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Jun 8, 2022 10:26 PM
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Bad food, worse weather
TheMonkeyAlliance
English living in California for a decade and flavors are not more abundant here. It's a bit like saying all Americans are fat! Not true ?
DrDownunder
I'm glad the mericans can get some comic relief at the expense of the English. They need a break on this platform
Hoop66
Well *someone's* never had a Bender in a Bun...
originfoomanchu1
That's why we have some of the best chefs in the world is it? I could cook you a whole magnitude of tasty meals this stereotype is false
tygerpsimatrix
Here, have some Mustard.... >:)
chewmungus
Isnt Jamie Oliver British? That guys cooking recipes are amazing. Mmm big british meat balls and his burger recipes are fantastic.
Marworcs
Funny how Gordon Ramsey spends most of his time putting US restaurants right.
SickSickIndividual
Gordon Ramsey is Scottish ya fuckin spoon
Splosions
Wife and I are recovering. Discovered today, while we never lost our taste/smell, the smell of vinegar smells like burning garbage to her
Nexodaedalus
flavour
oddmog
Temptation to send this to my ex-michelin starred mate rising. I mean food IN England isn't necessarily bad but English food?
SpiderTrike2000
You may not like the weather But it ain't on fire, or a dust bowl or monsooned to fuck or earthquaked or in line for a massive volcano
otiumCatulli
It's a little grey but we never have to shovel snow off driveways or scuttle from air conditioning to air conditioning
G74J
Says America that fries everything and covers it all "cheddar" cheese and...... Oh wait. Actually
ToxicToadFrog
Observationsofidiocy
You’ve obviously never had a Gregg’s sausage roll
Raygirl
Or the Greggs VEGAN sausage roll.
enybi
So much better than the meat one, and I'm not a vegetarian or vegan
SP4RT4N360
You guys put cheese in a can, spray chicken with chloride, your food standards are 3rd world at best and you have this level of cheek, stfu
otiumCatulli
Look we had severe rationing for a long time after WW2 and the 70/80s weren't great economically.
ZeRootOfAllEvil
We'll have no back talk from the country that has Spray Tea, Canwich and no kettles.
Harryteeters
ericfrances
Love it, thanks, you are not far from reality!
Marworcs
Funny how Gordon Ramsey spends most of his time putting US restaurants right.
SickSickIndividual
Gordon ramsey is Scottish ya fuckin mouldy welly
Sauroctonus
Aside from the currys that were eaten here so much they became considered a national dish.
phuzz00
Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish.
enybi
Invented in Glasgow, and according to a recent survey, the most eaten dish in the UK
phuzz00
I'd heard it was a brummy invention, Glasgow already gave us the deep-fried Mars bar ;)
enybi
https://www.britannica.com/topic/chicken-tikka-masala most common origin story is Glasgow, although impossible to be 100% sure
DontcallmeLen
We have something like 11 Michelin starred restaurants in and around Birmingham.
Davoguy
Still shit food on average.
Precastbubbles
Have you ever actually tried it?
TheMicktrex
If you can eat a packet of Prawn Cocktail flavour crisps and taste nothing, go to the hospital immediately.
jefffffffffffffffffffffffff
Who the fuck eats hot tomatoes for breakfast
2fligh2high
HaveYouEverEverFletLikeThis
Never had a toasted cheese ham and tomato croissant if you haven't give it a try
Seanspeed
You might think that's bad, but the worst is actually the mushrooms and 'black pudding'.
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Mushrooms are fantastic! That “pudding” is disgusting, lol…
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
“Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary Fucking Poppins: London!”
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One of my all time favorite movies
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Absolutely! I’ve watched it soooo many times, lol!
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This was awesome to:
FloatingOnACloudOfTitties
Wut?
Waaaaghhumbug
realrealluckless
Hey, English food has loads of flavour! ... Just the one. And it is mostly grease.
PimpinKen
Bangers and mash are pretty banging. You can keep your overcooked mushy peas, though
3Davideo
USA: "Write that down! Write that down!"
IWAHALOTMORE
No no, we have more! Salt, vinegar, yeah that’s about it
astrangehop
on a proper dry roast?mmmmm!
realrealluckless
No, salt, vinegar, and grease put together makes a fairly consistent single flavour...
