/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.7682715]

What's your opinion on the British cuisine, /ck/?

[Anonymous No.7682719]

>>7682715
Suitable and pragmatic for the native Britons.
I'd never show it off as international or relevant to other cultures.

[Anonymous No.7683038]

>>7682715
When done well, it's fucking tasty and well suited for the climate here. Nothing like pie and chips in winter, or sausage, chips, and baked beans.

Or fresh fish and chips eaten out of the paper, on your lap, by the sea, with a wooden fork, holding the paper down against the wind with your free hand, watching the waves and the seagulls being blown sideways by the wind, and wondering if it's raining or if it's just the sea being thrown at you.

When done badly, it's fucking awful.

[Anonymous No.7683053]

>>7682715
>I'd never show it off as international or relevant to other cultures.

What about scottish salmon?

Thats a cuisine... isnt it?

[Anonymous No.7683282]

>>7683053
HAGGIS
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[Anonymous No.7683288]

[Anonymous No.7683325]

It's so fucking terrible that brits should not be allowed to post on /ck/.

[Anonymous No.7683334]

>>7683288
Call me crazy. I think that traditional British breakfast looks awful. Now that the muzzies took over maybe they can implement a better one.

[Anonymous No.7683411]

It's gradually emerging from a long dark age of mediocrity imposed by two bouts of wartime rationing, which dumbed-down the British palate something fierce. Thanks to an influx of immigrants post-war, it has undergone a revival, and hipster chefs are finally also trying to rediscover pre-rationing and Medieval British techniques, from the era when British food had a much better reputation.

This is a good thing, because Britain has an astonishingly rich natural larder, especially when it comes to game and seafood. A good command of google - and a thick wallet - means you can definitely get a world-class meal in most cities. However, provincial cooking continues to lag behind.

The biggest problem facing British cooking is that rationing destroyed British food culture and turned cooking into a chore, which means that Brits often view cooking as an inconvenience rather than something to take pride in. As such, the number of home cooks declines, and good cooking is in danger of becoming a niche activity.

[Anonymous No.7683465]

>>7683411
>other countries didn't had wartime rationing

[Anonymous No.7683485]

>>7683465
>all countries react the same way to an event

[Anonymous No.7683498]

Maybe it's me having been brought up in a middle class family, but the posts I see on here - even from brits - are not what I know as British food.

That's not to say fish and chips and full English breakfasts aren't an important part of our cuisine, it's just that it's not representative of what I'd eat day-to-day and shouldn't be held as the only offerings.

[Anonymous No.7683499]

>>7683411
>mediocrity imposed by two bouts of wartime rationing

British Cuisine had a bad reputation well before either of the World Wars. Mrs. Beeton's--a British cookbook from the Victorian period--discusses the poor reputation of British cuisine, and that book was published several decades before even WW1.

Also, rationing makes little sense as an excuse. The French got it even worse than the British did in both wars, yet they maintain an excellent culinary reputation.

[Anonymous No.7683500]

>>7683485
> to forget all your country traditional cuisine is a legittimate reaction

[Anonymous No.7683507]

>>7683499
>Mrs. Beeton's--a British cookbook from the Victorian period--discusses the poor reputation of British cuisine, and that book was published several decades before even WW1.

the brits themselves had a complex about their own food, but i'm not sure it had quite the globally lambasted reputation as it does now.

[Anonymous No.7683508]

>>7683499

>The French got it even worse than the British did in both wars,

lol what

[Anonymous No.7683579]

>>7683508
In both wars France was occupied by Germany. England was never occupied in either war.

In WW1 the Brits (and their colonies included) lost roughly a million people (~2% population) whereas the French lost about 1.7 million (4.3%).

In WWII England lost 450K, about 1%. France lost 600K, about 1.5%

So clearly the French got fucked a lot worse than the Brits in both wars.

[Anonymous No.7683586]

>>7683288
Every time british food is brought up someone posts this meal. It's like this is the stunning example of british cuisine or something, fucking breakfast. The only difference between that and american breakfast is that we don't have baked beans on the plate. I don't see mushrooms or blood sausages here either, and usually there's pancakes or oatmeal or grits too.

I've had some decent british food like beef wellington but every god damn time it's 'muh breakfast'

[Anonymous No.7683587]

>>7683579

but we're talking about rationing.

[Anonymous No.7683595]

Their biscuits and gravy ain't like home, but not bad.

[Anonymous No.7683602]

Boiled, bland, or covered in vinegar: British cuisine.

[Anonymous No.7683603]

>>7683587
>but we're talking about rationing.

My point was simply that the French lost a more resources/people/etc yet still managed to retain a positive reputation for their cuisine.

