/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Generally yes, but there's a huge classist component to people exaggerating about it. All of the "worst" food in the UK is basically what was made for the Victorian lower class, says a lot

The British working class did not dine, they ate.
This is at odds with most other cultures where even the poorest made a tradition, sometimes close to a ritual of eating. So there is no British peasant 'cuisine', just food.

I honestly don’t think that British people even like British food, it’s like war rationing destroyed their ability to gain joy from food and it just never returned

>>18302938
Looks comfy, would scoff

Probably just “worst that I’m familiar with”. I’m sure there’s some shithole countries with worse food and America does plenty of vile shit as well, although we get a pass because we don’t have our own “cuisine”

When I visited the UK, I already had a bad opinion on Brit food despite never having had any before then.
I learned that while a lot of is generally a bit bland, nothing I had was remotely offensive, and everything that came from an oven or fryer was really rather nice. Not as nice as back home, mind you, but still nice.
And yes, I tried faggots and they weren't bad. Tasted quite similar to a sausage we make in my country, though we don't drown it in gravy. I didn't try stargazy nor jellied eels as the opportunity didn't present itself. I don't think they're actually common and I was told by some Scottish girls (and guy) I met that no one really eats haggis except for on Burns Night.

IMO, worst national cuisine I've had is Turkish. I know a lot of people like it, but I just don't. Dated a Turk for several months and every Turkish restaurant we went to was packed with Turks speaking Turkish and being smelly (as Turks are), so I know these weren't one off, awful restaurants. These were restaurants that Turks themselves enjoy and I, simply put, did not. Don't remember what anything was called, but I had this lamb shank soup that was surprisingly bland yet sour (yoghurt). I had these lamb dumplings that were bland yet sour (served in yoghurt). I had roasted beef-and-lamb sausages. They were okay, but my nan used to make something similar and they were much better. Some roasted meat with peppers and onions in an oily, odd-tasting tomato sauce. Some oily-as-fuck sausage sliced thin and fried like bacon with eggs cooked in the leftover grease (only think I actually liked, but who can fuck up sausage and eggs?). Some sour-as-fuck baba ghanouz rip-off. A few other things I can't recall right now.
Literally nothing that made me ever want to eat Turkish food again for as long as I live.

>>18302929
I've said this a million times. British food is not fancy. It is, however, the ultimate comfort food. It's full of pastry, potatoes, meats, gravy. It's delicious but it's rugged.

>>18302929
No, that's just a meme like pineapple not belonging on pizza or vanilla being generic. Retards who say that British cuisine is shit have most likely not eaten a single (1) British dish before and think of chip sandwiches with mushy peas (which the imagine to bad, even though they aren't) when they are asked about British food.

>>18302929
>not scandi cuisine
lol

>>18303003
>chip sandwich
Is a chip butty, mate.

>>18302938
>>18302949
Unironically these.

>>18302993
Yeah, I haven't seen Stargazy and jellied eels in my entire life. I think no-where except that one takeaway in London actually does it. Stargazy iirc is regional (south-west?) but again, never seen it. Haggis is alright, I think they do it for the tourists in a few Scottish places but yeah, its not like its the only thing people eat there lol.

I didn't think Turkish cuisine was bad, really good and cheap, get a neat little salad every time too. But there isn't tonnes of variation, you're usually having either beef or lamb, and typically some tomato-based or spicy sauce if you're not getting a kebab. Its nice, but after a while you get bored.

>>18303010
I like everyone else's kebab over Turkish, with Pakistani at the very top. Chapli kebab especially is the kitty's titties.
But then, as said, I really don't like Turkish food. Or Greek, for that matter, since it's just Turkish food + pork.

>>18303002
You could have all that with German cuisine but better.

>>18303042
German cuisine in fine but it doesn't hit the same spot for me that British food does.

>>18302949
>>18303010
1790s - 1840s Britain was the equivalent of the bugman meme today. They had all been uprooted from their ancestral homes by inclosure, and sent to live in squalid little brick bugboxes in the industrial towns, where their wages couldn't buy their parents' diet anyway. On top of being desperately poor, in their desperation, they usually spent any extra money on cheap gin to drink themselves into numbness. An entire generation and a half passed this way, and grew up eating nothing but shop-made goyslop after working 14 hour days at the mill.

tl;dr British cuisine has less to do with WW2 than it does with the Napoleonic wars.

>>18302938
Looks like someone took a puke on your fries mate.

>>18303009
Thanks alot m8

>>18303002
It's genuinely shit.

>>18303008
this

northern hemisphere food is literally just meat, potatoes, salt and pepper

>>18303108
You're genuinely shit

>>18303123
That's a really silly thing to say. A lot of areas that spices come from are in the northern hemisphere.

>>18302929
>I-Is that... fried food?
>AAAAAAAHH I'M GOING INSANE HELP ME FROGS

>>18302929
I thought everyone loved toast sandwiches

>>18302984
>worst that I’m familiar with
Not even true most of the time, they say British food is bad because:-
>They saw memes on the internet like toast sandwich or footy ground slop
>They are just going along with what everyone says.

I'm not the type to spout shit like michelin stars since it's heavily favoured for French cuisine, but it can be used as a general merit base.
"Top 10 countries with the worst food"
"UK"
First off: UK isn't a country.
Second is that even without hyperbole, you're saying Haiti with it's mud pancakes, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan that have no food; are better?
That's just some tosspot following the word of the internet, probably never set foot in most of the countries listed either.
>>18302984
>worst that I’m familiar with
That would even be a stretch.

>>18303108
Nothing shit about it, it's basic veg, meats and sauces mixed together.
You faggots cry about the full english which is literally just a collection of commonly eaten breakfast items on a plate.
That somehow makes it disgusting? Oh no, bacon, mushroom AND sausages on a plate: Eww

>>18302929
Voted worst by people who have never eaten it and then confirmed by idiots on /ck/ who have also never eaten it and think that screen caps from twitter count in anyway as proof.
The meme of "British food bad" is ridiculous. British food is near enough the same as comparable nations all over Europe. Harty stews and pastries that would be hailed as incredible if they came from France are derided because they are British. It's nothing more than anti-Anglo bias.
>>18303046
See? The fact that Germany gets a free pass in this goobers head is laughable to anyone who has ever been there.

>>18303199
>muh starz
>google.com/uk-restaurants
>french french french french…
hmm

>>18302929
Yes, it is by far the worst.

>>18303199
>Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan have no food
They do and it's delicious. Well, the first three. Idk wtf they eat in Sudan.

>Haiti
I like what I've had of Haitian food, but it's admittedly not much. There's this rice they make with some sort of mushroom that's very, very good but it's colour might scare some off since it's blacker than the hands which made it.
Oh, and this baked version of escovitch, but it's chicken rather than fish, which I had with their version of fufu that they called tomtom. That's also very, very good. I actually got to watch how that one is made. They "wash" the chicken in a mix of bitter orange and lime juices (literally just marinating) then braise it in the oven with bonnets, onions, sweet peppers and vinegar with herbs and spices IE literally escovitch.

>>18303130
i am from the fucking northern hemisphere

>>18303010
>and typically some tomato-based or spicy sauce if you're not getting a kebab
There is also the category of flour thickened stews and soups anon (terbiye). This is further derived into yoghurt based sauces.
For example orman kebabı (forest stew) is a flour thickened potato and meat stew, with fresh and dried green herbs added.
Ayranaşı soup is a cold served yoghurt/buttermilk based sour soup, great on a summer day.

