/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I hate to break the bad news, but british food now is stuff like curries and noodles and shit

>we're not quite as good as Indian, Japanese, French, Italian or Greek
>we

go be a self-hating cultural cuckold somewhere else

the only good British food is a traditional English brekky

>>13500817
You didn't have to list all those countries. You could have just said America.

>>13500817
Indian food is disgusting.

only problem i have with british food is the fucking infantile names you give everything

Don't forget fish and chips.

Is Wellington Beef english food? If yes I like english food
1. Wellington Beef
2. Full English Breakfast
3. Fish and Chips
4. Scotch Eggs

What should I try next time in LONDON ?

>>13501158
paki jizz

why is all british food yellow and brown?

>>13501056
What's the typical kind of fish used in this? Looks like a cod filet you'd get at a Culvers and those fries look a bit soggy to my taste.

>>13501197
If you're buying cod in your fishnchips you're doing it wrong.
You certainly don't want 'dry' chips. Soaked in grease and vinegar, thanks.

>>13501208
>vinegar fries
Nice, didn't know that was implied in the fish 'n chips, makes a difference. Google says you guys use cod, haddock and pollock mostly, what else do you suggest? Over here we're big on walleye and lake perch, though we've been getting more ocean perch lately as the price of lake perch is going up.

Pie and mash and jelly eels

>>13501158
Jellied Eels
Pies and Mash
Sunday Roast
Sosig rowl
Sarnies

>>13501243
Walleye and lake perch are top tier in Michigan.

everything good in british cuisine is some combination of pastry and meat

frankly this can get you very far

>>13501328
Walleye is the shit, perch is good too but I feel like I've had it too many times after a childhood of friday fish fries. Always found it funny how many old catholics up here still do the 'no meat on friday' thing, it creates an entire business niche to cater to them.

>>13501391
Fish not being considered meat is the dumbest religious loophole ever invented.
>But the Bible only specifies animals that walk upon the Earth. Fish don't walk, they SWIM!

>>13500817
I think it's less about blue collar culture, hipsters love to pretend they love that shit. I think it's the fact that your working class food is all fried or baked and greasy cheapass food that health conscious people eat less of these days.

>>13501407
It's the same sort of loophole doublethink behind Eruvs, imagine believing in a deity then thinking you can get one over on it by a technicality.
Interestingly I just checked and turns out the requirement is still on the books if you're Catholic, I'd always heard it was abolished in the 70s but apparently that's a common misconception.

>>13500834
Ireland does it better.

>>13501407
Look up Mudskipper.

>>13501964
post proofs, poof

>>13501440
>Eruvs
Had to look this up. That's fucking hilarious.

>>13500834
>brekky
English people: "Americans don't speak real English!"
Also English people: "There's gonna be a barney if I don't get a brekky before we open Chrissy Prezzies!"

>>13501994
You abbreviate things. So why does the abbreviation plus vowel sound trigger autistics so much?

>>13501994
I too have noticed the baby talk phenomenon
>>13502002
when you turn the word tin into tinny you aren't abbreviating at all, you're actually adding letters for the sole purpose of sounding like a 4 year old

Does stargazy pie qualify as an amazing pastry product?

>>13502017
>garn smoko
vs
>excuse me coworker, I would like to inform thee that I am going for my mid-morning break *tips pinstriped trilby from target*

>>13502045
>garn smoko
about as bad as "fair dinkum"

>british english

>>13502077
t. urbanite shut-in

>>13502127
you crackin the shits?

>>13500817
pastry is like cigarettes - it's addictive, it's hard to ruin and it practically sells itself.

Wouldn't mind to try a toast with your yeast spread one day, tho.

>>13502206
>u mad?
Just calling a spade a spade.

>>13500817
Don't forget Chinese, Spanish, Russian, any kind of Slavic really, Korean, Levantine, American, Mexican or Swedish.
>Indian
Don't sell yourself short, anyone can throw a handful of a spice into an extremely low-quality soup to hide the taste of rot. It's just about the materials you have on hand.
>We're masters of savoury products.
That would be China.
>I'd also say we're one of the five best countries in the world for cheeses.
Maybe for cheese appreciation.
>if you aren't brought up eating tasteless garbage you'll judge it on its merits instead of associating it with the comforting protection of your parents and the simple life of a child, and therefore won't like it
You don't say.

