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I sometimes wonder after the unusually high number of “British people try X food for the first time and are blown away” videos.
Then I started watching Great British Bake-Off, and it’s clear there’s some damn good food somewhere over there. The number of times I’ve envied Sue Perkins her taste testing job is extreme.
The food, the weather and the women made Britain a seafaring nation.
Technically a lot of the classic curries are british food
We got bread. We got cheese. We got beans.
What more do you want?
Flavor
Salt?
Now that’s a pro’a bri’ish flavor
Sausages ?
Ah yes a banger in the mouth.
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Including beans in breakfast is a British culinary achievement that I will never stop defending.
As an American, I ate a sushirrito and a pizza sandwich.
Beans for breakfast upsets you, you haven’t lived.
Beans for breakfast is also in Mexican food. So not weird to me.
British food is still made either like the Luftwaffe is flying overhead or we are celebrating the fact that the war is over and we can cook with butter and oil again. There’s nothing in-between.
We’d hope y’all could come up with something better than deep-fried butter tho
Uhh, what could possibly be better than deep fried butter?!?
Butter-glazed butter-filled butter-fried butter fritters
With a beurre-blanc sauce
Have you smoked a spotted dick?
Not since boarding school…
Not British, but as someone who eats, food is food :3
British food is a lot like the english countryside - lots of earth tones in the palate and everything sounds different (but after your third slice of hamlet you realize it’s all basically the same)
Aww, hamlet AGAIN?! I thought we could have village tonight.
No more lip from you or it’s docks tomorrow!
But… Does someone have to die after dinner?
Thanks to successive waves of immigration in the 20th century from India, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Africa, China and others we actually have a pretty diverse and vibrant food culture.
Sadly a lot is still dominated by roast dinners and meat and two veg (one of those veg is always potato) but go to any major city and you’ll likely find excellent quality restaurants from pretty much every culture on earth.
Careful! Facts will damage the worn-out, out-dated stereotype!
don’t know if we can call that british food lol. That’s African, Chinese, etc foods
Many of those countries happened to be part of the British Empire. Technically, they were British.
I went eating at an Italian restaurant in, I don’t know, somewhere in the Highlands, and I haven’t been aware that it was run by Scottish people, including the kitchen. Our trip had many highlights and was really cool all in all, but that food has to be the deepest trench we had to pass through.
Sounds like you have had some shit roast dinners. A good roast dinner is amazing. I love all the foreign foods we have access to now as well, but our traditional cooking gets a lot of shit when really it’s just bad cooks. Although we do also have stuff like jellied eels and mushy peas, so I’m not saying it’s all good…
I love a roast, it’s one of my favourite meals, but a shit roast is proper shit.
Thanks to successive waves of immigration in the 20th century from India, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Africa, China and others we actually have a pretty diverse and vibrant food culture.
OK, but the idea is that it’s the indigenous food that represents the place in question. The Indian (subcontinent), Caribbean, African, Chinese, etc cuisines count as the food culture of those places, not british food culture.
Don’t be like germans who are stupidly deluded enough to say “The döner was invented in germany” , when , no, it wasn’t invented in germany, it was invented in the ottoman empire. Also, Hans isn’t out back in the kebab shop busting his ass making that gigantic log of meat, it’s Ahmet. If you want to argue that derived foods that are based on local ingredients are part of the food culture of that place, that’s a more interesting debate that isn’t cut and dry; no one is selling kapsolon made with gouda cheese in İstanbul, nor are they making Tacos al Pastor with pork and pineapples.
British food is good. Kinda simple, but good. Just not legendary. It’s like a more mid version of itallian food; relies too much on fat and carbs and meat to feel delicious and satisfying, instead of advanced techniques or “just right” spice blends.
My point is that those immigrant communities have brought their food and their culture with them and they’ve created fusion dishes that have created a unique food culture, one that has itself been exported back abroad. Like I’ve said elsewhere, most of the dishes people associate with Indian food were actually created in Indian restaurants in Britain.
If only indigenous food counted, American cuisine is hominy and fry bread and Indian food is lentils.
Like I’ve said elsewhere, most of the dishes people associate with Indian food were actually created in Indian restaurants in Britain.
the absolute arrogance of this statement. Disgusting.
Lol, do some research
Onto what, an Indian guy slightly changing the recipe for a curry leading the brits claiming that any curry served outside of india is based off the tikka masala? Get your own fucking cuisine to export you lazy gits.
If you’re not prepared to actually have a civil conversation, kindly fuck off you idiot.
No. The train was an indian invention, the reason countries except for britain and india have trains is because they are adapting to the mass transit ideas that are indian.
