'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
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.
The reason a lot of the traditional food in Scandinavia is "bad" is historical. Lots of poor farmers living in the cold harsh north where during the like 7 colder months everything had to be preserved and harsh, so taste didn't even come second, surviving was always nr 1-5 in order of importance.
Growing up in an average Swedish household in the '00 we eat great tasty food with a lot of traditional meals that with todays ingredients taste awesome.
You don't need to justify to me, I've had Scandinavian food and enjoyed it fine. I also am Dutch and live in the Netherlands, so the potshot I took at NL is entirely warranted.
My point is that by comparison, those nations get far less flak regarding their food.
True, as a Swede I hear more complaints about British cuisine than I do about Swedish or other nordic countries cuisine. Iceland gets a bad rep because of the rotten shark meat but I've seen some food vloggers go there and have some great food too.
Growing up we ate a variety of foods. Sometimes less fast foody fast food like hotdogs and fries with ketchup and mustard. Other times it was baked salmon in a cream sauce with potatoes. Potatoes are featured far and wide in our cuisine, either boiled, mashed or oven baked.
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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