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truthI'd rather eat literal shit than anything made by an Anglo barbarian

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll defend shepherd's pie, that shit slaps on a chilly day (cw: animal products)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm 100% with you. The potatoes alone are enough of a selling point for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I make these with venison and freeze most of them for later, and they're so good cheap and easy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another br*tish dish with a texture that ranges from "wet smooth" to "wet lumpy".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I want wet lumpy!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They live on an island and and specialize in not eating seafood. Miserable little swamp

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don’t think anyone American is in a position to comment on people’s food either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indigenous Americans got the best dishes. Honey roasted acorn squash, manoominini (wild rice fritters), succotash.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm conflicted on this in that most of our foods, like most American culture, are largely imported from other countries by the people who came here (when they're not products of the great depression or whatever)

Things've kind of gone in their own direction since the early days, but at the end of the day a lot of what we do is inherited behavior from our various precursors. Bit of a recurring theme with the US.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is true of many food cultures, no? British cuisine is full of immigrant food too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Yep, and they've managed to make it bleak af too. Chinese food that caters to UK tastes is all deep fried or brown, and they've bastardized Indian food into sugary, unspiced slop.

You can still get "real" "authentic" food from other cultures, but for some reason it seems like they treat that as almost a novel special experience? Like having Chinese food with actual vegetables and isn't just stir fried noodles drenched in hoisin sauce is an occasion for them.

Truly dire.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I agree that British Chinese food isn't amazing, however;

they've bastardized Indian food into sugary, unspiced slop.

This is absolute nonsense. Go to better curry houses.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

'Sugary cardboard covered in cheap hot sauce' is a real cuisine actually.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Bougie moneybags over here with real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Oi m8 you raggin' on stargazy pie and jellied eels?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fish and chips, mushy peas and shepherds pie slap

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Greeks do fish and chips much better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We didn’t have Brexit so other places could do better fish and chips.

Edit; changed a word so it make sense.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The truth is the truth. Pic is literally a bunch of turds on a plate

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

When I found out that British baked beans are in some kind of thin soupy tomato sauce rather than the delicious barbeque brown sugar sauce of American baked beans the hate towards British food made a lot more sense to me. Why do they put that shit in everything

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Buy Heinz or Branstons or similar. You’ll learn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Its only thin if you buy the really cheap stuff.

The BBQ brown sugar beans is depressing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

brown sugar baked beans are repulsively sweet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I hate the brown sugar baked bean sauce with a passion. Molasses sucks

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Missing Ulysses rn

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like 10 years ago when i was a total lib and would listen to npr, I heard a food historian talk about how prohibition movement in the US destroyed the national culinary traditions and began the pivot into adults eating children's food. What I remember from it was, usa used to have respectable cuisine, prohibition destroyed normal restaurants, cant get that alcohol mark up any more- so there was never a time in us history where so many restaurants closed and so many new ones opened. All the new ones were 'family' restaurants, cause no one could sell booze, but they have food specifically for your kid now and thus began the introduction of bland, soft, sweet foods onto menus across n. America. It obviously took over and now tons of Americans eat a diet similar to what an 8 year old with sensory issues would prefer. No idea how the british fucked it up so bad though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That, plus war associated rationing and economic decline in the context of increasing mass produced (bland) food

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I'll be honest, their Chinese takeout looks pretty good. And I do eat some of their food, like fish and chips. If the "jacketed potatoes" are what I think they are, then that's a staple for sure. A bunch of dishes I eat probably came from Britain without me knowing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty bleak sometimes, but I'd like to try some. I do like shepherds pies, and those full english breakfast spreads look great. I was hoping to grab some Cornish Pasties if I ever made that trip to Michigan's upper peninsula happen. (They gained regional popularity as a result of miners immigrating from Cornwall in the mid-1800s)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

when i had an exchange to this forsaken place i got Baked beans , Chips and a quarter Pizza , all in one soupbowl..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

i'd say the average level of cooking ability being rock bottom in the uk is more of an issue than the food itself. british food can be incredible when it's actually cooked well

my parents can't cook for shit so the only culinary education i got was six months in year 8, where we maybe cooked six or seven things. i probably got six more months of education on the matter than most people though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I will say that one of my favorite foods is salted tomatoes on toast, though that’s not even real British I don’t think.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, a popular great depression-era food in the 'states was tomato mayo sandwiches. My grandma remains a big fan of them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Throw a slice of fried up Spam in between those. Not the most balanced flavor/texture profile, but tasty.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Looks about white

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This doesn't even look British, the chips are all wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That’s not British poo. Beans and mash would not support self-standing, solid turds

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Britain tends to excel at baking. Their pies (savory or otherwise), beef wellington, and scones are all tasty. Sausage is generally done better elsewhere, though. Not even disrespecting bangers and the like, I just think the Slavs, Germans, and Latin countries do better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Deep fried haggis pizza doesn't taste as bad as it should do.
Sausage rolls are great snacks.
Toad in the hole is a great way to use leftovers, especially with a nice onion gravy. Crisp sandwiches are the ultimate comfort food.

Most British food is pretty good tbh, the only problem is most Brits don't know how to cook.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

second harvest, yim yum for my tim yum.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think across the board WASPs just can’t cook. The US also has infamous disgusting slop food made by middle-class white suburbanites. Hell, in the US we’re somewhat famous because here even the rich eat garbage, dress like garbage, and enjoy garbage. Us poors do so by necessity, but they do it by choice (AND anything even remotely worth a damn is prohibitively expensive to boot!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I remember a theory that prominent southern families lacked cooking skills and cooking traditions because it was a task done by slaves, and so post emancipation they could afford good ingredients but have terrible technique. But as wealthy white folk they maintained status and influence (and could afford more children)

Colonel Sanders' family was working class so they never had slaves, and so it was a groundbreaking innovation that a white man with white staff had food with herbs and spices in it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'd rather eat literal shit than anything made by an Anglo barbarian

spoken like a philistine that never enjoyed such delicacy as SMACK BARM PEA WET

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

their average pizza is somehow the worst I've ever had. full english breakfast is good but the irish do it better

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Those look like double battered and deep fried mice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like Jacketed Potatoes, but you gotta go to a store that has the British version of Heinz beans with tomato sauce.

Always like Fish n Chips too, but I've probably never had proper Fish.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Scones and hot cross buns? It's a short list

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Chevapchichi? Isn't this Coratian?

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