• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    49 分钟前

    This is what Japanese people eat for breakfast, it’s basically their version of beans on toast called Natto:

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    41 分钟前

    Tldr tropical areas have more food sources than not tropical areas and coincidentally the cuisine from those areas is more vibrant.

  • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    27 分钟前

    I’m not a football fan myself, but that did just make me think of this image.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      51 分钟前

      And the comparison doesn’t even make sense. Like British beans on toast is low effort breakfast food that people make at home. Japanese people rarely make sushi at home. A better comparison would be Natto.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        1 小时前

        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.

        • pirc_lover@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          1 小时前

          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.

    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      57 分钟前

      You’re right it’s just that some are more vibrant and contrasting to others. Like for instance if one is living in a jungle there’s just going to be more sources of food than in an area in the arctic or tundra. Like traditional Mongolian cuisine is going to contrast from somewhere tropical like Vietnam or Indonesia. I think that’s the big take away here.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        54 分钟前

        Yeah. I don’t think the meme is just about “vibrancy” or “contrast though”. Miku looks depressed in the last panel, and the food is a negative stereotype.

        • Zephyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          37 分钟前

          I guess when I’m saying vibrant I also mean in taste. Like certain areas just have more going on food wise and some areas trend more toward brown food, brown taste. Obviously now we have global society so you can find sushi in the Sahara but what the general population generally eats is definitely contrasting in flavors from one region to another. I can say pretty comfortably that Nigerian food is simply more flavorful than kenyan cuisine in most circumstances.

          • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            16 分钟前

            So some food is more flavourful than others, hence some cuisines will be more flavourful than others. But I don’t actually want every dish I eat to be very flavourful, because that in itself becomes boring. So where it becomes problematic is when people pretend that being less flavourful means being bad or boring, and that being on average less flavourful means always less flavourful.

            Baked beans, even though they’re brown, from a can, and pretty mushy, are packed with flavour: the sauce is made with tomatoes (acid! sugar!), enhanced with vinegar (more acid!) and brown sugar(!) and a load of garlic and onion powder (aromatics!) and pepper (spicy heat!) are dumped in there. Beneath it all is a bit of Worcester (or similar) sauce, which is a fermented fish (salt! umami!) sauce containing more spices. All that in a can of goop that you heat up in the microwave as a student.

            This is lazy stereotyping.

  • originaltnavn@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    4 小时前

    British food is thoroughly underrated. Who could say no to even a small part of a full english breakfast?

    • Zyratoxx@fedia.io
      2·
      2 小时前

      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)

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      3 小时前

      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).

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 小时前

        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.

        • pirc_lover@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          58 分钟前

          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

        • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 小时前

          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.

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        56 分钟前

        It means something different in America.

        The British one (sausage baked into Yorkshire pudding) is fantastic.

        The American one (a piece of fried bread with an egg in the middle) is pretty sad.

    • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      4 小时前

      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.

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 小时前

        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.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        3 小时前

        They did fuck all with the spices

        The British national dish is curry.

        Bigotry always goes hand-in-hand with ignorance.

        • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
          2·
          28 分钟前

          The Brits are like the OG Big Daddies of spreading bigotry across the world, its ok to give it back, they are severely in bigotry debt.

      • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 小时前

        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…

  • recursive_recursion@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    4 小时前

    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

    • pirc_lover@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 小时前

      People don’t chat shit about quesadillas, pupusas or burritos, but when the British do beans + starch + tomato + cheese, everyone loses their FUCKING MINDS

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      58 分钟前

      I’m not British and I like beans on toast. Sure it ain’t haut cuisine. But it’s decent low effort breakfast food. And you don’t have to eat it bland. You can add black pepper, tabasco or chili sauce, herbs or whatever. English breakfast is pretty good if you spice it up.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    23·
    6 小时前

    what even is the norwegian one? boiled cabbage and meat? it’s like you guys have never heard of lutefisk

      • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        43 分钟前

        If its slimy, you’re cooking it wrong. Heavily salt it and bake it in the oven to draw the liquid out. It should only smell like dick cheese (kukost) before cooking. Afterwards it should smell and taste like slightly caustic fish and be barely palatable if you have it with mashed potato, bacon bits, and mushy peas and wash it down with strong astringent alcoholic drink. It’s pretty rank but by no means the worst Nordic dish. A dubious honour that probably goes to Greenland’s kiviak.