Looks like a lovely bit of scran that does. Yall too obsessed with overdone memes to appreciate a nice bit of comfort food.
Nah I’m just too obcessed with spices and would like to see some used in this meal, especially on those naked potatoes.
Spices on boiled potatoes? I only put salt on mine. What are you recommending?
Try tumeric with a bit of paprika, maybe a bit of cayenne if you like spice. Add some ghee or butter if you want something more indulgent.
As an American, this comment almost made me drop my gun and steer my F-350 off the road (I was scrolling and driving ofc). I feel so sorry for you guys, I hadn’t realized you’d been living like this since we broke up.
You can do so much with potatoes and a little bit of spices. Maybe start out with some black pepper, or some chili powder or paprika. Old Bay would also go great. If you’re really feeling adventurous, instead of conquering India, you could pan fry the potatoes instead of boiling them, and use a little hot sauce or ketchup. For boiled or baked potatoes in particular, dressing them with some sour cream or sauerkraut can be very good.
I’m american, homie. I’m just not a fan of complicated potatoes is all. But i appreciate the recommendations.
I happen to love the other comment about us eating like we have universal healthcare because my favorite potato is the loaded one lol
Baked potato, sour cream, bacon, chives, melted cheese… (Insert Homer drooling image)
You’re supposed to spice those naked potatoes with the meat and gravy. This is basically Haggis if I recall correctly, without fancy serving. And it is really good.
Haggis would have cabbage and lung meat wouldn’t it?
Haggis is traditionally sheep organ meat, oats, and spices. Black pepper and nutmeg are usually the dominant ones, although I assume that’s a development from within the last couple hundred years since neither is native to anywhere near Scotland. You’d serve it alongside potatoes and turnips, traditionally both mashed with a bit of butter.
You can’t actually be sure that stew doesn’t have a ton of ground spices in it, because they wouldn’t show. The flavor could be so intense you might need the plain potato bites to rest your mouth. (Highly unlikely but possible.) The real crime is the complete lack of anything green on the table. It’s like they looked around at the lush greenery all around them and decided to leave it all outside.
Truthfully, I’ve been to the UK and had some great food, I just like to rag on the brits!
But yes, the lack of color is probably the real issue with this meal. You really want some fiber to go with a meal like this, to say nothing of the missing nutrients. As an American though, mocking an all brown-and-white plate of food seems a little hypocritical, haha.
But like…
Why aren’t the potatoes in the sauce?
That just seems obvious to me 🤷♀️
Even then, those look like boiled potatoes served plain. Toss some herbs on there and roast them for a bit. It’s not hard.
It’s not hard and it’s not necessary. There are different ways to enjoy a potato.
Naked potatoes mixed in with a hearty sauce are fine.
Though imo they should be brushed with oil and salt, then roasted (or airfried!) because boiled potatoes are boring lol
Yeah, I’m of the opinion that you should only boil a potato if you intend to mash it. Otherwise, what are you even doing? There are faster and tastier ways to prepare it.
You should boil them a bit in an alkaline water before roasting as well. It breaks down the surface into a starchy mess that crisps up wonderfully while they roast.
Alkaline water? Do you mean salt water or water with vinegar? I don’t know enough about Ph to know which one makes alkaline water… I think vinegar is an acid, but is salt a base?
Neither, I’m referring to adding a small amount of baking soda to the water. You’re correct about vinegar being acidic. Table salt is neutral. Sodium bicarbonate is basic and increases the alkalinity of the water.
Oh, that sounds great, thanks for the tip!
Not everything has to be soaked in fat. Plain potatoes in a sauce, like in Japanese curry for instance, is pretty good.
A light brush of fats makes the outer layer crispy when cooked under high heat!
I understand, but I don’t want crisp in my curry potatoes 😋
I wonder which version is correct in japanese/Indian curry recipes? Not that it makes any preferrence wrong, tastes are personal.
But I could’ve sworn one way is the traditional way and one isn’t… Oh well 🤣
Tbh, as a British person, I think the same thing every time is see this meme. Although, I might make it worse
I’d have it with mash potatoes. Then, its like pie and mash, just without the pastry.
Can anyone tell me why there’s HP sauce there?
