'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
There's a brilliant clip of John Cena trying beans on toast, where he mocks it's appearance, and then is pleasantly surprised afterwards lol. I love that clip. I think it encapsulates British cuisine to a t.
I just had to go watch it, and it's fantastic. I especially enjoyed his attempt to eat Marmite, which he did not embrace as readily, and quite right too.
Americans usually eat beans in some kind of soup or in a salt and water suspension when plain. The entire reason we’re often repulsed by the way the British use beans is because the Heinz Beans aren’t readily available and are very similar in appearance to the American baked beans in a brown sugar sauce that usually doesn’t go well with savory/starchy foods. The way you use Heinz beans is closer to the way we’d use chili with beans.
As a Brit I love beans on toast, but it’s on the same level of a peanut butter sandwich. What we love about it is it’s cheap, quick, easy, healthy and tastes pretty good. It’s not fancy food, it’s something you eat to fill yourself up when you CBA.
There's a youtube clip where Aaron Paul tries a Greg's Sausage Roll and complains about how it stinks of fat and looks unappetising for five minutes. Then he tries it and is genuinely to shocked to react for a moment, just wide eyed wonderment.
Beans on toast is often served with cheese on top. It's tomato carbs, cheese and protein (beans) oh what a suprise its quite tasty... Its also the equivalent of something you chuck together raiding your home for a qucik cheap lunch, not an actual recipe.
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u/Dispenser-JaketheDog 22d ago
'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