>>13502045
or as we in the civilized world would actually say "going on break"

>>13501328
Full on team walleye. Love Friday night all you can eat walleye

I saw some ironic meme shitpost somewhere that was like "British Food still be as if the Germans could drop bombs on the country at any time so better eat shit like beans on bread and jellied eel" and it's funny cause it's true.

I'm from Ireland and my favourite thing to do each time I visit the UK is go to Greggs. I fucking love Greggs and am unironically disappointed that we don't have it here.

>>13502002
Baby talk, even from actual infants, makes me violently insane.

>>13502297
>no u
Good on ya, galah

I dont think op realizes just how hard he trashed his home country but it was a pretty sick burn.

>>13502422
Baby haters are fucking weird

>>13500825
How is that bad news?

>>13502442
You know the meme arrow is meant to indicate a quote? I was having a go at you for using "u mad". I thought I was going to enjoy letting the line wind out a bit further but you're either desperately trying to shoehorn in your babby's first shitpost dialogue tree or you're profoundly fucking retarded. This is a chore more than anything.

>>13502360
Thanks for proving my point. Less economical, an insistence on formality.

>>13502662
>meme arrow
oh fuck off with this ya fucken halfwit, maybe reddit is more you're speed with your nose so fuckin high in the air

>>13500817
sosji rolls are better than pizza

>>13502687
doesnt change the fact that you dont know how to greentext properly lmao

>>13502662
>You know the meme arrow is meant to indicate a quote?
He was comically paraphrasing you, retard.

I am a Japanese living in Japan.
There are shops that sell British antiques and tea in Japan.
A shop specializing in antiques. A shop specializing in cooking and tea. A shop specializing in gardens. There are several types.
There are also pubs in Japan that mimic the British atmosphere.
Serious English cuisine is very delicious. Both tea and sweets are wonderful.

>>13500817
Im a Brit, but I'm sorry we have nothing.
Sure our bakery isn't bad, but that's partly to thank the French.
Given we had the largest empire, we have nothing to show for it.

I'd say the best we have is a full English, Cornish pasties and a Lancashire hotpot

Some of the "gross" British foods are actually really nice.
>Haggis
>Black pudding
>Faggots
>Eel
>Steak and kidney pie
>Pidgeon
>Caul with lamb necks
I legit feel bad for picky eaters and people who don't like offal. It's like not digging sour or spicy things, or having yoyr steak well done because you're afraid of myoglobin. You're missing out.

George Orwell said it best
> https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/in-defence-of-english-cooking/

England has some very good food that can hold its own against continental and oriental dishes alike.
In particular, we have the best pints of beer in the world. No other country does draught ale as well as we do it. While it's true that the Belgians have excellent strong ales, and the Bavarians very good lagers, when it comes to a pint of bitter we are unrivaled. God save the queen.

>>13503429
Opinion discarded, Jap.

>>13503429
I'm seriously considering opening a coffee shop in japan because in the months I spent there I couldn't find a single good cup of coffee anywhere except for the free samples at caldi

>>13503559
>opens coffee shop where no one drinks coffee
Genius move.

>>13503559
I'm surprised you didn't find a good coffee shop.
There have been many coffee specialty stores in Japan since ancient times.
Customers order by choosing the type of beans.
Coffee is extracted one cup each time a customer orders.
Nerd drip. Paper drip. siphon. Metal filter. French press.
The method of extraction depends on the store. Some stores allow customers to choose from multiple extraction methods.
The price is often around 500-800 JPY per cup.

>>13503850
Filter coffee is fucking shit

>>13503471
only one I'd be iffy with trying is the jellied eel, only because I've been ruined with japanese bbq eel

>>13503860
Tools are how to use.

>>13503910
yes

Japan also has a tea room that offers afternoon tea.
But formal style is rare.

