/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14874823]

British food thread.
I don't really understand the hate, British food is probably my favorite regional cuisine.

[Anonymous No.14874827]

peas are fucking disgusting, why would you have peas when you can just have carrots and broccoli (delicious)

[Anonymous No.14874829]

>>14874823
my grandma is british and told me that lunch would be served with chips but instead of getting lays or ruffles i got potato wedges and i'm still not over it

[Anonymous No.14874837]

sloppa shit

[Anonymous No.14874840]

>>14874829
lying limeys are all the same

[Anonymous No.14874853]

>>14874840
The Perfidious Albion in the flesh..

[Anonymous No.14874991]

looks pretty tasty desu

[Anonymous No.14874998]

>>14874829
Guys! Did you know AMERICANS and BRITISH PEOPLE have DIFFERENT WORDS FOR THINGS?
How weird is that?

[Anonymous No.14875002]

>>14874998
Then how come I can understand everything you're saying? Check mate.

[Anonymous No.14875006]

>>14874998
This but why do bongs have such silly words? Don't you feel pathetic when you say things like chip butty?

[Anonymous No.14875349]

>>14874823
It's just trendy to hate white people now. I tend to just ignore them. White people are beautiful creatures. Art, literature, science, philosophy.

It's just jealousy. A full English breakfast is like watching a flower open, or a blind child seeing their mother for the first time. And anyone who says otherwise is even more repulsive than Hillary Clinton.

[Anonymous No.14875352]

>>14875006
I'm ESL myself but the notion that it's just Brits who speak like children doesn't really hold true when Americans say things like veggies and sammich/sammies and people act like that's normal.

[Anonymous No.14875557]

>>14875006
Americans say things like veggies so you're just as faggots as your British brethrens

[Anonymous No.14875644]

>>14874823
Most day to day food in any country is shit.
Japs it's a shitty bit of grilled fish, rice and miso. Polaks it's pork, salt, fat, potato and dill. America it's knock off savory scones with wallpaper paste 'gravy' and bongland it's meat and two veg. Thank fuck for immigration.

[Anonymous No.14875650]

>>14874823
oi, guv, you got an anal seepage loicense for that?

[Anonymous No.14875660]

>>14874823
https://youtu.be/N_oIys5KS4A

[Anonymous No.14875661]

>>14875650
amerimutts get anal seepage from eating a vegetable?

[Anonymous No.14875676]

>>14875661
bongs identify anal seepage as a vegetable? is that why people call them shit tooth?

[Anonymous No.14875680]

>>14875676
No hablo amerimutt senior

[Anonymous No.14875710]

>>14875644
Post nose

[Anonymous No.14875717]

>>14875660
amerimutt redditors in the comments all saying the same shite, fucking hell
northern accents literally aren't difficult to understand at all

[Anonymous No.14875783]

>>14874823
Why do people only post working class British cuisine in these threads? Am I the only middle class Bong here?

[Anonymous No.14875795]

>>14875783
>Am I the only middle class Bong here?
I too eat duck a l'orange everyday anon, but it's french not bongish.

[Anonymous No.14875816]

>>14875795
Well that's kinda the thing, middle class Bong food is a weird generic mix of Italianish, Frenchish, Chineseish, Greekish, sometimes South Asianish food. All of it simplified and made with English ingredients. From what I can tell about American middle class food it's the same.

[Anonymous No.14875842]

>>14875352
>>14875557
>veggies
I'm so sick of seeing this word everywhere.
>>14875783
Yanks think British cuisine is ASDA 30% pork sausages and mashed potato slop. They never leave their country and learn everything through Hollywood stereotypes.

[Anonymous No.14875871]

>>14875842
>I'm so sick of seeing this word everywhere.
Do you work in the coma ward?

[Anonymous No.14875894]

>>14875842
>I'm so sick of seeing this word everywhere.
Tell me more about how these "veggies" appear to you as being "everywhere"

[Anonymous No.14875953]

Cant get it in the US

[Anonymous No.14875960]

>>14875783
You're not the only one but we are outnumbered by people who think that putting a Tesco's Finest Garlic Baguette in the oven is basically Farm to Table

[Anonymous No.14875985]

>>14875953
Are sausages really not a thing in the US?

[Anonymous No.14876020]

>>14875985
They have little ones and these round patty shaped ones made from sausage meat but I didn’t find any Thick Cumberland or Richmand style bangers anywhere.

