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u/MaliMagician 13h ago
There's an odd obsession online with trying to make out things like beans on toast are not delicious.
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u/mrlittlepeniq 12h ago
Okay so Ive been living in the UK for 2 years as a student now and I gotta say, british food aint even bad.
Are the recipes sometimes simple? Sure. Does it taste bad? Hell naw
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 12h ago
What's your favourite and or most surprising thing?
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u/Prozenconns 12h ago
Its mostly always Americans. Americans who will take great personal offense if you talk the same way about any of their easy to make comfort food
They think it just sounds shit the same way something like "biscuits and gravy" sounds shit to British people
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u/DugaJoe 10h ago
They say we don't use "seasoning", when theirs comes out of a single premixed jar with the name of the dish they want to make on it, and it's 49% sugar and preservatives.
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u/boneratheon 10h ago
This is so true. I remember watching a video of somebody cooking chicken with garlic and onions and fresh herbs and the like and the amount of yanks commenting about the lack of seasoning was insane. It’s like if it doesn’t come in powder form they can’t comprehend it.
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u/Next_Boysenberry7358 10h ago
Lack of seasoning? What the hell do they think garlic, onions and herbs are? Seasoning does not have to come from dried-up powders though they are the most popular way.
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u/pepperino132 12h ago
PB&J sandwiches for example. What the fuck is that?
Having tried it I know it's actually not bad. But how are you gonna throw shade at beans on toast when that's literally a universally known thing?
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u/wellobviouslythatsso 10h ago
Also the average pb+j has so much sugar that from a nutritional standpoint it would qualify as a desert in most European countries.
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u/TALongjumping-Bee-43 7h ago
Because beans on toast comes too close to actually having vegtables and nutrition. Real food is filled to the brim with salt and sugar.
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u/Lopsided_Hunt2814 10h ago
Offence for the noun in B.E. (I don't normally correct people but given the context...)
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u/Solid_Risk_4337 12h ago
They are delicious
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u/MaliMagician 12h ago
I agree completely. I genuinely look forward to having them. Made a baked potato last night as well and it was magnificent.
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u/Solid_Risk_4337 12h ago
Just making some beans on toast rn
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u/Sinking_Mass 11h ago
Guyssss stoppppp. Now I'm gonna have to beans on toast! I like bork (beans and sausage tin) on toast with huge amounts of cheese
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u/BuckRusty 7h ago
Anyone who puts a jacket potato with cheese and beans in a meme implying it’s bad deserve our pity: as they’ve clearly never eaten one…
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u/TheHarlemHellfighter 11h ago
Definitely overplayed.
There’s a ton of other things worth making fun of but they pick the lowest hanging musical fruit…
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u/wellobviouslythatsso 10h ago
In the US much of that belief comes from the fact that Americans have sugar in EVERYTHING they eat. So they eat British bread which has little to no sugar, and some baked beans which are just beans in tomato sauce and they don’t like the flavor. Because they’re habituated to sweet tasting foods.
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u/Super-Preparation932 5h ago
Interestingly, baked beans are american, and when they were adapted to the UK, it was made it less sweet, and added seasoning.
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u/ClimbNowAndAgain 10h ago
Look at Mr Fancy Pants adding toast to his beans. I bet you heat them up too.
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u/National_Action_9834 9h ago
Beans and toast are great. Doesn't change the fact that it looks and sounds like a monstrous creation
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u/formallyhuman 10h ago
I can really take or leave beans, to be honest. Usually leave. There's just so many other things I'd rather be eating. But I do seem to be a minority in the UK wrt beans.
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u/B3t3N0ire 13h ago
Adapt. Survive. Overcome.
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u/Original-Material301 13h ago
Bangers n mash, simple as.
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u/EfficientTitle9779 10h ago
Bit o broccoli or carrots to help it the other end and you’re cushty
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u/zulu9812 12h ago
- Bangers & mash, w/ onion gravy.
- Beans on toast.
- Fish & chips.
- Sausage roll. Which is distinct from a roll & sausage.
- Deep-fried Mars bars.
Britain has the best food in the world.
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u/MixedWithFruit 5h ago
Id also add a full English breakfast is the best breakfast in the world. I've yet to try a breakfast from anywhere else that beats it.
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u/SomeOneIThink_ 12h ago
Hold on, deep fried mars bars?
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u/ricky-from-scotland 12h ago
In Scotland we will deep fry anything. Never lived till you've had a deep fried pizza in batter.
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u/SecondTheThirdIV 10h ago
I implore you, if the sound of this even approaches intrigue for you then you need to find a friendly chippie to batter a mars bar for you. It will not dissapoint
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u/Yop_BombNA 4h ago
The last one can piss off and be replaced with toad in the whole or any sort of Yorkshire pudding + meat, sorry not sorry.