Top British food rankings
1. Fry up
2. Roast dinner
3. Shepherd's pie
4. Meat pies and pastries
5. Fish and chips

>>13500817
i'd rather take a quality pastry over anything else listed any day
also vintage welsh cheddar is god tier

>>13503991
cor blimey I'd eat the heck out of them japanese scones

>>13503586
they do drink coffee but it isn't good
it's always very acidic and I couldn't figure out if it's because that's the taste the people like or if they just don't know any better

I know I can show them a better way

>>13504001
>dark circle on top of the fries
Is that... a pan-fried anus?

>>13504088
It's the most mutilated mushroom i've ever seen

>>13503991
I knew I recognized that from somewhere

>>13504095
>fried = mutilated
ok

>>13500817
Those sausage rolls look lovely. These days, my diet is mostly eggs and dairy products, but I wish I had some comfort foods like this that weren't too high in carbohydrates,

>>13504207
From the bottom row ...
Few. www
I think that the drawing staff has never seen the real thing.

Cottage pie.
It is very delicious.

>>13502627
Because it's not British food anymore. Fish and chips won't exist in 100 years

>>13500817
Italian here. I don't get why people hate on british food when our traditional dishes are always carb/pasta based.

I'd really like to try those pies, but can't find them here

>>13501172
because it's all poopoo peepee shit

>>13501014
Come on mate. Twinkly winkly fairy titty bites have to be among the most delightful snacks you'll ever put into your gobble gobble food hole, swear on me nan.

>>13500817
don't sell yourself short lad, I went to England finally and you guys have hands down the best meat pastries I've ever had. your sunday roast is 10/10, fucking love it. fish and chips is good no matter where you eat it, but you guys invented it and make the best tartar sauce. Also tell greggs to stop being a cheeky cunt and let me and the ol man franchise out in canada, we'd make a killin. and tell the albanians in london to stop sellin hamburgers, fuckin embarrassing show it is.

Does /ck stand for cuck now?
Stop critisizing your native food, it's delicious and unique and definitely better that that asian crap you mentioned.

>>13504590

Fish and chips are Jewish.

>>13501243
I’m not the poster you originally responded to, but it’s haddock for me. IMO cod is not well-suited to the dish

>>13501994

English is the language spoken by English people who live in England. If we wish to call breakfast 'brekky wekky yummy in my tummy' and you call it something different then you are the one doing it wrong.

>>13502041

I feel like using 16th Century dishes as an example of British Cooking is cheating. American colonists of the same era would be cooking the same food or worse anyway.

>>13503429

British High Tea is a good example of a local custom which translates effortlessly across cultures.

>>13500834
This. Traditional English breakfast is top notch.

I guess fish and chips are really good to but outside breakfast that's the only exception

Man I fucking love sausage rolls. I am australian and I'm fucking glad those exist basically everywhere in my country. Same with fish and chips

>>13503451
theres also roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. and queen pudding.

>>13501964
Then Wales does it best then.
>brekkie
>fry finely diced onions in bit of oil and butter, throw worcestershire in sauce near end
>add branston beans to onions
>de-stem and upside roast chestnut mushrooms with knobs of butter in the stem hole (calon wen mashed with garlic, chives and cold smoked multiple times with smoke gun)
>pour mushroom butter juice into beans and finish frying
>roast a local pork and apple sausage from butchers
>also roast a couple local grown roasties in goosefat
>single soft poached egg
>cayenne/black pepper and salt over everything
>giant mug of fennel tea

>sunday
>ribeye salted and peppered day in advance and done medium rare
>cabernet and blackcurrant (and couple other things) gravy from the stocks i keep in freezer, and the ribeye fond
>mushrooms same as in brekkie
>honesy roast parsnips
>steamed broccoli florets charred lightly on griddle pan
>garnish with vinegar pickled red cabbage and thin chilli slices
>giant mug of blackcurrant tea

>add black/white pudding in either dish randomly when I have it, just plain fried

Tea's not a meme being British though, my meals are small cos I just down a fuck off mug of herbal tea when I'm hungry.