[Anonymous No.14876076]

>>14874823
Why is British food so dead looking? Look at that plate. All the colors are white, brown, and dead green. There's no vibrancy to it. Is that why Brits drink so much? It's the only kind of color they get in their lives?

[Anonymous No.14876099]

>>14876076
You're just looking at shitty British food. To be completely fair, British food has nothing special at all. It's basically a worse, more boring version of northern French/German food. However, that doesn't make it supernaturally bad. It just makes it non-special. There's still dishes which are really tasty, and there's still dishes which are popular worldwide even though IMO they're disgusting (why do you people love macaroni cheese so much), and ofc the drink side of British cuisine is one of the most renowned out there.

[Anonymous No.14876110]

>>14876076
>>14876099

It's not all beige and brown

[Anonymous No.14876111]

I'm British and I understand our reputation for grim food. The typical day to day meals that many Brits have are cheap, highly processed, high carb lumps of bland beige fodder that are unceremoniously dumped from freezer to oven to plate, with no real attention to quality or even flavour. It makes for half decent comfort food, but it's not healthy or beautiful in any way.

In any developed country, you don't have to go far to find amazing food or the ingredients to make amazing food. Still, traditional British food tends to be based on practicality rather than inspiration, for example the humble sandwich was invented here, so that eating wouldn't get in the way of more manly pursuits like hunting. The Cornish pasty was invented as way to make a meat and potato stew easier to take down a mine. The full English breakfast is basically just an assortment of cheap, protein rich ingredients to set a lad up for a long day of graft.

The major British contribution to world cuisine is found in our trade routes that brought exotic ingredients to the kitchens of the more adventurous chefs on the continent. We do have a distinctive culinary culture. A massive range of cheeses and ales, ciders, whiskeys, a selection of fragrant curry houses in every town, a Willy Wonka level variety of sweets, candies and goodies, and so on. But what the British seem to do best is make world cuisine accessible to everyone else. We weren't the first to drink tea, but we showed the world how to do it.

[Anonymous No.14876121]

>>14876110
>>14876099
Thanks for the images, but these are still variations of OP's pic, but just with better lighting. The only difference is the slight pink with the broccoli.

I assume that if I see any color in British food it's because of immigrant influence.

[Anonymous No.14876125]

>>14876121
There is no broccoli on that plate

[Anonymous No.14876126]

>>14876121
What d'you mean, I posted a picture of a smoked fish milk based stew/soup.

[Anonymous No.14876130]

>>14874823
It's not bad but its a go out once a quarter type of thing.

[Anonymous No.14876132]

>>14876111
Are you from Newcastle or something?

[Anonymous No.14876134]

>>14876121
Yeah we don't like colour in our food

[Anonymous No.14876141]

>>14876134
Damn, you've reminded me, I should make a summer pudding
>inb4 it's not summer
coronavirus rules

[Anonymous No.14876149]

>>14876125
You are right. I knew that and my mind went to broccoli anyways. My bad.

[Anonymous No.14876154]

>>14876132
Close, I'm from Yorkshire. Why? Is the working class family dinner of fish fingers, peas and chips just a norf thing?

[Anonymous No.14876225]

>>14876111
That's a nice exposition unironically

[Anonymous No.14876248]

>>14876154
It's just a reductive view of British cuisine which you'd only get if you thought your specific class and region was the only one which existed. Like no, British cuisine isn't any more focused on practicality than any cuisine is. I could make the same argument about Chinese cuisine but that wouldn't be true either.

Also, unrelated, but we didn't teach people how to drink tea. Most people who drink tea drink it Chink style or Russian style.

[Anonymous No.14876262]

>>14876111
The bigger question becomes, why had the English elected to work themselves to death as they had? Yes, literally to death. You like us, are dying due to insane obesity rates.

[Anonymous No.14876275]

Hey anon's im stuck In london for 2 week, where can I go for some good brit food.

[Anonymous No.14876276]

The "it's all beige" argument is so stupid. Are noodles suddenly bad because they're beige? Pastry suddenly tastes like shit because its not bright green? Guess I'll chuck out my disgusting bread since it's dangerously light brown.

Grow up.

