British Food: Classic or Dud (S&D too)

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I'm pretty sure that even if I hired a Chinese person to pour the boiling water into a Chinese Chow Mein Pot Noodle, it'd be as far away from Chinese cuisine as the Home Counties are anyway.

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I'm pretty sure that even if I hired a Chinese person to pour the boiling water into a Chinese Chow Mein Pot Noodle, it'd be as far away from Chinese cuisine as the Home Counties are anyway.

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the important thing is that a chinese person is getting paid

And following on from the 'Christmas Tinner' upthread, 'Pot Noeldle':
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flashback to the cover of royal trux' sweet sixteen with that last pic

https://theoutline.com/post/8586/why-is-british-food-so-bad

A poor article with a largely unconvincing rationale imo

'Why people think British food is bad' is probably what I really want

British cheeses are excellent on the whole. So are Dutch cheeses, another country the article picks on.

I think British food is better than German food on the whole. Pies are excellent.

Is offal eaten commonly in Britain these days? when French people go to restaurants I find they're much more fond of offal than the impression I'd had, from French/"continental" restaurants elsewhere, before moving here.

was basically onboard with the article until it started with the amateur psychology theory, then quit.

the problem (if it is a problem) is not that "british food is bad" it's that most British people do not really care about / love food the way they care about / love music, tv, films, etc. there was a good bit in kate fox's "watching the english" about us having a concept of "a foodie" which has a hint of moral degeneracy to it, and is an alien concept to other cultures.

xp vast majority of british people won't eat mussels, let alone offal, ime

Jacques Chirac reportedly had this to say about British cuisine whilst dining with Tony Blair: 'La cuisine anglaise, au début, on croit que c’est de la merde et après, on regrette que ça n’en soit pas.' Roughly translated: 'English cuisine: at first you think it's shit then you regret that it isn't.'

"I wish I was eating shit" is this a zing i cannot tell

Basically: 'this is so gross I wish I was eating shit right now'.

Pretty sure the British didn't invent rhubarb or strawberries, as that article claims. Agree that most people in the UK don't really care about food; price, convenience and familiarity are the priorities.
My spurious proof: the prevalence of motorway service stations: few car journeys in the UK last more than a few hours, yet we have loads of these places, all full of people buying bad food.

was in the Co-op this morning and an able bodied and most probably not suffering from financial hardship middle aged English looking man was in the queue in front of me. In his basket he had the Daily Mail, a stack of about 3 or 4 refrigerated readymeals and a bag of frozen chips from what I could see.

highway cuisine in the UK is so so so many leagues behind motorway cuisine in, say, France. like, ridiculously so.

My favorite british foods: scotch eggs, fish and chips, black pudding, marmite. Jelly babies.

I just asked someone to bring me back two big squeezes of marmite from a trip to london. He got one for himself thinking it must be amazing since it was all I asked for. He tried it, was like WTF, and gave it to me. Yah!

and trifle. I will eat the shit out of trifle. I don't understand why that isn't everywhere all the time.

that is an excellent selection imo mb ive no idea what marmite tastes like so reserve judgement

Had a big discussion about Scotch eggs in work today, googled to find out they were invented in Whitby in the late 19th century and are really scotch(ed) eggs.

I have never been to a country where the milk and cream tastes as rich and delicately sweet as it does in the UK.

I was in heaven when i saw black pudding scotch eggs.

I tried to make scotch eggs once when I went to a "stuffed or wrapped meat" potluck party in colorado. The deepfryer couldn't handle it. And I think I overcooked the eggs before packing the sausage around it. But I also brought a pinata that I put slim jims in.

The discussion at work was started by a colleague wanting to know whether it would be OK to eat a scotch egg that was 5 days past its sell-by date. I think it's fair to say she hungry.

Scotch eggs are so foul, they are the balls of corruption with added layers of venality of foul smelling lunchbox snacks!

I like plenty of british food but not scotch eggs or trifle, which has been spoiled for me forever by the soggy biscuit things at the bottom

i once ordered a scotch egg at a pub in ny. They served it already cut up and on a salad.

I just asked someone to bring me back two big squeezes of marmite from a trip to london.

The idea of squeezable Marmite freaks me out, rather. I'm not sure whether my tastebuds have changed or our houses have got warmer, but I'm sure when I was a child, when it came in a jar with an enamel lid, Marmite had a much stronger flavour and was generally STIFFER.

One thing with Marmite in jars is if you get it around the inner rim of the lid, it turns into superglue

otm. the squeeze is so much cleaner to use. and it's a lot lighter to put in luggage. I have had to get one on amazon that comes in a tub? (600g). and those are kind of weird.

I try to stick to glass vessels for these things now tho, to avoid wrath of greta

not that i'm suggesting anyone overseas be denied squeezy imports

actually bought my first ever squeezy marmite yesterday, will report back on the consistency.

i am surprised marmite isn't more prevalent in the US. Especially with more people not eating meat and it having a lot of B12.

yeah, the plastic is bad but at least it weighs less for shipments/carbon footprint. It's the same way with wine bottles. The alternatives to glass suck in a lot of ways but it's better for shipping weight.

you've just got to make sure any small trailing stalagmites of marmite are not dangling off the spoon/knife when you move it away from the jar, it took me a lifetime to learn this skill. But considering I use more in sauces/gravies than on toast these days I'm up for squeezy marmite!

He tried it, was like WTF, and gave it to me. Yah!

i thought everyone liked marmite?

place i was working a couple of years ago had a jar of marmite in the cupboard that went off in 2004.

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xpost. For some unknown reason he thought it was going to be sweet, so I guess it was a bad shock. He is also from ecuador.

I think British food is better than German food on the whole.

My thoughts exactly. Really not saying much.

in fairness to britain, white people food in north america is trash also.

and british food includes british indian cuisine which is great

i wish there were more indian fast food/fast casual places in the US.

yeah, indian food is good here, and people seem permitted to be enthusiastic about it without any stupid hedging filter of health/class/tradition, there might be a good sociological essay in this somewhere.

i like tons of brit food by default bc a lot of it is part of Australian food culture (obv).

gimme all that fried dough & assorted meats encased in pastry *chef’s kiss*

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jan/23/taking-the-hake-nottingham-chippy-voted-best-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

i refuse to believe this chippy is better than my local one that is run by a master chef who used to the personal chef of Prince Andrew... but still lots of the old boys who go in there are always telling him there aren't chippies as good as his even in Scarborough or Whitby .. and that is a big compliment. Well apparently it is though - i've not been to either places in decades!

"The Cod’s Scallops"

wtf - fuck off hipsters!

our two local chippies are awful, not sure if there is a decent one in Cambridge at all, nearest good one I know is in Ely

most chippies are bad ime.

whereas a good chippy is sublime. my favourites I've ever been to are the Anstruther Fish Bar (in Anstruther, Fife, prosaically enough) and Colman's in South Shields are the best i've been to