r/iamveryculinary • u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. • 2d ago
I have no words….
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u/YchYFi 2d ago
Reading these type comments is like being a glutton for punishment at this point.
Especially when people seem to cling to these venemous opinions and get aggressive with them like the first comment.
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u/onehotoneshot 2d ago
Some people really do be making their opinion on food their entire identity
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u/YchYFi 2d ago
It's also the irony of them decrying that they 'can't stand pompous assholes not being told what they are'. Pot and kettle comes to mind.
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u/pnoodl3s 2d ago
That’s such irony lmao. This guy is calling others pompous? Unbelievable
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u/AkariKuzu 1d ago
Also shoutout to the double irony of him calling someone a moron and saying "apostrophes matter" and then using "your" instead of "you're. "
You're has an apostrophe, bro. It matters.
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u/loralailoralai 1d ago
I oh you can bet this person doesn’t restrict their hate of all things British to their food.
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u/1stCum1stSevered 2d ago edited 2d ago
Japanese curry originates from British style curry. I was surprised to learn that, but it was introduced by the British navy. Curry powder also made its way to America in the 18th and 19th centuries via the Brits. The British style curry powder was ofc not the same as the various curries of India, but was influenced by them - it's far from a perfect comparison, but it was sort of a "Taco seasoning packet" blend of the colonial world.
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u/Wind-and-Waystones 2d ago
Also katsu is short for katsuretsu. The Japaneseified version of the English word cutlet.
Also the irony of saying "you think nobody has made lamb and veg soup before" and attributing breading chicken to one particular nation.
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u/Affero-Dolor 1d ago
Additional fun fact - because the word cutlet was borrowed, Japanified into katsuretsu, shortened to katsu, and then we've borrowed it back, it is an example of a 'boomerang word'
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u/Klutzy-Notice-8247 1d ago
He’s an idiot. He describes American style Pizza as its own distinct cuisine but then says that British style curries are stolen from India and not apart of British cuisine.
Thicko.
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u/Blobloblobl 2d ago
One of my favorite details about Japanese curry was that the military needed a way to get more thiamine so that they’d avoid beriberi (thiamine deficiency disease) caused by the standard rice-heavy diet. The roux “tablets” of curry sauce are a legacy of a way to slip in that nutrient more easily.
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u/7-SE7EN-7 It's not Bologna unless it's from the Bologna region of Italy 2d ago
During ww2 there was a lot of resistance to getting thiamine from barley because it sounded too much like folk medicine, which the Japanese Empire higher ups wanted to get away from
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u/sgsparks206 2d ago
Katsu is Japan's version of a breaded veal cutlets from france, and tempura comes from Portugal. That does not make them any less Japanese.
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u/RoutineCloud5993 2d ago
Tempura came to Japan via Portugal, but that style of battering came to Portugal from the British.
The British and the Portuguese are long time allies. And have the longest running uninterrupted political alliance, going back hundreds of years.
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u/Cnidarus 2d ago
Well, it's more the English and the Portuguese since it predates the union
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u/Bacon4Lyf 2d ago
Well when you go to a fish and chip shop and order curry sauce and you get something that’s indistinguishable from a Japanese curry sauce, due to the whole teaching how to make it to prevent malnutrition in the Japanese navy, the line gets blurrier than just breading meat
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u/blazenite104 2d ago
When it comes to traditional you have to wonder how far back it's got to go to be considered as such. People love associating Tomatoes with Italy but, you know. Not exactly a native plant and still somewhat recent introduction by historical standards.
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u/sgsparks206 2d ago
My favorite version of this is "how many generations do people need to live somewhere for them to become natives". A real head scratcher that ruffles some feathers.
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u/blazenite104 1d ago
apparently, the definition used is just the first people group to migrate to the area and they're the natives forever. Same reason they don't think Dingoes are truly Australian despite them being here for so long.
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u/jigglituff 2d ago
what about Chinese curry? That was such an interesting read btw
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u/TomIcemanKazinski 2d ago
Colonial British -> Hong Kong/Singapore with military canteens n the 19th century then spreading from there
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u/imsittingdown 2d ago
I just don't get why people are like this.