>>18302929
It's a meme
Nobody can look at a full english and tell me it's "disgusting"

And their traditional desserts are crimes against healthy eating

>>18303277
I'd bet it's all still awful.

>>18302929
Indeed. The average britbong survives solely on foreign cuisine (tea, curry, kebab, potatoes, and fried fish). There are a few shops still selling jellied eels, toast sandwiches, and dirt soup, but that's mostly for the tourists innit.

>>18302938
Genuine question then, what was the upper class eating that was British in origin?

>>18303328
The lower class.

>>18303328
Whatever their French trained chefs made for them

>>18303329

>English cuisine, at first you think it’s shit then you regret that it’s not.

>>18303359
i could never figure out if he was sad it wasn't terrible or that its worse than actual shit, guessing the latter

>>18302929
No, not at all.
British cuisine has abhorrent optics. That's the only problem with it. Not only is British cuisine "known for" being bad, which already holds it back, but its most famous cuisines abroad are its worst cuisines. Most non-Brits don't really know what British cuisine is, but they mistakenly think they do. Because they think British cuisine is about fish and chips, full English breakfasts, bangers and mash and haggis. As any Brit knows, that's absurd. Your everyday meal as a Brit is stuff like shepherd's pie, a full roast, a curry (yes, a curry), a beef and ale stew, macaroni cheese. Some of those things are tasty, and some of them are unremarkable, but they're better than fish and chips and a fry up.

There's a reason other northern/central Europeans don't really participate in this conversation, and that's because their cuisine is pretty similar to British cuisine. It just doesn't take the heat.
>>18302938
This.
>>18303328
I know too much about this.
Traditional middle/upper class food:
Steak. Yes. Steak. I know your gut instinct is to say "steak's not British, how can you claim tha--" listen to me. Steak has been a huge part of middle and upper class British culture for centuries. Beefsteak clubs were a symbol of liberty and democracy. Eating steak was something which made you British.
Roast meat. Honestly? Similar to the steak. Chophouses are a super traditional and old part of British food culture. The roast meat is obviously accompanied by all sorts of side pieces, but the roast is the star.
Besides that? Fancier versions of a lot of things lower class people ate too. Pies and stews and soups and exotic new dishes like curries (curries, again, have been a part of British cuisine for centuries, although they resembled British stews -- Japanese curries are almost identical, and indeed came from British sailors visiting Japan). What they didn't eat was fish and chips, awful ready meal pies, and that sort of thing.

>>18303304
This post really sums it up. Even when a foreigner tries to defend British cuisine, they do so by defending one of British cuisine's least impressive dishes.

>>18303454
>dish is called bangers
>not banger at all
sigh

>>18303461
It's alright. It's part of the genre of "incredibly easy and cheap meals working class people make because it's cheap and easy", and for that it's perfectly fine. It's not a dish I'd ever want my cuisine to be known for, though.

>>18303365
100% the second option.

>>18302929
Yes it is. Brits and Protestants in general take no pride in cooking. They even frown upon local delicacies and see them as an obstacle for mass marketing and mass production.

They prefer quick and easy, low effort, high profit, deepfried, heavily spiced minced meats and fish over elaborate dishes and the 12 course meals they fit into.

>>18302929
Most of the examples I've seen for naff British food is extremely cherry picker, I'd rather take British food over the yank's "cuisine"

Succulent meat with a tough baked bark
Crispy roast potatoes
Crisp edges-soft centre yorkshire pudding
Delicious, savoury, meaty gravy

It's true that a lot of British people, especially living in post-war Britain, ate very simple food. Boiled vegetables, boiled potatoes, that kind of thing. But so did Germans. So do lots of people. Britain get unfairly singled out. I guess it's a reputation built by Yanks coming to Britain and expecting some high art of cuisine but finding simple food, especially in the 1980s when foreign food became fashionable and it was all shit. Or other Europeans being snobby. But what is wrong with roast beef with gravy? It's dry? It has the gravy made with the beef drippings and juices. How is that dry? Pisses me off desu

I'm American as fuck, and even I can appreciate Br*tish food.
Nothing wrong with a meat pie, gravy, mashed peas, and fries. It just requires a pint or two to go with. Fucking delicious.

>>18304109
Americans will cook a pot roast while waxing lyrical about the macaroni cheese their mum made and inventing the phrase "as American as apple pie" and then ask: "why is British food so bad?". I don't get it.

>>18302929
they boil and fry everything to death.
1 hour to boil any vegetable.
their national dish is hand me down food from a country they oppressed and now get sloppy seconds from.

>>18302993
>faggots and they weren't bad. Tasted quite similar to a sausage
did they now. wink wink nudge nudge.

>>18304126
>their national dish is hand me down food from a country they oppressed and now get sloppy seconds from.
Why are portubros on the internet so dramatic?

>>18302929
Boiled boar with mint sauce is the pinnacle of cooking.

>>18302929
We have good food but as mentioned elsewhere on this thread it depends where your looking. Are you in the local chippy or a country pub. Its the exact same differnce between fast food and the real shit you have in other countries.
A good pie, stew, roast or ploughmans lunch is excellent, pork pies from aldi or fray bentos pies arnt.

>>18302938
Fiver is a fucking scam for that much food. I could cook a good steak dinner for that.

>>18302938
By the look of that I can make British food by sticking my finger down my throat, and giving it a name tumsywumsies.

>>18304126
We don't do boiled vegetables all that much. You're conflating British stereotypes with American stereotypes of white people food. British vegetables are usually roasted. Only some, like cabbage, are frequently boiled, and they do indeed suck.
I do find it funny that people simultaneously joke that British people conquered the world for spice and then decided not to use any while also joking that Britain's cuisine is taken from the countries they colonised.

>>18302984
The difference is those shitholes didn’t ever control the global economy. Britain has no excuse. It’s like living in a brothel where you’re allowed to fuck all the girls and still being bad at fucking.

>>18304575
Germany and Russia were both extremely powerful and both have cuisine no better than Britain's.

I've watched enough of Rate My Takeaway to say that no the UK has achieved something unique and frankly monumental with their slop. They've reached peaks of just degenerate fast food that I'm stumped even as an American of how we've been left behind. Anyway any of these lists that don't start with some nigger country are just a meme

As long as the philipines exists (eugh), no one else can be worse.

>>18304583
I'm always amazed when watching Russian MRE videos on youtube at just how bleak the meal looks.

>>18304592
We've perfected the art of drunk food. There's nothing you crave more when you're drunk and you've just come out of a steaming hot nightclub you've been dancing in for five hours while you're probably on md than a pile of salty greasy red hot slop.

>>18304619
I'd crave that boipussy of yours hahaha

>>18304621
Who doesn't

>asian(ch/jp/kr/th) food in UK
>super fucking authentic
>British food in asia
>super fucking good and authentic
>asian food in US
>Americanized as shit made to suit the pallets of shit taste
>BBQ from places like TX/TN
>garbage
>too sweet
>literally like eating meat + sugar
It's a dumb Amerifat meme so they can cope because their food is probably the worst in the world. I mean a lot of US steakhouses are pretty good, but Amerifats didn't invent steak. And an average steakhouse in UK shits all over a fucking 5 star steakhouse in the US.

