salt
- corn-derived sweetener
Ive had many great meals in the UK and less so in the USA
The rest of the world thinks that Britain doesn’t use spices, what we don’t know is that for some reason, we seem to use them in our confectionery.
We really like ginger.
Ginger is tasty
I like Gingers as well.
Everyone always forgets that Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish and one of the most popular meals in the country
Navy beans and tomatoes are both native to the Americas, does that count?
The British eat so much Indian food it’s crazy. There’s a Nando’s on damn near every corner in London.
I’m assuming those are meant to be unrelated statements?
Cause Nandos is Portuguese-African fusion food
Nando’s is South African
South African and Portuguese fusion food.
The history is that South Africa had a lot of Portuguese immigrants during the Portuguese civil war, and that then made a whole new cuisine that’s a fusion of South Africa and Portugal.
And the owner was from that region, and brought that cuisine over to England, big hit, made a chain of it
I think they were connecting two seperate cuisines which heavily feature spices, not goving Nandos as an example of indian food.
It’s just like how in America there is a Mexican restaurant in every small shitty town.
But there’s also Mexican food in the nice towns too
And Chinese and interestingly Indian food is catching on also.
i think in germany it would be turkish food?
Isn’t it because they considered spices for peasants?
France too! French cooking is WILDLY overrated, they coast by on their desserts and pastries and those are just good cause butter
You obviously must have gotten all of your information about French cooking entirely from tiktok videos rather than personal experience.
The thing that makes French food good is their liberal use of butter.
The best Italian restaurant I ever ate at was in Paris, and I’ve been all over Italy.
It was a near thing. But the French do not fuck around with their cooking.
those are just good cause butter
Paula Dean’s food is good because of butter.
Julia Child’s food is good because of experience.
Britain stole all those historical artifacts and culture but couldn’t steal a recipe.
We’ve stolen lots of recipes. Modern British cuisine is basically a massive rip-off of of every other country’s cooking smashed togethr.
Fusion, if we’re being polite about it.
Anyone shit talking fish fingers is going to get a visit from me and my sledgehammer in the middle of the night. You’ve been warned!
Leave my motherfucking fish fingers out of this!!!
I have eaten fish fingers in the UK and fish sticks in the US. The UK ones are delicious. This meme is not from someone who has ever eaten them.
You, I like you.
Do you like fishdicks?
Fish don’t have hands. Where do the fingers come from?
Neither does mozzarella but who doesn’t love dipping fried and breaded mozzarella fingers into some marinara.
Fingers are for sticking in something, including but not limited to mouth.
Fish fin
gers was just added on as time went by
… you don’t want to know
Walking down a high street in the UK. I smell loads of spices from even the shit takeaways.
curry doesn’t count.
Why not? If that is the case then American cuisine is limited to corn syrup and growth hormones.
So it is the case?
Take it a step further then. Why does Italy get modern pizza? Tomatoes are not native to Europe.
Because they send a dude over to liberate the tomato from those silly Americans that were just wasting it’s potential!
Lol. You went to Florida and only ate fast food, didn’t you?
No, because if you deny everything British that is similar to something else you must do the same for everything American. Doesn’t leave you with many options.
Because including any kind of Anglo infusion cuisine would go against the narrative that food in the UK is bad.
There’s more than one American cuisine. Southern, Northern Mexican (Cal-Mex, Tex-Mex, etc), New York (basically fusion of Jewish and Irish in a few things), American Chinese, etc.
American fast food is common, but not the whole thing.
Nope, if Britain can’t have anything similar to another culture then America can’t have anything Irish, Jewish or Mexican either.
or Mexican either.
Uh ‘Mexican’ isn’t indigenous either . . . it results from the fusion of Native American, Spanish, and French cuisines, among others.
And there isn’t a single Mexican cuisine either, there’s multiple.
I’ve got a recipe from my Ojibwa neighbor’s Grandmother for roasted grouse made with nothing more than honey, salt, and cranberries roasted in duck fat. Served with wild rice cooked with cranberries. The subtleties of the dish will blow your mind. It makes delicate Japanese dishes look like all show and no go flavor. The smokiness of the hand parched wild rice set against the tart cranberries is to die for. A meal meant for kings, (And Queens if you swing that way)!
And she can’t get enough potato klub, lefse, and lutefisk when I make those Norwegian dishes I learned from my Grandmother and Mother.
It’s like there is no accounting for food tastes.
There are some indigenous mexican peoples still around, and with that their cuisines.
A minority cause of all the invading and pillaging done by Europe and America, but they’re still around.
Latest census data: 11,800,247 self-identified Indigenous Mexicans (9.36% of the total population of Mexico)
I wouldn’t even mind such a dinner. A clear red flag is people who boil meat or don’t use any oil anywhere.
Look at this guy. This guy doesn’t even soup
I read your comment while eating a stew with sausages in it. Okay. You’re right. Boiled meat can be nice under certain circumstances, which reminds me of Fondue Chinoise, where you basically boil your raw meat in hot broth.
What I had in mind: cooking chicken in plain water for 30minutes.
Fish finger or chip sandwiches are great hangover foods. Once you understand that you will be closer to understanding British cuisine.
The curry or kebab was from the night before and that absolutely has spices. In the morning you go with fairly plain carbs.
