On the other hand Americans eat like they have free healthcare...
This reminds me of that post
"Is British food really that bad?"
"If made correctly, Yes"
I’m going to be visiting in a few months. Speaking as a foreigner of course, is it British culture to minimize both color and hope in your cuisine?
Don't eat at a JD Wetherspoon, it's basically McPub.
As I said in another comment, British cuisine basically had to be neutered during the wars due to extended rationing. People lived, but long-term damage was made. The best food here isn't British, but British takes on foreign food.
Did they forget to add the spices back in or something?
It changed people's perception of food. They might've thought spices were too strong.
40s and 50s food was simple to make and high in calories, like you're trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse or something. My grandparents didn't experience a lot of the post-war optimism a lot of the world seemed to have because Britain got fucked in a properly long-term way. Being an island that fought to the very end left it in a fairly unique position.
Small history rant over.
Like others have said, the war ‘locked in’ perceptions but there were years of supply shortages and government rationing of foodstuffs afterwards, ending in the early 50s.
Cookbooks were re-written at the time to emphasize economic meals like stews and soups that used a lot of vegetables you can grow in the garden and to use up scraps. Potatoes, leeks, and cabbage grew to feature much more heavily, meat was OUT as was sugar and most fruit… You try working varied and fun meals with those limits
So combined with the more ‘bland’ cuisine of the era and extensive rationing limitations, generations of households got used to cooking and eating the basic foods. Immigration and globalization has broadened the modern offerings, but the British classics’ are undeniably under spiced shades of grey and brown.
English national dish is Chicken Tikka Masala. With a bit of garnish it can look quite colourful.
Lmao I guess when you've subjugated half the world, you can claim any dish as your own.
Chicken Tikka Masala appears to have credibly originated in the UK. It's probably as British as Beef Stroganoff is Russian (okay, looking it up, it looks like the latter may be at least a bit of a myth, but it gets my point across).
British food when it's not presented like shit
Is it always leftovers day or is there a plate shortage?
Why are there always 15 items on the plate with British food?
Deconstructed Sheppards pie
And now it is suddenly fancy enough for the insta crowd.
What is that? Potatoes with a side of stew on a plate?
Nearly - minced beef in gravy with some chopped vegetables thrown in (usually peas and carrots), next to boiled potatoes (that are usually mashed up).
Some parts of the UK have bread and butter as a side with everything.
It is a hearty dinner mind - it's not flashy or instagram-ready, but it is tasty and fills you up.
Rationing lasted until the mid-50s and left a lasting impression on people's diets. It's taken decades to recover socially, mainly with the aid of foreign cuisine.
Indian immigrants are the MVPs 👍
At first, I thought that you declared Indian immigrants as a minimum viable product. After some googling I guess it's meant to be most valuable players. Small but significant difference. 😂
Looks like a lovely bit of scran that does. Yall too obsessed with overdone memes to appreciate a nice bit of comfort food.
Nah I'm just too obcessed with spices and would like to see some used in this meal, especially on those naked potatoes.
You can't actually be sure that stew doesn't have a ton of ground spices in it, because they wouldn't show. The flavor could be so intense you might need the plain potato bites to rest your mouth. (Highly unlikely but possible.) The real crime is the complete lack of anything green on the table. It's like they looked around at the lush greenery all around them and decided to leave it all outside.
But like...
Why aren't the potatoes in the sauce?
That just seems obvious to me 🤷♀️
I know British food tend to be memed as "brown stuff", but this doesn't even look half bad, the lighting makes it look worse than it actually is.
Slap an Instagram filter on it and it will look way better.
The unseasoned boiled potatoes and the untoasted bread are just bland.
The ground beef and carrots in the undefinable brown liquid would be a textural nightmare. I cannot fathom how it tastes because the closest thing in the US would be a sloppy joe.
The real problem with this is lack of technique and seasoning.
Here’s how I would “fix” this: Toast the bread, roast and season the potatoes, make the ground beef and sauce into a something resembling Salisbury steak, and cook the carrots as their own side dish.
Laugh at this ne'er-do-well who can not see the beauty of a plain slice of buttered white bread.
FWIW it wasn't the Germans flying overhead that led to the shitty food and not much of it - it was the Germans in their submersible tin cans that were the big problem.
To all of you saying "this literally looks like poop", "why are they eating boiled vomit", etc, post the last thing you made and I'm sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
It's fucking very obviously a normal ass plate of potatoes and meat stew with carrots. Do the potatoes look a little bland? Maybe, but there's stew to dip it in. Regardless, a well seasoned potato has a good flavor all by itself. The stew looks like every other homemade stew I've ever seen. It's hard to make that shit look "pretty", but I know y'all scarf shit like that down. Get off your high fucking horses. There's plenty of other valid things to complain about with British culture, but making fun of their food is asinine.
“Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine.”
If you get the reference, you have exquisite taste in comedy. Basic Lee is on tonight!!
The yanks seem to be attracted to this meme like somebody desperate to paint a target and distract attention away from themself.
Things are pretty fucked here and what I thought were saner parts of the world seem like they're starting to fall for the same shit. We need distractions.
OK, I come from southern Europe and this will blow some people's minds, but sometimes we have bland food on purpose. Especially after a week of eating grease/spicy foods.
The Aussies would just grab all that and wack it into a shortcut / puff pastry meat and potato pie. Not half bad actually.
Something something "The cuisine and company of the finer sex helped contribute to making the Brits the finest sailors in the world"
To be fair, the Brown Sauce is actually pretty neat. But not in everyones taste tho.
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