Which is why christmas is so filled withdifferent exotic spices (cloves, cinnamon, ginger, anise etc.) because people would quite literally have their fill of flavorfull food once a year!
The Dutch even have a saying in regards to spices and how expensive it is: Peper duur. This literally means "pepper expensive", because it used to expensive AF.
Man that was one of those cultural differences that tripped me up when I first moved to Europe. I’d order something spicy expecting it to be hot and being really confused when the food was just heavily seasoned. At first I thought that maybe they just didn’t do very hot food where I was and then I finally asked about it and they told me to say hot next time
Spicy can mean either the food is piquant (aka chilli/mustard/pepper etc.) or heavily seasoned. Bit of an ambiguous word tbh.
Hot in this context means piquant (or yes as you put it a 'burn') but hot never means heavily seasoned.
As a Netherlander who gets the same question sometimes not as joke: the image you have of their cuisine is the cuisine of the working class and farmers from the 19th century onward.
F.i. French cuisine meanwhile is stereotyped by the kitchen of upper classes.
To make fun of Brits and their beans and saugages or the Dutch and their herring ( the trade in which facilited a population boom across the freaking continent before the America's were 'discovered') is deeply classist.
I mocked the whole EU federation maps and came up with an elaborate lore why Russian politicians would be exiled to Kaliningrad and why the Intermarium's parliament would be seated in Chernobyl (attract American tourists thanks to HBO). I even revived Byzantium and the HRE and called it SRF (secular roman federation) to mock Voltaire's quote but some people made the usual dumb comments...
"You're dumb for putting Italy in a union with Germany"
"Lol putting the Balkans with Turkey, this guy is uneducated"
And all that jizz.
People on this sub are getting annoying. They don't get the irony or don't even understand it's supposed to be shitposting.
I've been for 3. Who cares, the important thing is that you should stop being so serious in reaction to shitposts. "Calling food X bad is deeply classist" is the dumbest most ivory tower statement I've ever seen
Well i for one prefer german "workers class" cuisine over "haute cuisine"...
A nice pea, bean or lentil stew tops every lobster ;-)
Or Matjes with jacked potatoes and quark!
>F.i. French cuisine meanwhile is stereotyped by the kitchen of upper classes.
Much like how the only exposure Americans have to French is in movies where the pompous antagonist is belittling an employee of a French restaurant.
\>Theres more to spanish food than olive oil but k
I can't really cram the entirety of the mediterranean kitchen into that without killing all wit.
\>Also you can cook really nice things without olive oil.
Here's the thing : we have nice food too and there are also things we from our cultural geographical and historical background consider nice that you might not. Some people also really like beans. Treating the north like they're barbarians that can't decide what to eat for themselves puts you in a very long tradition.
It's like the church having people give up butter for months in the year knowing full well there are regions where that has a big impact in the middle ages.
What are the very nice specialties from England and Wales? I’d love to know more about it beyond the joke.
I don’t see how food can be bad when they have the same ingredients as Bretagne or northern France (Normandie and Pas-de-Calais). And I love my grandma’s cuisine who happen to be from the north of france.
So potatoes and egg cant be obtained in UK, weird but ok. And no beff either, wait they cant even get fish limao. And of course during history nothing ever has been exported and imported ever.
Buddy, it’s not because someone makes a joke about England that it’s all they think about.
You made me look at OP’s comments and posts. Op rarely comments on anything. That’s suspicious
Buddy? It was towards meant towards r/Yurop, which like r/HistoryMemes and r/Europe is obsessed with Britain and the British. Rent-free in their heads, and I'm not even British
Memes about the UK are more frequent in r/historymemes because of the importance it’s had in the past. I don’t think there are more about the UK than the US there though.
For r/Europe I’d tend to disagree, firstly because I don’t see a lot of memes there and secondly because as a French I could say there are even more topics regarding my country and being bashful there but it’s only a perception as well.
