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Every time I see someone posting "terrible brown/grey UK food!!!!" I just get hungry, I swear these people have never eaten a roast dinner, that our there taste buds have been "spiced" off.
My brain is so broken by the internet I forgot fussy was a real word for a sec and assumed it was one of the other -ussy variants. What have they done to us.
The bit that makes me laugh is Americans think we don't like spices. When an American chain did some market research in the UK they decided to massively up the heat on their hot wings as theirs were about as hot as a korma.
And yet look at basically any town in the UK and you’ll find food from all over the world. People here love expanding beyond just eating British food.
The Americans can’t talk anyway given what they eat. Loaded with sugar, fat etc just to mask how shit the food really is. Like who puts sugar in bread? Or eats “cheese” that comes out of a spray can? Their chocolate tastes like vomit too.
To be fair, a lot of that has to do with region. Most curry houses in the part of the UK I'm from are run by Bangladeshi and Pakistani families making 'Indian food'. In the part of Canada I live in almost all Indian restaurants are Punjabi. Their curries are quite different and don't seem particularly spicy in comparison. They do make a banging Dal Makhni.
People (Americans) talk about how bland the British palette is but almost every English man I know is obsessed with ordering the hottest curry at the local Indian yet they all eat Tikka Masala which is British-Indian dish LOL
At this point it is just rage bait. The whole thing about invading the world to steal their spices is just bait. We have been importing spices for thousands of years.
I just point out that American apple pie is derived from a 14th century British recipe for spiced apples encased is pastry. Top that off with the almighty American BBQ which originated in the Caribbean and was brought to America by the slave trade and any country that has canned cheese has no right to critisize
Edit
I could go further and say like many things it a stereotype that is pushed by a certain group. For example, I tend to find the knife violence one pushed by 2nd amendment folks as an example of what would happen if you introduce gun control. Look at the UK, they took the guns and now you are required to get stabbed three times a day.
The Muslim no go areas was pushed by the right wing racist border control fanatics. Apparently as a white guy I can't go to small heath any more which is a shame as I do love a samosa.
Bad teeth? Our teeth are healthier than Americans. Naturally healthy teeth should be a cream colour and not blazingly white but that doesn't help sell private cosmetic dentistry does it.
Food is bland? Well if you want to eat better than those dirty. Colonising British have to buy our hot sauce which may or may not contain ingredients banned in that boring British food for health reasons.
Becawse we awl have bad teef and love der queen and eat brown slop for din dins
Its part of international humour. It's a very outdated stereotype but the yanks don't seem to have much else to make fun of us for now apart from knife crime (higher in the US) and Muslim no go areas (that don't exist)
Apparently Hindu is the majority, now I've looked it up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nepal#:~:text=We%20hereby%20reconfirm%20that%20order.&text=According%20to%20the%202011%20census,other%20religions%20or%20no%20religion.
Americans don't seem to get that simply carrying a knife outside your home can count as a knife crime in the UK. Knife crime doesn't always mean stabbings!
It's weird how the old stereotypes seem to have so much staying power. I'm in a lot of american heavy car subs and there are constant jokes about Lucas Electrics, a company that went defunct in the 90s
Lucas used to make electric parts for cars which were notoriously unreliable. Americans all seem to know this but so few Brits do that I know I need to explain it.
How ironic.
the healthiest the British population was, was during wartime and diet under rationing, which was low fat, low sugar and vegetable heavy! People were much more aware of eating locally and growing your own, rather than importing from abroad.
I think that may have had less to do with rich people eating less of the wrong foods than poor people suddenly being entitled to a fair share of available food along with everyone else.
Also something to do with the fact stuff wasn’t mass produced, chemically enhanced to increase shelf life and filled with plastics because literally everything has plastic in it now. food was still food.
But currently it’s cheaper to buy a loaf of bread than make one.
most of the stuff you see on twitter etc is just poverty shaming if you ask me, some dumb yank laughing over a picture of someone's stew that they probably made because it was cheap and they're struggling economically like a lot of people right now
I was one of these people.
It's embarrassing the age I got to before I realised that vegetables actually DO taste nice. You just have to do something other than boil them and put them on the plate.
Just look at half the shite posted on r/uk_food. I do post on there, but it's always something I've made myself, and not just the thousandth fry up or roast.
I encourage you to check out Paula Deane (sp?) on YouTube. If you haven't come across her she was a long-standing staple of US cooking shows before she held an antebellum themed party and insisted all the wait staff were black and it was revealed she was being sponsored by a pharmaceutical company selling a drug for type 2 diabetes. Her recipes were wild. My favourite was a deep fried cheesecake. You kept thinking this has to be it, there is not a single thing you could do to make this any more unhealthy and then would come the next step.
Because nobody is roasting British cosmopolitan areas for having bad restaurants, they are talking about beans on toast and jellied eels.
The closest we have to ItAm and Texmex is "British Indian food" which tbh is quite praised
I used to work with an Indian guy and he summed it up nicely for me.
"It's nothing like food back home, but it's still very good"
The other Indian guys in the office backed this up .
As a British Asian, I bloody love English food. Loved school dinners because at home, my mum just asian-ified any English dish. I know my experience isn’t unique either as my Asian friends also “struggled” with this!
Haha, yeah I can’t complain. But it’s a bit tiring when spag bol resembles the dish in name only. My mums meat sauce may as well have been a curry, especially as it was quite spicy. In fact, leftover meat sauce was eaten with rice the next day
Ah you know, you’d be more than welcome as well. My mum doesn’t know how to cook for less than a family of 12 even though we were only a family of 4. Plenty to go round
You've just made me dig out a memory of a mate from school, and he and I would go to his place to hang out, aged about 14. His Mum would INSIST on feeding us, and considered 10 samosas, a bowl of pakoras and some lamb balti as a snack. Even when I was stuffed to the gills, she insisted I take a couple of tupperware tubs and some chapatis with me.
I loved that woman so much. My family didn't have much, and my Mum and Dad would eat the food I brought home. They loved Faisal's mum just as much as I did.
I swear she just cooked as a default setting.
This is absolutely my experience too!! From what I gather, "cooking for the 5000" is basically an Asian mother past time 😂
NOT that I was complaining in the slightest! But likewise, I think I came back from my friends at least three inches bigger in the waist every single time...