Maybe they'd be happier if every region just stuck to what they were eating 500 years ago and ban anything else. Then maybe the world would be more understandable to their rudimentary filing cabinet of a brain.
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u/YchYFi 2d ago
500 years. That's too young. They want it back to basics of a few millennia ago.
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u/imsittingdown 2d ago edited 2d ago
The mold growing on that rock licked by the early anthropods in the SE corner of pangea actually blew in from the NE peninsula 100 million years ago so stop fucking claiming it as your own cuisine
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u/FishUK_Harp 1d ago
It must be so tedious to go through life trying to (badly) unpick the origins of foods not for historical interest, but to conduct a form of purity testing before judging people for enjoying said foods.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* 2d ago
According to this Guardian article, boiled baby was a Napoleonic navy dish. The recipe makes it sound like it’s just a suet pudding. Nothing especially gross about it, but obviously not surprising that people opted for some more flavorful options. Once they became available/affordable.
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u/norecordofwrong 2d ago
So dense calorie food for the military?
The madness of it.
I wonder if they would be mad about Ditch babies?
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u/AutumnFP 2d ago
Hopefully not, since they do seem to acknowledge that Yorkshire puddings (which are basically Dutch babies) are good 😅
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u/deathlokke White bread is racist. 2d ago
I think the biggest difference is Yorkshire pudding uses beef dripping and Dutch babies use melted butter, right?
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u/Wind-and-Waystones 2d ago
Traditionally yes. Nowadays they're just made with whatever is at hand. Plain veg oil is common amongst home cooks because people want to use the roast drippings for other parts of the meal like the roasties or the gravy.
Some people will buy a jar of goose or duck cat and use that instead. Some will use lard. You could even use clarified butter.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* 1d ago
If British people are making Yorkshire pudding out of jarred cat, maybe the OOP has a point.
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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago
Oh for fuck sake. I meant fat 🤦♂️
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u/saltporksuit Upper level scientist 1d ago
Think how I felt when I texted my husband that the cat got hit in the parking lot and it was pretty bad. The CAR you autocorrecting fuck!
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u/Electrical-Room-2278 1d ago
American food is terrible because all they eat is hardtack and pemmican I read it in a book about the oregon trail
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u/YchYFi 2d ago
I've never heard of it or dog's body. What a weird obscure dish to mention.
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u/SerDankTheTall *Giggled internally* 2d ago edited 2d ago
Probably because they’re both 200 year old naval slang. (Looks like dog’s body is just a stew or pudding.) Which also explains why the names are derogatory: finding new ways to complain about the food just is and always has been one of the principal forms of recreation for people in the military. I’m sure the hoplites humping it through Asia behind Alexander had plenty to say about the stuff they had to eat, and it’s not like shit on a shingle or worm castle says anything about whether there’s good food available in the U.S.
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u/Cuddles89 2d ago
I only knew about the term “dogsbody” for a servant, but I’m also an American who loves old literature
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u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. 2d ago
IT WAS REAL!? Ive been British all my life and I’ve never ever heard of it 😭
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 2d ago
I mean American army have something called "shit on a shingle" and WW2 British army called canned mutton "Sweet Fanny Adams" after a child who was murdered. Military humour has always been harsh. Sure the Roman army had some cracking nicknames for their rations.
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u/Nimblewright_47 2d ago
The British Army still serves food called "baby's heads": it's something you only really get in the field now and is a form of faggot.
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u/AndyPenman 2d ago
Babies heads was always Steak and Kidney pudding when I was in the mob, a right PITA when it was the old style tin rations as you never had the time or the water to get it cooked right.
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u/Darwen85 1d ago
Baby's heads, babbys yed sometimes pronounced, are served in chippies in north west England as well. Definitely a steak and kidney pudding.
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u/yewscott 2d ago
Do they mean ‘baby’s yed’ do you think? Which is just a local name for a steak and kidney pudding in Wigan.
