Which one of you did this
white people food is a fad currently in China and it is called "the lunch of suffering" among other things. a Chinese individual trying it said that it is the food of the dead as it reminded them how alive they were.
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The lunch of suffering is those boxes you get on the Harmony trains. They haven't changed them since the service inaugurated and they suck suck suck. Compare with the eki-ben on the Shinkansen and it's a brutal crime what they're doing to train riders. Most people don't even bother, they just bring a cup-o-noodles and add the free hot water.
Post more about this. I would love to hear minor complaints from actual users of Chinese high speed rail.
Uh...hmm. Well, not much, honestly! It's a good system. The trains run on time, there are enough of them, they are clean, there is plenty of legroom even in second class. Honestly since the pandemic I haven't been on the trains much. I'm sure they probably have some kind of app or delivery meals that meet the train at the next station or something by now. The complaints are when the trains fill up and there aren't any seats. You can get standing room tickets for the same price as second class. But what do you expect on a packed train. I carry a tiny little plastic fold-up chair in my backpack for precisely this reason. People play their phones without headphones which is irritating. You can only hear that "cha-ching" sound effect from a slot machine so many times before you want to murder someone. The snacks other than the box meals suck, too. The beer is Tsingtao at best, and warm. The coffee is Nescafe from a powder sachet.
The meals are absolute crap though. I get the idea that someone's brother in Beijing got the contract and is living the high life in Canada off the proceeds. Here's what they look like, and they taste just as bad as they look. There's no reason it has to be this way.
Of course, not everyone is on board with the trend, and some people couldn’t bear the thought of foregoing flavor and variety. But others found a strange sense of comfort in the blandness of these meals, calling it a reflection of their work experience, and a reminder that the office isn’t a place for enjoying life.
Funny, if you follow the link to the original Chinese story, Chinese people are saying that the rice-heavy box lunch they usually eat makes you logy and tired in the afternoon from all the carbohydrates and spikes your glucose. Meanwhile the white people's food is cheap, healthy and gives you energy all afternoon long. It's good for people who are working out or too lazy to cook. Chinese food is meant to be enjoyed on a big table with family or friends, you can't compare the two. Some of the comments are hilarious though.
Western food is popular and the restaurants fill up every evening. It's even expensive, though not super expensive.
Even though "western food" isn't even a category in western countries. Where else can you find seafood, gnocchi, cracker-crust pizza and borscht all on the same menu?
This is revenge for decades of westernised "Asian" restaurants selling sushi, curries, stir frys and french fries on the same menu.
I get mad about jellied eels specifically cause it was protein slop for the workers stuck in the deepest shithole of the UK at the time, and anyone who still likes it probably either is personally nostalgic or has some weird pride about perserverance or shit.
Its like kicking someone whos down, beans on toast is extremely valid to make fun of though cause brits will actually admit to having pride in the english breakfast.
Black pudding is good though, sorry.
But eels weren't just slop for the workers, your monarchs loved that shit so much they fined Gloucester the equivalent of 40,000 dollars because they didn't send him enough eels.
Eels were imported from all over the world to feed London.
- those are lampreys
- jellied eels were not, according to wikipedia, invented as a dish for like another 600 years, during the industrial revolution
In addition to what gorbin over there said, I'm literally not british.
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Uh…fries? Burger? Coke? America-style pizza? These became worldwide sensations for a reason. There is not a place on earth you can go that won’t have these things. Whereas your gellied eels or whatever remains a dark secret only eaten in the town of Worthmonpoofshire.
Uh…fries? Burger? Coke? America-style pizza?
so you invented junk food that's designed to be addictive? idk if that's something to brag about
There is not a place on earth you can go that won’t have these things.
hmm, I wonder why that is? Imperialism? What's that?
If I was the Hexbear Admin, I would make it compulsory to read all comments in at least the thread before commenting something already addressed.
https://hexbear.net/post/271950/comment/3521529
But you're not, and I don't think this was really addressed. Did people invite the McDonald's corporation into their countries? No. Burgers are nice, and food tends to spread with regional variations, but to ignore the fact that America is the global hegemon is a bit silly.
No, I commented that it’s both. Food has to be good and there has to be a force pushing it (capitalism). This was in response to someone saying Filipino food isn’t good, proven by the fact that it’s not popular, which is a framing I disagree with.
