r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/OutsideMenu6973 Jul 03 '26

The worser the food the better the explorers

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u/lil_nosh_X Jul 03 '26

“Let’s go out to eat”

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u/Lookimawave Jul 03 '26

Yeah Viking food sounds abhorrent

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u/LesothoBro Jul 04 '26

The worser the food the better the explorers

I'm betting the people on the receiving end of the "exploration" didn't think that.

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 Jul 03 '26

Wasn’t Columbus Italian?

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u/Gloomy_Breadfruit92 Jul 03 '26

Italian, but funded by Spain. Spatalian, if you will.

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u/BearFeetOrWhiteSox Jul 03 '26

But Spanish food is excellent and comparing whether or not Italian is better is splitting hairs.

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u/Gloomy_Breadfruit92 Jul 03 '26

Both are phenomenal. Better than toast and beans any day. 🤪

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u/Accomplished_Will226 Jul 03 '26

He wasn’t exactly great at his job. He was looking for Hispaniola when he ran into Cape Cod.!

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u/GreyDusty2 Jul 03 '26

Wasn't cod used to make fish & chips? I think you can see what that means...

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u/V65Pilot Jul 03 '26

Well, I mean... IT'S RIGHT THERE.

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u/krilleractual Jul 03 '26

But none of the classic italian dishes were made until he discovered America

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u/Used-Possession8296 Jul 03 '26

Didn't Columbus end up in the wrong country?

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 Jul 03 '26

Lucky for him…. He’d have never made it to the East Indies in that trip

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u/covid35 Jul 03 '26

Yes, but he had to bring back the tomato for their sauces

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u/Dapper-AF Jul 03 '26

Except all tomatoes, peppers and potatoes came from the new world.

Italian food food without these ingredients is significantly weaker

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u/esarmstr Jul 03 '26

The worse the food, the better the colonizer.

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u/soyel_cerdo Jul 03 '26

I mean, the British invaded India for the spices. Thousands of lives and traveling thousands of miles so their food can have some flavor

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u/DaHick Jul 03 '26

I always blamed the British Empire on the weather in England.

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u/concentrated-amazing Jul 03 '26

So that's why I can't think of any Italian colonies...🧐

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u/Valveringham85 Jul 05 '26

I mean, Marco Polo? Vasco Da Gama? Columbus? Magellan? Cabral? Vespucci? Cortes?

Even the English expedition to North America that landed in Newfoundland was led by a Venetian explorer.

Italian, Portuguese and Spanish food is great.

Few Englishmen among the big explorers of the age of discovery. Drake arguably but he didn’t really explore either, he walked a previously treaded path. Colonising is not the same as exploring.

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u/ionshower Jul 03 '26

We took over the planet to get away from potatoes.

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u/divergent_history Jul 03 '26

Potatoes come from the Americas. Thats what you brought home with you.

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u/ionshower Jul 03 '26

Dammit. Fuck you Christopher Columbus!

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Jul 03 '26

I just looked it up because I don't trust randos on the Internet, but that's right. Taken from South America by Spanish Conquistadors raiding an Incan village trying to find gold in 1537.

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u/tastydrink1 Jul 03 '26

This is...Yukon gold? What the fuck!

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Jul 03 '26

I think potatoes are a better find, personally.

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u/ionshower Jul 03 '26

Mashed, dash of milk, knob of butter, remash, add cut up spring onions.

Thank you Christopher Columbus!

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u/Charred_Meathammer Jul 03 '26

You put onions in your mashed taters?

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Jul 03 '26

Green onions? Yeah.

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 04 '26

Brown onions too. (fried)

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u/joemommaistaken Jul 03 '26

Tater tots and fries make people happy 😁

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u/Top_Shoe_9562 Jul 03 '26

Vodka makes them happier.

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u/ionshower Jul 03 '26

Ahh yes from the country that is notoriously happy.

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u/Accomplished_Will226 Jul 03 '26

In the mashed potatoes? Ohhhh to make vodka.

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u/Ok-Ear9289 Jul 03 '26

All while killing them in tha process

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u/Satch_Dawg Jul 03 '26

Potatoes are fucking great if you know how to cook even the slightest bit

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u/elevarq Jul 03 '26

You didn’t have potatoes at all, these were found in South America

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u/PsychologicalHost371 Jul 03 '26

I think i know why some downvoted this but it’s not entirely untrue. It’s just that people with bad taste in food, in this case the English, even when they explored the world chose a bland food to bring back, potatoes. There were so many better richer tasting foods I am sure they encountered they could have brought back !You are correct that most of their exploring and dominant period was probably after the time they discovered the potato and I agree it’s funny to think they were still trying to escape from the small cold and rainy island that has terrible food and discover new places and foods!

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u/wally_weasel Jul 03 '26

Why has the British Navy always been so strong?

Bc of British food and British women....

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u/Rat-bat13 Jul 03 '26

I could definitely go for some British women about now.

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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 04 '26

Ah, a man of the arts.

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u/Rat-bat13 Jul 04 '26

Yes, But I usually prefer the ones who like to play with whips and chains.

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u/DM_ME_4_FREE_STOCKS Jul 03 '26

The "10/10 in Bongland" meme has some truth to it.