The lack of british cuisine

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The lack of british cuisine Anonymous Sat Dec 27 11:58:06 2014 No.6093092 [Reply] [Original]

I know people hate these threads but i think we need to discuss it in detail.

Why isn't there an established food culture in these miserable islands?
I'm British and i hate the fact that there seems to be no love and passion for food.
You can say that we have roast dinners and a few soups but no dish we can be proud to call our own without it being either incredibly basic or copied and adapted from other countries.

One man alone cant change this so i'm not going to be a one man army and attempt to re-establish glory

im being genuinely serious here, help me understand

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:01:10 2014 No.6093097 File: 32 KB, 468x292, mudkip.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093092 Real answer? There is, you're just dumb. 4chan answer? Because mudslimes, EUSSR, cultural marxism, and polish immigrants.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:06:10 2014 No.6093104 >>6093097 This. There's plenty of British food considering how limited Britain is in terms of native spices and crops.

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:18:28 2014 No.6093117

Well its because nobody is really bothered about putting British cuisine on the map.

English food is pretty simple and there are a lot of adaptations that really add another dimension which make them as good and in a number of cases better than the original British dish, and they have additionaly been enjoyed by the British for years and years.

But if people want to create fully British restaurants I'm sure there will be fans, but everybody that has this idea must be just like you OP, their thaughts haven't materialised. So the answer is within yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:23:11 2014 No.6093124 Go to the Hand and Flowers in Marlow. Then you'll understand British cuisine.

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:26:26 2014 No.6093130

>>6093092
A lot of British cuisine was lost due to wartime rationing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKpV8yKFY-k&list=PL43578495DCF519A0&index=41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOE0VP0EZ0M&list=PL43578495DCF519A0&index=53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdRLPN3ZGY&list=PL43578495DCF519A0&index=59

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 12:33:07 2014 No.6093140 >>6093130 This. Production of non standard cheese was banned. Cheapest meat cuts were prefferred. Monstrosities like woolton pie and the standard loaf came about.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:03:31 2014 No.6093187 British people have a mutation which caused them to be born without souls. That's why they conquered so much of the planet. Its also why they can't dance or cook and crave ketamine

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:09:07 2014 No.6093196 Western curry is a british dish. You won't find it in india.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:14:55 2014 No.6093207 File: 124 KB, 500x661, 1416753968727.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093200 >Chips and rice together

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:19:12 2014 No.6093213

>>6093092
>Why isn't there an established food culture in these miserable islands?

There was. Then WWII fucked it. Haven't you heard of your own "Ministry of Food" back from those days?

My family is half British. The amount of damage done by that "ministry of food" crap is horrible, and the effects are still felt today. My grandmother to this day still swears that the best way to make a gravy is to use leftover water from boiling potatoes and an oxo cube. Needless to say, that's a shit-tier recipe that was actually invented for the days of Rationing and was broadcast on television back then. Too bad that people didn't realize that it was a wartime shortcut, not proper technique at all. That's just one example out of many.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:19:37 2014 No.6093214 File: 196 KB, 1200x1600, 25.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] UK and USA "fusion" cuisine

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:20:33 2014 No.6093216 >>6093214 I don't see any ranch dressing on there so I'm calling BS on the "USA" angle.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:23:56 2014 No.6093226 >>6093224 Scots need not apply

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:33:59 2014 No.6093241 >>6093214 That'll produce some anal fission!

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 13:35:30 2014 No.6093247

>>6093213
The war did similar damage to American food. For a while in America it was illegal to make any kind of cheese other than American cheese.

Another thing to remember is that many simple dishes rely on top quality fresh ingredients. (This applies to any cuisine). If you have beautiful potatoes you just dug out of the ground and garden peas you shelled yourself all you really need is a little good butter to make them taste great. The same is not true of frozen peas and a potato from the supermarket that's been sitting there for god knows how long.

After war rationing ended ingredients became available again, but they were not always the same as the ingredients your great-grandparents used to get. They were what was cost effective to mass produce and ship. Simple dishes involving these ingredients didn't come out as well.

Today you see new chefs doing very well in both England and the US by doing upscale riffs on classic old school dishes that reflect their heritage. But in order for it to work they almost always need to have really tight relationships with farmers, so they can get ingredients like their great-grandparents used to.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:01:23 2014 No.6093314

At the very least Britain has beef wellington, fish and chips with malt vinegar, and are also responsible for modern Indian food as the west knows it. Britain also has meat pies which is something that never caught on in the US but should have. Also Britain has gin and cider, and beer too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:04:18 2014 No.6093318 File: 20 KB, 260x211, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093092 Doesn't get more British than pic related.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:07:36 2014 No.6093326
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>>6093314
>has meat pies which is something that never caught on in the US

Wow, someone in the US really ought to come up with a product like that. I mean, surely there's money to be had there, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:10:31 2014 No.6093332 >>6093326 >kek Retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:11:16 2014 No.6093334 File: 74 KB, 800x643, banquet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093326 yeah, I know what you mean bro. there's such a huge untapped market for meat pies in the US. I hope nobody else has thought of that!

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:20:59 2014 No.6093356 File: 35 KB, 500x375, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093092 Scotch Egg anyone

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:23:28 2014 No.6093361 >>6093326 Are you actually serious right now? If I weren't on /ck/ I wouldn't even consider it but /ck/ is full of so many half retarded ignorant poor people that I really can never be sure.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:26:48 2014 No.6093372

>>6093361
>Are you actually serious right now?

Yes. I mean, the similarity between a British "pastie" meat pie and a hot pocket is undeniable.