What do you do with it?
Squirt some into your mouth before you take a bite. What else would you do with it?
Looks like the meals I was recently had at the veterans hospital in the USA.
Something something “The cuisine and company of the finer sex helped contribute to making the Brits the finest sailors in the world”
Oh please. That was from about the 1950s. Now it’s just known as Irish cuisine.
Stop moaning yanks. Not everything needs artificial cheese sprayed on it.
How about a minimal amount of seasoning? Like a couple twists of the pepper mill?
by the same token, everything here isn’t degenerate midwestern or Alabama bullshit.
Anyway, how about raw vegetables? This photo is just missing something like a salad, coleslaw, a few radishes, and some sort of sauce for the potatoes (easy cheese obviously).
There’s carrots. What more do you want?
On the other hand Americans eat like they have free healthcare…
Americans have been sold and eat up the idea that instant gratification beats the effort needed to realize something greater.
In my defense, everything I worked for in the first 18 years of my life fell apart in the next two, so I’ve just kind of given up on anything that isn’t now or in the very near future.
Love how you related my idea to your life. Buckle up the more ambitious you become the rougher the ride is at least at the start. Outside the lucky few it is only the ones that try and fail first that later succeed if they stick with something of value.
"Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life
The most interesting people I know Didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of The Most Interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t"
-Sunscreen
No no you see, Americans work* so much, they don’t have time to first learn and then practise to cook healthy meals at home. Hence fast food chains!!
*work American style, as in staying at work long hours but also spend about 60% of their work day chatting with co workers, or on the phone, going on personal, non-work related errands, browsing the internet, selecting, getting, eating, and ridding their bowels of food.
i just learned (on Lemmy) that Americans basically don’t get raises annually. 1 or 2% raise apparently is the burn. so 40% work in a work day sounds way too much for me. good job, American workers. those fuckers don’t deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.
Yeah but they still spend most of their lives in a place they don’t want to be in, while being prideful about how hard they work compared to all other nations
American workers. those fuckers don’t deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.
I wish. That person has never seen what blue collar workers go through. In food service for example, and I literally cannot stress this enough, YOU WILL NOT GET A BREAK. Their favorite phrase is, “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” This is because there will be exactly one chair in the manager’s office, so that no one is allowed to sit for their entire shift, except the manager.
They get pissy if you ask for your federally required 15 minute break or your 30 minute lunch. This is doubly true for wait staff or delivery drivers. In fact I have been told by multiple bosses at delivery jobs that if I try to take a break at the store, I will be fired.
The rule of thumb over here seems to be, “the less you are paid, the more you WILL work.”
every time i hear anything about the US it becomes even more unbelievable that there are no guillotines in the streets “just in case”.
It’s because the ruling class created the biggest, most successful gang of slave hunters in human history, armed them to the teeth, and gave them immunity from prosecution. Anyone that does try to wrest some power back from the ruling class, historically, gets shot.
Try getting a blue collar job, and tell me again how the majority of American workers are slacking. Must be nice over there in your “office job,” that clearly can be done working at home.
Also I don’t know about other office jobs, but in IT, it was feast or famine. When there was work to be done, we worked 100 hour weeks, but when we finally managed to put out all the fires, yeah we would spend weeks at a time working on side projects, not slacking off.
Blue collar? I was obviously not talking about you losers, so your gd mouth and go back to pounding rocks.
We eat that way because we don’t. Heart disease is the only way we’re going to end up going out quickly enough to avoid end of life hospital bills. I mean it’s not like any of us have the means to afford to retire.
Touché!
Lmao
Buuuuuuurn.
Imagine taking a joke without having to jab back 😂. Oh world you are so petty.
Jab backs are the best part!
Imagine not being able to take a jab back without complaining. 😂
Imagine giving it out but not being able to take it.
If it was just a bit of fun then, its still just a bit of fun now.
Just to be clear, we want you to have free healthcare. Its meant as gloating and you should be angry. Just not at us. You deserve free health care and you won’t find many British people who wouldn’t want you to have it too.
I just continued the “food generalisation” joke because I’m neither British nor American. I can laugh at both of you.
You seem to be the one that can’t take a joke.
