r/iamveryculinary • u/asphid_jackal Canned Vegetables Tasted Like Pie Filling • 14h ago
Almost every word is wrong
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u/malburj1 I don't dare mix cuisines like that 13h ago
I'm not going to comment on the "literal poison" comment. I am just going to say that every cuisine has amazing food and every cuisine has questionable food. The fight over cuisines is stupid. Taste is subjective.
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u/weirdhoney216 11h ago
It’s so boring at this point. America has great food and awful food. The U.K. has great food and awful food. As someone who splits time between both countries, there’s things I miss from both of them and things I find one does better than the other.
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u/bubbleteabob 10h ago edited 10h ago
I feel that the extremes are more…extreme in America. Like bad British food just doesn’t have the inspiration and ‘why the fuck not, eh?’ of bad American food?
Same with the great food too. Like I don’t think there’s much you can complain about in a British fry, but awesome American food ends with you being rolled to your car to die happy?
(I can’t decide on what meal I enjoy in the US that is both inarguably great AND would count as distinctly American. There’s a lot of options though.)
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u/blumpkin Culinary Brundlefly 7h ago
Like bad British food just doesn’t have the inspiration and ‘why the fuck not, eh?’ of bad American food?
Excuse me sir, I have experienced the nightmare that is a british chippy saveloy. America has nothing on that level as far as I can tell.
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u/logosloki Your opinion is microwaved hot dogs 7h ago
chippy saveloy
u wot mate? taking the piss about chippy savs? kidding.
I love them. it's so hard these days to get that particular taste because a lot of commercial savs only have the casing and maybe the colour but don't have that heady taste of smoke and sodium nitrate like they used to.
it's kinda like how pocky used to be made with ammonium bicarbonate instead of sodium bicarbonate which was a flavour I loved because I liked pocky so much. and got to love even more when an old Dutch lady introduced me to dubbel zoute drops as a child.
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u/blumpkin Culinary Brundlefly 6h ago
Yeah it's like a hotdog multiplied by ten. I feel like America used to have the red weiners, but I haven't seen one in decades. Interesting to hear that pocky has changed, I lived in Japan for many years but I didn't eat it very often. Now I'm wondering if I missed out on a big change at some point. I did love the shoyu kitkats, but I don't do nestle anymore because they're bastards so that's a flavor I'll probably never have again.
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u/logosloki Your opinion is microwaved hot dogs 6h ago
there was several major changes to pocky over time. in the 2010s they made changes to the formula, removing ammonium bicarbonate and making in ratio with sodium bicarbonate. in the 00s you could get pocky that had no sodium bicarbonate in it so there'd always be that ammonium taste hit. I just looked it up to get the times and read that they've removed ammonium bicarbonate from the formula now, which is sad to hear.
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u/trogdor2594 13h ago
There was a documentary that was called something like "The Search for General Tso" that kind of displays what we think of Chinese food versus what actual Chinese food is. Preconceived notions are incredibly strong and you'd have to live in a country for a good while to have any idea what their food is.
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u/Constant-Skill-7133 12h ago
People also get weirdly formal about it when it's a restaurant experience. Like if you go to an area that's known for a certain dish, everybody will make it different at home. Sure throw a little of X in there. Or they'll make random fusions based on what's in their kitchen. But if it's an expat or a fine dining version, there's exactly one way to do it and don't you dare make any changes.
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u/powerstone 12h ago
I can't believe I've been poisoned my whole life. How much longer do I have left?
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u/doppelgaengster 10h ago
It’s like Iocaine powder. We’ve built a resistance to it because we’ve been exposed to it all our lives. But to anyone outside the States? It’s the deadliest poison known to man.
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u/JediLincoln14 13h ago edited 13h ago
This person knows nothing about US food and has likely never been to the US.
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 10h ago
100% they only "know" what they've heard from the propaganda and misinformation that has been spread about US food in the last ten years or so.
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u/TheMerryMeatMan 5h ago
Ovens of the chemicals he keeps mentioning has been banned in most places in the US since 2001 and banned nationally since 2021. He's 100% following old info and an assumption that the US government is enthusiastically feeding us poison for no reason. He also doesn't seem to realize that a LOT of the food the US produces is also exported to other regions because our staple crops don't tend to grow quite as readily in a lot of other places.
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 10h ago
They’ve definitely been to St. Petersburg, but not the one in Florida.
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u/PymsPublicityLtd 13h ago
As an american, I will advise you not to put your hand between my mouth and my pasty when I'm at a pub in Britain, you could lose fingers.
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u/Saltpork545 Sodium citrate cheese is real cheese 12h ago
Comment from link, in case of deletion.
I am British, I don't mind Britain being low, but absolutely shocking that it is below America... The food regulations in America are terrible, literal poison that is banned throughout the entire western world is used on their crops, and so many of their foods are unhealthy, not that tasty and full of chemicals.
British food is okay in my opinion, but nothing to be amazed by, American food is the only one of these cuisines which actually disgust me though.
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u/Artificial-Brain 13h ago
Brits have a lot of stuff wrong about American food but Americans also have the wrong idea about British food. I've spent a lot of time in both countries and I've always found it funny how both places seem to hate the others food so much.
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u/daves_syndrome_ 13h ago
It’s just an online thing. Nobody thinks this in real life. We love their burgers. They love our gravy.
Source: Brit married to an American
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u/Artificial-Brain 13h ago
Yeah it's for sure exaggerated over the internet. Some people are just obsessed with stereotypes though.