As for the other style of meat pie--round with a crust on top--those are very popular in the US. Any supermarket will be loaded with them. Chicken is the most common version; turkey and "beef and kidney" are widely available too.

In the rurual south you'll find tons of recipes for meat pies, often with game meats in them like squirrel or rabbit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:30:39 2014 No.6093381 >>6093370 Do you get Twix soldiers to dip in it?

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 14:33:08 2014 No.6093386

>>6093092
Your country's history is littered with multiple invasions, multiple civil wars and uprisings, and the greatest form of colonialism that's ever been. OF COURSE your cuisine is is based on dishes from other countries and cultures. How could it not? As an American, I can certainly understand, because although our country is very young compared to most, our cuisine is an absolute melting pot of other cultures (excluding the horrifying fast foods etc).
If you want to find Britain's food heritage, look to the countryside. It can only start from looking at the indigenous foods. I'm sure you can easily find a list of foods (both foraged and grown as crops/livestock) that are indigenous to Britian.
Take beef for example. British beef is the best in the world. I grew up in a family of cattle ranchers in Texas, and all our breeds that we raised were from Britain. (Hereford, Black Angus, and Short Horn). You guys revolutionized cattle breeding. Then there's your game as well. And, there's plenty of vegetables and greens that are either indigenous or bred to greatness in Britain.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that there certainly is a great food culture and heritage there, but you might have to dig deeper than what's available locally to you.

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 15:54:48 2014 No.6093604
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>>6093092
>Southern ponces and their lack of culture

Cumberland sausage, stottie cakes, and the best pasties this world has ever seen.

Not to mention
>Black pudding
>White pudding
>Square sausages
>Fish and chips
>Pic related

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 15:58:35 2014 No.6093610 >>6093604 >>Black pudding French >>White pudding French >>Square sausages My family is British and I have no idea what this is. >>Fish and chips Every culture fries fish mate

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:00:48 2014 No.6093613 >>6093610 >Black pudding and white pudding >French The fact that you've got no idea what a square sausage is means I can safely assume you've got no fucking clue about the other two

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:09:34 2014 No.6093624 >>6093613 >I can safely assume Lol, you ought to look it up. speaking of which, I just googled the square sausage. I've seen it, but we've always called it lourne sausage. never had it; family is from Essex, not Scotland.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:12:49 2014 No.6093633 >>6093604 >implying anyone wants to eat black pudding

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:32:52 2014 No.6093674 >>6093604 square sausages are fucking disgusting m8

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:38:06 2014 No.6093684 >>6093314 Don't forget roast beef and all the great English cheeses.

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:43:04 2014 No.6093695

uhh, there are a few British themed pubs where I live in Portland. They serve all kinds of silly British dishes like meat pies and those weird gross egg things I had..

I think the culture just isn't talked about because it's not really appealing in any way.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 16:47:47 2014 No.6093705 >>6093610 >>>Black pudding >French Every single European country has some form of black pudding/blood sausage.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 17:01:32 2014 No.6093749 >>6093318 wtf is that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 17:03:29 2014 No.6093751 >>6093334 We only have chicken pies though, meat pies are unheard of here.

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 17:38:18 2014 No.6093822

I've read that the reason why British food has historically not been very good is that cooking was considered to be one of the lowest jobs there was -- so lowly a job that any kind of training for the job was out of the question. If you couldn't do anything else, then you could be a cook.

Over the last few decades that has changed quite a bit and the quality of the food has gone up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:05:56 2014 No.6093858 >>6093104 German here, and while we aren't known for our cuisine either, I actually enjoy many British dishes... your breakfast is absolutely god-tier, but I also really like Sheperd's pies and stuff like that...

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:18:36 2014 No.6093873

>>6093092
>Why isn't there an established food culture in these miserable islands?
>I'm British and i hate the fact that there seems to be no love and passion for food.

I am sorry that you're stupid, ignorant and come from a council estate, but don't tar us all with your own pound-shop brush.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:22:24 2014 No.6093882 >>6093881 Wellington is in New Zealand.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:23:40 2014 No.6093885

>>6093372
>the similarity between a British "pastie" meat pie and a hot pocket is undeniable.

Sure, if you're a complete retard.

>Pasty: beef skirt or chuck, swede, potato, carrot, in a short pastry
>Hot pocket: "cheese" and ham, in a weird flaky not-quite-puff pastry

Totally the same thing.

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:25:57 2014 No.6093892

>>6093695
>uhh, there are a few British themed pubs where I live in Portland.

Likewise I always judge American cuisine based on the McDonalds near me. That's why I believe all American food is disgusting and I can't understand how you're all now dead by now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:33:07 2014 No.6093904 >>6093892 I consider myself a connoisseur of oriental food having eaten at/from many chinese take-aways.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:38:10 2014 No.6093916 >>6093906 I usually love drowning my roast in gravy but damn, that's just too much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:39:29 2014 No.6093920 >>6093911 If those were mushy peas instead of ordinary peas it would be so much better. Also what's that mushroom thing the other person has? Looks good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:46:13 2014 No.6093935 >>6093906 >cutting roast with a butter knife This is the most british picture on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:51:19 2014 No.6093942 >>6093935 what else would you cut it with when it's on the plate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:53:22 2014 No.6093946 >>6093935 >butter knife That's a table knife, you can see the serrations.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 18:54:09 2014 No.6093947 File: 449 KB, 4100x1919, steak-knife.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093942 Same thing you should cut all meat with.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:02:33 2014 No.6093957 File: 100 KB, 266x400, 1416706721742.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093749 What is GIS? http://www.greatfoodmag.co.uk/the-story-behind-a-lincolnshire-legend/

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:03:36 2014 No.6093959 >>6093947 >Using a steak knife on something that isn't steak

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:04:36 2014 No.6093960 >>6093955 I've seen worse breakfasts...