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u/Big-Arachnid981 2d ago
There are also baby’s heads, which are a steak and kidney pie that’s boiled.
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u/takanoflower 2d ago
That person just got more and more incorrect the more they typed, I’d be wasting too much time pointing out every error
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u/cowboy_mouth 2d ago
Edit: spelling because my phone is a twat.
Certified British.
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u/DeansPigInAPoke 2d ago
Oh Jesus. As a current Washingtonian (the state) who grew up near the other Washington (DC): saying Dungeness crab is the only crab is horseshit. Dungeness has its merits. King crab does, too. So does Snow crab. Chesapeake Blue Crab is elite in any form. Local seafood has flavors, textures, and uses that reflects local ecosystems. Crab from the North Atlantic British coasts is fucking delicious.
And suuuuuper wild for the American living in Salish country to complain about the provenance of British food when I assume he’s not eating a traditional indigenous diet of elk, wapato, wild carrot, camas bulbs, and smoked fish.
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u/avg103 1d ago
I thought they meant Dungeness in Kent, which is right by sewage outflows and a nuclear reactor, compared to Washington up north in County Durham. Was very perplexed.
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u/Moorhenlessrooster 1d ago
Yeah it's quite funny to insist Britain had nothing original then cite a load of us British place names
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u/Omwtfyu 1d ago
Are you talking about the Camas Lily?
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u/DeansPigInAPoke 1d ago
Yup. The Salish people have eaten them for centuries. You roast them slowly for 24-48 hours in an earthenware pot or a pit in the ground and they caramelize. It’s sweet with an almost molasses flavor, and a figgy texture.
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u/Cautious_Roof3122 1d ago
This guy 100% reads Napoleonic naval fiction and thinks we still eat the food commonly found on a Royal Navy frigate circa 1798.
The books of Patrick O'Brien is the only reason I'm familiar with some of the food he mentioned.
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u/MainSignature 1d ago
I mean, what the fuck is dogs body and boiled baby?! 😆
They're so obsessed with our food they're plucking recipes from the 1700s that no modern British person has even heard of.
They're not ok.
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u/thought_detention 1d ago
A dogsbody (or dog's body) is a chiefly British term for a person who does menial, boring, or unpleasant tasks that others do not want to do
Maybe it's just any food that no-one wants to eat. Well that clears that up I guess.
Seriously though, I have no idea wtf he's talking about. Maybe he heard someone use that expression and thought they were referring to a food when really they were just saying "I don't want to do that" ?
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u/C64Nation 1d ago
Boiled baby is a variation of spotted dick. It's suet pudding with raisins, boiled wrapped in cloth.
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u/martzgregpaul 1d ago
Im.obsessed with O"Brien too and actually drowned baby is quite nice but you need custard really to make it sweet enough for modern taste. Plum Duff is mentioned too which is similar and we had that at primary school.
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u/SneakyCroc 2d ago
IME, Indians hate the term, 'curry'.
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u/OrinocoHaram 2d ago
curry is the name of one particular spice (curry powder) that got turned into the name of all vaguely Indian sauces right?
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u/PlanSee 2d ago
Not exactly
Curry is a plant, but the food curry has a separate etymology.
"Curry powder" is not (normally) made from curry (plant). It's a blend of spices that are used in british/japanese curry sauces.
In India, they just have different names for every dish which the outside world generically labels "curries." The word itself isn't used much inside the country.
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u/few-brews 1d ago
I'd be curious to know if curry actually derived from Karahi which is a gravy based dish w/ different meats.
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u/Salt_Insurance5276 2d ago
Take a shot for every “British Food Bad” comment on Reddit…
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u/takanoflower 2d ago
If any of us did that we’d be in hospital with alcohol poisoning
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u/HexyWitch88 2d ago
At least you’ll be in good company with the people playing take a shot for every “American food is just chemicals” comment.
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u/xnatlywouldx 2d ago
Someone just told me American food (specifically Popeyes) is chemicals and my dick is small. I'm a woman, but yknow.
