/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Because spicy food is delicious?

Why are Brits so obsessed with bland food boiled into paste?

Being as Mexico being our neighbors, we tend to peek over the fence to see what they are coming. They showed us some spicy stuff; we loved it.

>>5024122
Food invented in England

Bangers and mash
Black pudding
Balti – British-style type of curry, served in many restaurants in the United Kingdom. The origins of the Balti style of cooking are uncertain; some believe it to have been invented in Birmingham, England while others believe it originated in the northern Pakistani region of Baltistan in Kashmir from where it spread to Britain.
Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)
Bubble and squeak
Cheddar cheese[48] – modern cheddar cheese manufacture Joseph Harding
Cornish pasty
Cottage pie
Cumberland sausage
Eccles cake
English mustard
Fish and chips
Full English breakfast
Gravy
Haggis – Normally assumed to be of Scottish origin, but the first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North-West England.[49]
Ice cream [50] – Modern Ice cream 1718 England
Jellied eels
Kendal mint cake
Lancashire hotpot
Lasagne – Contrary to popular belief, the first recipes for a lasagne-styled dish were found in an English 14th Century cookbook called Forme of Cury, it was a popular dish during the reign of King Richard II.
Lincolnshire sausage
Pancake [51] – Modern pancake, English culinary manuscript 1430
Parkin
Pasty
Piccalilli
Pork pie
Sausage roll
Sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Scotch egg – Invented by the famous London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in 1738.
Scouse
Shepherd's pie
Carbonated water, major and defining component of soft drinks [52] – Joseph Priestley
Sparkling wine – Christopher Merrett
Spotted Dick
Steak and kidney pie
Sunday roast
Toad in the hole
Worcestershire sauce[53]
Yorkshire Pudding

All delicious and not a chilli in sight

>>5024131
>Bangers and mash
kek

It's an overreaction to having no culture and a logical first step into actually having culture. See also, overhopped IPA, overextracted overoaked overboozy wines, and the subculture of being unnaturally "snobby" about one's extremely limited, but recently expanded knowledge of food.

We'll get over it in another generation, for now just leave it alone.

>>5024116
WOT PORT OF OMORICO DOD YOU GO TO?

Spicy food is a staple of real men, who are able to consume and enjoy it with no problem. Additionally, spicy foods have been proven to be a healthy component to the diet and can prevent certain cancers.

Go eat some more cooked dough you bloody wanker

>>5024154
>having projectile fiery diarrhea is healthy

>>5024144

OP here. I have been to New York, Vegas, Cali and Florida. The worst culprit for this was NY. Chilli Hipsters everywhere

>>5024154

And here we have the "manly men" argument. Obviously having only Oprah as the only parental figure in your life has lead to serious hang-ups over your own masculinity. ENTER OUR HERO CHILLI

Pathetic fella. Love you to come to the Curry Mile in Manchester and ask them to whip you up something "spicy and manly." I'd upload the video of you eating it on Facebook as "Adam Richman wannabe gets his arse handed to him by a 70 year old indian man"

>>5024162
>The worst culprit for this was NY. Chilli Hipsters everywhere

What? Are you talking New York the city, or upstate? I've heard they get obsessed over buffalo wings upstate but I've never noticed any unusual obsession with spicy here in the city, aside from the usual obsession with anything to do with food, spicy or not.

Can you describe one of these "chili hipsters"? Do they look like pic related?

>>5024169
The city (in b4 lol tourist traps) You'd see them sitting opposite each other lathering whatever they'd ordered in the hottest sauce the establishment had to offer.

Then they'd describe the heat to each other and compare it to other sauces/chillis/cafes they'd tried or been to.

Me and my crew were just laughing openly at them whenever we saw them (which was at least 3 times in a 10 day stay, not the same paid of course)

They looked like your picture but with more trimmed beards. Presumably to ensure airflow to the mouth to "experience" the heat more.