I don't know the exact metrics by which you could compare the quality of the rationing between the two countries, but it's logical to conclude that the French had pretty shitty rationing--surely just as bad if not worse than the Brits. After all, the French lost more people. Not to mention the Germans were surely diverting a great deal of the foodstuffs grown in France to their own war efforts elsewhere in Europe.

If you have any sources that suggest that France didn't suffer just as bad rationing as the Brits then I would certainly stand corrected, but I don't think that's very likely.

[Anonymous No.7683606]

>>7683288
No lie, I'd eat the shit out of that

[Anonymous No.7683614]

>>7683586
This picture tries too hard to be British . .. .I'm not so sure it is, the bacon looks wrong for a start. I think the reason a Full English is often posted is because it's a lot more hearty than many other typical breakfasts.

>>7683602
read off a meme-sheet.

>>7683603
The Brits had worse rationing. Being an island also restricted imports and considering the high density of Britain, most at the time only ate what they could grow in their gardens or from their ration books, which wasn't lifted until the mid 1950's.

[Anonymous No.7683619]

>>7683334
that's because most cafes and people can't cook a proper one

my dad can make a great one

[Anonymous No.7683635]

>>7683614
>The Brits had worse rationing

Source, please.

[Anonymous No.7683638]

>>7683603

>My point was simply that the French lost a more resources/people/etc yet still managed to retain a positive reputation for their cuisine.

ok but you're broadening the issue and making a less pertinent counterargument as a result. we're an island and we were never occupied so hitler was hellbent on BTFOing our navy.

[Anonymous No.7683645]

>>7683614
well i'm not saying the breakfast looks bad, it's just surprising there aren't more flagship dishes being thrown around. its always the breakfast.

[Anonymous No.7683649]

>>7683645

> it's just surprising there aren't more flagship dishes being thrown around

the flagship dish should always and forever be a roast or a pudding or a pie or something, but 'full english' has fucking 'english' in the name so most of us are irrationally proud of it.

[Anonymous No.7683661]

>>7683649
To some extent I can agree with this. English pride has always been suppressed for the sake of the Union, to have 'English' in the title is a matter of pride, no matter how shallow that might seem to others.

[Anonymous No.7683667]

>>7683638
>ok but you're broadening the issue

That wasn't my intention, sorry. I could not find any discrete facts about the exact nature of French rationing, other than generic descriptions of how horrible it was and photos of ration books. Without hard data to compare one vs. the other it seems logical to examine which country got "hit harder" than the other and draw conclusions from that. As I mentioned before, if you have hard evidence about French rations so we can compare them to the British then I will be happy to stand corrected.

>Island. blockade, etc
You think occupied France was open to allied shipping or something? At least England maintained its own domestic production, whereas the Germans outright took a full 80% of food production from France and sent it to the front lines (The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food by Collingham) Not to mention the destruction of the war and fuel shortages greatly reduced farming efficiency.

Again, if you have any hard data on this I'd love to see it. But--and please don't take this the wrong way--I think you don't have any hard data and are just repeating what you happen to believe.

[Anonymous No.7683676]

>>7682715
I see our glorious mods allow the bi-daily anti-British threads.

What a shit board this is.

[Anonymous No.7683682]

>>7683667

> At least England maintained its own domestic production, whereas the Germans outright took a full 80% of food production from France and sent it to the front lines

that sounds significant prima facie but it could actually pale in comparison to how britain was hit seeing as a naval blockade could eliminate near 100% of some of our imported staples. i'll admit i don't have 'hard data' but let's be fair here, not many people do, and i'm just repeating what i believe is a commonly accepted aspect of modern british history.

[Anonymous No.7683690]

>>7683667
>At least England maintained its own domestic production
I don't think you realise the population of Britain to France in terms of pop/Km2 . .. The spices Britain had enjoyed since the Middle Ages, where simply unavailable and Britain survived on subsistence food.

[Anonymous No.7683820]

>>7683325
>>7683334
And we're off to a great start.

[Anonymous No.7683836]

>>7683602
If I were a weaker man I would just report this shitpost, you're lucky that I'm better than that.

[Anonymous No.7683842]

>>7683645
Because these threads are never about what's good, just who has the most professionally shot pictures, it's the same as food threads on /int/ and as that meal is essentially a meme with foreigners, it has the most professional images.

[Anonymous No.7683849]

>>7683667
>I think you don't have any hard data and are just repeating what you happen to believe.

The irony of this post is amusing.

[Anonymous No.7684446]

Irisher here.