>>18304667
American food is perfectly fine. You can defend British food without shitting on American food.

>>18302949
>>18303052
This is definitely a good insight.
When we say "poor people" in south/east/central europe we mean peasants. But in Britain we mean city laborers, because England industrialized first.
There is a huge difference between peasants and city workers when it comes to how much control you have over what you eat!

The opposite of this, I think is Korea.
Even though it's super-industrialized, the food culture is still based on what peasantry did, so it's elaborate and rich and widely-loved.

>>18302929
literally worst than nigerian sand cooked eggs

>>18304680
>Amerifat food is perfectly fine
No its not if you ever lived or even visited other countries.
>Japanese food here doesn't taste like Japanese food
The only Sushi place I've eaten that actually tasted like Japanese sushi is probably Kura sushi. I couldn't spit out supermarket or 7-11 sushi quick enough and I could tolerate, even liked 7-11 stuff while in Japan.
>Pizza
Literally greasy garbage using cheap plastic tasting cheese. I don't even know where to start with this, flavorless except for of course grease and salt.
>BBQ
>flavourless meat smoked for hours to be tender sacrificing flavour but but we have literally glorified sweet ketchup to make up for the lack of flavour
Overall you people take food from other cultures and shit all over it. You have your own ethnic food that might taste good to you but taste like utter garbage from someone who isn't an Amerifat. Yes motherfucker I mad.

>>18302929
Serious question. How is england in the soup category? All I hear is fried or baked shit, but I can't recall a single uk staple soup.

>>18304761
Ham and pea.

>>18304705
I'm British you stupid fucker. Cajun cooking is good, and so is New England cuisine. American Chinese food is good too. American pizza is greasy in all the good ways too. It's not fine cuisine but not everything has to be.

>>18304761
Oh, you know which soup. The worst soup. THAT soup.

>>18304761
Cullen skink, cockaleekie, scotch broth, carrot and coriander (I think that's British? It can be hard to tell what's British and what's just popular foreign food sometimes), chicken soup (obviously), leek and potato.

>>18304799
N-No?

>>18304791
I like British food but I'm not even British, and shit you get at the market in someplace like Spain will always always be better than shit you get at a market in the US. And this is including their fu fu markets like Wholefoods. Also unless you regularly travel you have no idea what good/bad food is, and American food is fucking bad.

>>18304839
Yes, I do regularly travel. Yes, I do know what good food is. Sure, the average quality of ingredients in America is bad (just like in the UK) and they have a shitload of incredibly bad chain restaurant/fast food places, but...why would you even eat there? Their actual restaurants are good and they have plenty of good cuisine (which I notice you seem intent to ignore).

>>18304903
Reading comprehension is your friend, I've mentioned multiple times that I've actually had good food in America. The only reason why I still think American cuisine is shit is because they still pale in comparison to good foods from other countries. From a price/quality ratio American food lags far behind other countries you can't just cherry pick things to back your argument.

>>18302929
I had Colman's mustard recently and it's my favorite mustard now. I'm not sure if I eat anything else from the UK but I haven't tried that much stuff yet. If the rest is as good as Colman's, then it can't be bad.

>>18302929
Most European food sucks. Theres like 2 or 3 countries that have more than one dish thats actually good.

>>18304944
I'm outright disagreeing with your conclusion. I think cajun cooking is delicious and I think clam chowder and American Chinese food is delicious too. Hamburgers, fucking cliched as they are, taste great as well, and I can appreciate American style pizzas for what they are. American cuisine is good. Of course it's not as good as Chinese or French or Indian cuisine, but so what? Those are the top cuisines in the world. It's not like if your cuisine isn't world class it's shit.

>>18303002
Why the fuck do brits treat potato meat gravy and Bastet like it’s fucking rare? The Germans have that, the Dutch have it, the fucking French have it, the Russians, the Polish, Bulgarians, Bavarians, you’re not fucking special you retards, it’s just these cultures have your holy quartet, AND MORE

>>18304964
Italian>French>Indian>Mexican>US>Chinese imo

>>18303454
LOOK AT OUR CURRY WE MADE IT WE MADE TIKKA MASALA
Indians living in Britain made tikka masala

>>18304975
No way
Chinese = French > Indian > Italian > Japanese > US
(I've never had Mexican food)
>>18304990
Absolutely retarded take

>>18304964
TBQH shit is too harsh a word, I'd say out of the countries that I've been to American has by far the worst food. Which was my original point...

Here's an example, a $500 meal at Peter Lugers is still shit compared to $500 of Japanese A5 wagyu. Hell you can eat A5 Wagyu without any seasoning at all while Peter Lugers fucking season the shit out of their steaks. Everything in America is either too salty or too sweet.

>>18304969
If British food is just like everyone else's, why does it have such a uniquely bad reputation?
If you actually read the thread you'd see it's full of Brits making the opposite argument to what you think they are. They're saying that British food isn't anything special. It's neither special in a good way nor in a bad way. It's just...north European cooking. Belgians have carbonnade, Brits have steak and ale pies.

>>18304999
>Absolutely retarded take
The only take here is the taking of credit you fucking angloid.
But what can I expect from a people who fills their sports teams with Africans and act like their achievements are those of every fat, pasty, blotchy bald retard whose shining red face serves as a warning light to all people of the presence of a scatxon

>>18305023
>HURRRR
>HUUURRR DUUURRRRR

you seem like a mexican living in the united states please return to your containment zone

>>18305023
You seem like a very normal well adjusted person and I'm sure you're a shining example of what every man wants to be. Your internet ferocity definitely comes off as intensity and bravery and not at all as immature boyish lack of self-discpline.

>>18305030
You seem like a Brit living in New Pakistan. Please cease.

>>18304990
>Chinese living in Japan made ramen

>>18305023
Another retarded take, anon.

>>18305010
Who would take the crown of best northern european food?
The british actually seem pretty competitive.

The others are so low they don't really have "cuisine" in international eyes. They don't get criticism because people don't even know there is something to criticize.

>>18305110
Pretty much. I'd say Polish would be a good contender, though. Maybe Belgian too. I'm using "north" to mean "north of France", basically.

>>18302929
The UK will never be a top 10 country with the worst food because it's multicultural enough to have food from practically any culture.

>>18303123
you are actually retarded

Americans don't butter their sandwiches.

>>18302929
The UK is a country?

>>18302993
>Faggots
I dont think 95% of the UK has eaten these in the past 5 years of their life.
What you fell for was the stereo typical meme foods you thought you had to try as its what all us Brits eat, when in reality thats bollocks

>>18306297
...No, faggots are pretty common here. Jellied eels and stargazy pie and toast sandwiches are all fake, but faggots are real.

>>18302929
>invented roast beef
>invented fried chicken
>invented the sandwich
>invented Worcestershire sauce
>invented curry
>invented faggots
British cuisine is actually the best in the world. The only foods that are actually "bad" are the meme foods that never caught on in other countries. Other cuisines that are generally considered "good," such as French, Italian, and Chinese, are actually just slathered in butter, garlic, and oil.

>>18303199
>First off: UK isn't a country.
>>18306272
The UK is a country composed of several countries.

>>18306368
Also bongs invented to drink water.