🤠🤠🤠
You couldn’t
I don’t care. I’ll die on that hill.
Depending upon the type and quantity of food, climbing it might be a more difficult task than expected (says me who had McDonald’s today (though for the first time in a couple months)).
It might not take a hill, a set of stairs could do it.
Oh you will
FWIW it wasn’t the Germans flying overhead that led to the shitty food and not much of it - it was the Germans in their submersible tin cans that were the big problem.
You know the kids who make and enjoy memes are usually back of the class types.
This is hilarious, but if you go to restaurants it’s not true. I could totally see some people eating like this at home though.
Unpopular Opinion, Sardines on Pizza are better than Mushrooms on Pizza
I like anchovies. Sometimes they’re too salty, but that’s perfect after a night of drinking
My issue is that not one pizzaria that I’ve found does anchovies the proper way. They just stick an entire fillet on each slice of pizza. Anchovies are a garnish, not a main event. They need to chop the fillets into smaller pieces and distribute evenly the same as they do with olives.
Chop a couple up until they are paste and put a teaspoon of that into 8 cups of whatever sauce you are making and watch people rave about needing to know your secret ingredient, and then totally disbelieve you when you tell them.
You’re right. Places like Papa John’s put the whole fillet on. Which I actually do love. Cuts through the sweetness of the sauce. But it isn’t good pizza by any means.
There’s a few places in NYC that do it right. My favorite is this Italian pizza place that has red and white pizzas.
They plated it wrong and forgot to toast the bread. BLOODY ELL
No plating in stew, all cooked in the one pot. Toast seems insane, no soakage
You uns ain’t got bowls or grilled cheese over there guvnah
Lmao, for sure use a bowl if it pleases you. I was more annoyed the spuds were not stewed. There should not be elements to a stew it should all be one pot, then some brown bread with a half inch of butter dragged across it.
No guvnah here, though they tried to make it so for centuries.
Not for this type of stew, no.
That’s why it looks like shit and you chase it around the plate. Put the stew in a bowl like all normal stews and soups and the taters on a small plate with the bread.
Don’t be foolish, you mash the spuds and mix it all together with a healthy scoop of butter, I’d like to see you try that in a bowl.
My brother in Christ, It would be way easier to do that in a bowl. We can send y’all some bowls and a couple cornbread recipes if you are hurting.
Not without scraping the tines of your fork on the bottom you fiend. Your cornbread is no match for my wheaten loaf.
To be fair, the Brown Sauce is actually pretty neat. But not in everyones taste tho.
The stew might be super tasty, but those white potatoes look bland as fuck. Throw them in an oven or skillet with some of that butter, get the edges a little crispy, sprig of whatever herbs were used in the stew, and they will be much better.
I’m not talking about the stew. I mean the bottle on the upper center of the picture.
what is “herbs”?
It’s like a vegetable but smaller.
And a vegetable is like a fruit but less fun.
First time I had brown sauce was on a breakfast sammy while on a bender at my friend’s house, it was magical
Me too. Except in a hotel in Scotland but my condition was the same. They don’t sell that stuff in supermarkets in my country, but we have the internet for that.
What is that? Potatoes with a side of stew on a plate?
Nearly - minced beef in gravy with some chopped vegetables thrown in (usually peas and carrots), next to boiled potatoes (that are usually mashed up).
Some parts of the UK have bread and butter as a side with everything.
It is a hearty dinner mind - it’s not flashy or instagram-ready, but it is tasty and fills you up.
Savory mince is simultaneously one of the best and worst meals I’ve ever had in my life. When its done right its amazing, when its bad its proper fucking garbage.
Rationing lasted until the mid-50s and left a lasting impression on people’s diets. It’s taken decades to recover socially, mainly with the aid of foreign cuisine.
Indian immigrants are the MVPs 👍
At first, I thought that you declared Indian immigrants as a minimum viable product. After some googling I guess it’s meant to be most valuable players. Small but significant difference. 😂
Why does the same acronym have meanings on two extremes :(
In short, consultancies.
There are many good ones, and many rip off artists who spend as much time disguising their horseshit as they would just doing real work. At a certain point, consultancies started hiring less and less experienced people who had to sell more and more bullshit.