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u/mashtartz People are so olive-gardenly-stupid 2d ago
Popeye’s is amazing and I will die on this hill
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u/takanoflower 2d ago
The next ward over is filled with people recovering after taking shots whenever someone repeated that corny line about invading the world for spices only to not use them
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u/Cuddles89 2d ago
All of Ireland would be in the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
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u/GreenZebra23 2d ago
That response made me hungry. I want all of those things. Hell, even the OOP made me hungry, when they said the only good original British food is fish and chips and then immediately named other delicious original British foods 🙃
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u/BusyBeeBridgette 2d ago
It's funny that people dig on black pudding and haggis when the average sausage contains far worse ingredients and folk devour those daily.
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u/Baker_drc 2d ago
Black pudding slaps too people who haven’t tried it shouldn’t talk out of their ass
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u/SubstantialLion1984 1d ago
For me, anyone who dislikes Black Pudding on principle (if you don’t like the taste, then, fine…) is just a gastronomic ignoramus. It’s featured in almost every culture on the planet. Is all French food shit because they eat boudin noir?
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u/Own_Ad_4301 1d ago
Exactly. “I wont eat steak and kidney pie”, THAT A HOTDOG OVER DERE?
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u/RoutineCloud5993 2d ago
And nobody ever gets the name right. Black pudding isn't a difficult phrase
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u/badpebble 2d ago
They say it like we are trying to trick them.
'Fries? Oh you mean potato strips cooked in hydrogenated fats - don't try and lie to me about their name'.
Its fucking black pudding.
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u/LawlGiraffes 2d ago
I mean a core part of American cuisine is mystery meat which is more accurately described as trimmings. Hot dogs are the prime example but a Mid-Atlantic specific one is scrapple which is pork trimmings mixed with buckwheat. Hence why I find this hilarious.
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u/CreativeGPX 1d ago edited 1d ago
I wouldn't say it's a core part. In recent decades even things like sauasage and hamburger that were arguably meant for making trimmings palatable are often made with higher end ingredients and cuts in the US. Many cases in modern US cuisine when people eat "mystery meat" it's because they don't realize it and it's being obscured. Finding out that something in modern US cuisine is mystery meat often leads people to avoid it or is considered a scandal worth a news article.
While it's still present in US cuisine, it wouldn't be a good representation of US cuisine to generalize about given the amount of people who avoid it. Probably much like something like haggis where you can still find it and people still eat it but it's less common.
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u/Rooboy 2d ago
Wait until he hears about faggots (the dish from Wales to be super clear).
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u/Jimbodoomface 2d ago
My brother used to work in the faggot factory. He used to be allowed to bring freebies back, I was an innocent child and I never understood the strange reactions I got when I happily told people that my brother had brought some faggots home for tea the night before. They weren't actually all that good if I'm being honest, but they were free and mostly made of meat, so it was a good time.
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u/Brexsh1t 2d ago
Spotted Dick is just really old hence the weird name today.
“Dick” just means “plain pudding” in Victorian era. Spotted Dick = Plain pudding with raisins. Treacle Dick = Plain pudding with Treacle.
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u/PetersMapProject 2d ago
I suspect he watched an episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, which informed yanks everywhere that there's a dish called "babby's yed" (baby's head) which is a local term in Wigan for a steak and kidney pudding.
As a Brit, the local name was news to me too.
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u/SpeedySparkRuby 2d ago
John's roast of mushy peas as emotionally unavailable guacamole did make me laugh.
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u/grmthmpsn43 1d ago
That's what babbys yed is?
I thought it was a wierd local specialty (Count Binface mentioned them in one of his campaign songs).
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u/yewscott 2d ago
That’s interesting I literally just asked up there if they potentially meant this.
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u/evergreennightmare 2d ago
weird food names invalidate an entire cuisine. get fucked germans (tote oma), canadians (pets-de-soeur), japanese (oyakodon) etc etc
(i assume there's weird names in every cuisine, these are just the first ones i thought of)
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u/GhostWolfe You must be a Pepsi drinker. 1d ago
One of my favourites is all the names given to when you cut a circle from a piece of bread, put it in a frying pan, and crack an egg into the hole.
