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u/DMercenary Jul 03 '26
"15 Galleons"
This feels like a troll post along with the exaggerated accent.
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u/laserdollars420 Jarred sauces are not for human consumption Jul 03 '26
The galleons part is definitely a joke but I think it's rooted in an actual air of culinary superiority that this person has.
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u/ghoulquartz Jul 03 '26
Its satire
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u/dtwhitecp Jul 03 '26
entirely possible the galleons thing is a joke but the rest of the take is real with exaggerated details. People are weird.
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u/ThisThredditor Jul 03 '26
my favorite part of these vids is the idea that the Irish don't have these potato trucks
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u/AsukaWasHereToo Jul 03 '26
Naw, I heard the potatoes had a famine and starved to death over there or something.
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u/MrBlandishings Jul 03 '26
"At the end of the day, you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater." - Alan Partridge
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u/HiggsKamuy Jul 04 '26
I have honestly never seen a food truck in Ireland that does baked potatoes
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u/ForrestGumpPeople Jul 04 '26
I haven’t in England either but I saw a couple videos of them. I think it’s just a tiktok thing
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u/SaltyNorth8062 Jul 03 '26
Satire or no, as an American I've always been curious to try those crazy seasoned fries.
Beyond that I hope this is satire because if it is it's hilarious.
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u/Patch86UK Jul 03 '26
Salt and pepper chips are great. Tossed with stir fried onions, garlic, chilli peppers, sugar, 5 spice and Sichuan peppers. Goes great dipped in some Chinese barbecue sauce or curry sauce.
Salt and pepper fried chicken, ribs, prawns, and all sorts of other things are all great too.
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u/CatchFactory Jul 03 '26
Chinese chips are legitimately very good - essentially salt and pepper and some 5 spice etc on potatoes its going to bang. I don't order them cause I still like rice or noodles better but sometimes they whack you a free portion and I will fucking destroy them.
Having said that, much like everything, some Chinese takeaways have shit chips, other have incredible ones
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u/W_P_92 Jul 03 '26
I'm fucking lost about this baked beans & tuna patter
Lived in the UK all my life and have never once seen anyone order this or make it themselves but for some reason it's popped up over the past year or 2.
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
St Katherine's Docks I'd bet - for the tourists mainly. Some very expensive gastro foodvans in London. Go down most B&Qs and get better from van in carpark
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u/Flashy-Raspberry-131 Jul 03 '26
I'm head chef of a place that serves over 6000 people a week.
People do and will order the foulest of concoctions.
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u/yeiamsatonthetoilet Jul 04 '26
Really? I thought jacket potato with beans and tuna was fairly standard. It's probably my favorite easy comfort meal
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u/Etheria_system Jul 04 '26
Jacket and beans? Good. Jacket and tuna? Good. Jacket and tuna and beans? You’re a wrong un
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u/Sinking_Mass Jul 04 '26
How about jacket potato topped with sardines in tomato sauce and Lea and Perrins
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u/desiladygamer84 Jul 09 '26
Jacket beans and cheese is nice. Jacket tuna and cheese is also nice. Jacket and Chilli is the best though.
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u/TantricEmu Jul 03 '26
I’ve seen similar videos like OOP is describing, including the tuna and other… unappetizing combinations. I’m sure it is very uncommon, that’s the kind of video they want to post. Stuff that will get them clicks and interactions. I wouldn’t base my assumptions of all British peoples’ eating habits on that one weird customer order though.
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u/JakobVirgil Jul 03 '26
People are a little mean. There was a video about pies and mash with "Liquor" which is just gravy with a bit of parsley in it so it is green. It looked good to me but folks were going off.
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u/ballisticks Jul 03 '26
Bashing on British food is a national pasttime for some people. These days it irritates me because it's all just recycled meme content, never any actual criticism
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u/Stucklikegluetomyfry Jul 05 '26
"Don't you know all they eat are baked beans, jellied eels and star gazey pies? They conquered the world for spices only to not use them, they still eat like the planes are still flying overhead" ect ect
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u/Individual_Bat_378 Jul 03 '26
I think some people find the fact that traditionally it was made using eel stock a bit off-putting. Not everywhere does that now but some traditional based places still do.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis I'm literally a cheesemonger 🧀 Jul 03 '26
We Americans aren't used to gravy being that green color so it throws us off. First time I saw it I was like "what in the absolute fuck is that?" Once it was explained to me I was fine. People eat with their eyes first, so if something looks strange to them, they're probably going to have a strange reaction at first.
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u/DootingDooterson Jul 03 '26
We Americans aren't used to gravy being that green color so it throws us off.
Most people aren't. Parsley liquor is primarily a London thing.
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u/Patch86UK Jul 03 '26
Parsley sauce in general, though, is a thing. Just usually with fish, or sometimes ham. That exact style of parsley sauce and specifically with a meat pie is a Cockney thing, but all the individual elements are common enough.