I'll list a few of my favourites:

>Leek and black pepper sausages
Probably the greatest sausage ever, along with the standard Thuringer Bratwurst.
I don't include salami or chorizo in this as they're more cured meats than anything. Also delicious, of course.
>Scottish shortbread
Greatest biscuit ever. Also, these with chocolate chips in them are just too wonderful. Addictive.
>Crumpets
>Fish & Chips
With salt and malt vinegar on the chips and tartare sauce, you're in heaven.
>Puddings
Lovely heavy chocolate puds
>Yorkshire puddings
>Cornish pasties
I make these myself as they're hard to find where I live
>Beetroot and goat's cheese
I had it for the first time on a trip to Scotland. Blew me away. Maybe not specifically British, but it was amazing.
>Mince pies
>Shepard's pie
Had so much of this as a child that I went off it, but now have come back to it. Lovely creamy mash with not too much gelatinousness to the gravy is what I prefer.
>Best biscuits in the world
>Some of the best chocolate bars
Dairy Milk's various stuff, Boost etc.
>Tunnock's tea cakes
Dear god
>Scones
Add clotted cream and I will clot my pants
>Fucking tikka masala
Heaven
>Black and white pudding
Personally, I prefer white, but both are great
>Scotch egg
Looks bad, seems bad, but is great
>Cakes and tarts

And then, of course, glorious ale.

[Anonymous No.7685507]

>>7683595

[Anonymous No.7685508]

Modern British cuisine is GOAT. You can get as good a meal in London these days as you can in Paris, Tokyo, or New York

The problem is British home cooking and the attitudes of most of the smaller, cheaper, more provincial places. We don't have the same respect for quality and freshness as other countries do. Why? I don't know. Plebs are revolting.

[Anonymous No.7685514]

>>7683334
The full English is much better than American style breakfasts. It's almost the same thing with more included.

[Anonymous No.7685515]

>>7685507
that's syrup you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.7685519]

>>7685515
It's gravy you yank retard. You realise gravy isn't supposed to look like jizz right?

[Anonymous No.7685523]

>BAKED BEANS
>BLOOD sausage
>Mushrooms and tomatoes
That's not breakfast. That's shit you find at the bottom of your fridge thrown onto a plate.

[Anonymous No.7685524]

>>7685523
That's all IN ADDITION to eggs, bacon, toast, etc. You're free to dislike vegetables if that's your thing, but I don't think they're an unreasonable addition to a plate full of meat.

[Anonymous No.7685525]

>>7685519
No you fucking cum guzzler
if you look at the way the biscuits are 'smothered' that's clearly a sugar based syrup

god you're an insufferable cunt

[Anonymous No.7685540]

>>7683500
We were willing to sacrifice our food traditions for the sake of Europe, we were so bankrupt and dirt poor after the war that people couldn't afford to buy proper ingredients and rationing that started in 1940 actually continued until 1954.

Those 14 years created an entire generation of people who grew up not learning how to cook proper meals with their families, with traditional cuisine being scattered to the winds.

As the country trudged on it took decades for people to take an interest in food again, with the inventions of processed foods the lack of need ro reconnect with culinary traditions only became more intrenched.

This view was held until most would say Keith Floyd in 1984 started presenting his cooking show Floyd on Fish where he enthused viewers on taking an interest in cooking.

Since then interest has resurged for cooking although the cuisine we make is no longer British, the fact is we lost most of our culinary heritage so we adopt dishes from around the world and adapt them to our tastes.

[Anonymous No.7685559]

Some words to describe British cuisine would be: hearty, warming, wholesome, comfy and delicious.

Unlike a lot of other cuisines it doesn't use spices as a handicap where everything needs to be so full of spice you lose the subtly from the base ingredients so much that they can really be replaced by anything.

Some people say that fish and chips is the national dish but to me the dish that defines British food is the roast dinner. Even an average cook can make a tasty, filling roast dinner, but someone who really knows what they're doing will make a roast dinner transcend all other roasts.

>roasted beef perfectly pink and seasoned with salt and pepper
>roast potatoes so crunchy on the outside yet fluffy and light on the inside
>a variety of seasonal veg to keep things interesting and different through the year
>a homemade gravy not too thick, not too watery
>a couple of light puffy Yorkshire puddings
>and to finish off a small pot of freshly made horseradish sauce

Other great British meals include
>Cottage/shepherds pie
>Various stews, such as the steak and ale stew
>A fuck load of savory pies and other pastries
>Fish and chips
>Beef wellington
>Full English breakfast
>Afternoon tea
>Bangers and mash
>Macaroni cheese (yes, it is of British origin)

Then there's all the puddings and cakes like the victoria sponge, crumble (similar to a cobbler for you americans) and sticky toffee pudding. Not the mention the variety of cheeses beyond the fabled cheddar.

[Anonymous No.7685562]

>>7685507
Gravy needs to be a bit thiqqer desu.

[Anonymous No.7685571]

>>7685524
Why have vegetables with your meat when you could have waffles and syrup with it instead?

[Anonymous No.7685577]

>>7685559
Tips for roast dinner.

Let your meat rest and pay attention to the cooking times.