[Anonymous No.14876279]

>>14876262
That's one mangled sentence, anon. I think I get the meaning though. Basically, working class Brits have a shitty food culture. They have no standards. Living on frozen meals is completely fine to them. Cooking the shittiest but least effort and cheapest versions of a dish is fine to them, because they're tired from working hard all day and nobody taught them how to cook properly because their mum grew up on rations.

Middle class Brits ALSO have no standards, but they're richer so they can just buy good meals and ingredients.

[Anonymous No.14876321]

>>14876275
>St John's/John's Bread and Wine does hipster trad Bong food, it's fucking delicious. Think stuff like the entirety of a pig's head, or roast ox heart. Big focus on the bits of British cuisine which got 1950'd out of existence.
>J Sheekey do traditional London seafood, also delicious but their service is way too...servicy for me. It makes me feel uneasy.
>Duck & Waffle for trendy cuisine with GOAT views. Overpriced though because they can bank on their location.
>The Wolesley for British style bistro fare. You'll get the classic mix of traditional British dishes and (what used to be) fashionable French cuisine. IMO it's a bit too traditional for me though lmao.

All of this is pretty expensive though. Cheaper street food stuff is Gaby's (J00 stuff), Brick Lane Beigel Bake (more j00 stuff), some fancy fish and chip place (yet more j00 stuff, people seem to have forgotten how much the Jewish immigrants influenced London culture), and a pie and mash place.

[Anonymous No.14876422]

>>14876248
Many Brits do live on turkey twizzlers and chips though. Maybe it's an unfair stereotype but it was my experience growing up. Obviously there were homemade spaghetti bologneses and shepherd's pies etc, but look at the level of processed food eaten in the UK compared to the rest of Europe. Yes, it is a lot more, I've seen the numbers. Why do Brits tend to eat like that? I think it's because Brits just tend to care less about food, seeing it as a secondary part of their lifestyle (relative to other cultures). It's more like fuel than something to be passionate about. You'll notice I'm stressing this is a tendency, compared to other countries, not a universal rule.

Can you imagine Brits designing as many shapes of pasta as the Italians did? Or as many sauces as the French? How many sauces do we have? Gravy, mustard, horseradish, Worcestershire, apple, HP... I bet a Frenchman with a passing interest in cooking could name twice as many in half the time. Maybe that's my failing, but it just seems to me that what Brits tend to make and eat is based more on convenience than continental food is. Take fish and chips. A handful of common ingredients deep fried and wrapped in newspaper. It takes 5 minutes. A child could do it. It does have a sort of windswept, masculine beauty, and it can even be fairly tasty, but it lacks the artistry and commitment of something like lasagne or paella.

Our creations tend to be fast, simple, practical dishes. Pies, boiled veg, baked beans, cheese on toast, sausages and mash. Some cultures will spend all day carefully cooking their evening meal and eating it will be the day's main event. That's unthinkable in Britain unless you're a professional chef.

[Anonymous No.14876432]

>>14876276
Good food stimulates all the senses, including sight. A variety of colours on the plate is objectively more appetising than a pile of stuff that is all the colour of "food."

[Anonymous No.14876464]

>>14875349
>It's just trendy to hate white people now. I tend to just ignore them.
except a good portion of the white hate is self-hating whites

[Anonymous No.14876486]

>>14876262
I think it's a class issue. There's a class of people in Britain who see their role in society, and basically every aspect of their life, as purely functional. They'll think nothing of living in tiny, cramped terraced houses their entire lives. And that attitude extends to food. So they mindlessly shovel into their mouths whatever will fill them up, sometimes while on the way to or from work. Look at the success of Greggs. So many Brits eat that stuff day in day out without even thinking about it, because it's cheap, filling, and convenient. Taste and health are secondary concerns, if at all.

[Anonymous No.14876501]

>>14875002
Checked, mate

[Anonymous No.14876503]

>>14876422
Like I said, your point of view is extremely limited. You have to learn to stop generalising based on your upbringing. I had equally retarded views of Bong cuisine until I met people like you, because I grew up in an extremely middle class town surrounded by middle class snobs.

