England

Jun 8, 2022 10:26 PM

Bad food, worse weather

I'm glad the mericans can get some comic relief at the expense of the English. They need a break on this platform

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

That's why we have some of the best chefs in the world is it? I could cook you a whole magnitude of tasty meals this stereotype is false

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flavour

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

If you can eat a packet of Prawn Cocktail flavour crisps and taste nothing, go to the hospital immediately.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We'll have no back talk from the country that has Spray Tea, Canwich and no kettles.

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Here, have some Mustard.... >:)

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well *someone's* never had a Bender in a Bun...

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Temptation to send this to my ex-michelin starred mate rising. I mean food IN England isn't necessarily bad but English food?

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 4

Wife and I are recovering. Discovered today, while we never lost our taste/smell, the smell of vinegar smells like burning garbage to her

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Funny how Gordon Ramsey spends most of his time putting US restaurants right.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Gordon ramsey is Scottish ya fuckin mouldy welly

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

English living in California for a decade and flavors are not more abundant here. It's a bit like saying all Americans are fat! Not true ?

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

You guys put cheese in a can, spray chicken with chloride, your food standards are 3rd world at best and you have this level of cheek, stfu

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Look we had severe rationing for a long time after WW2 and the 70/80s weren't great economically.

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3 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 6

Love it, thanks, you are not far from reality!

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Isnt Jamie Oliver British? That guys cooking recipes are amazing. Mmm big british meat balls and his burger recipes are fantastic.

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

You may not like the weather But it ain't on fire, or a dust bowl or monsooned to fuck or earthquaked or in line for a massive volcano

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

It's a little grey but we never have to shovel snow off driveways or scuttle from air conditioning to air conditioning

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We have something like 11 Michelin starred restaurants in and around Birmingham.

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 5

Still shit food on average.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 17

Have you ever actually tried it?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Says America that fries everything and covers it all "cheddar" cheese and...... Oh wait. Actually

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

I've had some excellent food in England. May I suggest Porters restaurant, Henrietta street by Convent Garden, London.

3 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 3

Any reasonable person will tell you there's good English food. But it's still usually plain even compared to like German food.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Oh shall I just stroll over to Covent Garden then?

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Yes, tally ho.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's a nice walk, really.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I mean Roast Dinners done properly are incredible

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You’ve obviously never had a Gregg’s sausage roll

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Or the Greggs VEGAN sausage roll.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

So much better than the meat one, and I'm not a vegetarian or vegan

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Funny how Gordon Ramsey spends most of his time putting US restaurants right.

3 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Gordon Ramsey is Scottish ya fuckin spoon

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Who the fuck eats hot tomatoes for breakfast

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 21

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3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

Never had a toasted cheese ham and tomato croissant if you haven't give it a try

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You might think that's bad, but the worst is actually the mushrooms and 'black pudding'.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Mushrooms are fantastic! That “pudding” is disgusting, lol…

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Hey, English food has loads of flavour! ... Just the one. And it is mostly grease.

3 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 17

Bangers and mash are pretty banging. You can keep your overcooked mushy peas, though

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

USA: "Write that down! Write that down!"

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

No no, we have more! Salt, vinegar, yeah that’s about it

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

on a proper dry roast?mmmmm!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, salt, vinegar, and grease put together makes a fairly consistent single flavour...

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

British

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Aside from the currys that were eaten here so much they became considered a national dish.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Invented in Glasgow, and according to a recent survey, the most eaten dish in the UK

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd heard it was a brummy invention, Glasgow already gave us the deep-fried Mars bar ;)

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

https://www.britannica.com/topic/chicken-tikka-masala most common origin story is Glasgow, although impossible to be 100% sure

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

“Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary Fucking Poppins: London!”

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

One of my all time favorite movies

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Absolutely! I’ve watched it soooo many times, lol!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This was awesome to:

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Wut?

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England has good food now. Well, London at least.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 6

You mean you have brown people that brought their food to England.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 8

The famously brown French, Italian and Spanish restaurants that you find everywhere... We are a global country, have been for a while

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

If you're American making that point that's pretty hilarious

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Agreed. The only American food worth a shit came from its minorities.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yup. For the most part Londoners are proud to be a multicultural society: we've benefitted hugely & deliciously from immigrant cultures.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Its almost like our country was born from invasion, immigration and cultural diversity that spans the world.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Same with Birmingham.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Wrong. Even fancy food there is shit favor. They don't know what seasoning is

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 14

Are you another one of those Americans that’s never actually left the country and just relies on stereotypes to understand the world?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I dunno, London has some of the best Indian food on the planet. Pretty sure I've had some great meals there

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Saying Curry tastes good in London is like saying Mexican food tastes good in Boston

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Have you eaten there? Which restos?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I believe Birmingham comes out top on independent world curry awards regularly. Really don't know where the hate comes from

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Hundreds of years of imperialism? And theft of culture?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

People love to repeat an old joke I guess. I've eaten food in a dozen countries and the best Mexican food I ever had was in Edinburgh

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Americans think English food is bland because they are used to everything tasting like corn syrup.

3 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 6

American foods are full of carcinogenic artificial flavors, but they're still flavors. At least we don't boil the taste out of everything.

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Neither do we? The whole stereotype is because of post war rationing that stayed well into the 50's/60's.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I was born in the UK. We emigrated to the US when I was 5. Proper english food *is* bland.