>>13505595

It's a fish pie. What's the issue unless you're a literal child who doesn't want to see the ickle fishywishy?

>>13500825
Not even a Brit but you're fucking clueless if you don't realise British cuisine is among the best in the world. It has a variety of spices, textures and ingredients that places it at the centre of world gastronomy in terms of quality. Stop talking shite.

>>13502041

It's a fish pie. What's the issue unless you're a literal child who doesn't want to see the cute ickle fishywishy?

I really wanna try blood pudding, what's it taste like?

>>13506118
he's not even being funny though it's true. the most popular uk dish is chicken tikka masala, and that dish is more popular in the world than any other british dish, despite being made by an immigrant.

>>13505875
you forgot the activated almonds, faggot

>>13500817
idk, i love yorkshire puddings and a good full english when i'm hungover, which is exceedingly hard to find. fish n chips arent bad either.

Being Australian I cannot talk shit about British food, given that what we eat is essentially the same thing with a tropical twist on somethings, or adjusted for the hotter weather.

>>13502329
There is LITERALLY no such thing as Russian cuisine. This isn't even some shit posting meme, it just does not exist. They have no food culture due to various historical factors (Russian orthodox church being a big one). Its all imported. Even today a large percentage of them still think it's a waste of time.

>>13500817
>People like to hate on British food and yeah, we're not quite as good as Indian, Japanese, French, Italian or Greek
Or Mexican, Brazilian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Or any country from Oceania, or middle-eastern, or north african.

>>13504088
>Is that... a pan-fried anus?

>>13508752
Or AMERICAN

>>13508752
Can tell how ignorant you are because you said Chinese food. Same kind of pleb mentality that thinks Chinese is a language

>>13508768
Yet you thought that me saying "middle-eastern" is totally fine. Must suck to be both stupid and pedantic.

>>13501014
I don't know what are you talking about. I went to the doctor the other day.
I have spotted dick.

>>13507933
I had the tikka masala when I went to england, canada does it better, and england is full of pozzed university students who don't appreciate classics.

>>13508734
it doesn't matter bc "Russian" cuisine is still worse than English food. Just the thought of Olivier salad makes me fucking barf. Why do Russians like mayo so much and why do they have to make the most disgusting presentation/food combination ever?

>>13509490
I accidentally sat on an amphibian. Now there is a toad in the hole

>>13500817
>british food thread
>OP pic is a classic Aussie bakery staple
gotta try harder than that, OP

>>13500817
Not really, all you gotta do is prepare a legit veg dish for a side (which is the bane of white people everywhere, from what I can tell), then allow people to eat their main with their side without having to turn a grindstone at the same time.

>>13509775
>British food has no overlap with a former British colony
based retard

>>13500817
British food looks gross, but a good English breakfast with plain black tea or coffee is the best hangover cure IMO. Throw in an apple or orange and a smoke on the way to work and Im golde for my entire shift.

Will make you fart so hard tho.

>>13500868
U r bitch.

Indian food is my guilty pleasure. Chicken curry + Sambar soup + lamb Samosas are the trifecta.

>>13510403
U son of bich basterd

Living in europe now and it's impossible to get a good british style sausage, everything is just meat purée in a fake skin. Basically just tarted up hot dogs.

>>13502002
>>13502017
>>13505592
for me, it's the 'tish 'fast

>>13510393
>Will make you fart so hard tho
Helps mask the smell of booze seeping out of your pores

>>13502017
>tinny
Thats Australia. We'd say a pint, or beers, or booze, or a bevy.

>>13510492
Go to a French deli and ask if they have some saucisses au couteau, it's pretty close to what you're seeking.

>>13510577
I was gonna say, didn't the Vietnamese learn pastry cooking from the French? there used to be a Viet bakery when I lived in the DMV that had banging sausage rolls

>>13510600
Yep, they also picked up a taste for baguette sandwiches and vache qui rit. Real weird seeing that served on a table with pho.

>>13510532
I wish I could pry that hard these days.

>>13510600
>DMV
You lived in a Department of Motor Vehicles building?