Par boil your potatoes for 5-10 mins and shake them up in the pan to create extra texture that will make even crispier potatoes (allow time to dry by leaving uncovered before putting into oil)

When you out your potatoes on to boil put your roasting tin with oil in the oven so potatoes go straight into hot oil.

Steam rather than boil your veg if possible, unless it is a root vegetable that needs roasting.

When your meat is finished and is resting put the roasting tin on the hob and scrape the meat bits off with a wood spoon. If you want to you can roast a whole garlic bulb drizzled in olive oil in the tray for 1 hour.

For beef and lamb add half a glass of red wine (plonk will do) and let the alcohol cook off, throw in flour (and with beef maybe a tablespoon of tomato puree) cook through for a few minutes and then pass through a seive into a saucepan. Add a small amount of browning for colour if needed.

For chicken gravy don't add red wine but go through the same technique as above using "chicken" gravy browning if needed.

Make your Yorkshire pudding batter the day before. Always spoon it into hot oil in the tray.

Eat with friends and family.

[Anonymous No.7685672]

>>7685525

no, it's gravy. the image was clearly made by someone intending to lampoon the concept of biscuits and gravy as interpreted by brits. that is a classic british gravy consistency.

[Anonymous No.7685681]

>>7684446
>Fucking tikka masala
>British cuisine

And you make fun of America for not having its own culture

[Anonymous No.7685683]

>>7685681

it's not like india particularly wants to claim it

[Anonymous No.7685688]

>>7685681
>focuses on the 1/18 that takes influence from another cultures cuisine

Someone's bitter.

[Anonymous No.7685694]

>>7685683
India only wants things after England has spent billions of pounds and decades civilizing it, then it's time to get out limey!

[Anonymous No.7685700]

>>7685694

tikka masala is one of the most overtly civilised things i've ever seen

[Anonymous No.7685705]

>>7685700
Hence why the English took it back with them. It sure as fuck wouldn't actually exist without them, it's completly an invention of Western English trying to reproduce the flavors of India with spices and local ingredients

[Anonymous No.7685711]

>>7685540
I sort of agree with your comment about the War years and the rationing, Britons concentrated on subsistence food rather than good cuisine.

I was born in the mid 1960's and I recall my mother watching Fanny Cradock and Graham Kerr (the Galloping Gourmet) And I think a lot of Brits became inspired by this. In the early '70's I was eating Fondue, Spag Bol, Risottos and Curries. I think the change was happening before Keith Floyd.

Although the British have modified other dishes from around the world, there is currently a resurgence of going back to the roots, making traditional English dishes. For example: Snails, they where eaten in Britain before the Romans arrived and (especially in the West Country) were usually stewed in a seasoned, cider based stock (as opposed to the French Garlic and Butter) - Jugged Hare and various game are also making a come-back, along with various offal dishes. Not to mention the rich British heritage of it's pie and pudding culture.

[Anonymous No.7685716]

>>7685705
>it's completly an invention of Western English trying to reproduce the flavors of India with spices and local ingredients
WRONG!

Tikka masala was a British invention, to add a spicy gravy to a dry dish (Chicken Tikka) .. it's not a reproduction of anything.

[Anonymous No.7685717]

>>7685705
>English
It's a Scottish dish you colossal cunt.

[Anonymous No.7685721]

>>7685717
It's not Scottish.

Although the Scots would like to claim it was . .. .it was Birmingham . . . .sorry Hamish.

[Anonymous No.7685725]

>>7685705
Your retardation and lack of culinary knowledge are off the scale today my friend.

[Anonymous No.7685728]

>>7685705
>>7685716

it's an invention that took place in britain and was made by brits of indian heritage. however it clearly 'comes from' india in a large way.

brits, and various other colonial nations, have a large role to play in the development of indian restaurant cuisine. the restaurants in which these dishes were developed would not have existed without them. however the techniques developed within these restaurants date back at least as early as the mughal era

[Anonymous No.7685733]

>>7685728
>and was made by brits of indian heritage
NO
It was made at the request of a Grumpy Englishman who wanted gravy on their tikka.

[Anonymous No.7685735]

>>7685733

even if that's true it doesn't contradict what i said.

[Anonymous No.7685736]

>>7685733
>It was made at the request of a Grumpy Englishman
by an Indian.

[Anonymous No.7685742]

>>7685735
>>7685736
I suppose many workers were involved in building parts for the Apollo missions . . . . .are you saying that Mexicans made the moon landings?

[Anonymous No.7685743]

>>7685742

no, but a german did.

[Anonymous No.7685744]

Britbong here. Youre right, cooking is overlooked here and most people dont care enough to put any effort in. We have plenty of good resteraunts but international food is way more popular.