You're right that working class Bongs rely on frozen food etc. a lot -- I said so myself in other posts -- but A. that's a class thing and B. that's food culture rather than cuisine. We definitely have shittier standards compared to French people, but that's...nothing to do with wanting practical food. It's not because we care less about food, it's because we care less about the quality of our food.
>Can you imagine Brits designing as many shapes of pasta as the Italians did? Or as many sauces as the French?
Yes. Britain has developed many sauces. Gravy, mustard, horseradish, worcestershire, apple, hp, yeah, and also all other forms of steak sauce, ketchup, mushroom ketchup, bread sauces, curry sauce, chilli vinegar, eel liquor, mary-rose, custard sauce, piccalilli, mint sauce, branston, and more I'm too lazy to think of.
>Maybe that's my failing
It IS, that's what I'm trying to tell you. And I'll admit it's a failing a lot of Bongs share, but that's kinda irrelevant to the cuisine of the whole nation.

There's nothing fast, simple, and practical about a pie. Baked beans aren't even ours, they're American. We do much more than boil veg wtf.
>Some cultures will spend all day carefully cooking their evening meal
Sounds a lot like your average middle class housewife, anon. But I agree we don't have eating being a big social bonding moment like some cultures, because we used pubs and tea for that. That's a good thing though. Those other cultures are desperately copying our drinking culture while ditching their focus on meals.

[Anonymous No.14876520]

>>14874998

[Anonymous No.14876525]

>>14876503
Also I don't think anyone in this goddamn thread realises how renowned British baked goods are. Why? I don't fucking know. I guess they fell for the cream tea meme. I hate them personally, but Asians can't fucking get enough of (somehow shittier imitations of) our cakes.

[Anonymous No.14876561]

>>14874827
peas with white vinegar is one of the best side dishes possible, carrots are pretty gross

[Anonymous No.14876573]

>>14876561
Peas with white vinegar isn't a dish

[Anonymous No.14876647]

>>14876503
The thread is about BRITISH food. How do we talk about the eating habits of an entire country, 60+ million people, without generalising? I thought it was clear that I was aware I was generalising, pointing out the tendencies of a certain class of Brit and not describing the entire country's only style of food. Nobody thinks the middle and upper classes eat turkey twizzlers and I didn't mean to imply they do. I was talking about a specific food culture, the frozen processed trash food culture that you're obviously familiar with but don't want to acknowledge is a big part of Britain's reputation for bland slop (which is the topic of the OP). I did say "many Brits" when referring to this phenomenon, not "all Brits."

I absolutely take your point regarding our sauces though, you're right. Obviously I could've named all the sauces you did off the top of my head if I'd spent a little more time. But yeah, Brits absolutely can and do produce a vast range of incredible foods when we try. My point is that we tend not to try as much as other countries to make fancy or complex food, and never have.

Pies are pretty simple. 25 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees, done. Baked beans might've been invented in the USA but they're a staple of British pantries. I didn't say all we do is boil veg. Again, it's just another tendency of the culture I'm referring to.

It looks like what I've done is confuse cuisine with culture somewhere along the line, and let you misunderstand which demographic I was talking about. So I apologise for that, I should've been more clear.

P.S. I had no idea we invented ketchup. Nice!

[Anonymous No.14876651]

>>14876422
>Why do Brits tend to eat like that? I think it's because Brits just tend to care less about food,

Or because our restaurants are some of the most expensive in the world, even the ones that are microwaving prepack frozen shit

[Anonymous No.14876690]

Brits are morons

[Anonymous No.14876701]

>>14874823
How's this for a breakfast roll

[Anonymous No.14876743]

>>14876690
were you kneeling when you wrote that?

[Anonymous No.14876751]

>>14876743
yes because your mom was standing if you catch my drift

[Anonymous No.14876815]

>>14876690
typical american, would rather catch the coof than give up late night burgers

[Anonymous No.14876826]

>>14876751
That's pretty fucking beta of you.

[Anonymous No.14876840]

>>14875660
Is the younger guy from Liverpool? Is a liverpool accent considered "norf" accent? t. Burger

[Anonymous No.14876857]

>>14876690
How the fuck does a 10pm curfew reduce the spread of the flu? Next they'll say the vaccine is in police officer sperm so everyone needs to suck police cock and swallow.

[Anonymous No.14876860]

>>14875816
As an american middle class I can tell you american middle class food is some of the worst on the planet. Poor americans at least dont give a fuck about their health. Retarded boomers bought into the low fat craze and think you have to cook meat to 190F. A typical AMC meal is unseasoned pot roast, steamed broccoli with no butter that tastes like farts, and boiled potatoes. Flavorless slop. Oh and "salt is bad for your heart so go easy on it."