>Normies and redditards vote le UK because of the jellied eel and toast sandwich memes
The objective answer is probably anywhere in Africa or maybe Finland

>>18303052
You have no fucking clue about how enclosure or the agricultural revolution happened you fucking lickspittle. Wages were far higher in the cities, almost all rural inhabitants left voluntarily due to the free market reducing the price of crops to near zero.

>>18306378
>Africa
Doesn't count since you actually have to have food for your cuisine to be considered bad.
>Finland
I'm not sure if reindeer testicles count as cuisine either, since they're consumed raw and fresh from the source.

>>18306336
Not really no, more meatballs are common.

>>18306382
That doesn't sound super voluntary.

>>18306414
>sent to live
Not really. As grim as cities were, the inhabitants had a far better quality of life to rural workers

>>18306378
>Finland
As a Finn I cannot deny it completely, we do have some bad foods. But also some pretty good ones. The bigger issue is that everyday meals tend to be extremely basic, often just potatos and meat/fish/poultry with a small amount of salad. The ingredients you get locally are not a problem. Moose and reindeer both taste amazing, fried fish that was caught the same day is great, lingonberries go perfectly with gamey meat and stews, Finland has possibly the best rye in the world and the bread is awesome. It all just never developed into a coherent cuisine, just "things that are often eaten in Finland". There are probably a lot of reasons for it throughout history, like the relatively limited trade, the lack of population hubs, religion and the idea that you shouldn't be enjoying life too much, and the fact that Finland and being Finnish only really became things after Russia conquered eastern Sweden in 1809. Before that it was all Sweden, and before that various tribes. Finland's history as a nation is just very short, it hasn't had much time to develop a cuisine and there was never much pressure on it to do so either. I think the parts for a good cuisine are there, they just haven't been put together yet.

>>18306552
>best rye in the world
This is a bit like saying 'we have the best gruel in the world'

>>18306758
Having visited Finland and Sweden, nah that stuff tastes amazing, they also have the best butter i've ever tasted.

Never been to UK, but recipes look pretty good.

>>18306297
>95% of the uk hasn't eaten faggots
What percentage of the UK is the Black Country cuz that's where I had'em. In West Bromwich. Saw them at a pub in Birmingham, too, but didn't try them there.
Perhaps I fell for "the stereo typical [sic] meme foods" but so did all the other people at this particular pub who were enjoying their faggots and mash. It was a nice meal in a nice town in nice company.

>>18306336
>toast sandwiches
I will always laugh about that. We have a saying in my language about someone being so poor that he eats "bread between bread" IE a bread sandwich so when I learnt that toast sandwiches may actually be a thing, I just found it a bit amusing.

As a Lebanese, I don't think British food is disgusting, its just bland. From what I know, at least they don't eat anything overly disgusting like spiders, cockroaches, bugs, snails etc. like some other cuisines. Its such a normie and shut-in opinion to say British is the worst cuisine. They need to explore more...

>>18307024
Yeah, pouring in copious vinegar and salt with a dash of cumin is all they need.

>>18302929
Hating British cuisine is a meme.
Most of it looks fine, really. Good hearty pies, warm stew, crunchy chips.
Mint sauce lamb roast can go fuck itself tho

>>18303123
Meat and potatoes is literally S tier.

>>18304583
Both are great, go fuck yourself

>>18307606
Then so is British food, because British food is no worse than either.
>>18306935
Faggots are from the region the Black Country is in, yeah, so I'm sure they're generally more popular there. Still, they're reasonably common outside the Midlands too.

I spent one entire month driving around England from south to norf, spent some decent time in Wales, even went to Norfolk.
Honestly, I never had a bad opinion of british food, despite being a half-frog (but my mother is anglo so that might help, and was born and raised in another anglo country). As I drove around England, I obviously had lunch and dinner in all sorts of places, posh towns, small working class towns, villages, middle of nowhere, you name it.
I overall ate pretty well, never had anything disgusting or repulsive. It was very bland at worst, and hearty and succulent at best. Mind you, I really liked the oggies in Wales.

I would say the biggest issue about food in Britain is the overall lack of variety, especially for the sides. In most places, it’s always fries/chips, peas, and sometimes mash. It’s hard to get anything else outside of large cities; food is quite repetitive in small towns.
However, once in a while, you’ll have really good and hearty memorable meals, such as a freshly smoked kippers with boiled potatoes, fuck me, this was so good. Or sometimes you give a chance to a genuine chippy operated by an old boomer (and it was full of nonagenarians, felt like a retirement house) and even the fabled fish and chips can be insanely good and comfy, when done right. And nothing beats a good fish and chips after a few hours driving in rainy Norfolk.

So no, the Brits don’t have the worst food, far from it. However there’s a true lacking of variety, overall.

Brits make the worst mustard on the planet

>>18304122
>>18304109
What I think it is, is that we expected that our food which is considered rustic is really just what we inherited. It is as if we expected you to be better than us.

Personally, we had Sunday roast with gravy and mashed potatoes all my life growing up (during the good years). Our grocery sells bangers which we serve with marrow-fat peas. I keep a bottle malt vinegar for the fish & chips I make, reminds me of my dad taking me to h salts. The wife has even made beef wellington with yorkshire pudding. Shit, most prime rib spots like the old Sir Galahads in Las Vegas served yorkshire pudding.

You lads are unfairly shit on. I like the anglosphere, and its cuisine.

>>18307980
Actually among the best. Britain makes great condiments, because the food is prepared with little or no regard to flavour.

Blue. Is not a flavour

>>18308075
Yeah, I can see that angle. Like "we all started with British cuisine too, so British stews and roasts are just basic, but because we're a nation of immigrants we moved on from that and now we have food with flavour! Oh also, chicken tikka is Indian". I don't think it's malicious, I think it's just a blind spot.

>>18302929
The only thing worse than british food is british women

>>18307980
You have some of the worst taste on /ck/. Colman's is easily a top 3 mustard. Personally my 2nd favorite.

>>18308111
"You" Have to go back.

>>18302938

>>18308129
Very dishonest post

>>18302929
Hey I like fish and chips.

>>18303199
>French tire company likes French food the most.

>>18303199
America should start its own rating system for restaurants, call it the Firestone rating system.

>>18308173
I would not support any rating system that would deduct points based on portion size or having too much "rabbit food" IE vegetables on the plate.

>>18302929
It's threads like this that remind me this board has one of the highest proportions of female users on this site. Complete nonsense.

IT's not horrible.
The thing is that brit food is all a different shade of brown/beige with sometimes green of the peas

>>18308892
If you add green to pic you have all the colors of UK food

>>18302929
British food is literally not that bad, it’s more of a boomer meme

>cottage pie
>fish n chips
>tikka masala
>english breakfast
>sunday roast

All incredible dishes, and I say that as someone who has tried a wide variety of cuisines. From Russian to Brazilian. I don’t think I’d rank British in my top 5 nor maybe top 10, but its not necessarily bad.

Israeli food is not that great. They have an interesting breakfast, hummus is NOT theirs, the rest is generic middle eastern stuff. I don’t think there’s any country out there with bad food. Maybe Mongolian, but I never tried it

people just love being eternally assmad at the brits
if they were as historically irrelevant as they appear to want to be of late then they would only get as much attention as any other northern european country

>>18302993
you didn't get some good doner at least once?

>>18308892
>kippers
>crap

What the fuck, it’s easily god tier. Why do people responding in polls always have shit taste.