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:24:21 2014 No.6094008 File: 76 KB, 600x450, disgusting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093222 That pepperoni pizza...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:51:17 2014 No.6094075 >>6093259 Seven fucking quid for a small pie?

Anonymous Sat Dec 27 19:56:41 2014 No.6094086
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Speaking of British cuisine

>girlfriend buys me this
btw im a boy :)))
>relies heavily on British ingredients
>also it's bourgeois as fuck

I would like to attempt to make something out of it but fuck it has some niche ingredients

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Anonymous Sat Dec 27 21:19:28 2014 No.6094268

Portuguese guy here. Here's my opinion:

>contrary to popular belief, I think that British cuisine IS good.

>most countries copy the cuisine from their neighbors. Portuguese cuisine is basically a replica from french cuisine with a few innovations. The same holds true for spanish.

>most countries do not have autonomous dishes. If you search well enough, you'll see that they just adapted pre-existing cuisines.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 27 21:26:43 2014 No.6094288 File: 112 KB, 590x590, thumb_600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6094268 >shit cuisine country complimenting another shit cuisine country ggwp

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:05:42 2014 No.6094753 File: 23 KB, 503x334, wahimgonnacryilostagame.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093915 TFW you 5,700 miles from a pie and mash shop

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:30:45 2014 No.6094788

>>6093092
Britain was unusually shafted by having comparatively fewer culinary resources than a lot of other cultures. Generally speaking, the closer you get to the equator, the more diversity you find in the flora and fauna, and thus the more shit the locals have to work with in their kitchens. Brits are pretty far north, and isolated on an island to boot.

They couldn't grow any of the olives or citrus of Mediterranean, they weren't drowning in the butter or even have huge tracts of land to sow grain in. Too cold for a lot of herbs. Fuck, you're fucked. They have fish, but they can't even grow lemons. That's just sad. It should really be no surprise that they freaked the fuck out when they first tried Indian food and immediately brought that shit home.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:36:21 2014 No.6094794 File: 34 KB, 400x300, s2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093092 Posting a London classic.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:37:54 2014 No.6094797 >>6094094 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3IMTJjzfo

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:38:41 2014 No.6094799 >>6094794 What is that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:43:41 2014 No.6094804 >>6094799 Muslim/British cuisine obviously.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:44:50 2014 No.6094806 100% of British men are gay anyway; they just procreate out of necessity. Bunch of faggot niggers

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:45:49 2014 No.6094809 >>6094804 Let me refine my comment; what is that thing on the spit that the person is scraping at?

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:47:47 2014 No.6094814 >>6094809 Kebab, gyro or shawarma of some sort.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:51:01 2014 No.6094818 >>6094806 funny how this always comes from Americans projection perhaps?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:53:03 2014 No.6094821 >>6094292 Wtf is this...some kind of bean? It looks like a big plate of tiny bird skulls. Are they shrimps? Looks nasty, man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:53:46 2014 No.6094822 >>6093882 You're an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:54:25 2014 No.6094823 >>6094818 No, I think brits politeness makes them seem effeminate. Like Canadians, but brits don't make up for it by being great at hockey.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:57:22 2014 No.6094828 >>6094823 but they do well at cricket, polo, tennis, world empires and such

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 01:58:16 2014 No.6094829 >>6094823 >never hung out with a bunch of high af chavs not a brit btw

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 02:46:20 2014 No.6094894 File: 104 KB, 590x590, Paki shop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >implying munchie boxes aren't GOAT food

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 02:58:04 2014 No.6094906 >>6093130 >>6093140 Excuses, China went through the cultural revolution, and France was actually occupied unlike you pussies.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 05:12:36 2014 No.6095047
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OP here

>>6093130
makes a lot of sense when you think about it, you'd think after 70 so years we would have bounced back
>>6093386
I live about 20 miles north of london and there's practically no decent eateries or any local cuisine
>>6093604
square sausages are god awful, the shape makes it easier for sandwiches granted but they somehow taste like shit square
>>6093873
never lived on a council estate, not some low life chav who's culinary expertise peak at beans on toast
>>6094788
you have a extremely good point sir, in our defence though, due to modern techniques we can grow more exotic stuff like lemons and herbs due to green houses and the such, and we did freak out with indian i admit

thanks for the response

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 06:16:23 2014 No.6095096 >>6094894 That's the reason all of you bongs have bad teeth

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 06:26:35 2014 No.6095117 >>6093247 Because peas go downhill so quickly, except for freshly picked peas from your own garden, the freshest peas you are going to find are frozen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 06:29:41 2014 No.6095120 >>6093695 We have one pub within 50 miles. It makes no pretense about being British at all. That said, they have the most disgusing fries I remember ever eating.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 06:33:12 2014 No.6095124 >>6095120 that's because brits rarely eat "flench fly" especially in pubs or chippys you'll find belgian fries cooked once only

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 07:20:13 2014 No.6095184 >>6094075 Easy to get away with when your target market is the artisan-obsessed middle classes

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 07:26:29 2014 No.6095195 >>6093749 Chine at a guess.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 07:38:33 2014 No.6095217 >>6095047 >20 miles north of London >Not a lowlife chav Check yourself Herts..

