The way they censored the name is a new low point. Usually, you at least need to look for a few seconds, but this is just plain readable.
Had to scroll way too down in comments to find anyone mentioning this…
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I know that MREs are known for being disgusting, but I actually like them.
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Not who you asked but I’m pretty partial to the chili Mac, especially if you got some hot sauce to drizzle on it! It’s the one I look for first whenever we’re given some to choose from!
They used to come with little Tabasco bottles in them. I had little bottles of Tabasco all over the kitchen for a while after leaving the Army. Do they not come with that anymore?
I can picture that tiny Tabasco bottle clearly 😂. It was a godsend in basic training (for any MRE that came with them) I’m not sure if I had a new iteration of the chili mac or what, but when I was quarantined in 2020, mine came with crushed red pepper instead. I know for a fact I’ve had it with the Tabasco too though.
Those little bottles were awesome!
They aren’t bad. They do fuck up my digestive tract something awful. I prefer the officer’s mess.
Our drill sergeants taught us that you have to use the Kool-Aid mix, as that has something in it to counteract the digestive issues. Idk if that’s true or not, but I never had digestive issues because of an MRE, and I always used the Kool-Aid packet.
We didn’t really go over MREs in Navy boot. I doubt the RDCs would have bothered telling us that tidbit of information, since there’s really no reason a sailor should be eating those things. I just got curious and bought a few from the Army/Navy surplus stores. I never drank more than a taste or two of the Kool aid packet. Those things aren’t exactly tasty, kinda medicinal aftertaste in my opinion.
Maybe it’s true then.
The dinners aren’t the problem. It’s the baked beans for breakfast… Also, my Dad, who was born in London, insisted on eating Marmite, which I know many of you will defend, but also piccalilli and Daddies sauce and if you like those things, I will give you major side-eye.
Marmite is salty and delicious on toast :o. This is from an American.
Marmite is notorious for it’s loved/hated status. They’ve done a whole marketing thing around it in the past.
Even when describing things that have people on either side of the fence we’ll say that it’s “like marmite.”
Genius advertising
Baked beans are awesome for breakfast!
You’re entitled to your incorrect opinion.
I don’t often have them, given they are a heart attack on a plate. But an English breakfast can set you up for the day and baked beans are a staple ingredient. Particularly if they are cooked in the bacon/sausage fat.
Just a coincidence that none of those things contain high fructose corn syrup then? 😒
Neither saag paneer nor gyros have such things in them either and they’re delicious. Probably because Indian and Greek food are better.
For that matter, a plain old carrot doesn’t have any high fructose corn syrup in it. Ever tried one? They’re quite nice. You don’t even have to cook them.
Of course, that’s just what THEY want you to think.
I know British food tend to be memed as “brown stuff”, but this doesn’t even look half bad, the lighting makes it look worse than it actually is.
Slap an Instagram filter on it and it will look way better.
It’s reasonable food! Most people are pretty bad at making photos look good, myself included.
I’d want a bit more seasoning on the potatoes but man, potatoes are delicious in almost all forms, even when they look plain.
The unseasoned boiled potatoes and the untoasted bread are just bland.
The ground beef and carrots in the undefinable brown liquid would be a textural nightmare. I cannot fathom how it tastes because the closest thing in the US would be a sloppy joe.
The real problem with this is lack of technique and seasoning.
Here’s how I would “fix” this: Toast the bread, roast and season the potatoes, make the ground beef and sauce into a something resembling Salisbury steak, and cook the carrots as their own side dish.
What do you mean unseasoned, they have salt on them. smh
Perfectly good boiled potatoes and stew.
Even cheap British bread usually tastes good.
And it would still be better toasted
I can’t argue with that!
Better than USA bread but worse than e.g. French or German.
It does not. Unless you never had actual bread.
Laugh at this ne’er-do-well who can not see the beauty of a plain slice of buttered white bread.
I can, but it’s better toasted
Cheers to plain white buttered bread, then 🥂
you’ve chef’d your last boyardee, Rigatoni!
Toasted is inferior for soaking up the sauce.
Stick it under the broiler for 45 seconds and then slap another coat of butter on top.
The bread is a sop. You can’t sop with toast; that’s insane. The “undefinable brown liquid” is stock and is common across the world’s cuisines. If you season the potatoes further, assuming they’re lightly salted, you run the risk of overseasoning the dish (they’re sitting next to a very rich stew). You’re just making these up now.