I'd wager they gargle tobasco before sucking each other off. Much like this guy >>5024154

>>5024174

Thanks for replying to my post 3 times OP, we get it, you can't handle spicy and that's okay

>>5024174
>Me and my crew
You might want to take a hard look in the mirror before laughing at the Chili hipsters, son.

>>5024174

I don't even remember the last time I was at a place that offered a selection of multiple hot sauces, and I dine out about 10-20 times a week depending on the week. The fact that you were able to do this several times makes me wonder if I'm just out of touch. Do you recall the names? Maybe it was one of those fly by night joints on St Marks that follows the short lived fad of the month?

>>5024131
Theres like 5 actually good things on the list, with a lot of mediocrity and shit food.

Theres a reason the world over thinks British food is shit. I've been to multiple continents and all the people I've met who have been have said the food was the worst part but atleast fish and chips were good. But really frying anything makes it taste better so no real surprise there

Americans are all circumcised because of their jew overlords and now all eat spicy foods because of their dominating Mexican population.

I like spicy food.

Habanero is usually too hot for me. The heat eclipses the flavor.

I accept that other people do not feel this way and can enjoy spicier things than I can. I'm glad they have found things that they like.

The issue is when they do the "muh manliness" shit. Then my opinion of that person goes from "oh you enjoy spicy things" to "oh you're just trying to look cool." I really don't get it. You're not impressing anybody.

>>5024209

Really? Because when you started the thread it seemed like you were genuinely butthurt about being unable to consume spicy foods, and were in turn angry at others who enjoy them. In fact, the masculinity thing was probably a joke but you seemed to have taken it to heart and made it the new platform of your argument against spicy food.

Glad we cleared that up.

>>5024209

Habanero is actually among the more aromatic of the common chilis. Yes it's hot, and this may reduce the enjoyment, but compared to something like a jalapeno it's much more flavorful and complex.

Just saying. Not a chili head.

>hurr britfag here

fuck man, i'm a britbong too but can you not shit all over the already strained relations our country has for food by being so obnoxious here?

>>5024169
He... he isn't wearing shoes...

>>5024141
>See also, overhopped IPA, overextracted overoaked overboozy wines, and the subculture of being unnaturally "snobby" about one's extremely limited, but recently expanded knowledge of food.
More or less this. More is netter in America. You know, the land of supersized people. When we decide something is good there's not even a question that more of it would be better.

Also we're just getting over generations of seeing spicy (or really any strongly flavored) food as low class and "ethnic". Hell, two generations ago much of the country found garlic and olive oil exotic.

But also keep in mind that the cultish hot pepper worship thing is more lip service than reality. While you can get incredibly hot peppers and sauces easily in the States most of what we label "hot" or "extreme" isn't nearly as hot as a proper Vindaloo curry or well made Thai dishes. Most Americans like the IDEA of spicy more than actual heat.

Americans, as a whole, aren't.

You CAN make a case for mayo for Americans, but that's it.

Personally, I can't stand the shit. I'd rather be able to detect bad meat. Plus it just sucks. I have nothing to prove, food wise. A lot of these hot food assholes probably whine about fish and/or seafood, and I have no patience for that.

ITT: white people

>>5024233

>netter

wat

>>5024237
>A lot of these hot food assholes probably whine about fish and/or seafood, and I have no patience for that.

But that's wrong. Why make such a ludicrous assumption, instead of an actual argument that exists?

I've lived in the US all my life and I think I could count the number of times I've had legitimately really spicy food in a restaurant on one hand. Most restaurants won't serve super spicy dishes, I suppose because they don't want to serve something too spicy for an average person that might make them send it back.

Actually I went to an indian restaurant in England (Bath) once and actually vomited because of the super-spicy dish they served me. To be fair, they warned me.

