/ck/ - Food & Cooking

This is a screenshot of the bestselling frozen meals at Iceland, a popular UK supermarket.

Look at this and tell me that British people don't care about food.

Look at it.

Spaghetti. Chicken Curry. Fried Rice. British people want to eat and enjoy a wide range of food. They want to know how to make things taste amazing. They WANT to but for some reason we just can't. We come home from a day in our depressing service industry jobs and all we want to do is look at pictures of the resort we are staying at in Spain in our annual holiday which we booked 1 month after getting back from our last annual holiday. We want to watch TV shows about people on benefits. We don't want to think about the Umami profile of fish sauce and how well it might work in a ginger and lemongrass Thai infused chicken curry. Life here is too depressing.

I actually spend a LOT of time in Iceland. I like to watch people there. I see them looking at the tasty frozen meals and saying things like 'oh that looks nice hon' and 'son you like Curry, how would you like curry instead of fish fingers?'. People here know something is wrong with the way they eat. But they are too busy trying not to get fired from their jobs stacking frozen meals onto the shelves that they just don't have the energy to figure it out.

You go to work
Your manager tells you to sort out the Indian food.
You take a Korma
You stack it onto a Tikka Masala.
You stack it onto a Balti.
You go on your break
You get a steak bake from Greggs.
You go back to work
You work on the American section
You stack onion rings on curly fries
You go home
You eat a microwaved Lasagna
You are British.