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My friend just back from visiting merry olde England and we were discussing weird things and he said the one thing that freaked him out the most was one afternoon he was starving - and cold, cause it's always raining - and he went into a restaurant and ordered "biscuits and gravy" (seems he was feeling a bit homesick for his Southern (Illinois) hometown.

He said the waitress said, "coming right up, mate" and she brought him this.

Other than this freaky thing, he said England was okay though it rains a lot.

What is the deal with trying to get a plate of biscuits and gravy in the U of K?

>> No.6950955

did he eat it with a fork knife?

>> No.6950962

>>6950953
>cause it's always raining
England has been particularly dry recently with very low rainfall.
You're full of shit.

>> No.6950972

>>6950953
>coming right up, mate
female referring to anyone as "mate". This is not normal behaviour.
Didn't happen I'm afraid, you're friend is bullshitting you tbh imo fam.

>> No.6950979

>>6950962
Yup can confirm recent indian summer.
(it pissed down yesterday though)

>> No.6950981

>>6950953
You see this doesn't work on a very basic level because gravy isn't white and Americans call bechamel sauce "gravy" because they are stupid.

What an awful man you are.

>> No.6950992

>go to england
>head to restaurant for food
>watch is set to timezone of hometown
>ask someone what time it is
>TOYME? WOTS THAT?
>notice he doesn't have a watch
>no one in england has a watch
>big ben starts to chime
>everyone stops what they're doing to count the bongs on their fingers
>man crashes his car trying to count the bongs
>waitress drops my order on the floor to count her fingers
>man running down the street: OI IT'S 7 BONG
>mfw

>> No.6950993

>>6950962

not this week mate

>> No.6950994

>>6950962

he was there during the rainy season when all the Indians take their holidays in jolly old London

>> No.6950998

>>6950992
Beating a dead horse

>> No.6951001

>>6950953
England truly is a backwards country

>> No.6951002

>>6950953
Retard level bait by someone who clearly has not traveled outside their home state and has gained his knowledge of foreign cultures from television alone.
Sad, pathetic and pitiful.

>> No.6951004

>Illinois
>Southern

wot

>> No.6951011

>>6950953
Ausfag here.. just looked up biscuits and gravy

Fucking gross America, why do you have to put every naughty food together into one big heart attack abomination ffs!

>> No.6951015

>>6951011
>a food I haven't tried?! Yuck!!!!
Of course you're australian

>> No.6951016
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6951016

>>6950953

proper American biscuits and gravy

>> No.6951024

Asking for 'biscuits and gravy' in the UK gets you cookies and brown gravy, not cookies and milk.

>> No.6951025

>>6951011
They are American, what do you expect?

>> No.6951029

>>6951011
>immediately assumes food is awful because it's American
Fuck off untill you try it

>> No.6951032
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6951032

>>6951002

fork-knife

>> No.6951034

>>6951016
Mmmm, my mouth is watering and my cock is hard.

>> No.6951036

>>6951016
Scones covered in cat vomit, the food of scooter people.

>> No.6951037

>>6951024
Not only that, but the things in his picture would be called cookies in England too.

>> No.6951038

>>6950953
I bet she thought gravy was American slang for milk

>> No.6951050

Who goes into a restaurant and orders without looking at the menu?

>> No.6951053
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6951053

>>6950953
Pic related was lifted from an American website.

>> No.6951057

Has America actually tried to include a recipe in their cuisine which is healthful or is this litterally all they do with their time?

>> No.6951064

>>6951057
>healthful

>> No.6951068

>>6951057
Pizza is a vegetable according to American school nutritional standards.

>> No.6951071
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6951071

>>6951011
>Australian "cuisine"

>> No.6951073

>>6951064
What about it anon?

>> No.6951078

>>6951073
>about it

>> No.6951079

>>6951071
you can take the piss out of Vegemite but don't fuck with pie floaters.

>> No.6951081
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6951081

>>6951053

Mom must have left early to go to work today
Stay on it Lieutenant

>> No.6951086

>>6951071

Any retard can ruin any dishe with tomato sauce..

Outside of that pie in pea soup is league's better than biscuits and gravy

>> No.6951096

>>6951086
>league's

>> No.6951102
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6951102

>>6951086
>is league's better than biscuits and gravy

never had them but says wouldn't like
oh please leave your Mother's basement for at least a few hours today

>> No.6951108

>>6951071
I don't get it. Looks great to me, certainly better that scones covered in bechamel sauce.

>> No.6951110

>>6951102
>that cinnamon roll so close to the gravy
ocd rising...