>>5024239

>that one guy who thinks he's being racially superior for identifying white anglo countries

>>5024116
>brits in charge of flavor

>>5024271

>being an ignorant shitposter

>>5024232
How else can you enjoy that spicy goodness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENktr1sCY5Y

>>5024116
>Britfag complaining about food not being bland enough
No surprises here.

Well Britfag I'm from Idaho in the states and there isn't a whole lot of super spicy stuff around. You went to some of the more "hipster" new-age places. Had you gone to the deep south (other than Florida, I'm sure Florida has a lot of Caribbean influences) you would have found alot of BBQ, not too spicy but very savory. Had you gone to the midwest you would have likely found alot of hearty meals (mashed potatoes, steak, greens, etc.). You just went to the wrong places.

On another note, man the fuck up, spicy is great. I don't hear you bitching about Vietnamese food or Taiwanese food which is typically quite spicy...or Mexican food...why bitch only at Americans?

>>5024180
He won't recall because his story is just fiction.

>>5024271
Burning mouth is not flavour, it's sensation like sherbet, although I suppose chilli's have some flavour and not just heat.

>>5024225

1. I'm not the OP.

2. I wasn't talking about the "manly" guy earlier in the thread. There are a lot of people, especially in the 18-24 age group, that link the ability to eat very spicy foods to masculinity instead of just understanding that taste varies.

You're really defensive.

Next time try the Jalapeno Poppers FFS

Or just try something spicy instead of bitching about why you're above eating it

>>5024279
>On another note, man the fuck up, spicy is great. I don't hear you bitching about Vietnamese food or Taiwanese food which is typically quite spicy...or Mexican food...why bitch only at Americans?

Because the color and spice in those foods has been fundamental to the culture for hundreds of years. Amerifats have only picked up on chillis for the past few years and it's "hurr durr lets put loads in"

Please don't insult the cuisine of those countries by comparing it to yours

>>5024290
>You're really defensive.

Ain't no god damn royal babby-worshippin Britfags gonna shit on my style of lunch

>>5024174
>You'd see them sitting opposite each other lathering whatever they'd ordered in the hottest sauce the establishment had to offer.
>They looked like your picture but with more trimmed beards.
Make the beards untrimmed and you described my sons. Twentysomethings obsessed with hot sauces. In their case I can explain exactly why they turned out this way. They grew up eating my cooking, which is spicier than the norm for NYC. They grew up going out to Asian and Latino restaurants, where if you ordered "spicy" you actually got spicy.

Now they're out on their own, and realizing that in most places what you get when you order spicy bears no relationship to their concept of spicy. And in typical young man fashion they overcompensate. (They also drink overhopped IPAs). I can't mock them too much for it, as when I was their age I was drinking fruit bomb wines that were 14% alcohol.

In England you can go to a curry house and get something very spicy if you're feeling it. In New York even the stuff labeled spicy on the menus is rarely that hot, unless you're choosing the place because you know they're not scared of heat. Most of the time if you like it hot you'll be relying on condiments at the table in most situations.

Meaning there's a chance some asshole might deem you a chili pepper hipster.

>>5024297
>Amerifats have only picked up on chillis for the past few years
I think you lost it there, it's too unbelievable that anyone would think that.

>>5024297
>hundreds of years

Well technically, the American countries that produce spicy foods have been doing so for just as long.

>>5024297

That's where you're wrong...New Mexico chilis (New Mexico is a State in the United States if you haven't heard of it) has been historically known for growing some of the best and most sought after chilis in the world. Do you think that the historical boundary between the U.S./Mexico has always existed where it is now? Do you really believe Native Americans did not eat spicy food? There is history here in the states with using Chilis in food, plus, the U.S. has a very high historical immigration rate, so a lot of foreign food styles have found there way here. You think Amerifats thought one day "HEY you know what would be HIPSTER and COOL? If we imported food styles from here here and here!!" Fuck no dude immigrants came here and cooked the food they like and we went to their restaurants.

>>5024301
Are you southern?