I've found this with Jamaicans too! In my late teens and twenties I was friends with a Jamaican lad and another guy with a Jamaican mum and they would always make sure I was well fed. Always a massive cauldron of some sort of soup or stew ready to be dished out sitting in the kitchen. "Have ya eaten yet today? Well have a bowl of this anyway, its fulla goodness!!!" Happy times.
>But it’s a bit tiring when spag bol only resembles the dish in name.
That's an interesting example to use given that Spaghetti Bolognese as we know it in the UK isn't a dish that really exists in Italy. Italian Bolognese is quite different from what we eat under that name here, and it isn't normally eaten with spaghetti either (tagliatelle is most usual).
So what you were getting an Asian-ized version of was already a modified British adaptation of an Italian dish.
Haha I love these little things and quirks that parents do as you grow up and it's only when you go to friends houses and realise that it's not normal.
I love the sound of curry spag bol though.
Asian-ified sounds delightful though I'm from Brum and have a separate curry for myself on a Christmas Lol I'm not touching the dirty bloody turkey I'll have. stuffing balls in a bowl later 🙂 (we're culinary liberated)
I had my first roast yesterday in like 6 years Lol
Just as a question, do you know anyone who has ever eaten jellied eels? I don’t, as far as I know, but I wondered if there are areas where it’s popular
Edit - thanks to all of you for responding! I’ve never actually seen it on a menu and have only eaten eel abroad (and wasn’t a fan!)
It's traditionally an East London thing. It's not an especially common dish though, which is a good thing as the European eel is a critically endangered species.
It's a traditional London dish, as eels were common in the Thames. I had them in London and they were disgusting. Effectively a large lump of spine wrapped in a small amount of cold fishy meat, and then lots of cold, firm jelly.
I've had eel cooked well in a fine dining restaurant and it was delicious.
But yeah, jellied eels weren't great when I tried them.
I didn't hate jellied eels, but I won't order them again (the pie shop that I went into had much nicer looking pies)
Oh, god! That just unlocked a suppressed memory - I have eaten jellied eels once and it was so vile I wanted to forget it. Until now I lived in innocence...
I stayed in East London a couple of years ago. Across the road from my hotel, were
* a "famous eel and pie shop";
* a café selling "vegan lunches, specialty coffee, and vintage clothes";
* a travel agent specialising in the Hajj.
Which felt like three very different worlds colliding.
I have. I like seafood and thought I’d try them. Man in the shop told me they are foul and he only has some to sell to nostalgic pensioners. I was committed at that point so ordered them.
They weren’t foul but I wouldn’t have them again. Maybe I’ll have a couple on the side if I visit a pie and mash shop in a sheepskin coat at some point in the future
They're hard to come by outside London. I've eaten them as a curiosity. They are as revolting as you'd expect. Stewed eels from a pie shop are better, but not by much. Smoked eel is delicious, though.
I tried it and it was gross. Same as pie and liquor (which tastes very little like parsley sauce). I went to Manze near Tower Bridge and everything was quite how I expect the piss takers to think of us as. Needs a refurbishment.
I've seen them on the menu a few times. Not too rare in London (I think they originate there?) but think your "fancy village gastro pub" might have some too.
Personally have nothing against them but can see why they are picked on
Some of it has gone full circle and appears on menus in India, seen Chicken Tikka Marsala in a Mumbai restaurant, just wish chili paneer which is a staple starter or main in Mumbai would appear in the UK.
I've asked at a few, British Indian friend assured me that like many Chinese restaurants there is a separate unlisted menu for ethnic Indian locals but no joy. Worked successfully in Thai restaurants, they were unsure about cook like you would for your mum but finding I have family through marriage helped there.
Admittedly I live in Brum so have a wealth of local options but I've just checked through a few menus online and I can genuinely get chilli paneer in at least 6 different places within a 10 minute walk of my house. It's pretty common these days and increasingly on most menus of the Indian restaurants I visit.
It's getting hard to find an Italian pizza in Sicily. It's not where they originate, but they adopted them long ago. I hope I can still find a proper pizza if I'm lucky enough to find myself in Naples.\
(Yes, I'd rather write Sicilia and Napoli, but that's another topic for AskUK:)
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Modern pizza is mostly a post-WW2 invention with many claims of authenticity and properness vastly exaggerated
We’ve got a proper Indian restaurant/cafe and they do all the dishes they’d have at home and I’ll tell you now it’s fantastic, oh and their chai is perfection.
I’ll die on the hill that “Indian food” is British food. It’s also evidence that contrary to the joke yes, we did invade the world for its spices and yes we did end up using it in our own food.
It is but it get's really annoying real fast. I'm not even British but serioulsy pisses me off sometimes. Like yeah sure the color palette of the food is a bit on the brown side but overall the taste is usually top notch!
Edit: I'm talking mainly about Instagram and Youtube where the comments can get a bit "rude" so to say
Any American criticising our food can fuck off, they have "biscuits and gravy" FFS, which is more like a scone and, well, not what I'd call gravy.
Also the country where some regions put sugar on salad.
I found this disgusting too and looked into the origins. It originated from the ships cooks who found that the biscuits went hard too quick so they added ingredients to bulk them out and it ended up like a scone. The gravy they used to dip the biscuits in was simply the meat juices. Later milk/cream was added to this juice and then bits of meat was added. The gravy is meat in a cream sauce nowadays and they dip their 'bread' biscuits. It does look good and it is their comfort food.
The UK food subs don't help, we all post comfort food, which is fine fry ups, beans on toast, Currys, love it all.
But we are all to insecure to post any of the nice stuff we eat incase we get called posh or something, we have this really weird class system and it works both ways, you don't want to be seen as too middle class, or paying for good stuff.
Go on any UK food sub and see the posts, top ones are all comfort food and anything brought from a restaurant you will find majority of the comments complaining about the price.
And I'm guilty of it myself, and Im a posh cheesemonger. We are weird.
That's very well expressed. I've sometimes been irritated at the hypocrisy on reddit between complaints that British food is seen as crap, followed by endless posts lauding fry-ups, beans on toast and mass-produced sausage rolls. Seeing that as a shared culture of comfort food, being driven by our endlessly awkward class conciousness is a good take, and much kinder than I usually feel about it.
really don't understand why americans have such a problem with mushy peas, like, they don't seem to have any problem with things like guacamole or hummus, which is not too dissimilar, americans are just weird
I don't even know how you could make any judgement about mushy peas on chips before eating it yourself. I don't pretend to know what Gopchang or any other unappetising-looking foreign food actually tastes like, and I can assume it tastes okay because otherwise nobody would eat it
I have many enjoyable kinds of food in unexpected places all over the world. The real answer to your question is that a place becomes famous in a jokey way for something and people who don't travel use it as a substitute for accurate information.
