Thread 21455976

British food is actually good. Prove me wrong.

>>21455976 (OP)
it's more about distribution anon. the bell curve of English food (quantity over quality) spans the full range from inedible to world's best, but the density of the offerings are strongly shifted to the poorer side of the graph

>>21455976 (OP)
why do americans call them bangers and mash?

>>21455990
we learned it from Bri'ish telly

The only reason people think British food is good is because of propaganda and lies. Prove me wrong without using propaganda or lies. You can't.

>>21455999
brits insisting that beans on toast is good tells you all you need to know about their opinion on food

>>21455976 (OP)
this image isn't AI, but it looks liek it could be

>>21455999
how could the greatest empire in world history sustain itself on poor food? the army alone required top nutrition and top supply lines of top ingredients to keep those young man in a state of perfect fitness, readiness, and lethality.

>>21455976 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich

British food is great

Someone post post the webms of the two days making a chip butty pls

>>21455976 (OP)
The burden of proof is on you anon

They sure do like peas for some reason.

For me it’s the Welsh Rarebit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit

>>21456104
supports good asshealth and easy to inhale through the gaps in their teeth

Everything that doesn't involve beans is quite good.

>>21456115
peas are beans

>>21455976 (OP)
>prove subjective opinion "wrong"

Fuck off.

>>21456106
It looks like cheese pizza on the wikipedia page.

>>21455989
Name some “inedible” dishes that aren’t actual memes you saw on twitterpol.
>ermagurd jellied eels and water sandwiches! Chat is this real????
Unless you consider black pudding inedible then you just have shit taste and or have never even tried it

>>21455976 (OP)
>British food is actually good.

I have lived here 31 years, eaten in many homes, pubs, bakeries, and restaurants. I'm also a pretty good cook myself and know how to apply my knowledge/skills to maximise the quality of classic British dishes, and let me tell you that you are absolutely wrong.
You can never 'prove' a subjective opinion, but British food is bland, uninspired, and completely utilitarion. It can be summed up as "it has carbs and protein, therefore it's fine." To find cuisines better than ours you just gesture broadly of regions of a globe. To find cuisines worse than ours you have to whip out a magnifying glass and look closely around the Baltic. We do have excellent cheese and decent desserts though.
>inb4 "you must've 'fried your taste buds' ", inb4 "try "real" pork pie/black pudding etc from a "proper" bakery/butchers etc, inb4 calling me foreign, inb4 claiming high quality ingredients don't need seasonings, inb4 deflections about gutter oil and plastic cheese

>>21456186
I'm not even a brit and can tell you are lying.
if you don't like bong food just say so, don't make up elaborate stories to pretend you are being objective.

at it's best bongoloid food is just french food made with worse ingredients and lazier techniques

>>21456180
black putting is fucking scabs and it's disgusting.

>>21456186
>utilitarion
>you just gesture broadly of regions of a globe
You are a jeet

>>21456199
nothing wrong with being a pleb, i suppose

>>21456226
I would rather eat lamprey and turnip stu

>>21456191
>>21456206
>inb4 calling me foreign
>calls me foreign
Youse are literally so predictable I could make a Britbong Bingo lol

>>21456191
Lying about what?
>>21456206
>inb4 calling me foreign
>calls me foreign
Youse are so predictable i could make Britbong Bingo lol

>>21456191
Also since when is a few sentences "an elaborate story"? Are you one of those brainrot tiktok junkies>>

>>21455976 (OP)
English breakfast, pub grub, shepherd's pie... I'm a kiwifag, but in terms of comfort food, brits won.

>>21456254
>this vs some pancakes and scrambled eggs
It's not even close
>b-but muh congealed pig blood!
The majority of english breakfasts don't even include black pudding, part of the appeal is that you can pick and choose what you want.
>muh beans from a can
You've never tried them and if you had you wouldn't be shitting on them. You niggas eat spam

>>21456237
>>21456242
>>21456245
Talk about a seething rage.
>Youse are literally so predictable
>Youse
>Literally
Claims to be 31.

