See I’d counter that they have eaten British food, they just don’t think of it as British food. Things like apple pie, mac and cheese etc all come from the UK but aren’t always associated with it.
Do you think that when the UK was founded the people and cultures that existed beforehand vanished and were replaced by a new British culture that came from nowhere? Those foods are English and Scottish, and English and Scottish people are British, their food is British food.
Pizza was invented before Italy was unified, it is still an Italian food.
When did I say it’s food from the uk? I said it’s food from Britain. Aka the British isles. Which is what they’ve been called for a very, VERY long time
"British food sucks" mfs when they try actual british food rather than reading the wikipedia page of a random boring dish like 3 brits have ever eaten in history
Yeah the UK was brutalised by the war and wasn’t able to end rationing until ten years after it ended.Â
This combined with London being a major finance and business capital ment business men would travel to the UK and be shocked by how things still were there. The contrast was especially bad given the US was currently going through a huge economic boom and was relatively untouched by the war.
The beans that we use funnily enough are an American product in the first place. Like were just borrowing your shit and putting it on crispy bread why you laughing at us
I eat an egg on toast or make a sandwich with bacon/egg/cheese like a true westerner.
For real though it seems silly and kind of a poor person thing to eat beans for breakfast. THEN AGAIN, my country pioneered government cheese so we are the land of plenty.
we have a lot of cuisine influenced by other cultures, but we usually just call it Indian/Chinese/etc. rather than British-Indian and so forth so it tends not to be counted
a lot of food here is served with sauces and condiments, gravy etc. rather than marinated/heavily seasoned, so it seems plainer individually than it is holistically
I truly believe it’s a piece of American propaganda. As other people have said, it started in WWII, but they have to uphold the idea at all times that their country is number one, which necessitates painting other countries as being inferior, even your closest cousins and allies. So they repeat the same 3 jokes and memes over and over again, and somehow they still find that same shit funny after decades of the same joke. English people talk funny, bad teeth, bad food.
Despite the fact English people have pretty much the exact same palate and restaurants as Americans, just with less corn and sugar. It’s the American culture of wilful ignorance and self aggrandising.
I dont think ive seen a Mexican dish that looks like shit. I've seen a few shitty Indian ones but most look amazing. Its mainly uk and American food that 50% of the time looks like slop
I mean yeah it's common enough, but it's pretty much only consumed in that context, and even then by a definite minority of people. Horseradish is considered a bit of an old person thing these days.
'Super popular' to me makes it sound like it's on every restaurant table.
One of these days i wanna try and make a proper full english breakfast because they can often look pretty damn good [though i have seen plenty that look awful]
As an American, the Full English was one of life’s greatest blessings when I was on a two-week vacation in the UK. It’s hard to find the Heinz beans in a store, but Aldi sells Irish-style bangers and Sam’s Club has rasher-style bacon. The fried tomatoes are pretty easy though, and I’ll often make myself some with some left over lard when I cook bacon
people who say "european food is bland" are either choosing the worst dish in the world, who most people would not eat, made by a crippled deaf mole who's 100 years old... or have their tastebuds so flagelated that unless they dump half a liter of siracha on their plate and eat while crying tears of blood they don't consider their food seasoned.
Realistically the joke shouldn't be lack of flavour, but how brown everything is and that this abomination exists at all. I don't care that it's barely ever actually made, it shouldn't have been made at all
Is that fucking stargazy pie?? My dear sweet granny made it one (1) single time, and it turned me vegetarian.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big defender of British food (medieval food was genuinely lit, we don't make half the stuff nowadays that we used to back then), but I still have strong feelings about stargazy pie lmfao
It is all just various shades of brown come to think of it, a roast is just a plate of assorted browns with a bit of orange and green depending on you choice of vegetables
I'm more so talking about how almost everything is either turned into a pie, coated in brown sauces or both. Even Welsh rarebit is brown depending on beer selection.
Gotta add more fresh greens, paprika and tomato sauces to liven things up.
Gotta add more fresh greens, paprika and tomato sauces to liven things up.
Yeah they really should have thought about that, if only there were a whole bunch of vegetables Brits used as a side dish...
I'm more so talking about how almost everything is either turned into a pie, coated in brown sauces or both.
what next, "Asians eat a lot of rice", "curries all look like slop", I don't see why people get up in arms about it at all, a pie is a perfectly good way to serve food, just like how rice works with a lot of stuff.
also just saying that almost everything is a pie or brown is just flat out ignorance.
My 3 most active contacts are 2 Welsh creatures and an English bloke, I am yet to see them post anything that isn't instant noodles or brown over the course of the decade
As to why? Because unlike claim of the food being flavourless/spiceless it actually holds water, isn't an insult and yet conveniently people still get their fannies in a twist about it.
I'm going to be the contrarian here, and say that the pie is actually pretty nice. Having hard boiled eggs in a fish pie is definitely unorthodox, but otherwise, it's a pretty standard fish pie. The heads are cosmetic.
I mean there is plenty that isn't brown, but either way who the hell cares, if it tastes good it tastes good, what next "curries all look like wet slop" "rice dishes all have lots of rice"
I don't get the hate for stargazy pie either, yeah it looks a little funny but it's just some fish, people eat fish head on all the time, like I promise you if this was a Chinese dish no one when talking about Chinese food would be ranting and raving at it the same way people do about this pie or mushy peas.
Like every culture and region has bucket loads of 'strange' dishes but when other countries get brought up it's not just 24/7 talk about maggoty cheese, duck blood soup or eating bull balls.
I would usually defend some British Food from this type of slander (Yorkshire Puddings are class, and Beans on Toast is always catching strays for no reason), but English Mustard (specially Coleman's) is the one thing I will say is overrated and terrible.
It tastes like what I imagine bleach must taste like, I honestly have to side with the Yanks on this. I would pick French's or any "American-Style" mustard over it.
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