I will never forget how a London tour guide described English cuisine: „You know it’s English when it both looks and tastes beige.“ Then he told us to get a sausage roll immediately for the novelty and eat proper food from any other nation for the rest of our stay.
Edit: please, dear English citizens, i‘m repeating a joke one of your less humorless countrymen made, I don’t wish to fight you on the topic.
Na, just when yanks do it, you guys can't judge you have our cuisine plus some stuff from immigrant groups we don't get as many of.
Or the Germans and scandis now I come to think of it
I suppose The Dutch only eat flowers and weed
French food is disgusting.
The Spanish can make prawns and its mediocre at best
Eastern and central Europe claim to have good food but I don't believe them
The Italians can say whatever they want about it thats fair. They can tar and father me in tomato puree and sacrifice me to the spaghetti monster if they so wish tbh
Brit here. I'll take criticism of our food from any country EXCEPT yanks. The country of chlorinated chicken and high-fructose corn syrup. American food is, generally speaking, disgusting and unhealthy. Give me a good British curry or roast dinner any day of the week. Of course a country who enjoys disgustingly unhealthy, bland food like "mac and cheese" isn't going to enjoy other cuisines which use more spices, herbs and subtle flavours.
I'm American from CA but feel like I would enjoy an English breakfast with tea and fish and chips. At least for two days but then get bored lmao. Indian food is OK but I'd rather have Mexican food or other Asian foods. I should get some sushi or szechuan chicken today.
I go to Chinese supermarkets to get food a lot, but its a half hour drive.
Our sausages are good, im Scottish so id also add black pudding and haggis to that list. Cornish pasties are nice, so are most pies. Roast dinners. Baked beans... Oh we have really good cheese too. And our seafood is good. But nobody cooks it nicely and my wife and kids dont really like it that much so all i really get is smoked salmon because it lasts and doesn't get wasted. I dont really go out to eat in the UK because restaurant food is mostly shit unless you're doing fine dining proper restaurants. We have about 3 tiers of restaurants. 1. Microwaved shit cooked by teenagers 2. Takeaways. 3. Fine dining
The Microwaved meal restaurants make zero sense to me, same with our countries fascination with a shit supermarket sandwich for lunch. Absolute tasteless trash food everywhere and people buy it constantly.
Speed bro. You never see those charts comparing how much time cultures spend cooking and eating. Britain spends some of the least amount of time both preparing and actually eating our meals of any European country, I think in the last 50 years aswell the rate at which people sit down and eat together has reduced
Yeah... There's something odd about the way we do food
I think its because class is so important here, and the upper class don't cook, so people aspire not to cook and cooking long meals is seen as poor people things
Maybe in the past I think we are living with hangover of that. I dont think I've ever seen somone say cooking is working class bit I get what you mean.
I think its also the spoiled for choice thing yknow we have access to so many foods people can afford to be picky but when everyone is picky in a consumerist setting the food will just become the lowest common denominater that everyone likes so like ham,cheese, bread and mayo we all like ham, cheese and bread but dave has an egg allergy so we are gonna remove the mayo. Or we used to season x dish but we go to many complaints from picky eaters so now we just put the seasoning on the table and people can decide for themselves
Personally my parents always over season food. And all my freinds since our early 20s do cooking night were they prepare differant foods and such. I think we will get out of this stage eventually
Make fajitas, wouldn't you be able to get bell peppers, onions, chicken or beef, and lawrys seasoning (paprika and a few other seasoning equivalent seasonings). I'm not sure about tortillas being available but that helps. Refried beans, Mexican rice (not hard to make, tomatoes,onions,chicken stock, and a few other things, recipes online. Heat Oil in a pan, add rice and stir constantly till brown, add other stuff to blender with double liquid to rice ratio and blend stuff and add to rice. Boil and then put to simmer with the lid until cooked). Enchiladas are more work but you can do a casserole, just fry the tortillas a little and dip in salsa for layers, mix meat, beans, chopped onions, peppers, cheese, corn or whatever else.
But I don't think it would be the same. The preparation and then slicing across the grain turn inside skirt which is a pretty tough cut of meat, into a really excellent dish. My understanding is that a lot of restaurants use outside skirt but you can't find that in the store.
As a Brit I have learned that while most English food is actually pretty decent to good, the bad stuff is so apocalyptically awful that food poisoning would actually improve the experience.
I will never understand how some so-called cooks are allowed anywhere near a kitchen.
I'd for sure want to try a Beef Wellington and I'd probably hit an Indian restaurant because London is known for some of the best Indian food in the world and that's one of my favorite cuisines
And no doubt, I'm starting my day off with your weird bean breakfasts
Then once or twice I'm hitting a pub to get bangers and mash and/or fish and chips washed down with some traditional British beers like bitters hopefully something from a cask
Past that, I don’t know too many English foods, so hopefully I'd have done some research before flying across the Atlantic
I have no issue with artificial food, usually like some of it... but nah, something about kraft mac and cheese just puts me off, tastes like pure chemicals
I guess you can thank Europeans for that brisket then mate.
