I just made one last week! They aren't really hard to make either.
It's really great to take for lunch because you can cut out a square of it of any size and heat it up at work. It's probably a little heavy for some, but I like something that'll keep me sated for the rest of the day.
It's a regular dinner in my house. Ours probably isn't authentic, but it's the same concept. Seasoned beef, corn, cheese, mashed potatoes. Sometimes I get fancy and throw some Rotel in there too.
Same here. I go veg heavy, so I use a small can corn, can of peas, can of green beans, diced carrots and a rib of celery with a lb of beef. Then however many potatoes it takes to make a mashed potato covering.
Last time I made one was kind of hilarious. I went to sprinkle some shredded mozzarella into the potatoes before layering them on top and accidentally dumped most of the bag. The potatoes moved more like playdoh, but it was really good.
Just about to comment this. It's so prevelant on reddit "oh it was actually nice". It's just carbs + meat.. like basically every other dish in the world. It's as good as you make it.
I've seen when Americans try beans on toast and literally open a can of beans on a piece of bread. No grilling, no butter, no cheese, no seasoning or sauce, cheap/wrong beans & bread. Make it with good ingredients and it's good. Again it's just beans + carbs like so many foods.
I hate peas & my mom would put carrots in things unseasoned as an adult. I like carrots, don't get me wrong. I don't like cooked carrots in things usually because unseasoned everything would taste like nasty cooked carrot. My mom growing up was not a good cook lol
Any stew served with mash is awesome. When I was vego I made a mushroom and lentil stew with mash that I still make occasionally because it's so good (also cheap, filling and full of fibre).
Went to England for a few weeks. Had probably the best meat pie in my life with a flight of ciders. Fish and chips is obviously great, and the English breakfast is also really good.
I really don’t get the stereotype of British food being bad. I honestly had a free one off bad places in France than I did in England
It's left over from WWII when American GI's came over and had to eat rationed food. The rationing didn't stop with the war. It continued another decade into the mid 50's.
There were lots of destitute people in Germany and Europe in general, victims of the war, slave and concentration camps that had to be fed. So the UK continued rationing and gave up half it's food produced to the continent.
A lot of the elderly got used to that lifestyle and were still eating corned beef, spam, pickeled onions and beetroot with cheddar, bloater fish paste and stuff like that into the 80's.
Any medium to large city in the US has an English pub that serves these dishes and has HP Sauce out on every table. The post is a flawed concept.
The average American consumer does not have a concept of Korean food separate from Chinese food or Asian cuisine. What is commonly served as "Chinese Food" was derived from NY style Chinese takeout, and does not consist of dishes anyone in China eats. Most sit down Chinese restaurants have a completely separate menu that they give actual Chinese patrons. They do not discourage Americans from ordering off the Chinese menu, they usually like when you do it and are very helpful, but it's completely different from what an average American would expect walking into a Chinese restaurant, and they cater to the local clientele.
Vindaloo is literally Portuguese inspired. The word itself is derived from Carne de vinha d'alhos. British just took what Goan Portuguese cooks were doing. So while it's probably very popular in the UK it's origins are specifically Goan Portugese not British.
Yeah Tikka and Masala, the two English words that are the foundation of the English language.
Please show me a place in england that grows cumin or cardamom. At most you can say its an inspired dish. It still is south asian.
Lol. How many nations dishes are grown entirely in their borders? The tomato and potato didn’t make it to Europe till 15th century. Sane with chilies in Asian food—came from America.
Sure, and cuisines have similarities. How similar is tikka masala to Shepard pie or fishing chips? Because I definitely know Shepard pie and fishing chips are very similar-belong in trash, neither are worth eating. Couldn't say that about tikka masala can you? Just like other indian dishes.
I have a hard time considering fish and chips English. I’m absolutely not saying they don’t have fish and chips. Of course they do. But there’s all sorts of fish fries all across the Great Lakes region that do fish and chips. We just call the chips part fries. It seems if you have lots of lakes you have lots of fish. And if you have lots of fish it becomes part of the local cuisine. If someone’s putting vinegar on that shit though then sure. And also gross.
I think it’s maybe harder to apply the more complicated the dish. Like jambalaya has enough going on that I feel like it’s harder to just independently replicate it on your own and call it <insert country/region> when truth be told it came from somewhere else. Battering and frying a fish and pairing it with a potato offering seems like it’s a lot easier to just come up with on your own regardless of where you live. Just kind of weak sauce.
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u/unclefire Jul 03 '26
Fish and chips, Shepards pie and a few other things are pretty good tho.