Acronyms and abbreviations are psychologically powerful; they imply something is commonplace or important to the point of it not needing to be spelled out. When you suddenly coin a random one you can pretend you know something the listener doesn’t-- you’re right back to the emperor’s new clothes–most people are too scared to ask. Any industry, same shit.
I like all the acronyms and shit. It helps me know who to ignore, or avoid working for / with.
Oh shit that would have been so bad hahah
While we’re on this tangent, I’ve always felt the need to point out the following.
Minimum Viable Product = Poorly planned, or not planned at all, crappy product that is created in haste by overworked, stressed out developers to make some middle manager in a suit and sneakers type feel like they’re doing something to please corporate, because they don’t have the guts or good sense to push back. This abomination is usually sold as “we’ll flesh it out in phase two.” Phase two never happens, because they’re off chasing whatever either shiny thing they think is important. Also, the last MVP that they farted out “didn’t gain traction.” /rant
I mean, we had rationing in Italy too, but you don’t see people struggling to make a passing meal here. I’m pretty sure we were also much poorer than the British both going into and coming out of WW2
I would neither cook nor eat that, but perhaps the stereotype is still valid.
This reminds me of that post
“Is British food really that bad?”
“If made correctly, Yes”
Food shouldn’t look like its already been digested.
British food and women made for the best sailors in the world.
Thank god for Asian women 🫡
To all of you saying “this literally looks like poop”, “why are they eating boiled vomit”, etc, post the last thing you made and I’m sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
It’s fucking very obviously a normal ass plate of potatoes and meat stew with carrots. Do the potatoes look a little bland? Maybe, but there’s stew to dip it in. Regardless, a well seasoned potato has a good flavor all by itself. The stew looks like every other homemade stew I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to make that shit look “pretty”, but I know y’all scarf shit like that down. Get off your high fucking horses. There’s plenty of other valid things to complain about with British culture, but making fun of their food is asinine.
If it’s seasoned right that stew is probably absolutely banging. It looks great; good colour, good consistency, and you can tell from the softened edges on the carrots that it’s been cooked low and slow long enough really develop the flavours.
The easiest upgrade to this meal would have been to simply mash the potatoes after boiling them; a little butter and milk, some salt and pepper, and your bland boiled potatoes have magically transformed into something absolutely delicious.
Pretzels
Middle one looks like a big, ropy turd I dropped last night
Lol I figured that one would get the love
You wish you dropped such a noteworthy turd.
I drop respectable amounts but mostly liquid.
Please see a doctor. That’s not OK.
Doctors are expensive ‘it be like that’ is cheap
Oh, my bad, you’re from the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t have socialised healthcare. I’m so sorry.
The german flying overhead:
How did you make and apply the brine? I tried it once and the results where despicable.
post the last thing you made and I’m sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
Exactly, we don’t post photos of what we cook saying it is the best dinner on the planet. Though even that was probably a joke from the OP, and people are joking back. Calm down a little lol.
I mean it’s pretty tasty, comfort food for a lot of Brits. It’s my dad’s fav too, I wouldn’t put it in my top 5, but it’s comfort food for sure.
As a german, it’s really the bread that makes me sad ;) I think the UK gets too much shit for their food though and people should shift the mockery a bit more towards Norway, haha.
Buttered white bread dipped in stew is the best way to eat bread. You should try it before you diss it
I mean, do they have black pepper? Or heat for their stoves to brown stuff a bit? Because those potatoes look like they were peeled, and put right on the plate.
We’re white knighting mild food takes now 😂 the internet is so silly
No their food is fucking trash. And as for that stew, yeah it probably came in a can, but I’ve eaten better stew out of a can than that. This is the kind of food that my dad would make sometimes when I was growing up. 35 fucking years ago. Because it’s what he had growing up, and he has like six older siblings. It’s poor people food. And that’s fine, but that doesn’t make it good. I will say at least it is not jelly eels or some other traditional nonsense British food.
The national dish is Chicken Tikka Masala, a delicious tomato based curry invented in Birmingham in the 1970s. The country has nine Michelin starred restaurants, ranking 7th in the world. Fish and chips, pie and mash, cider. Full fucking English.
Their food is not trash.