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Anonymous Sun Dec 28 09:49:15 2014 No.6095367

>>6093947
>>6093959

>using a steak knife ever

Just use a properly sharpened knife. You can pick up old bone-handled Sheffield stainless steel knives for about £1 in most antique markets, they look like a butter knife but they'll take an edge like a razor. Steak knives are just a cheap shitty way to make a knife for idiots that will go through tough meat without needing quality steel.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 10:01:13 2014 No.6095389 >>6094821 That looks like cockles and laver to me. Tiny clams and seaweed. Both surprisingly tasty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 10:04:59 2014 No.6095399 Just what do British people eat everyday? Fuck, the only thing I keep hearing of is sunday roast, what about the other days? monday roast, tuesday roast and so on?

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Anonymous Sun Dec 28 10:26:45 2014 No.6095439

Traditional British food is all about high-quality ingredients prepared simply. Continental visitors of the 18th century were always astounded by the fact that the average person ate meat regularly. The UK still has some of the best grazing land, and produces fantastic beef and lamb. We have a climate well suited to growing green vegetables and fruits like apples and pears, or berries. It's an island so there's excellent fishing and seafood. What there isn't is spice or a lot of the more sun-loving sweet vegetables. The extent of the Empire brought in a lot of spices and exotic ingredients and influences in the 19th century. Problems occurred when the war and following decades introduced intensive farming and supermarket-oriented convenience foods. The shitty- quality ingredients and crappy cooking of them results in a cuisine which is superficially similar, but much shitter.

On another note, the British have always been culinary magpies, and their buying habits have driven a lot of development, particularly in alcohols. Champagne, Port, Madeira, Sherry, and Bordeaux wines were all made for British tastes. The international versions of Chinese and Indian food are heavily influenced by their colonial involvement. British food in the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian eras borrowed lots of foreign ingredients and flavours.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 10:47:26 2014 No.6095467 >>6093216 Processed cheese slices, the only places you'll find them in the UK are at McDonalds and cheap burger vans.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 10:50:12 2014 No.6095473 >>6095399 The same as you. I only have a roast about 4/5 times a year. We eat a lot of pasta.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:20:07 2014 No.6095526 All these fucking pies. House mate wants chinese later. Shame.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:20:22 2014 No.6095527 >>6095514 >you asked for it! >more! >sauce! >faggots Literally /b/, the food.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:24:51 2014 No.6095538 >>6095217 bedfordshire actually

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:26:48 2014 No.6095542 File: 153 KB, 1600x1200, 1392165629024.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] smoked kippers

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:27:17 2014 No.6095543 >>6095538 >towns that end in shire The UK really is like a fairy tale

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:27:57 2014 No.6095545

Its pretty simple really.

When the French & the Italians were sat about inventing pasta and sauces, in the UK other things took priority, like the Industrial Revolution and inventing shit that actually mattered.

TLDR;
Europe-We make food and oil
UK-We make steam engines and telephones

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:28:01 2014 No.6095547 >>6095543 not a town its a county

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:34:12 2014 No.6095558 File: 18 KB, 199x200, 7859799b5c0c1283ff8e9d4887e4d02a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095545 >steam engine >a spaniard >telephone >a scotsman in the U.S.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:35:55 2014 No.6095562 >>6095558 UK invented everything , even the USA

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 11:58:39 2014 No.6095612 >>6093200 Damn that sounds really, really good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:04:28 2014 No.6095625 >>6093871 those are BASED

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:07:46 2014 No.6095630 >>6095562 Egyptians invented bagpipes

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:29:47 2014 No.6095662 150 posts. no cullen skink. fuck you all

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:43:00 2014 No.6095688 >>6093955 That fucking TOMATO ruining everything else with its water

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:47:24 2014 No.6095697 >>6093947 If you need a steak knife your meat is too tough.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:51:24 2014 No.6095708

>>6094788
It's a common misconception that being on an island makes you isolated. Before the invention of the railway, the seas were the highways of the world. England and the netherlands were major traders in spice for a long time, especially when the technology outstripped the wealth and man power of the southern powers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:53:45 2014 No.6095711 >>6094906 >France was actually occupied unlike you pussies. How does that make us Pussies? Either way, the Germans weren't interested in exterminating French cuisine. And in the cultural revolution people still needed to eat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:55:47 2014 No.6095716 >>6095439 >Continental visitors of the 18th century were always astounded by the fact that the average person ate meat regularly Hence Les Rosbifs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 12:57:26 2014 No.6095717 >>6095538 What about your local speciality of the Clanger?

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:09:58 2014 No.6095850

>>6095399
I can't speak for everyone else but me and my spouses weekly dinner list is something like this:

Tagliatelle alla bolognese
Steak tacos
Spaghetti alla puttanesca
Coq au vin
Steak and ale stew
Macaroni cheese
Cottage pie

Obviously this isn't the same list every week, those are just the most common dishes at the moment, we also do stir fries, curries, made up slowcooker stews, and roast dinners, despite how much we like them only happen like once or twice a month.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:25:52 2014 No.6095890

WTF?
I know this is just a Troll thread but can't help responding. Britain has great food.
England has Regional cheeses, beers, gin, pimms, the newer curry dishes and god tier puddings. Scotland might have even better regional food than England- fantastic sea food Arbroath Smokies smoked Salmon, plus whisky and haggis . Even fromwales we have great lamb dishes.
Currently living in Germany and the food here is shit in comparison.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:26:27 2014 No.6095893 >>6093887 Is that a masala in a Yorkshire?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:27:54 2014 No.6095896 >>6095890 youve obviously never actually lived in the uk, or explored the rural parts uk cuisine is fried shit in brown diarrhea except in your case, where you cherry pick and go to the creme de la creme of the country