>>18302929
The problem is the British are judged on their depression era food, while other countries are judged on their restaurant food. When people say British food is bad, they're not saying that Beef Wellington or sticky toffee is bad, they're saying cans of beans or toast sandwiches are bad.

>>18309276
I went to a doner party once.
It was in the mountains, and everyone was eating each other.

>>18304761
leak and potato soup and tomato soup are the most popular here i think. beef and mixed vegetables soup and oxtail soup too.

>>18306382
>>18306476
lmao, the city didn't have "higher wages" it just had the only work on offer for people, they were terrible jobs that paid almost nothing
That anon is absolutely right, people were forced to move to the cities to live in total squalor and just drank themselves to oblivion with Gin (which was a cheap import)

>>18309604
No, actually, you're wrong. Farming was by far the largest employer way up until the end of the 19th century. The Captain Swing strikes are evidence of this. Urban squalor was a result of people already migrating to the cities in such large numbers, they were not 'forced into squalor'. Back to r*ddit with your mount stupid nonsense.

>>18309675
>Farming was by far the largest employer way up until the end of the 19th century.
And then industry started taking those jobs away from rural people so they migrated to cities
>The Captain Swing strikes are evidence of this
You mean the riots protesting against industrialisation of agriculture which forced them out of work?
>they were not 'forced into squalor'
They were forced in the sense that they had to migrate to find work

>>18302938
Corr looking lush mate would scran HARD

>>18304761
That is probably because we call soups, broths/stew etc usually, soups are for surrender monkeys and fascists.

Because of poes law.... Yes i'm joking.

>>18308892
This is the only stereotypical criticism of British food which I think is fair. You can absolutely make British food colourful, but...you've gotta be trying to make it colourful. Meanwhile nobody needs to try to make Chinese or Indian food colourful.
>>18309418
I know. It's incomprehensible to me. Kippers are some of the best ingredients Britons have, yet apparently they hate them (this image is representing British people's views of their own food).
But if you look at the chart, you'll notice it's basically ranking food from most inoffensive to most unique. And the absolute lowest tier is just...anything less than fifty percent. So anything which half of people don't like is getting put into crap tier.

Welsh Rarebit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit

>>18304990
He's talking about "British naval curry" not Tikka masala you mental invalid

An awful lot of the world's best chefs are British. Working class slop means nothing no matter which country you're in. The fact that you talk about British working class slop more than other countries means ours is still better than yours lmao

>>18305060
And soy sauce too I believe

>>18303454
Very good repsonse, also I find it funny that Japanese curry is considered this uniquely japanese food but british curry is seen as imported and foreign.


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Also everyone here needs to try some welsh rarebit. As long as you don't cheap out on the cheese this is a great dish, not talked about nearly enough.

It's basically toast with cheese sauce made with ale. Simple but very nice.

>>18310076
Welsh rarebit is indeed a genuinely fantastic yet simple snack. There's not exactly a lot you can do with cheese on toast but the Welsh managed it I guess.
>>18310012
I talked about both in that post, actually. Modern British people do make British Indian style curries (like tikka masala) regularly. It's even a common thing for students to make, and students are fucking awful at cooking.
>>18310076
God save Japan for being full of such examples.
Curry = Britain (or Indian depending how far back you go)
Sushi = South East Asian
Ramen and soba = Chinese
Omurice, cream stew, tonkatsu, and Japanese croquets = western in general
It's genuinely hard to think of famous Japanese dishes which aren't derived from a foreign nation (they do have them ofc)

>>18302949
Kind of interesting how this has persisted in british culture, where eating is a side activity for the most part. In UK there are so many "meal deals" and stores selling food meant to be eaten while walking/working/doing something else. People even walk around with entire pizza boxes, eating while walking somewhere.

>>18310153
The British lower classes are notable for their complete lack of class.

>>18303042
German cuisine is hit and miss. Soft pretzal, sausages are a big hit. Funky fermented food and strange salads with a too generous portion of mayonaise. Big miss.

>>18303316
Wait till you find out 99% of the food you eat was cultivated and imported into your country from abroad.

>>18308900
The greatest irony is that americans think their food is actually colourful. Put enough food colouring in everything and you can eat a rainbow on a plate.

>>18309418
>>18309950
Sorry anons, mackerel or smoked haddock is better in every way

>>18304761
Wait wtff can britbongs confirm?? New Zealanders grow up with lots of soup of all kinds, like the best meal I can make is a local pumpkin soup recipe down south. Where the fuck did we get the soup culture from in NZ, at least in the colder parts in the south, if not the British Isles?
We have so much tomato soup, pumpkin soup, mushroom soup, beef minestrone soup, and vegetable soup, and these canned soup fill shelf after shelf in every supermarket in the country. We are a soup country.

>>18310182
There's a shit load of soups, broths and stews in the UK.

>>18310182
>culture
Please stop using that word. Boiling and blending vegetables is not "culture".

>>18310182
People already responded with pommy soups, stupid kiwi. Every culture with some type of pot has soups.

>>18310188
Chicken potato, and leek soup is Scottish, this isn't sold at supermarkets here but lots of elderly people here make it and taught me how to when I bought veggies from a church, and I make it too now to impress fellow zoomer girls who don't know about this long lost soup

>>18310184
Based we have lots of stew in ENZED too
potatoes, carrots, peas or green beans, canned tomatoes plus maybe capsicum, ground beef, salt, pepper, herbs, and stock like here?

>>18310186
Cope moar wog

Could you lads give me your cottage pie recipes? I've perfected the mashed potato and cheese layer, but I think the meat section needs a little something extra to be second place tied with potato chicken leekie soup, after my coochie-drippingly good pumpkin soup recipe

Also, redpill me on mushy peas lads, I want to make some out of dried split green peas and try with chips. Is it worth it or is tomato sauce way better and easier? Or maybe serve chips with both?

Also, really important lads, I NEED a godtier pasta recipe. I'm flirting with a hot as fuck girl who loves Italian food, but I don't know shit about Italian food

>>18310236
Supermarket ravioli + canned crushed tomatoes + red wine vinegar + balsamic vinegar + salt and pepper. Mix well in a vessel that has some of the ravioli slightly exposed to the air and cook in the oven at 200 celsius for 30 minutes. Serve with a blend of grated cheddar and parmesan cheese.

>>18310248
Thank you so much. I've never tried cooking pasta in the oven before. Would you say 500 grams of ravioli + one can of diced tomatos, + 1/2 tablespoon of red wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar each + 1 teaspoon salt + sprinkle of black pepper sounds like good ratios? Do you need to boil the pasta beforehand? And what do you mean by vessel? Do you bake in the oven with that bessel? Like a square deep tray? Could I add cream and bacon?

>>18310017
you'll notice that the world's best british chefs basically never cook british food. this is in stark contrast with many of the best chefs from every other country in the world, who tend to specialize in their country's food. this is because britain doesn't HAVE any food that isn't "working class slop". really, name one "high class" british dish that isn't a direct copy of a french dish with absolutely zero british input or distinguishing characteristics whatsoever.

>>18310266
Any dish as long as some of the ravioli to bobs to the surface. You want to end up with crispy bits. Bacon would probably have to be fried first.

>>18310275
Britain has no real food identity of its own at this point because it's wealthy enough to import everything from around the world. Of course some poor shithole in Peru has gotta great at cooking this one particular dish, it's literally all they have access to lmao.

