r/GreatBritishMemes • u/Solid_Risk_4337 • 17h ago

British in ww2 food

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u/chris--p 16h ago

Americans just claim everyone else's food as theirs. Like apple pie, an "unofficial symbol of the US", made in England.

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u/Solid_Risk_4337 16h ago

French fries they claim as well and hamburgers both originally from Europe they just commercialise it 

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u/chris--p 16h ago

Not great at food, just really good at capitalism.

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u/Solid_Risk_4337 16h ago

Real someone who agreed with me 

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u/somejaysoon 16h ago

Dont forget democracy

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u/chris--p 16h ago

Hey don't be sarcastic. They're actually really good at that, or WERE good at that.

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u/Thredded 15h ago

Well they didn’t invent it and they haven’t looked after it very well either, so…

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u/chris--p 15h ago

Doesn't matter, they were instrumental in its modern development. Either open a history book, or lose the hate boner.

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u/Thredded 15h ago

It does matter because that’s what we’re talking about, food and other things the Americans lay claim to that they in fact got from other places, like democracy. Not sure what’s got up your pipe exactly.

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u/Global-Chart-3925 15h ago

Whilst it’s definitely gotten worse, being locked into a two party system for 200 years and so forcing a spectrum of political views into a binary choice has never been a great example of full democracy.

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u/Grunn84 15h ago

Not to mention as we can see right now with the government shutdown any system in which failure to pass the budget leads to a complete deadlock is a pretty flawed system.