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 14:29:15 2014 No.6095900 im puking in my mouth just remembering

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>>6095893
True story: I was in an Indian restaurant in Yorkshire with a guy from London (proper cockney wanker type).
He turned to the waiter and congratulated him on serving up "a cracking plate of wog"
>we got told to fuck off and not come back

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:11:32 2014 No.6096006 >>6095510 What a sissy, he should have ordered an adults portion.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:15:28 2014 No.6096016 >>6095527 Faggots are really nice though. They are basically giant meatballs with offal.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:17:11 2014 No.6096020 >>6095543 Where do you think the Shire even came from? Tolkien based The Shire on his childhood in Oxfordshire.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:19:37 2014 No.6096026 File: 198 KB, 650x419, Jaffa cakes - Teal'c.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095573 A giant jaffa cake, sweet mercy.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:34:19 2014 No.6096055

For anybody visiting the UK who wants to get some good food and doesn't want to pay top-end restaurant prices consider going to country pubs. Get out of the main towns and cities, find some nice posh looking pub in the middle of the countryside.

I guarantee you will find some of the most amazing, hearty food. They tend to be based off of simple pub meals, but you might be surprised just how good something like bangers and mash can be with ingredients from the local village.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:35:20 2014 No.6096057 File: 72 KB, 843x473, jaffas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6096026 Deep fried. I'm guessing when people buy a deep fat fryer for the fist time they go mad and fry everything in sight for a few days.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:36:18 2014 No.6096061 >>6096055 >a nation whose cuisine is based off bar food no wonder theres no many mooslims in your nation... :(

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Anonymous Sun Dec 28 15:43:29 2014 No.6096068

>>6096061
Our pub food isn't like bar food in America, we're not talking getting a plate of chicken fingers and nachos. Pubs are generally where you get hold of traditional British food. While traditional British restaurants exist they're not always easy to find.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:12:12 2014 No.6096142 >>6096061 Why? Do muslims like bar food?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:15:25 2014 No.6096148 >>6096092 Mmm, delicious laver. The Anchor and Hope near me does a fantastic snails, bacon and laver on toast.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:18:32 2014 No.6096150 >>6096142 A very good point anon.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:33:15 2014 No.6096187

>>6095850
Take this, replace the more complicated or expensive recipes with frozen/kit based equivalents, and scale it down to the skill level of the average college freshman that thinks Epic Meal time is inspired but overly ambitious, and make sure most of the veg is boiled and you'll have something close to what the average working class brit eats.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:43:04 2014 No.6096206 >>6094894 they are indeed, goat food, Mr Jock. Food for goats that is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:44:05 2014 No.6096210 >>6093092 the flag is upside down.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 16:50:10 2014 No.6096220 >>6096210 It is.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:01:11 2014 No.6096237 >>6096223 >white people food brown mush stuffed in bread

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:01:46 2014 No.6096239 >>6096232 Nothing wrong with a cheeky pret m8

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:11:31 2014 No.6096254 >>6093604 is that a fucking parmo?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:38:35 2014 No.6096294 >>6094094 This is why you don't smoke, kids.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:43:21 2014 No.6096305 >>6093092 >british >cuisine Pick one. thread hidden

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:47:37 2014 No.6096315 >>6096187 Fuck off yank.

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 17:59:20 2014 No.6096338

>>6096315
Mate, I've never even left europe, I'm just trying to give amerifats an idea of the sort of shit a lot of people in this country, especially people with little interest or means, eat regularly, and frankly having grown up in such a household it isn't that far off

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:08:30 2014 No.6096353 >>6096338 You must have spent a lot of time on /brit/ because you are pretty convincing, but you fucked up in your other post. Try and see what it was.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:13:16 2014 No.6096364 >>6093222 >"the spicy one"

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:23:06 2014 No.6096383 >>6096362 it's beans on toast, not beans on charcoal.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:25:19 2014 No.6096388 >>6096006 Your mate's a git

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:25:58 2014 No.6096389

>>6096353
Probably using the words "college freshman" or talking about excessive bacon:the channel.

But I'm merely discussing the broad mindset of the kind of people I've been around - the kind that think shell pasta with chopped bacon and low fat grated cheddar is a good staple italian dish, and for whom iceland frozen dinners aren't godawful.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:36:34 2014 No.6096411 >>6095558 Where do you think Scotland is?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:38:46 2014 No.6096415 File: 244 KB, 1500x1125, 1265221628015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is called fush & chups in new zealand

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:40:06 2014 No.6096417

>>6096389
My spouse types "mom", it's infuriating, I hate the way the word sounds with that hard "o". It's "mum", with a soft "u". They also do "y'all" sometimes. Fucking Americans tainting my spouse with infuriating words and phrases, next I'll be hearing "aluminum".

Anonymous Sun Dec 28 18:53:48 2014 No.6096441

>>6096417
Cilantro is the one that annoys me the most, the word is a spanish corruption of coriander, which comes to us from the greek "koriannon", and yet because they used the dagoe term many of them don't even realise that coriander powder IS cilantro.

>>	syn !!5auGoPfbzhy Sun Dec 28 21:57:27 2014 No.6096785 >>6093097 Never seen that photo before. Went and looked it up. Wow, that was a bad crash. He looks really hurt. NF is my personal hero. So glad he survived. Future PM right there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 22:01:40 2014 No.6096796 File: 7 KB, 228x212, snake.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6093207 >mfw locally we call this "Half and Half" and everyone will know you mean rice and chips. >mfw it's fucking delicious.

