British Empire conquered the world at one point, and had access to unimaginable variety of spices, herbs, flavors and tastes.
and they still eat nothing but boiled vomit.
- It builds character.
- You were supposed to use more expensive ingredients to make your food “tastier”.
EDIT: I meant all of these sarcastically!😭
Yeah, and what a character the UK has now. Really worth all that boiled dog vomit.
Food shouldn’t look like its already been digested.
British food and women made for the best sailors in the world.
Thank god for Asian women 🫡
It can be argued that best women are in Belarus.
Cooking is partial digestion
They plated it wrong and forgot to toast the bread. BLOODY ELL
Looks like a lovely bit of scran that does. Yall too obsessed with overdone memes to appreciate a nice bit of comfort food.
Nah I’m just too obcessed with spices and would like to see some used in this meal, especially on those naked potatoes.
Spices on boiled potatoes? I only put salt on mine. What are you recommending?
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As an American, this comment almost made me drop my gun and steer my F-350 off the road (I was scrolling and driving ofc). I feel so sorry for you guys, I hadn’t realized you’d been living like this since we broke up.
You can do so much with potatoes and a little bit of spices. Maybe start out with some black pepper, or some chili powder or paprika. Old Bay would also go great. If you’re really feeling adventurous, instead of conquering India, you could pan fry the potatoes instead of boiling them, and use a little hot sauce or ketchup. For boiled or baked potatoes in particular, dressing them with some sour cream or sauerkraut can be very good.
I’m american, homie. I’m just not a fan of complicated potatoes is all. But i appreciate the recommendations.
I happen to love the other comment about us eating like we have universal healthcare because my favorite potato is the loaded one lol
Baked potato, sour cream, bacon, chives, melted cheese… (Insert Homer drooling image)
You’re supposed to spice those naked potatoes with the meat and gravy. This is basically Haggis if I recall correctly, without fancy serving. And it is really good.
Haggis would have cabbage and lung meat wouldn’t it?
Haggis is traditionally sheep organ meat, oats, and spices. Black pepper and nutmeg are usually the dominant ones, although I assume that’s a development from within the last couple hundred years since neither is native to anywhere near Scotland. You’d serve it alongside potatoes and turnips, traditionally both mashed with a bit of butter.
Yeah now that I am thinking about it haggis is probably better than what OP posted. It’s been years since I ate it while visiting Edinburgh :D
You can’t actually be sure that stew doesn’t have a ton of ground spices in it, because they wouldn’t show. The flavor could be so intense you might need the plain potato bites to rest your mouth. (Highly unlikely but possible.) The real crime is the complete lack of anything green on the table. It’s like they looked around at the lush greenery all around them and decided to leave it all outside.
Truthfully, I’ve been to the UK and had some great food, I just like to rag on the brits!
But yes, the lack of color is probably the real issue with this meal. You really want some fiber to go with a meal like this, to say nothing of the missing nutrients. As an American though, mocking an all brown-and-white plate of food seems a little hypocritical, haha.
Can anyone tell me why there’s HP sauce there?
What do you do with it?
Squirt some into your mouth before you take a bite. What else would you do with it?
But like…
Why aren’t the potatoes in the sauce?
That just seems obvious to me 🤷♀️
Even then, those look like boiled potatoes served plain. Toss some herbs on there and roast them for a bit. It’s not hard.
It’s not hard and it’s not necessary. There are different ways to enjoy a potato.
Naked potatoes mixed in with a hearty sauce are fine.
Though imo they should be brushed with oil and salt, then roasted (or airfried!) because boiled potatoes are boring lol
Yeah, I’m of the opinion that you should only boil a potato if you intend to mash it. Otherwise, what are you even doing? There are faster and tastier ways to prepare it.
You should boil them a bit in an alkaline water before roasting as well. It breaks down the surface into a starchy mess that crisps up wonderfully while they roast.
Alkaline water? Do you mean salt water or water with vinegar? I don’t know enough about Ph to know which one makes alkaline water… I think vinegar is an acid, but is salt a base?
Neither, I’m referring to adding a small amount of baking soda to the water. You’re correct about vinegar being acidic. Table salt is neutral. Sodium bicarbonate is basic and increases the alkalinity of the water.
Oh, that sounds great, thanks for the tip!
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A light brush of fats makes the outer layer crispy when cooked under high heat!
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Tbh, as a British person, I think the same thing every time is see this meme. Although, I might make it worse
I’d have it with mash potatoes. Then, its like pie and mash, just without the pastry.
“Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine.”
If you get the reference, you have exquisite taste in comedy. Basic Lee is on tonight!!
You get back in the sea.
You finned cunt!
I liked it when there was nothing!
There was no crime…
Is that you Paul?
Ive been watching comedy vehicle recently. He is an absolute genius.