>>5024314
>actually replying to someone who thinks chiles are "new"

It's the same guy who thinks sriracha came out in 2004 and avocados are the new fruit for 2013. Just ignore him.

>>5024116
>When I went to the states EVERYTHING was super hot with added habenero/latest-hipster-chilli and regardless what type of place you ate at and what you ordered there
but this isn't true at all

>>5024314
>New Mexico chilis (New Mexico is a State in the United States if you haven't heard of it) has been historically known for growing some of the best and most sought after chilis in the world.
Not the anon you're responding to, but you're right. New Mexico is very proud of its Hatch chili crop.

But Hatch chilies (and the food of New Mexico in general) are on the mild side - hardly hot at all.

I like spicy food. The problem is, the more you eat, the more resistance you build up. Food without it just seems bland after too long a time.

The more i think about this, the more it seems like alcoholism

>>5024141
>overhopped IPA
lol.

>>5024321
Alcoholism is often the result of trying to avoid real life problems through the pursuit of intoxication.

Likewise if you think you are addicted to spicy food for the sake of being spicy and pushing your tolerance, you probably aren't paying enough attention to the actual flavors.

If you were to ask the average poster in a /ck/ hot sauce thread what they're really eating, it would invariably be some pig disgusting slop. This is why they resort to Dave's Insanity sauce and the like.

>>5024289
except that "spicy" is rarely the only flavor. The popularity of spicy food is in conjunction with the re-discovery of foods from cultures like Caribbean or Thai where spice is a feature of a complete dish. Or are you just complaining abot the .05% of people who drink staright hot sauce? OP did not even give an example of the dish/es that offended his twee pallet.

>>5024154
not even about the argument you made but that manly point made you look like a massive faggot

try again/10

captcha isidgood meaningful

>>5024141
>overhopped IPA

no such thing

>>5024513
my nigga

>>5024131
Thank you for recapping why the entire world thinks English food is total shit

Can you blame traditional British food for being so mild and bland?

The British didn't have many spices until the age of colonialism. They had to make due with what their Islands and neighboring countries had. Which wasn't much.

All the good spices were in the Orient. Which is why they colonized them.

>what are you trying to prove, America?

>>5024131
>Overly long list trying to prove England's value

Britfag here, OP is a giant faggot.

It's depressing - a lot of people particularly as you move out of the south-east seem to share OP's (lack of) taste. When I was living in Wales (which is hell on earth, never go to Wales) I noticed every time a curry place opened up in my area, we'd go the first time and get something delicious, and then a few weeks or months later if we went again it'd taste of insipid nothing. Nice little Indian restaurant opened, served a great chicken jalfrezi - we went back a month later to get takeout and the dish had morphed into some sort of bland tomato stew. Why.

I can only assume faggots like OP complain so loudly when they get a whiff of a birdseye that the restaurants ruin their recipes to shut them up.

>>5024240
b is next to n on a standard keyboard

>>5024651
America wouldn't exist without England. We can laugh about them but they are where most of our ancestors and customs came from. Your great-great-great grandparents probably ate chippy butties and warm beer in the fog.

>>5024833
In the northeast maybe...

My Mom's a Brit. She moved to America, probably because Brits are too big of pussies to handle some peppers.

>>5024282
/thread

/ck/ is really easy to troll

>>5024660
MOST BASED certified MOST BASED

>>5024862
Holy shit. /sp/ memes are so lame.

>>5024833
>America wouldn't exist without England
culturally, Germany and Ireland were much more influential on america. Politically england was obviously an influence, but as far as their cultural influence it is largely limited to the south and the mormons, the worst groups of people in america

>>5024884
whites are done for in america they are better off in canada now

>>5024833
>but they are where most of our ancestors
nope, far more immigrants came from Germany and Ireland. England is in the second tier with Poland, Scandinavia, and Africa

>>5024897
If by america you mean the south and California, the north is still white as shit and the small minority populations are almost entirely separated into their small inner city neighborhoods

>>5024116
I know your country is full of sandniggers but don't project it on us. America is white. Next time, come to places where you can see Americans, aka white people.

