[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/Lil_Ms_Anthropic → u/Dispenser-JaketheDog]

WHY ARE THE PEAS NEON GREEN?? That's more than just the camera

[u/Previous_Active_7653 → u/Lil_Ms_Anthropic]

Fresh peas are pretty a vibrant green colour, maybe its that peas are grown in most of Britain so they dont lose their luster during transport?

[u/AWhistlingWoman → u/Previous_Active_7653]

Mushy peas aren’t made from fresh peas, they’re made of stewed marrow fat peas that have been dried. So the mushy peas are dyed, otherwise they would be the colour of sludge.

[u/Deathlinger → u/Lil_Ms_Anthropic]

It's food dye because the marrowfat peas go a grey colour normally, chip shops added the dye to make it more colourful and it stuck