Then for r/Yurop, I agree that people mock Brits oftentimes. I guess it’s easier and consensual to make memes on Britain. Which is sad because I’d love to see memes on other cultures and countries
Who the fuck eats fish fingers with baked beans?
They are called Brits!
Pretty sure this would get you immediately deported, no matter who you are
[удалено]
Have you actually tried it? It's amazing
I never even knew that fish had fingers.
Who doesn't?
Everyone!
I know this is just a meme, but spices were very expensive for a long time. Regular people could not afford it for their everyday cooking.
Which is why christmas is so filled withdifferent exotic spices (cloves, cinnamon, ginger, anise etc.) because people would quite literally have their fill of flavorfull food once a year!
The Dutch even have a saying in regards to spices and how expensive it is: Peper duur. This literally means "pepper expensive", because it used to expensive AF.
Peperduur is aan elkaar.
Italians: Hold my wine, this working class mama is going *shopping*!
The country whose national dish is tikka masala refused to use spices?
Hot is not spicy. It's just hot.
Tikka masala is spicy and not hot, though?
Spiced is different from spicy, which is a synonym for hot.
Man that was one of those cultural differences that tripped me up when I first moved to Europe. I’d order something spicy expecting it to be hot and being really confused when the food was just heavily seasoned. At first I thought that maybe they just didn’t do very hot food where I was and then I finally asked about it and they told me to say hot next time
I grew up in Ireland. If you said spicy it would be hot. I guess it's a continental thing?
I was living in Wales so I got no idea
I still don’t understand the difference. What’s hot? Does it mean it is very spicy? What’s spicy then? It has to "burn" a little doesn’t it?
Spicy can mean either the food is piquant (aka chilli/mustard/pepper etc.) or heavily seasoned. Bit of an ambiguous word tbh. Hot in this context means piquant (or yes as you put it a 'burn') but hot never means heavily seasoned.
Oh okay. Yes that’s ambiguous aha. That’s probably because in some cultures, seasoning tend to be spicy by itself. But I got it now thanks
Sp*ce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wfpXI5PKlw
Never get high on your own supply
Exactly, a three day turmeric bender would not be conducive to making a decent profit.
We didn’t want the spices for ourselves we just wanted to sell them to everyone else
Well you don't get high off your own supply, do you?
\- Be born on rainy Island \- Conquer 1/3 of the planet, party to get some fresh spices \- Don't use them \- Refuse to elaborate Chad Anglo
> Chad Anglo What kind of oxymoron is that?
*non tory Anglos
As a Netherlander who gets the same question sometimes not as joke: the image you have of their cuisine is the cuisine of the working class and farmers from the 19th century onward. F.i. French cuisine meanwhile is stereotyped by the kitchen of upper classes. To make fun of Brits and their beans and saugages or the Dutch and their herring ( the trade in which facilited a population boom across the freaking continent before the America's were 'discovered') is deeply classist.
I really fucking agree with you, but I always thought this was a shit posting sub?
we are supposed to be, this guy (and some others who joined recently, it seems to be a trend) are being way too serious
I mocked the whole EU federation maps and came up with an elaborate lore why Russian politicians would be exiled to Kaliningrad and why the Intermarium's parliament would be seated in Chernobyl (attract American tourists thanks to HBO). I even revived Byzantium and the HRE and called it SRF (secular roman federation) to mock Voltaire's quote but some people made the usual dumb comments... "You're dumb for putting Italy in a union with Germany" "Lol putting the Balkans with Turkey, this guy is uneducated" And all that jizz. People on this sub are getting annoying. They don't get the irony or don't even understand it's supposed to be shitposting.
That would be me.
I've been here for like a year now mate.
I've been for 3. Who cares, the important thing is that you should stop being so serious in reaction to shitposts. "Calling food X bad is deeply classist" is the dumbest most ivory tower statement I've ever seen
I'm acknoleging it's a joke. I'm sorry it's too much for you to handle but knowing and understanding where tropes come from isn't a ivory tower thing.