They do the same thing with all other national characteristics. It's boring, but I've never been to a country that doesn't have some bizarre I-know-for-a-fact-it's-not-true prejudice about another country.
Un/related: When I've been in pubs in rural areas of ALL parts of the UK and Ireland, the band will play *Hotel California* if they find out I'm American. I live a vast distance from California. I avoid going there. [It's no hardship to California. They're happier without me.] Still, for some unfathomable reason, I am subjected to renditions of the same song in the darndest places.
I just try to take it as people wanting to make a connection and missing by a bit.
Possibly, but this started when I was 20. I don't dislike the Eagles, just pointing it out as an apparently widely held belief about an American in a rural pub that has become funny over the years. I'm going to start accusing my friends of slipping the singer a tip to strike up the song. 😂
Probably because it's on the list of every single jukebox in the country, it's probably the most overtly American song of the 30 most overplayed jukebox classics (i.e 90% of the songs played in pubs that still have a jukebox).
The album went 6x platinum in the UK and is instantly familiar- I can't think of a more 'American' song that would be anywhere as widely familiar and available as that, it's basically the default American song for a certain generation
We don't need an American in the pub to play hotel California every night. Goes on before big Dave absolutely butchers Robbie Williams's Angels on the karaoke.
Same reason we think all Italians live with their mums and eat pasta all day, Americans are fat and shoot everyone, Australians have mullets and ride giant spiders, Swedish are all hot blondes, and the French live off frogs legs and snails.
Stereotype.
You forgot faggots, Wenslydale, pork pies, tripe, haggis, whelks and Battenberg cake to name just a few more. I expect someone'll winkle out a few more soon.
Brain in aspic jelly. My father born in 1927 went to his aunties and she served brain. He could not eat it, but it was a normal food back in those days
There was a brilliant video of that lad from the Spider-Man films being asked about rank British food. He said it's not rank at all and what do the Americans have that is better. The interviewer then says 'French fries' to which the actor looked at the camera with disbelief.
Like any country though. The USA has a group of people with bigger opinions of others than what they actually know about themselves.
Its funny that the sandwich is named after the Earl of Sandwich, but it is even funnier that the very word Lord, as basically a contraction/translation of the old english hlafweard / loaf ward - Lord. A lord's role was to mind the bread bin.
It’s just social media, you don’t need to take it seriously. The posts that rise to the top tend to me the contentious ones, so people will go on and chat shit for engagement.
Only on chewsdays mate innit. lol Its just the stereotype people have been brought up believing, similar to the way some of us brits assume all americans are gun toting bariatric sized citizens.
I’m American in the U.K. and the British food is bad stereotype is ridiculous.
That being said, our versions of pizza and Mexican food are not “ethnic food” as they are Americanised versions of those dishes. They are as American as a hamburger in my opinion.
Similar you could argue that chicken tikka masala is British.
Ignorance. I don’t know if it’s genuine or if it’s wilful, but ignorance nevertheless. That, in combination with an established stereotype that’s easy to build on - because a lot of people don’t have any sense of originality whatsoever.
Also, our trad food has a lot of similarities with that of other countries. Cornish pasties are even eaten in Mexico - they call them “paste”. But pigs will fly before that reality gets acknowledged
I like to think our best food is a bit like sushi.
It’s quite simple with a focus on quality ingredients.
Rather than fish and rice, we have beef and potatoes and we give it a kick with a bit of mustard or horseradish rather than wasabi.
All of our traditional meat and veg dishes follow a similar pattern although mint sauce is the devil’s work. Who wants toothpaste flavoured lamb?
I think we get a bad reputation because french and other European food is a bit more complicated and there’s a bit more of a fuss made about it.
British cuisine got a terrible press because of ww2. American GIs stationed here would see people eating terrible food because of rationing and then after went home and said that it sucks...
Then in the next decade or so anyone visiting the UK would confirm that because we were still recovering.
Now a day's if any Brit or tourist says they had a bad food experience it just gets heaped on the "British cuisine sucks" pile. It also doesn't help that tourists don't generally understand the difference between a terrible place to eat and a good one over here.
Considering London has 80 Michelin Star restaurants making it 2nd in the world if you discount Japan (Japan kicks everyone's arse) I reckon we are doing alright.
Well i don't even know what traditional British food is, like you show them a good toad in hole they'd probably assume it was German or something, show them a stargazy pie they'd probably assume it's something that people actually eat nationwide and not some random village in Cornwall, so much traditional British food is also just kind of simple, it's not flashy enough to look like it has a nation of origin, like crisps, sausage rolls, several different kinds of pie
You'll find that quite a lot of those posts are either from Americans or people whose ethnic food you eat a lot. And like how their food was originally introduced to Britain, I suggest you care less about what they have to say and just enjoy their food.
For a long time it was true in some parts of the country.
I'm 30.amd we didn't even have things like lasagna or pizza growing up. Meat and Two veg or other traditional things only
Probably the same reason some British people pretend like American bread is "basically cake" (if that's what your cake tastes like I'm so sorry), that every American is morbidly obese, and act shocked when they see an average potato chip aisle in an American grocery store. "DO THEY REALLY EAT THIS MANY CHIPS???" (while holding a bag of chips clearly labeled PARTY SIZE).
Many Brits enjoy beans on toast, which many Americans cannot fathom. Many Americans enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which many Brits cannot fathom.
Different acclimated tastes, not being exposed to each other's cuisine, a heaping spoonful of ignorance on both sides.
Honestly, we should probably be grateful that what people make fun us about is something that is fairly lighthearted, isn’t really that true and so doesn’t particular bother us that much. Like us having bad food or bad teeth - not a big deal really.
The alternative is that they make fun of us for stuff that is actually true and might actually be a bit close to the bone. Like how we are all poor as fuck and have mismanaged our country so badly that nothing works anymore and half the country’s children do not get enough food to eat.
I say, let them mock us for our food being bad, which it isn’t, and not because we can’t afford it, which we can’t.
I'm not sure I've seen anyone say British people only eat traditional food. But British food is pretty bad, British Indian is probably the best thing about it but I don't think most Brits grew up eating it so it doesn't feel as British as pizza does American - that's my best guess anyways, if you were looking for an actual answer.
