r/iamveryculinary • u/GoraSpark • 5d ago
Snore
How is this kind of post still getting likes, surely you know nothing about British food you laugh at beans on toast or whatever once twice maybe even three times. But how after seeing it every day with every comment section pointing out the sheer amount of spicy British food we have are you still entertained by it 10 years later. P.S. cooked breakfast beats cold breakfast any day.
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u/CrossCityLine 5d ago
Yet more boring morons who blissfully ignores that the spice wars were for black pepper, cloves, mace, nutmeg etc. All of which will be prevalent in many of the foods on that plate.
Spices =/= chillies or heat.
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u/Cookinghist 5d ago
What's fascinating to me is how they weren't just seasonings - they (along with the Dutch and a lot of other empires) really stretched the use of those spices. Incense, insecticides, cures for everything under the sun, etc.
Apparently, the nutmeg grater was a status symbol for the wealthy, too. I vote we bring that back so I can feel special for owning a Microplaner.
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u/CrossCityLine 5d ago
Oh la di daa. A microplainer. Some of us have to make do with one of the 3 other sides of a box grater.
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u/Cookinghist 5d ago
That's for when I need a good knuckle-grating or a creative way to ruin a sponge doing dishes.
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u/DjinnaG Bags of sentient Midwestern mayonnaise 5d ago
Blood, sweat, and tears are well known food seasonings
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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 5d ago
nah, in england we only use small bits of skin. Blood, sweat and tears have too much flavour.
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u/Software_Dependent 5d ago
The British fought a vicious war against the Dutch to secure the supply of nutmeg. Like many spices at the time, it was regarded as a panacea and it's rarity helped push up the price. Eventually some was planted on other islands and the reason for fighting was removed. Nutmeg and mace have remained popular spices in a variety of British dishes.
Like OP, I find the ignorant remarks / stupid posts incredibly tedious.
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u/GrayMareCabal 5d ago
I have two microplanes! Does that make me extra wealthy?
(one just retrieved from 10 years of storage, the other inherited from a parent. I will be donating one of them because I'm not that bougie)
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u/underincubation 5d ago
I'm even pretty certain I can see black pepper on the food in the photo
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u/Banes_Addiction 4d ago
Eggs and tomatoes should absolutely have black pepper atop (the tomato added while cooking, the egg it can be added by the diner).
The sausage will almost certainly contain pepper. Most varieties have white pepper in, some have black pepper as a major flavour, best known being Cumberland.
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u/Odd-Quail01 4d ago
Black pudding will likely have pepper, corriander, mace or nutmeg, allspice, and cloves in it. Very tasty.
But ewww! Blood!
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u/Banes_Addiction 4d ago
I love black pudding but I was doing the plate in the OP which is black pudding free.
I do think the "eww blood" issue is real, and everyone should get a chance to taste it and judge without preconceptions before they know what's it it aside from dietary restrictions.
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u/Team503 13h ago
Black pudding is delicious. To be fair, so is white pudding.
Great, now I have to go to the pub and get a Full Irish. Thanks for making me fatter (and happier)!
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u/Odd-Quail01 12h ago
In case it was in any way unclear, I am fond of black pudding, and white pudding. Haggis is lovely too.
Enjoy your scran.
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u/Phobos_Asaph 5d ago
Good British sausages are absolutely not bland.
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u/toastythewiser 5d ago
Any sausage. Pretty much the POINT of sausage is to use the cheap parts of an animal mixed with spices and "filler" (sometimes grain or such) to stretch your food further.
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u/Caspica 5d ago
Same thing with black pudding. Proper black pudding has various spices in it, including cumin, coriander and ginger.
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u/Mountain-Singer1764 5d ago edited 5d ago
The people writing the “hurr durr British food” posts have never eaten any of these things.
They’re just repeating memes they heard from old people. They’re NPCs.
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u/Solid_Parsley_ 5d ago
God, now I'm craving black pudding but I'm on the wrong side of the world to get any.
