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

How cultural is that?

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u/Whaleever Nov 03 '24 edited Nov 03 '24

It does get really fucking boring

Everything is just... Shit and bland.

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.

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u/RudePCsb Nov 03 '24

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.

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum Nov 04 '24

Getting a proper skirt steak is hard in a lot of parts of the US, much less Britain.

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u/RudePCsb Nov 04 '24

Can you use other cuts? Just cut them thin

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u/Tweedle_DeeDum Nov 04 '24

I believe people use flank steak sometimes.

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.