Quite why you felt the need to attempt to call out my edit is beyond me, since I didn’t remove anything from the original, it’s just clear that critical thinking is somewhat beyond you and so in thought I’d save you the difficulty of doing even 30 seconds of reading and gave you some examples.
shouldn’t you be off taking credit for something you didn’t do?
Yes but those are restaurants, im assuming grandma is still serving up run over peas and boiled potatoes
Fuck grandma, my roast dinners are an event. Got my roastie game en point, my yorkies are crispy and all the trimmings are standard. Plus the gravy, not to brag, will make you jizz your pants its that good.
See, gravy is so easy - meat juice, stock, bit of balsamic - I think how can you fuck this up? Then you get gravy litteraly in any commercial setting, and… urgh…
One thing I’ve always wanted to try is a well made beef Wellington, looks tasty
Honestly, beef wellington isn’t bad or anything but it’s definitely overrated. Don’t bother trying to make one, just find one at a restaurant and wonder what the fuss was about.
Is just a fancy corn dog.
Totally unrelated, but you made me question if the phrase is supposed to be “en pointe” like ballet or “on point.” after a little research, I’m guessing it’s “on point” but it seems like the etymology could be from ballet potentially, but it sounds like it isn’t likely. At the end of the day, it means exactly the same thing so it doesn’t really matter. I do find it funny you used “en point” instead of “en pointe” though. Halfway between the two I guess. Lol.
Honestly, getting it wrong in either sense might be the most British thing I’ve ever done.
Shepherd’s Pie (with beef, though, I only like lamb in gyros, and only then when it’s a blend with beef), minced meat pies, good chicken pot pie, and Yorkshire puddings are all great. Bangers and mash with the right sausage is great. Fish and Chips are generally great but the flavor and texture of the batter can vary significantly.
(trivia: a Shepard’s pie with beef is technically called a “cottage” pie!)
Yeah, I know what true shepherd’s pie is made of thanks to Denis Leary.
Good to know!
If you like Yorkshire pudding, try toad in the hole.
Yorkshire pudding is fine, but Pomeranian pudding is really superior.
I made bangers and mash this evening, and put it into a large Yorkshire pud.
I don’t know if it would be named differently.
That is a thing of beauty. Bring the gravy boat to the table so that you can top it up to the brim, heaven.
Gyros like kebabs right? That’s where I normally prefer lamb too tbh.
no, I mean Greek gyros, in pita bread.
https://thebubblychef.com/kebab-vs-shawarma-vs-gyro/
Though perhaps you meant the Turkish doner kebabs
https://foodsguy.com/doner-vs-gyro/
It’s not really that I like lamb in a gyro, it’s that when it’s a blend of beef and lamb I can’t really taste the lamb. I just really don’t like lamb meat. I’ll take a fully beef gyro over a blended meat any day.
I had a homemade vegan shepard’s pie at a coworker’s house (she lived in the US, but from the UK) and it was one of the best dinners I’ve had in a long time.
If you ever make one, a good way to get the lentils or tvp tasting beefy is mixing some marmite and tamari sauce into it.
Chicken Tikka Masala. Nuff said.
British-Asians truly improved British cuisine. Tikka Masala is next level!
Ewww.
Tastes vary. But gimme a toad in the hole, or many other Brit dishes and I’m there.
I’ll take both, though maybe not at the same time
You can absolutely eat Chicken Tikka Masala out of a Giant Yorkshire Pudding.
With rice? In this case i think not.
The Yorkshire Pudding is taking on the role of the naan bread, therefore it’s even compatible with a portion of rice.
Depends on who’s asking. If an American… They shouldn’t even ask. For them “bad food” is just “food”.
Oh please. The US has many problems, and there are food deserts to be sure — but go to a first class US city and you’ll find great food.
Contrary to England?
Never said that at all. I’ve had some fantastic food in England.
Don’t even need to go to a big city. There’s a ton of awesome regional food all across the US.
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What I read is “US is big enough that if you search long enough you find good food”. Overall, a random US restaurant will be a fairly forgettable experience
Yeah! Booo America!
L take. It might be poison, but the average food is definitely better than average Euro food north of Italy.
We have nothing on Mexico/SA or any Asian countries tho.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
The taste of their food and beauty of their women made the British the greatest sailors on Earth.
I had bangers and mash once because a family member made it. It was super good. She told me she couldn’t get proper bangers and had to substitute with some other sausage. (Don’t remember which) I presume that if she used proper bangers it would have been gross.
Fat Americans out here standing in the world’s largest glass house hurling rocks with gay adandon.
