It's pretty obvious that the mods are biased towards white people and the British in particular. You can make fun of white people all you want, but the moment you even dare criticise a black person then the kid gloves come off and the Nazi mods ban you.

I'm British and honestly, I'm offended by the comments I see here about British cooking. I know a lot of British people on this site feel the same but are afraid to speak up because of the authoritarian mods.

We don't all eat jellied eels. I come from Bedfordshire. Here we have a dish called a Bedfordshire clanger. It's meat, fruit jam and potatoes wrapped in pastry. Does that sound bad to you?

If there is black pride and gay pride, then why can't I be proud to be British?

I am English and I am proud. I won't be afraid anymore.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The English pride themselves on "bants" but are the poster children for people who can dish it out but can't take it.

    Sure, endless mockery of the French for being cowards or smelly or lazy is fair game, but someone makes a joke about the toast sandwich and suddenly its a hate crime.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      someone makes a joke about the toast sandwich and suddenly its a hate crime

      that is just mocking poverty

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        According to Wikipedia, the first recipe for a toast sandwich appeared in an 1861 cookbook chapter about cooking for "invalids". The recipe suggests adding meat to the sandwich to make it more paletable. I'm no expert in Victorian England, but in a society where education is reserved for the well-off, a literate person who can afford meat hardly sounds like the desperately poor.

        I'm sure that people have eaten the dish out of poverty and desperation, but it apparently didn't start out as poor people food.

        Even putting that aside, lots of shit bland food is probably also eaten by poor people with few other choices. Nobody is making fun of those people. We're mocking the people who have money to eat any variety of foods prepared any number of ways but still think boiled potatoes and peas are appetizing.

        And shit, poverty isn't exactly endemic to England. There are places that are much, much, poorer than England where poor people have developed better staple dishes than three slices of bread.

        • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          According to Wikipedia, the first recipe for a toast sandwich appeared in an 1861 cookbook chapter about cooking for “invalids”. The recipe suggests adding meat to the sandwich to make it more paletable. I’m no expert in Victorian England, but in a society where education is reserved for the well-off, a literate person who can afford meat hardly sounds like the desperately poor.

          the rich put meat in it, the poor just had the bread

          I’m sure that people have eaten the dish out of poverty and desperation, but it apparently didn’t start out as poor people food.

          the cookbook didn't invent it

          Even putting that aside, lots of shit bland food is probably also eaten by poor people with few other choices. Nobody is making fun of those people. We’re mocking the people who have money to eat any variety of foods prepared any number of ways but still think boiled potatoes and peas are appetizing.

          except you aren't, when you mock something broadly, you are including everyone who does the thing
          and i have no idea where you got the boiled potatoes thing from, usually they're roasted

          And shit, poverty isn’t exactly endemic to England. There are places that are much, much, poorer than England where poor people have developed better staple dishes than three slices of bread.

          it isn't a staple dish

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I can only hope that one day the proletarians of England will put as much effort and passion into overthrowing their shitty, murderous, government as you put into defending bland English food.