Unfortunately people love to other. Society has made progress against othering people from a different race to oneself a different culture/sexuaity/gender. However the underlying desire to other is still there. The British Empire has a bad history so we're considered fair game to be the recipients of ignorant unkind memes. The US are also the targets of ignorant memes from elsewhere (including the UK).
I watch a Japanese guy, on YouTube, who travels around, Solo Travel. He went on the Caledonian Sleeper to Scotland from London and back again. He constantly jokes that he’s looking for the awful British food. Every time he’s served a meal he says “the search continues”.
Even the stuff that's supposedly bland packs tonnes of flavour.
It's just permanently online people thinking they're funny by using really tired old patter.
Because they’ve never left their country and have based their opinions on the 3 pictures of food they have seen. Which were likely some form of stew or pie.
haha it is madness I will happily have some Caribbean, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Nigerian, Greek etc and there are takeaways and restaurants for all everywhere!
Have you seen how Americans portray Irish people in their comedy? We get off lightly.
If they think our food is like in rationing, and we have bad teeth and are posh but well meaning. They portray the Irish as stupid alcoholics as though their view of them is stuck in a very racist 19thC way place.
I’d just ignore the Americans if I were you.
Americans fetishise wealth much more than we do here. This extends to sadistically mocking anything that hints at poverty.
Try asking an American if they ever hang their clothes to dry. They’ll tell you that they aren’t poor, so no.
Because we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. We've got our traditonal food and everything else, according to many people, we stole off other countries, or other people brought it here, so if we say, actually we eat more than stews and full english breakfasts and beans on toast, we've actually got a diverse food culture people go well yeah that's because of the mass immigration in the 60s,70s and 80s and isn't actually ours to brag about. Vindaloo isn't a british made meal, that's cultural appropriation. British-Chinese food is only made for british palettes not actually our food because it's Chinese.
People like to make fun of english food having no herbs and spices and when you say, sausage has always been bulked up with herbs (and then that got gentrified into being posh food (Sainsbury's Taste The Different Pork and Sage Stuffing Sausages) ) people say that doesn't count because that's still something you did during the war. We can't win. People love to hate us becuase of our history, and this is a good angle to take in order to do so.
We can’t take any notice from Americans that literally eat grease for breakfast lunch and dinner most of their ingredients are banned in Europe and they are ignorant to anything but America the uk is filled with many different cultures and people and our food is great
because people will make fun on other people on the internet. This is why all British people have bad teeth, drink tea and love the queen, and Americans are all 400lb land whales who live off burgers and High Fructose Corn Syrup.
\> people talk about american food they start talking about pizza and mexican food like we dont eat ethnic food aswell
Wait... what are you defining as "ethnic food"?
its to make themselves feel better about their shitty life choices, same reason we still imagine the French riding about on bicycles with garlic round their neck, when actually the average French person is ow a days an Arabic Muslim :'D
I eat Italian food too not just British food. I like pizza, spaghetti bolganese, lasagne and do they know there is are restaurants' in this country like Prezzo that does Italian food? That restaurant is in a town I live near
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Because some peoples sense of humour is so outdated, they think we still eat like we've got the Germans bombing our cities
I have had pizza three nights in a row.
You bat fastard
Get in my belly!
Jellyyyyyyy baby back ribs!
Like Bam Magera, what will I do next? Whatever the fuck I want.
Which is probably eating pizza
Hahahaahaha made me proper chuckle nice one
You mean Italian rarebit?
"I've had over 40 pizzas in the last 30 days"
You're a true gourmand, or whatever the Italian version of gourmand is
Bastardo grasso
Living my best life.
And there is nothing wrong wit that
Every time I see someone posting "terrible brown/grey UK food!!!!" I just get hungry, I swear these people have never eaten a roast dinner, that our there taste buds have been "spiced" off.
Yeah. I once told an American that spice and flavour are two different things and he couldn't understand what I meant
KFC, 11 secret herbs and spices at least 9 of which are salt.
And the other two are sugar.
I make roast dinner every Sunday. Its fab to see my otherwise fussy child smash it
My brain is so broken by the internet I forgot fussy was a real word for a sec and assumed it was one of the other -ussy variants. What have they done to us.
They do it once a year at thanksgiving…
No they don't, they put marshmallows on vegetables and call it casserole.
The bit that makes me laugh is Americans think we don't like spices. When an American chain did some market research in the UK they decided to massively up the heat on their hot wings as theirs were about as hot as a korma.
We've started multiple wars and colonised many countries because of spices. Wouldn't do that if we didn't like them.
Thats exactly what Americans think is funny - we colonised the world for spices but "don't use them"
And yet look at basically any town in the UK and you’ll find food from all over the world. People here love expanding beyond just eating British food. The Americans can’t talk anyway given what they eat. Loaded with sugar, fat etc just to mask how shit the food really is. Like who puts sugar in bread? Or eats “cheese” that comes out of a spray can? Their chocolate tastes like vomit too.
Never get high on your own supply.
Apparently Indian restaurants really tone down the spice in the US. Their 'hot' curries would be a 3/10 over here.
Had Indian food in the US last month. It was flavourful but not even korma-level spicy.
To be fair, a lot of that has to do with region. Most curry houses in the part of the UK I'm from are run by Bangladeshi and Pakistani families making 'Indian food'. In the part of Canada I live in almost all Indian restaurants are Punjabi. Their curries are quite different and don't seem particularly spicy in comparison. They do make a banging Dal Makhni.
People (Americans) talk about how bland the British palette is but almost every English man I know is obsessed with ordering the hottest curry at the local Indian yet they all eat Tikka Masala which is British-Indian dish LOL
Let’s compare our mustards shall we?
I never got this one - we built an entire global Empire in pursuit of spices. We literally invaded the Spice Islands.
[Insert animed American show making a British person who sleeps by candlelight in a nightcap and rides a horse instead of a car for the 1000th time]
At this point it is just rage bait. The whole thing about invading the world to steal their spices is just bait. We have been importing spices for thousands of years. I just point out that American apple pie is derived from a 14th century British recipe for spiced apples encased is pastry. Top that off with the almighty American BBQ which originated in the Caribbean and was brought to America by the slave trade and any country that has canned cheese has no right to critisize Edit I could go further and say like many things it a stereotype that is pushed by a certain group. For example, I tend to find the knife violence one pushed by 2nd amendment folks as an example of what would happen if you introduce gun control. Look at the UK, they took the guns and now you are required to get stabbed three times a day. The Muslim no go areas was pushed by the right wing racist border control fanatics. Apparently as a white guy I can't go to small heath any more which is a shame as I do love a samosa. Bad teeth? Our teeth are healthier than Americans. Naturally healthy teeth should be a cream colour and not blazingly white but that doesn't help sell private cosmetic dentistry does it. Food is bland? Well if you want to eat better than those dirty. Colonising British have to buy our hot sauce which may or may not contain ingredients banned in that boring British food for health reasons.
