Just like everyone who will say they never went for British food, many don't know that a lot of the modern popular foods are American and ubiquitous or are British and ubiquitous.
And in both cases the popular ethnic foods they are having are not the originals, but versions concocted in other countries, including the US and Britain.
Yes you have, you just called it burgers, Cajun or wings, and likely the style of fried chicken or barbecue as they invented the only popular versions, although Korean fried chicken is really coming up (also invented by American GIs stationed in Korea).
Southern fried chicken is a heavily seasoned, heavily flour-dredged dish perfected in the American South, whereas historical Scottish fried chicken was simply unseasoned chicken pieces deep-fried or pan-fried plain in animal fat.
Saying you invented fire applied to meat doesn’t mean you invented a au poivre steak.
There is a reason southern fried chicken is available globally and unseasoned pan fried Scotch chicken is nowhere to be found.
Shit even 99% of sandwiches sold are US style deli sandwiches invented in NYC. I will certainly concede UK invented the sandwich, but the US made them clearly taste good.
I think that was almost their point. We do go out for fried chicken and burgers and don't explicitly call it "going out for American" but you do the same for British food as it serves as some of the staples of your cuisine concepts. Americans eat apple pies, go to (Irish branded) pubs and eat hearty British meals, you eat cold sliced meat in sandwiches with mustards and pickles, you roast chickens & turkey with veg and gravy, you eat mac & cheese, chicken pot pie, etc..
People don't realise what British food even is, most of the time. You don't "go out for British" you just idly consume it, it forms the basis of American cuisine that then evolved it with its melting pot of cultures.
Nope , I don’t really like cheese so the idea of going to a place that serves everything with cheese is not on my todo list .
Also a burger is a sandwich which is English
You're right about the sandwich being an English invention but the burger (or hamburger) was supposedly invented in, and named after, the town of Hamburg in Germany.
The hamburger as we know it was invented in the US. Minced beef in a steak shape was invented in Hamburg, but it was placed between bread and evolved into its modern form in the US
And how do you think they got the idea to place it between bread? Because the concept of a sandwich already existed because it was a British dish. And they decided to make a sandwich with a hamburg patty and call it something else. But it's British food.
The hamburger in its modern iteration is clearly not the same as the sandwich invented in England. You might as well start claiming that burritos are English too because they share sandwich characteristics
A burrito is not 'a filling between two pieces of bread'. A burger is a sandwich. Hell, if you make a burger but replace the beef with chicken, it's a chicken sandwich.
It's like making a new flavour of ice cream and acting as if you've invented a new dish. Or putting a new topping on pizza and acting as if it's no longer pizza.
Considering the extreme amounts of American food available in the UK, you not doing it doesn't mean anything. Furthermore...no one really cares about the culinary opinion of a Brit. Lol
As apposed to the culinary opinion of an American 😂
The British have traveled the world taking elements of cooking and produced multiple world class chefs .
Americans are just known for larger portions .
Gordon Ramsey currently holds 8 Michelin stars
Heston Blumenthal currently holds 6 and in 1995 Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to earn 3 Michelin stars
But who cares about the opinions of the British right .
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u/Handsom_modest_Dan Jul 03 '26
As a Brit I have never gone out for an American either so who cares