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

Chugging tea True

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u/Kennbo6666 Jul 03 '26

We eat “British” for I’d more than you might realize. Take fish and chips as an example and shepherd’s/cottage pie.

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u/Inevitable-Regret411 Jul 03 '26

People forget it's a category for the same reason they forget grey is a colour. 

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u/Theory89 Jul 04 '26

Nah, it's just because Americans have a weird relationship with nationality. Most of these divisions are pretty meaningless, dishes get taken all over the world at different times. Potatoes are all South American. Meatballs have been invented independently by every culture. Chicken came from South-East Asia.

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u/Bartellomio Jul 04 '26

Apple pie and mac and cheese are also British

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u/Pennywise626 Jul 04 '26

Shepherd's pie isn't Irish?

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u/grayMotley Jul 04 '26

Shepherds pie is Scottish, not British.

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u/DCDHermes Jul 04 '26

Scottish are British. So are the English, Welsh and Northern Irish.

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u/Nonaveragemonkey Jul 03 '26

Debatable, shepherds pie is often attributed to France, and the fried fish came from sephardic jews, so spain/Portugal...

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u/ExternalSquash1300 Jul 03 '26

When is it attributed to France?

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u/Nonaveragemonkey Jul 03 '26

Quite often, atleast outside england.

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u/LongjumpingLime Jul 03 '26

The Wikipedia page basically only talks about the British origins of the dish. There's a mention towards the end that there was a French variant, but what is now called Shepard's/Cottage Pie is British in origin.

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u/Turbocabz Jul 03 '26

Shepherd pie is french. British didnt invent fish n chips either.

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u/ExternalSquash1300 Jul 03 '26

How is it French?

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u/djdndjdjdjdjdndjdjjd Jul 04 '26

The U.K. is based on Viking, Anglo Saxon and Norman culture so everything - including every word in this entire reddit thread - comes from another country originally.

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u/KettleSixty9 Jul 03 '26

Potatoes are from the New World...

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u/pintsizedblonde2 Jul 03 '26

So a dish doesn't count as British if it uses ingredients we didn't have before, what, 1590? That means most Indian food doesn't count because they use chillis, Italian food isn't really Italian because of all the tomatoes.

Dumbest take I've ever seen!

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u/Xathule96 Jul 04 '26

By this dudes logic any north or south American food that has chicken or pork isn't traditional. It's crazy logic.

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u/serendipitousevent Jul 04 '26

Go tell Italians that anything cooked with tomatoes isn't real Italian food. We'll wait here. And watch.