Sounds like me, except I would drink the broccoli water.

Once you reset your palette, cutting out excess salt and sugar and cheap fats, and processed foods, you learn to enjoy the taste of whole foods all on their own. Salted ourselves to taste, which is far less than processed food will add.

I feel like I’m missing something, was her task not to cook the broccoli? What is meant by “dish”? It is just broccoli? Am I Bri’ish?

Bean juice?

I mean the beans mostly get their color from the molasses and sugar but lots call for Worcestershire sauce which is going to have a bunch of stuff.

Use sparingly:

Salt

Pepper

BBQ rub seasoning from ???

Onion powder

Garlic salt

Misc. dried Italian herbs you've owned for years

Anything else left in your pantry

"spices", in this context, is Obese American for " salt, butter, and bacon grease"

The limies weren't even that big into the spice trade, it was the dutch. You mention nutmeg, nutmeg and cloves came from a certain string of small indonesian islands only. There were some english traders there, when the dutch were trying to monopolize the trade.

The dutch sent a delegation, that angered the natives that killed them. The dutch came back and exterminated the natives. Killed every single one of them, and the english and other traders there.

Edit: Adaman islands if memory serves, fuzzy on the years no time to look up.

The nutmeg genocide man

I mean, that's true, but hasn't been the case for at least a century, so why do they still eat like the aristocrats are hoarding all the spices?

You're somewhat correct but also not.

The spice scarcity and making do without is a result of two world wars ravaging a somewhat isolated island nation. See e.g. the Irish potato famine. Some were misfortunate enough to have no food at all - and many had to live with bland, rationed food items.

Those decades were formative and a lot of that stuck around.

And to be perfectly honest... I kinda like it. I like spiced (spicy in the flavourful, not the hot sense) food too, but there's some beauty in putting together a dish of meat and potatoes where you let the flavour of the meat and potatoes come through. In some sense it's actually similar to Japanese cuisine, specifically sushi, where the focus is on the fish itself, with minor added flavours (salt from soy sauce, heat from wasabi).

wow i dont have time to research what they did. tell me what did they do?

Yeah because a Stilton and cheese bake is totally favoueless, right?

I just wish long pepper was more widely known, I can get it easily from Indian shops in the UK but it's not so widely known or available. It's among my favourite spices, think black pepper but way more aromatic and 'flowery'. It was known to the Romans but fell out of favour many centuries ago in Europe.

There's some fantastic dutch food!

"perfection"

"British food"

Pick one

Sure. But what does this have to do with British food?

If that were perfection, the rest of the world would be eating it.