IWAHALOTMORE
British
Randomice
I've had some excellent food in England. May I suggest Porters restaurant, Henrietta street by Convent Garden, London.
CanadaDryGingerMale
I mean Roast Dinners done properly are incredible
Seanspeed
Any reasonable person will tell you there's good English food. But it's still usually plain even compared to like German food.
IWAHALOTMORE
Oh shall I just stroll over to Covent Garden then?
HillOfBeans
Yes, tally ho.
Randomice
It's a nice walk, really.
YouWillNeverFindMe
Spicy food in Norwegian restaurants is at most a medium, even if you ask for extra extra extra extra hot... Once got like 4 slices of
eca05jrc
Scandanavia sucks for spicy things sadly ..in my experience
YouWillNeverFindMe
jalapeños after asking that... So disappointing, every time.
smegmaspread
On a work trip to uk we went out to dinner and I got jalapeño poppers and everyone at the table was like “oh those are too spicy!” A popper!
smegmaspread
I then asked for hot (spicy) bbq sauce for my bbq sandwich and the waitress was like “I can heat it up on the stove for you…”
BonIvermectin
Be the change you want to see in Norway. Time to do some fucked up Norwegian-spicy-Asian/Mexican Fusion.
HillOfBeans
HELL YEAH
SoundFuture
I can see it now... Cabrito and Kimchi Fårikål.
Ghlargh
Do you have a lot of fish flavored food or is that just for tourists in Oslo? I was there for a day trip once and we thought we'd try a ->
ithadtobesaidapparently
Since eating out is rare for most people, restaurant food is hardly representative for any of the food we usually eat.
Ghlargh
-> local hamburger restaurant. They, and i'm not kidding, fried the burgers in fish oil, everything tasted like fish. (it wasn't good).
YouWillNeverFindMe
Never heard of that before, what an odd thing to do... We do have fish burgers here and there, but to fry anything in fish oil... But yeah,
Ghlargh
So probably just a tourist gimmick then, thanks for the info.
YouWillNeverFindMe
totally an Oslo thing to do. I'm sorry you visited the worst city in Norway.
Trelfar
Americans think English food is bland because they are used to everything tasting like corn syrup.
dogwithahumanface
American foods are full of carcinogenic artificial flavors, but they're still flavors. At least we don't boil the taste out of everything.
Precastbubbles
Neither do we? The whole stereotype is because of post war rationing that stayed well into the 50's/60's.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
I was born in the UK. We emigrated to the US when I was 5. Proper english food *is* bland.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
My mom thought salt & pepper was a spice.
weewaawoowoo
But pepper is a spice?
MikeyRayer
Your mom's an idiot
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
Nah, just old school, raised in a different time. She would be the same age as the Queen, if she were still alive.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
My Dad thought, if it didn't include a well-done meat, potatoes, and gravy, it wasn't a proper dinner.
FuckYouTheTruth
It just sounds like your family hates enjoying food
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
Funnily enough, the opposite is true. My Dad loved to eat.
HardyandRamanujan
England has good food now. Well, London at least.
dogwithahumanface
You mean you have brown people that brought their food to England.
enybi
If you're American making that point that's pretty hilarious
Precastbubbles
Agreed. The only American food worth a shit came from its minorities.
raptorlight3000
The famously brown French, Italian and Spanish restaurants that you find everywhere... We are a global country, have been for a while
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Yup. For the most part Londoners are proud to be a multicultural society: we've benefitted hugely & deliciously from immigrant cultures.
Precastbubbles
Its almost like our country was born from invasion, immigration and cultural diversity that spans the world.
SP4RT4N360
Same with Birmingham.
Davoguy
Wrong. Even fancy food there is shit favor. They don't know what seasoning is
SP4RT4N360
Are you another one of those Americans that’s never actually left the country and just relies on stereotypes to understand the world?
HardyandRamanujan
I dunno, London has some of the best Indian food on the planet. Pretty sure I've had some great meals there
Davoguy
Saying Curry tastes good in London is like saying Mexican food tastes good in Boston
HardyandRamanujan
Have you eaten there? Which restos?
raptorlight3000
I believe Birmingham comes out top on independent world curry awards regularly. Really don't know where the hate comes from
Davoguy
Hundreds of years of imperialism? And theft of culture?