One much negelected british dish thing is the PLOUGHMANS LUNCH.
Seriously. People forget, a good ploughmans is second to none. A board of great local cheese, some crackers or local bread, butter, some good quality cold meats, perhaps a pork pie, some apple, tomatos, occasionally boiled egg, usually apple and maybe some grapes, and of course, some pickle. Lots of little bits of good brit shit. <3

[Anonymous No.7685745]

Oh, forgot to add some local ale or cider...

[Anonymous No.7686263]

>>7683842
This 2bh.

[Anonymous No.7686270]

>>7685519
When a clappyfat says gravy, they don't actually mean gravy, they mean a bechamel sauce.

They are just too stupid to call it by the correct name.

[Anonymous No.7686286]

>>7686270

The american white gravy isn't just bechamel; it usually has pork sausage meat in it. It's also technically a gravy because it's supposed to be made from the pan drippings of whatever you cooked, not just starting with butter or oil like you would for bechamel.

And we amerifats have plenty of other kinds of gravy as well. Sawmill/country gravy isn't the only one.

[Anonymous No.7686305]

>>7682715
Like every other countries, some stuff is good and other stuff is something I could only stomach if I'd only grown up with it.

[Anonymous No.7686319]

>>7686286

>take bechamel
>make it better
>give it a less douchy name
>french fags butthurt

[Anonymous No.7686438]

>>7685523
You deserve all of the hate that is thrown at you.

[Anonymous No.7686447]

>>7686305
And I bet you couldn't name, let alone have tasted, these mysterious awful things.

America is a cancer upon the Earth.

[Anonymous No.7686744]

>>7683682
>>that sounds significant prima facie but it could actually pale in comparison to how britain was hit seeing as a naval blockade

France was not receiving any Allied food support either. Did you forget that the Nazis build costal fortifications all around France? They're still there to this day. Britain was receiving a great deal of support from the US and Canada via shipping convoys; France received none of that.

>>i'm just repeating what i believe is a commonly accepted aspect of modern british history.

Yes, I realize it's commonly belived, but as my earlier example from Mrs. Beeton's made clear, it's also wrong. The reputation pre-dated even WW1 by several decades. So clearly the "commonly held belief" is in fact incorrect, and thus I'd like to find out what the actual reason was/is.

>>7683690
>>I don't think you realise the population of Britain to France
I do. That's why I quoted their wartime deaths as a % of the population, and France suffered much higher relative losses.

>>spices
it's a war anon. Nobody is worried about spices during a war. Everyone except for a negligible few super-rich were living on subsistence diets. Even the Americans had rationing despite their massive production capacity and the fact that there wasn't any appreciable fighting on American soil.

>>7683849
I already admitted that I don't know the hard facts to back up the answer. But at least I have some numbers to back up my theory, thus I am confident in believing it until I am proven wrong. Mrs. Beeton's seems to disprove the "Brit food is bad because of war rationing", so the only logical conclusion is that it was caused by something else but has been misattributed to the wars.

[Anonymous No.7686775]

>>7686286
This is mostly correct, although I have seen many versions, particularly in the Midwest, of country gravy which do not start with pan drippings. A lot of restaurants don't use drippings for obvious reasons (gravy isn't made to order in most restaurants). So these versions basically are white sauce with sausage.

[Anonymous No.7686828]

>>7686744

>Yes, I realize it's commonly belived, but as my earlier example from Mrs. Beeton's made clear, it's also wrong.

you're talking about the wrong 'commonly accepted aspect'. i'm not saying britain didn't have an impaired culinary reputation pre-ww2, i'm just saying it could have been significantly exacerbated by rationing. what i think is 'commonly accepted' is that we had especially stringent rationing as a nation.

this whole issue clearly requires a more complex analysis because without knowing exactly what we subsisted on in terms of export vs import and how hard that stuff was hit during the war we could make a lot of drastic proclamations.

[Anonymous No.7686905]

>>7686828
>what i think is 'commonly accepted' is that we had especially stringent rationing as a nation.

It's certainly true that Britain did suffer through rationing. But for what reason(s) do you think it was worse that what France suffered?

I would think that France would have had an even worse situation given:
-they received zero allied convoy shipments whereas Britain had many. The US built over 2700 "liberty ships" for the sole purpose of shipping cargo to England. How many did occupied France get? Zero.
-they were occupied by the Nazis who diverted a full 80% of their domestic production to Germany; Britain was never occupied and retained control of their own production.
-they suffered much greater infrastructure damage due to being occupied
-they suffered a higher % losses of people able to work the fields, etc.

The evidence seems to suggest that if we don't have clear data on French rations to compare to the British that it would be silly to assume that the British rationing program was worse than the French.

[Anonymous No.7686957]

>>7683288
What exactly are this one brand of sausage that every cafe and school in the UK serves?

I really like them but they're obviously cheap as shit.