>> No.6951112

>>6951102
Nigga that wasn't even a sentence.

>> No.6951118

>>6951112
>Nigga
I do not feel you are in a position to criticize someone's grammar.

>> No.6951126

>>6950953

So if I'm in the U of K and I want some proper biscuits and gravy what should I order?

baked crumblies and French sauce?

>> No.6951129

>>6951126
Pork is outlawed in the UK

>> No.6951137

>>6951126
>U of K
might want to pay a bit more attention in Geography there, son.

>> No.6951149

>>6950953
I went to the UK on a student exchange last year. The city was small but nice and the food was pretty good.
I didn't like tea and the fried breakfast we sometimes had was a bit much. Curry and roast dinner was nice and the stuff from the bakery's was excellent.
Nice old cathedral as well.

>> No.6951153

>>6950981
>Not understanding the difference between bacon gravy and bechamel

>Not understanding there's more types of gravy than just brown.

I agree OP is fucking stupid, but so are you, I'm afraid.

>> No.6951158

>>6951149
What city was it?

>> No.6951161

>>6951153
>I'll make bechamel sauce with bacon fat instead of butter
>Original recipe do not steal

You're a moron.

>> No.6951168

>>6951158

Lancanhavonshire

>> No.6951169

>>6951158
Lincoln, it's kind of near the east coast in the midlands.

>> No.6951176

>>6951161
So, you don't know how to make either bechamel OR cream gravy. Check.
Fucking idiot.

>> No.6951178

>>6951176
I can't tell if you are a shitposter or just a dumb American, probably both.

>> No.6951188

Americans have the drive to shitpost like Australians but none of the wit or charm. It's really sad.

>> No.6951190

>>6951129
I don't know where you get your information from but the people I stayed with ate a hell of a lot of bacon.
We went to a hog roast as well which was good fun.

>> No.6951192

>>6951178
Choosing to stick to your ignorance on the subject, and reply with insults, doesn't help your case at all.

>> No.6951195

>>6951176
I know all about bechamel thanks, spaghetti carbonara is my probably my best dish.
Check.

>> No.6951197

>>6951192
That's nice, naturally a shitposter who doesn;t know what a bechamel sauce is and trying to claim it as his own invention is an authority on the matter.

No doubt bechamel is a type of mayonnaise in your shithole.

>> No.6951200

>>6951197
>bechamel
It's spelled béchamel. The little thing above the e is known as an accent, it's common in the French language.

>> No.6951204

>>6951195
You're disgusting.

>> No.6951212

>>6951197
Never tried to claim it as my own, faggot, simply just trying to explain to the unwashed masses here that it's not the same as cream gravy (aka bacon or sausage gravy).

>> No.6951219

>>6951212
>Literally change the fat, a single ingredient
>Claim it as your own

Just stop posting, you're embarrassing yourself.

>> No.6951226

>>6951219
One ingredient, you say? Funny, I've never seen the gravy for biscuits and gravy made with a clove studded onion.
Confirmed for not knowing how to make bechamel or cream gravy. YOU should be embarrassed.

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6951228

>>6951197
>>6951204
>>6951219
béchamel induced autism.

>> No.6951229

>>6951226
I told my wife to clove stud an onion for me and I turned around and saw her trying to jam garlic cloves in it.

>> No.6951230

>>6951226
Just stop posting, your shitposting is tiresome.

>> No.6951237

>>6950953
American chunky bechamel isn't a glass of milk, cunt.

>> No.6951239

>>6951230
>can't admit being in the wrong, has to try and save face.

>> No.6951241

>>6951228
It's not autistic to know how to properly prepare food, you mouthbreather.

>> No.6951242

>>6951239
I ain't saving shit.You posted factually wrong information and, as usual with americans, are just resorting to arrogance and shitposting when proven wrong.

A terrible people.

>> No.6951248

>>6951242
You're an idiot. And what makes you think I'm American? You Brits can't cook your way out of a paper sack.

>> No.6951249

>>6951011
I'm surprised Americans don't just eat their slop out of a trough and cut out the pretense.

>> No.6951251

>>6951242
You've never proved me wrong, shitlord. I am definitively correct on this subject.

>> No.6951256

ITT: autists and the trolls who love them

>> No.6951257

>>6951053
You expect American shitposting to involve actual effort?

They didn't get the title of the worst posters by luck.

>> No.6951258

>>6951126
>U of K
lmao

>> No.6951261

>>6951071
That's some good stuff right there.

>> No.6951266

>>6951248
>>6951251
Keep crying Americans, maybe your tears will make a better bechamel, sorry "gravy".

