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Technically a lot of the classic curries are british food
Going out to eat is eating some other ethic or nationality’s food.
Sounds like somebody never tried a warm plate of Scraggledy Numps, or a bowl of Thumps in a Bodice, or even a hot cup of Singeshammy Longerjohns in Tabbernickywammelty sauce.
I genuinely believe these are actual names of actual british foods.
Ever tried some bubble and squeak?
I had a hot cup of Singeshammy Longerjohns in Tabbernickywammelty sauce once.
Never again! I prefer mine cold.
Go back far enough, and you uncover dishes with wonderful names like Farts of Portingale.
well america has shit on a shingle
So called because the toast in military kitchens were nicknamed shingles, as in roofing tiles. Evocative of bad cooking, which I’m betting was rampant.
Honestly, shit on a shingle (s.o.s. appropriately) is better than it sounds, even when not referred to under that name. But it’s definitely a comfort food. It’s not good for you, it’s just creamy, beefy, and starch. Inoffensive, cheap, and easy to make in bulk. (Kinda want some now.)
Shepherd’s Pie (with beef, though, I only like lamb in gyros, and only then when it’s a blend with beef), minced meat pies, good chicken pot pie, and Yorkshire puddings are all great. Bangers and mash with the right sausage is great. Fish and Chips are generally great but the flavor and texture of the batter can vary significantly.
I had a homemade vegan shepard’s pie at a coworker’s house (she lived in the US, but from the UK) and it was one of the best dinners I’ve had in a long time.
If you ever make one, a good way to get the lentils or tvp tasting beefy is mixing some marmite and tamari sauce into it.
If you like Yorkshire pudding, try toad in the hole.
I made bangers and mash this evening, and put it into a large Yorkshire pud.
I don’t know if it would be named differently.
That is a thing of beauty. Bring the gravy boat to the table so that you can top it up to the brim, heaven.
Yorkshire pudding is fine, but Pomeranian pudding is really superior.
(trivia: a Shepard’s pie with beef is technically called a “cottage” pie!)
Good to know!
Yeah, I know what true shepherd’s pie is made of thanks to Denis Leary.
Gyros like kebabs right? That’s where I normally prefer lamb too tbh.
no, I mean Greek gyros, in pita bread.
https://thebubblychef.com/kebab-vs-shawarma-vs-gyro/
Though perhaps you meant the Turkish doner kebabs
https://foodsguy.com/doner-vs-gyro/
It’s not really that I like lamb in a gyro, it’s that when it’s a blend of beef and lamb I can’t really taste the lamb. I just really don’t like lamb meat. I’ll take a fully beef gyro over a blended meat any day.
Thanks to successive waves of immigration in the 20th century from India, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Africa, China and others we actually have a pretty diverse and vibrant food culture.
Sadly a lot is still dominated by roast dinners and meat and two veg (one of those veg is always potato) but go to any major city and you’ll likely find excellent quality restaurants from pretty much every culture on earth.
Careful! Facts will damage the worn-out, out-dated stereotype!
Sounds like you have had some shit roast dinners. A good roast dinner is amazing. I love all the foreign foods we have access to now as well, but our traditional cooking gets a lot of shit when really it’s just bad cooks. Although we do also have stuff like jellied eels and mushy peas, so I’m not saying it’s all good…
I love a roast, it’s one of my favourite meals, but a shit roast is proper shit.
I went eating at an Italian restaurant in, I don’t know, somewhere in the Highlands, and I haven’t been aware that it was run by Scottish people, including the kitchen. Our trip had many highlights and was really cool all in all, but that food has to be the deepest trench we had to pass through.
Thanks to successive waves of immigration in the 20th century from India, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Africa, China and others we actually have a pretty diverse and vibrant food culture.
OK, but the idea is that it’s the indigenous food that represents the place in question. The Indian (subcontinent), Caribbean, African, Chinese, etc cuisines count as the food culture of those places, not british food culture.
Don’t be like germans who are stupidly deluded enough to say “The döner was invented in germany” , when , no, it wasn’t invented in germany, it was invented in the ottoman empire. Also, Hans isn’t out back in the kebab shop busting his ass making that gigantic log of meat, it’s Ahmet. If you want to argue that derived foods that are based on local ingredients are part of the food culture of that place, that’s a more interesting debate that isn’t cut and dry; no one is selling kapsolon made with gouda cheese in İstanbul, nor are they making Tacos al Pastor with pork and pineapples.
British food is good. Kinda simple, but good. Just not legendary. It’s like a more mid version of itallian food; relies too much on fat and carbs and meat to feel delicious and satisfying, instead of advanced techniques or “just right” spice blends.