[Anonymous No.7686992]

>>7686957
Most likely something like this:

http://www.brake.co.uk/products/meat-poultry-frozen/frozen-processed-meat/sausages/cocktailschipolatas12s/f5147-brakes-sausage-twelves

[Anonymous No.7687001]

>>7682715
The only good dishes are bar food. Bangers and Mash, Fish and Chips etc.

They do have the worst food but at least beer isn't too expensive at the pub.

[Anonymous No.7687017]

>>7686905
The other guy already called you out on your shitposting.

Look up the populations, population density and landmass.

In summation, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.7687028]

>>7687001
I hope your mother breaks her back.

[Anonymous No.7687039]

>>7682715
i like earl grey tea and scones

[Anonymous No.7687041]

>>7687028
She is a saint

[Anonymous No.7687051]

>>7687001
Forgot to mention a full english breakfast as being pretty good. But they ought to ditch the tea and get some coffee to go with it.

[Anonymous No.7687061]

>>7686905

we need directly comparable data to really make this conversation go places. we need to know what we ate before compared to what we ate during and after. i'm looing into it but making any specific assumptions would be misguided at this point so i won't pretend to have a rebuttal right now

[Anonymous No.7687068]

>>7687051
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.7687069]

>>7683288
You have a license for that knife, m8?

[Anonymous No.7687073]

Americans province once again to be the worst posters around.

[Anonymous No.7687102]

>>7687073
I'm from Oslo and I wasn't that impressed by British cooking. The French, Italians, and even some Germans made better food.

[Anonymous No.7687115]

>>7687102
I went to Norway and the food wasn't fit for a dog.

Scandinavian food is just terrible.

[Anonymous No.7687124]

>>7685716
Why so many types of gravy?

[Anonymous No.7687128]

>>7687115
I agree, but I think it's weird the British haven't noticed that theirs is fairly bad as well. I'd never serve a foreigner our food. Maybe a pizza.

[Anonymous No.7687131]

>>7687128
Good god you're as bad as the Swedes.

[Anonymous No.7687151]

>mfw amerifats are so addicted to meat, sugar, fat and cheese that they can't enjoy the elegant simplicity of a chip butty or a bread sandwich

[Anonymous No.7687197]

>>7687151
I don't know what to call it, it certainly isn't pretentiousness, afterall, Americans eat American cheese, sugar bread, HFCS everything and bleach chicken, so it's not like they are against it for being beneath them.

I suppose it's simple autism, something different triggers them.

[Anonymous No.7687283]

if it wasn't for the Indian food scene there would probably be no reason to go there

[Anonymous No.7687310]

>>7687283
>>7687283
The drinking scene is where you're missing Britain's delectables. Have you had bangers and mash after 6-8 pints? The food becomes wonderful after a few drinks. I'd been to Britain and found that drinking, deserts, gravy meatish dishes, and their pies were orgasmic several drinks in. Fish and chips was designed to be devoured with several pints. It is delicious.

Then, if you get a hangover, you go and get a full english breakfast. Then you're hangover is cured and you're ready to drink and eat all over again.

[Anonymous No.7687312]

>>7687197
Dirt poor malnourished third worlders like you

[Anonymous No.7687324]

>>7687197
My slav friend says mayo is eaten like that in Russia. Especially since it's cheap and nourishing.

[Anonymous No.7687516]

>>7687283
All I ask for is just a little work from the janitors.

Just ban one shitposting American, please.

[Anonymous No.7687541]

>>7687516
You could always go to britchan

[Anonymous No.7687546]

>>7687312
Wew lad.

[Anonymous No.7687555]

>>7685507
That looks gross

[Anonymous No.7687603]

>>7685514
>better than American
Not a big deal. American breakfast is not great.
Also no American eats the following for breakfast:
>mushrooms
>tomatoes
>pork and beans
>HP sauce?
Also we have Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

[Anonymous No.7687610]

>>7687541
I'm comfortable right here thanks.

[Anonymous No.7687616]

>>7687603
But Americans eat pork for breakfast, you eat not-bacon and not-sausages.

[Anonymous No.7687633]

>>7687616
not that guy, but
>eating red meat on a regular basis

enjoy hardened arteries by the time you're 50, regardless of one's health.

[Anonymous No.7687642]

>>7687633
Careful, today is heart attack acceptance day on /ck/

[Anonymous No.7687653]

>>7687616
well pork fucking rules.

[Anonymous No.7687659]

>>7687633
>red meat
>Pork

[Anonymous No.7687673]

>>7687659
From a health and nutrition perspective, pork and red meat are one and the same

The idea of "pork is the other white meat" is actually an advertising campaign from the 1980s by the pork industry, which was trying to combat the (equally erroneous) public perception that pork was more unhealthy to consume than beef (it's actually similar, the only reason pork is worse for public health is zoonotic outbreaks that have nothing to do with eating)

[Anonymous No.7687684]

>>7687659
pork's read meat bro

i think you're the one brain damaged from watching too much TV and thinking it's the other white meat still

[Anonymous No.7687708]

>>7683282
Haggis is delicious though, you're meme is moot

A lot of Scottish food is pretty good, though I might be biased in saying that, there's nothing better than coming in on a cold day for a bowl of Cullen Skink though.