Growing up I called it “sheep’s eye”.
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u/Khajiit_Has_Upvotes 2d ago
"I'm from Washington" as in the United Manifest Destiny States, but "fuck colonislism" sure is a stance.
And calling that other dude a whiny little bitch for simply disagreeing? I think OOP is an edgy teenager.
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u/SuspectJuice 2d ago
My favourite is "apostrophes matter" and earlier in the same post they said your instead of you're.
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u/saracenraider 2d ago edited 2d ago
I always find any non-indigenous American/canadian/aussie/kiwi/saffas attacking British people over colonialism to be one of the least self-aware things ever
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u/OrinocoHaram 2d ago
Calling colonialism and cultural appropriation British is funny. It's also just dumb because it makes us blind to modern day colonialism like Japan in Asia, Israel in Palestine, China in Africa, France in Africa.
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u/GoldenSonOfColchis 2d ago
It's always crazy to me that France, Spain, and Portugal always seem to get a pass and colonialism gets squarely blamed on the Brits.
I guess it's because British colonialism is the one that impacted the anglosphere the most, but still makes me laugh.
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u/Busy_Bake_5092 1d ago
It always makes me laugh ( and also very agitated) is that people genuinely think that everyone in Britain benefited from colonialism. Most of our ancestors lived in abject poverty, so of course some of our passed down dishes are just survival food considering at one point in history life expectancy dropped to 17 years old for anyone who wasn’t a lord or wealthy.
The British empire was the blueprint for what Amazon is today if you really think about it isn’t it
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u/OrinocoHaram 2d ago
Yep. Also, the lesson to learn from Colonialism is not "british people are evil" (lol), but that too much power in one nation needs to be checked heavily, the language of "bringing civilisation" and dehumanising other races leads to very bad places, and nonviolent resistance can make it economically unviable for the colonising nation.
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u/WovenBloodlust6 2d ago
I'd probably blame it on schools teaching US history before world history since like 90% of it is "look at the fuck shit the British did" and only slightly touch on the other colonial powers
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u/djdndjdjdjdjdndjdjjd 1d ago
So blind to colonialism you forgot the current empire that goes around bombing countries and kidnapping foreign leaders and stealing their oil if its president thinks it will enrich him or get some votes
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u/CaveJohnson82 1d ago
So, American Style pizza is fine to accept as an American food.
But British style curry is not?
Also my dude - if apostrophes matter, then try applying them to the word "you're".
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u/Desperate-Boot-1395 2d ago
What an ass.
I do enjoy a nice British dish with a silly name though. Who wouldn’t want to dig into some Toad in the Hole or rumbledethumps?
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u/saracenraider 2d ago
My favourite for silly names is Crème Brûlée. Obviously take what I’m about to say with a pinch of salt because as with so many European dishes, there is debate as to which country came up with it first and origin stories always get romanticised. But the English version of the origin is that it was invented in England but it was called burnt cream, which is obviously a very unappealing name. So to make it sound more enticing they translated it to French and suddenly it all became the rage, thinking it was very sophisticated even though it is, literally, just burnt cream. Obviously nobody knows if this is true but it’s a great story so I believe it
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u/Desperate-Boot-1395 2d ago
This reminds me that for whatever reason “salad cream” is among the most unappealing food names I’ve ever heard (barring spotted dick, obvs)
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u/saracenraider 2d ago
And on the opposite end of the spectrum is sweetbread, whose name sounds lovely but is utterly grim (although it can actually be quite nice). Black pudding as well although that always tastes nice as part of a full English. Welsh rabbit as well haha now I think of it. We have a lot of silly names
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u/OrinocoHaram 2d ago
*Welsh Rarebit
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u/saracenraider 2d ago edited 2d ago
People also call it Welsh rabbit, I prefer this name as it’s a bit funnier and my kids love it. I do agree rarebit is the ‘proper’ name though although apparently rabbit came first.