I cannot fathom how it tastes
Then don’t say anything! Easy peasy!
Edit to add: The only problem as it were with this food is that it lacks colour, so of course you wouldn’t serve this at a restaurant. But when’s the last time anyone gave a fuck about colour when bashing out tea on a thursday eve?
Stay mad bob
Very drole.
I don’t even know what I’m looking at. Sliced white bread with butter, HP sauce, salt or pepper shaker, and a plate with what seems to be boiled potatoes and some unknown viscous fluid with what might be sliced (presumably cooked) carrots.
It’s lentils slow cooked with various cuts of meat, sausage and veggies
It’s absolutely flavorful, filling and delicious. One of my favorite meals to eat in winter time.
https://blindinglygoodfood.co.uk/recipe/slow-cooked-sausage-lentil-stew/
lol, definitely no lentils in that.
It’s likely a version of mince and tatties, but with boiled potatoes instead of mash.
Add butter and some green herbs, like rosemary or cilantro, on the potatoes and is an instant update on that plate
Like, make something completely different and flush this down the “loo”? Yeah that works.
The fact that it looks like you think that the “brown stuff” is the issue there is really funny
A thick beef stew with boiled potatoes and buttered bread was a common meal in my 90s Midwestern USA childhood. It is delicious
Englishman here. I’ve never eaten anything like this? Just me?
Same. I dont even know what it is. It’s like they wanted to make shepherds pie but they were too lazy to mash the potatoes
I was just thinking what the hell is it supposed to be? I’ve never in my life eaten that. Spray “cheese” anyone?
Over in the province we’d call that mince and onions, obviously being part of the island of Ireland the potatoes are inferred from kt being a meal.
The yanks might be taking the piss, but as far as I’m aware they put it in a bap and call it a sloppy Joe (which frankly sounds like a sex act).
Tangentially, other fine Northern Irish cuisine includes the vegetable roll, which is primarily a sliced beef sausage with a wee bit of onion and celery. Tasty.
Brother, just because you call your hamburger meat mince doesn’t mean you know how to handle it better than us here in burgerland. Our sauce for it not only includes onions but also tomatoes and, in true American fashion, sugar(either from ketchup or brown sugar). And of course, said hamburger meat goes in a bun, not on a plate unless you’re serving it with noodles from hamburger helper. What savages.
I would neither cook nor eat that, but perhaps the stereotype is still valid.
Whoever eats potatoes like that is a full on nut job lol
A little S&P they’d be fine
Plain boiled potatoes are meant as an accompagnement, you’re not supposed to just eat them on their own. They’re great at that, even the French do it and I think everyone can agree the French know a thing or two about cuisine.
I’ve never had plain boiled taters tbh! But I can see them working to mop up the slop 👀
You don’t even need to add butter to boiled potatoes, with the right variety.
What is that bread? Buttered, untoasted, sliced white bread? Wtf?
When I was a kid, buttered plain white bread was great, but as an adult, not so great anymore.
Yeah. It’s there to mop up the gravy.
Dude, its buttered bread. Whats your problem?
is probably even margarine in this case
wait till you hear about fairy bread
the best homemade dinner on the planet x
Planet X must have terrible food if this is the best thing it has to offer. Glad I live on planet Earth.
You don’t need to be british to appreciate a good meal of lentils and carots. Of course, it you feel the need of adding extra starch, you put the potatoes in it.
Are you sure it’s lentils? I have no idea, but other people are mentioning beef stew and it kinda looks like ground meat to me more than lentils.
Oh… I don’t know anymore… You might be right.
Still if it is bref stew, I think my comment can apply. But lentils have the most chance to be the best dinner.
Or some rice. Or rice noodles.
I disagree. I would have rice on the side, the same way they did with the potatoes but the potatoes, I would have them in the lentil stew.
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.
British food when it’s not presented like shit
I still don’t find this appealing tbh
Is it always leftovers day or is there a plate shortage?