Comedy vehicle 1-3 are yearly rewatches for me, never laughed at comedy more
This is hilarious, but if you go to restaurants it’s not true. I could totally see some people eating like this at home though.
MRE > Bri’ish food
I know that MREs are known for being disgusting, but I actually like them.
Which one do you think is the best?
Not who you asked but I’m pretty partial to the chili Mac, especially if you got some hot sauce to drizzle on it! It’s the one I look for first whenever we’re given some to choose from!
They used to come with little Tabasco bottles in them. I had little bottles of Tabasco all over the kitchen for a while after leaving the Army. Do they not come with that anymore?
I can picture that tiny Tabasco bottle clearly 😂. It was a godsend in basic training (for any MRE that came with them) I’m not sure if I had a new iteration of the chili mac or what, but when I was quarantined in 2020, mine came with crushed red pepper instead. I know for a fact I’ve had it with the Tabasco too though.
Those little bottles were awesome!
They aren’t bad. They do fuck up my digestive tract something awful. I prefer the officer’s mess.
Our drill sergeants taught us that you have to use the Kool-Aid mix, as that has something in it to counteract the digestive issues. Idk if that’s true or not, but I never had digestive issues because of an MRE, and I always used the Kool-Aid packet.
We didn’t really go over MREs in Navy boot. I doubt the RDCs would have bothered telling us that tidbit of information, since there’s really no reason a sailor should be eating those things. I just got curious and bought a few from the Army/Navy surplus stores. I never drank more than a taste or two of the Kool aid packet. Those things aren’t exactly tasty, kinda medicinal aftertaste in my opinion.
Maybe it’s true then.
What is that bread? Buttered, untoasted, sliced white bread? Wtf?
Yeah. It’s there to mop up the gravy.
is probably even margarine in this case
When I was a kid, buttered plain white bread was great, but as an adult, not so great anymore.
Dude, its buttered bread. Whats your problem?
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wait till you hear about fairy bread
FWIW it wasn’t the Germans flying overhead that led to the shitty food and not much of it - it was the Germans in their submersible tin cans that were the big problem.
You know the kids who make and enjoy memes are usually back of the class types.
We did what we could, we built like 2,700 Liberty ships.
On the other hand Americans eat like they have free healthcare…
Americans have been sold and eat up the idea that instant gratification beats the effort needed to realize something greater.
In my defense, everything I worked for in the first 18 years of my life fell apart in the next two, so I’ve just kind of given up on anything that isn’t now or in the very near future.
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No no you see, Americans work* so much, they don’t have time to first learn and then practise to cook healthy meals at home. Hence fast food chains!!
*work American style, as in staying at work long hours but also spend about 60% of their work day chatting with co workers, or on the phone, going on personal, non-work related errands, browsing the internet, selecting, getting, eating, and ridding their bowels of food.
i just learned (on Lemmy) that Americans basically don’t get raises annually. 1 or 2% raise apparently is the burn. so 40% work in a work day sounds way too much for me. good job, American workers. those fuckers don’t deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.
Yeah but they still spend most of their lives in a place they don’t want to be in, while being prideful about how hard they work compared to all other nations
American workers. those fuckers don’t deserve your labor even at 40%. keep slacking, i say.
I wish. That person has never seen what blue collar workers go through. In food service for example, and I literally cannot stress this enough, YOU WILL NOT GET A BREAK. Their favorite phrase is, “If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” This is because there will be exactly one chair in the manager’s office, so that no one is allowed to sit for their entire shift, except the manager.
They get pissy if you ask for your federally required 15 minute break or your 30 minute lunch. This is doubly true for wait staff or delivery drivers. In fact I have been told by multiple bosses at delivery jobs that if I try to take a break at the store, I will be fired.
The rule of thumb over here seems to be, “the less you are paid, the more you WILL work.”
every time i hear anything about the US it becomes even more unbelievable that there are no guillotines in the streets “just in case”.
It’s because the ruling class created the biggest, most successful gang of slave hunters in human history, armed them to the teeth, and gave them immunity from prosecution. Anyone that does try to wrest some power back from the ruling class, historically, gets shot.
Try getting a blue collar job, and tell me again how the majority of American workers are slacking. Must be nice over there in your “office job,” that clearly can be done working at home.
Also I don’t know about other office jobs, but in IT, it was feast or famine. When there was work to be done, we worked 100 hour weeks, but when we finally managed to put out all the fires, yeah we would spend weeks at a time working on side projects, not slacking off.
Blue collar? I was obviously not talking about you losers, so shut your gd mouth and go back to pounding rocks.
I don’t care. I’ll die on that hill.
It might not take a hill, a set of stairs could do it.
Depending upon the type and quantity of food, climbing it might be a more difficult task than expected (says me who had McDonald’s today (though for the first time in a couple months)).
