British food is still made either like the Luftwaffe is flying overhead or we are celebrating the fact that the war is over and we can cook with butter and oil again. There’s nothing in-between.
We’d hope y’all could come up with something better than deep-fried butter tho
Have you smoked a spotted dick?
I think the problem is that after the Second World War, Britain’s economy was so shot to hell that folks had to keep eating like the Luftwaffe was still blitzing London. That kept going on long enough to introduce generational trauma into British cuisine.
That’s how traditions are born.
folks had to keep eating like the Luftwaffe was still blitzing London
To be more precise, they had to keep eating like the Kriegsmarine’s U-bootwaffe was still sinking the ships with the 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.
Go back far enough, and you uncover dishes with wonderful names like Farts of Portingale.
well america has shit on a shingle
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Chicken Tikka Masala. Nuff said.
Mostly a stereotype perpetuated by cheap or hastily found dining places.
When you get fish and chips from a good place that handles fresh catches, there is considerable flavour, yet buy from the fast food place in the middle of a high street and you’ll get a soggy representation from the frozen cod.
Same situation with a good roast, or a cottage/shepherds pie, or pie and mash that isn’t just a casserole with a hat, etc.Honestly I’ve stepped foot in 39 US States so far, and it’s a similar thing there. I just think the “British food bad” thing has stuck as humour, there’s plenty of theories about it I won’t get into but it’s just a thing I suppose.
Say what you will about British food, but a full English breakfast is the best thing after night out drinking.
So every morning then
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.
(trivia: a Shepard’s pie with beef is technically called a “cottage” pie!)
Good to know!
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.
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.
I can confirm that no “Brit” uses a semicolon like that. We’re not barbarians.
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I’m not a Brit (not even a native speaker), but it bothers me too.
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)
Aww, hamlet AGAIN?! I thought we could have village tonight.
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I had bangers and mash once because a family member made it. It was super good. She told me she couldn’t get proper bangers and had to substitute with some other sausage. (Don’t remember which) I presume that if she used proper bangers it would have been gross.
Stargazy pie is pretty good.
Oh good lord. I looked it up:
Stargazy pie (also starry-gazy pie, starry-gaze pie)[1] is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations using other types of fish, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so that they appear to be gazing to the stars.
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I sometimes wonder after the unusually high number of “British people try X food for the first time and are blown away” videos.
Then I started watching Great British Bake-Off, and it’s clear there’s some damn good food somewhere over there. The number of times I’ve envied Sue Perkins her taste testing job is extreme.
Going out to eat is eating some other ethic or nationality’s food.