>> No.6951268

>>6951102
That looks fucking vile.

>> No.6951277

>>6951257
>100 Why Do Americans threads every days
>Americans are the shitposters

Good one

>> No.6951282

>>6951266
Confirmed for having shit taste.

>> No.6951284

>>6951268
This is why there are vast oceans between America and third world shitholes. Because God loves us.

>> No.6951292

>>6951282
Of course they have shit taste. They're bongistanian.

>> No.6951310

>>6951004
Yeah I'm guessing the whole story is bait.

>> No.6951317

>>6951310
Probably written by an Australian.

>> No.6951335

>>6951200
It's a good job we aren't speaking the French language then, isn't it.

>> No.6951336

>>6951248
He's right tbh. Only you clappyfats make that nasty scones and bechamel sauce and you are defending it like he slapped your mother.

You are an Ameriblob and you trying to mock someone elses food is laughable.

>> No.6951346

>>6951251
>shitlord

Really? You are going to post that and then claim not to be a shitposter?

>> No.6951347

>>6951336
I don't think we can be friends anymore tbh

>> No.6951348

Non American living in America here. I like biscuits more than I thought I would. Call them scones if you like but they're great when well made. But I don't like having them with gravy. It's like poutine, you're adding stuff that doesn't need to be added. Only good as a novelty.

They're pretty good toasted with jam though. Can eat that shit erryday.

>> No.6951354

>>6951277
It's cute when Americans have such a warped perception of reality that you genuinely believe what you just typed, especially in an American shitposting thread, but then you people never got irony.

Oh well, the rest of us in reality will just continue to laugh at how pathetic you are.

>> No.6951357

>>6951310
>Yeah I'm guessing the whole story is bait.

No... really?

>> No.6951359

>all these degenerates who think they can cook

You need to be atleast 18 to post here.

>> No.6951362

>>6951284
Yes, god loved us to the point he wanted to isolate the world away from your assinine behaviour and awful personalities.

It worked too before you figured out how to use the internet. Now we are eternally plagued by your shitposting.

>> No.6951365
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6951365

>>6951292
I don't know, when it comes to awful taste you Amerishoots take the cheese.

>> No.6951369

>>6951347
Tough titty. We are having this playdate and there is nothing you can say to stop it.

>> No.6951415

>>6951365
>believing that anyone actually eats that besides children and trailer trash.

That's like saying all Bongs eat toast sandwiches all the time.

>> No.6951419

>>6951336
>trying this hard to defend your lack of culinary skills.
Samefag

>> No.6951420

>>6951415
But Toast sandwiches are a meme. :^)

>> No.6951541
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6951541

>>6951415

>> No.6951548

>>6951419
>Everyone calling me wrong is the same person in a vast conspiracy

You may wish to consult a medical professional.

>> No.6951556

>>6951541
Most Americans don't eat meals in Cambodian pedicure shops, AFAIK.
it's time for you to stop posting.

>> No.6951559

>>6951548
Prediction: next you will use the word "autist".
You're pathetic and so are your culinary skills.

>> No.6951562

>>6951068
Sauce?

>> No.6951576

>>6950953
>U of K
>United of Kingdom

>> No.6951583

>>6951335
Pourquoi?

>> No.6951592
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6951592

Why the fucking hate?
As far as I'm concerned it should be the Five Eyes nations against the rest of the world.
God Bless:
USA
UK
AUS
CAN
NZ
Everyone else can fuck off.

>> No.6951599

>>6951195
FUCK YOU

>> No.6951606

>>6951592
Why settle when the US is already dominating the world by ourselves?

>> No.6951612

>>6951606
Doing well in Syria I see......

>> No.6951663

>>6950953
This didn't happen:

Firstly biscuits and gravy isn't a thing in England, so unless this was an American-themed restaurant which had it on the menu, the waitress would be confused and question further before taking the order.

Secondly that picture appears to be milk and no where on Earth let alone England would think that milk is gravy.

Thirdly, women and restaurant staff would never refer to someone as mate.

Finally, that picture is one of Google's top results for "cookies and milk". Try harder.

>> No.6951673

>>6951663
You've cracked the case, Watson.

>> No.6951728

>>6951415
A lot of Americans do eat that. Sales figures don't lie. About as man as Brits eating chip butties. Every country has some shit that's embarrassing. I forget which one but one of the Mediterranean countries has a wine and cola cocktail.

>> No.6951732

>>6951663
solid 9/10 investigative work

>> No.6951755

>>6950953
>u of k

>> No.6951757
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6951757

>>6951011
>Ausfag here.. just looked up biscuits and gravy
>Fucking gross America

More like fucking awesome! Especially when drunk off your ass at 2:00am after closing the bar.

