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I'd rather eat literal shit than anything made by an Anglo barbarian
They live on an island and and specialize in not eating seafood. Miserable little swamp
I'll defend shepherd's pie, that shit slaps on a chilly day (cw: animal products)
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Another br*tish dish with a texture that ranges from "wet smooth" to "wet lumpy".
I'm 100% with you. The potatoes alone are enough of a selling point for me.
I make these with venison and freeze most of them for later, and they're so good cheap and easy
I'll be honest, their Chinese takeout looks pretty good. And I do eat some of their food, like fish and chips. If the "jacketed potatoes" are what I think they are, then that's a staple for sure. A bunch of dishes I eat probably came from Britain without me knowing
Britain tends to excel at baking. Their pies (savory or otherwise), beef wellington, and scones are all tasty. Sausage is generally done better elsewhere, though. Not even disrespecting bangers and the like, I just think the Slavs, Germans, and Latin countries do better.
I don’t think anyone American is in a position to comment on people’s food either.
Come get some BBQ or a cheesesteak or eggs Benedict or literally one of the thousand local delicacies across the states.
Indigenous Americans got the best dishes. Honey roasted acorn squash, manoominini (wild rice fritters), succotash.
I’ve never had indigenous American food, if I see somewhere doing it, I’ll try it.
I'm conflicted on this in that most of our foods, like most American culture, are largely imported from other countries by the people who came here (when they're not products of the great depression or whatever)
Things've kind of gone in their own direction since the early days, but at the end of the day a lot of what we do is inherited behavior from our various precursors. Bit of a recurring theme with the US.
This is true of many food cultures, no? British cuisine is full of immigrant food too.
Yep, and they've managed to make it bleak af too. Chinese food that caters to UK tastes is all deep fried or brown, and they've bastardized Indian food into sugary, unspiced slop.
You can still get "real" "authentic" food from other cultures, but for some reason it seems like they treat that as almost a novel special experience? Like having Chinese food with actual vegetables and isn't just stir fried noodles drenched in hoisin sauce is an occasion for them.
Truly dire.
American takes on Chinese or Indian food or whatever will cater to American palates too. Have you been to a British Indian or Chinese restaurant, cause I have, and to me what you’re calling “an occasion” is the norm.
Only been a tourist there, so chances are I just didn't get the whole experience. I'm sure there's good places but I don't really have plans to go back lol.
Just my personal experience with the people I know, idk if it came off like that.
I agree that British Chinese food isn't amazing, however;
they've bastardized Indian food into sugary, unspiced slop.
This is absolute nonsense. Go to better curry houses.
Unfortunately, I was only there for a week, and will likely never return.
I had some of the most sugary curry in my life, but I will take your word for it.
Chinese food in the US is all Cantonese, but you can get some legit good stuff. Granted, I’m in the suburbs of a major city.
'Sugary cardboard covered in cheap hot sauce' is a real cuisine actually.
Bougie moneybags over here with real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.
i'd say the average level of cooking ability being rock bottom in the uk is more of an issue than the food itself. british food can be incredible when it's actually cooked well
my parents can't cook for shit so the only culinary education i got was six months in year 8, where we maybe cooked six or seven things. i probably got six more months of education on the matter than most people though
We didn’t have Brexit so other problems could do better fish and chips.
Like 10 years ago when i was a total lib and would listen to npr, I heard a food historian talk about how prohibition movement in the US destroyed the national culinary traditions and began the pivot into adults eating children's food. What I remember from it was, usa used to have respectable cuisine, prohibition destroyed normal restaurants, cant get that alcohol mark up any more- so there was never a time in us history where so many restaurants closed and so many new ones opened. All the new ones were 'family' restaurants, cause no one could sell booze, but they have food specifically for your kid now and thus began the introduction of bland, soft, sweet foods onto menus across n. America. It obviously took over and now tons of Americans eat a diet similar to what an 8 year old with sensory issues would prefer. No idea how the british fucked it up so bad though.
That, plus war associated rationing and economic decline in the context of increasing mass produced (bland) food
When I found out that British baked beans are in some kind of thin soupy tomato sauce rather than the delicious barbeque brown sugar sauce of American baked beans the hate towards British food made a lot more sense to me. Why do they put that shit in everything
Its only thin if you buy the really cheap stuff.
The BBQ brown sugar beans is depressing.
I hate the brown sugar baked bean sauce with a passion. Molasses sucks
Pretty bleak sometimes, but I'd like to try some. I do like shepherds pies, and those full english breakfast spreads look great. I was hoping to grab some Cornish Pasties if I ever made that trip to Michigan's upper peninsula happen. (They gained regional popularity as a result of miners immigrating from Cornwall in the mid-1800s)
Deep fried haggis pizza doesn't taste as bad as it should do.
Sausage rolls are great snacks.
Toad in the hole is a great way to use leftovers, especially with a nice onion gravy. Crisp sandwiches are the ultimate comfort food.Most British food is pretty good tbh, the only problem is most Brits don't know how to cook.