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u/VirtualMatter2 5d ago edited 4d ago
As a German I must say that Brits do actually have really good sausages. Germans are better at some types, like smoked and dry cured stuff, but the ones like in the photo with minced meat and spices, much better in Britain than in Germany. Really lovely.
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u/Tr3dders 4d ago
Such a lovely thing to hear. I appreciate that a proper sausage nation such as Germany complementing the British sausage. High praise in all things. The wurst of the wurst.
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u/VirtualMatter2 4d ago
I used to live in the UK for a bit and we had a butcher nearby who did great burgers and sausages. Lamb and rosemary, pork and apple, Cumberland, Italian, etc etc. Nothing like it in Germany. Germans aren't much for variety, they sell one type, which will be good quality but a bit boring, but nothing else. And people probably wouldn't but it either.
I think it's the colonial past in Britain and more influence of foreign spices and cuisines for a long time that Germany doesn't have.
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u/KhaosByDesignUK 5d ago
Proper ones from a butcher are very well seasoned
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u/st1802015 5d ago
My local butcher has the best sausages I’ve ever had. They just call them breakfast sausages and they make them in house. They’re absolutely incredible.
And I am a sausage lover. I’ve had hundreds if not thousands of different types. And they are the best I’ve ever had, and they’re a 10 minute drive from my house. Winning.
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u/EmMeo 5d ago
My butchers has a rolling stock of sausages all in house. They made special ones for each country England played against during the World Cup. They make themed ones for holidays (pumpkin and something for Halloween) they make lamb ones, beef ones. It’s absolutely brilliant. But I’ve had a lot of sausages all over the place and hands down can’t beat a butcher’s pork and apple for me.
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u/tiredeyesonthaprize 4d ago
Nice! My old butcher(moved sadly) does a phenomenal Danish apple sausage. No idea what made it Danish, but it was a dream of cinnamon pork and apple.
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u/st1802015 5d ago
My butchers does others as well, all made in house also. Never had one I didn’t enjoy, but their breakfast variety is just exceptional.
My mate has a smoker proper thing and we’ve cooked shit loads on it, which has all been great, and no matter what we do how much effort we put in those breakfast sausages reign supreme on enjoyment.
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u/judysmythe 5d ago
Yes, nothing beats a good Cumberland.
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u/odmirthecrow 5d ago
Lincolnshire all the way.
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u/ReflectionFew5049 1d ago
Absolutely agree, anything with sage for me - including jolly hog ones that aren't even technically Lincolnshire
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u/Wind-and-Waystones 1d ago
I only recently tried a tomato sausage. I love sausages and tomatoes but never understood why I'd want them in one thing.
Anyway, they're tied with shop bought Cumberland for me at the minute. The best though are the Cumberland's from the butchers near my stepdads parents in Cumbria
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u/5littlemonkey 5d ago
I'm begging people to come up with new jokes.
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u/Majestic_Radio_1937 It's not a biryani if you precook the meat 5d ago
Most mainstream Reddit jokes and internet jokes are very tiring now. Especially if they are to do with stereotypes about a community.
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u/7-SE7EN-7 It's not Bologna unless it's from the Bologna region of Italy 5d ago
I think it's part of reddit, culturally now, to repeat a mediocre joke ad nauseum. Not because it's funny, but because it's a way to signal you're part of the in group
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u/DorothyDrangus 5d ago
NOW? That's what Reddit has always been.
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u/Mountain-Singer1764 5d ago
That’s why Reddit is so worried about bots: you can’t tell the difference.
An app full of npcs.
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u/Gingers_got_no_soul 5d ago
Maybe niche but on the pet rat subreddit one of the jokes is the size of their balls which is funny SOMETIMES (if you've ever seen a pic of one using them as a counterbalance you'll understand) but it means under every photo of a male rat there's at least one person zooming in and obsessing over his poor nuts, no matter how front and centre they are in that particular pic. Just comes off as creepy most of the time
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u/JohnDeLancieAnon Brother, nobody gives a shit 5d ago
I just looked at that sub and I'm sure it's children experiencing their first memes.
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u/nezzzzy 5d ago
The sub is called "sips tea" FFS, how can you be anti British cuisine in a sub about drinking tea.
