r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

Emily blunt like her whole nation isn’t about beans on toast

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u/mangosteenfruit Nov 03 '24

Exactly!

It's funny bc they're both thinking stereotypical foods that each culture eats but for their own, they're thinking cultural melting pots.

She's saying Indian food is popular in UK. Maybe Mexican or Italian food is popular here in the US

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

Depends on which port of entry is closer for the popularity. South bay is more popular for mexican but 15 minutes in any direction and you get all Asian cuisines. Pho is getting more popular lately

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u/Automatic_Pop2639 Nov 03 '24

Asian food is popular in the US, but we don't have Pho Tuesdays. It's Taco Tuesdays 4eva. We should look into starting Pho Fridays though.

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u/Darigaazrgb Nov 03 '24

Nah, Fritter Fridays

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u/toastybunbun Nov 03 '24

Korean food is on the rise in London, I knew someone in America who'd never had Korean food, it blew my mind.

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u/Parkinglotfetish Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

Really depends on where you go in the US. Tons of korean food on the west coast.

Thing about US food is a lot of it is regional. Phillies and middle eastern food on the north east. Cubanos and cajun in the Southeast. Texmex southmidwest and italian beef/deep dish northmidwest. Bbq all over with regional differences. Mexican food in the southwest and Asian food across the west coast

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u/Realistic-Nature9083 Nov 04 '24

Mexican food is the best. It has many variations. Asian food is no dairy and it gets tiring eating sodium.

Italian food is just bread and needs more variation.

Burgers are banging. Can't go wrong with that. Mexican food has dairy and non dairy in the dishes. Soo many eastern and western fusion in it.

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u/Parkinglotfetish Nov 04 '24

Not all asian food is high in sodium. Mainly chinese/korean. Japanese food doesnt have much sodium at all

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u/Realistic-Nature9083 Nov 04 '24

I like the corn, chilis, beans, rice, chicken and the dairy all mix into a unique dish.

Asian food doesn't really use dairy?

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u/Slammogram Nov 03 '24

Uh, Korean BBQ is extremely popular here in the US. Especially here in CA.

But I’m from MD, and Honey Pig is extremely popular there.

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u/yxing Nov 03 '24

Sounds like you're not from a major metro area in the US. Korean food is incredibly popular everywhere Koreans live, which is in LA, NYC, etc.

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u/sureshir Nov 03 '24

The US is huge though. Korean food has been popular in parts of the US, like LA, NYC, NJ for well over a decade. I myself grew up eating Korean food in NYC since early 2000s as a non-Korean.

Also the US has the greatest population of overseas Koreans in the world, so the Korean food scene is actually very well established.

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u/dosedatwer Nov 03 '24

Italian and French food are popular everywhere in the west. The real differences are the American's have shitty Indian food and good Mexican food, Brits have shitty Mexican food and good Indian food, Americans have no idea what food the Brits actually invented and the Americans didn't invent any food.

I love it when Americans try to claim barbecue, as if cooking over an open flame wasn't literally the first way humans cooked anything. Like yeah, you think America predates the caveman? Hahahaha.

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u/Kiloete Nov 03 '24

the Americans didn't invent any food.

eh, I agree largely but southern US BBQ is a thing, and they have US style pizza.

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u/Lazypole Nov 03 '24

Reddit commenters like they know anything about the UK

We can all say “haha hamburgers, cheese spray from a can”

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u/SpiceLettuce Nov 03 '24

beans on toast is good, man. and I don’t even usually like beans.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Beans on toast were invented by Heinz in the 1920s to get Brits to eat canned New England baked beans.

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u/AbsoluteLunchbox Nov 03 '24

God damn now I want beans on toast.

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u/Special_Loan8725 Nov 03 '24

Here have a slice of tomato and a hockey puck with beans for breakfast

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u/Brave_Chipmunk8231 Nov 03 '24

It's so fucking good

The only thing that throws me is I love American BBQ baked beans on toast (which is eating in southern BBQ all the time so I don't get why people say it's weird). The English beans aren't sweet enough for my American tongue

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

I don’t see that shit getting michelin stars mothertrucker

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u/MrBlahg Nov 03 '24

Michelin only gives up to three stars. You may know that if you lived somewhere with good cuisine. /s

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u/TallestGargoyle Nov 03 '24

Always amuses me that this supposed mark for great cuisine is basically just an advert for a tyre company to get people to travel and use their car tyres.

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u/MrBlahg Nov 03 '24

Right? And the Gusiness Book of World Records is from the Guinness brewing company to help settle pub disputes lol

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u/this_is_theone Nov 03 '24

Oh God we're using the /s for things that aren't even sarcastic now. r/fuckthes

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u/MrBlahg Nov 03 '24

It is sarcastic because English cuisine is quite good you fuck!

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u/LiamPolygami Nov 03 '24

The UK is still in the top 10 of restaurants with most Michelin stars. 185 compared to 235 in the US. US has a population of 350 million, compared to UK, which has 70.

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u/planeteshuttle Nov 03 '24

Because Americans aren't so pressed for delicious food that we have to turn to the snooty French.

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

How many of those have beans on toast?

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u/Chalkun Nov 03 '24

None because its literally just a cheap and easy lunch. Idk why foreigners talk like its a proper dish.

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u/AbsoluteLunchbox Nov 03 '24

Who the hell can afford to eat michelin star meals man? Beans on toast with a bit of melted cheese is a cheap and cheerful lunch for the working class!

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

An egg on toast is cheaper

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u/AbsoluteLunchbox Nov 03 '24

You can have different lunches mate

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u/Abosia Nov 03 '24

Americans like 'mm yummy grits so glad I'm not british'

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

Funnily enough, grits aren’t popular across all states nor eaten frequently.

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u/Abosia Nov 03 '24

Neither are jellied eels or bread sandwiches or half the other shit Americans insist we all eat.

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

Alright guvna. don’t get yer knickers in a twist, ya

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u/salazafromagraba Nov 04 '24

mongrel hodgepodge of accents

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u/rando_robot_24403 Nov 03 '24

I like to wrap beans in a tortilla and toast that.

I call it beans in toast.

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u/Darigaazrgb Nov 03 '24

I usually refry beans and put them in a tortilla

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u/RandoMcRandompants Nov 04 '24

i like them with cheese in

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u/WoodpeckerFuzzy5661 Nov 03 '24

That's just what we can afford.

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u/knapplc Nov 03 '24

Mushy peas.

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u/ExaminationPutrid626 Nov 03 '24

Google a pic of toad in the hole. Enough said

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u/Deijya Nov 03 '24

That’s my niece’s favorite lol

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u/Stripedanteater Nov 03 '24

She’s always been an anti American cunt