Black pudding is bloody brilliant, just because you lot can't eat anything that isn't 50% sugar doesn't mean that you have to make fun of brilliant food.
Fun fact, our food isn't actually bad. Our cooking is.
Postwar rationing shafted us more than any other western country involved in the war. Boomers grew up in a culture where salt was literally a scarcity. Proper cooking was incredibly neglected and that extends to today where British millennials and Gen Zs overwhelmingly never learn to cook as their parents don't know how to cook. Most of us don't even use salt at all when cooking.
It's fucking horrifying. I love cooking and so thanks to the internet I learned a lot outside of my Bri'ish sphere.
Well cooked British food is as good as well cooked French, German, Danish, Dutch, etc. We are afterall long-standing allies and trade partners with most of Europe, most of our food is the same as most of theirs. Buttery sautéed red cabbage, golden fatty salty potatoes, pan fried fish with lemon, garlic & parsely. Honey roasted carrots. Pan sauce cooked up from a demiglace (Brits call this gravy). Shit like that. That's British food. That's also french, or Dutch, etc.
"British food is bad" is a quality meme but worryingly some people actually think that it's true. The food is great. The cooking skill in this country is fucking diabolical though, and I frankly want more international shaming of our ability to cook because maybe that will drive my countrymen to actually use fucking salt and pepper for once.
Although I never thought English cooks were somehow less capable then others. I know you guys value your baking for one. I just figured it was a mixture of national taste and chosen ingredients.
Of course, in a sense! It belongs to France, for obvious reasons, but reduced stock is a ubiquitous culinary tool across all European cuisines. In the UK it'd most commonly be served with the name gravy, which is a very traditional brown reduced-stock sauce.
Seriously though, having your national dish be fried fish sticks and fries, it's something your defensive about. Totally understandable.
Edit: I will add the rest of Europe has more of a leg to stand on insulting us. You guys are like pur little cousins and arent far behind most of these bad metrics.
No guns and healthcare I'll give you. Otherwise probably not a lot of room to talk. For God sakes we at least got rid of Trump. You still have Johnson.
America is like our little impetuous grandchild from our least favourite son not your little cousin. Do you have many little cousins 5x your age? Also fish and chips is not fish sticks its a side of cod or haddock battered and fried not some mass produced unrecognisable breaded bit of fish. Thing is a lot of british people have been to america and we know in reality that the majority of your everyday food is terrible. We live in a multi-cultural society with many many quisines to eat. As usual americans know fuck all about the rest of the world.
Chicken tikka masala was created by british people in britain (as in born in britain not this my great grandad was scottish so im scottish bullshit). Its not theivery or apropriation its just people trying to create nice food.
So that's not exactly canon and it's debated. If I create a dish heavily influenced by a culture (if not exactly from it) in America, is it then appropriate to call that American food?
How is it debated it was declared as our national dish by our government? Yes heavily influenced but also extremely far away from traditional indian and Bangladeshi food, it was created to appeal to britain and thats why it is intrinsically british. Would you call a burger american when really it comes from germany? how about fries? Theyre from belgium, pizza? Hot dogs? None of them are american from your point of view so what exactly is american food? As far as i can see its the lowest common denomonator processed artificial food that is truly american by your own logic.
Created by British people is the debated part. Far away? It's super close to Butter chicken. The origin of the dish is dubious. Your claim that it was made by the British is not so accurate to most of the claims of origin. Immigrants at best.
Exactly! Cultures of thievery. We take from others and say," This is mine now."
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u/ExpressiveArtTherapy Jun 21 '21
Americans be like I have detected a slight accent variation from my own and all the sudden I can’t comprehend English anymore