As this anon said >>21456191
>if you don't like bong food just say so
Pretending to be British and some sort of Masterchef will obviously get replies, it's just not the ones you wanted.
Boo Hoo.

>>21456261
Meant to attach picrel, sounds like I'm spouting off at the anon I replied to but we're presumably on the same page

brits are such piteous fopdoodles, geez

peas are never good they always taste like peas you cant season them and they dont bring anything into the dish

>>21456277
they're nutritionous anon

>>21456279
yeah so is sugar doesn't mean it's healthy

>>21456265
Posting a full english every 10 minutes gets a bit boring, it's like when americans just post pictures of their cheesed, meat patty sandwiches

>>21456277
>peas are never good they always taste like peas you cant season them
/ck/ is in a worse state than I thought.

>>21456283
Yet the breakfast itself is the opposite of boring, which is my entire point in contrast to the american.

>>21456289
fair enough

>>21456289
>boring

An utterly absurd concept
Meals are neither boring nor exciting

>>21456302
Similar to how visuals in movies can become bland and music can become formulaic to the ears, the exact same principle applies to your other senses. No reason to treat tastebuds any differently.

>>21456262
>posting in a thread = seethe
I wanted these types of comments though

>>21456302
Stop being silly

The traditional Sunday Roast. It’s been around for centuries. It will very soon be replaced by the Jum'ah Shawarma

>>21456414
>It will very soon be replaced by the Jum'ah Shawarma

>>21456414
>manufactured bought in frozen yorkshires
>potatoes manage to look under-cooked and over-cooked at the same time
>too thin gravy
>well-done beef is cut far too thick
>bland looking veg
yep its carvery pikey slop

>>21456414
love a roast dinner me, but that looks one step above wetherspoons

The truth is lots of Brits eat like shit. There is some great classic dishes but the reality is that most people don't cook or eat them and don't cook well, or eat well cooked food. It's hard to find a decent restaurant in this country, most are shit and most "pub grub" is the same rubbish repeated ad nauseum and not worth the money it costs. To an extent this is true of the rest of Europe and probably the world as well, but I feel compared to the rest of Europe the standard is a lot lower here. I think a lot of classic British cooking doesn't easily transfer to the restaurant setting but its not really an excuse for a lot of it and judging by people I knew at uni and the shit that gets posted online on here and reddit the standard of home cooking isn't great, although there are a lot of factors to this. There's also a type of self-hating Brit that turns their nose up at anything "English" and espouses that anything "foreign" is better, and this seems to be a factor in the death of lots of traditional foods here as a lot of people I think buy into it to a certain degree which isn't helped by slop like this >>21456414 as well as due to class factors.

Its just that its incredibly embarrassing from a national perspective watching people post the same "oh muh full english" on 4chins and plebbit and seemingly expecting JFs to shit themselves in envy at *shock* bacon and a fried egg.

For me its the humble British, McPlant®

The majority of detractors of British cuisine on this board are undoubtedly American of some northern variety.

If I had to guess why, it's probably because British cuisine in many instances places the focus and emphasis on the quality and unembellished flavour of the core ingredients in the dish rather than slathering everything in cheese, sauce, or artificial smoke flavouring.

Additionally, many of those core ingredients are often vegetables - typically 2/3rds of the portion size by tradition.

This may confuse the palate of the average American (why peeple don season dey qualty ingreedents) whom is unaccustomed to non-deep fried foodstuffs, fibre, and uncheesified mealstuffs.

Ironically, Britain produces a huge variety of regional cheeses of exceptional quality that the average American would probably find offensively strong in flavour when compared to a typical American *snigger* cheese.

I'm not British myself but from the colonies - Australian and New Zealand cuisine (no laughing please) was traditionally heavily influenced by British cuisine and I grew up with similar cooking.