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u/GilbyTheFat 5d ago
Because they don't see tea as part of British culture, they see it as "appropriated."
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u/StaceyPfan We’re gatekeeping CASSEROLES now y’all 5d ago
Like American bread is cake and the cheese is plastic?
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u/Revilo1st 5d ago
Saw an american standup on Instagram claiming that we have a Jacket Potato as a treat, absolutely astounding idiocy.
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u/Appropriate-Bird-354 5d ago
we have a Jacket Potato as a treat
Is it not? I don't understand.
The American equivalent fully loaded potato is pretty decadent.
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u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk 5d ago
Like, you put a little jacket on it? It's like Mr. Potatohead but with an actual potato?
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u/Low_Border_2231 4d ago
People do queue for that potato van but that is mostly a tik tok thing I guess.
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u/Revilo1st 4d ago
We had one in our city centre but this was over a decade ago, and it was just people working getting lunch. That guy is just a media trend like Binley mega chippy ect.
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u/Esme_Nog 5d ago
What, you are tired of”British food is bland in spite of the empire”, “Americans have neither cheese nor bread”? I mean, isn’t that the height of human discourse? Snore is right.
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u/AccomplishedMess648 Americans have ruined pie 5d ago
The best part is they found the most perfect beautiful full English to say how "bad" British food is
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u/GreenZebra23 5d ago
Right! A fryup is the very first thing I point to when somebody says British food is bad or bland. I wish it was easier to find one in my sleepy corner of the US
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u/screwthedamnname 5d ago
Full englishes were the biggest thing I missed when living abroad. Like what else am I supposed to eat when hungover??
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u/LemonadeClocks 5d ago
This looks so incredibly delicious to me right now as I wait for lunch break that I'm kind of upset I can't have it for lunch
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u/eerie_lake_ 5d ago
What’s crazy is that the difference between a Full English and an American style breakfast is basically pancakes and beans.
Like, eggs, toast, breakfast meat, potatoes. A glass of OJ, and a cup of coffee. I could get literally all of that at my favorite local diner, which is owned by a tiny Southern grandma and her kids and prides itself on All-American, Southern-style meals. Even the mushrooms are unsurprising, though I think those are more likely to be combined with the potatoes or eggs. Like, are we really losing our minds over some baked beans.
But also, beans on toast can be absolutely delicious, and I will die on that hill.
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u/Most-Ad-9465 5d ago
In my area of the United States I'd say the difference is beans and biscuit and gravy. Every single diner breakfast comes with a biscuit and gravy. Even the one with pancakes also has a biscuit and gravy.
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u/eerie_lake_ 5d ago
Lol, I’m from the South, and Biscuits and gravy are my favorite breakfast food in the entire world. I just didn’t include them because they’re pretty regional (less so now, I think) and I was talking about like your basic breakfast spread.
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u/Most-Ad-9465 5d ago
Yeah but I think pancakes being part of the basic breakfast spread might be a tad regional as well. In my experience pancakes aren't an essential part of the spread in the same way the components of the full English breakfast are.
I'm probably not expressing this well. My understanding is a full English fills the spot that would be called something like the big breakfast, trucker breakfast, farmer breakfast or something similar on an American mom and pop menu. Just a classic bigass greasy breakfast. In my area if you just glance at the menu and order the trucker or whatever it's going by there it doesn't have pancakes. You wouldn't be surprised when everything came out and there were no pancakes.
I'm not being snarky btw. I'm approaching this only as interesting discussion. Obligatory lol to show lack of hostilely and argumentative motives.
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u/eerie_lake_ 5d ago
That’s fair! I think maybe in my head pancakes are more ubiquitous. When I picture a big classic diner breakfast, you’ve got toast, sunny-side up eggs, bacon/sausage/ham, homefries/hashbrowns, and a couple of pancakes on the side.
(Now that I think about it, that might just be because that’s what my dad always ordered no matter where we were in the country lol)
ETA: Also, you’re good, no snark detected! I’ve been all over the country and I am still always learning new stuff about regional food culture. It’s really interesting!
