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Don't compare us to them at least we have food to call our own. . . plus the issue with a lot of British food is that the person cooking it doesn't know how to do anything but dip shit in grease, properly made its top tier . . . (See attached for proof)
One day scientists will resolve the paradox where American food isn't theirs (Americans create no food) and isn't Chinese/Italian/Mexican/etc. (American food is inauthentic). One day we'll learn who made Taco Bell! My money's on aliens.
(The first answer is that fusion American food was often made by immigrants combining their cooking knowledge with new American circumstances and preferences, a totally normal type of cultural blending.
For example, American-Italian food uses more butter because Italian immigrants were less able to afford it at home, so they used more when it was more accessible in America.
Here, saying America has no food just shits on immigrants in order to promote an American Exceptionalist myth where only Americans among the world are too stupid and boorish to have culture.
The second answer is that, in addition to fusion cuisine, Americans have lots more food, especially regional delicacies. Like barbecue, gumbo, crab cakes, a diverse pie tradition... and liquor and bourbon if that counts :))). Here, people homogenize 350 million people across ~every climate zone and two dozen ethnicities into one boring clump, ignorint its diversity.
You're digging yourself deeper here and you don't gotta. Shit happens)
any food can look good with fancy overexposed pictures. im talkin abt actual food people eat and its not lookin good for either of youse
Saying, "At least we have food of our own, unlike those vacuous yanks!" and then posting photos of a full English breakfast and shepherd's pie that both prominently feature potatoes is extremely funny.
you cant copyright a vegetable
also as for bacon, it is terrible on every sense.
Of course you can't. My point is that, if two dishes made with a crop only native to the Americas count as "British food," then it's nonsensical to act like none of the food made and consumed in the United States counts as "American food" and posture about how Americans have no real food culture. In the age of globalization, every country's food culture is a combination of what grows and is made there natively with the foods and culinary traditions introduced by forces like immigration and colonization, but for some reason, it's only in the case of the United States that it doesn't count as a new food culture when, say, Italian immigrants combine the things uniquely available to them in the United States with their preexisting culinary traditions to produce new dishes that no native Italian would identify as authentic.
Nothing beats baked beans at breakfast time. Yum, baked beans!
Oi guvnor, we’re not all that lacking in pallette!
if only British people knew how to actually make their own food
"british food bad" is the most yawn-inducing patter in the world. i expect better from this subforum.
Oh, so if I say "british food bad" its lame, but if I say "french food bad" its cool?
(I am part British and French, I'm allowed to make this joke)
"french food bad" is manifestly untrue (i hate the french so you can trust that this compliment is sincere) but it is at least more original than "british food bad"
red meat in general is terrible, white meat is just far better in taste and for health
well that wasn't really the hot take anyway
Performatively bashing British food is really annoying. If you want to insult Britain, Boris Johnson is right there.
I think full English breakfast is pretty good. Beans in tomato sauce are quite nice
I just don't like how much of the food is fried and heavy, but that's a thing with the cuisines of protestant countries, they kinda stink
Look at scandinavia, they ate really well when they were catholic. Then they started following Luther and now they eat rotten fish. Or better still, look at what they eat in Bavaria, how they spice their foods and take pride in their meals, and compare it to the northern parts of Germany. Even their cheese is flavorless
i feel like a lot of the difference between british and american food is that when world war 2 ended americans went back to what they were eating before while the brits went through stockholm syndrome with beans on toast.
also i saw a video of british chinese food and i had no idea it was possible to do an even better job making a complete and utter mockery of the cuisine of the second biggest country in the world than americans do.
also i saw a video of british chinese food and i had no idea it was possible to do an even better job making a complete and utter mockery of the cuisine of the second biggest country in the world than americans do.
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Vanilla ice cream made with real vanilla is really good
