Why don't British eateries have the same variety as American?

[Anonymous No.11692154]

I'm a Brit in England and when i see my American friends online go to a cafe for even a doughnut and a cup of coffee, they'll have a choice of like 50 different doughnut types and flavours with different kinds of jam/jelly, green slime inside etc, different toppings. Here i get the choice of caramel, chocolate, or plain glazed.

Same thing with other types of food. 10 different types of cookies and dessert from a BJ's brewhouse in the States. In Nando's in England i might get 2 choices if i'm lucky.

Everything is so bland and plain here as far as food and drink goes while over there you have menus that are thick as half a Bible.

Size is also an issue too. Try finding anything like the pic related in a British restaurant. You won't get anywhere near that size cookie. They'll give you a quarter of that if you're lucky

How come they have let Americans eat so much better than Brits?

[Anonymous No.11692164]

>>11692154
get out of your village in Norfolk and come to London

[Anonymous No.11692177]

>>11692164
Nice try, I live in Birmingham

[Anonymous No.11692247]

>>11692177
Birmingham is a shithole lad.
>over there you have menus that are thick as half a Bible.
sounds awful. places that have a huge menu are invariably shite.

[Anonymous No.11692267]

>nandos

stop going to shit places

[Anonymous No.11692280]

>>11692154
British "people" would simply be overwhelmed and confused by a larger variety.
When it comes to food, Brits are a lot like dogs: Just give them the same slop every day and they'll be happy!

[Anonymous No.11692289]

>>11692154
>eateries
Idiot.

[Anonymous No.11692292]

>>11692280
>conquered and colonized 3 times throughout history
>small gene pool
You’re a fucking idiot, son.

[Anonymous No.11692327]

>>11692292
I'll admit that, aside from the small gene pool, BSE might also be responsible for the clear retardation of all British people

[Anonymous No.11692341]

I once got banned for three days from /ck/ for "racism" because I called British "people" an inbred bunch of red-faced, subhuman island-monkeys lol

[Anonymous No.11692445]

>>11692154
Who the fuck would want to eat an oversized chocolate biscuit with ice cream on top of it?

[Anonymous No.11692477]

>>11692177

But Birmingham is like the curry capital of the world. Tons of variety

[Anonymous No.11692505]

>>11692445
Anyone with a lick of taste?
Like Americans, the French the Itialians, even fucking Mexicans.

[Anonymous No.11692590]

A restaurant with a massive menu is a shit restaurant. Also that shit is American food and we are not American. Maybe stop getting your culinary worldview from American advertisements

[Anonymous No.11692599]

>>11692590
>America
>having its own cuisine
Oh fuck off back to /pol/.

[Anonymous No.11692624]

>>11692154
I was just saying this last night and everyone thought I was baiting. I'm in Spain and the food is pretty crap compared to the US. It's just like potatoes, bread, navy beans and kale and like 4 shitty kinds of beer. Almost no meat whatsoever and when you do order meat it's just gristle and bones. No eggs anywhere. I'm losing weight rapidly here because I refuse to fill up on fucking bread every meal.

[Anonymous No.11692671]

>>11692154
I think your culture held on to specify shops much longer than America, so your high street is literally hundreds of food shops and restaurants where we have a more spread out form which spawned larger, more divorce selections under one roof.

[Anonymous No.11692681]

You're exaggerating. American donut places often have maybe 10 flavors. Most restaurants have at most 2 or 3 different desserts. If you cherrypick the places whose gimmick is a large selection, of course they'll have tons.
It's utter shit, because a place that does a ton of things will often do most of them pretty poorly. It's much better to have a very small number of options because they typically can do them well.
In terms of size, large desserts are not that uncommon here in the US but they are woefully overrated. Again, a high quality dessert is always better than a shitty large one. No one should eat the thing you posted in the OP on their own, and that sort of thing is rare anyway (it does look quite good though). And with size there's price. I don't want to spend an exhorbitant amount on a dessert because they make the assumption that I'm a total fatty. I want a reasonable portion at a respectable price point.

[Anonymous No.11692724]

1. British culture doesn't base itself on eating out lots, so smaller menus will suffice as long as the options are good

2. British chefs aim for quality over quantity of choice

3. For the most parts, our tastes don't match American tastes - so why would we replicate it?

I've eaten in various countries around the world - the best chicken and chips was in Kenya, the best waffles was in Belize, the best fish was in the UK and the best artery clogging fried unidentified stuff was in the US.

Plus don't forget food quality in Britain far outstrips American food standards. Pop Tarts are a good example. If you buy them imported from the US in somewhere like Tesco, they have to blue sticker over half the pack because the claims of nutrition and vitamins don't match UK standards (they're effectively lies on the packaging).

Enjoy your British food culture and experiment with new dishes. Don't just go for the same old shit every time.

[Anonymous No.11692762]

>>11692681
I don’t know, many places have a large selection and it isn’t their gimmick, and they are fuck’in good... local menu:

Cheesecake

Apple Cheese Walnut

Fresh Strawberry

Boston Cream

Coconut Custard

Pecan Pie

Lemon Merique

Apple Crumb

Cherry Crumb

Blueberry Crumb

Dutch Apple Crumb

French Apple

Traditional Apple

Traditional Cherry

Apple Walnut Cheesecake

Chocolate Peanutbutter Cream

Fresh Strawberry
Fresh Strawberry Shortcake
Fresh Strawberry Cream Shortcake
Sugar Free Banana Cream

Sugar Free Strawberry Cream

Sugar Free Chocolate Cream
with bananas or strawberries

Caramel Apple Crumb

Pumpkin Pie


Fresh Blueberry Pie

Rocky Road Pie

Egg Custard Pie

Lemon Cream Crunch Pie

Giant Eclairs

[Anonymous No.11693136]