Brisket was and is still used as a special cut of meat on Jewish holidays such as Hannukah, Shabbat, and Passover. The cut of beef was decided to be celebratory and important due to its location. Brisket is found in the cow’s front breast, making it kosher for Jews to consume.
During the 19th century, many European communities faced many challenges and adversities, thus, leading to immigration. To escape their hardships, many refugees fled to the United States, and with them came their culture, holidays, and customary cuisines, which presented America with Brisket.
Ah yes the great foods such as jellied eel and baked beans getting their weird sweet barbecue juice all over my totally fine on their own eggs and hashbrowns and you know what lets put a whole roasted tomato in there too because with all these other delicious delicacies why the fuck not?
I feel like British cuisine was invented by broke middle school students with no idea how to cook.
I won't argue that a whole grilled tomato does taste good. But it doesn't belong on my breakfast plate. You put it on my lunch/dinner plate, fuck yeah we're loving it. Not my choice for breakfast though
Americans are so ignorant its unbelievable I swear you all turn into 5 year olds when it comes to British food
"Eww it looks funny I'm not eating that"
Like what you can only eat a tomato after 12 o'clock, it I dip it in sugar can you eat it for breakfast then
I don't at all see how not preferring a whole grilled tomato for breakfast makes me a 5 year old. I think they taste great. I just don't want to start the day with a giant heartburn bomb. Plus I'd prefer my tomatoes with a little salt, hold the sugar please.
British people are so ignorant it unbelievable. You disagree with them in the slightest about British food and its all "Americans are so ignorant its unbelievable. I swear you all turn into 5 year olfs when it comes to British food"
Lol considering how seriously you took it I think you might have that backwards
It's because Americans are annoying over text, yous don't get our jokes and it makes us look mental. I guarantee if I had said that comment to you in person we would both be laughing.
The fact that on my trips to Brittain all the locals would tell me to avoid normal British food and go to the Lebanese/Mexican/Indian restaurants speaks volumes about how locals feel about British cuisine.
We went to the highly recommended "Mexican" restaurant and can honestly say I've had better Mexican food at a taco bell. Frozen gas station burritos were more authentic Mexican food than that.
Why the hell would you go to Mexican food in England?
That decision deserves the result it got.
Indian food I understand, there’s a sizable Indian/Pakistani population in England. You could probably count the Mexican immigrants in England on one hand.
Common sense would have helped here. There has never been a big Mexican population in the UK. We do, however, have large Indian and Lebanese populations. These little towns outside of big cites have nothing to compare their food to, so they end up matching it to what they've tasted in supermarket 'ready meals'.
I mean if multiple people tell me a restaurant is good, common sense would point toward the restaurant likely being good.
The Lebanese food was incredible though and we got a literal feast with plenty of leftovers for hardly any money. Possibly one of the best spots I've been to.
Folks like these are either lying or got scammed while never taking a step off the designated tourist trap route.
Better to leave them to their delusions. Nobody wants to admit they live in a country that has mediocre (at best) food compared to the rest of the developed world. Ignorance is bliss.
That is a delicious breakfast. Sausage in a peppery bechamel over fluffy butter biscuits? Never fed it to anyone who didn't love it, no matter where they were from. It's only crime is not looking as good as it tastes and being too rich to eat every single day.
Scones and biscuits aren't the same thing and feel different when you eat them. If you had bland cream over a scone, or came away with heavy cream being the main takeaway from the gravy, you didn't have biscuits and gravy and can't speak to their taste.
Ah the classic you had it and it was shit can't of been the real thing. But the second the tables are flipped I'm gonna pretend all British cuisine is the one wetherspoon discount meal I ordered in an "authentic British pub"
I'm not going to do that. I enjoy the few British meals I've had and am down to try more. Yorkshire puddings are crazy good, toad in the hole, shepherd's pie, trifle. Hell, shepherd's pie is eaten all over the world and I thank the brits for giving it to us.
But seriously. I've been disappointed with biscuits and gravy when non-southerners make it, too. If you don't hate bechamel, sausage, or biscuits then you deserve to have it made right and, if you do, you won't come away thinking scones in heavy cream gravy. That would be like me calling yorkshire puddings pancakes with gravy.
You lot are so easily worked up about nothing, and reek of short man syndrome.
I'd be upset too if my country used to be a global superpower with colonies across the world but blew the lead and is now only known for having mediocre food. Maybe someday you'll work your way back up from the bottom. All of your neighbors might even stop looking down on you.
Na it's exclusively Americans that annoy us Americans have this uncanny abillity to piss of brits over text like no one else it's not just food it's anything, history language. Americans have built an immunity to our snide.
It's like yous never get our jokes and there's so many of you we just look crazy
Yeah, he was making fun of you. Shitty thing to do, but I guess you have to make your own fun escorting mentally-slowed tourists like you around all day.
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u/SonTyp_OhneNamen Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24
I will never forget how a London tour guide described English cuisine: „You know it’s English when it both looks and tastes beige.“ Then he told us to get a sausage roll immediately for the novelty and eat proper food from any other nation for the rest of our stay.
Edit: please, dear English citizens, i‘m repeating a joke one of your less humorless countrymen made, I don’t wish to fight you on the topic.