Bri'ish Food!!!
EDIT: Okay, it was a bit silly of me to drag my heels in, I don't strictly hate it and there are good things about British cooking (mostly veggies), but I find the meme's meat obsession super silly. I am having stomach pains and cramped arteries just looking at this stuff.
Shit that I eat when it's the end of the month and I'm out of money.
Not gonna lie I want to try this, but I don't eat enough bread to legitimize buying a whole loaf for it.
As a non-USian, I don't think Mac and cheese is the slam dunk proof the meme maker thinks it is...
I've probably seen Americans excitedly introduce foreigners to Mac and Cheese about 10 times in my life and nobody has ever responded with more than "yeah, that's not bad I guess" or "huh, that's interesting".
If mac and cheese did not exist, America would have to invent it to defend her interests.
Mfer said bacon buddy
(It's butty or barm if you're from the north)
Mfw I forget bap
Is this supposed to be british food good or british food bad, I can't tell.
Cause bacon sandwich is obvious, but fish and chips is just fried protein so that is good in the hivemind, toad in a hole sounds gross so thats obvious, but shepherds pie is just literally good, and beef pie I guess you could find gross if you really wanted to, and then mac and cheese is american right?
This could be a British meme making fun of being British. Self deprecation is a national sport, probably one of the best features of Brits is their ability to shit all over being British, and similarly wherever you currently live is always the shittest place in the country. It's just generally considered a virtue to do self deprecating banter, it's a sign of a strong person who can have a laugh and doesn't take themselves too seriously.
I don't think anyone in Britain considers "mac and cheese" British though and that phrasing isn't really British either, so I'm going to side with it being made by a yank.
If a Brit made it Greggs sausage rolls would have been included.
Tbh I hate British self deprecation, cause it seems to always end up paired with trying to deprecate everywhere else even more. Also seems to prevent them from actually defending British stuff that they wanna defend through any means other than just going for the lowest blows or bigoted shit.
As overblown as the meme might be, theres a reason people joke about "Well at least we've gawt healfcare/don't get shot in our bloody schools mate innit"
I am not sure what the intention was, but I find the presentation very unconvincing. I assume it was ironic as it is kind of on the nose with very starchy and meaty foods that are all the same color put over soiled diapers. I really like how much cognitive dissonance it causes, though.
I love a good fish fry, but that's a Wisconsin tradition.
Toad in a hole is one of the best breakfast items ever invented by mankind. So simple, yet so perfect.
I refuse to eat food that sounds like a video title on pornhub
Im gonna make lancashire hotpot this week, seethe all you like
cope seethe mald soy yes chad pink wojak
That's just potato casserole but British
The general rule of thumb is if the European country doesn't touch the Mediterranean, their food is complete trash. British, German, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian food. All complete trash. How many people will stand in line to taste that delectable Irish cuisine or Latvian cuisine or Dutch cuisine? Notice how all the European countries with actually existing cuisine like French or Italian or Greek all touch the Mediterranean. This extends to the settler colonies. Canadian food? Garbage. USian food? Garbage. Mexican food? Now we're fucking talking.
USA has banging food wdym. Tex-mex, creole, Cajun, New Yorkican, italian-american, chinese-american, shit slaps unless I missed your point
i think they're trying to do like a 'cracker cuisine' bit, USian being just the WASP midwest shit? i'm sensitive enough about cultural 'ownership' of food though i kind of reject a premise like that, even if its kind of jocular
All of those cuisine are food from the diaspora with actual existing cuisine:
As far as food is concerned, the only food that counts is the food of the original settlers as well as the earliest Europeans who were incorporated into whiteness. So basically, Anglo Americans, Scot Americans, Dutch Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans. In other words, WASPs.
At a basic level, you don't get to enslave Black people for centuries only to count soul food or Black-influenced food as "American" food. You don't get to pass a law blocking Chinese immigration for a century only to pretend the bastardization of Cantonese food called Chinese American food counts as American food. This has the same exact energy as Brits trying to claim curry as British cuisine after starving millions of Indians to death or Zionists trying to pretend the food Palestinians have been eating for centuries is "Israeli."
I dunno. I like a lot of Polish dishes and the bit of German I've had has been excellent.
Southern German food is pretty good, spaetzle, knudel, 200 different types of sausage. Freshwater fish from alpine lakes...and of course regional schitzel, beer, wine etc.
TIL that Mexico touches the Mediterranean
Spain does.
South African food is great, but that's just because it's a mix from all the different cultures.
Isn't that all cuisines though? Like it's all fusion food, it's just a question of how soon the latest fusion was
Shaking screaming and pissing because Chicken Paprikash is actually very good I'll have you know
The national kitchen around me sucks ass and only serves deranged meat demons and I can live after admitting that
Fish and chips, shepherds pie, and mac and cheese are amazing and I will fight anyone who disses them on non vegan grounds.
like how the fuck can anyone (on non-vegan or strictly health-related grounds) oppose anything that has been battered and deep fried?
I lived in Edinburgh for 2 years and heavily oppose the "anything" part of that. I've seen chip shop horrors you can only imagine. Deep fried haggis pizza doesn't even begin to plumb the depths of things that can and have been battered.
Fish and chips is so fucking good that it could only have been lifted directly from the sephardim
A Brit trying to give a food a non-silly name: impossible
In Wiggin 's as good as gravay
I am not a B**t but I had some of these (although vegetarian versions) and I have to say that pie is pretty great tbh. Great comfort food.
I think having any amount of greens in there helps a lot, first of all, it would be any other color than greyish or reddish brown with yellow, second, fibres and vitamins
No one who ever makes these memes has ever encountered English mustard.
Um its chewsday innit
pop down local proide, good ol' pie! look a' that.
So wholesome and hearty!!!
I like British baked beans. They're pretty good.
what is the excuse for all this lonely insufficiently spiced meat being stuck in stuff without vegg? not Ze Germans, they kept the brits from eating as much meat i imagine
in all cases i can imagine a way for the dish to be pleasant but in practice motherfuckers always make this shit bland and disappointing. tell me honest the likelihood of a mac & cheese at either a restaurant or a potluck to be genuinely good. its like less than half, and that's a dish where cheese can do all the heavy lifting.
those things look yummy. i like food and i like how many different kinds of food there are in the world.
macaroni and cheese was invented by a french slave, right? not british in the slightest.
I could only quote wikipedia at you which says the modern version originated in the UK, but was brought to the US by a slave named James Hemings. Others have said how culinary history is a complicated topic in general and I frankly am not interested enough to read on it and give you a confident answer. I mostly found the meme's execution so clumsy as to confuse people about its sincerity which makes it funny again.
My girlfriend makes a heavily Americanized version of shepherds pie and hot damn it's good. I could literally eat only that for days and be happy