>>	syn !!5auGoPfbzhy Sun Dec 28 22:01:53 2014 No.6096799 >>6094086 >niche ingredients Like what? I had a struggle once with a request for Double Cream but found some at WF.

>>	syn !!5auGoPfbzhy Sun Dec 28 22:04:17 2014 No.6096804 File: 27 KB, 608x344, stilton_cheese_16x9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095890 >Regional cheeses What's the best cheese in the world and why is it Stilton?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 28 22:05:01 2014 No.6096805 >>6096785 go back to britpol you scum

>>	syn !!5auGoPfbzhy Sun Dec 28 22:09:14 2014 No.6096819 >>6096441 >coriander powder IS cilantro No, it's actually seeds that grow into cilantro. And then there's culantro, which is something else. >the way the US does it is the only way that matter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:32:29 2014 No.6098783 >>6093222 >all stone cold

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:43:35 2014 No.6098806 >>6095507 Those look delicious. I do wish they sold game meats in US supermarkets.

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Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:51:51 2014 No.6098825

>>6094788
>or even have huge tracts of land

Let's not argue about 'oo killed 'oo

Actually the UK traded extensively with the rest of Europe, and the Middle East and even Asia, as far back as the Roman empire at the very least. The rich could get spices like Cloves and Nutmeg in the mediaeval period, for example.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:53:20 2014 No.6098830 >>6093092 i was wondering too. i mean england ruled nearly the world once, many countries with many different interessting spices and vegetables. I guess the british always look down on everyone, instead of trying to bring good things together.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:54:33 2014 No.6098833 >>6094823 >I think brits politeness makes them seem effeminate. Yeah, quite a few people have made that mistake. It's disarming. It's how Britain built an empire. Americans could learn a lot from the British emotional control and long term view.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:56:42 2014 No.6098836

>>6095047
>never lived on a council estate

No well I guess Housing Associations own houses all over the place these days.

>not some low life chav who's culinary expertise peak at beans on toast

Yet there's your post, so you sure look like an uneducated idiot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 18:59:21 2014 No.6098844 File: 273 KB, 1200x1801, 15.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6098830 What you mean like all the other empires throughout human history who were just trying to bring good things together?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:01:54 2014 No.6098850 >>6095558 >steam engine >a spaniard lol, only a fucking Dago could believe that.

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Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:04:39 2014 No.6098856

>>6095896
>uk cuisine is fried shit in brown diarrhea

You're obviously a fucking retard.

>youve obviously never actually lived in the uk, or explored the rural parts

The "rural parts" are were some of the best food is, and were some of the top restaurants are. You'd know this if you weren't Iceland scum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:05:40 2014 No.6098857 >>6096057 No, it's just Glaswegians. There's not a lot of entertainment in Glasgow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:05:55 2014 No.6098858 >>6098844 its just unlikley that your provinces wont have any influence in your own culture.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:07:03 2014 No.6098860

The British are good at:
>Meat pies
>Other savoury pastries with/without meat (eg sausage rolls, Yorkshire puds)
>Sausages
>Gravy

The British are bad at:
>Vegetables
>Deserts
>Chips (yeah, British chips are shit. France/America does them way better)
>Fish ("fried"
>Chicken
>Sandwiches
>Basically everything else

As much as you hate Indian/Middle Eastern people, you benefit greatly from their food.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:09:45 2014 No.6098865 >>6093092 >what is curry?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:11:07 2014 No.6098867 File: 257 KB, 1280x777, balti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6098858 It IS unlikely isn't it? Why, could it possibly be that's it's not true?

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:14:07 2014 No.6098872

>>6098860
>British chips are shit.

Never had triple-cooked chips have you?

>France/America does them way better

Oh yeah, those lovely floppy McDonalds fries are just glorious.

>The British are bad at:
>Deserts

Hahahahahahahahaha

>Fish

It's an island. Do you have any concept of the variety and freshness of the fish you can get in the UK?

>Sandwiches

Invented in England you dipshit.

Wow it's like "I saw someone eat something on telly once it all looked bad". Just like I saw an American eating this thing called "Sketti" once; how disgusting. All American food must be disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:15:02 2014 No.6098876 >>6098865 >what is a food introduced by an invasive race?

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:17:04 2014 No.6098879

>>6095047

I think that just goes to show how most people will happily eat shit. Before the war, people had fresh stuff they grew themselves but I dont think most of them gave much of a fuck about how good it tasted. Then things changed and food sacrificed quality for convenience, and the general public stuck with it because they cant be arsed to buy fresh food or grow their own.
And then people literally prefer the shit stuff even when you give them a choice of nice things. Honestly I think food is really not very important to most people.

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:18:12 2014 No.6098886

>>6098876
>We didn't invade Pakistan and India, they're invading us!

Still hoping to clinch that /pol/ of the year award are you?

P.S: I hope you don't live in a Bungalow with a Veranda and use Shampoo. Damn paki's coming over here forcing us to use their words, eh?

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Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:26:55 2014 No.6098912

>>6098872

>Oh yeah, those lovely floppy McDonalds fries are just glorious.
>Implying a fucking fast food chain is what I'm talking about

Fries at most decent to good American restaurants are leagues ahead of standard, fat and chalky British chips.

>The British are bad at:
>Deserts
>Hahahahahahahahaha

Fine maybe that wasn't totally fair. But there are a shit ton of horrible British desert and generally an excessive use of cream and stodge. Most good pies/tarts are probably borrowed from the French.

