I ate a lot of good food when I visited the UK. Honestly anyone who claims <place> has only bad food has a skill issue.
Yeah I agree, there was always weird things like every culture, blood pudding and stuff, but generally there is absolutely nothing wrong with average UK food, except it’s not that healthy.
an empire built on stealing spice from brown people and they REFUSE to use them
They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.
It’s a wartime / depression era food, not something you’d make by choice, typically
Cause bread was cheaper than say meat or cheese or what not
First appeared in an 1861 cookbook, target for this was sick people. Would be easy to keep down, carbs and fats to nourish more than just a broth.
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
I feel like I’m the strange person for answering yes, I eat these now and again. I like to toast only the middle slice, and when it is done, butter salt and pepper both sides. The butter soaks in and softens the toasted slice up again, but it keeps a chew. Gives it a meaty texture that way.
“Yo dawg, I heard you liked bread…”
For a while, I was toasting sandwhiches by stacking the top bread piece under the bottom one with topings on top of it. You end up with a sandwich (with actual sandwich toppings) just toasted on the inside and soft on the outside.
I love the texture just like I loved putting plain potato chips between two pieces of bread. Soft then crunch.
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
I used to eat potato chip and bologna sandwiches. Thats as weird as I got
I still do this. I save easily $200/month eating it 3 days a week. Pro tip: the bread and bologna at Aldis is S tier and with the right addons and seasonings it’s a fantastic light meal.
Ok, Brits… what is GOOD British food? Fish ‘n Chips? Mushy Peas? Full English? Sunday Roast? I’ve been to the UK more times than I can count and even the Pubs often serve international fare instead of Spotted Dick.
I quite like Yorkshire puddings.
But I agree, British cuisine is pretty beige in vibe
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
I tried the fabled beans on toast and i was shocked when I bit into the toast that there was butter on the toast. It was a dumb thing to be shocked by but I did not expect it 😂.
That being said, it looks really stupid in person because it’s literally toast with a ton of beans. Taste wise, it was ok.
Here’s a crappy photo:
What sort of catastrophic mental state do you have to be to think
I shall put beans on thine toast. And yea; there was much rejoicing
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be taste wise. Like I finished all of it no problem. But amongst all breakfast foods its pretty mediocre and nothing to write home about.
Poor… And not normal poor, but wartime poor. It was invented by Heinz to sell beans in England.
Mmmm the fabled half english.
Compliments to the british chef
Also British food: jellied eels. Cut up eels in jello.
Fuck that.
Didn’t the US have pasta in jello?
By 1930, there appeared a vogue in American cuisine for congealed salads, and the company introduced lime-flavored Jell-O, to complement the add-ins that cooks across the country were combining in these aspics and salads. Popular Jell-O recipes often included ingredients like cabbage, celery, green peppers, and even cooked pasta.[10]
I’m pretty sure people were writing recipes as shit posts back then. There’s no way any human being willingly ate those.
If that sandwich is bland it’s on you it clearly says to add butter, salt and pepper to taste.
If you think you can make something not bland with just butter, salt and pepper, you may be a Brit.
Good butter ain’t bland.
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food, so it’s basically deep fried bread.
Fat and salt are the key ingredients in most fried food,
If we ignore the literal food being fried, yes
The food being fried is mostly carbs - that’s the bread.
If you think butter is bland you may have broken tastebuds, or really shit butter. You know it’s supposed to come from a cow?
Homemade bread with just butter and salt is fucking awesome.
Or a German to be honest. They eat just bread with butter. (no toast between!)
Yes, but their bread is good and rough. No idea how their butter is
Not good enough for me to be willing to eat bread with just butter.
Ah, then you gotta get german bread with french or Irish butter. Maybe throw in a side of pomegranate and/or cheese. Great way to start your day
Literally any meat in a pan
The crunch of the toast vs the softness of the bread. The saltiness and richness of the butter against the spice of the pepper.
It’s got contrast across two food metrics! Beats the shit out of PB&Js, and you don’t get peanut fragments stuck in your teeth.
It’s poverty food (for when butter didn’t cost $20/kg), but it’s not half bad.
Peanut butter is perfect and I’ll die on that hill. My country’s cheap combination of pulses and bread is much better than yours! That said you need unsweetened peanut butter and unsweetened bread, both of which can be difficult to find in the us
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Are you Native American?
Fry your flour in butter.
Also rationed.
No wonder they started wars over spices.
Explains all the extra paddin on Patty MacFadden
great scott!
What even is jove
Edit: okay this one’s complicated. It’s like saying “holy shit” (“oh my god”), but you’re Roman and saying “holy jupiter(the god)”, but you’re also English and it entered popular usage through Shakespeare, and you’re also from before it became “by george”…Or something… Tldr it’s old Latin and jove=jupiter