The legend is that in the 1700s, the English used the word "Welsh" in a patronising way to describe cheap, inferior, or fake versions of things. Calling melted cheese "rabbit" mocked the idea that the Welsh were too poor or unable to afford real meat or it was mocking them for not being allowed to hunt for rabbits on the estates of wealthy English landlords
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u/Jigsawsupport 2d ago edited 1d ago
There is that, but there is a version that I like and I find more plausible and that is the welsh have always loved themselves some melted cheese.
There is books as far far back as the medieval era mentioning these guys love themselves what sounded like medieval fondue.
And that rabbit is a bastardization of the previous rarebit which meant basically "nice dinner".
So welsh Rarebit means nice cheese based diner.
The idea of it just being the English being mean is undermined that there was recipes for English and Scootish rabbit as well.
And that the cheese itself would have not been considered poor mans food.
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u/DrWilhelm 2d ago
Toad-in-the-hole is absolutely ace. I'm a very cosmopolitan chef; I regularly cook meals originating from all over the world, and for the last year or so toad-in-the-hole has been one of my favourites. I have it roughly every other week, served with roasted sprouts, mashed potatoes, and onion gravy. Straightforward to make and tastes absolutely fantastic.
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u/Desperate-Boot-1395 2d ago
I also like to cook and try food from all over the world. My wife and I typically pick a region to cook for the next few days and shop accordingly which helps not throw away ingredients that might not otherwise get used up. I also like to buy the cool regional gear like rasca or gnocchi boards. I need a bigger tagine..
I think that’s why all these xenophobic food opinions are so cringe/hilarious to me.
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u/Tracula707 2d ago
I learned that the Jelly Babies candy that the Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who always has is not only real, but was originally called “Unclaimed Babies”
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u/Jimbodoomface 2d ago
Jelly babies. I think universally every child that has had them shares the experience of pretending to be a giant biting the heads off babies.
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u/boredonasofa 2d ago
Nah, gotta bite off their legs first so they can’t run away!
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u/WokeBriton 1d ago
According to my mother, somebody told me that when I was a child. Apparently, I considered it for less than a second before telling them it was a silly thing to say because sweets cannot run away when you're already holding them in your hand.
Yes, I always was an odd child.
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u/boredonasofa 1d ago
Jelly babies are crafty little buggers! My dad always told me they could escape and run off in a flash if you weren’t careful. That’s why the bag always seems to empty itself when you’re not looking!
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u/GhostWolfe You must be a Pepsi drinker. 1d ago
In Australia we have a chocolate flavoured version which—until quite recently—were called Chicos.
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u/Blobloblobl 2d ago edited 2d ago
Not British but bubble and squeak is truly an excellent dish
Edit to add: I mean “I am not British”. See below for my joke as to how bubble and squeak might not be
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u/PipBin 2d ago
Eh? Bubble and squeak isn’t British? It’s made from the left overs of a roast dinner
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u/Mask_Tasker 2d ago
I think they're saying they are not British...
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u/Blobloblobl 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yes I am American and elided the first person pronoun and verb in my first clause.
But also… bubble and squeak ISNT British. it ACTUALLY was invented in Jutland on the European mainland by the indigenous Angles. It only became part of the British diet when immigrants brought it over in their small boats!
/s obviously
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u/Brasssneck 2d ago
Mr straight_depth needs to grow the fuck up. What an ignorant unpleasant character
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u/TheLadyEve Maillard reactionary 1d ago
Why are people always shitting on haggis? They probably haven't even tried it.
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u/Character_Service705 1d ago
Oh it's 8:45 already, guess it's time for this joke.
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u/Tracula707 2d ago
Ah yes, colonialism, that famously exclusively British invention. Remind me, who “discovered” the Americas again? Both continents are named after an Italian explorer, the enslavement and genocide of the Indigenous peoples was kicked off by an Italian explorer leading Spanish fleets. Basically all of Europe was flooding into the New World to try and claim new territory. Basically all of Europe colonized Africa too.