Why are there always 15 items on the plate with British food?
depicted: 6, and gravy.
to make a typical American meal:
swap cauliflower for macaroni, double the amount of cheese sauce
roast potatoes for fries
roast meat for BBQ
gravy for bbq sauce
peas for collard greens
carrots for Brussels sprouts
yorkshire puddings for a slice on plain, untoasted, unbuttered wonderbread
My only question is why are the Yorkshire puddings hollow? All the ones I’ve had have been stuffed with mince and vegs, but I’ve never been outside 49 of the 50 states.
This is how I grew up eating them, but some people from the North of England would argue they should be the size of the plate and function like a bread bowl / taco bowl
What you’re describing is more niche as is known as a “pop over”
America is big. This is like a southern meal maybe? Or more like what the stereotype of the south is.
Roughly 40% of the us population lives in “The South,” I think its fair to generalize that southern BBQ is an American staple cuisine.
The word barbeque comes from the Caribbean. I know people associate BBQ with the US, but it seems to have originated outside the US.
However, it originating in the indigenous cultures of the Caribbean and Central America, would explain why it’s so prevalently associated with southern states.
I’m not arguing about its origins, I’m saying you’re playing Family Feud (aka Family Fortune overseas) and the host asks you to name a type of American cuisine.
Is “bbq/barbeque” on the board? I’d say it’s probably #2 or #3 after Hamburgers (arguably bbq), hot dogs (arguably the same), fried chicken / wings (arguably the same), or pizza (arguably not “American” if bbq isnt either)
Others would be, TexMex, gumbo, cheesesteak, Thanksgiving dinner.
Anything else - deep-dish, pie a la mode, eggs benedict, candied yams, new England chowder, NY strip steak, Boston creme pie, a cheeseball… are way more niche than bbq
Since when do the British not like Brussels sprouts?
We like sprouts.
Since they left the EU and now anything from Brussels costs more
Me and my sister don’t like them so that’s at least 2 of us
George Bush Sr. famously hated them. For some reason, people found that funny. I didn’t get it then and I still don’t get it.
They used to taste far more bitter. Then in the late 90s, a breeder was able to remove that flavor.
I liked them bitter.
it’s not that we don’t like them - but more that they’re more winter/holiday focused (speaking generally), and usually roasted rather than fried.
But also, Brussels are on the menu everywhere in the US. middle of July, at a bar, get a side of Brussels. I don’t think Brussels are served commonly at Sunday lunch year round in the uk.
Where in the U.S.? Lots of people hate them. In fact, I’ve never seen a side of Brussels sprouts just given to you as a side. Maybe it’s an option, but there are always other options.
DC area checking in. They are super popular right now, especially roasted or deep fried. Fortunately, I haven’t seen anyone serving the boiled nasties my mom used to make…
What region if you don’t mind me asking. I’ve lived in a couple of US states on the west coast and I’ve never encountered Brussel sprouts so casually and definitely never fried. It’s usually in a part of a dinner at a ‘nice’ sit down restaurant and always roasted in the oven.
Oh it’s smiling! Hello! 👋
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 🫡
Looks like the meals I was recently had at the veterans hospital in the USA.
The funniest thing about these threads are the yanks trying to convince themselves that dumping an entire spice rack on everything makes it better.
That’s the entire rest of the world my dude.
Just because we have a blend called Allspice, doesn’t mean we dump the whole rack in there. Also portion control is absolutely essential with most spices. Don’t be jealous of us just because we never used spices as currency.
Entire wars were fought for access to spices. If we have cheap access to every spice we could ever want, why not throw a bunch of spices on to make it pop with flavor?
“pop with flavour”
There are only obscure german words to describe the level of gastronomic disgust I have at the phrase.
You would put ketchup on wagyu to make it “pop with flavour”
Personally I’m not a fan of vinegar tomato paste.
I’m talking throwing a bit of garlic powder, some granulated onion, dash of pepper, dash of parsley and oregano and some seasoning salt to give the flavor some body if it still needs it.
I mean, you could try a little of even one thing rather than nothing at all.
Enjoy your beans on toast, I guess.
Wanker.
With actual baked beans and real bread. Delicious.
Serving vegetables boiled and plain is how you end up with a bunch of people who swear they hate vegetables. Spice helps.
Helps having good produce
plain
My brother in Christ, there’s fucking gravy right there. Anything other than a bit of salt and pepper and you’ve gone too far.
This is satire right?
More like culinary Stockholm Syndrome - some Brits have thoroughly convinced themselves their cuisine is good.