>>21456508
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>21456494

As I said in my other post here >>21456186
I am an expert Chef pretending to be British, so that you take my long-winded waffle seriously.
Don't argue with me, I have spent a lot of time writing this.
Please like and subscribe.

>>21455976 (OP)
you could try it yourself and come to the same conclusion that everyone else who has had it comes to. it sucks.

>>21456186
t. nigger/jeet

>>21456008
But what is wrong with beans on toast exactly and why does it trigger people? And also to the extemt that we have the same thread over and over? It's just beans with bread that most of the world eat.

It would be better if those disliking a dish post an alternative or way that it could be improved? Take peas for example, Arakas > plain peas.

>>21456786
>But what is wrong with beans on toast exactly and why does it trigger people?
I don't think many people realise that British beans are more savoury than American beans and they taste very different.

Nobody in Britain thinks beans on toast is some sort of culinary masterpiece, it's just a simple snack prepared in a few minutes, Just like amer'cans when they microwave hotpockets.

>>21456550
It's hilarious to me that I've returned to this thread 12h later and the one guy who agrees with me is given the same textbook response.. you're not defending British food you're just attacking the credentials of a 'Masterchef' which I never claimed to be at all. I said I'm "pretty good".
>>21456494
You accuse me of being foreign but I specifically said "inb4 calling me foreign". You broke the rules and I'm gonna write an email to my MP and he's gonna tell you off so strongly lad

>>21456808
You gave a whole list of 'inb4' knowing that somebody would catch you out.
Now you appear making excuses.
You are not very good at this.

>>21456508
I'm a "dectractor" of British cuisine and I'm English through and through. It's simply not that deep mate, British food is just not very good. I want to use the word 'objectively' but, of course, what is considered objective is somewhat subjective (even legit studies)

>>21456550
Are you the same faggot from youtube who argued that all white people deserved to be shit on because of colonizers from the past, but also said that thinking "non-Europeans used seasonings to mask the taste of rotten flesh" is racist?

>>21456824
Yes mate.
Here is my last comment, >>21456823
Please follow me in my journey to expose British food for the sham that it is.

>>21456815
The "inb4"s were because I've had this discussion dozens of times and have noticed all the fallacious 'counter arguments' you fuckers make. It's fascinating to me, Italians are spergs about their food but at least it's an above average cuisine they are defending... My fellow Brits FEROCIOUSLY defend British food when 95% of humans turn their nose up at it
(You can make a case FOR British food at aaaany time btw, you don't have to nitpick what I've written)

>>21456824
Lmao no this" >>21456838 " fag is trying to muddy the waters rather than defend British food in a thread about British food.
Link me the fucker you're referencing though

>>21456808
Just realised i quoted the wrong comment (i'm drunk)
When i quoted >>21456494 i meant to quote this " >>21456634 " cocksucker

(Can't wait for this to be used as a point of attack by anons instead of defending British food)

Lotta larping as a British person for someone who was completely inactive during US west coast sleeping hours.

>>21456508
>rather than slathering everything in cheese, sauce, or artificial smoke flavouring.
>I'm not British myself but from the colonies - Australian

You guys do the exact same thing. Brits smother all of their food in cheese and gravy, too. Every Anglo nation does that.

>>21456847
I'd hate to give that faggot any attention but whatever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4y_IOxv7SU

I am English and I find British food disgusting, you can point to anywhere on the globe and find fare more substantial . We British have contributed nothing to the culinary world, yet we pretend our food stands alone and is something to be proud of and make threads about.
British food has always been bland and boring, even before the rationing during the World Wars and in the 1970s we sent Chefs to France to try and copy them but we failed because we just cannot cook anything with finesse or with fresh ingredients like elsewhere on the continent.
Prior to 1950 we used to eat toast sandwiches and jellied eels on a sunday.
We British have the worst food on the planet and I say this as an Englishman.