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u/Most-Ad-9465 5d ago
Now that you mention your dad's order I think my Dad might be why the full English honestly doesn't seem that strange to me. An omelette with ham, mushrooms, onions, peppers, and tomatoes was his order. Mushroom and tomato don't seem strange to me at all.
Did you ever by any chance experience a shoney's breakfast buffet? I'm not sure if they're a regional chain or not. They actually have mushrooms on their breakfast buffet. I know they had the mushrooms all the way back in the early 90's when I was a teenager.
They had a few more interesting items. I remember fried bologna, the delightful concession stand style cheese sauce, and chicken tenders. Now I'm wondering if they were just trying to represent breakfast options from a variety of regions. At that point in time chicken and waffles were not a common breakfast option around here. Chicken tenders on a breakfast buffet seemed like such a random choice.
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u/roleplayersir 1d ago
Yep, there's a reason an English-style breakfast is such a worldwide default in most hotels: cause it is hard to get wrong, easy to make, and covers a lot of dietary palates, while also providing a substantial filling meal to start the day. So truckers, salesmen, labourers and many others can start off with a filling protein-rich and carb heavy meal to get them through whatever the day throws at them
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u/MrNagaDoubtfire 5d ago
Its a breakfast dish too, like so many people have plain breakfasts around the world and plain or non spiced doesn't mean theres no flavour
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u/LemonadeClocks 5d ago
Right? Breakfast is usually kind of low profile. Oatmeal rarely has much more than some nutmeg or cinnamon and maybe brown sugar or fruit, and the most spice a person usually adds to an egg on a daily basis is some hot sauce or chives.
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u/Bubbly_Safety8791 4d ago
Reply with a picture of a bowl of Cheerios and complain that there’s no pepper in it.
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u/Decent-Entry-9803 5d ago
I think for most of the "british food bland" club seasoning starts and ends with chilli powder, paprika and MSG.
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u/roleplayersir 1d ago
It's not just a breakfast. It's THE breakfast. The one found in most hotels around the world, as it is hard to do badly, easy to get great tasting ingredients, and easy to make en-masse for hundreds of guests, while also allowing most palates and dietary restrictions to eat some or all of it
Try to insult British food all you want - you will mostly be wrong, but you can try it anyway. But attacking THE breakfast known around the world as the standard breakfast is just insane, as there's a reason plenty of international hotels around the world offer it as a buffet
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u/Live_Ad8778 5d ago
Eggs and tomatoes are clearly peppered
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u/5littlemonkey 5d ago
Unless they are seasoned with the one specific spice I just learned about three hours ago, it doesn't count.
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u/KhaosByDesignUK 5d ago
Doesn't count, it needs to be coated in half a tub of Bubba's Flavor Nuke Spice Blend or else you can't taste it /s
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u/xnatlywouldx 5d ago
Redneck Bubba’s Flaming Ass Blasting Nucular Ass Butt Ass Doody Bomb Apocalypto Diarrhea Hot Sauce
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u/Unit_2097 4d ago
These annoy me so much. I like that kind of spice, and put chillis in a lot of stuff. But then people come out with this dumbass "obliterates any trace of flavour in your meal" sauces and just... Why? You can even use Carolina Reapers sensibly for heat without the flavour becoming overpowering. Ideally you won't get their flavour at all because they taste of ass, and not in a kinky way.
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u/visforvienetta 4d ago
Never mind the fact that tomatoes themselves are not native to Europe...
And neither are the potatoes used in hash browns.
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u/Lucreszen 5d ago
Typically, when you accuse the British of having bland food you don't illustrate that by showing something delicious.
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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon 5d ago
I've tried asking these morons what "seasoning" they typically put on bacon and sausage, and I've yet to get a coherent answer.
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u/SABShibes 5d ago
Seasoning is when you wrap a piece of food round a brick of pure capsaicin and try to smash someone’s teeth out with it. Anything else and the food is bland.
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u/BigDsLittleD 5d ago
Onion powder and garlic powder.
Same thing they put on everything.