>>11692154
lol try going to copenhagen
everything is fucking expensive and you have little to no variaton of flavour. danes consider "jalapenos" exotic. when it comes to crisps we have - salt, sour cream and onion, bbq and cheese puffs

[Anonymous No.11693153]

>>11692341
based

>>11692724
You will be forced into US food standards soon as a result of brexit :)

[Anonymous No.11693171]

Germany anon here, wish I lived in the US, I just can't get good food here. I'm sick of our low quality offal pods we call sausages, and garbage pisswater beers

[Anonymous No.11693172]

>>11692445
It’s a cookie you faggot

[Anonymous No.11693180]

>>11693153
FUCK OFFFFFF

[Anonymous No.11693184]

>>11693180
Stay furious.

>>11693171
>american doing full LARP damage control
Post on /int/ and link it

[Anonymous No.11693212]

>>11692280
Stop being so obsessed for once.

[Anonymous No.11693227]

Are there places like Applebee's or Chili's in other countries? I know there are restaurant chains everywhere, but do they offer the same varied menu as American chains? You can go to these places and get a (solidly average) steak, fish and chips, tacos, fucking tendies, or a pasta dish all from the same restaurant. I think this is because American cuisine is really just an amalgam of 10 other cuisines, but in European countries their national cuisine is much more narrow.

Basically, American restaurants offer a greater variety because American cuisine is just a catalog of the last 250 years of immigrant foods.

[Anonymous No.11693238]

>>11693172

[Anonymous No.11693257]

>>11692624
>I'm in Spain and the food is pretty crap compared to the US. It's just like potatoes, bread, navy beans and kale
please go back

[Anonymous No.11693274]

>>11693238
Thats gonna get a yikes from me.

[Anonymous No.11693280]

>>11692624
>I'm in Spain
You'll fit in well, Americoon.
Same language you're used to and you have the same skin colour.

[Anonymous No.11693292]

huh... didn't know we brits were so hated.

If you want variety it is available. Nandos is like a portugese or african/moroccan themed place. I personally enjoy it a lot but you're not going to get a buffet of sweets.

If you want a massive selection of donuts just go to almost any supermarket and grab some krispy kremes? For desserts, go to an actual dessert place? or go to one of the many 'american style' diners like Frankie & Benny's? I'm not big on desserts in general but they do good milkshakes.

I've been to America a few times and I found their food to be a bit more similar in taste. More flavour perhaps but it just seemed like more salt and sugar rather than more variety. Maybe it's like adding your favourite sauce to every dish. You like it but things start to taste a bit similar.

[Anonymous No.11693313]

>>11692762
>30+ desserts
Do you really believe they have a chef on stand-by making all of those as soon as an order comes through?
They are bought frozen and get heated up.
You might as well make a menu of 100 desserts in that case.

Even the Michelin star restaurants rarely go beyond 5 original desserts.

[Anonymous No.11693385]

>>11693227
>American cuisine is really just an amalgam of 10 other cuisines
actually its an amalgam of cheap boxed frozen shit that is microwaved at every restuarant chain who get all their stuff from the same few suppliers

[Anonymous No.11693417]

>>11692154
I see through your attempted ruse

[Anonymous No.11693475]

Quality over quantity.

[Anonymous No.11693492]

>>11693385
>restuarant
Get a dictionary you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.11693505]

>>11693313
I know for a fact they have a baker come in Monday-Saturday and bakes all of those items.

(The fresh fruit pies are also made by other cooks as they are a high demand Togo item, and often sell out).

Many Michelin Star Restaurants also don’t give their guests a choice, as they are prix fixe menus.

[Anonymous No.11693510]

>>11693475
Obviously you haven’t eaten their idea of “quality”.

[Anonymous No.11693526]

>>11692177
>Birmingham
OH NO NO NO NO NO

[Anonymous No.11693535]

>>11693385
based retard

[Anonymous No.11693652]

>>11692590
>A restaurant with a massive menu is a shit restaurant

This. A large menu means very little, if anything, is prepared to order. It will mostly be reheated food, likely shipped in from a supplier.

[Anonymous No.11693657]

>ang*os think they have good food

[Anonymous No.11693667]

Almost everything grows somewhere in America, from limes, to rye, etc, and the country is a mix of different food cultures.

[Anonymous No.11693668]

>>11693385
Both statements are true. When you're reheating frozen prepared dishes it's easy to have a large menu - it's not like something frozen is going to go off if it only gets ordered once or twice a month. This saves cost on both food waste and personnel, because you don't need highly trained people in the kitchen - you just need people capable of operating the microwaves and the deep fryers. It also allows the restaurant to wow the rubes who eat there with such a variety of choices that they might not notice the relentless mediocrity of the food itself.

[Anonymous No.11693678]

>>11693292
>huh... didn't know we brits were so hated
lurk moar newfag

[Anonymous No.11693681]

>>11693657
>a frog poster

[Anonymous No.11693682]

>>11693668
And this is probably the single biggest reason the family sitdown restaurants are dying since it's only boomer/genx rubes who fall for that shit anymore.

[Anonymous No.11693725]

>>11693682
There was a time when frozen and convenience food was seen as modern and classy. That was 60 years ago. Restaurants that cater to this aesthetic still hang on in less affluent areas. But most educated people with a decent disposable income expect their food to be cooked to order from fresh ingredients. If that means going out less often and paying more when they do they're OK with that.

[Anonymous No.11693899]

>>11693725
>There was a time when frozen and convenience food was seen as modern and classy
Absolute horseshit.