[Anonymous No.14876908]

>>14876857
They need to send everyone home before they start licking lampposts and spitting in each others mouths

[Anonymous No.14876914]

>>14876860
I thought that was a midwestern US thing.

[Anonymous No.14876941]

>>14876914
It definitely is but you can find it all over the country. Suburbs are pretty much the same soulless hellscape no matter if you're coastal or flyover.

[Anonymous No.14877064]

>>14876647
you were very clear mate the guy is just a mong

[Anonymous No.14877121]

>>14874823
>British food is probably my favorite regional cuisine.
holy shit

[Anonymous No.14877124]

>>14875352
>veggies and sammich/sammies and people act like that's normal
Nobody acts like it's normal, it's said as a joke on the internet like tendies.

[Anonymous No.14877139]

>>14875352
only 14 year old girls in 2002 said sammich.
Never heard sammies.

And i would take veggies over spotted dick and faggots any day

[Anonymous No.14877147]

>>14876503
>other cultures are desperately copying our drinking culture
Yes. That does seem like something you would do out of utter desperation.

[Anonymous No.14877160]

>>14877139
Pretty sure you take spotted dick and faggots most days

[Anonymous No.14877170]

>>14877160
why do british name their foods after homosexual acts?

[Anonymous No.14877534]

>>14875985
Sausages are everywhere in the US. Summer Sausage, BBQ sausage, breakfast sausage. We got lots of sausage.

[Anonymous No.14877553]

Munchy boxes are god tier

[Anonymous No.14877605]

>>14876647
>My point is that we tend not to try as much as other countries to make fancy or complex food, and never have.
The average person from every country doesn't put that much effort into food from what i've gathered. It's just that british food has been memed so hard that people compare midweek lower class british food to higher end foreign food.

[Anonymous No.14877670]

>>14877534
In fairness to britanons I would posit that the most popular sausage in the US is breakfast sausage links/patties. Although in areas with large polish or german populations there's more of a variety. And ofc hot dogs have supplanted brats in popularity, which is a shame.

[Anonymous No.14877800]

>>14874823
>dried ass looking peas
>breakfast sausage with onions
>dirty looking mashed potatoes
>OP can't figure out why the world laughs at England and their cuisine.

You'd think a country that conquered, plundered and raped COUNTLESS other counties and cultures through out all of history would have figured out how to use the spices and recipes and ingredients they stole...

[Anonymous No.14877819]

>>14877534
>put a herb in ground meat
>lol imma call this sausage now
That's not how any of this works

[Anonymous No.14878120]

>>14877819
a sausage is usually preserved by smoking and curing, but it's still a sausage even if it's not preserved.

[Anonymous No.14878146]

>>14877800
Because england is a fucking lie. They fucked over tons of people because they fucked over their own people so bad.

Mongolia plundered and raped countless peoples but they have a well established culture and imo better looking food. It looks like something a man would eat not something a sad little faggot spotted dick would eat.

[Anonymous No.14878257]

Shit that's typically "British" takes some effort to cook well. And if it's not done well, it's fucking dreadful.
Sausage, mash and onion gravy.
Shepherd's pie.
Proper roasts - beef with yorkshire puddings, leg of lamb on the bone...
Steak and kidney pie.
Proper fish and chips, with a stupid amount of salt and vinegar on it.
Liver and bacon.
Almost none of it can be done in a hurry (in the way that a lot of Italian pasta dishes can be), so people can't be arsed, or they cut corners like buying instant fucking gravy. Proper gravy made in the roasting tin using the meat juices is outstanding...

[Anonymous No.14878274]

>>14874823

[Anonymous No.14878296]

britanons, what's your favorite gravy recipe?

[Anonymous No.14878329]

>>14876701
I made a beef stew recently and poured it into a hollowed out crusty loaf like the one in your pic, using the removed bread for dipping. It was great, and about as traditional a british meal as possible. Though the same person who ate the stew wouldn't eat the bread, they'd pass it on to the servants to eat

Pretty cheap too because they sell all the daily bakery stuff for really cheap later on in the day, so it was only 20p. You have to be prepared to fight a horde of chinese ladies though if you want non bread cheap stuff

[Anonymous No.14878340]

>>14878296
Chicken gravy
>Chicken fat
>Chicken stock
>flour
>Seasoning

It's just a basic pan gravy but that shit on a homemade, dense and chewy yorkshire pudding is culinary perfection

[Anonymous No.14878378]

>>14878340
What seasonings do you use? Sounds delicious.