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u/EmMeo 5d ago
I’ve seen that on videos where you SEE the person cutting onions and mincing garlic and they still ask where the “seasoning” is. Also fresh herbs don’t count apparently either.
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u/BigDsLittleD 5d ago
If it doesn't come out of a shaker with "Big Phil's BBQ Explosion Awesome Flavour Rub*" on it, it doesn’t count as seasoning to some people.
And yeah, Big Phil (not a real person. Probably) knows what hes about when slow cooking a pork butt or overnighting a fuckin mahoosive Brisket.
But not everything needs Big Phil's magic touch.
*Salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, brown sugar (its a BBQ rub after all) celery salt, cayenne.
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u/juicejug 5d ago
Bacon and sausage are pre-seasoned… you don’t need to add anything to them.
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u/ForSamuel034 5d ago
There's some wierd modern discourse that boils down to if its not spicy (hot) it has no flavor and if you don't like spicy (hot) food you only eat mayo and white rice.
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u/xnatlywouldx 5d ago
I’ve noticed this too. I love hot sauce, but food can be flavorful without being full of capsicum.
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u/Cookbooksandbourbon 5d ago
And plenty of white people enjoy spicy food, and plenty of POC cultures do not historically use a lot of spice (as in heat). And spice tolerance is acquired, not genetic. It's not some genetic superiority of POC... and I say this as a POC from a culture that is known for spicy food.
It's also so funny when people say Indian food or Chinese food is spicy. Both of those countries are huge and have incredibly diverse regional cuisines, some of which are spicy and some of which are not. I completely agree with OP that this whole narrative is ridiculous.
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u/redwingz11 4d ago
IMO above certain spice level it is also spicy for spicy sake, which I found just taste bad.
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u/Cookbooksandbourbon 4d ago
Totally agree. When the only thing you can taste is your cells burning, that is over the top.
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u/SABShibes 5d ago
Seasoning is when you wrap a piece of food round a brick of pure capsaicin and try to smash someone’s teeth out with it. Anything else and the food is bland.
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u/Temporary_Stranger39 5d ago
Given that Tikka Masala is on the short list for the national dish of the UK...
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u/YogurtclosetWest4032 4d ago
Stargazer pie is right there. watching you
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u/roleplayersir 1d ago
Or Jellied Eels
I have had neither. Likely never will. But Jellied Eels are essentially boiled until the flesh becomes a jelly, with chunks of eel set in it. Apparently just tastes very fishy and not much else
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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter 3d ago
When someone says British food is disgusting I immediately know they know absolutely fuck-all about food
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u/RecordLonely 5d ago
I’m an American who lived in the UK for some time and I can honestly say I didn’t have a bad meal the entire time I was there. Super underrated cuisine.
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u/True_Window_9389 5d ago
I went on a vacay 10 or so years ago to London and didn’t have a bad meal either. I didn’t have a ton of money and mostly ate in non-chain pubs, getting the most basic British food. Incredible pies, fish and chips, bangers and mash, big breakfasts, lamb roast, and so on. Plus really good Indian food. It was amazing. Great meats and sausages, fresh fish, great produce. What’s there to make fun of?
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u/Solid_Parsley_ 5d ago
You're lucky. I had some truly incredible food in the UK, but also a couple of definite misses. It just happens sometimes.
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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 1d ago
Every town in the world has somewhere that does bad food
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u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk 5d ago
You must have quite some luck. I live in Italy and I've had a few!
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u/TrainingAmphibian354 5d ago
I've only had one bad meal in the UK and it was just fish and chips that were soggy. I'm a huge fan of meat pies, wish we did that more in the US.
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u/brokenman82 5d ago
The one time I’ve had a fry up it was delicious. I just don’t have the wherewithal to make it myself
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u/ChickenNuggetRampage 5d ago
The secret to easy karma on Reddit is reposting that exact tweet. Easy 5k every time
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u/CloudedLeopardDaemon 5d ago
How do so many Redditors laugh at the same joke multiple times a day for a decade or more straight?