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u/SufficientEar1682 Flavourless, textureless shite. 2d ago
Boiled baby that’s messed up 😭😭
Here’s the original, no brigading please:
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u/Saltpork545 Sodium citrate cheese is real cheese 1d ago
I didn't expect the original post to have an Animaniacs reference. That was well played.
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u/TheSmokedPotatoe 2d ago
Stupid is as stupid does… I’d love to know where these idiots get there facts from
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u/Optimal_Diet_6621 2d ago
Fwiw, I'm British and I have literally never heard of "dog's body" or "boiled baby", and "spotted dick" hasn't been served pretty much anywhere in about 50 years and the name is just kept alive as a way for Americans to think they're cleverly mocking us.
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u/Tisarwat 1d ago
Eh, a bunch of hotels served spotted dick, at least in the 2000s, based on what my grandad always ordered. Dunno if they still do, but for now I reckon there's still enough nostalgic old people left for a market.
Hard agree on the others though, and I've seen a lot of the unusual/old British food that is rarely actually eaten, so I'd have expected to. I volunteered at a food bank, and once we got a glut of genuine jellied eels. Most households politely declined to take any...
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u/Tlyss 1d ago
When I was growing up(US) we would go camping for 2 weeks every year. We always made something my parents called “Foil Baby” and it was hamburger, bacon, potatoes and green peppers wrapped in foil and cooked over a campfire. It was called a foil baby because it was general size and shape of a baby.
Tasted nothing like baby
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u/CreativeGPX 1d ago
Hmm... How do you know what baby tastes like?
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u/Difficult_Paramedic8 1d ago
Got to experiment obviously. Don't be a coward
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u/CreativeGPX 1d ago
Hey, I didn't say I didn't know... One time my 2 year old twisted her finger in something and it hurt so she was crying. I asked if she wanted me to kiss her boo boo. She said she wanted me to bite her boo boo off. So, I'm like okay... and I pretend to bite it off without actually putting my mouth on it but making the biting sounds like cookie monster. And she just looking at me like I'm a moron and is like "no, bite it with your teeth." So, I very gently closed my teeth enough to grip the finger but not actually biting it. "Nooo..." She kept egging me on like that wasn't actually biting hard enough... Eventually I had to draw the line.
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u/Pidgewiffler 1d ago
We called those "hobo meals" growing up. And despite how simple they are, those things tasted delicious.
We usually added onions to ours too
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u/Present-Garbage-5589 2d ago edited 2d ago
We really need u/ablokeonredditt to tell this fella what's up about the history of British cuisine tbh
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u/gourmetguy2000 1d ago
Weird how we aren't allowed to claim any variations of food not originally from here, but it's ok for them. Double standards
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u/EscapeSeventySeven 2d ago edited 2d ago
The issue is the UK is just a lolcow for their cuisine among the countries in the anglosphere. The arguments are easy so never ending. The kiwis won’t bother arguing about what a true “full breakfast” is to them. The UK gets too easily baited.
The UK just had a very unfortunate period of rationing during the post war and the century of industrialization is when most national cuisines got codified.
Their Provençal cuisine is just too familiar and modern (like a chip butty) to make Americans think it’s elevated and “authentic”.
Aside from that their pre industrialized cooking traditions are identical to American old colonial styles: roasts and hearth style cooking so it doesn’t register. Old traditional American cooking basically was a xerox of old traditional British, with obvious adaptations. Pies, mash, roast meat, and the categories of “wet bread” that stuffing/dressing/puddings all come from.
Both are wholly dismissed from the conversation as not qualifying as national cuisine so it focuses on takeaway outliers: fish and chips, meat pies, pasties, bangers and mash.
Coincidentally it’s like people focusing on US cuisine being just hamburgers and hotdogs.
Americans should just really get over the UK food thing. Unless they want to live in a glass house.
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u/True_Window_9389 2d ago
> Pies, mash, roast meat, and the categories of “wet bread” that stuffing/dressing/puddings all come from.
> fish and chips, meat pies, pasties, bangers and mash.