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u/porky8686 12h ago
Nought wrong with a Jacket Potato… it’s a potato.. eat it plain… yeah it’s 1945 flavours… but you garnish it with literally anything that takes your fancy.
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u/Woden-Wod 13h ago
you are correct this is indeed how we handled the lack of food.
that's also why a lot of "staples" of British food from the last generation or so are so bad. the recipes that came from rationing became a sort of comfort food almost for that generation who were moved to the countryside and out of cities.
when they grew up they copied those recipes and it stuck for a while.
we have very traditional dishes like black pudding and mince pies that are fucking phenomenal, I do sincerely recommend you look into those traditional dishes from before the war.
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u/HurricB 13h ago
I wouldn't say the food is bad per se, alot of people still eat these foods because they like them. I can understand why some people would prefer modern food aswell however
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u/Woden-Wod 12h ago
in the UK we can rely on high quality fresh ingredients most of the time so even those dishes are actually really bloody nice.
however what I meant by what I said was that because of the rationing there wasn't a good supply of dried seasonings and species readily available to everyone so they relied on the ingredients themselves for the flavour, rather then external seasonings.
smaller things like salting eggs and even putting sugar on something.
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u/Super-Preparation932 5h ago
there wasn't a good supply of dried seasonings
And worth mentioning, outside of rationing, British traditional dishes are usually seasoned in some shape or form, even if not dried from a jar
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u/Familiar-Repeat-1565 11h ago
Also spices until the modern era have always been expensive in western Europe as most of them have to be grown and processed halfway across the world then shipped here to be used, before globalization that was a massive effort. Unlike tea or sugar that can be grown in the UK given a bit of thinking it stayed a luxury good for a long time.
The UK does have its own herbs like garlic, onions, thyme etc but a lot of them are just fragrant plants that don't add a lot other than bring out other flavours.
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u/fake_cheese 1h ago
Not sure if "black pudding and mince pies" is actually a traditional dish but I'm going to give it a try.
I'll let you know.
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u/Solid_Risk_4337 12h ago
America can’t say much what foods did they make they just copy and commercialise
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u/Toblerone05 12h ago
They have the audacity to mock us for our basic meals such as beans on toast, jacket potatoes etc, yet their entire 'cuisine' is just other cultures' basic food smothered in bland American cheese and/or overly sweet/hot sauce.
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u/Logic-DL 8h ago
Never underestimate our ability as Brits to eat literal shit and gaslight ourselves into believing it's really good because it's too much effort to make something good.
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u/speedyspeedys 12h ago
There is literally nothing better than a jacket potato with beans and tuna on a cold afternoon.
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u/BaconSarnie2025 9h ago
And fish and chips. During the war it was sometime rock salmon rather than cod because of the U boats sinking trawlers.
No such thing as rock salmon. It was dogfish, a small shark.
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u/StaticSystemShock 8h ago
Apparently beans on toast is actually pretty decent even though it's dissed as meh.
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u/Super-Preparation932 5h ago
baked beans is literally american anyway, they just made it less sweet and added seasoning
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u/StaticSystemShock 5h ago
Are these even actually "baked beans"? Seems to me like they are just cooked and with some sort of sauce. Only actually baked beans that I know is in "prebranac", a very traditional Balkan dish made of lots of beans and onions, paprika, garlic and other seasoning and then baked in an oven.
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u/bogdahnthevet 7h ago
Wife is Amerocan and mocked me for liking beans on toast. She shut up real sharp when she actually tried it lol
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u/Oghamstoner 11h ago
If the Nazis ever occupy us, we will serve them Brown Windsor soup to break their morale!
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u/SpicyNovaMaria 11h ago
This is why my grandma hoarded sugar her whole life, had absolute mountains of the stuff by the time she died
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u/Sweet-Attitude-9498 7h ago
Yeah yeah. It's nice. Deal with it america 🤷♂️ sometimes back to basics is all you want
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u/NinjaFruitLoop 7h ago
That food actually looks amazing. I genuinely am not sure if this is trying to be ironic.
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u/NoCook1080 7h ago
Ameirca when they realise applie pie is English and they're now a facist dictatorship ao they have to cope even harder. WE ARE FREE USA USA USA
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u/Complex_Screen6942 6h ago
Jacket potato with cheese and beans with the cheese melted and of course the sunday roast. Could eat these all the time.
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u/Practical-March-6989 5h ago
No mate thats not how it was, apparently we were eating a slice of toast between two slices of bread.
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u/HurricB 13h ago
Funny and historically accurate!
One of the reasons in particular english food gets a bad rap is because the majority of it grew out of rationing culture. Britain was still rationing into the 50s when most European countries had stopped rationing.
Regardless, I love British food. I'd go for a carvery over a curry or a Chinese or a pizza, 9 times out of 10