Oh you will
Touché!
Buuuuuuurn.
We eat that way because we don’t. Heart disease is the only way we’re going to end up going out quickly enough to avoid end of life hospital bills. I mean it’s not like any of us have the means to afford to retire.
Imagine taking a joke without having to jab back 😂. Oh world you are so petty.
You couldn’t
Jab backs are the best part!
I just continued the “food generalisation” joke because I’m neither British nor American. I can laugh at both of you.
You seem to be the one that can’t take a joke.
🤠🤠🤠
Imagine not being able to take a jab back without complaining. 😂
Imagine giving it out but not being able to take it.
If it was just a bit of fun then, its still just a bit of fun now.
Just to be clear, we want you to have free healthcare. Its not meant as gloating and you should be angry. Just not at us. You deserve free health care and you won’t find many British people who wouldn’t want you to have it too.
Lmao
The dinners aren’t the problem. It’s the baked beans for breakfast… Also, my Dad, who was born in London, insisted on eating Marmite, which I know many of you will defend, but also piccalilli and Daddies sauce and if you like those things, I will give you major side-eye.
Marmite is salty and delicious on toast :o. This is from an American.
Marmite is notorious for it’s loved/hated status. They’ve done a whole marketing thing around it in the past.
Even when describing things that have people on either side of the fence we’ll say that it’s “like marmite.”
Genius advertising
Just a coincidence that none of those things contain high fructose corn syrup then? 😒
Neither saag paneer nor gyros have such things in them either and they’re delicious. Probably because Indian and Greek food are better.
For that matter, a plain old carrot doesn’t have any high fructose corn syrup in it. Ever tried one? They’re quite nice. You don’t even have to cook them.
Of course, that’s just what THEY want you to think.
Baked beans are awesome for breakfast!
You’re entitled to your incorrect opinion.
I don’t often have them, given they are a heart attack on a plate. But an English breakfast can set you up for the day and baked beans are a staple ingredient. Particularly if they are cooked in the bacon/sausage fat.
Low sugar baked beans are surprisingly healthy. The rest of the fried breakfast, less so.
Which culinary pleb made that? At least bang the taters in the stew while it cooks.
The Aussies would just grab all that and wack it into a shortcut / puff pastry meat and potato pie. Not half bad actually.
It is basically a meat pie filling just with potatoes instead of pastry. People will look down their noses at this because of the plating and then happily eat hundreds of extremely similar foods.
The issue people have is with how naked the potatoes are. If they were mashed and had the stew poured over them, I bet people would be salivating.
The plain boiled potatoes do feel very UK “my parents grew up in the tail end of rationing” style. Idk if it’s because I grew up with it that I don’t mind, or if I know just putting a bit of the gravy on it means they don’t need to be cooked any other way.
Saying all that that though, I don’t tend to boil potatoes like this personally and would totally mash them or something.
I’m 48, my parents absolutely grew up through rationing which lasted into the 1950s. Plain boiled potatoes was a really common way of serving them all through my childhood. Even now they will commonly eat plain potatoes, with a bit of butter on them. In fact as they have got older, now in their 80s, their meal might just be plain potatoes and peas.
This dish, mince and tatties, was an absolute staple at my Scottish grannie’s house, with an overboiled cabbage as well for good measure.
My mum often served just boiled potatoes like this, due to growing up during rationing. They’re actually fine as long as they’re not over-boiled, and then when you get the Jersey Royals in season it’s an absolute crime to peel, chip, over-season or mash them.
I would probably add a little bit of butter and salt, but you’re right, the flavour potential of simple potatoes can be criminally undervalued sometimes. Particularly home grown or fresh new potatoes.
Whoever eats potatoes like that is a full on nut job lol
A little S&P they’d be fine
Yeah that’s true!
Plain boiled potatoes are meant as an accompagnement, you’re not supposed to just eat them on their own. They’re great at that, even the French do it and I think everyone can agree the French know a thing or two about cuisine.
I’ve never had plain boiled taters tbh! But I can see them working to mop up the slop 👀
You don’t even need to add butter to boiled potatoes, with the right variety.
The French know nothing of cuisine! They can’t even make a proper omelette, quiche, brioche, or flambé!
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To all of you saying “this literally looks like poop”, “why are they eating boiled vomit”, etc, post the last thing you made and I’m sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
It’s fucking very obviously a normal ass plate of potatoes and meat stew with carrots. Do the potatoes look a little bland? Maybe, but there’s stew to dip it in. Regardless, a well seasoned potato has a good flavor all by itself. The stew looks like every other homemade stew I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to make that shit look “pretty”, but I know y’all scarf shit like that down. Get off your high fucking horses. There’s plenty of other valid things to complain about with British culture, but making fun of their food is asinine.
