https://twitter.com/BlightyChap/status/1635615412074184704

Oh God, I just googled 'jellied eels'; no offense to Anglos, but like just why? That looks horrifying.

No faulting for the Pie and mash though (cause I love savory pies), but this is a complete joke.

Also, I'm currently working abroad in the Middle East, and guess what: ooooh noooooo, people have replaced Salam Aleikum with good morning and hey how's it going, and rice and hummus with big macs and fried chicken. I mean I haven't noticed the local population being put out by it but I've really been meaning to convince them that actually they're supposed to be really upset about it because some guy on the internet is throwing a wobbly about it.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Also, it's a cultural shift that happened so long ago that probably more than half the population has no conscious memory of it

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        These old fucks just want to live in a theme park version of The East End, essentially.

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Aren't eels also more expensive and can be cooked in way more delicious ways (lookin' at you Unagi), like who the fuck puts perfectly good meats in aspic anymore and isn't some time traveling inbred Duchess?

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        They gotta import it from the Netherlands nowadays cause they overfished the Thames, so its basically just nostalgia and/or novelty food.

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          At least American novelty food has the benefit of being double deep fried and covered in sugar and pepper flakes, British novelty food are all cognitohazards to the senses.

      • Jucha [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I thought the same. Smoked eel is my personal favourite fish dish.

        Jellied eels sounds much less appetizing, but at least they use fully grown fish for that. Eating glass eels has always sounded like horrible waste to me.

        • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          It's weird that people don't realize glass eels are all immature eels that have yet to reach maturity (then again its likely deliberate suppression by fishing groups to reduce blame for when the species becomes extinct).