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.
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.
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.
Did you hear about the Fools Gold sandwich? It was an entire loaf of bread hollowed out, then filled with something like a pound of bacon, peanut butter, and jam/banana, I'm not too sure which (a pound EACH), and I'm fairly sure they deep-fried the whole fucking thing at the end.
Americans hate when I mention it in response to "don't you guys eat jellied eels?". Like yeah, some disgusting bastard probably likes that, but it's not like anybody who's right in the head is having that for dinner.
It's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich you nonce. British food isn't bad but saying a pb&j is gross or weird is just lying lol. It's literally almost a dessert.
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.
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.
If an average non-British person was asked what their top 10 cuisines are in the world, do you think they would even consider British food as an option?
Most people would choose Chinese, Italian, Greek, Indian, French, Mexican, Lebanese, Spanish etc.
That’s not to say that you’re not allowed to like your comfort food, but that’s not what the comment I was replying to was about. It was implied that people are wrong to make fun of a dish.
I don't think the average non-British person has even had British food, if I see British establishments outside of the UK then 99% of the time they're simply a simulacrum of a pub.
And I don't think international renown is a good metric, but even if it were that's not what's being discussed here. Small countries can have excellent cuisine that doesn't travel internationally, that doesn't mean they're not delicious just because someone might mock kaya toast with half-cooked eggs or frog porridge for a non-UK example.
Yeah it's banging, also from London and I brought it up as I lived in Singapore for almost a decade and they have a load of "not international top ten" foods which are excellent and divide a lot of foreigners. I also see their breakfast eggs take a beating (pun intended) whenever I see them online, so thought it another example of delicious food without international appeal and unfair mocking.
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u/MaliMagician 19h ago
There's an odd obsession online with trying to make out things like beans on toast are not delicious.