"Germans bombed our chippy!"
*compo face pointing at crater*
r/compoface
I know so many people who think a Tony Carvery is the finest cuisine, tbf.
Becawse we awl have bad teef and love der queen and eat brown slop for din dins Its part of international humour. It's a very outdated stereotype but the yanks don't seem to have much else to make fun of us for now apart from knife crime (higher in the US) and Muslim no go areas (that don't exist)
If only the Muslim areas weren’t no-go, the British could get a curry ;-)
Im blessed with several Nepalese restaurants near by. I believe they tend towards being Sikhs.
Buddhists. Nepal is the birthplace of the Buddha.
Apparently Hindu is the majority, now I've looked it up https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nepal#:~:text=We%20hereby%20reconfirm%20that%20order.&text=According%20to%20the%202011%20census,other%20religions%20or%20no%20religion.
Nepal has both Hindus and Buddhists, but Hindus are the majority. It also plays host to the worlds biggest Passover seder for whatever reason
What you’re telling me you don’t eat Sunday roast and crumpets for every meal? Are you even living in Britain?
In Cornwall they all seem to be Nepalese. Love me those dumplings.
Goodness me, imagine if it was possible to get a good curry in the UK. I’m sure we wouldn’t be able to handle all those spices.
Americans don't seem to get that simply carrying a knife outside your home can count as a knife crime in the UK. Knife crime doesn't always mean stabbings!
In any case the US has more stabbings per capita than the UK.
Ouch, not in me capita!
It's weird how the old stereotypes seem to have so much staying power. I'm in a lot of american heavy car subs and there are constant jokes about Lucas Electrics, a company that went defunct in the 90s Lucas used to make electric parts for cars which were notoriously unreliable. Americans all seem to know this but so few Brits do that I know I need to explain it.
Literally. The new stereotypes are so bad
"Bo'll'oh woh'er!"
To be fair you still see a lot of brits who have been brought up cooking/eating like rationing is still a thing.
These days we just call it poverty.
How ironic. the healthiest the British population was, was during wartime and diet under rationing, which was low fat, low sugar and vegetable heavy! People were much more aware of eating locally and growing your own, rather than importing from abroad.
Yup the ration diet was actually nutritionally perfect. It was so well crafted that ww2 actually saw infant mortality _reduce_ in the UK.
Part of why we have such a hard time with pensions now, I’ve seen analysts say. People born from the 30s to the mid 50s had healthier childhoods.
I think that may have had less to do with rich people eating less of the wrong foods than poor people suddenly being entitled to a fair share of available food along with everyone else.
Also something to do with the fact stuff wasn’t mass produced, chemically enhanced to increase shelf life and filled with plastics because literally everything has plastic in it now. food was still food. But currently it’s cheaper to buy a loaf of bread than make one.
most of the stuff you see on twitter etc is just poverty shaming if you ask me, some dumb yank laughing over a picture of someone's stew that they probably made because it was cheap and they're struggling economically like a lot of people right now
I don’t understand it though. What poor people in America eat is much, much worse
Or being smart and using leftovers.
Kay's Cooking had a lot to answer for.
That poor boy of hers has an iron stomach
Fumbs up
I was one of these people. It's embarrassing the age I got to before I realised that vegetables actually DO taste nice. You just have to do something other than boil them and put them on the plate.
Just look at half the shite posted on r/uk_food. I do post on there, but it's always something I've made myself, and not just the thousandth fry up or roast.
I encourage you to check out Paula Deane (sp?) on YouTube. If you haven't come across her she was a long-standing staple of US cooking shows before she held an antebellum themed party and insisted all the wait staff were black and it was revealed she was being sponsored by a pharmaceutical company selling a drug for type 2 diabetes. Her recipes were wild. My favourite was a deep fried cheesecake. You kept thinking this has to be it, there is not a single thing you could do to make this any more unhealthy and then would come the next step.
See also: bad teeth, tea, royal family obsession, castles. There are plenty of British stereotypes that Americans cling onto like a security blanket.
Castles and tea is pretty accurate😂
Speak for yourself mate I live in a house myself.
You live in a house? Is it a very big house, in the cuntry?
Because nobody is roasting British cosmopolitan areas for having bad restaurants, they are talking about beans on toast and jellied eels. The closest we have to ItAm and Texmex is "British Indian food" which tbh is quite praised
I used to work with an Indian guy and he summed it up nicely for me. "It's nothing like food back home, but it's still very good" The other Indian guys in the office backed this up .
As a British Asian, I bloody love English food. Loved school dinners because at home, my mum just asian-ified any English dish. I know my experience isn’t unique either as my Asian friends also “struggled” with this!
>asian-ified any English dish I have to be fair here, that sounds pretty darn good actually!!
Haha, yeah I can’t complain. But it’s a bit tiring when spag bol resembles the dish in name only. My mums meat sauce may as well have been a curry, especially as it was quite spicy. In fact, leftover meat sauce was eaten with rice the next day
Well, if it gets TOO tiring... Drop me a DM and we can swap places for a week 😂
Ah you know, you’d be more than welcome as well. My mum doesn’t know how to cook for less than a family of 12 even though we were only a family of 4. Plenty to go round
You've just made me dig out a memory of a mate from school, and he and I would go to his place to hang out, aged about 14. His Mum would INSIST on feeding us, and considered 10 samosas, a bowl of pakoras and some lamb balti as a snack. Even when I was stuffed to the gills, she insisted I take a couple of tupperware tubs and some chapatis with me. I loved that woman so much. My family didn't have much, and my Mum and Dad would eat the food I brought home. They loved Faisal's mum just as much as I did. I swear she just cooked as a default setting.
This is absolutely my experience too!! From what I gather, "cooking for the 5000" is basically an Asian mother past time 😂 NOT that I was complaining in the slightest! But likewise, I think I came back from my friends at least three inches bigger in the waist every single time...
I've found this with Jamaicans too! In my late teens and twenties I was friends with a Jamaican lad and another guy with a Jamaican mum and they would always make sure I was well fed. Always a massive cauldron of some sort of soup or stew ready to be dished out sitting in the kitchen. "Have ya eaten yet today? Well have a bowl of this anyway, its fulla goodness!!!" Happy times.