[Anonymous No.7687769]

>>7687653

[Anonymous No.7687771]

>>7687684
Moron.

[Anonymous No.7687781]

bought this on a whim and gave it to my wife as a Christmas as a joke (from a British section in a local market)

zip ahead a year later

be me, drunk, eat it, pretty good, wish I had the custard sauce thy usually serve it with

nice moist cake

[Anonymous No.7687952]

>The mod deleted the thread asking about Americans eating burgers
>This and every other anti-British thread is still up

Every single time.

[Anonymous No.7687974]

A stargazy pie is on my bucket list of things to make, just because it looks so cool.

[Anonymous No.7687987]

>>7687974
I never got the meme surrounding this. The fact that the fish isn't processed, breaded and actually looks like the animal you are eating somehow makes it an abomination?

[Anonymous No.7688017]

>>7687987
Are we even talking about the same dish here? What meme?

[Anonymous No.7688024]

>>7683325
Yeah it would be so much better if ck was all burgers

[Anonymous No.7688028]

>>7683411
Replace British with Nigger and this seems like a racist uninformed rant. which it is

[Anonymous No.7688065]

>>7688017
Stargazy pie is one of the most prominent shitposting fodder on /ck/.

[Anonymous No.7688732]

>>7687987
According to flyovers, yes.

[Anonymous No.7688739]

>>7688065
And yet most in Britain have never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.7688753]

>>7683282
Tbh most of our food (like haggis) sounds shite but is deliciously over the top. Nowhere else is eating 90% fat so easy or tasty.

[Anonymous No.7689501]

>>7687603
>implying there is a standard "American breakfast"

[Anonymous No.7689515]

>>7687061

this piqued my interest so I did a bit of research online. turns out the data is all there, it just takes some digging to find it.

looks like the French got fucked far worse than the Brits did, except for sugar.

[Anonymous No.7689517]

>>7682715
Lol does curry count hahahaha British food is kinda muti cultural now what would british stapals be tea n toast or a meat pie kinda thing

[Anonymous No.7689522]

Most of the traditional british dishes I have seen and tasted seem very alike to our own dishes in Denmark.
So in that regard I'd say british cuisine is very tasty.

[Anonymous No.7689523]

>>7689515
NEED MORE DATA
FOOD RATIONING KILLED MY CAT
BRITISH CUISINE IS GOOD. CURRY IS BRITISH

[Anonymous No.7689937]

>>7687781
Custard is god tier food bro

[Anonymous No.7689983]

Any other brits had sugar butties before?
-2 slices of white bread
-Margarine/butter
-2tbs sugar

[Anonymous No.7690070]

Some good british food:

1. Haggis
2. Meat pies
3. Cornish pasties
4. Lancashire hotpot
5. Godly sausages
6. Black pudding
7. Local shellfish
8. Fish and chips (properly made, not cheap stuff)
9. A million kinds of cake
10. Sweet puddings (e.g. spotted dick, figgy pudding)
11. Trifle

[Anonymous No.7690225]

Why /ck/?

[Anonymous No.7690269]

>>7683038
You forget, a huge homemade english breakfast is ridiculously filling and heartwarming, (in both metaphorical and physical senses) and just the best thing to wake up to when you're especially hungry.

>>7690225
lmao, search 'why is american food..' and prepare for the exact same fucking results. Noone is ever going to google 'why is british food so good'

[Anonymous No.7690276]

War rationing pretty much bumblefucked it the same as American cuisine but it's making a recovery.

[Anonymous No.7690280]

>>7690276

read the thread foo, that's been disproved

[Anonymous No.7690284]

>>7690269
Aye but if you search any other cuisine like Chinese food or Greek food the options are mostly positive lmao

[Anonymous No.7690285]

>>7690070
Pasties and pies are the shit. Your black pudding doesn't hold up against the Irish stuff, nor have I had a sausage in Britain that would've beaten what I've had in city Cork.

[Anonymous No.7690289]

>this is the first thing britons eat in the morning

[Anonymous No.7690300]

>>7690269
Yeah because americans are basically british people that already couldn't stand your """""food""""" 400 years ago.
Stay mad britbong

[Anonymous No.7690307]

>>7690276

>a war that occurred 75 fucking years ago is why our food is bad

denial is the first stage to accepting the fact your food sucks

[Anonymous No.7690361]

>>7690300
>basing your opinions on Google searches

>>7690289
What the fuck is that

>>7690284
Its all about culture, Italy is known as a foody country. Same with wine, sports, beer. No country is objectively better, only known for being better. Its a fallacy that any food is good or bad just because it's foreign. I'm sure many people in Italy eat bullshit packed breakfasts and gross shit for breakfast.