>>21456879
You guys contributed apple pie, mac and cheese, and a bunch of other stuff. You can argue that other nations have their own version of common British food but dishes the US is popular for are actually from Britain a lot of the time.

>>21456885
You just listed French food.

>>21456886
Fine. You invented the modern sandwich. That's pretty big.

>>21456872
I'm going to assume you're referencing me since I'm one of the only fuckers going against the premise of the thread... i wake up when it's daylight. The sun rose about 4:30 am here. I'm a self-employed landscaper and I cant dick around on my phone all day.
All i see in your comment is YET ANOTHER failed opportunity to defend British food that was instead used to claim I'm a foreigner. Pull your finger out, man

>>21456891
We forgot that gardeners are such epicureans.
The world bows to your opinions on food, innit my old china?

>>21456890
>There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
>"Make 'em dry," is the instruction buried somewhere in the collective national consciousness, "make 'em rubbery. If you have to keep the buggers fresh, do it by washing 'em once a week."
>It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They're not altogether clear what those sins are, and don't want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever their sins are they are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
t. Douglas Adams

>>21456900
You're still attacking my supposed 'MasterChef' status, I said i was a "pretty good" cook. The fact that I'm British probably taints that view, compared to other Brits I'm past the centre of the bell curve but compared to the rest of humanity I may well be behind the curve.

BUT YET AGAIN, you're choosing to attack me.. you're choosing to ridicule the idea that a gardener can also be a good cook (as if there are not 24 whole hours in a day) yet you stiiiiiiiiiill have not once argued that British food is good because of x, y, and z.
Dig deep mate, I believe in you. Ignore every bloody thing I've said and tell OP why you agree with him

>>21456891
Landscaping at 04:30? It's not illegal to use those tools at that time, but I expect you get a lot of complaints?

>>21456890
>>21456915

>>21456915
Yeah, well they still invented it. What Mr. Adams is describing is mainly the fault of British home cooks lacking skill and priding themselves on that. They're just coping. You can find shitty cooks everywhere else in the world, too. Most American adults can only reheat frozen food that they bought from Walmart.

>>21456928
I've seen the rate my takeaway guy buy many tasty looking sandwiches. Most of them look identical to what you'd find in a local restaurant here in the US.

>>21456928
>let's show something from the early 70s
*golf clap*

>>21456923
I didn't start work at that time ya dafty, I'd just been awake for a bit by 0430

>>21456879
>I am English
You are brown, so no. Everything you have said is wrong and a lie.

>>21456955
>didn't remotely defend British food

>>21456941
Fair point, let's see some British Sarnies from current year, proper scran.

>>21455976 (OP)
looks good but whats so british about it? its just sausage, peas and mashed potatos. you have that in every country and it doesn't take a genius to come up with that

>>21456947
>ya dafty
Hmm. It's about 9am when you can start without some potentially complaining to the council or police or whatever else. You really like your mornings. Lots to do!

>>21456974
Ooh that's a good one. High five your wife's bvll

>>21457000
Well my biggest client is a branch of old people's homes and i often get there well before 8am but I'll just do manual shit like hoeing, pruning, weeding, watering plants, cleaning greenhouses etc etc. I am a morning lover though, the sun has been my alarm clock for 3 decades now. I'll be asleep in about 3 hours, it's just who I is innit

>>21456180
>water sandwiches!
That's a New Zealand thing isn't it?

>>21456414
Last summer I went to London and I ordered a Sunday Roast and it was all clearly microwaved and they had put a tiny union flag on it. The Indian food there though was the most delicious I’ve ever had but it gave me Krakatoa diarrhea

>>21457033
Every English restaurant gives you a badly made inaccurate flag with your food, just incase you forget what country you are in. Please tell us more about your fabled trip to London? Did the Queen steal all your naan breads?