HardyandRamanujan
People love to repeat an old joke I guess. I've eaten food in a dozen countries and the best Mexican food I ever had was in Edinburgh
duktayp
3Davideo
I don't understand the tomatoes and the beans, but the rest looks good.
mechanicalmind
That tastes like coronary occlusion. And it's DE-FU*KEN-LICIOUS.
TwoSeamer
Honestly, isn't that mostly salt? I've had good English brekkies, but they're all REALLY salty
baltec1
You had bad breakfasts
TwoSeamer
Could very well be
DemonFluffer1000
Needs more hog anus.
Comet260
The farts would be LEGENDARY.
mechanicalmind
Last time I was in the UK I had one the morning before my flight home. That became...an interesting flight.
isthisusernametakenquestionmark
It's a fried mess with all the wrong textures. Really overrated in my opinion.
casbott
ImpliedConsent
Seems to confirm that the English people's choice of herbs and spices are salt.
kyushutrail
Heart stopper
Ste505
That looks amazing.
HillOfBeans
I’m American. I like everything there except the blood sausage. The beans are unusual in this context but not bad. Hot sauce helps !
N0tice
Baked beans on an english breakfast is standard. Hot sauce is the unusual thing I read here - as a brit
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
The blood sausage actually tastes pretty good. Not gamey
HillOfBeans
I’ve tried it and…that was enough. More for the rest of you!
goodclashpantyhose
What are those black discs? Don’t mind me. I’m an uncultured American, as redundant as that is…
DeejayMalta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
goodclashpantyhose
Seems interesting to say the least. I wanna try it I think?
AnonKneeMoose
Black Pudding, done properly it’s like a heartier sausage. Done wrong it’s burnt chewy mush
Nubbly
Blood pudding!
goodclashpantyhose
Can I get a blood pudding, hold the blood?
smegmaspread
Don’t be scared by The name. It is a bit of a misnomer - there isn’t any actual pudding in it.
Thatsmybacon
A quality comment by smegmaspread.
Seanspeed
Black pudding. It's kinda gross really. Biscuits and gravy are 10x better than this 'English breakfast' bullshit.
goodclashpantyhose
Idk dude. Food is good. I’ll try most any food once
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
Black pudding is a cooked scab. Enjoy.
WeeemRCB
Had both. Not a fan of biscuits n gravy. Too salty and bland in comparison
Nettesheim
Disagree. Biscuits and gravy are terrible. A full English beats it any day. The gravy barely has any flavour at all.
Catumi
Found out long time ago that the bland white country gravy sucks, sausage & black pepper gravy is so much better
Nettesheim
I'll have to give the sausage and black pepper gravy a go. I don't think I've ever tried it.
Sometimesithinkimcanadianbutimnotsorry
Sounds like you had bad biscuits and gravy! Sorry to hear it :) I don't have any hate twords a full English though :)
church1982
100% agree with you. Full English ftw
Seanspeed
English people think this is so amazing, and it's honestly just a mess of underwhelming shit put together.
notreallyaclevername
I live in the US and I've never had a more satisfying breakfast than a full English breakfast
Sauroctonus
No, I think it looks shite.
SonderingStrike
Shame you've never had a good one, which honestly is most of them. Even the worst full English I've had is better than the shit I got in USA
BigRobbo
A fry up was for me a great hangover cure.
TwoSeamer
And salt. LOTS of it
Reofrax
Ive been to London once, visiting from Norway, ordered this at this place my step dad took me to. Nothing was seasoned, all bland and soggy
WienerFart
Bland, served with bland, and a bit of bland on the side
WienerFart
I love that this comment keeps going from positive to negative. Sorry England,but of the 3 countries I've been to, your food ranks the worst
WienerFart
South Korea #1, US #2, England #3
BigRobbo
No need to apologise. we do actually have good food. its served in Itallian restaurants
Roobix3
Someone say the line to put this american back in their place.
Woofbloodywoof
Which one? The one where I won't get shot while eating this or the one where if it blocks my arteries it's free to get it fixed?
Roobix3
;) you cheeky boi
Soufange
Gotta be done proper. A bit of salt and pepper will bring the full flavor out of those veggies, parsley n such on the potatoes, so long as-
Soufange
-all the different meats have different flavor profiles it's solid. The beans are sweet, and I wouldn't season the eggs, unless scrambled.
Soufange
My coin is which jam is going on that toast ???