Vegetables should not taste that bad, I've been having them for years. Climate shouldn't matter either as a lot of our fruit and veg is imported.
I genuinely would cook stuff for everyone here if it shut them up. Like, idk where all these people are going but I've also gone a lot of places all over the world and I've never felt like I had an absolutely miserable time with food anywhere.
If you know what you're doing then even traditionally peasant food like stovies can be made to be appetising for modern tastes.
But there's things like rarebit, Haggis, road-in-the-hole, black pudding, Sunday roast. I'd even count a lot of curries on that list as well.
I think the worst part of UK food is that a lot of it is just brown so I think a lot of people get put off by that straight away.
Maybe try make this one yourself? It's really basic but also pretty good, as long as you don't cheap out on the sausage. Also I personally add a bit of English mustard to the batter mix. That stuffs deadly, so if you do that don't add too much.
Vegetables should not taste that bad, I’ve been having them for years.
Perhaps you're just used to it? Like seriously I don't know, vegetables were super overpriced and just bad. I did think "hold up, is the imported stuff also bad?" and apparently a lot of it was?? Like I didn't try but I was told that the imported stuff isn't great either. I noticed that most of the imported wines weren't great either (although it was the only thing that wasn't overpriced). Perhaps people are less picky so companies don't export their best stuff to the UK? I honestly don't know. I only know I will never forget the tomatoes I ate there lol
Maybe try make this one yourself? It’s really basic but also pretty good, as long as you don’t cheap out on the sausage.
See that's the thing. There were 4 genders to English food: roast, chicken, sausage and cod, and they were all prepared in very similar ways (kind of dry and sad, best case scenario some kind of gravy, and also potatoes everywhere). Now, I don't want to diss English cuisine too hard, I also said that the sweets were actually really neat. Even stuff that should be pretty simple was very nice. For example I had... I think it was called sweetbread? It sounds really dumb from the name but it was pretty awesome.
The most disappointing thing beyond the really bad vegetables everywhere was that most things you could have had anywhere else, except it is mostly the stuff people would make if they didn't want to bother to make something more involved. Like, in France they have a billion different ways to make everything. In Italy they're gonna make your roast but they're also gonna prepare it with a bunch of onions or pesto sauce with pine nut etc. And you can have bangers and mash here but few people want to eat "plain" sausage, you can have sausage with orange bits in it which is pretty cool, or you can go to some of the more mountainous areas and they're gonna make sausage which has a bunch of wild greens in it, or they're gonna make your roast but also put a bunch of chestnuts and wild root vegetables in it. It's also kind of grating how almost everything has to do with meat.
I think this is kind of a general phenomenon in most countries which industrialised early and also had lots and lots of plains for cattle, because people had neither the time, the materials nor the knowledge to make something more involved so they just ate meat, bread, and potatoes. I think that's why most of northwest Europe has bad food but I'm not sure. Even back to the time my dad was a kid, meat was a luxury, and most of the population lived in the countryside as subsistence farmers or fishers. So they made use of every different thing they found (which was lots of things since mountainous areas tend to have more diversity), not to mention that for centuries there was lots of influence from the middle east etc. It's a similar case with Italy, Spain, the rest of the Balkans, etc. So I guess it was reasonable to expect that southern and Eastern Europe would have more variety than the northwest. Idk what happened with France, I think they just like to be fancy.
Vegetables should not taste that bad, I've been having them for years. Climate shouldn't matter either as a lot of our fruit and veg is imported.
I genuinely would cook stuff for everyone here if it shut them up. Like, idk where all these people are going but I've also gone a lot of places all over the world and I've never felt like I had an absolutely miserable time with food anywhere.
If you know what you're doing then even traditionally peasant food like stovies can be made to be appetising for modern tastes.
But there's things like rarebit, Haggis, road-in-the-hole, black pudding, Sunday roast. I'd even count a lot of curries on that list as well.
I think the worst part of UK food is that a lot of it is just brown so I think a lot of people get put off by that straight away.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/sams-toad-hole
Maybe try make this one yourself? It's really basic but also pretty good, as long as you don't cheap out on the sausage. Also I personally add a bit of English mustard to the batter mix. That stuffs deadly, so if you do that don't add too much.
Perhaps you're just used to it? Like seriously I don't know, vegetables were super overpriced and just bad. I did think "hold up, is the imported stuff also bad?" and apparently a lot of it was?? Like I didn't try but I was told that the imported stuff isn't great either. I noticed that most of the imported wines weren't great either (although it was the only thing that wasn't overpriced). Perhaps people are less picky so companies don't export their best stuff to the UK? I honestly don't know. I only know I will never forget the tomatoes I ate there lol
See that's the thing. There were 4 genders to English food: roast, chicken, sausage and cod, and they were all prepared in very similar ways (kind of dry and sad, best case scenario some kind of gravy, and also potatoes everywhere). Now, I don't want to diss English cuisine too hard, I also said that the sweets were actually really neat. Even stuff that should be pretty simple was very nice. For example I had... I think it was called sweetbread? It sounds really dumb from the name but it was pretty awesome.
The most disappointing thing beyond the really bad vegetables everywhere was that most things you could have had anywhere else, except it is mostly the stuff people would make if they didn't want to bother to make something more involved. Like, in France they have a billion different ways to make everything. In Italy they're gonna make your roast but they're also gonna prepare it with a bunch of onions or pesto sauce with pine nut etc. And you can have bangers and mash here but few people want to eat "plain" sausage, you can have sausage with orange bits in it which is pretty cool, or you can go to some of the more mountainous areas and they're gonna make sausage which has a bunch of wild greens in it, or they're gonna make your roast but also put a bunch of chestnuts and wild root vegetables in it. It's also kind of grating how almost everything has to do with meat.
I think this is kind of a general phenomenon in most countries which industrialised early and also had lots and lots of plains for cattle, because people had neither the time, the materials nor the knowledge to make something more involved so they just ate meat, bread, and potatoes. I think that's why most of northwest Europe has bad food but I'm not sure. Even back to the time my dad was a kid, meat was a luxury, and most of the population lived in the countryside as subsistence farmers or fishers. So they made use of every different thing they found (which was lots of things since mountainous areas tend to have more diversity), not to mention that for centuries there was lots of influence from the middle east etc. It's a similar case with Italy, Spain, the rest of the Balkans, etc. So I guess it was reasonable to expect that southern and Eastern Europe would have more variety than the northwest. Idk what happened with France, I think they just like to be fancy.