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I'm British and I see it's wrong because it simply isn't true... We have a ton of spicy foods. The stereotype that we only eat comfort foods like in the meme is old and worn out. Maybe that's all you eat, but that's on you.
Yeah never got this. The nation's favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn't it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?
Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.
Yep, just seems disingenuous to act like the history of the spice trade hasn't affected our food culture when it clearly has massively. Hell, even curry in Japan is popular not because of India but because of British influence. The reason "Katsu Curry" is called Katsu is because of the English word "Cuts" referring to the cuts of meat in the curry, which is Japanese sounds like 'katsu'.
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We also gave currywurst to the Germans
But that's just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven...
But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else's cuisines.
By this logic the Japanese don't have curries and the Americans don't have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Exactly.
And India doesn't have chillies add Italy doesn't have tomatoes... Where do we stop?
chillies is neither a dish nor a cuisine, so we do stop there
Fun fact: Britain didn't invent roasting hunks of meat. Or Sundays. Or the combination thereof.
That's not a real thing. That's just something English people say to sound whimsical.
Correct. Only Neolithic cultures have their own foods.
Edit since it's apparently not as obvious as I thought it would be: jk 😄
Apple crumble is 100% a real thing and it’s delicious with warm custard.
Americans know it as Apple Crisp, because the US has to perpetuate the myth than American English is anything but a bastardisation of an existing language and therefore have different words for the same thing.
And yes. Hot Ambrosia® custard, not ice cream, and not Birds®. Just as I was served at school dinners (which somehow bow are called lunch).
I know lol, I was kidding around 😁
Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.
Gotta have lashings of Bisto gravy, yorkies and good ol' British Maris Piper potatoes too. Occasionally carrot turnip mash if you're feeling posh. Cauliflower and broccoli if that's your thing. Served by Lynda Bellingham.
Chuck some cheese sauce on that cauliflower, add some stuffing and we're getting there...
Suddenly this hummus I'm eating for lunch doesn't quite cut the mustard. Actually on that note, include some mustard in the cauliflower cheese pls.
Slightly ho-hum fact: I was being quite tongue in cheek throughout 😁
Oblivious fact: Me
Except all the most popular curries in the UK aren't Indian, they're British, and infact pretty much any curry outside of southern Asia was introduced by the British (or occasionally Portuguese) like Japanese curry for example.
Eh, to some extent, but we've got the foresight to accept these dishes as being British when you consider that the foods we eat aren't authentic to those areas. Spag Bol isn't being eaten in Italy, nor is Chicken Vindaloo in India.
We've got a long enough history that we can trace back when the Normans and Saxons came here, alongside the culture changes of Indian settlers, Jamaican workers, Irish, etc. That acceptance is not only why there're a lot of distinctly British versions of different cultures' food, but why many cities in the UK also serve decidedly authentic food at some of the best restaurants in the world - and that doesn't even factor in how some cultures have fused over time.
Good luck getting a decent fry-up in any of those hellholes.
But why don't your comfort foods have spices?
Yep because no British person ever eats curry as a comfort food.....
Or a Kebab, absolutely fucking loaded with enough spice to blow your insides out the morning after.
In this context I think it's comfort food because it's kiddy food. Something simple and familiar that reminds you of being younger. In England, children's menus will usually contain basic things like chicken nuggets and fish fingers that aren't (heavily) spiced.
What in hell is comforting about that picture?
yea personally I feel quite distressed
As you say, lots of spicy food options. Our National Dish is actually a curry - chicken masala and Phall, the hottest curry, was invented in Birmingham.
Also - in the picture are baked beans. They're invented in the USA. We adopted them, but they're not ours.
Did an ethnically British person invent the chicken tikka masala and phall, or was it an immigrant from the Indian subcontinent or one of their kids/grandchildren?
“No, where are you really from?”
Bruh I'm a British Turk.
I get mad when Germans try to bullshit they invented the döner kebab. The roots of those curries are based on recipes from the Indian subcontinent.
John Curry did not invent the tikka masala in Kent, the same way the döner kebab was not invented by Hans Döner in Stuttgart
Yeah yeah, we know y'all love Tikka masala over there.
Brb, gonna go have hamburgers and french fries for breakfast and shoot my guns for lunch.
The perception of Britain that most Americans have is that of the 40's and 50's. It's hardly surprising that it's completely fucking wrong.
I think it's just Baby Boomers perpetuating the same old ideas in their echo chambers.
We've all been struggling to move onward for like 40 years.
I see nothing wrong because buttered bread, fish fingers and beans is a banger of a meal
Just like when British people assume all America is Texas
God, finally someone else is saying it. I feel like a stick in the mud whenever this comes up.
Lol, thx actually. I finally upgraded my perspective.
The only people I know are polish relatives who live in scotland and well, do have their own custom and creative dishes
What examples can you give of British food?
Jellied Eel.