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 11

My mom thought salt & pepper was a spice.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 8

But pepper is a spice?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your mom's an idiot

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah, just old school, raised in a different time. She would be the same age as the Queen, if she were still alive.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My Dad thought, if it didn't include a well-done meat, potatoes, and gravy, it wasn't a proper dinner.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

It just sounds like your family hates enjoying food

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Funnily enough, the opposite is true. My Dad loved to eat.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Spicy food in Norwegian restaurants is at most a medium, even if you ask for extra extra extra extra hot... Once got like 4 slices of

3 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

Scandanavia sucks for spicy things sadly ..in my experience

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

jalapeños after asking that... So disappointing, every time.

3 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

On a work trip to uk we went out to dinner and I got jalapeño poppers and everyone at the table was like “oh those are too spicy!” A popper!

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I then asked for hot (spicy) bbq sauce for my bbq sandwich and the waitress was like “I can heat it up on the stove for you…”

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Be the change you want to see in Norway. Time to do some fucked up Norwegian-spicy-Asian/Mexican Fusion.

3 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

HELL YEAH

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I can see it now... Cabrito and Kimchi Fårikål.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Do you have a lot of fish flavored food or is that just for tourists in Oslo? I was there for a day trip once and we thought we'd try a ->

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Since eating out is rare for most people, restaurant food is hardly representative for any of the food we usually eat.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

-> local hamburger restaurant. They, and i'm not kidding, fried the burgers in fish oil, everything tasted like fish. (it wasn't good).

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Never heard of that before, what an odd thing to do... We do have fish burgers here and there, but to fry anything in fish oil... But yeah,

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

totally an Oslo thing to do. I'm sorry you visited the worst city in Norway.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So probably just a tourist gimmick then, thanks for the info.

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I don't understand the tomatoes and the beans, but the rest looks good.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

That tastes like coronary occlusion. And it's DE-FU*KEN-LICIOUS.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The farts would be LEGENDARY.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Last time I was in the UK I had one the morning before my flight home. That became...an interesting flight.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Seems to confirm that the English people's choice of herbs and spices are salt.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Heart stopper

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

It's a fried mess with all the wrong textures. Really overrated in my opinion.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Needs more hog anus.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Honestly, isn't that mostly salt? I've had good English brekkies, but they're all REALLY salty

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You had bad breakfasts

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Could very well be

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3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That looks amazing.

3 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 6

I’m American. I like everything there except the blood sausage. The beans are unusual in this context but not bad. Hot sauce helps !

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Baked beans on an english breakfast is standard. Hot sauce is the unusual thing I read here - as a brit

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The blood sausage actually tastes pretty good. Not gamey

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’ve tried it and…that was enough. More for the rest of you!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

English people think this is so amazing, and it's honestly just a mess of underwhelming shit put together.

3 years ago | Likes 118 Dislikes 52

Shame you've never had a good one, which honestly is most of them. Even the worst full English I've had is better than the shit I got in USA

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

I live in the US and I've never had a more satisfying breakfast than a full English breakfast

3 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 5

Someone say the line to put this american back in their place.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Which one? The one where I won't get shot while eating this or the one where if it blocks my arteries it's free to get it fixed?

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

;) you cheeky boi

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, I think it looks shite.

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

And salt. LOTS of it

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Bland, served with bland, and a bit of bland on the side

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I love that this comment keeps going from positive to negative. Sorry England,but of the 3 countries I've been to, your food ranks the worst

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 15

South Korea #1, US #2, England #3

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 6

No need to apologise. we do actually have good food. its served in Itallian restaurants

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A fry up was for me a great hangover cure.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ive been to London once, visiting from Norway, ordered this at this place my step dad took me to. Nothing was seasoned, all bland and soggy

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gotta be done proper. A bit of salt and pepper will bring the full flavor out of those veggies, parsley n such on the potatoes, so long as-

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

-all the different meats have different flavor profiles it's solid. The beans are sweet, and I wouldn't season the eggs, unless scrambled.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My coin is which jam is going on that toast ???

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What are those black discs? Don’t mind me. I’m an uncultured American, as redundant as that is…

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

Black Pudding, done properly it’s like a heartier sausage. Done wrong it’s burnt chewy mush

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Seems interesting to say the least. I wanna try it I think?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Blood pudding!

3 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Can I get a blood pudding, hold the blood?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Don’t be scared by The name. It is a bit of a misnomer - there isn’t any actual pudding in it.

3 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

A quality comment by smegmaspread.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Black pudding. It's kinda gross really. Biscuits and gravy are 10x better than this 'English breakfast' bullshit.

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 19

Idk dude. Food is good. I’ll try most any food once

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Black pudding is a cooked scab. Enjoy.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Had both. Not a fan of biscuits n gravy. Too salty and bland in comparison

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Disagree. Biscuits and gravy are terrible. A full English beats it any day. The gravy barely has any flavour at all.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 4

Sounds like you had bad biscuits and gravy! Sorry to hear it :) I don't have any hate twords a full English though :)

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

100% agree with you. Full English ftw

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Found out long time ago that the bland white country gravy sucks, sausage & black pepper gravy is so much better

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'll have to give the sausage and black pepper gravy a go. I don't think I've ever tried it.

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