Like, don’t forget the overall point of the thread (not the entire post), which was British people getting salty when Amerikans say their food is bad. That’s the context - why British food, despite Britain being as much of a cultural juggernaut as America for a lot longer, hasn’t achieved the level of penetration that American food did. Both capitalist, imperialist, colonialist. Only one who’s food is everywhere. Why? Because the food is actually good.
American food may be nicer than what you consider to be British food - though at this point, I'm not entirely sure what you think either of those are, exactly - but overall, taste is irrelevant; people will buy what they are sold, and if they are sold nothing but inoffensive yankee slop, they will eat nothing but inoffensive yankee slop. That's how this works - you use hegemonic power to eliminate competition in other markets. I still think you're overestimating the quality of American food.
That just goes to show how disgusting British food is because despite having a global empire where the sun never sets, even the most brainwashed mentally colonized colonial subject didn't want to eat that shit. There's a reason why baguettes are a part of Vietnamese cuisine. There's a reason why food of Turkish origins still exist in the Balkans to the point where there isn't a whole lot separating Turkish cuisine from Balkan cuisine.
Yet absolutely no former British colony has jellied eels as part of their national cuisine, not even the Anglo settler colonies like the US or Australia. I wonder why that is.
we have curry which is better.
Nope. American-style pizza (and even pasta though to a much lesser extent) is the dominant form of the food consumed worldwide. This is not the case with traditional diaspora food like curry where, if you go anywhere in the world and ask for it, they’ll give you Indian food or SE Asian food, and not whatever Bri’ish monstrosity you have frankensteined into existence.
Also see this comment - https://hexbear.net/post/271950/comment/3521529
In the end, look, the Bri’ish have given us a lot. Like, your literature is amazing in its depth compared to American. But you can’t have everything. You’re just not that good at food, mate.
For what it's worth, the one time I was in London I found British food to be not at all like its reputation. I liked all the game meats. I've had British breakfast in Hong Kong and it's...OK. Gimme the full American any day, though.
Good place to end it then.
Also, if you could, what Bri’ish food would you suggest that Amerikans try to change their view?
These became worldwide sensations for a reason
Because corn syrup is addictive? Lol
Here's how to know if a food is good or not: ask this simple question: is it served outside of its home area? If the answer is yes, it's good food. If you can only find it in a single city or region, it's probably edible but not excellent. If it's available worldwide, it's a home run. You can find Thai food just about everywhere these days. People like it.
Ever seen a Filipino food restaurant? I haven't. Not saying they don't exist outside The Philippines, but I just haven't seen one. I've had home-cooked Filipino food though and...it's just not that great. I mean, it's edible. It gets you full, it accomplishes the goal of a meal. But I just wasn't impressed. The adobo was probably the best dish and that was just stewed beef. You know what probably the most famous Filipino restaurant is, both at home and abroad? Jollibee's. Which serves...American-style fast food.
I felt the same way about Æthiop food. Served on the pancake, eat with your hands? It was edible but I wouldn't have it again.
Never had Filipino so can’t comment. But I’ll add that it’s also a matter of capitalism. American food became dominant because A) It’s tasty, and B) There was a lot of money to be made by selling it everywhere.
The second point isn’t available to a lot of cultures who have incredible food but just aren’t considered “marketable”. This, by the way, is even true or really popular cuisines like Chinese and Indian, where if you go there and explore, you see so much more variety than you ever could in the US.
But this is not true when it comes cuisine from the Bri’ish because they’ve had centuries to make their food popular and they couldn’t.
Cuz it’s not good.
Never had Filipino so can’t comment.
I think the fact that you've never had it is a comment. 😛
I take it you’ve had all the cuisines in the world? Just read the rest of my comment.
I take it you’ve had all the cuisines in the world?
That's a really uncharitable way to repeat my comment back to me. Even when you have it home-cooked, which is always the best way to experience a cuisine, it's just not that great. It's not a surprise that it hasn't caught on outside its home area.
Even inside a country, you can use this rule. It's why you can find Texas-style BBQ in Carolina but not Carolina-style BBQ in Texas.
This dude's trying to deny the existence of American hegemony by coming for two of my favorite foods.