>>18310266
Do you have a few days to practice? Might be best. Good luck fren

>>18302929
I toured through some years back and everything I ate and drank was excellent. You can get mediocre, bland, unenjoyable food anywhere in the world, Britain just gets dumped on hard.

Steak+Kidney pie in London
Ploughmans Lunch in Hereford
Curry in Leicester (Brit or not, still A+)
Fish and Chips in Lyme Regis
Westons Cider
And a bunch of Full English Breakfasts, bangers and mash, brown ales, etc....all stellar. English dishes are cozy as fuck.

>>18310285
Mean as. And I can add some cream after it's all done? Cream makes food taste distinctively kiwi, whether liquid in savoury or whipped in sweet (like pavlova) which is why we have such rich tasting food when done right.

>>18310303
Yeah man I've got plenty of time because I've got another chick I'm likely to hang out with before her, the chick I'll probably see first loves New Zealand and British cuisine like cottage pies, soups, and stuff like that so I've been practising those lately

>>18310303
And thank you for your help fren. It's late here so I'll go to sleep now. I can't wait to try out your recipe (going to try add cream though to add kiwi tm flair)

>>18310301
pure cope. britain is literally being taken over by the pakis they had shipped over to make them chicken tikka masala. imagine losing control of your country because you hated your own food that much.

Is there a board of people secretly trying to make Britain look like a joke when they name any food?

You could make a rabbit stew and they would call it a sloppy boppy wet n hoppy.

>>18305023
Based

>>18303454
Macaroni meals already existed. You put cheese. It's like saying you invented a cheese burger lmao

>>18310218
You need wine and tomato puree. Those are the two most important ingredients for the filling of a cottage/shepherd's pie. Oh, and use plenty of herbs, obviously. Bay leaves and thyme are my standard, but any herb will be interesting.
>>18310275
Look up "nose to tail" cooking. It's a whole style of fancy cooking based on British cuisine.
>>18310643
This is exactly what I was talking about. People have some weird urge to try and prove that Britain doesn't actually make any dishes. It's...strange. I don't see people telling Americans that hamburgers aren't American because "you just took a central European meat patty and put a bun around it".
Macaroni cheese is a British dish. It's okay to accept that.
>>18310433
On the contrary, I think British cuisine's reputation suffers from the fact that we DON'T call rabbit stew anything other than "rabbit stew". Like if I say "beef and ale stew is a traditional British dish", it's easy for your immediate reaction to be "wtf you can't just say beef and ale is British everyone has beef and ale".
But what do you think coq au vin translates to?

>>18302938
It'd unironically eat that.

>>18310218
Pop a spoonful of marmite in there.

>>18310666
Macaroni meals already existed. You put cheese on it. It's not an invention. Sorry if this upsets you.

>>18310772
Nobody claims Britain invented pasta, anon. I think you must be confused.

>>18310275
>name one "high class" british dish that isn't a direct copy of a french dish
This is such a dumb take, of course all of the dishes are the same, they've been invading each other for millennia. You only think the dishes are copied from France because French words for food sound fancy dishes to you whereas the English words are just something like "roast grouse and game chips".

>>18304667
Lmao don’t break your keyboard with all that coping and seething

>>18303123
>all these snowniggers screeching
You posted the right thing anon, their food is shit and they should know it

>>18304667
Asian food in England is the worst Asian food on the planet earth (other than Swedish Asian food)

>>18307024
This is what all the seething brits in this thread miss. Sure, some meme poll about jellied eels and stargazy pies is not representative of day-to-day British food, but the latter is just so bland. Even other cultures’ food in Britain is blander than elsewhere, it’s shocking.
It’s embarrassing that a major contemporary and historical world power has a lower and middle class food culture comparable to the American Midwest. And perhaps coincidentally, both have good beer, drunk food, and often make seething deflections when anyone points out the faults. Brits in this thread talking about America sound just like Iowans rambling about avocado toast or vegan lattes.

>>18310433
>mfw Americans call blanketed stick whippets "corn dogs"
>mfw Americans call Colonel Poppingsworth's Follies "popcorn"
>mfw Americans call breaded miniature grouse ensembles "chicken nuggets"

>>18310275
There's some possibility that many dishes we think of today as "French" may actually be British in origin. I'm gonna see if I can find the articles I read on the subject, but seeing as the French unashamedly stole many of their most well-known dishes, such as croissants, quiche, beef Burgundy, bouillabaise, choux pastry, pastry cream and more, I'm inclined to not dismiss the claim for sounding as outright silly as it does.

>>18310920
>day-to-day British food [...] is just so bland
I don't get how people can say stuff like this with such guileless confidence. Do you spend a lot of time surveying British households' dinners?

>>18302993
>I was told by some Scottish girls (and guy) I met that no one really eats haggis except for on Burns Night.
Fuck off haggis is great and commonly eaten. It just tastes nicely seasoned

>>18310915
I've been to China and you're wrong, it's pretty good.

Also another thing that is wrong.
“Warm beer”

Not even once I got warm beer, let alone ambient temperature beer.
I went to villages, authentic pubs, cities, touristy shit etc, not even once.
Cask ales are good by the way.

>>18311297
its 'warm' beacause it's not ice cold, like it's cellar cool like 10C or some shit. but yeah its deece.

>>18311297
Yeah it's not literally warm, it's just not refrigerated. That's how most of the beer-making world has their beer, including the US. When you have a hipster beer in the US it's not frozen.
It's another example of a meme from like, a literal century ago.

It's funny cuz most Americans would like Brit food since it's mostly meat, potatoes, gravy, more potatoes and very few vegetables (other than peas, carrots and onion). Like the Americans, fruits and veg are such an uncommon consideration to British diets that they legitimately struggle to figure how to eat 5 servings of them in a single day.
"Madness!" they screech, their copious chins jiggling with each syllable. "Utter madness, I say! Surely, no one can perform such Herculean feats as the ingestion of five fruits and vegetables in a single day! Impossible!"
Bitch, that's a handful of raisins, two-to-three spoons of beans, three-to-four sprigs of broccoli, half an onion and a carrot. It ain't hard, especially since no one expects you to eat it all in one meal.
Fucking shepherd's pie with a side of peas can be two or even three servings of veg (depending how much tomato and onion you've added with the mince). Couple that with porridge or cereal and fruit at breakfast and some beans on toast at lunch or dinner and there's your fucking five a day, cunt.

>>18296201

>>18311152
>I went backpacking
Sorry Sven, don’t care that you ate at an ikea in Shanghai once, your Asian food is shit but not as shit as your Mexican

>>18302951
>I honestly don’t think that British people even like British food
I do.

>>18310920
>blah blah blah blah blah
Don't care mate

>>18312606
LMAO I did actually eat at the Ikea in Shanghai. It's the only Ikea I've ever eaten at.
Seriously though, while Chinese food in the UK a few decades ago was either Hong Kong or British Hong Kong, nowadays there's enough immigrants from Sichuan and Hunan and elsewhere (with, frankly, enough Chinese foreign students providing the market) for authentic mainland Chinese cuisine to be easy to find. This is borne out both by my own experience comparing the food in the Shanghai area to England as well as all the actual Chinese people I know who moved here.