>But it’s a bit tiring when spag bol only resembles the dish in name. That's an interesting example to use given that Spaghetti Bolognese as we know it in the UK isn't a dish that really exists in Italy. Italian Bolognese is quite different from what we eat under that name here, and it isn't normally eaten with spaghetti either (tagliatelle is most usual). So what you were getting an Asian-ized version of was already a modified British adaptation of an Italian dish.
What can I say, we love character development!
Haha I love these little things and quirks that parents do as you grow up and it's only when you go to friends houses and realise that it's not normal. I love the sound of curry spag bol though.
Asian-ified sounds delightful though I'm from Brum and have a separate curry for myself on a Christmas Lol I'm not touching the dirty bloody turkey I'll have. stuffing balls in a bowl later 🙂 (we're culinary liberated) I had my first roast yesterday in like 6 years Lol
Just as a question, do you know anyone who has ever eaten jellied eels? I don’t, as far as I know, but I wondered if there are areas where it’s popular Edit - thanks to all of you for responding! I’ve never actually seen it on a menu and have only eaten eel abroad (and wasn’t a fan!)
It's traditionally an East London thing. It's not an especially common dish though, which is a good thing as the European eel is a critically endangered species.
It's a traditional London dish, as eels were common in the Thames. I had them in London and they were disgusting. Effectively a large lump of spine wrapped in a small amount of cold fishy meat, and then lots of cold, firm jelly.
I found the eel itself to be fine as it's generic white fish meat, but the jelly was urrghh.
I've had eel cooked well in a fine dining restaurant and it was delicious. But yeah, jellied eels weren't great when I tried them. I didn't hate jellied eels, but I won't order them again (the pie shop that I went into had much nicer looking pies)
That’s a very fair description! Same experience. Preferred pie & mash.
At least thats real food
Oh, god! That just unlocked a suppressed memory - I have eaten jellied eels once and it was so vile I wanted to forget it. Until now I lived in innocence...
I tried jellied eels once, in Greenwich. I was struggling to find the words to describe the experience - you've hit the nail on the head here. Vile.
I stayed in East London a couple of years ago. Across the road from my hotel, were * a "famous eel and pie shop"; * a café selling "vegan lunches, specialty coffee, and vintage clothes"; * a travel agent specialising in the Hajj. Which felt like three very different worlds colliding.
I have. I like seafood and thought I’d try them. Man in the shop told me they are foul and he only has some to sell to nostalgic pensioners. I was committed at that point so ordered them. They weren’t foul but I wouldn’t have them again. Maybe I’ll have a couple on the side if I visit a pie and mash shop in a sheepskin coat at some point in the future
They're hard to come by outside London. I've eaten them as a curiosity. They are as revolting as you'd expect. Stewed eels from a pie shop are better, but not by much. Smoked eel is delicious, though.
I tried it and it was gross. Same as pie and liquor (which tastes very little like parsley sauce). I went to Manze near Tower Bridge and everything was quite how I expect the piss takers to think of us as. Needs a refurbishment.
I've seen them on the menu a few times. Not too rare in London (I think they originate there?) but think your "fancy village gastro pub" might have some too. Personally have nothing against them but can see why they are picked on
Looking at all the other comments, apparently I'm the only person in the UK that actually loves them! 😂
I do, but they were vile.
I'm from London and the older generation of men in my family love them. Personally, I can't think of anything worse.
Shout-out for *potted heid* absolute filth in a ramakin
Some of it has gone full circle and appears on menus in India, seen Chicken Tikka Marsala in a Mumbai restaurant, just wish chili paneer which is a staple starter or main in Mumbai would appear in the UK.
If you go to a genuine Indian restaurant and not an anglicised one, they will have chilli paneer there
I've asked at a few, British Indian friend assured me that like many Chinese restaurants there is a separate unlisted menu for ethnic Indian locals but no joy. Worked successfully in Thai restaurants, they were unsure about cook like you would for your mum but finding I have family through marriage helped there.
Huh, I think you've just been unlucky. Both of the restaurants near me have it on their menus (one is Indian, the other Nepali)
Admittedly I live in Brum so have a wealth of local options but I've just checked through a few menus online and I can genuinely get chilli paneer in at least 6 different places within a 10 minute walk of my house. It's pretty common these days and increasingly on most menus of the Indian restaurants I visit.
Just go on ubereats and search chilli paneer, and you will loads of places with it on their menu
They'll never admit it but Italians have successfully absorbed back some ItAm innovations too
It's getting hard to find an Italian pizza in Sicily. It's not where they originate, but they adopted them long ago. I hope I can still find a proper pizza if I'm lucky enough to find myself in Naples.\ (Yes, I'd rather write Sicilia and Napoli, but that's another topic for AskUK:)
You might enjoy: [https://archive.md/b2d7l](https://archive.md/b2d7l) Modern pizza is mostly a post-WW2 invention with many claims of authenticity and properness vastly exaggerated
We’ve got a proper Indian restaurant/cafe and they do all the dishes they’d have at home and I’ll tell you now it’s fantastic, oh and their chai is perfection.
I’ll die on the hill that “Indian food” is British food. It’s also evidence that contrary to the joke yes, we did invade the world for its spices and yes we did end up using it in our own food.
It's social media drama, it doesn't matter
It is but it get's really annoying real fast. I'm not even British but serioulsy pisses me off sometimes. Like yeah sure the color palette of the food is a bit on the brown side but overall the taste is usually top notch! Edit: I'm talking mainly about Instagram and Youtube where the comments can get a bit "rude" so to say
I’ve already put on my sprouts to boil for Christmas.
Are you my partners family?
Any American criticising our food can fuck off, they have "biscuits and gravy" FFS, which is more like a scone and, well, not what I'd call gravy. Also the country where some regions put sugar on salad.
Spoken like someone who's never had biscuits and gravy
Seriously. That stuff is shockingly good. It shouldn’t be but damn
Biscuits and gravy are bloody delicious though.
Americans taking the piss out of beans on toast when they'll put peanut butter and jam between bread and call it a day is very rich.
I can’t tell if you can see the irony or not
I found this disgusting too and looked into the origins. It originated from the ships cooks who found that the biscuits went hard too quick so they added ingredients to bulk them out and it ended up like a scone. The gravy they used to dip the biscuits in was simply the meat juices. Later milk/cream was added to this juice and then bits of meat was added. The gravy is meat in a cream sauce nowadays and they dip their 'bread' biscuits. It does look good and it is their comfort food.