[Anonymous No.7690567]

>>7690361
>What the fuck is that
Jellied eels

[Anonymous No.7690627]

>>7690289
>jellied eels
>for breakfast

Not likely, hon. Jellied eels are more for lunch/dinner.

Breakfast is more likely to be crumpets drenched in butter and a cup of tea, or a full english breakfast or toast with marmite or even just a bowl of cereal.

[Anonymous No.7690629]

>>7683411
>A good command of google - and a thick wallet - means you can definitely get a world-class meal in most cities.

I fucking hate you and I've never even met you.

[Anonymous No.7690798]

>>7689515
And yet the worst rationing happened after the war was over.

Oh but don't let that get in the way of your deep seated obsession with Britain. Watching you sperg out is quite amusing, you and the spastic replying to you.

[Anonymous No.7690802]

>>7689523

[Anonymous No.7690811]

>>7690225
Because the internet is full of Americans and Americans are complete morons who see the world through memes.

[Anonymous No.7690815]

>>7690280

[Anonymous No.7690822]

>>7683603
Also, what about Germany? It LOST both wars, each time seeing a collapse of its - already overstretched - rationing system, leading to widespread hunger and famines after both of these wars.
Never mind China - ever heard of the great leap forward? That took all food of chinese plates for nearly a whole decade, yet you will find the Chinese cuisine still alive and well today.

[Anonymous No.7690824]

>>7690300
>The janny will delete the anti- American thread within minutes but all of the anti-British threads are left in the catalogue until 404

I hope the US government ensures the janitor is well compensated for his biassed work.

[Anonymous No.7690829]

>>7690307
You fat fucks will never end your obsession with us, it is glorious.

[Anonymous No.7691360]

>>7683282
haggis chilli is fucking lush

[Anonymous No.7691366]

>>7683288
fuck yeah seeded batch

[Anonymous No.7691425]

>>7685559
>roast beef

Stopped reading right there

[Anonymous No.7691457]

>>7686744
you are ignoring the population densities, britian simply hasn't had enough land to feed its population since the 1670s

france on the other hand has so much land per person that they can afford to be right shite farmers and still be able to survive comfortably on just french produce

[Anonymous No.7691485]

>>7689983
i knew a lad who ate golden syrup sandwiches... for once the stereotype about teeth was true

[Anonymous No.7691488]

American breakfast is better anyway. Pancakes and syrup not shown

[Anonymous No.7691494]

>>7690307
an entire generation grew up on subsistence food, our home cooking traditions were pretty much destroyed

[Anonymous No.7691561]

>>7691494
> only 6 years of war rationing destroyed British cuisine

It must not have been much to speak of even before the war.

[Anonymous No.7691565]

>>7691561
14 years
1940 - 1954

[Anonymous No.7691936]

ITT Americans knowing only memes.

[Anonymous No.7692053]

i've heard that the english have good music, but bad food. that being said i really love fish and chips. probably one of my favourite MOATs

[Anonymous No.7692438]

why are Americans so obsessed with this supposedly irrelevant little island?

[Anonymous No.7692467]

>>7692438
They have no cooking traditions of their own, so they berate others that do, except Japan, for some reason, they rave about Japanese curries . . . .wait a minute.

[Anonymous No.7692531]

>>7691425
For a general roast I'm making myself since I'm admittedly not the best I'll tend to use chicken because it's easier and still tastes great.

But the best roasts I've had have always been roast beef.

[Anonymous No.7692532]

>>7691488
Mash looks burnt
eggs are bitty
'bacon' is overcooked
sausages took greasy
and what is that lettuce?

[Anonymous No.7692535]

>>7691488
>syrup with meat

[Anonymous No.7692843]

>>7691488
>>7690269
Why do y*nks always overcook eggs?

[Anonymous No.7692852]

>>7690829
lmao fucking americans

[Anonymous No.7693038]

>>7691485
Oh shit my family ate those as well as sugar sandwiches, I'm surprised none of them are diabetic or have cavities, is this a regional thing or just an old people thing

[Anonymous No.7693059]

>>7690285
Well, good for you. Anywhere in London I can buy these irish delicacies to corroborate your opinion?

[Anonymous No.7693069]

>>7690285
>Your black pudding doesn't hold up against the Irish stuff, nor have I had a sausage in Britain that would've beaten what I've had in city Cork.
Muh heritage

[Anonymous No.7693106]

>>7690829
>your obsession with us
>meanwhile limeyshits get triggered into bitchfits whenever the US is mentioned