>>18310942
>mfw Americans call an Oriental grain arrangement with seared crustacean enhancements "shrimp fried rice"

>>18303002
>It's delicious but it's rugged.
Honestly the best way of describing British food I've ever seen

>>18302929
Honestly, no. British food is some of my favorite, like some others have said it’s ultimate comfort food. Lots of meat and potatoes. Not much beats a good shepherd’s pie

>Anglo-Celt-Frankish food
what's not to like
especially the Empire variations such as curry and kedgeree

They win at Breakfast. The most important meal of the day.

>>18303328
As a BritBong, good British food is French in origin. Even Gordon Ramsay is a French trained chef. However most of the trash British food you see online has it's origin in the second world war when we were under intense rationing with limited food options though. The rationing lasted 14 years so made a big impact on our cuisine unfortunately.

>>18303199
Taiwan is higher than china lol lmao even.

>>18314985
almost but not quite
needs a bit more char on all that frankly

>>18315011
I can't find any English dishes that were first conceived during WWII.

>>18315051
Literally beans on toast mate.

>>18315051
the infamous margarine egg sandwich

>>18303454
In France the main (gentle) slur for Brits is "rosbeef" I guess because of their red cheeks but probably from this tradition of eating roast beef in earlier centuries.
Google ngram records use of "rosbeef" for Brits in France started in 1820.

>>18306297
Faggots are great its just that haggis pretty much blows this the fuck out of the water and the planet the water was on. Im not even scottish just think haggis is a god tier food.

>>18315135
As someone who likes haggis, I never understood the hype; minced meat and innards baked with spices is not that unique to Scotland. There are analogues across Eastern Europe and Asia, in beef, pork and mutton variants, and some even taste similar.

>>18315124
It's 100% because of the roast beef lmfao, why do you think Hogarth painted a whole damn painting about roast beef being eaten by English people in front of hungry Frenchmen?

>>18315051
Did you even slightly try?

>>18315135
>just think haggis is a god tier food
Not sure about God Tier, but it is good stuff. Varies quite a bit between makers though; not all haggises are worthy.

I'm planning to have deviled kidneys for breakfast tomorrow. Make a spiced butter (I use english mustard powder, cayenne pepper and white pepper). Prepare the kidneys by taking the nasty bit out of the middle (all tubes and connective tissue; the cat can have it). Then dredge the kidneys in a bit of seasoned flour and fry in the spiced butter. Serve on toast with some plain scrambled egg. Awesome, strong, and very traditional.
And eating kidneys grosses out all sorts of people who should know better. I'm trolling millions by eating delicious food. Double win!

>>18310666
>>18310737
Thanks bros, I'll incorporate these into my cottage pies aye

>>18315368
Yeah, I looked up the origin of every dish that England is given shit for. Not from any war.

>>18308892
everything in crap tier can fuck off forever and nobody would miss it
low tier: the only things to keep would be Beef Wellington and pork pie (popular at footy matches)
mid tier: get rid of chicken tikka masala (not British food), toad in the hole (just make Yorkshire puddings and sausage on the side, it's the same shit), ploughman's lunch (outdated rubbish, nobody eats like that anymore), pie and mash (more outdated rubbish)
everything in top and god tier can stay, they're all delicious

>>18316451
Listen here big Bazza, I'd smash your head in for being such a nonce.
Everything outside of jellied eel is better than cauliflower cheese.

>>18309701
scran means food you fucking spacker

>>18315124
>red cheeks
I am a French but I grew up in Britain.
When we moved out of Britain, my family would still have sunday roast every week.
It’s obviously because of roast beef.

>>18315392
I don't like kidney but it doesn't "gross me out."
I'll eat it, but I'm just not fond of it, really. Same with all organ meat, really.

>>18302993
>I was told by some Scottish girls (and a faggot) I met that no one really eats haggis except for on Burns Night.

ftfy

Women are retarded morons. Everyone in Scotland eats haggis. You can get haggis practically everywhere and supermarkets sell it all year round. Just because some dumb instagram cunts you met said they don't eat it isn't reflective of anything. It's just a sausage with some oatmeal in it, it's not particularly weird tasting.

>>18316862
I'm more inclined to believe Anon than you as you seem to be the (presumably) anthropomorphic personification of the No True Scotsman fallacy.

For me it's how they think peas go on random things? like sandwiches? wtf...

peas literally do not taste good *at all* do not have an appealing color, do not have an appealing texture, it's the last thing you would ever randomly add to every food

>>18316862
i recently traced me 'eritage to aberdeenshire/ballatier area

what do my people eat?

>>18317585
Who the fuck eats pea sandwiches? lmao

Protip the last few generations of Brits have been raised by parents who had no interest in them and taught them nothing.

>>18317628
british people? dont act like its not a thing we've fuckin seen it

>>18317694
you must of been in a sanitorium, i've never heard of anyone aside from drooling jacketed mongs doing something as repugnant as putting peas in a sandwich

>>18317700
doesnt seem remotely uncommon in scotland

>>18317694
I'm literally in urban north west England and have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, and I know people who specifically ask for pea wet at the chippy.

>>18317700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oIys5KS4A

nevearda smack barm pey wet yeh?

>>18317639
> the last few generations of Brits
no, that has been going for at least 500 years now, they literally invented the boarding school so they don't have to see their children or educate them themselves

>>18317710
Oh nice, Wigan content. I live there. I don't work too far from that chippy, never been there though.

>>18317705
>nd I know people who specifically ask for pea wet at the chippy.
?????? THEN WHAT IS THAT IF NOT PUTTING PEAS ON A FUCKIN SANDWICH?

>>18317753
1) It's not peas, it's just the watery mush from mushy peas
2) They don't get it on a sandwich

You okay there?

>>18317756
>IT'S NOT PEAS IT'S JUST PEA WATER

you're fucking trolling

>>18303002
most of those come from Ireland

>>18317783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fglEmRE19q0&ab_channel=misssveron

Ayy we just got a real authentic takeway with a handsome woman and the norfman meme guy frying it all up. I ain't even drunk yet but that would hit the spot, I'm gon have to go back and get the mince pie and mushy peas next time. Bong food is fucking awesome but damn they don't understand how to fry shit crispy.

>>18311149
Some people commonly eat haggis but haggis is not eaten commonly.

>>18317871
holy fuck thos fries are beyond abysmal

>>18317884
The point of working class British food is not quality.

>>18316709
Not him but some people do use scran as a verb.

>>18316709
Guessing this is some ESL.

>>18302929
SHEEEEIT DEYON SAYSON DEY FOOD AN SHEEIT

>>18317917
Brits used to sail halfway around the world to avoid Africa and get spices from the east. Sorry Shayqanda, but the coating on KFC does not count as liking spiced food.

>>18317884
People here actually want soggy, limp chips with their fish. I don't get it either, but it's cooked like that on purpose.

>>18317926
Yeah and half of them want haddock instead of cod. Truly subhuman.

>>18317926
>it's cooked like that on purpose
It's cooked like that because the people making it don't know any other way to cook it. They grew up watching people dunk chips in cooking oil, so the monkey is doing what monkey saw. The customers don't know or care for anything better so the cycle just keeps going.

>>18317938
It's funny, only the blacks around here fry shit so soggy and greasy. But they don't really know how a fryer works or how to keep the temperature up and burn it bone dry just as often. And Southern style beer batter is better.