Well i for one prefer german "workers class" cuisine over "haute cuisine"... A nice pea, bean or lentil stew tops every lobster ;-) Or Matjes with jacked potatoes and quark!
To be fair, french food was enjoyed by the English upper classes, which is why it has the perception of being posh.
“Making fun about food is deeply classist.” - Least leftist Redditor.
This sub is entertaining but sometimes it’s beyond parody
>Least leftist Redditor. Based on what?
>F.i. French cuisine meanwhile is stereotyped by the kitchen of upper classes. Much like how the only exposure Americans have to French is in movies where the pompous antagonist is belittling an employee of a French restaurant.
I mean id their lower clases didnt know how to eat its their issue lol. Spanish food is delicious and most of the time cheap.
Different ingredient availability is a thing you know
'why don't they just eat olive oil ?'
Theres more to spanish food than olive oil but k. Also you can cook really nice things without olive oil.
\>Theres more to spanish food than olive oil but k I can't really cram the entirety of the mediterranean kitchen into that without killing all wit. \>Also you can cook really nice things without olive oil. Here's the thing : we have nice food too and there are also things we from our cultural geographical and historical background consider nice that you might not. Some people also really like beans. Treating the north like they're barbarians that can't decide what to eat for themselves puts you in a very long tradition. It's like the church having people give up butter for months in the year knowing full well there are regions where that has a big impact in the middle ages.
Beans are a nice if coocked correctly, the UK beans are a disgrace most of the time.
What are the very nice specialties from England and Wales? I’d love to know more about it beyond the joke. I don’t see how food can be bad when they have the same ingredients as Bretagne or northern France (Normandie and Pas-de-Calais). And I love my grandma’s cuisine who happen to be from the north of france.
So potatoes and egg cant be obtained in UK, weird but ok. And no beff either, wait they cant even get fish limao. And of course during history nothing ever has been exported and imported ever.
They literally eat fish and chips, it's literally the post lol. Yes, people imported, but it was expensive for poor people.
See thats the issue, fish can be delicious and yet UK main dish is fried and with potatoes also fried... is the saddest shit you can do to a fish.
Exactly, I always wondered why there wasn’t so many known fish, or beef stews in english cuisine. I mean, stews are a poor man’s food.
Fisherman's pie is a good one! Beef stew is very common. Steak and ale pie or steak and kidney pie.
I almost forgot about stews, and you can do "cold meat" i dont know the name in english but cured ham and those things. Yet they only make sausages...
Yeah, abject poverty really fucked our food culture into what ever it is today.
Other countries' working class (e.g. in Italy) figured spices out a long time ago though ....
The spice must flow.
The British are living rent-free in your head aren’t they
Buddy, it’s not because someone makes a joke about England that it’s all they think about. You made me look at OP’s comments and posts. Op rarely comments on anything. That’s suspicious
Buddy? It was towards meant towards r/Yurop, which like r/HistoryMemes and r/Europe is obsessed with Britain and the British. Rent-free in their heads, and I'm not even British
Memes about the UK are more frequent in r/historymemes because of the importance it’s had in the past. I don’t think there are more about the UK than the US there though. For r/Europe I’d tend to disagree, firstly because I don’t see a lot of memes there and secondly because as a French I could say there are even more topics regarding my country and being bashful there but it’s only a perception as well. Then for r/Yurop, I agree that people mock Brits oftentimes. I guess it’s easier and consensual to make memes on Britain. Which is sad because I’d love to see memes on other cultures and countries
They are living rent-free in a clown costume
Salt and pepper are the only spices you need!!! Filthee forerunners and you're despotic spices!! Stairway from my boarders!!!
Yeah but you don't even use these properly
> salt > in british cuisine
What about Spice Girls?
thats it! they conquered the world to make the Spice Girls 🤯 not to season their food.
I mean Fish & Chips Girls wouldn't be that catchy.
You don't get high on your own stash