McDonald's is good in a disgusting way, it ticks all the boxes of a reptile brain evolved to survive in an environment where food was scarce. You get your fats, your sugars, your proteins, your carbs. You walk out of the place feeling bad about yourself and the life choices that led you there but you also feel good in the way you'd imagine a python would feel after swallowing a whole rat.
The burger itself is a good dish. It has an appalling mixture of flavours and textures and it's easy and convenient to cook and to eat. Being the national dish of the imperial hegemon and being marketed aggressively certainly helps it's popularity but it works very well as a meal.
Yaknow, I'm not sure if I agree with that. The hearty burger and fries is good no matter who or where you are.
Is McDonalds good food?
Now now, McDonald's is crap all over the world. The only reason I'll ever eat it is because I'm stranded at a train station or something, or if I have 15 minutes to make it to an appointment. But there is more to the burger than McD's. You can name any other fast food burger and it's better than McD's. And of course there are actual hamburgers, which are a thousand times better. And then homemade, where you're in control of everything...I have knocked Chinese people's socks off with burgers on the grill. Nothing special either, no Kobe beef or anything, just the ordinary backyard burgers like we make in America. 80 grams each.
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I disagree, I think if it's good it will spread. If there's one thing people will go to a great deal of trouble for, it's good food.
Japanese food is everywhere, Chinese food is everywhere, Indian food is everywhere. Belgian food isn't everywhere, Australian food isn't everywhere, Mexican food isn't everywhere. (I mean actual Mexican from the interior, not Tex-Mex - which does have an overseas presence). The only places you'll see these is in expatriate communities.
Black pudding and beans on toast are better than any food that’s ever come out of your so-called “culture”
A big pot of veggie/tofu Jambalaya vs THAT!? Nah I'll take my fusion slop over whatever you have going on in Britland. Yall don't even season your fries. Oil flavored ass potatoes.
A :british-maw: making fun of American food
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Black pudding and beans on toast are better than any food that’s ever come out of your so-called “culture”
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I’ll think about this comment the next time I hear a Brit complain about how spicy something is after it’s been seasoned with black pepper.
Tbf I’ve come across plenty of brits who like food as spicy as possible
Yeah, adding tons of spice to every Indian dish regardless of how Indians make it is their whole thing
It doesn't work that way. Brits had limited access to spices and eschewed foreign foods. Nearly every region of America has had hundreds of years of spices and other cultures living there to develop their cuisine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_regional_and_fusion_cuisines
The worst regions of continental America is on par with the best regions of Britain because they suffered from the same factors that damaged British cuisine.
Spices provide another dimension to control how your food tastes, it's pretty vital.
it’s all subjective anyway
OK sure we might not have some objective way of measuring these things, but I think most of us can agree for instance, Norwegean or Russian food is worse than food in Mexico City.
The general rule of thumb is if your European country doesn't touch the Mediterranean Sea, your collection of barely edible solids and liquids that you misconstrue as "cuisine" is complete garbage, not even worth feeding dogs with. And honestly, that's even cruel to the dogs, especially the dogs who are already accustomed to eating the scraps out of countries with actual cuisines.
When I first saw jellied eels in a video I thought it was kinda gross but never felt compelled to express my opinion about it, but after hearing the British complain about Chinese and American food so much I feel a moral obligation to make fun of jellied eels. It's not the eels, it's the hypocrisy.
:quagsire-pog: Lunchables!
:soviet-hmm: Beans, meat with cheese, roma tomatoes? Not a combination I'm familiar with but I'd try it.
:hillary-disgust: Is that queso on raw red pepper slices?
I think its cream cheese on bell peppers, its pretty good cold snack if you put crushed up takis on it lol
Is that queso on raw red pepper slices?
It looks like Ranch Dressing, or sour cream to me.
What's wrong with frozen grapes, they're like little popsicle balls.
nothing is wrong with them, i want the only good thing a white person besides :john-brown: ever did to be more widely known.
This kind of hurts cause sometimes you want something a little bland and boring; I like food from other cultures, but sometimes the palate wants 'boring'.
My favorite bland food is usually baby carrots or some Oiko's yogurt to get my protein fix
yea that lunchable shit in the first picture is definitely valid
Why did they go with the lamest possible white people food. There's better stuff than this.
I admit to eating the one on the left, on occasion. Crackers, cheese and ham
Good cheese is probably Europe's greatest contribution to humanity to be fair
