Meanwhile in Scotland, they deep fry fucking chocolate.
USAians be like: amateurs
The British national dish is curry.
That’s the Indian national dish, and Britain got so mad about losing the empire they stole it.
There’s plenty of British-created curries or ones that have been heavily modified in the UK. If you went to India and wanted a tikka masala. I imagine it would be pretty hard to find one, and if you did it wouldn’t be like it was in the UK.
Personally I do prefer Indian curries because they get more interesting with the veggie ones though.
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Pfft, you think we invaded everyone for spices to eat them? Absolutely not. We did it so that we could sell them to the French, thereby making the French poorer by exploiting their degenerate addiction to food that tastes nice
Your comment made me wanna google the two economies and related stats. They’re a lot more Similar than I expected. Pretty cool. So I guess UK’s plan failed? xD unless France used to be richer.
Now i want to try the legendary Chicago Deep Fried Pizza.
That’s not a thing. Chicago is known for deep dish pizza, which is so thick it’s basically a pie.
That said, deep-fried pizza DOES exist, and much to my surprise, it was apparently invented in Italy.
Chicago deep dish pizza is more akin to eating the deep fryer, there is so much oil in it.
Sadly you’re part wrong, Chicago Style Pizza is very different from Detroit’s Deep-Dish. Deep-Dish Pizza is born out of motor city cooking za in automotive pans, with a thick crunchy crust, while Chicago Pizza is made by morons who don’t know how to make anything that isn’t oversauced lasagne.
i grew up near a place that had something they called a ponza rotta.
it was the pizza equivalent of a chimichanga. it was a deep fried calzone. my high school had a tradition of trying to run a ponza mile instead of a beer mile. last one to puke after eating a whole ponza and running a mile won. only ever knew one person to actually finish the mile.
Panzarotti?
yeah that’s about it, but they call it as i spelled it, and they were huge.
Imagine if we deep fried stuff in pure crude oil. 🤢
Can’t do it for chicken, it’s forbidden in Da Book, though shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk, etc
We call that the gulf special!
Forbidden flavor
There’s also Fried Coke, which was invented by the same guy
Minnesota had deep fried ranch at the state fair last year.
I was going to post deep fried Oreos, but I think this takes the cake.
Mmm… Deepfried Oreo butter cake… 🤤
Go to Scotland and taste the joys of a deep fried Mars bar, now you’re talking!
Have some deep fried pizza as an appetiser.
Deep Fried Beer is a pretty good one, too. Not very tasty, though…
Dear god, this shit is why I support Texas becoming independent
Why eat your butter raw when you can deep-fry it?
Hmmmmm… roast butter… /drool
Chicken tikka masala would like a word.
Was gonna say, didn’t the Brits basically invent some curry dishes? Still, there ain’t any British restaurants, tells me what I need to know.
Well, there’s no “British cuisine” per se, but there are British restaurants. For example a pretty famous and influential one. Also, most pubs serve food and those are now pretty much everywhere in the world, that’s quite British, isn’t it? Dunno the history, but I always associated it with the Brits, maybe I’m wrong.
I mean if you take it seriously we do have plenty of good and interesting food, both in traditional and modern cuisine. Hot spice isn’t often a part of it, but there’s lots of usage of herbs and milder spices. Laverbread, black pudding, haggis (yes, seriously), Worcestershire sauce, and Cornish herby pasty are all solid examples of very traditional foods that are pretty seasoning-forward without even touching the enormous amount of stuff we picked up from other cultures (like the curries)
That’s not to say that we don’t frequently earn our terrible culinary reputation. We do. Next to our neighbours like France, Spain, and Italy we just do not have the same level of widespread passion for food, and our habits reflect this. A general lack of adventurousness plagues our palates on a national level
My favourite part of British food is the way it has merged with foreign food, like the curry dishes for example.
That does also mean there aren’t any British restaurants since they are usually labelled with the culture that shows there is actual flavour and not the culture famous for eating wartime food in the 21st century…
I would say that British restaurants are pubs. Things like pie and chips, burgers, bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie etc. Or maybe a carvery with roast dinner. Or fish and chips places (although that’s not exactly a restaurant)
That the name of their unofficial national dish is in Persian/Hindi also suggets something, but I’m sure I don’t know what…
Colonization. But that was the insinuation of the post, that they colonized the world and have nothing to show for it. But in reality there is a lot of cultural exchange that happened.
I thought Americans thought English Mustard was far too spicy.
Americans are borderline obsessed with hotsauces and spicy food, though. IME, the pushback about english mustard is usually the same as with vegemite - its too easy to use way too much, and thus obliterate the flavours of the rest of the dish. (Plus it doesn’t pair super well with a lot of regional menus). In many restaurants (diners) there’s always at least tobasco sauce next to the salt and cracked black pepper, and nowadays most have a selection of hot sauces on the table to choose from.
American food can get spicy/spiced as hell
Most american stereotypes I understand or even represent (fat white guy with too many guns here) but I’ve never understood the “american food is bland” thing - I can’t think of a region of the US internally known for bland food. Even the Hot Dish parts of the country strive for bold flavors. Why the hell do you think we’re all so fat, if not because we have so much good food to tempt us into excess?
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Mormonville, as a theocracy, doesn’t count as America. It is categorized as a malignant internal growth.
yeah, but they’re known for jello. you eat that at the hospital
And the entire Midwest outside of big cities. Food has to white.
So Americans eat Scottish cuisine sans haggis?
I’ve always joked that you could batter a bunch of cardboard, soak it in buttermilk, cover it in spicy breading, do it again and deep fry it … and you could base an entire restaurant chain around it.
