[OC]Defending British Food

[u/Desperate-Hearing297]

[u/Dispenser-JaketheDog]

'British food is great, it just doesn't photograph well' - my british fiance, after our first visit to england, where I was suprised how great everything tasted

[u/Daniiiiii → u/Dispenser-JaketheDog]

There's beiges and golden browns galore but it is delicious yet still.

[u/LaunchTransient → u/Daniiiiii]

There's beiges and golden browns galore

Maillard reaction goes brrr.

French cuisine has an identical colour palette and yet it's considered high cuisine.
Genuinely the nonsense about British food comes from two things - American G.I. experiences during wartime Britain, and the fact that the Brits are much more tolerant of mediocre food than the French or Italians are.

Much of Scandinavia and the Netherlands is arguably worse in terms of cuisine, yet they get nowhere near the level of flak as Britain does.

[u/Bowgentle → u/LaunchTransient]

Norway says “boil everything”. Also, glutefisk.

[u/Ouakha → u/Bowgentle]

"Hello" from Ireland, the land of boiling veg