>Fish
>It's an island. Do you have any concept of the variety and freshness of the fish you can get in the UK?

The British mostly just fry their fish, and sometimes smoke it. They don't have the spices to cook fish very well because it's delicate. The British don't do delicate.

>Sandwiches
>Invented in England you dipshit.

It doesn't matter where it was invented, the British suck at sandwiches. Supermarkets package cold cuts in packs of like 4. There are very few sandwich shops in the UK that aren't influenced heavily by foreign cuisine. Even the lowest tier deli sandwich in the US is better than most of what I find in the UK. Pret's bread sandwiches are fairly poor.

>Wow it's like "I saw someone eat something on telly once it all looked bad". Just like I saw an American eating this thing called "Sketti" once; how disgusting. All American food must be disgusting.

No, I go back and forth between England and the US pretty frequently. The British are good at some things but still fairly terrible others. And I didn't say the Americans are great at everything, but some things they do pretty well now (at least in a non-shit city).

Anonymous Mon Dec 29 19:34:24 2014 No.6098932

>>6098912
>Fries at most decent to good American restaurants are leagues ahead of standard, fat and chalky British chips.

Ah so you're comparing good American fries to shit British ones, rather than good British ones?

>there are a shit ton of horrible British desert

There's a shit ton of horrible <insert any country here> food including desert. Did you have a point?

>The British mostly just fry their fish

Shows how fucking ignorant you are.

>Muh chain sandwich shops

No one cares about your shitty taste in sandwiches or the fact you're judging everyone based on your shitty taste in sandwiches.

>No, I go back and forth between England and the US pretty frequently

That's nice, so do I. You should really spend more time not going to shit-tier places and assuming all food is like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:09:50 2014 No.6099249 >>6095533 Whhhyyyyyy

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 29 22:21:03 2014 No.6099271 >>6096417 >y'all Why would she do that? It doesn't even sound good to Americans except those living in the South and Southwest.

>>	\|\|D.II.II\/II.\|\|D Mon Dec 29 22:34:39 2014 No.6099298 A lot of currys were invented when India was under British rule

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 08:01:35 2014 No.6100170 >>6099271 Because "yous guys" is so lyrically melodious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 08:05:14 2014 No.6100173 >>6096805 Dickhead.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 08:11:33 2014 No.6100183 >>6100173 Nah, it's a posh brit thread. You mean "bellend".

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 09:52:31 2014 No.6100284 File: 69 KB, 800x600, guinness.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:17:57 2014 No.6101205 >>6095716 well. les rostbifs came specifically from our skill at spit raosting. a now dead tradition in britain is roasting a whole cow for celebrations. something i think has not been brought up is puddings.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:23:04 2014 No.6101224 File: 225 KB, 1280x956, 135.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6101205

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:29:53 2014 No.6101236 I don't have a pic but I once tried a roast beef wrap but with flat yorkshire pudding instead of tortilla. This was the best thing I've ever eaten in a pub in Britain.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:47:07 2014 No.6101269 >>6100284 >British "cuisine" >Irish beer

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 17:48:06 2014 No.6101274 >>6095426 I panicked and thought this was a picture of my front room, fuck me m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:06:55 2014 No.6101316 >>6101274 I hope you live with others. Would you eat that much takeaway food by yourself?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:13:05 2014 No.6101331 File: 215 KB, 1600x1200, batteredhaggis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] there must be other countries with bad food reputations. I'm thinking Denmark, Iceland and other Scandi places. Also the Philippines and Nigeria.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:18:19 2014 No.6101345 >>6101331 Anything European really needs an overhaul with true ethnic cuisine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:18:46 2014 No.6101346 >>6101331 >cuisine so bad you have to compare it to niggers

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:20:00 2014 No.6101347 File: 175 KB, 1067x955, fraybentos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:20:01 2014 No.6101348 >>6101316 fat, lonely and depressed

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:27:31 2014 No.6101366 File: 313 KB, 1632x1224, 1232218311251.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:31:48 2014 No.6101377 >>6101347 I got one of those as sort of a joke gift once, they are actually legit fucking good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:32:24 2014 No.6101380 >>6093324 Excellent choice. Got a few tins in my cupboard for cold days.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:34:15 2014 No.6101385 >>6101377 I like to buy them occasionally but I don't like the chicken or kidney ones.

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:35:37 2014 No.6101387

British food's bad reputation has deeper roots than you might think. Let me explain.

Our story begins during the late middle-age. Around that time, noble people used to eat very VERY spicy. Why ? Because they fucking could, spices had already been discovered in India and using spices was the best way to show how powerful they were. Problem, the spice trade was quickly controled by two nations: Netherlands and, of course, the UK.

And while most of Europe was "happy" to buy their spices from them, one nation had such hatred of them (and especially the UK) they actually began to create their own cuisine without spices just to piss off the Bongs. I'm talking obviously about France.

Problem: when you stop using an ungodly amount of spices, you began to actually TASTE what you're eating. French people were forced to develop new cooking methods and new recipes to improve the taste, creating what we now know as the French High Cuisine. At first all Europe hated it but when France pretty much dominated everything under Louis XIV, everyone started to copy the French Cuisine.

Everyone ? No. Bongs hated the French so much they never agreed with the new cooking methods and started to create their own, doing pretty much the opposite of what French people were doing.

