It’s a wartime / depression era food, not something you’d make by choice, typically
Cause bread was cheaper than say meat or cheese or what not
First appeared in an 1861 cookbook, target for this was sick people. Would be easy to keep down, carbs and fats to nourish more than just a broth.
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
Incidentally a UK paper a few years back called it “the cheapest british meal” and invited someone to send in a cheaper meal and they’d get an award. They got flooded and had to pick the winner at random.
and that applies to all the british (and “white people” food in general) that people think is boring, yeah it’s boring because the main goal was not starving to death…
I dunno man when I was in the UK I had a shit ton of awesome food. Lots of fried fish, roasted meat, savory and sweet pies, sausages, breads, cheeses, not to mention the crossover and fusion food like Indian and South Asian.
They have the best bacon
The dairy and processed meats in the UK are fire!
Is Harry Gow a bad place for sausage? I had a full breakfast every chance but only got sausage once.
Any recs?
Although I learned the hard way that there are two types! Streaky vs back bacon. Imagine my disappointment when I ordered a caesar salad with added bacon and it came out with what looked like a slab of ham on it 🤣
Well how come you ordered it twice?
This was my very same experience with Canadian Bacon.
deleted by creator
I couldn’t have one now, but scotch eggs look great.
But did you get a Meal Deal?
I got a full English twice, so there’s that.
Haha if you go back, Meal Deals are addictive. They look like cheap gas station sandwiches, but they’re quality ingredients with good fresh bread. Combos we don’t get here like cheese and onion are just a very different thing than you would expect.
What even is jove
Edit: okay this one’s complicated. It’s like saying “holy shit” (“oh my god”), but you’re Roman and saying “holy jupiter(the god)”, but you’re also English and it entered popular usage through Shakespeare, and you’re also from before it became “by george”…Or something… Tldr it’s old Latin and jove=jupiter
great scott!
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Fry your flour in butter.
deleted by creator
They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.
very funny and all, but most of the “indian” food westerners are used to was invented in the UK
The Fat Duck, a restaurant with three Michelin stars, serves toast sandwich as a side dish.
So, you tell me.
Your not improving the reputation of British food your just making the reputation of Michelin stars worse
either way, i win 😈
It’s specifically a rating system to sell tires. And cars are terrible for humanity. So yeah, who cares about that system.
deleted by creator
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
you guys remind me of a girl I used to work with who would always mock “white people food,” except that to her that really just meant “poor white people food.” It’s not gourmet, but sometimes all you have is fucking bread.
Mustard crackers are the bomb if that’s all you have in the fridge.
Yeah, it’s filling and I would like to see you come up with better for £0.06 a meal.
Poverty food exists for a reason.
I have not seen bread this cheap anywhere.
Aldi, to be fair food was a bit cheaper when I was living on £600 a month, around 2017. Like £0.34 for about 20 slices. I think it is more like £0.45 now for the cheapest loaf of bread.
I’m not sure ze Germans would let me call that bread. Most loaves of bread I see (admittedly not at Aldi) start around 1.20€ for the smaller ones which I would have difficulty cutting into 20 slices. But maybe white bread with enough air in it is indeed that cheap.
Edit: I would assume that it won’t be very satisfying.
I think UK pricing is pretty competitive, so we get pretty cheap bread compared to many others.
Tikka Masala is pretty fuggin’ good. And you lot did invent Worcestershire sauce. Oh, and your packaged snacks? Hugely better than the crap we get in the states. But you can have Mushy Peas.
Worcestershire sauce was a recreation of an Indian sauce by a pair of English men.
Tikki Masala was invented by a Pakistani chef living in Scotland.
Technically both British creations, but I feel like it’s hard to list them as fully British in origin.
Worcestershire sauce was a recreation of an Indian sauce by a pair of English men.
The company has also claimed that “Lord Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal” encountered it while in India with the East India Company in the 1830s, and commissioned the local pharmacists (the partnership of John Wheeley Lea and William Perrins of 63 Broad Street, Worcester) to recreate it. However, neither Marcus Lord Sandys nor any Baron Sandys was ever a Governor of Bengal, nor had they ever visited India as far as available records indicate.
Kind of like chop suey, there’s nothing Chinese about it.
The only people who survived medieval England were those who could psychologically tolerate bland food.
Well you can’t crave what you’ve never had.
I ate a lot of good food when I visited the UK. Honestly anyone who claims <place> has only bad food has a skill issue.
Wasn’t this like midwar bombing rations when things got bad or something?
Funny enough, a lot of popular food today was invented due to a food scarcity with people forced to make due with what they had on hand.
Thought the food was a running joke for ages till I went and had some of their Fish and Chips at nice pub. Oh boy was I wrong! That and the curry will absolutely blow your mind.
You can also get curry sauce with your fish and chips.