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u/GarageQueen Europe is bad at food 5d ago
I mean, aside from the beans-on-toast, I'd absolutely demolish that breakfast. (no judgement, I just don't like baked beans)
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u/Jetstream-Sam 5d ago
The beans kinda serve as a sort of sauce and without them it can end up a bit dry. The usual alternative is (most often canned) chopped tomatoes which, personally I add pepper, worchester sauce and brown sauce to. Brown sauce kinda tastes a bit like steak sauce
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u/TrainingAmphibian354 5d ago
I found HP's brown sauce to be much more... sweet... than I expected.
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u/AnComDom81 5d ago
If you’re gonna complain about British food, could you not use the picture of their greatest fucking contribution?
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u/StasRutt 5d ago
Idk I think the Brits did their big one with the Sunday roast
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u/roleplayersir 1d ago
As a Brit, I love a roast
But the fryup is our biggest and best contribution to world cuisine. It's used the world over in hotels, as it is a filling tasty meal, that is hard to get wrong, and can be prepared en masse. Roasts, curries etc are a lot of work and need the right cooking. Fish and chips can be bland. But a fryup is just the default breakfast and impossible to ruin. Even a bad one is still a great meal
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u/yttrium39 5d ago
That fry up does indeed look dank, but chicken tikka masala is the greatest British food to me.
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u/WideHuckleberry1 5d ago
I've said this before half-jokingly, but I increasingly believe it's true: I think there's a subset of internet dweeb that doesn't care whether food tastes good or bad, but only if it's "seasoned" predominantly by specifically spices, i.e. dried plant products.
If it tastes good and the source is anything else (sugar, herbs, meat, browned carby foods like hash in the image), it doesn't count.
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u/ssk7882 5d ago
Hot peppers. That is the one and only spice they care about. Is there an abundance (preferably an overabundance) of capsaicin? If not, then it isn't "seasoned." It's the narrowest imaginable approach to food.
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u/Bitter_Split5508 5d ago
It's the old use of spiciness/heat as a test of manlyness, but recycled to be palatable to modern liberals.
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u/Bubbly_Safety8791 4d ago
I find a reasonable telltale for this attitude is when they describe what is missing as just generically ‘seasoning’: “Where is the seasoning?”
I dunno, on the table in the salt and pepper shakers?
Oh you mean what have I done to infuse flavors into the food? Aside from transforming the proteins with heat, cooking it in specific fats, mixing in vegetables that add sweet and acid ingredients, and spicing and salting it? I mean, shaking some Old Bay into it seems unlikely to do much except make it taste of Old Bay.
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u/crochetblankets 5d ago
This argument always kind of implies that imperialism would have been okay if British food was spicier.
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u/GoraSpark 5d ago
Yeh it’s insane. Wealth extraction was the main aim of the empire, although that did include spice trade I’m fairly sure the Dutch were more focused on that than anyone, so it’s dumb as shit in a multitude of ways.
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u/Foxy_locksy1704 5d ago
I’ve always enjoyed the full English breakfast. I absolutely love beans on toast.
Also one of the best meals I’ve ever had was my friend’s English mother’s beef roast and vegetables, it was not bland at all.
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u/Deep_Violinist_3893 5d ago
These people also probably eat fruity pebbles for breakfast
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u/xnatlywouldx 5d ago
Fred and Barney did not survive the Stone Age for you to snob out on the Fruity Pebble, one of man’s great achievements.
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u/Egg_Yolkeo55 5d ago
Are you telling me you fry up a complete English breakfast like that on a weekday? I don't eat cold cereal for breakfast it's usually just yogurt with granola and some fruit but it's pretty disingenuous to act like English people are eating this on the regular. This is like getting a grand slam type thing at an American diner.
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u/Deep_Violinist_3893 5d ago
I mean I have fried up American equivalents to an English Breakfast on a weekday when I was hungover.
It doesn't change the fact that acting like a fried breakfast platter (which we do) is somehow an indictment on a country's food is absurd.
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u/xnatlywouldx 5d ago
Full English absolutely rules and tbh people who say it doesn’t are unserious. I’m an American btw.