>> No.6951774
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6951774

>>6951663

On the contrary, friends of mine who have ventured across the pine say they get this meal whenever the ask for biscuits and gravy and Britland women do call men mate. but maybe not Brits just good looking American chaps. Usually in small towns on the sea like Ilfracombe or Burnham-on-the-Couch in Essex. It seems they appreciate the American tourist dollar.

Gee a photo on a Thai bicycle club image board is from GOOGLE. Boohoo. You are a sorry bloke indeed.

>> No.6951778

>>6950998
ill beat ur mums horse

>> No.6952005

I live in the South (in the USA) and I rarely ever eat biscuits and gravy.
They are usually pretty good when I do eat them.
Also, those cookies and milk looks delicious.

>> No.6952022

>>6950953
Brits will never understand real food, they are born with 80% less tastebuds than most people, thanks to all the pollution and inbreeding.

It's why foreigners brought all the edible food in england.

>> No.6953731

>>6951774
You lie and your friends are lying.
>>6951663 Has pretty much sewn it up and a waitress would NEVER call anyone 'Mate' (not that women use the term very much at all)

>> No.6953773

>Have perfectly fine buttery biscuit
>Decide to sog it in a disgusting sauce
JUST SOG MY SHIT UP

>> No.6953822

>>6951663

Australian women refer to men as mates.. maybe the waitress was australian

>> No.6953838

>>6951071
South Australian cuisine. I'm from NSW and I've never eaten that nor saw it in person in my life.

>> No.6953859

>>6951011
>>6951036
Everyone changes their tune once they try it.

>> No.6953864

>>6953731
>>6951663

women and restaurant staff call people mate all the time, wtf are you guys smoking.

>> No.6953914

>>6951057
Yeah why can't they eat fish n chips (fried fish) and chip buttys (french fry sandwich) like us limeys?

>> No.6953933
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6953933

ITT: English people complaining about how gross and unhealthy American breakfasts are even though they eat pic related.

Also Gordon Ramsay even admitted he like American breakfast better.

>We have pancakes and shit
>Enjoy your tomato and pork n beans

>> No.6953947

>>6953933

>We have pancakes and shit
>Enjoy your tomato and pork n beans

....thanks? pancakes are shitty austerity food.

>> No.6953959

>all these people pretending not to like something they haven't even tried
It's the "but i'm allergic to this thing you made that may not look the best but I refuse to even try it because of my 'allergy'" defense

Anyone who doesn't like biscuits has either no sense of taste or has never tried them.

>eww guacamole its green im allergic

>> No.6953961

>>6951169
Cool, I like Lincoln, did you go around the castle as well.

>> No.6953965
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6953965

>>6950962
>mfw poms from "rainy london" emigrate in droves to Perth, Australia where the annual rainfall is higher

Kek

>> No.6953966
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6953966

>>6953947
>Can of Pork N Beans and Economy Bangers
>Better than Pic related

Tip Top Kek

>> No.6953968

>>6953966
US here. Waffles are superior to pancakes.

Anyone else like chocolate chips and blueberries in theirs?

>> No.6953969

>>6953965
That is kind of like how Florida is all these old folks immigrate from more colder Northern States (essentially trying to escape the weather) then they get taken out by hurricanes.

Its funny because even if the hurricanes don't fuck your shit up you can be left without power for a week. It is also why people in Florida mostly suck at driving (most of them are old folks)

>> No.6953970

>>6951728
spain, it's called calimucho

>> No.6953972

>>6953968
Waffles are good too. I eat mine with blueberries in them.

>TFW own a wafflemaker

Shit is cash

>> No.6953973

>>6953972
I love being able to have a fresh, hot waffle in just under five minutes with any filling or topping I could want. My waffle maker gets more use than my crock pot.

>> No.6953976

>>6953973
Do you put honey or maple syrup or powered sugar on yours? Or do you just eat it as is?

>> No.6953982
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6953982

>>6953976
Depends on what I'm using as a filling.
I do blueberry a lot, and for that I just do maple syrup. Here's an old picture of a double chocolate with powdered sugar and maple syrup.

I have trouble eating them without syrup or a similar liquid, they make my mouth too dry.

>> No.6953986

>>6953982
I prefer maple syrup but have used honey and powdered sugar before too. I just use whatever I have on hand. All have their merits.

>> No.6953995

>>6953966

we don't do pork n beans, we usually have heinz baked beans in tomato sauce.

and yeah american pancakes are just fucking slabs of filler, i hate them.