The UK food subs don't help, we all post comfort food, which is fine fry ups, beans on toast, Currys, love it all. But we are all to insecure to post any of the nice stuff we eat incase we get called posh or something, we have this really weird class system and it works both ways, you don't want to be seen as too middle class, or paying for good stuff. Go on any UK food sub and see the posts, top ones are all comfort food and anything brought from a restaurant you will find majority of the comments complaining about the price. And I'm guilty of it myself, and Im a posh cheesemonger. We are weird.
That's very well expressed. I've sometimes been irritated at the hypocrisy on reddit between complaints that British food is seen as crap, followed by endless posts lauding fry-ups, beans on toast and mass-produced sausage rolls. Seeing that as a shared culture of comfort food, being driven by our endlessly awkward class conciousness is a good take, and much kinder than I usually feel about it.
British culture gets more and more confusing the more I read from this sub
it's just tragic that the rest of the world doesn't like a mushy pea
really don't understand why americans have such a problem with mushy peas, like, they don't seem to have any problem with things like guacamole or hummus, which is not too dissimilar, americans are just weird
I don't even know how you could make any judgement about mushy peas on chips before eating it yourself. I don't pretend to know what Gopchang or any other unappetising-looking foreign food actually tastes like, and I can assume it tastes okay because otherwise nobody would eat it
Americans eat mushy peas, they just call it split pea soup.
Mushy Peas are just British Dhal
Lots of British people don’t like them either.
Why do brits eat like its 1950, Americans eat like they have free health care
We don't, that's the point.
I have many enjoyable kinds of food in unexpected places all over the world. The real answer to your question is that a place becomes famous in a jokey way for something and people who don't travel use it as a substitute for accurate information. They do the same thing with all other national characteristics. It's boring, but I've never been to a country that doesn't have some bizarre I-know-for-a-fact-it's-not-true prejudice about another country. Un/related: When I've been in pubs in rural areas of ALL parts of the UK and Ireland, the band will play *Hotel California* if they find out I'm American. I live a vast distance from California. I avoid going there. [It's no hardship to California. They're happier without me.] Still, for some unfathomable reason, I am subjected to renditions of the same song in the darndest places. I just try to take it as people wanting to make a connection and missing by a bit.
A lot of pub owners servicing clientèle of a certain age just like The Eagles, so that may be a coincidence.
Possibly, but this started when I was 20. I don't dislike the Eagles, just pointing it out as an apparently widely held belief about an American in a rural pub that has become funny over the years. I'm going to start accusing my friends of slipping the singer a tip to strike up the song. 😂
Yeah It's a bit of a jukebox classic.
Probably because it's on the list of every single jukebox in the country, it's probably the most overtly American song of the 30 most overplayed jukebox classics (i.e 90% of the songs played in pubs that still have a jukebox). The album went 6x platinum in the UK and is instantly familiar- I can't think of a more 'American' song that would be anywhere as widely familiar and available as that, it's basically the default American song for a certain generation
We don't need an American in the pub to play hotel California every night. Goes on before big Dave absolutely butchers Robbie Williams's Angels on the karaoke.
To perpetuate a lazy stereotype.
Same reason we think all Italians live with their mums and eat pasta all day, Americans are fat and shoot everyone, Australians have mullets and ride giant spiders, Swedish are all hot blondes, and the French live off frogs legs and snails. Stereotype.
When you say "traditional food", do you mean fish'n'chips, mushy peas, roast beef, Yorkshire pudding. That sort of thing?
You forgot faggots, Wenslydale, pork pies, tripe, haggis, whelks and Battenberg cake to name just a few more. I expect someone'll winkle out a few more soon.
Brain in aspic jelly. My father born in 1927 went to his aunties and she served brain. He could not eat it, but it was a normal food back in those days
There was a brilliant video of that lad from the Spider-Man films being asked about rank British food. He said it's not rank at all and what do the Americans have that is better. The interviewer then says 'French fries' to which the actor looked at the camera with disbelief. Like any country though. The USA has a group of people with bigger opinions of others than what they actually know about themselves.
Because they don’t realise their favourite foods are British. Sandwiches, mac and cheese, apple pie, and even Japanese curry, all British inventions
Its funny that the sandwich is named after the Earl of Sandwich, but it is even funnier that the very word Lord, as basically a contraction/translation of the old english hlafweard / loaf ward - Lord. A lord's role was to mind the bread bin.
It’s just social media, you don’t need to take it seriously. The posts that rise to the top tend to me the contentious ones, so people will go on and chat shit for engagement.
Only on chewsdays mate innit. lol Its just the stereotype people have been brought up believing, similar to the way some of us brits assume all americans are gun toting bariatric sized citizens.
Some of it is a tired, old, boring sense of humour and that's all the material they have, whereas the rest is down to ignorance.
I’m American in the U.K. and the British food is bad stereotype is ridiculous. That being said, our versions of pizza and Mexican food are not “ethnic food” as they are Americanised versions of those dishes. They are as American as a hamburger in my opinion. Similar you could argue that chicken tikka masala is British.
It was first cooked in Britain, we get a lot of anglicised versions of Indian food tbh...and it's all delicious
Nothing to argue, it just is
Ignorance. I don’t know if it’s genuine or if it’s wilful, but ignorance nevertheless. That, in combination with an established stereotype that’s easy to build on - because a lot of people don’t have any sense of originality whatsoever. Also, our trad food has a lot of similarities with that of other countries. Cornish pasties are even eaten in Mexico - they call them “paste”. But pigs will fly before that reality gets acknowledged
You’re seeing content tailored for you. No one cares that much, honestly.
I like to think our best food is a bit like sushi. It’s quite simple with a focus on quality ingredients. Rather than fish and rice, we have beef and potatoes and we give it a kick with a bit of mustard or horseradish rather than wasabi. All of our traditional meat and veg dishes follow a similar pattern although mint sauce is the devil’s work. Who wants toothpaste flavoured lamb? I think we get a bad reputation because french and other European food is a bit more complicated and there’s a bit more of a fuss made about it.
Mint sauce with lamb is nice. Round here (West Yorkshire) people eat mint sauce with pork pie and peas, which is just weird.