>>21457033
>>21457041
Well, I also went to Paris and it was the exact same deal there too but the microwaved beef bourguignon was much better than the Sunday Roast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uxx9HvlhPM

>>21457022
Uh huh uh huh. Righto

>>21457111
Oh noooo it's totally over for us bros... what's our next move? I'm on the floor now.

>>21456008
You've never tried British baked beans on bread that isn't sweet, it's a good snack with cheese on top. It's basically a deconstructed burrito.

I prefer scrambled eggs personally, but beans aren't bad.

>>21457116
I'm British (yes, really). I don't get the big deal about beans on toast, as in they aren't worth the mention. They take as much effort to make as instant noodles (fuck if I'm calling them ramen, how gay), but are more nutritious. It's nothing to write home about. It's as basic as it gets, I was making them for myself when I was 7 or something. It amazes me when these fat yanks go on about their """ramen""" and think they're clever for putting an egg in it, or """green""" onions. It's dogshit.

>>21457115
Still no defence of British food, just "yeah good one we're plebs, you've caught me being a pleb". You can make a case for British food at aaany point mate, this is anonymous. If you say something retarded nobody will know it was you.
>>21457116
>no true Scotsman
I've had "British baked beans* on bread that isn't sweet" many times. Even with cheese on top it is prison food.

*American product, btw. If people are going to pretend that Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish because a Pakistani lad who wasn't even born here butchered an Indian recipe, then we have to admit that baked beans aren't some quintessentially British item. One was created by a foreigner on our soil, the other was created by a foreigner on foreign soil. You're defending the latter atm

>>21457116
>It's basically a deconstructed burrito.
lost me here

>>21457159
You're a troll savant. No point in going into much depths with you. We have high production standards for livestock and produce. We rely on imports for certain areas within this, but what we do produce is more than a decent standard. That's due to the richness and variety of soil throughout the island(s). In terms of quality of eating establishments, it's markedly improved in the last 30 years. I think you're the gaylord banging on about the origins of dishes, I'm expecting you're the faggot poopooing things like apple pie and mac & cheese. It's all so tiresome. You're boring. You could pick apart any cuisine if you're being a pedantic little bitch. And that's what you are. Pedantic. And even moreso, you are a little bitch. Modern British cuisine is just that: modern British. It takes influence from other cuisines and makes into something new. I'm not someone who needs an internet medal for my country's cuisine. Imagine being so desperate that you need some form of reflected glory for your country's culinary achievements. It's utterly pathetic. You're some mid IQ, smug, obnoxious cunt who thinks they've done something special with their responses. You're honestly a bit of a cunt mate, not for any particular reason, you just are - it doesn't matter where you're from

>>21457116
Which bean variety do you guys use? The Coco from Pimpol? Lamon beans? Maybe the Giallet which the Vatican prefers?

>>21457191
>We have high standards
No you don't. We're laughing at your standards every day. Even the Pajeets are laughing.We're all laughing at everything you produce, apart from Jersey beef and whisky.
>That's due to the richness and variety of soil throughout the island(s).
No it's not, it's because you copied the Belgian cross-breeding technique. And you failed to come up with anything relevant. Your fruit is laughable, your veg non-existing.
>In terms of quality of eating establishments, it's markedly improved in the last 30 years.
True, it was nowhere. Thanks to the Roux family who opened a bunch of restaurants in the UK and trained Ramsay and White it got on tv. But that's about it.
>We rely on imports for certain areas
All you get is leftovers. Ask the Pajeets. If/Whenever they can stop laughing.
>That's due to the richness and variety of soil throughout the island(s)
No it's not. Italy and Belgium both have 30x more biodiversity than you do.

You have fantastic fishing areas, but all you fish for is haddock. British fishermen are trying to sneak into EU ports with their catches ever since Brexit happened. It's both hilarious, pathetic and insulting to those people, because they're skilled and work an honest job.

You know fuck all about cooking.