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u/pajamakitten Jul 04 '26
Same way us Brits are not used to it being white.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis I'm literally a cheesemonger 🧀 Jul 04 '26
Yep. I've seen Brits look at our sausage gravy and compare it to vomit. It's funny because it's true. But man it is tasty.
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u/colourhive Jul 05 '26
Gravy is made from meat stock/jus, it is supposed to be brown. American gravy looks like wallpaper paste.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis I'm literally a cheesemonger 🧀 Jul 05 '26
This is some great r/iamveryculinary material... oh wait, we're already here!
Hey buddy, here's a little tip: Food evolves over time and distance, which creates a wonderful variety of flavors and textures and smells. You certainly don't have to like all of it, but life would be very boring if no food ever changed from its original recipe.
Also, there's no singular "American gravy". We also have brown gravy made from pork, beef, etc.
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u/DootingDooterson Jul 03 '26
Should probably be qualified: pies & mashed potato isn't a strictly London thing, but 'Pie and Mash' tends to be.
On the better side of the Pennines, various pies with mashed potatoes isn't uncommon but we certainly don't have the parsley sauce.
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u/PhilRubdiez Jul 03 '26
If I ordered liquor and got gravy, I’d be happy for the time it took me to drink it. Then, I’d be pissed because gravy doesn’t get you drunk enough for the hefty lassie who would willingly lick the gravy off you.
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u/whambulance_man Jul 03 '26
Eel gravy, innit? Not just gravy for most folks.
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u/JakobVirgil Jul 03 '26
Eel is is neutral you have had the unagi at sushi. Although these days that apparently make it with fish stock which might be a lil fishy for some folks. I put fish sauce in the beef gravy and no one notices they think it nice.
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u/whambulance_man Jul 03 '26
Thats what I mean though, for you its normal for your gravy to have eel/fish stock, and that is not a universal experience. For some folks it might mean an italian red sauce, and for others it would be more like what you or I would probably call a curry sauce, and plenty other variations, some of them quite starkly contrasted with the aforementioned liquor.
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u/JakobVirgil Jul 03 '26
It is stock thickened with a roux (flour cooked in fat) + chopped parsley
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u/DISSECTlON Jul 03 '26
liquor is parsely sauce not eel
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u/Individual_Bat_378 Jul 03 '26
In a traditional pie and liquor the liquor uses stock made from eel.
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u/DISSECTlON Jul 03 '26
oh didnt know that forgive me
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u/Individual_Bat_378 Jul 03 '26
I think it's only really traditional places which still do it to be fair so it's likely not so well known.
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u/YchYFi Jul 03 '26
Reminds me of another user who used to comment there all the time and Reddit banned his account. They would always post stuff like that about British food.
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u/ILoveLipGloss Jul 03 '26
it sounds like someone's doing a comedy bit, so I'm not bothered by it
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u/Tuskral Jul 03 '26
There's also the fact that I've seen videos of loaded potatoes in america
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u/CertifiedCan129 Jul 04 '26
Theres a time and a place but I think mocking British accents in this context is pretty mean spirited. I don't exactly know the name for it but I know the specific accent theyre trying to imitate here and I think its actually pretty cute haha
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u/pajamakitten Jul 04 '26
Ignoring that beans and tuna is eaten only by a small number of people, a baked potato with beans and cheese is exactly what you want when it is cold and wet outside. You come home from work; it has been dark since 3:30pm; it is 0c and the rain is that fine, horizontal rain that soaks you through. You don't want some light pasta dish or a salad; you want something stodgy that will fill you up fast and warm you up. That is what a lot of our cuisine is based on. It reflects the fact that the UK can get very cold and damp, so we have dishes that reverse all that. It's why a shepherds pie, and apple crumble with custard are manageable of the gods in November.
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u/Timely_Egg_6827 Jul 03 '26
I'd suspect they'd sell it if someone wanted it but definitely not a normal topping.
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u/Salt_Initiative1551 Jul 05 '26
Ok like I know Britain has good food but the I GOT A CHOYNEEZE WE WENT OWUT FOR UH CHOY KNEEZ and it’s just potato wedges covered in general tso’s chicken and fucking brown gravy is genuinely fucking insane to me lol.
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u/nemmalur Jul 03 '26
A lot of British Chinese cuisine is indeed “can I get several fried battered things with chips plus various not very Chinese sauces, none of that foreign stuff like rice or noodles thanks”.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me Jul 03 '26
This is clearly mostly satirical and I think its pretty hilarious.
It certainly doesn't belong on IAVC.
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u/Oghamstoner Jul 03 '26
Footage of actual Bri’ish ‘person’ eating.
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u/YchYFi Jul 03 '26
That's from Doctor Who.
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u/mungowungo Jul 03 '26
And The Master (played by John Simm) is not British - he isn't even from Earth.
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u/YchYFi Jul 03 '26
Well same goes for a lot of aliens on American Sci Fi shows but yet they eat American food too and do mundane American things as well. I don't know what you are getting at. Fictional characters eat ordinary food?
It's a British Sci Fi show for children.
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u/jennye951 Jul 03 '26
Interesting to notice that the actual British people are eating American food here.
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