>>18317942
da fats where dat flava be dawg

>>18317938
Pub chips are cooked crisp, it's not like there's no understanding of it, they're just a different product offering. People literally give chippies good reviews for having properly stodgy chips.

>>18317947
Really, because it seems to be the weak ass Texas fucking Pete that you have to drench everything in because it's all flavorless. I don't know how you coons can fuck up salting and boiling shit with a hambome, but you do.

>>18302929
yes. Should have got a photo of this when I went past in person for better clarity. Have a google image instead

>>18302938
lower class foods from other countries be bussin tho.

>>18318056
If you don't see that gravy peapie and think it's a luvley nosh I can't help you

>>18307980
You're using it as a condiment, aren't you.

Colman's is better used as an ingedient, in Welsh rarebit, and mashed potatoes.

>>18304126
That was distinctly a 1950s thing, for some reason. My parents had malnutrition because of it.

>>18302929
There's a British pub near me and they have a good beer selection but the only good food they have is American food like chicken wings

>>18318408
europe is such a shit hole

How can you get such a big empire and come out with nothing in terms of culinary progress baka

>>18310236
Roast cherry tomatoes, fresh basil and garlic
Boil pasta to taste and drain (retain a small amount of water)
Stir it all together and add virgin olive oil and a little mozzarella
Serve

>>18304999
Thai > Vietnamese > French > Japanese > real Chinese = Indian > Italian = Mexican = California Fusion = East Coast multiethnic > North American "Chinese" > Scandinavian = Dutch > flyover state "food" = English > Scottish

British cuisine is shit, but its a huge stretch to say its the worse when people in other places are eating dirt cookies and mosquito burgers.

>>18317585
We don't do that, anon. Random pictures posted on /ck/ don't actually represent what people eat in the UK. That's why people are reacting with confusion to your weird pea sandwich thing.
>>18317884
Those chips look good. They're greasy and hot and tasty. You don't want that style of chip to be dry, trust me.
>>18318056
You're probably thinking of countries with top tier cuisine like France or China. Working class food from Poland is not better than British food.
>>18318424
We got tikka masala but people don't like to count that for some reason.

>>18302929

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>>18318544
>>18318549
>>18318558
scrapping the bottom of the barrel are we? just admit your food is shit bro

>>18318578
Admit you're a white/Christian-hating kike.

>>18318582
ok I admit it
now you go

>>18318598
Enjoy Hell.

>>18318608
thanks I will
now come on, it's your turn

>>18302929

I am American but lived in Scotland for a couple years and the food there was generally better than here in the US. You could go into any random pub and it would probably be ok. Here we might have a little more variety but half the time you go out to eat it’s absolute garbage. The supermarkets in the US are way worse than anywhere I’ve been in Europe too.

>>18318526
Working class Polish food is better than working class British food. That's not saying that WCBF is bad, just that it's not as good as WCPF.

>>18319110
No, they're about the same.

>>18319143
Nah. WCPF is better.

pretty racist lol imagine if they said shithole countries food was the worse

This is good

These are good

Always wanted to try this

>>18319159
Well, I guess we have different tastes.
>>18319209
It's not great. I recommend more traditional stuff, like game pies or cider stews, for example.

>>18319217
never heard of either a game pie or cider stew...post pics?

I have a cousin that lives in London and a sister who lives in Wales. Both are American that married English guys.
I'm going to visit them soon and am very nervous, have to rent a car and drive on a side of the street that I'm not used to.
Any good things I should do see, eat?

>>18304532
ploughmans in a bag?
what an age we live in...

>>18317783
He's got you there yknow

>>18318056
Balls
You ain't seen shit until you seen ramen and rice

>>18318449
Lmao even
Thai and viet are subvariants of chinese

>>18319110
Post examples retard

>>18319273
>Wales
Welsh cakes (their version of scones), clotted cream, fresh fish and chips if you're anywhere near the sea

>London
Cauliflower cheese, full English and whatever's in trend. Usually something that's basically fancy ass sweets. Last I was there waffles were in vogue.

>>18318449
you're not the coastie you'd like to think you are if you're autistically subdividing US cuisine but consider China a monolith

>>18319273
What sort of food do you like? I'm sure your senpai'll take care of you, but if you have time kicking about in London check out the museums. We robbed the entire world and there's one for whatever kind of nerd you are. They're pretty much all free too. You'll need contactless payment to get around. Regarding driving, you can't turn on a red light here.

the easy litmus test for how good a country can cook is how much garlic they eat. if they don't eat a lot of garlic their food is probably shit.

>>18319504
Absolutely true. For example, the UK eats more garlic per capita than France.

Fish n chips is the only good British dish

>>18319540
where do they put it?

>>18302929
In a world where there are cuisines based around deep frying dumpster leftovers in motor oil and sludge pulled from a gutter, british food is perfectly average.
The only people who say it is bad are spoiled first worlders that cannot comprehend not eating 5 star luxury cuisine every meal.

>>18319759
>first world country demanding to be compared to third world shitholes rather than other first world countries

Yes, you can fuck a girl better than a corpse can fuck her, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a lousy lay

>>18303329
Based, fuck poors

>>18304705
>Claims BBQ meat is flavorless
>Implies that smoking meat removes flavor
Are you a reptilian? Have you no ability to taste whatsoever?

A part of the problem is for much of Britain’s history, it was controlled by a revolving door of continental powers who imposed their own customs and food on the natives. This meant that the ruling classes of British society (the people who traditionally define things like high cuisine) weren’t British, and thus made no effort to make uniquely British fine dining.
The Normans and their successors pretty much exclusively ate French royal court food for centuries, and this created a culture where the only people who ate ‘British’ dishes were the peasants who just ate whatever scraps they could slap together. British fine dining is just all French imports as a result.

>>18311297
It’s because of an american misunderstanding of cellar/room temperature. Historically, ‘cellar temp’ in England meant about 50°F. This was wrongly reported as being room temp outside of England. And through the 20th century average room temperature in America rose to about 72°F due to the widespread adoption of HVAC. So now everyone in the US thinks bongs drink 70+° beer rather than the more accurate 45-50°.

>>18317711
That was only upper class families. Lower class kids were home educated until schooling became mandatory

>>18319075
>japs, a people who pride themselves on eating plain tofu and raw fish, trying to highroad any other nation on cuisine

>>18319792
Britain has better food than scandinavia.
>d-doesn’t count!!!!!!!!!!!!
The topic is about who has the worst food, fullstop. Not about who has the worst food, conditions and terms apply

>>18310433
>sloppy boppy wet n hoppy

kek

>>18307024
>snails
oh no dude you gotta try a conch chowder some time, seriously

>>18308892
why do people count fish and chips as some kind of special british dish when it's just fried fish with the standard western fast food side served next to it

>Chicken tikka isn't british because this ingredient was from another country!
>Pizza? Now THAT's traditional Italian food even though it relies on an American ingredient

>>18320331
Tikka Masala was made by jeet immigrants using ingredients they brought with them. It’s about as British as tacos are American, or kebabs and schwarma are Swedish.

>>18302929
Apple pie > every other food ever invented. Everyone is just jealous of us.

>>18319840
It's just a joke. They got a huge chunk of their modern cuisine from the UK because they were massive Anglophiles in the Meiji era.

>>18320421
American style tacos are 100% American, as any given Mexican will be happy to tell you.

>>18302929
No. Its just a weird meme that makes no sense.