>>21457191
>We have high production standards for livestock and produce. We rely on imports for certain areas within this, but what we do produce is more than a decent standard. That's due to the richness and variety of soil throughout the island(s)
Agreed.
>In terms of quality of eating establishments, it's markedly improved in the last 30 years
I'm only 31 so I couldn't in good faith argue that point either way. I'm just bloody confident that Greggs would have never gained a foothold in France or Italy. Ireland? Yeah. Canada? Maybe. My point is that the bar is so low here that a chain that sells an uncut hotdog bun with a layer of icing on top as a dessert would be spat on in most of the civilised world.
>You could pick apart any cuisine if you're being a pedantic little bitch
Yes, you could. But British cuisine is incredibly easy to pick apart (because it's so lacklustre)
>Modern British cuisine is just that: modern British. It takes influence from other cuisines and makes into something new
Kind of agree but the word 'Modern' in this context just, to me, implies that our cuisine was initially bad to the point that any old random tiny country near the Equator could introduce us to a spice or a cooking method and we said "hell yes". It's an inherently bad cuisine if little island inhabitants can teach you a thing or two

>>21457213
Hold on, hold on... "you" shouldn't it be "we"? I'm confused now. Where did you say you're from? Regardless, I think you need to research more about the level of food standards in the UK. Whilst I haven't worked in the sector, I have worked very much adjacent to it. If you can refute what I've said, then why haven't you? There's nothing of substance in your posts, which leads me onto...:
>even the pajeets are laughing
Spare me. I think I paid you a compliment by calling you mid IQ, fucking hell, you're an utter bottom feeder. There is quite a distinct diversity in the types of soil over here, if you look it up then you'll be enlightened. The quality is natural, only to be degraded by over-farming in some parts... It's not up for debate.
>B-B-Belgian
Fuck off, you blithering twat
>Roux family blah blah twat blah Ramsey and White
Obviously tells me you know fuck all about the restaurant industry in the UK. You only know about the Rouxs because you only know about Gordon Ramsay and Marco-Pierre White. In your tiny world they're the only two you know. You have to be a yank. But you've stumbled on half an answer there; they've been a massive influence.
>but that's about it
Shows you're sheer ignorance. Heston Blumenthal, Simon Rogan, Tommy Banks, Tom Kerridge, Jason Atherton, Michael O'Hare but to name a very few, who've had a growing influence throughout the country for being at the very top of culinary excellence.
>blah blah pajeets, blah blah fishing and haddock
What the fuck? Fuck off you twat. You say fuck all, act snide whilst sneering away like a little bitch.
As an aside:
>non-existing
Holy shit, what a dogshit grasp of the language, when I reflected on it just now, I wonder why I bothered replying, but I suppose I wondered that anyway. You're akin to a fucking bot

>>21457236
>I'm going to pick out an iced bun and ignore a large variety of desserts (one of the things Britain does particularly well)
Like you're going to be taken seriously. >Briddish cuisine is so toadally easy to take apart, ya?
Yeah, refer to the above.
>blah blah equator
It's crazy, because I thought the wankstain that I replied to before you was the biggest twat in the thread. Whilst his/her responses are more outlandish in their cuntish claims backed up with absolutely nothing, nonsensical... your asinine wishy washy drivel is probably worse. I have little more inclination to respond to you (or you and him/her) for the simple reason you're fucking wastemen. Someone else in this thread has a dire need to disprove that you're from here. I don't, a cunt is a cunt wherever you're from

>>21457260
Jesus fucking Christ, i used that as an example of a low point. A low point that would never be accepted by the majority of the planet. Greggs continues to sell shit like that because Brits are fuckin goblins when it comes to food. "A fool and their money are soon parted" you've heard that before yeah? Play the metaphor out, Greggs make a mint every year selling to mouth-breathing spastics. Has never took off in another country and never will. Third worlders make less compromise than us lot. Bongs have terrible standards, simple as. I did say we have good desserts in my original critical comment/post btw.
I'll ignore the bullshit like I did last comment but here's yet another reminder that you have entered a thread about how "British food is actually good" thread, and instead of saying why you agree with OP you've just chose to baselessly address anons who are in disagreement with OP. Shameful display, old chap

>>21455976 (OP)
>instant potatoes
>instant gravy
>frozen peas
the only thing on that plate that might be good is the sausage.