>>5024916
>>5024897
>>>/pol/

>>5024116
hispanic and asian immigration as well as influences from the south have steadily increased our tolerance to spicy food

>>5024240
> can't into context

Enjoy some bangers 'n Mash,ya pommy sonofabitch.
We like it SPICY.

>>5024131
Like 80% of that list is shit that's been mashed into some kind of paste-like substance.

>>5024116
>Why are Americans so obsessed with making EVERYTHING ludicrously spicy?

They aren't. In fact, the midwest and northern states generally eat food that's just as boring and bland as northern europe.

the southern US has spicier food due to influence from Mexico and the caribbean.

The hotness of food is mainly a geographical thing. locales nearer the equator tend to have spicier food because 1) that's where hot peppers grow, and 2) the spices were used to mask the taste of "off" food before the advent of refrigeration. Colder climates (those away from the equator) tend to have bland food since hot spices didn't grow there.

Think about it: Equatorial areas are famous for their hot food: India, Caribbean, Mexico & central America, Africa, southern China, Thailand, Vietnam, etc. Countries that have a cold climate are more known for bland food: Canada, northern Europe, Russia, etc.

>>5025134

Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Cuba would like to have a word with you.

Hello chaps,

OP here. I'm afraid you've all been taken in by a clever ruse. I have never been to your land of op-pork-tuna-ty and thus based my "troll" on what I see on TV which is limited to spicy food challenges.

Hook, line, sinker, copy of Fishing-Times and flask of herbal tea.

You've been had.

Britbong out, cheerio.

>>5024116
>Why are Americans so obsessed with making EVERYTHING ludicrously spicy
This isn't even a thing

How did you get that impression?

>>5024131
>>5024116
This says more about the english than it does anyone else.

>>5024884

The south has the best food in America you fucking retard.

Liking overly hot food definitely has a homosexual undertone, because you secretly enjoy ass burn, the same you'd have after getting rammed by a big black dude. The term "man up" might have a whole different meaning too, most likely "man up my arse".

It's no surprise Americans have become so found of spicy foods.

>>5025260
>The south has the best food in America you fucking retard.
That's because of the Acadian influence. You probably make fun of the French or Canadians in other threads, yet here you are sucking their collective French-Canadian hybrid penises.

>>5025182

FFS, I didn't list every equatorial country, I listed EXAMPLES. those which were most obvious for the purposes of discussion.

>>5025237
seriously
>buy "habanero" almonds
>literally just bbq flavored, no heat at all
>buy jalapenos from the grocery store
>only starts getting mildly hot after 4 slices
>"spicy" chicken sandwich from fast food place just has some black pepper sprinkled on it
Salsas today are typically mild=no heat, hot=mild, and FIERY BLAZIN HOT=hot
It's pathetic, the only way to get heat is to add it yourself, and then it doesn't matter what country you're in

>>5025260
the spiciest food does not mean the best food. southern food sucks in 99% of cases. unless you count Tex-Mex.

>>5025292
>unless you count Tex-Mex.
Tex-Mex is god awful. It's just shitty Mexican "style" food with lots of processed cheese.

>>5024116
That isn't even close to being true. Stop being so ignorant about other countries.

Spicyness is like saltyness. Its completely up to the individuals taste buds.

>>5025234
Go back to /b
Starting a conversation about how spicy is too spicy on the cooking board does not make you a troll.

>>5024318

>he experienced this
>"NO YOU DIDN'T!!!"

>>5025366
lol'd

>>5025366
>he went to the US and "everything was covered in hipster chili sauce"
>apple pie covered in hot sauce
>pancakes covered in hot sauce
>glass of water
>covered in hot sauce
I'm exaggerating and so is he
In the extremely unlikely event that he's not just some anti American troll or he actually did find find mystical American hot sauce on everything land, it sure as fuck wasn't an accurate cross section of the US.