And what happens when you do the opposite of something supposed to improve the taste ? Yes. You get sh... you get the english way of cooking.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:35:52 2014 No.6101388 File: 43 KB, 440x267, i4ex42.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6101377 >>6101377 I like to buy them occasionally but I don't like the chicken or kidney ones. I prefer pieminister for fast food pies

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:47:06 2014 No.6101417 >>6101366 British food for the most part is shitty I think but these boxes look so fucking good. I wish they had that in the states :(

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:56:43 2014 No.6101436
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>>6101417
You have all the components available, you just need somewhere that serves it in 1 box. Munchy boxes are difficult to find outside of Scotland - they're rare even in England

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 18:58:50 2014 No.6101438 File: 257 KB, 1600x1200, 357.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] fucking pretentious jenga chips

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 19:14:21 2014 No.6101467 File: 343 KB, 1024x768, 4607566251.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] these are terrible do not eat

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 19:17:36 2014 No.6101473 >>6101467 I love parma violets. They were one of my favourite sweets as a child and probably still are, not had them in ages though.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 20:17:25 2014 No.6101606 File: 337 KB, 1195x1600, grammeln.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6101555 > Worchester sauce on cracklings Is that a common thing or only your weird taste-buds ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 20:19:06 2014 No.6101612 >>6101606 it's HP sauce not worcester but yeah I think either is unusual. Pork crackling in the UK usually goes with beer

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 20:20:14 2014 No.6101615 >>6101606 Its worcestershire sauce, and the sauce in that pic is HP brown sauce anyway, not the same.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:13:09 2014 No.6101725 >>6101467 Britbong here. they are fucking terrible. might aswell spray perfume in your mouth

Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:24:07 2014 No.6101745

>>6093092
>mfw a European male wore a thong, called his remote a smibbly bibbly, ate crisps and drank fizzy drink, collected the goop from his cheesedick and put it in a jar, paid high taxes, drank tea in delicate flower painted cups, had bad teeth, called 'z' Zed, dove in the grass, digested digestive biscuits, had a smoke and a pancake, feared the wrath of a queen, surrendered in war, called his relative an upsy stairsy, went barmy, was prudish, felt dickey, said cheerio, ello, and god save the queen, smoked a fag, spent a fortnight in a hostel, wanked his chap's jibbly with slippy dip, called his keyboard a hoighty toighty tippy typer, and couldn't beat America in the Olympics near me

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 21:35:08 2014 No.6101767 Now I know why every in the UK thinks americans are fat. All their food is trash and no one even wants to eat.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:43:30 2014 No.6101928 File: 67 KB, 634x492, Jaundice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6101546 I used to eat at this place all the time

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:45:51 2014 No.6101934 File: 54 KB, 661x466, Breakfast The Hawksmoore.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not posting based breakfast

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:49:19 2014 No.6101941 You guys have a pretty distinctive breakfast that I saw on supersize super skinny all the time: beans toast bacon mushrooms etc. Looks gross but it's your own. Then there's fish and chips and tea

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:52:03 2014 No.6101943 File: 526 KB, 2340x4160, munchiebox.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6101417 My munchie box I got in Edinburgh. Was good. Nearly defeated me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:52:10 2014 No.6101944 File: 36 KB, 512x674, victoria sponge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:55:50 2014 No.6101947 File: 244 KB, 1600x1065, brit cheese.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:56:26 2014 No.6101949 >>6101944 what the hell is wrong with camera? like one band of the cake is in focus

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 22:57:39 2014 No.6101952 >>6101949 It's called bokeh you turbo pleb.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:02:57 2014 No.6101961 File: 114 KB, 1200x900, Petitdéjeuneranglais.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:05:58 2014 No.6101968 File: 104 KB, 538x720, 2q65ap0Q.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Speaking as a mother, the world would be a better place with the British in charge

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Anonymous Tue Dec 30 23:28:42 2014 No.6102019

There's nothing wrong with British cuisine, the issue is the method passed down from ww2.

Judging any cuisine based on chains and shit cooks is just moronic. Other cuisines are generally difficult to fuck up because they have the presence of spices and herbs. We don't have that, so when you have a nation who is still cooking using methods from an era where economy was valued over taste, you get an awful lot of fuck ups and a lot of people ignorant to these fuck ups.

British cuisine made well is delightful, unfortunately for foreign people visiting, it's rather difficult to find indigenous cuisine, much less find it made well.

British cuisine has declined in favour of imported cuisine because herbs and spices present in other cuisines don't taste of the blandness that results from fucking up their indigenous cuisine.

Anonymous Wed Dec 31 00:26:34 2014 No.6102160
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>>6093604
>Fish and chips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips

"Deep-fried fish was first introduced into Britain during the 16th century by Jewish refugees from Portugal and Spain."

So we're to believe that the ancient Brits, who live on a fucking island, had no concept of frying fish until the wise & friendly Jews showed them how?

If there anything they won't claim to have invented?....

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 05:23:42 2014 No.6102659 >>6102019 see>>6101387 WWII isn't the only problem

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 05:36:15 2014 No.6102677 >>6101269 Stout is a London beer style. Guinness learnt his trade in London and was a staunch unionist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 10:56:10 2014 No.6102944 >>6093222 motherfuckin steak bakes :D

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 10:59:40 2014 No.6102947 >>6093610 square sausages are more of a scottish thing than a general british thing i live in the north west and only know about them because my uncles scottish

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:03:19 2014 No.6102955 >>6094788 >first tried indian food most 'indian' food in the UK originates from Bangladeshi cuisine

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 31 11:08:40 2014 No.6102963 >>6096804 wrong, its wendslydale and cranberry

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