Good morning sirs.

>>21458101
Do they not have smoke detectors and fire alarms in bongland?

>>21458103
Just take the batteries out.

>>21458106
Wouldn’t you need a take-the-batteries-out license for that?

>>21455990
>His sausage isn't a banger

>>21456494
wtf is a JF

>>21457116
>cheese on top of beans
Nobody did this back in the day, zoomers ruin everything
>>21457033
>I ordered a Sunday Roast
There's your problem. You're not supposed to 'order' a Sunday Roast, you're supposed to make it yourself. If you don't, you WILL get shitty carvery food
>>21456928
Those sandwiches look great imo
The only one I wouldn't touch is the liver sausage because you simply can't trust that shit in a sausage

>>21458173
Johnny Foreigners.

>>21456106
>The notion that toasted cheese was a favourite dish irresistible to the Welsh has existed since the Middle Ages. In A C Merie Talys (100 Merry Tales), a printed book of jokes of AD 1526 (of which William Shakespeare made some use), it is told that God became weary of all the Welshmen in Heaven, 'which with their krakynge and babelynge trobelyd all the others', and asked the Porter of Heaven Gate, St Peter, to do something about it. So St Peter went outside the gates and called in a loud voice, 'Cause bobe, yt is as moche to say as rostyd chese', at which all the Welshmen ran out, and when St Peter saw they were all outside, he went in and locked the gates, which is why there are no Welshmen in heaven.

>>21458293
It’s in the blood, nice

>>21456186
>Curries made from literal rubbish and fried in actual gutter oil in the slums of Mumbai are actually superior to all British food
Based retard

>>21456012
Nutrition was notoriously poor in all militaries during the height of the British Empire. And they could get away with their men being malnourished manlets because physical prowess wasn't as important in the era of musket lines.

>>21458572
What a load of twaddle.
You do realise that armies had to march hundreds of miles in those days, they didn't have APC and trucks to transport them.
By your theory the modern army would all be scrawny weaklings.

>>21458578
In the US, the modern army is mostly latina hobbits.

>>21458572
endurance for long marches over several days, freezing camps for weeks on end even when not on campaign, and terrible conditions on-campaign with no beds, little sleep, and constant military vigilance requires absolute prime physical fitness. In war conditions you can't control things like weather or onslaught, you have no choice but to maintain the best possible fitness of your soldiers no matter what. even Julius Caesar filled his diaries 80% with worries about food supply lines. Yes, they ate disgusting food but it was chunky beef and beef broth and hard tack and beer, and even in the worst of times each individual soldier was allotted several kgs per day, or else desu

>>21458585
It was mostly grain that rotted their teeth. Great source of calories for long marches, but not much protein or micros. Even as late as the US Civil war there were troops shitting their guts out (not just from dysentry) and never recovering because their rations still sucked despite the best efforts of the higher ups.
Yes they had salt pork, beans and other stuff, but their diets were still dogshit precisely because of the difficulty of logistics.

>>21458578
No, because we have better logistics and a deeper understanding of nutrition and physical prowess is a big deal for infantry who need to be able to do those same long marches (if only as a precaution) with more shit in their packs and engage with smaller numbers.

You're both right that they needed endurance, which carbs are good for, but your big SAS commando's muscles would be wasted on a musket formation if not a financial liability.

A British food thread yet no mention of the greatest of all British culinary inventions? Frozen Beef Wellington bites. My grandad will make several packages of these and eat them like they are potato chips. He puts them all in a big bowl and pops them into his mouth one after another while he’s sitting in his lazy boy chair watching tv

>>21455989
>bell curve
skewed

>>21458124
"banger" came about a slang term for cheap sausages with a high proportion of water and fat to meat that would literally bang when cooked due to the steam that would build up within the skin. So having a "banger" isn't anything to write home about.

