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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Is that a block of butter or frozen mashed potatoes, I can't tell

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[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I never understood the manufactured cuisine hate, in all honesty. Americans would melt upon trying English mustard.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

It's because British people are just awful england-cool qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah, most of my cuisine hate stems from a yearning to bully anglos.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

I feel like it's just classism

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I think if anything Americans associate British people with wealth. I can't speak for anyone else but it genuinely looks very unappetizing to me in a way that most other country's cuisines (that I'm aware of/have been exposed to at least) don't.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 days ago

To me, apart from the mystery yellow cube, it doesn't look too bad

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We know what brown mustard is in the states, lol.

Edit: well, I do at least, but im sure most USians just buy French’s Yellow and call it a day.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

I think they're referring to Colman's mustard, which has a heat kinda like wasabi paste.

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah which is delicious! Mellow flavors aren’t really my thing, Gimmie a punch in the mouth flavor bomb.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

Most of the time i enjoy complex flavours, all lingering together. Other times i want one thing to absolutely annihilate my tastebuds.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

get the powdered stuff and put it in ur beans soup

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

Goes great in gravy too

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, the good stuff. Colman’s is everywhere in the US. It’s just usually used as a “cooking mustard” instead of a condiment. Popular, but not the most popular. Probably a victim of the variety obsession here.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

Grew uo with Keen's, which is similar but not identical. Used to have multiple bottles on the table during family dinners.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

there's been a big spike here in the states over the last decade where people have become massively invested in the visual "presentation" of food and it's sharing on social media.

my read is that some take photos of somewhat half-assed meals to poke fun at that trend, or be ironic. because I'll be honest, when I am making something just for myself and cutting a few corners, I don't care how it looks.

I find these sorts of pics funny as hell and appreciate them more than the curated "elevated" ones shared in the unironic foodie genre.

I also don't know exactly what any of that stuff is, but I would totally, excitedly eat all of it so long as it was warm and didn't smell like diarrhea on two turds next to a block of off cheese.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

Maybe it's the most overcooked rice in history?

Eat your contiguous mass of food., kleeon.

[-] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

that looks great for something made in britain

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

I think it's an undercooked bread roll

ngl I'd eat this but it ain't cuisine, it's going back at 2am for more leftovers, and that's just never a pretty sight

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

It's sausage, gravy and mashed potatoes just prepared badly. But you can prepare anything badly, it doesn't speak for or against the food.

What does, however, is if it is correct nicely, correctly and still sucks ass.

Like jellied eel (CW: eel, dead)

Albeit that's largely fallen out of favour.

[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Something uniquely perverse about putting the sauce only on the sausages and none on the block of mash.

Makes it look like you want them to look like turds.

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

cw for corpse please

[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

chewsday innit

[-] Future_Honkey@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

Bonus points for the random voting-aged plastic plate.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

Is this the so-called "Bangers and Mash?"

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

someone did a diarrhea on my poops 😡

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

bangers and mash, philistines

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's clearly mash from a takeaway container.

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

It looks like fufu and very overcooked sausages.

[-] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Could be block of cheese too

[-] CommCat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

It looks like West African cuisine with fufu

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