Thoughts on British food?

I'll defend shepherd's pie, that shit slaps on a chilly day (cw: animal products)
- I'm 100% with you. The potatoes alone are enough of a selling point for me.
  
  I make these with venison and freeze most of them for later, and they're so good cheap and easy
- Another br*tish dish with a texture that ranges from "wet smooth" to "wet lumpy".
  
  Sometimes I want wet lumpy!

They live on an island and and specialize in not eating seafood. Miserable little swamp
- Fish and chips is a national dish.
  Fish pie is very common.
  What are you on about?

Fish and chips, mushy peas and shepherds pie slap
- Greeks do fish and chips much better
  
  We didn’t have Brexit so other places could do better fish and chips.
  Edit; changed a word so it make sense.

Oi m8 you raggin' on stargazy pie and jellied eels?

I don’t think anyone American is in a position to comment on people’s food either.
- Indigenous Americans got the best dishes. Honey roasted acorn squash, manoominini (wild rice fritters), succotash.
  
  I’ve never had indigenous American food, if I see somewhere doing it, I’ll try it.
- I'm conflicted on this in that most of our foods, like most American culture, are largely imported from other countries by the people who came here (when they're not products of the great depression or whatever)
  Things've kind of gone in their own direction since the early days, but at the end of the day a lot of what we do is inherited behavior from our various precursors. Bit of a recurring theme with the US.
- Bougie moneybags over here with real sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.
- Come get some BBQ or a cheesesteak or eggs Benedict or literally one of the thousand local delicacies across the states.
  
  Sorry, your food has too many chemicals and too much sugar for my liking.

When I found out that British baked beans are in some kind of thin soupy tomato sauce rather than the delicious barbeque brown sugar sauce of American baked beans the hate towards British food made a lot more sense to me. Why do they put that shit in everything
- Buy Heinz or Branstons or similar. You’ll learn.
- Its only thin if you buy the really cheap stuff.
  The BBQ brown sugar beans is depressing.
- brown sugar baked beans are repulsively sweet
- I hate the brown sugar baked bean sauce with a passion. Molasses sucks
- SO TRUE

Missing Ulysses rn

Like 10 years ago when i was a total lib and would listen to npr, I heard a food historian talk about how prohibition movement in the US destroyed the national culinary traditions and began the pivot into adults eating children's food. What I remember from it was, usa used to have respectable cuisine, prohibition destroyed normal restaurants, cant get that alcohol mark up any more- so there was never a time in us history where so many restaurants closed and so many new ones opened. All the new ones were 'family' restaurants, cause no one could sell booze, but they have food specifically for your kid now and thus began the introduction of bland, soft, sweet foods onto menus across n. America. It obviously took over and now tons of Americans eat a diet similar to what an 8 year old with sensory issues would prefer. No idea how the british fucked it up so bad though.
- That, plus war associated rationing and economic decline in the context of increasing mass produced (bland) food

when i had an exchange to this forsaken place i got Baked beans , Chips and a quarter Pizza , all in one soupbowl..

Pretty bleak sometimes, but I'd like to try some. I do like shepherds pies, and those full english breakfast spreads look great. I was hoping to grab some Cornish Pasties if I ever made that trip to Michigan's upper peninsula happen. (They gained regional popularity as a result of miners immigrating from Cornwall in the mid-1800s)

I'll be honest, their Chinese takeout looks pretty good. And I do eat some of their food, like fish and chips. If the "jacketed potatoes" are what I think they are, then that's a staple for sure. A bunch of dishes I eat probably came from Britain without me knowing

i'd say the average level of cooking ability being rock bottom in the uk is more of an issue than the food itself. british food can be incredible when it's actually cooked well
my parents can't cook for shit so the only culinary education i got was six months in year 8, where we maybe cooked six or seven things. i probably got six more months of education on the matter than most people though

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I will say that one of my favorite foods is salted tomatoes on toast, though that’s not even real British I don’t think.
- Oh, a popular great depression-era food in the 'states was tomato mayo sandwiches. My grandma remains a big fan of them.
  
  I put butter on the bread because I hate mayo
- Throw a slice of fried up Spam in between those. Not the most balanced flavor/texture profile, but tasty.
  
  I do that sometimes! Bacon too if it’s on sale.

Britain tends to excel at baking. Their pies (savory or otherwise), beef wellington, and scones are all tasty. Sausage is generally done better elsewhere, though. Not even disrespecting bangers and the like, I just think the Slavs, Germans, and Latin countries do better.

- It's purported to be a Br*tish food joint in India

That’s not British poo. Beans and mash would not support self-standing, solid turds

Shit and chips. YUM!
- second harvest, yim yum for my tim yum.

Deep fried haggis pizza doesn't taste as bad as it should do.
Sausage rolls are great snacks.
Toad in the hole is a great way to use leftovers, especially with a nice onion gravy. Crisp sandwiches are the ultimate comfort food.
Most British food is pretty good tbh, the only problem is most Brits don't know how to cook.

I think across the board WASPs just can’t cook. The US also has infamous disgusting slop food made by middle-class white suburbanites. Hell, in the US we’re somewhat famous because here even the rich eat garbage, dress like garbage, and enjoy garbage. Us poors do so by necessity, but they do it by choice (AND anything even remotely worth a damn is prohibitively expensive to boot!)
- I remember a theory that prominent southern families lacked cooking skills and cooking traditions because it was a task done by slaves, and so post emancipation they could afford good ingredients but have terrible technique. But as wealthy white folk they maintained status and influence (and could afford more children)
  Colonel Sanders' family was working class so they never had slaves, and so it was a groundbreaking innovation that a white man with white staff had food with herbs and spices in it.

I'd rather eat literal shit than anything made by an Anglo barbarian
spoken like a philistine that never enjoyed such delicacy as SMACK BARM PEA WET

their average pizza is somehow the worst I've ever had. full english breakfast is good but the irish do it better
- What's an average British pizza? Domino's is by far the biggest seller in the UK, followed by Pizza Hut and Papa John's. I would agree that american pizza is shit tier - especially from chains like these - but why would it be any worse than anywhere else?
  
  when I was there I had pizza from a few non-american chains and some tasted funny like the cheese was weird and the sauce was sweet or something. it was a while ago and I guess I expected better than the shit-tier that's commonly available in florida

Those look like double battered and deep fried mice.

Scones and hot cross buns? It's a short list

I like Jacketed Potatoes, but you gotta go to a store that has the British version of Heinz beans with tomato sauce.
Always like Fish n Chips too, but I've probably never had proper Fish.
- Innit?

Chevapchichi? Isn't this Coratian?

It's mostly very bland and black pepper is spicy to the anglo pallete so it almost certainly lacks spice.

I don't think about it.

The best British food comes from other cultures of their colonial times. Also popular among the working class, bread with fries. They suck at food and only have very few good dishes. Shepherds pie (more Scottish) and beef Wellington.