[Anonymous No.14878397]

>>14876154
im welsh and eat that too haha

[Anonymous No.14878431]

>>14876111
You bongs do have good alcohol. Pub food is cozy, esp if I can get some decent mustard for the bangers. Once had a Brit describe curry as the national dish of England lol

[Anonymous No.14878451]

>>14878146
Why do you think they give soldiers terrible rations?

[Anonymous No.14878853]

>>14876860
>dude eating raw eggs will literally kill you
>dude eating undercooked red meat will literally kill you
>dude salt is the devil
>dude MSG is the devil
>dude fat is the devil
>dude cereals are healthy and every meal needs a carb
>dude spicy food will destroy your stomach
I can't imagine growing up with the culinary knowledge I have now. Jesus fuck.

[Anonymous No.14878868]

Hey bongs, is there a good resource for British recipes? Your various assortments of pies, rolls, stuffings and such all sound really good and great fun to make, and you pretty much can't find British food in the South where I live or anywhere else outside of NE.
t. burger

[Anonymous No.14879621]

>>14874823

[Anonymous No.14879873]

>>14878868
/ck/ should collab on a Norf FC cookbook, ingredients and steps all in norfspeak

[Anonymous No.14880718]

>>14878378
Salt, pepper, and rosemary, nothing fancy

[Anonymous No.14880723]

>>14878378
Oh and I've been putting in a bit of MSG in recently which makes it great

[Anonymous No.14880743]

>>14878868
Delia Smith cookbooks, especially older ones

[Anonymous No.14880772]

>>14876111
all correct but brits didn't invent sandwich, similar as italian didn't invent flatbread with toppings
both have their unique (and popular) way to make those dishes but the concept itself is widespread and not unique

[Anonymous No.14880781]

Im starting to think that all of this was started by self hating brits.
I originally wasnt aware of it, but there seems to be millions of them.

[Anonymous No.14880827]

>>14880781
this attitude is common in every country, it doesn't matter if it's rich or poor
china is the only exception

[Anonymous No.14880924]

>>14876422
>Our creations
>Baked beans
Actually an American import, the flavor got changed for british markets because the meat in the yank version counted for your meat ration.

[Anonymous No.14880941]

>>14880781
It was started by Americans when they went to the UK during rationing, and likely in the post-rationing era when very few people could actually cook and most just made poverty tier shit because it's all they knew.

[Anonymous No.14881046]

>>14880941
all of europe was rationing

[Anonymous No.14881090]

>>14878431
>Once had a Brit describe curry as the national dish of England lol
Because it is. Non-Bongs tend to assume that's like some comment on immigrants taking over or something but no, it's something which your average (non-Poo) family cooks twice or more per week.

[Anonymous No.14881092]

>>14878868
Nose to Tail for poncier but still tasty Bong cooking

[Anonymous No.14881097]

>>14880827
>china is the only exception
You have no idea how wrong you are. But I guess the Chinks who fucking hate China don't exactly advertise it online.

[Anonymous No.14881101]

>>14881046
France ended rationing in the 40s. The UK ended rationing in the mid 50s.

[Anonymous No.14881160]

>>14880781
It's more that our biggest generation was young during rationing. People like what they like as a kid, so the baby boomers love shit like corned beef fritters or cottage pie without any seasoning. They then continued to make that shit for their kids, who then made it for our generation. In the 70s and 80s frozen food also became more common, further making things worse and basically meaning chips were added as a side to every meal

I'm the third generation raised on bland shit like mince beef stew, but I've got interested in cooking and now I'm considered the best cook in my family just because I actually use minced lamb in my shepherds pie, make the mash with butter and cream, add some herbs and add cheese. I've got a small collection of pre-world war recipe books and they're really interesting. If you're interested in learning about some start with Mrs Beetons book of household management.

[Anonymous No.14881167]

>Here's our all-american stew!
>What could be more american than this classic pot roast?
>they're just normal British stews and pot roasts
Why do Americans do this

[Anonymous No.14881169]

>>14881167
also kinda weird question, but is the phrase "as American as apple pie" supposed to be sarcastic? I always thought it was because obvs apple pie is British but over the years I've become less sure.