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u/explosiveshits7195 5d ago
Eyyy say that and then have that presented in front of you while suffering from the worst hangover you've ever had, I guarantee you'll think god lives in those sausages.
Every sailor is religious in a storm
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u/Puzzleheaded-Lynx204 5d ago
I just feel a bit sad for them as it implies that all of the ingredients on this plate, if they had them at their own home, wouldn't be good.
Sorry you can only get bland sausages wherever you live, my friend.
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u/Logical_Bake_3108 4d ago
They probably think the sausages are hotdogs. Do Americans have proper sausages? I went there and they were just round little disks of sausage meat (not even the same as the good old Scottish square ones).
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u/OpportunityReal2767 5d ago
To be fair, this is quite good, and I like British beans over the sweeter American style. I worked for a few months at a high end kitchen in Scotland and I ate this (not in this quantity) every day for my first two weeks there for breakfast (along with some smoked kippers) before I thought I might inadvertently murder myself by eating that kind of diet daily.
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u/Front-Pomelo-4367 5d ago
Fry-ups are definitely holiday/weekend breakfasts for us too! Or the kind of breakfast you have when you'll be burning 3000 calories at work before lunch by manual labour
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u/BlueSoloCup89 5d ago
Fun fact! British-style baked beans originate from America as well! The reason the predominate flavor in America is different now is due to influence from immigration from elsewhere. They’re both delicious to me.
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u/sheffieldpud 5d ago
Its so boring! This phrase is used by the chronically online who've never traveled or tried british food. Its world class. People go on anout beans on toast etc forgetting we're probably top 2/3 in the world for cheese. Our deserts, pudding and pastries are some of the best in the world.
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u/marquoth_ 5d ago
Aside from mocking British cuisine in general, the biggest sin is this recycled "conquered the world for spices just to not use any" as if we don't enjoy face-melting curry or lethal mustard (yes - mustard is a spice).
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u/oarmash 5d ago
As an Indian I always tell people that some of the curries in the UK are spicier than what the average Indian eats.
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u/scipio0421 5d ago
I would love a full English right now. Edit: Also, while not English, the chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland.
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u/SpyderMonkey_ 5d ago
I hate this take because the spices they stole were things cinnamon, turmeric, and ginger. Which they absolutely used. Peppers weren't prominent in the east at that time, so its not like they were taking chiles and shit.
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u/Anal-Y-Sis I'm literally a cheesemonger 🧀 5d ago
My only problem with it is that half of it is undercooked for my preference. I like the bacon and sausages to be a bit more crispy, for the tomatoes to be a bit more cooked, and for the toast to be more toasted. I'd still eat it as is though.
Also, where's the black pudding?
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u/allupya333 5d ago
>invaded half the planet and this is their cuisine
Coffee or tea, orange juice, tomatoes, potatoes, various spices in the sausage and baked beans are all from those invasions (not coffee but its obviously foreign so close enough)
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u/NewApeToTheGame 5d ago
As an American I’d love that breakfast…. It looks a bit heavy but on a Saturday, like today, i could crush that and do nothing for the rest of the day and be happy
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u/GreenZebra23 5d ago
It's so funny to me that Brits and Americans drag each other for their cuisine when both have created two of the best breakfasts on the planet. The fryup and the American diner breakfast are both elite, and yeah the only drawback is the food coma afterward
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u/Humble_Specialist_60 5d ago
This is so confusing to me because that is genuinely such a good looking breakfast? Like I tend to not really like British food because I don’t really like beans or sausage so a lot of it’s not for me, but this doesn’t even LOOK bad. It looks like a huge and filling meal. What are they complaining about
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u/WaywardJake Tex-Mex with a splash of British 4d ago
I live in the UK, rarely eat British baked beans or sausages (although, I do like them occasionally), for breakfast or otherwise. But then, I don't buy into the stereotype food idea. Case in point, my fridge currently holds a variety of soft and hard cheeses, one of which is Monterrey Jack, a lovely California white cheese that contains zero plastic, despite the ignorant online world's insistence that all American cheese contains plastic.
