• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    Meanwhile yanks with their two spices - butter and sugar

    “Our food is the tastiest in the wuuuurld”

    Aye but yous can’t afford that coronary eh mate 😂

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      I mean obviously you’ve never taken the time to explore the US. US food is utterly fantastic.

      Our beer is better too.

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        American “beer” lol. Laughs in German.

        Edit: Grumpy Muricans, your downvotes only prove my point!

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        Bri’ish food is some of the best in the world too. Because we know how to use spices and not high fructose corn syrup

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              That has nothing to do with the topic at hand, you’re just trying to change the topic, and think that somehow calling out America’s history of colonization (by not only Britain mind you) is some sort of “gotcha” moment.

              But I’ll bite. Personally, European descent. But many native friends and family members, and lots of time volunteering with local native non-profits and political campaigns. Which is likely more than 99% of Americans could say about any sort of native support.

              I’m on the west coast, you know where all the natives were forced to move. Many of the “illegals” the bigots complain about in my area are actually Native Americans or have native ancestry.

              But none of that is about the topic at hand, food and Britain’s lack of utilizing the spices they spent so much effort to get.

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            And how, in your wee head, does the fact that it came about due to colonisation make it not British?

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      You are clearly making a poor joke, but… Butter is literally what the French are known for. Sugarcane is from the South Pacific and sugar itself originated in India.

      Southern and Creole cuisine originated in America however, and that uses a ton of spices on par with native Indian cuisine.

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    Clearly you’ve never had rich friends, they’re notorious for having everything and never using it.

    “Oh man, I didn’t know you play guitar. That’s a beautiful Orange double stack and Thunderverb.”

    “I bought that when I tried to learn guitar, haven’t used it since.”

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    Tell me you haven’t had proper British food without actually telling me.

    Don’t blindly believe everything you hear.

    Beans on toast can be done well also.

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      i do that all the time, but my own recipe, which is essentially hopped up chili beans on garlic toast. So i start with frying four pieces chopped up bacon in a bean pot, then add half an onion chopped n fry that soft, then a can of the heinz bbq chipotle beans, half a cup of E.D. Smith Baja Chipotle bbq sauce, half tbsp ancho powder, half tbsp jalapeno powder, quater tbsp white pepper, half tbsp garlic powder, simmer that all up and serve on and with thick cut buttered garlic toast. and to put the lie to any stereotypes bout regional cuisine, i’m doing this shit in western canada. I have a restaurant here, but this particular recipe is a bit too hot for most my customers.

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        That sounds good. I’ve never seen Heinz chipotle beans though (in Canada). I’ll have to keep an eye out.

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          They’re marked as Barbecue in the big print, the chipotle is in very small print underneath. You could just start with the more easily found deep browned beans or whatever.

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      My father is British. My grandmother was British.

      There is no way to make British-style beans on toast palatable to people outside of Great Britain. I’m sorry.

      There are plenty of British foods I will absolutely defend as terrific. I will murder a wedge of caerphilly cheese and I sometimes import Rowntree’s blackcurrant fruit pastilles, I love them so much… but beans on toast? I can’t go with you down that road. Also, Daddies Sauce. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Including my father. How do you put that shit in your mouths?

      And don’t even get me started on Marmite.

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    After some trips to GB and eating there, I am happy to live in Spain

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      I actually went and had some last night and jesus christ my palate was offended. Even when swimming in malt vinegar and tartar sauce, I just couldn’t stand it. I can fix this:

      • Salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, cumin, and cayenne in the dry dredge
      • A dry stout in the wet dredge mix instead of a lager or a pale ale, anything with a body really
      • Maybe a layer of panko breadcrumbs I toasted beforehand
      • A far more flavorful fish than cod, i’m thinking salmon fingers

      The sun never set on the British empire, and they never used the spices they stole.

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        Counterpoint: some people eat food so covered in spices/herbs/etc. they lose the ability to taste more subtle flavours.

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          well, I gotta say, I lived in the UK, their standard for fish and chips is oily af; it’s hard to enjoy the toppings and use the thing as a vehicle for sauces etc when it’s super greasy from breading to fish. I’ve had better fish and chips in Canada and Belgium.

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    I look at it the other way around. The food was so horrible, England sent entire fleets of ships just to get takeout from India. It didn’t matter that it took months on end and people lost their lives along the way, it was still worth it.

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    Britain conquered India, many other parts of Asia and much of the Americas and yet they still eat Marmite. Willingly.