[Anonymous No.14881200]

>>14881169
I don't think it's supposed to be sarcastic, but yeah I'm certain apple pie would have been made in england first. There's also apple strudel, but what's more american than taking something british or german and saying it's American now?

[Anonymous No.14881219]

>>14881169
Not sarcastic. Americans eat an absolute nonsense amount of apples compared to other countries. It's all apart of the Johnny Appleseed mythos, which was just a huge marketing campaign for apples back in the day (sort of like "got milk" etc) Apples are very plentiful and cheap as a result, so making them into pies became a big part of american culture, since it was a very inexpensive dessert. The origin might be british but the US eats way more of them. It actually kind of freaks me out. You go to an american supermarket and there are just rows and rows of piles of apples, then whole other sections with rows and piles of bags of apples. Who the fuck is eating all these apples?

[Anonymous No.14881233]

>>14876464
Because its trendy. Plus they desperately crave approval so they'll lower their own position as much as they can for it

[Anonymous No.14881803]

>>14875349
cringe, not everything is about muh white genocide. people dont like british food because it isnt fancy like french or italian cuisine, nobody shits on that just because theyre WHITE
inb4
>italian
>french
>white

[Anonymous No.14881857]

>>14878296
Proper gravy is the last thing you make when all the other stuff is ready: remove the meat from the pan you cooked it in and pour the juices into a jug, leave it to separate then remove some (but not all) of the oil leaving the delicious meat juices at the bottom. Then pour that back into the pan and put it on the stove, add in the water that you boiled the peas in and a couple of chicken stock cubes. Then you need to add a thickener, my dad used to use flour + cold water + gravy browning but I prefer bisto gravy powder + cold water. Then just stir and bring it to the boil to make it the right consistency.

If I'm not making a roast and I want gravy then I usually do onion gravy which is pretty much the same except instead of meat just fry the fuck out of some onions in a saucepan and make it in there. And if you're not making peas then you're doing it wrong because peas are lush, but under special circumstances where that isn't possible then you can replace the pea water with sherry and water.

Also if you're doing gravy for duck then add some orange juice into it.

[Anonymous No.14882152]

>>14876690
kek leicesterfag have you ever eaten at TJs?

[Anonymous No.14883069]

>>14881219
>Who the fuck is eating all these apples?
I am

[Anonymous No.14883194]

>>14876111
>for example the humble sandwich was invented here, so that eating wouldn't get in the way of more manly pursuits like hunting
That's bull. Germans have slapped different kinds of fatty meat on rolls and bread for generations because it's the most effective way to get a high amount of calories without becoming lethargic from water weight, so they can continue with physical labor.
Bratwurst, Leberkäse, Mettbrötchen and simple shit like grilled chicken or Schnitzel packed in a bun is still a staple for any blue-collar job and you can get at least 1 of those things at any butcher or bakery.

[Anonymous No.14883200]

>>14883194

[Anonymous No.14883205]

>>14883200

[Anonymous No.14883211]

>>14883205

[Anonymous No.14883218]

>>14883211

[Anonymous No.14883331]

>>14876275

The Mayflower pub in Rotherhithe St for relatively decent pub food

[Anonymous No.14883402]

>>14875006
who cares so much about what thing are named?

[Anonymous No.14883427]

>>14881160
One of the more interesting things I have is actually a World War II era cookbook, Eating For Victory. The core for a lot of the dishes there still holds up, it just needs a heck of a lot more herbs and spices.

>>14881167
Poor knowledge of Brit food.

>>14881219
Johnny Appleseed was due to an early form of industry in the US - Cidermaking!

[Anonymous No.14883517]

i could go for some jellied eel right now i tell ya what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfyJICT9aI

[Anonymous No.14883520]

>>14875660
god i want to suck his cock

[Anonymous No.14883553]

>>14874823
At this point I honestly think the hate is just a meme and no one is serious about it.

[Anonymous No.14883667]

>>14881167
Shut up Agni you literally eat your own body

[Anonymous No.14884653]

>>14875783
middle class bong food is literally just french cuisine with slight adaptions for the basic British pallet

[Anonymous No.14884816]

>>14883517
I watched the whole thing. I cant even imagine what jelly eels tastes like. Yuck.
Whats the sauce on top of the pies?