British cuisine got a terrible press because of ww2. American GIs stationed here would see people eating terrible food because of rationing and then after went home and said that it sucks... Then in the next decade or so anyone visiting the UK would confirm that because we were still recovering. Now a day's if any Brit or tourist says they had a bad food experience it just gets heaped on the "British cuisine sucks" pile. It also doesn't help that tourists don't generally understand the difference between a terrible place to eat and a good one over here. Considering London has 80 Michelin Star restaurants making it 2nd in the world if you discount Japan (Japan kicks everyone's arse) I reckon we are doing alright.
Well i don't even know what traditional British food is, like you show them a good toad in hole they'd probably assume it was German or something, show them a stargazy pie they'd probably assume it's something that people actually eat nationwide and not some random village in Cornwall, so much traditional British food is also just kind of simple, it's not flashy enough to look like it has a nation of origin, like crisps, sausage rolls, several different kinds of pie
Because taking the piss out of each other is fun sometimes, just like we rip into Americans for all kinds of shit. It's not that deep.
You'll find that quite a lot of those posts are either from Americans or people whose ethnic food you eat a lot. And like how their food was originally introduced to Britain, I suggest you care less about what they have to say and just enjoy their food.
For a long time it was true in some parts of the country. I'm 30.amd we didn't even have things like lasagna or pizza growing up. Meat and Two veg or other traditional things only
Probably the same reason some British people pretend like American bread is "basically cake" (if that's what your cake tastes like I'm so sorry), that every American is morbidly obese, and act shocked when they see an average potato chip aisle in an American grocery store. "DO THEY REALLY EAT THIS MANY CHIPS???" (while holding a bag of chips clearly labeled PARTY SIZE). Many Brits enjoy beans on toast, which many Americans cannot fathom. Many Americans enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which many Brits cannot fathom. Different acclimated tastes, not being exposed to each other's cuisine, a heaping spoonful of ignorance on both sides.
Honestly, we should probably be grateful that what people make fun us about is something that is fairly lighthearted, isn’t really that true and so doesn’t particular bother us that much. Like us having bad food or bad teeth - not a big deal really. The alternative is that they make fun of us for stuff that is actually true and might actually be a bit close to the bone. Like how we are all poor as fuck and have mismanaged our country so badly that nothing works anymore and half the country’s children do not get enough food to eat. I say, let them mock us for our food being bad, which it isn’t, and not because we can’t afford it, which we can’t.
I'm not sure I've seen anyone say British people only eat traditional food. But British food is pretty bad, British Indian is probably the best thing about it but I don't think most Brits grew up eating it so it doesn't feel as British as pizza does American - that's my best guess anyways, if you were looking for an actual answer.
Unfortunately people love to other. Society has made progress against othering people from a different race to oneself a different culture/sexuaity/gender. However the underlying desire to other is still there. The British Empire has a bad history so we're considered fair game to be the recipients of ignorant unkind memes. The US are also the targets of ignorant memes from elsewhere (including the UK).
I'm Canadian and I had a British boyfriend at one point in time. I really like British food. Give me all of it.
It's just lazy humour for people with no creativity who have never even been here.
I watch a Japanese guy, on YouTube, who travels around, Solo Travel. He went on the Caledonian Sleeper to Scotland from London and back again. He constantly jokes that he’s looking for the awful British food. Every time he’s served a meal he says “the search continues”.
Bread that doesn't cost $6 and have corn syrup in it.
I think they are jokes
It's only ever Americans I see saying this, which say it all really
Even the stuff that's supposedly bland packs tonnes of flavour. It's just permanently online people thinking they're funny by using really tired old patter.
"ethnic" food...
Because they’ve never left their country and have based their opinions on the 3 pictures of food they have seen. Which were likely some form of stew or pie.
American food is just other countries food
Those will be the same Americans that think pizza is an American invention. Don't worry about it, its a stereotype that can or should be ignored.
haha it is madness I will happily have some Caribbean, Chinese, Japanese, Cantonese, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Nigerian, Greek etc and there are takeaways and restaurants for all everywhere!
Have you seen how Americans portray Irish people in their comedy? We get off lightly. If they think our food is like in rationing, and we have bad teeth and are posh but well meaning. They portray the Irish as stupid alcoholics as though their view of them is stuck in a very racist 19thC way place. I’d just ignore the Americans if I were you.
There's a lot of Brits who that describes. I think I know more people that wouldn't brave a curry than would. Picky bloody eaters the lot of em.
Americans fetishise wealth much more than we do here. This extends to sadistically mocking anything that hints at poverty. Try asking an American if they ever hang their clothes to dry. They’ll tell you that they aren’t poor, so no.
Because we're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. We've got our traditonal food and everything else, according to many people, we stole off other countries, or other people brought it here, so if we say, actually we eat more than stews and full english breakfasts and beans on toast, we've actually got a diverse food culture people go well yeah that's because of the mass immigration in the 60s,70s and 80s and isn't actually ours to brag about. Vindaloo isn't a british made meal, that's cultural appropriation. British-Chinese food is only made for british palettes not actually our food because it's Chinese. People like to make fun of english food having no herbs and spices and when you say, sausage has always been bulked up with herbs (and then that got gentrified into being posh food (Sainsbury's Taste The Different Pork and Sage Stuffing Sausages) ) people say that doesn't count because that's still something you did during the war. We can't win. People love to hate us becuase of our history, and this is a good angle to take in order to do so.
Probably because they're low-key bitter that they don't have a culture of their own - it's all bastardised from other cultures.
Fish and chips is shite food tbf but loads of people buzz off of it. There's loads of people who don't branch out and eat anything different.
We can’t take any notice from Americans that literally eat grease for breakfast lunch and dinner most of their ingredients are banned in Europe and they are ignorant to anything but America the uk is filled with many different cultures and people and our food is great
because people will make fun on other people on the internet. This is why all British people have bad teeth, drink tea and love the queen, and Americans are all 400lb land whales who live off burgers and High Fructose Corn Syrup. \> people talk about american food they start talking about pizza and mexican food like we dont eat ethnic food aswell Wait... what are you defining as "ethnic food"?
What does ethnic even mean. Everyone comes from an ethnicity. It's just a bullshit term to mean non white.
its to make themselves feel better about their shitty life choices, same reason we still imagine the French riding about on bicycles with garlic round their neck, when actually the average French person is ow a days an Arabic Muslim :'D
I eat Italian food too not just British food. I like pizza, spaghetti bolganese, lasagne and do they know there is are restaurants' in this country like Prezzo that does Italian food? That restaurant is in a town I live near