>> No.6954016

>>6953995
>American Pancakes
>Le Crepe is superior
>Tibs Bedora

>> No.6954019

>>6953995
>heinz baked beans in tomato sauce

Fucking nasty. You eat that shit for breakfast? I bet you wreak like farts all day.

>> No.6954046

>>6953995
I'm American and I hate our typical pancakes too. I grew up eating German style pancakes, even in the local restaurants, so regular American pancakes are too thick and doughy for me.

>> No.6954049

>>6954019
Dude, beans on toast rocks. Not even a Bong, and I like it. Expand your tastes, man.

>> No.6954053

>>6954049
>try some flavorless beans on some flavorless hard bread
>what? you don't like it? NO TASTE! NO TASTE! NO TASTE! NO TASTE!

>> No.6954056

>>6954053
>beans
>flavorless

Pick one.

>> No.6954058

>>6954016

it's not fedora to actually be european you sperg. i don't understand why you wanna wade through all that dough.

>>6954019

typically we don't eat enough beans in a full english for it to turn us into leafblowers, and we only eat full englishes on sundays most of the time.

>> No.6954064

>>6954058
>Full englishes

I thought that is when you let Pakistanis run harem on your teenage girls?

>> No.6954066

>>6954064

i've never been able to relate to these jokes because no one gives a shit in england, only fringe racists. why do you want to suck everybody in to your secret brown people hating club.

>> No.6954074

>mother in law visiting UK where i live shes from Spain
>orders cup of T, most likely in terrible accent
>waitress brings a glass of warm water, slice of lemon, and sugar

I did not drink tea at the time so was unsure about how that happened, but holy shit be percise as you can when ordering in another country, and stick to the menu always. What would you expect to be served if i went into a fuckyeahUSA biker bar and ordered fishy chipy fish chips? Id hard expect them to get it right.

>> No.6954088 [DELETED] 

>>6954066
>English people do not care about groups of people raping their kids

>It is racist to care especially if that group is brown

Oh were full well aware of that Eurocuck.

>> No.6954112

>>6954074
We eat fish and chips too.

>> No.6954124

>>6954074
Most bars in the US serve fish and fries. A better example would be ordering a full english in the same biker bar.

>> No.6954327

>>6951774
I do apologise. Clearly having lived my whole life in England, I have absolutely no idea on our social conventions. Thank you so much for informing me on the correct conventions. And wow, you learned all that from a friend who spent a short visit here? You are a very fast learner.

>> No.6954346

>>6953965
This may be the case, but the quantity of rainfall is rarely a consideration for migrants, unless they are farmers. Yes, Perth's annual rainfall total is 122% of London's. but the number of days where it rains (>1mm) is 73% of London's total. This is far more important.

Perth's annual rainfall is 734.1 mm and days of rain 79.4: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_009225_All.shtml

London's annual rainfall is 601.7 and days of rain 109.5: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/gcpsvg2yz

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6955328

This is the best way to enjoy scones

>> No.6955384

Austin Texas gets more rainfall than London. UK is always cloudy but that doesn't always mean rain.

>> No.6955920

>>6955384
This. The British Isles gets plenty of cloud cover. Ireland gets more rain than GB because it takes the brunt of all that Atlantic moisture.

>> No.6956092

>>6951037
Not necessarily, they are cookies, but thats like a subsection of biscuits

>> No.6956924

>>6950953

so do the Brits call milk "gravy"?

I am planning a trip to the English Isles and am very curious about this

>> No.6956941

>>6951169
Lincoln's a lovely place as long as you don't go over the railway tracks. And they're pretty famous for having an odd regional sausage and pork products.

>> No.6956945

>>6956924
No, in the UK gravy refers to a sauce made with meat drippings/stock and some sort of thickening agent (usually a small bit of flour).

OP is just trying to make another 'Hur, Bongs have shitty food' thread.

>> No.6956948

>>6956924
How I, a Brit, make gravy:

Take the fat/etc that's dripped down from the roast meat I've been cooking and put in saucepan. If serving more then a few people, add some water.

Add a small amount of flour to thicken it up a little while cooking over a low heat.

Reduce down until it's reached the right thickness.

Serve by allowing people to pour over meat and vegetables to taste.

>> No.6957922

>>6951011
Reminder that children from your country look forward to eating sprinkles on a piece of bread for their birthdays. Fairy bread is actually peasant food in America. I'd probably give it to my dog before I actively ate any.

>> No.6957977

>>6951002
I know. It's so obvious that OP was not being the least bit satirical. What a retard.