[Anonymous No.14885345]

what to brits eat at home? anything decent? mind you, ill take a ploughmans lunch (cheese, bread, fruit, guinness) over just about anything on earth, but brits dont do vegs well, which is a crime. not very good sausages really.

[Anonymous No.14885356]

>no drunken slags eating curry
disappointing british food thread

[Anonymous No.14885417]

>>14883194
I actually did know the invention of bread+meat predates the Earl of Sandwich story. They were probably being made in the Roman Empire, it's a no-brainier. I mentioned it because it's a part of British mythology that illustrates my point.

If you don't know the story: The Earl of Sandwich was getting ready to go hunting with the lads when a servant told him dinner was about to be served. The Earl casually asked for it to be brought out between two slices of bread so he could take it with him and eat it while riding. All his aristocrat chums thought this was a jolly good show and spread the tale of their ingenious old Earl far and wide. Since Brits used to be obsessed with the lives of the nobility, it became a famous story, and putting food between two slices of bread was henceforth known as a sandwich.

I only mentioned it because it shows that the British tend to prioritise their other hobbies above food.

[Anonymous No.14886252]

>>14885345
>guinness
Fuck off, get a proper ale like Doom Bar or something local. Guinness is for micks and ponces.

[Anonymous No.14886270]

>>14885345
>ploughmans lunch (cheese, bread, fruit, guinness

Not a ploughman's you peasant

[Anonymous No.14886314]

>>14885417
He wasn't going hunting, he was playing cards

[Anonymous No.14886322]

>>14885345
Depends. I've had a lot more time off with corona so I've been putting more effort in. I do things like roast a chicken and eat part of it with potatoes, yorkshire puds and some veg, then use the remaining chicken for sandwiches or maybe a curry or something.

Jacket potatoes are another big one, though we don't tend to use sour cream like the americans. The most common toppings I've seen are cheese, baked beans and tuna mayo. I do like pulled pork though as well

I've also been fond of having a slow cooker for corned beef stew on the go. Just stick a can of corned beef in some beef stock, add onions, potatoes, peas or sweetcorn, then add other things for flavour like worcestershire sauce, tomato paste (or ketchup for kids) garlic and other herbs. It's nice to just have something you can dip into and grab a bowl of when you're hungry

[Anonymous No.14886331]

>>14876857
>live in Melbourne, Australia
>had an 8pm curfew
>illegal to be outside after that time
>$1652 fine if caught outside and not going to work in a permitted industry
I hate my life

[Anonymous No.14886420]

>>14884653
That's not true at all wtf, it's a mishmash of Anglofied foreign foods. There's tonnes of Italian and Chinese stuff in there, for example. I THINK that's similar to middle class Americana. I hear a lot about middle class American housewives cooking faux Mexican or Korean food.
>>14884816
It tastes delicious. I'm not sure why anons act so harshly towards jellied eels, meat jelly is a staple in many cuisines, especially French.
>>14885345
Roast vegetables are delicious and /ck/ underrates them. But I completely agree with you on the sausages. I've always hated them so much.
>>14885356
Weird way to spell cheesy chips.
>>14886252
A proper ale like fucking doom bar? Get fucked, you wetherspoon cunt. Drink something local or something good. Don't support chain niggers.

[Anonymous No.14886545]

>>14886420
More proper than fucking Guinness, that's for sure. And I did mention getting something local, but Doom Bar is fine enough if you ain't got a local brewery. It's better to get something that's at least somewhat British than some shitty lager or stout.

[Anonymous No.14886832]

>>14875783
Middle class people eat food from around the world, most countries food comes from their poor people

[Anonymous No.14886833]

>>14886545
It's exactly as shit as guinness. Guinness is pretty British anyway, founded by a unionist Anglo-Irishman and wildly popular all over the UK. Not that that excuses it (actually IMO worsens it).
If you don't have anything local, just order a beer which tastes good. Don't order goddamn Doom Bar. Might as well go Brewdog lmao.

[Anonymous No.14886838]

>>14886420
How can you hate british sausages as an entire category, I don't get that at all.

[Anonymous No.14887033]

my dad said that it was because them rosbif stayed in that "oh shit WW2 ended we're giga poor now, we got to eat the bare minimum" sort of mentality that other euro country phased out of within some years

[Anonymous No.14887084]

>>14875644
Korea is the God-tier for variation of pleb food.