>>21458762
exactly.

>>21458770
That sounds an awful lot like a pseudohistorical explanation.

>>21458770
Banger actually came from what me and the boys did you your mum.

For me it’s bangers and mash, no peas, no gravy

>>21455976 (OP)
Went to Bri*ain, and they have some of the best savoury pastries out there. I wish I could have steak and kidney pies at my local Walmart. I just have to settle for hot pockets.

>>21458867
i've always found it bizarre that savoury pies didn't catch on in am*rica.
sweet pies are so obviously inferior to savoury pies.

quite honestly, steak & ale pies with a suet crust are probably the nicest food in the world (unironically).
Shortcrust and puff pastry are also heavenly, but suet crust is the ultimate indulgence.

I love vegetables too, so picrel is the best food on the planet, for me

>>21458880
>nigga ain’t neva heard of a pot pie
>nigga ain’t neva heard of a hot pocket

>>21458770
Banger? I ain’t even met her yet! What does she look like? Oh she’s British? No thanks!
https://www.tiktok.com/@chelsieextaylor/video/7437428215926279456

>>21455976 (OP)
This nigga put hot dogs on mashed potatoes LMAOOOO

>>21458915
>Anon thinks hot pockets are food

It's good peasant food made for the working man. Love it.

>>21460563
it's better than peasant food †bqh but absolutely simple wholesome working man food. It's kind of fucked that the more processed shit is the cheaper it is, and it's actually hard to eat simple food groups because of the constant rising costs. I might just forget it all and live on punkin, turnip, and chicken skin.

>>21460566
heh I misspoke, I meant to say "the more processed shit is the MORE EXPENSIVE it is"

>>21460567
wait, no I correctspoke right the first time I think.

I just want to eat wholesome simple foods and not become a poor.

>>21460572
I think you might be having a bad day or a mild stroke but I get what you're saying. Luckily "cheap cuts" of meat are still pretty cheap and very underrated and tasty.

>>21456104
England is famous for its peas it has the perfect climate for them. You haven’t experienced a pea before you pick them fresh and eat them straight out of the pod.

Beef Wellington is probably the finest British meal there is and, like half of the cuisine, it's meat wrapped in pastry. I just find that funny, can't get away from that format. This thread is terrible PR for bong food btw

>>21461032
>Wellington

>>21461038
>greentext

Pub food is delicious

I'm a Brit and I just view all the foods of the world as ours. It weirds me out no end that people say "British food is bad" and I think "but most of you eat the exact same stuff?"

>>21461087
not the bingbongs. well except in vietnam where they stole the baguette for their devious purposes

for me, it's the pies

>>21458293
>St Peter went outside the gates and called in a loud voice, 'Cause bobe, yt is as moche to say as rostyd chese', at which all the Welshmen ran out, and when St Peter saw they were all outside, he went in and locked the gates, which is why there are no Welshmen in heaven.
Welshmen can't resist that that hot melted cheese on toast. I'm sure the expelled Welshmen would all tell you the rarebit was worth it

How much would that cost, be honest.
The issue with British food is that it costs five times more than it should.

Bangers, mash, cook at spoons. shittiest commercial dining experience.
$14 US. What the fuck Britain? That's like an hours wage in your own country.

Have you considered eating the migrants?

I live in Britain can attest, everything is حلال so you know its good

Just really quite horrendous bumps. Lacking substance and any sort of personality, trying to squeeze life of a dead thread. I'm sure there's a purpose, but I can't see it. Basically it's just grim

>>21456928
>>21456974
>let's see some British Sarnies from current year
kneel

>>21456841
>Italians are spergs about their food but at least it's an above average cuisine
no it is literally simple peasant food, like english food