I’m not gonna say British food is my favorite, but all of this slaps. I went to London once and had amazing food even in basic ass pubs. What’s there to complain about? I can only imagine people make fun of British food when they haven’t actually been there and had it. Maybe it doesn’t have huge variety or full of 500 spices, but it’s fine for what it is.
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u/saracenraider 2d ago
>the UK is just a lolcow for their cuisine
It’s almost as boring as the people bleating on about dangerous animals in Australia, when there’s an almost zero risk 99.9% of the time, and for the other 0.1% you’ve got to be looking for trouble or extremely stupid.
It also goes in waves online. Sometimes it’s the cuisine that’s a lolcow, sometimes it’s dental hygiene, and other times it’s outdated views of the class system. We just seem to live rent free in so many peoples head, which is weird as we’re currently globally utterly irrelevant as a country aside from in a few things like music, Harry Potter and a few sports like rugby, football and cricket
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u/Nimblewright_47 2d ago
My experience of Australia was that the most dangerous animals were cattle, despite endless incredibly boring internet memes about spiders/snakes/sharks/other easily avoided things.
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u/saracenraider 2d ago
For me it was a sulphur crested cockatoo. The fucker shat on my three year olds head and caused the biggest meltdown in history
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u/blazenite104 2d ago
well you aren't wrong. big beasts can knock you on your arse and trample you by accident. let alone anything else. Sydney has the funnelweb but, otherwise just don't antagonise the wildlife and stay away from large bodies of water.
The most dangerous thing is Crocs up north and there are signs warning you everywhere.
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u/Nimblewright_47 1d ago
Go deep enough into the bush and they may try to knock you down and trample you, too! And some have horns. Cattle aren't quite as aggressive as emus but they're much more likely to come up to you.
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u/Ryanhussain14 1d ago
Don't forget all the stabbing memes despite many places in America having more knife crimes per capita.
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u/teardownthatgazebo 1d ago
always makes me laugh when you see Americans banging on about animals in Australia but then some of them (state dependent I assume) will talk about the bear/alligator/rabies ridden bat they saw in their garden
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u/HexyWitch88 2d ago
This is neither here nor there, nor anywhere but Dungeness crab always makes me angry that their shells exist.
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u/EgoSenatus 1d ago
This is the first and last thread I’ll be seeing on Reddit today. The stupidity of this has jaded me to this site for at least 24 hours.
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u/A-Phantasmic-Parade 1d ago
What’s wrong with black sausage? A lot of countries/cultures have some sort of blood sausage
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u/Difficult_Paramedic8 1d ago
Black pudding is a delight as well. Not as good as haggis but up there
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u/A-Phantasmic-Parade 1d ago
Yeah haggis is delicious too. People are put off by the description but it’s meat. You can describe all meat to sound gross if you wanted
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u/Secret-Tangelo-6409 2d ago
Nick DiGiovanni and Anthony Bourdain are/were Americans chefs with a lot of good to say about British food, rather than some fuckwit Bobby Lee who never left his state.
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u/EmptyWin2462 2d ago
We need to have some sort of armistice with the Yanks where they stop talking ignorant, annoying nonsense about British food in return for a concession from us like packing in the distasteful ‘hur dur school shootings’ wisecracks or something. I’ll be writing to my MP
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u/ravens_requiem 1d ago
Nothing to do with food, just another brainwashed American who gets agitated by the mere notion that stuff in the US isn’t the best in the whole world. Move along, nothing to see here.
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u/YouNeedAnne 1d ago
Sticky. Toffee. Pudding.
/thread
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u/MadamKitsune 1d ago
Sticky toffee pudding is relatively recent (less than 100 years old) so if you want really, really traditional there's always apple pie. The earliest recorded recipe is from late 1300's England.
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u/syfimelys2 1d ago
I have my doubts that this person has tried cawl, especially after hiking the Brecon Beacons, since a good chunk of Americans don’t seem to know about Wales in general, let alone our national dish or our mountain ranges.
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u/Leatherforleisure 1d ago
“Apostrophes matter” but doesn’t know the difference between your and you’re?
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