My point is that those immigrant communities have brought their food and their culture with them and they’ve created fusion dishes that have created a unique food culture, one that has itself been exported back abroad. Like I’ve said elsewhere, most of the dishes people associate with Indian food were actually created in Indian restaurants in Britain.
If only indigenous food counted, American cuisine is hominy and fry bread and Indian food is lentils.
Like I’ve said elsewhere, most of the dishes people associate with Indian food were actually created in Indian restaurants in Britain.
the absolute arrogance of this statement. Disgusting.
Lol, do some research
Onto what, an Indian guy slightly changing the recipe for a curry leading the brits claiming that any curry served outside of india is based off the tikka masala? Get your own fucking cuisine to export you lazy gits.
If you’re not prepared to actually have a civil conversation, kindly fuck off you idiot.
No. The train was an indian invention, the reason countries except for britain and india have trains is because they are adapting to the mass transit ideas that are indian.
Quite why you felt the need to attempt to call out my edit is beyond me, since I didn’t remove anything from the original, it’s just clear that critical thinking is somewhat beyond you and so in thought I’d save you the difficulty of doing even 30 seconds of reading and gave you some examples.
shouldn’t you be off taking credit for something you didn’t do?
don’t know if we can call that british food lol. That’s African, Chinese, etc foods
Many of those countries happened to be part of the British Empire. Technically, they were British.
Yes but those are restaurants, im assuming grandma is still serving up run over peas and boiled potatoes
Fuck grandma, my roast dinners are an event. Got my roastie game en point, my yorkies are crispy and all the trimmings are standard. Plus the gravy, not to brag, will make you jizz your pants its that good.
Totally unrelated, but you made me question if the phrase is supposed to be “en pointe” like ballet or “on point.” after a little research, I’m guessing it’s “on point” but it seems like the etymology could be from ballet potentially, but it sounds like it isn’t likely. At the end of the day, it means exactly the same thing so it doesn’t really matter. I do find it funny you used “en point” instead of “en pointe” though. Halfway between the two I guess. Lol.
Honestly, getting it wrong in either sense might be the most British thing I’ve ever done.
See, gravy is so easy - meat juice, stock, bit of balsamic - I think how can you fuck this up? Then you get gravy litteraly in any commercial setting, and… urgh…
One thing I’ve always wanted to try is a well made beef Wellington, looks tasty
Honestly, beef wellington isn’t bad or anything but it’s definitely overrated. Don’t bother trying to make one, just find one at a restaurant and wonder what the fuss was about.
Is just a fancy corn dog.
I honestly think British food is some of the most underrated in Europe. It is unfortunately a few years between each time I visit, but I am always blown away by the tea houses and pub food over there. Of course there is a lot of bad fastfood over there, but pointing to that alone would be like judging Norwegian food by our frozen pizza.
Not British, but as someone who eats, food is food :3
British food is a lot like the english countryside - lots of earth tones in the palate and everything sounds different (but after your third slice of hamlet you realize it’s all basically the same)
But… Does someone have to die after dinner?
Aww, hamlet AGAIN?! I thought we could have village tonight.
No more lip from you or it’s docks tomorrow!
We got bread. We got cheese. We got beans.
What more do you want?
Including beans in breakfast is a British culinary achievement that I will never stop defending.
As an American, I ate a sushirrito and a pizza sandwich.
Beans for breakfast upsets you, you haven’t lived.
Beans for breakfast is also in Mexican food. So not weird to me.
Flavor
Salt?
Now that’s a pro’a bri’ish flavor
Sausages ?
Ah yes a banger in the mouth.
ANUSTART
I don’t remember where I heard/read it first, but someone said that the British eat like they’re still going through the blitz. I thought that was hilarious, and it seemed true.
Chicken Tikka Masala. Nuff said.
British-Asians truly improved British cuisine. Tikka Masala is next level!
Ewww.
Tastes vary. But gimme a toad in the hole, or many other Brit dishes and I’m there.
I’ll take both, though maybe not at the same time
You can absolutely eat Chicken Tikka Masala out of a Giant Yorkshire Pudding.
With rice? In this case i think not.
The Yorkshire Pudding is taking on the role of the naan bread, therefore it’s even compatible with a portion of rice.
Depends on who’s asking. If an American… They shouldn’t even ask. For them “bad food” is just “food”.
L take. It might be poison, but the average food is definitely better than average Euro food north of Italy.
We have nothing on Mexico/SA or any Asian countries tho.
Yeah! Booo America!