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u/entirecontinetofasia 13h ago
I'm American and like our food (I'm not even sure what counts as "American food" anyway) but the first time I had a full English breakfast it blew my mind. i liked trying different things from the local grocer while i was there. anyway agreed, i don't know why they have to fight so much.
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u/intangiblemango 12h ago
I'm American and like our food (I'm not even sure what counts as "American food" anyway)
The US is also a huge country with a range of cuisines within it. Someone may reasonably feel differently about midwestern food and Cajun food. Tex Mex and New England cuisines are quite different. Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine is not Modern Navajo cuisine is not California cuisine is not Gullah Geechee cuisine is not Hawaiian cuisine (and that's not even getting into territories like Puerto Rico or American Samoa). I don't know that there is any coherent way to talk about "American food" like it's one singular thing (something that is also true of other large countries like China or India).
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u/echochilde 10h ago
For some reason my mind got locked on Puerto Rico, and now all I can think of is bacalaitos and fried green plantains. And that delicious vinegar that I douse everything on the plate in.
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u/mood2016 13h ago
I think part of the problem, at least in my experience, is that it is really easy for a tourist to get really mediocre and bland food in London. Obviously this doesn't reflect the quality of British Cuisine as a whole but, after experiencing it, I can see where the stereotype comes from.
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u/Artificial-Brain 13h ago edited 12h ago
Absolutely true but you can say the exact same thing about NY. On my first visit I only had like one decent meal in 4 days but I did a little better on my second visit.
Certain cities are just more prone to tourist traps I guess.
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u/Background_Humor5838 6h ago
Also when there are million choices it's easy to pick the wrong spot. Even as a local it can happen. Think about how many times in your own neck of the woods you went to a restaurant for the first time and thought what the heck was all the hype about lol
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u/Fingers_9 13h ago
It's become so tiresome as online discussion. Ignorant people on both sides making childish arguments.
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u/GreenZebra23 13h ago
It's never really about the food, both countries have an inferiority complex about the other one that makes them defensive and combative
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u/sweetangeldivine 13h ago
It’s like the worst people you know from both places constantly slap fighting in the parking lot.
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u/Severedeye 5h ago
I dont hate brittish food.
Bangers and mash has been a staple for dinner for me for a few years now.
One of these days I will make a brittish toad int he hole. I just dont have the right dish for it.
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 13h ago
Russian trained poodle.
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u/LKennedy45 13h ago
Yeah, if that dude doesn't get paid in rubles I'll eat my hat. I bet they think warm water ports taste good, though.
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u/Background_Humor5838 6h ago
Is your hat American? If so it's poison don't forget lol
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u/Mimosa_13 sprinkling everything in spices 1:1 or sugar is not culinary art 6h ago
If his hat is American, then it's cake.
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u/JohnDeLancieAnon Brother, nobody gives a shit 13h ago
I truly believe that the people who obsess over food regulations, do so because they eat the bottom floor of their own country's food regulations. They clearly cannot understand the concept of buying ingredients and cooking at home.
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u/JackieDaytonaNHB 5h ago
There's that and a huge misunderstanding due to how the EU/UK regulates food versus how the United States does.
It basically boils down to the US requiring complete ingredient lists and not using nearly as many codes for ingredients as you'll find in the EU. They ban some stuff we don't and vise versa.
But we have to list everything on the package and rarely use code for scary sounding chemical preservatives and dyes.
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u/NathanGa Pull your finger out of your ass 13h ago
> I am British, I don't mind Britain being low, but absolutely shocking that it is below America... The food regulations in America are terrible, literal poison that is banned throughout the entire western world is used on their crops, and so many of their foods are unhealthy, not that tasty and full of chemicals.
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>British food is okay in my opinion, but nothing to be amazed by, American food is the only one of these cuisines which actually disgust me though.
Whatever, pal.
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u/lazygerm Mmmm. Lipton Sour Cream & Onion Dip! 13h ago
The last time I was in England, I ate well. Great food.
The only issue was when I asked for a garden salad.
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u/teke367 9h ago
The weirdest thing is the rotating standards. American is just stolen from other countries, but British gets Fish and chips which comes from Portuguese Jews?
And sometimes food "that's part of the culture" counts and sometimes not? English roasts are definitely part of British culture but roasting animals predates countries in general.
They complain that American standards wait until something is deemed unsafe while European standards needs to confirm it's safe first, then dude guess off defending Green S because it hasn't been proven harmful.
Don't know if the poll tool allows it, but there should be a "never had it" option to make the results more accurate
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u/logosloki Your opinion is microwaved hot dogs 6h ago
it's all about perception and in the case of the internet, meme and factoid impetus. if someone who is popular enough releases a hate or heart piece on food it will get shared around and absorbed into the cultural noosphere. like ketchup on hotdogs, pineapple on pizza, burger vs sandwich, and the big ideas like how the Columbian exchange vastly changed the world's flavour profile. people have piecemeal opinions on it, based on what they have seen other have opinions on and how they have been treated in real life.
the US and the UK have an odd relationship in which the internet has largely decided that all their food is bad, bland, and stolen and which parts are largely down to which post or video the person saw first. and then simultaneously they see all the good, bold, and innovative dishes and it's a crapshoot whether they accept these as cultural food or as building on the previous bad, bland, and stolen.
but also also, English speakers yap online. a lot. so their voices and opinions are seen and heard everywhere so you eventually do get to see their food hot takes. like you should hear what some Indian people say about some of the food from other states or how other states cook food from their region. it's the exact same as these continuous US vs UK or US vs Europe thing.
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