>>5025394

He never said anything about apple pie or pancakes.
And of fucking course the guy is exaggerating, people do that to emphasise a thing, in this case that A WHOLE FUCKING DANGED FUCKED UP LOT of food in America is supposedly rather spicy. I dare say that most of the food OP had was spicy which led him to writing a post where he said "all food" he had was spicy so in the end, we can all agree, that I am now going to go to bed because it's late and I have to go to work tomorrow.

>>5024131
>Steak and kidney pie
>Jellied eels
>Spotted Dick

these sound horribly disgusting. like most of your list.
theres nit a single item on your list that i'd consider particularly good. apart from ice cream (lol)

>>5025269
>You probably make fun of the French or Canadians in other threads

Someones projecting

>>5025401
So he had spicy food, and then complained that it was spicy.
I can maybe understand what he said about "I like a nice spicy curry but not uncomfortably so". That's a valid complaint if he wanted spicy food, but it was way over the top. But then he goes on about
>making EVERYTHING ludicrously spicy
>EVERYTHING was super hot with added habenero/latest-hipster-chilli
>regardless what type of place you ate at and what you ordered
>6 different hot sauces on the table
no
Now he's just exaggerating to troll and be anti American. He did not experience this or anything remotely like this.

>>5024240
> can't into context

>>5025346
You've been had, my friend.

>>5024833
>nothing exists until Europeans colonize it.
>no one was there before Europeans
>only England colonized America, which was totally unpopulated
>no one else would have colonized that no-man's land if England hadn't.
>no other people from any other country came to America. Ever.
>America refers solely to the United States

This makes sense.

>>5024884
>>5024905
>>5025497

Devil's advocate here, as an Ameritard- sure, many other people came here who weren't British in origin, and they may have in time became/created the majority of the populace in the U.S, but that's only possible because there was a country and government in place for people to choose. If there hadn't been, there's a good chance half the continent wouldn't have decided to unify itself under a single nation, and if so, it certainly wouldn't have been the same as the one they chose without British (formerly British?) citizens choosing to break off and create the initial form of the government as it came to be during that period of mass immigration. If someone makes a cart, and someone else paints it blue, and everyone thinks that painting it blue made it fantastically better, it doesn't change that there wouldn't be anything to paint blue if the first person hadn't made the cart in the first place.

Getting back on track: I have heard horrendous things about haggis, and that Britain has a tendancy to boil its food entirely too much. Just be grateful you didn't go to India.

>>5024116
>ludicrously spicy
>1/4 of the picture posted is of bell peppers
Fucking britbongs.

If it's really spicy in America, it's probably a novelty dish. Like at buffalo wing restaurants. There's always a flavor they make too hot for anyone to enjoy. But they don't really want anyone to order it, they just want people to banter about it.

Otherwise, you can find extremely hot foods at Indian, Chinese, and Thai restaurants but I'm sure you're familiar with those.

>>5024884
Speaking as a born and bred Midwesterner, probably the most "german" area in the country I say that's bullshit for a million reasons.

>>5025543
To make your analogy accurate:

The "cart" was actually a lot of carts built by Native Americans.

Some vikings came and looked at some of the carts, then left.

The Spanish came and stole a bunch of the carts, they smashed them and built a big cart out of them, and painted them with blood and tears. Later that big cart was smashed and made into smaller carts again by hybrid populations. Those carts were still painted with blood and tears for a base, but later painted over with their countries' flag colors.

The Portuguese came and did the same thing the Spanish did, except most of their cart survived intact as Brazil.

The French, Dutch, and English came and did the same thing.

