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[-] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

Didn't Great Britain like invent racism?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

I think a combination of the French and British after the Haitian slave revolt

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

France is the only country mentioned so far that meets his criteria

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

I think the Spanish were the first

[-] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Not sure how you'd quantify it, but Britain definitely makes less of a thing of race than the USA does. There's racism over there but it's not a constant obsession.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I’m reminded of this cliché: European writers discuss class but forget about race, North American writers discuss race but forget about class.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I think the French phrase is, "North American and British writers discuss class and race, but forget about the correct ratio of garlic to olive oil"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Surely the French would say butter and not olive oil, right? Maybe olive oil is the Italian version. Although to suggest that Anglos would use any garlic at all seems too kind.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Garlic thrives in Britain, so it's been pretty common in our cooking for the last 1000 years. It's the stuff we import that we don't use.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Wait till you hear about what they do with eels...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I used to hate jellied eels, but recently I've come around to them. It's a working class meal using the natural resources that were available to them. And although it sounds horrible, it's literally just boiled eel with spices, vinegar and lemon, often served with parsley sauce. It can't be that bad.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well yeah. Tbh freshwater eels are so endangered idk if I’d eat one even if I had the option. But culinarily I don’t think jellied eels are the worst thing in the world, and the history of the dish is a working class history

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sorry to disappoint, but in all my time here, I've never seen jellied eel. It's not a thing anymore, alas.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Beans on toast slaps tho. Throw some cheese or an egg on there and you're going to have a good time. It's also so quick and easy that it slides into the top ten breakfast foods.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

hesitation-2 we have to put him down folks, he's Br*tish ukkk

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

If you aren’t talking about molletes & bolillos…

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