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.
post the last thing you made and I’m sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
Exactly, we don’t post photos of what we cook saying it is the best dinner on the planet. Though even that was probably a joke from the OP, and people are joking back. Calm down a little lol.
No their food is fucking trash. And as for that stew, yeah it probably came in a can, but I’ve eaten better stew out of a can than that. This is the kind of food that my dad would make sometimes when I was growing up. 35 fucking years ago. Because it’s what he had growing up, and he has like six older siblings. It’s poor people food. And that’s fine, but that doesn’t make it good. I will say at least it is not jelly eels or some other traditional nonsense British food.
How did you make and apply the brine? I tried it once and the results where despicable.
As a german, it’s really the bread that makes me sad ;) I think the UK gets too much shit for their food though and people should shift the mockery a bit more towards Norway, haha.
If it’s seasoned right that stew is probably absolutely banging. It looks great; good colour, good consistency, and you can tell from the softened edges on the carrots that it’s been cooked low and slow long enough really develop the flavours.
The easiest upgrade to this meal would have been to simply mash the potatoes after boiling them; a little butter and milk, some salt and pepper, and your bland boiled potatoes have magically transformed into something absolutely delicious.
Oh please. That was from about the 1950s. Now it’s just known as Irish cuisine.
Stop moaning yanks. Not everything needs artificial cheese sprayed on it.
by the same token, everything here isn’t degenerate midwestern or Alabama bullshit.
Anyway, how about raw vegetables? This photo is just missing something like a salad, coleslaw, a few radishes, and some sort of sauce for the potatoes (easy cheese obviously).
British Empire conquered the world at one point, and had access to unimaginable variety of spices, herbs, flavors and tastes.
and they still eat nothing but boiled vomit.
- It builds character.
- You were supposed to use more expensive ingredients to make your food “tastier”.
EDIT: I meant all of these sarcastically!😭
The funniest thing about these threads are the yanks trying to convince themselves that dumping an entire spice rack on everything makes it better.
Entire wars were fought for access to spices. If we have cheap access to every spice we could ever want, why not throw a bunch of spices on to make it pop with flavor?
“pop with flavour”
There are only obscure german words to describe the level of gastronomic disgust I have at the phrase.
You would put ketchup on wagyu to make it “pop with flavour”
Serving vegetables boiled and plain is how you end up with a bunch of people who swear they hate vegetables. Spice helps.
Helps having good produce
plain
My brother in Christ, there’s fucking gravy right there. Anything other than a bit of salt and pepper and you’ve gone too far.
The yanks seem to be attracted to this meme like somebody desperate to paint a target and distract attention away from themself.
I saw this video recently where this guy tried every iconic local cuisine from every American state, and I swear to God half of them made me want to throw up.
Americans will act like British cooking its an abomination despite most of them never having even heard of steak and ale pie, or Lancashire hot pot, or Welsh rarebit. Meanwhile they’ll throw fucking marshmallows on a tray of mashed squash and declare it an ancient family recipe.
Funny, but sadly, I’ve seen my best friend sharing these memes (neither from the U.K nor the U.S.).
Since the first time I saw them, I thought they were kind of rude and probably inaccurate as no national cuisine is dull. I googled and read… What seems to have happened is that we’ve normalized British cuisine because it is part of many countries now. We think British dishes are regular dishes. Anyway, I don’t like these memes.
Watched Once Were Warriors last night and the dinner Temuera Morrison has in that is even more bland and basic than any of these memes. So it’s more of classist meme than anything.
Also, I think you’re right about loads of core British dishes just being ubiquitous now. My American colleague told me about the Shepherd’s Pie he made, which apparently came out a bit too rich.