Focusing on the U.S., England was the prime cart taker for a the Eastern U.S. for a while, but lots the Dutch were a internal big presence, the French were nearby, and lots of Scots and Irish came to England's cart. The Native Americans were still there trying not to get killed. The present cartholders kicked English govt. out. Waves of many other immigrants came and changed the cart in all sorts of ways. The cart bought a big French cart and merged with it, and took a lot of Spanish carts in wars and did the same, all while smashing almost all the Native carts and incorporating those.

The cart almost split in half, but ended up staying together.

During and after all this, the cart got some controlling interest/influence in other carts through foreign wars, international trade, and culture exportation (e.g. Hollywood, McDonalds). Until it finally became the cart we have today.

>Sorry: procrastinating something important always makes me put way too much effort into trivial things.

Also: spicy food is good, and in the U.S. the product of many diverse influences and the increasing globalization of culture. Oh, and britfag OP was trolling.

Lifelong Amerilard here.

I have no idea what OP is bitching about. Most places serve the same sort of bland food OP is probably used to. The ones that don't are typically either ethnic restaurants (Thai, Korean, Mexican) or specific types of restaurants like hot-wings places, where drunkards compete over who can devour the hottest and most crap food.

>>5024116
Speaking as a fellow member of of your fine country, sir, you're a raging weak-ass faggot.

thai chili master race

>Order spicy food
>Complain that spicy food is spicy
Wow, great job OP.

>>5025543
>I have heard horrendous things about haggis
Well, it's actually rather nice. Not strong from spices normally, but definitely tasty. There's just this weird thing going on where the Scots try to dissuade non-Scots from eating it by making up stories about what's in it.
They're nice when steamed.

>OP admits to trolling (>>5025234)
>/ck/ is still arguing about it

>>5024116
I honestly have no idea where you got that idea, unless you ate Tex-Mex/Cajun/various other ethnic cuisines while you were here. The culinary problem with America is that far too much of our cuisine uses fat for flavoring (butter, cheese on every fucking thing, cooking in grease, etc.) and most people don't know how to make lean food flavorful with herbs/spices/chilies.

>>5025086
Give one single example.

>>5025737
i work as line manager at Grants of Galston. google will help.

i can confirm that the main ingredient of haggis is sheeps "pluck".

i.e. heart,lungs and various other vital organs. no eyeballs no testes no brain no intestine no MRM nor hooves. the intestine is however used in a similar style as sausage skin. a natural form of packaging.

i hope this clears up the"wtf is in a haggis" question

>>5025799

Nothing wrong with using fat for flavoring. The problem is people eat too damn much.

Ever read a French cookbook or check out a typical French diet? Butter, cheese, fatty meats everywhere. It's about how much you eat.

>>5024131
OK, England did not invent gravy or curry or sparkling wine.

I went to an Indian place when I was home for thanksgiving break.

The items on the menu had spice levels next to them. My dad and brother ordered before me and the woman tried to convince them not to get anything over 2 spices. They were convinced, but I wanted something spicy so I got something with 3 levels of spice. Holy shit, that was probably the spiciest thing I've ever eaten. I had to ask for a yogurt sauce because it was just so fucking hot. The spice levels went up to 5 though. Fucking indians.

>>5026274

Curry in general, no. But certain kinds of it, yes. Chicken Tikka Masala is a well-known curry dish which was invented in England..though quite recently, and with an obvious Indian influence (which makes sense, given that India was once part of the Empire)

Why are the majority of the anti-america threads made by Britfags?

>>5026287
Yeah, I experienced something similar when I started ordering Indian takeout regularly. First time I called they asked if I wanted mild, medium, or spicy, and I legitimately enjoy burning my tongue so I asked for spicy.

The guy hesitated for a bit, and finally said, "Are you sure? It's just, you know...the spicy is really fucking spicy." And he talked me into getting sort of an in-between thing called medium+. I owe that guy a lot because holy shit, he wasn't kidding.

>>5026302

Because that's the obvious source of English-speakers other than America, and this is an English-language board?