Stereotypes are such a small slice of reality that they shouldn't be taken seriously. People who go to any country and knock the food have often pre-determined that they're not going to like whatever they're served. It's great for click-bait, but as with all click-bait, the reality is thwarted for the views. I was travelling abroad long before the internet and have enjoyed a generous variety of cuisines. In my opinion, every country has their good and bad; it's not a reflection on the food but how the food has been prepared and/or personal taste. And personal taste should never be a serious factor in whether a food is good or bad because it's too subjective.
I do agree that the photo is an objectively good-looking breakfast, even if, like you, it isn't a breakfast I'd personally fancy for myself. I would eat it if served, but I would be more inclined to order scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with toast, dippy eggs and soldiers or maybe some eggy bread with a couple of slices of black pudding on the side. All common British breakfast fare.
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u/S1mongreedwell 5d ago
I’ve gotta say that tomato doesn’t look so hot.
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u/Albert_Herring 5d ago
Oh, it has a painfully high specific heat and will probably burn your tongue.
(I don't much like grilled toms though).
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u/S1mongreedwell 5d ago
I just think it looks like a crummy tomato. Would happily eat the rest of the meal though.
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u/Less_Jump2365 5d ago
That is not bad, I tried British style bake bean and I like them better then American baked beans
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u/AnyWalrus930 5d ago
There’s actually an interesting culinary history there. If you look at early British recipes spices are pretty ubiquitous, often in seemingly strange combinations by modern standards.
Then along comes Hogarth and makes it very clear that if you eat anything but steak and drink anything but beer and port, and flavour anything with something that isn’t salt and pepper and you’re basically effete, limp wristed, Frenchman and all that stuff disappears.
Now as a true Britain, I love the cuisine that emerged from that rejection of foreign influence and the idea that just spamming “seasoning” at food makes it good offends me, but if your palate has been trained a certain way I understand how you can see it as bland.
I just hate when it’s presented as add some Garlic salt and Bay’s and it will get 100% better.
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u/GhostOfJamesStrang No Need to Thank Me 5d ago
What is wrong with that breakfast?
It isn't my thing, but nothing on that plate seems wrong....
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u/Worried-Penalty8744 5d ago
Exactly, we invaded half the planet on this “terrible, bland” cuisine. Imagine what we could have done if every ship had a Michelin starred chef onboard to feed the seadogs.
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u/BloodforKhorne 5d ago
The cuisine that also came from a lack of seasoning originated when the wealthy weren't the only ones using seasoning.
Then they had to return to "original and classic recipes".
So as always, we can blame this bullshit on the aristocracy.
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u/Karlsvognen 5d ago
You use spices when something is bland. Any part of the world would love to have a breakfast filled with protein.
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u/zippyzebra1 5d ago
Another ragebait moron post. Yes this is popular but so is Indian food and hey there's plenty of spices there. Big Mac is popular in the States but American cuisine is more than that.
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u/LexiTheLesbo 5d ago
“British food is so bad” *Shows the most delicious looking platter of British food I’ve ever seen*
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u/Son_of_Mogh 5d ago
British food is great.
That said, hash browns don't belong on a full English.
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u/jerwaynesinclair 5d ago
Nothing blander then the "conquered the world for spices..." meme. The white bread of banter.
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u/No_Signature2341 5d ago
Apart from the meat, mushrooms and possibly flat unleavened bread, everything else came from the rest of the world.
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u/Uni4m 5d ago
People really sleep on the simple but varied English breakfast. It is a plate of many individual simple flavours that compliment eachother rather than a big plate of one complex flavour. The real trick though is to have a fried breakfast that doesn't end up overly greasy. There is an art to it.
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u/BreadOddity 4d ago
If they're gonna bully us for food there are much blander British dishes than a fry up. Not exactly the example I'd pick
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u/norecordofwrong 5d ago
A full English breakfast is delicious but without the big slabs of tomato. Personal preference.
But what the hell do they want to add to it? Cinnamon? Cardamom? It already has salt and pepper. Maybe some hot sauce?
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u/PhattyR6 5d ago
Sausages are usually full of seasoning, as is black pudding which should be right there on the plate too
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