Fuck that. Every culture has great food if you’re willing to get over your preconceptions.
The English stole all that spice to sell it, not put it in their food.
There’s a whole other comment thread about that. But food doesn’t need spices to be delicious - most relevant to the picture, sushi does not have spices in it.
Not only that, but the British use a hell of a lot of both herbs and spices in traditional cooking. And also there’s the whole mildly racist element in not considering Anglo-Indian cuisine (which is very distinct from traditional Indian) to be British food.
I’m shitposting here, don’t take me seriously.
British food is thoroughly underrated. Who could say no to even a small part of a full english breakfast?
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I’d always say no to the black pudding >///<
the rest is quite OK
Fish and Chips are pretty nice (especially with a good sauce tatare)
Animals were brutalized to make half of it, the texture of the tomato is weird, and marmelade is too monotonically bitter for what is available to be combined with.
Beans on toast are honestly the best part.
But the real shame is that for an extra 10% of the price it could be so much better by adding spices. A full English isn’t depressing because of its materials but because of its potential.
It’s fine food, sure, but it is on the low end of dishes that include its ingredients.
(For the record, I’m Dutch, our “traditional” (read: late 19th century puritan) slop involves doing extra work to be actively hostile to flavor, making a full english seem indulgent).
The animals are the best bit. As for spices, I add curry powder to the beans, tarragon and thyme to the mushrooms, basil and black pepper to the tomato, and then dust the entire dish with chilli flakes. Serve it with homemade Carolina reaper sauce. The Scottish version is objectively better than the English one as it includes haggis and tattie scones. You can also serve it with deep fried cigarettes and buckfast tonic wine.
You can do a very nice vegetarian full English. Veggie sausages and black pudding (I make my own black pudding with black beans which works really well); halloumi is a better bacon imo, and the rest is all vegetarian
My favourite variant is the Welsh, which comes with cockles.
Not really convinced about adding random spices to the parts, as it’s already plenty salty and quite well balanced. A cafe near me started adding herbs to their mushrooms and that kind of ruined them, as they were really nice just in butter. The chili sauce thing is just depraved though and makes me suspect you may soon start rubbing it on your eyeballs just to feel something.
Bean on toast isn’t even bad. It should be jellied eels or a toad-in-the-hole.
WTF toad in the hole is amazing! What do you even think it is?
Or stargazey pie
Brits made those up so the colonies would give them the spices willingly, out of sheer pity.
They did fuck all with the spices, but that’s not the point.
Traditional British food actually uses a lot of spices, just not usually chilli. British food is full of coriander seed, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, aniseed, mace, rosemary, parsley, black pepper, mustard etc. They were originally used because people believed they would preserve meat and extend the shelf life. So recipes from before refrigeration use a lot of it, but also things like Christmas food and desserts use a lot (especially cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves). There’s a blend of spices sold in British shops specifically for sweet things called mixed spice similar to pumpkin spice in the states.
But even if you take spice to mean only hot capsicim Peppers, the hottest curries (phall) are a British recipe. Tabasco is one of the few non British companies to receive The Royal Warrant of Appointment (permission to use the Royal cost of arms on their products) because the Royal Family love Tabasco so much.
Also Britts drink a lot of ginger. Both alcoholic and non alcoholic ginger beer and ginger wine.
They did fuck all with the spices
The British national dish is curry.
Bigotry always goes hand-in-hand with ignorance.
What spice is in every single British savoury recipe?
Having got three wrong answers in a short space of time, the correct answer is pepper. Now guess where pepper grows…
Black Pepper is also in a few sweet dishes. It goes very nicely with strawberries and cream.
Salt. In at least 50% of their savoury dishes
Close, but salt is not a spice.
Are you even British?
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Probably pig blood or boiled yew tree bark but with a posh name.
Bay leaves, maybe?
You know toad in the hole doesn’t have actual toads in?
It’d probably be nicer if it did, tbh. I don’t know how you make a Yorkshire pudding worse, but they did it.
well ain’t you a contrarian
Beans on toast is amazing. With cheese 🤌
I am a Brit though
Get some Hendo’s relish on it as well - meal for for a king.
Worcester Sauce
Look at Mr. fancy-shmancy here with his cheese!
My British friend actually eats beans on toast unironically and I’m curious if anyone’s tried this as well, he says he enjoys it but dislikes the decision making when it comes to actually eating it with bare hands or with a fork and knife
People don’t chat shit about quesadillas, pupusas or burritos, but when the British do beans + starch + tomato + cheese, everyone loses their FUCKING MINDS
Would you eat hummus toast? Hummus is made from beans, so it’s not that different.
what even is the norwegian one? boiled cabbage and meat? it’s like you guys have never heard of lutefisk
Fårikål
Which, to be fair, is boiled cabbage and meat
Ahh yes lutefisk, or how l like to call it slimy ghost fish goop :S
amnamnam goop
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Beans on toast is delish - Aussie
