People think Britain doesn’t use spices. Read Mrs Beeton’s recipes from the 1800s. It’s ALL the herbs & spices - all spice, curry, chilli, cardomom, fenugreek, ginger, mace, nutmeg, pepper, saffron etc. British cooking really hasn’t changed that much if you look at it in its entirety.
What do you guys think tea is made of?
Yeah that’s definitely not matcha.
Dammit Hony, now I need to order yet another good Darjeeling Fall leaf tea…
Haha, with such a reply I might have to get one myself to try. I love tea.
Get some. There is a reason Darjeeling is often referred to as the “Champagne of Teas”.
The British eat so much Indian food it’s crazy. There’s a Nando’s on damn near every corner in London.
I’m assuming those are meant to be unrelated statements?
Cause Nandos is Portuguese-African fusion food
:-p My mistake.
But it’s generally spicier than beans on toast, is my point
It’s just like how in America there is a Mexican restaurant in every small shitty town.
But there’s also Mexican food in the nice towns too
And Chinese and interestingly Indian food is catching on also.
I know that it’s mostly a joke, yet it is worth mentioning that those valuable spices were exclusively used by the rich and wealthy. Ordinary people and their food did not benefit from the spice trade at all. If you delve a little bit into culinary history and find out what the aristocrats did with (for example) extremely rare and precious nutmeg the British Empire fought wars over, you want to dig up their bones, revive them, just so that you can kill them again.
i’m not looking it up i’m just going to pretend i know
I remember reading that in today’s money sugar used to be over £100/kg. Spices probably more. No shit regular people didn’t use them much! But sugar was also considered a spice too.
wow i dont have time to research what they did. tell me what did they do?
They ate it, mostly as a status symbol. They’d carry it around with a small silver grinder to add it to their food. I’m not sure what was so bad about that, other than adding something worth a laborer’s salary for a year on your food. Also, it contains myristicin which if one consumes enough in one sitting can sort of give a high - a really bad one with hallucinations that go in for 48h - don’t try it, it can make you very sick.
I dated a British girl in high school. She microwave broccoli in water. No salt or seasoning. No butter. No nothing.
She took it out, drained the water and told me her dish was done.
That was the last time she made anything for us.
I feel like I’m missing something, was her task not to cook the broccoli? What is meant by “dish”? It is just broccoli? Am I Bri’ish?
Walking down a high street in the UK. I smell loads of spices from even the shit takeaways.
curry doesn’t count.
Then burgers don’t count for Americans either then. They’re a German invention
Why not? If that is the case then American cuisine is limited to corn syrup and growth hormones.
Because including any kind of Anglo infusion cuisine would go against the narrative that food in the UK is bad.
Anyone shit talking fish fingers is going to get a visit from me and my sledgehammer in the middle of the night. You’ve been warned!
Leave my motherfucking fish fingers out of this!!!
I have eaten fish fingers in the UK and fish sticks in the US. The UK ones are delicious. This meme is not from someone who has ever eaten them.
You, I like you.
Do you like fishdicks?
Fish don’t have hands. Where do the fingers come from?
Neither does mozzarella but who doesn’t love dipping fried and breaded mozzarella fingers into some marinara.
Fingers are for sticking in something, including but not limited to mouth.
… you don’t want to know
Fish fin
gers was just added on as time went by
Navy beans and tomatoes are both native to the Americas, does that count?
There’s somewhere between 10 and 20 spices in the food pictured, why do you think its orange?
onions and tomato
I mean the beans mostly get their color from the molasses and sugar but lots call for Worcestershire sauce which is going to have a bunch of stuff.
Use sparingly:
Salt
Pepper
BBQ rub seasoning from ???
Onion powder
Garlic salt
Misc. dried Italian herbs you’ve owned for years
Anything else left in your pantry
sparingly
onion
garlic
Garlic and onion seasonings are measured with the heart, not the brain.
Camping advice from a feral Redneck, throw garlic and onion powder in your pack. It’ll come in good if you need a bit of oomph for your food, or you pull a me and over season the unholy amalgam of top ramen noodles and flavoring, chili, mac and cheese, and a hot dog tasted meh but the calories meant I didn’t need to eat for 30 hours so it was fine.
no. that's a little overkill, dude
bring the whole garlic braid. either braid it into your hair or wear it as a belt. you never know when you might need emergency rope.
bring green onions (not scallions) to plant along the trail so next time, you don’t have to bring onions you can just harvest them. first year, bring shallots to eat. fuck, plant the whole allium family. and some parsley, thai basil, thai chilis, you know what we’re going to need an herb garden. just try to get the same campsite every year.
BBQ rub seasoning from ???
gets color primarily from paprika. almost always
“spices”, in this context, is Obese American for " salt, butter, and bacon grease"
my dude have you ever gotten a sandwich in Ljubljana? It’s bread, salt, butter, and bacon grease. that’s it. And they’re fucking amazing. I don’t think europe has any room to criticize.
You can’t improve on perfection
Britain stole all those historical artifacts and culture but couldn’t steal a recipe.
We’ve stolen lots of recipes. Modern British cuisine is basically a massive rip-off of every other country’s cooking smashed together.
Fusion, if we’re being polite about it.
France too! French cooking is WILDLY overrated, they coast by on their desserts and pastries and those are just good cause butter
The best Italian restaurant I ever ate at was in Paris, and I’ve been all over Italy.
It was a near thing. But the French do not fuck around with their cooking.
those are just good cause butter
Paula Dean’s food is good because of butter.
Julia Child’s food is good because of experience.
I wouldn’t even mind such a dinner. A clear red flag is people who boil meat or don’t use any oil anywhere.
Fish finger or chip sandwiches are great hangover foods. Once you understand that you will be closer to understanding British cuisine.
The curry or kebab was from the night before and that absolutely has spices. In the morning you go with fairly plain carbs.
Isn’t it because they considered spices for peasants?