Oh please. The US has many problems, and there are food deserts to be sure — but go to a first class US city and you’ll find great food.
Contrary to England?
Never said that at all. I’ve had some fantastic food in England.
Don’t even need to go to a big city. There’s a ton of awesome regional food all across the US.
What I read is “US is big enough that if you search long enough you find good food”. Overall, a random US restaurant will be a fairly forgettable experience
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British Food is awesome. It’s not very colorful or ultra complex but it’s the kinda food that warms the soul.
- A good Sunday Roast with yorkshire pudding, lamb, roasted potatoes, peas, and gravy
- Fish and Chips served with a good curry or mushy peas
- Fresh warm scones with clotted cream and jam
- A proper fry up with a cup of tea
- Beef Wellington
- Pie Mash
- Meat pies
- Bridies
- Scotch Eggs
- Minemeat Pies
- Spotted Dick (Yeah yeah)
- Treacle Tart
- Banoffee Pie
There are few things that bring me more joy than popping into a Greggs on a cold rainy morning for an overheated cup of generic tea and a sausage roll.
Just so none of us have to do a web search. What is spotted dick and why is it called that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick
It’s a steamed suet pudding made with raisins or sultanas which make it look spotty.
Really not beating the allegations with that one.
Those sound good to have now and then, but not every day
Some other great British dishes:
- Tikka Masala
- Shepherd’s/Cottage Pie
- Sticky Toffee Pudding
- Cornish Pasty
- Crumpets
- CUSTARD
Tikka Masala ok.
Love Shepherd’s Pie
My mom dated a Englishman when I was a kid and he made us “Yorkshire Pudding” that shit was excellent.
The best 'Fish and Chips" are made at this little seaside rstaurant in Oregon and made with Salmon. They must have ran out of chips because I got French Fries instead. Was still excellent though.
Ba dum tiss!
Best Fish n’ Chips Ive had was at a small pub near the old harbor in Reyknavik, arguing with two brits about toy internet spaceships, where the fish was alive that morning.
Euro food is the best, even the simple things, its just better.
Euro food is the best, even the simple things, its just better.
I certainly wouldn’t want to limit myself to “Euro” food exclusively. It’s good, but so is Mexican, Argentinian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese etc. I love how diverse food culture is.
I mostly am refering to food quality, no matter the quisine. When ever I fly back to the US from abroad, it takes a few days for everything to stop tasting like plastic, or having something off about it.
Its quite sad…
Still? Greggs is a rip off now and there are far too many of them. 16 in the damn centre of Manchester.
I live in the UK. Tonight we had fresh haddock and chips, caught locally. Yesterday we had lamb curry, made with locally sourced lamb. Local produce is abundant, and high quality. How you cook it is up to you, but we also have some of the best chefs in the world.
Nice. It’s cool that curry has become a national English food. And well-made fish and chips is hard to top.
Yeah, the produce is high quality… for your British standards.
Ha, you’ve no idea what you’re talking about, Amigo. North Sea fish from the waters of Shetland is amazing. Shetland lamb, Scottish Beef. Google it. I suspect it shits all over the drugged up fodder served in American cities :-)
I’m not American, man. I’m from a place with actual excellent food.
I’m also just trolling 😁
Paradise is a place with Spanish food and British music.
Hell is a place with Spanish music and British food.
Not gonna lie, the food in Spain is tremendous. And yes, historically our recipes have been bland (but with decent produce). Post WW2 staples were dreadful. But we’re a fairly multicultural clubtry now, so Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Thai etc are all on the menu these days.
Local produce is abundant, and high quality.
French sounds of incredulity
Dans l’arène des imbéciles sans complexe méritant mépris, moqueries et mépris absolu, les Français trôneront toujours sur une tribune d’honneur. Cela est dû à leur provincialisme arrogant et absolu lorsqu’ils se proclament arbitres du goût. Leurs prétentions prétentieuses et élitistes à être la source des meilleurs délices épicuriens du monde ignorent toujours leur plagiat puéril des techniques, des saveurs et du talent artistique de leurs voisins européens, notamment italiens, et de leurs lieux de pillage asiatiques : les Indiens, les Chinois et les Japonais.
N’oubliez jamais de leur rappeler leur grossièreté inconsciente lorsqu’il est question de goût, d’art et de plaisir de vivre. Sinon, leur pompe étouffera tout.
Et surtout, faites-le en français. C’est le comble du bonheur que d’insulter les porcs français dans leur propre langue absurde ; c’est vraiment comme s’essuyer le derrière avec de la soie.
The Quebecois
Curry is great and I feel that’s British now
