For a national cusine that is a simple, warming and filling comfort food it gets an undeserved meme reputation for being bland at best and disgusting at worst. I blame Americans chiefly for this, ever since they came over to Britain in WW2 they took their misconceptions about British food from ration era back with them and consistently portray it as eel pie and brain pudding. Roasted meat is delicious and is staple of the traditional English dinner, after all the American tradition of Thanks Giving dinner is an typical English roast just improvising with the local american bipedal land poultry.
From personal experience I agree with your post, but damn just ban everything along the lines of boiled meat. I admit I was asking for it by trying something that suspicious, but damn it was an edible cliché.
Sebastian Ortiz
Asian here, used to eating a variety of cuisines that use spices with great complexity and sophistication. I've always found English food to be unbelievably comfy. Maybe it's some sort of reverse exoticism.
Juan Hernandez
British food usually require using an oven. For economical reasons (ovens, gas, electricity, time), not many restaurants put British meals in their menus. In some parts of the world, oven cooking is rare, or they only do things like baking cakes or cookies.
Liam Hall
As a brit, thanks for this post. There's a ton of great produce and cooking in this country. I think most chefs recognise that and it's mainly the internet that spreadsheet the negative reputation.
Having said that I think cooking skills, appreciation of good food and just the general culture of food here needs developing. Things are improving and there's definitely a rich/poor divide that makes it worse.
James Lee
Your stupid roast isn't something typically English. Literally every Euro country has its own version and it's nothing but regular standard food, we don't have to get excited over it because the rest of our cuisine isn't inedible slop.
Andrew Collins
>There's a ton of great produce and cooking in this country. When it's not rationed you mean?
Ian Williams
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Cameron White
No developed country relies entirely on its own domestic food supply chain. Do you expect Britain to grow all its own bananas?
Thomas Cook
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Jaxson Wilson
I have never seen empty shelves with signs about rationing in Germany, France, Austria, Italy or Poland.
Jason Barnes
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Parker Campbell
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Carson Green
As a German I'd say it can happen in small stores, sometimes I'd actually prefer that over the ridiculous food waste practiced here
John Edwards
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Hunter Gonzalez
German food can be alright too, it's simple food usually, with french and eastern european influences among others
Gabriel White
German food is vastly superior to English "food".
t. Deutscher
Gavin Williams
I really wish that people knew more about polish cuisine than just the fact that we have pierogi and bigos. Our game dishes are excellent and very traditional
Liam Wilson
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Hunter James
As a German I will say that Polish cuisine is really good.
Matthew Taylor
That looks absolutely delicious. What is the dish called?
Jacob Torres
seconded
Ryan Johnson
are those... deep fried ears?
Angel Gomez
thanks hansbro we share many things in our cuisines like the love for grilled sausages and sauerkraut. that's a goulash but made with game meat. In dishes like those besides the usual stuff you use juniper berries, allspice berries, cinnamon lots of wine, honey, or homemade marmolade. Game meat is actually a bit sweet so it goes good with those kinds of things. Here's a smoked boar leg that my father did for a wedding, with some homemade tinctures.
Ryan Brown
No, pig snouts
Luis Mitchell
>British/English food, >gets an undeserved meme reputation for being bland at best and disgusting at worst. Sorry, it's deserved. It isn't an underrated kind of thing. I get it that Brits don't want this reputation. I get it that there are some (*cough* Michelin starred chefs). I get it that no one wants this reputation to continue if they look around and find some good examples of recipes. People with money and means and who were foodies of high acclaim, and who traveled during the jet age, HATED THE FOOD in all of the British Isles. It's not just that there was rationing. It's not just that there was postwar poverty. It's that the majority of food offered was utterly the worst in comparison to other places of travel. Maybe education came along and people started to prefer and not just understand two vegetables per plate, no double starches, a pre-dinner salad, less fat,gorgeous produce, but you're not going to make revisionist history here acting like desserts aside, that they didn't once have horrible restaurant food the whole country over. One only has to look at a historical menu on a british ship or the offerings of the finest hotels and restaurants during earlier times to gag and be offended. Read travel articles.
>Roasted meat is delicious and is staple of the traditional English dinner, after all the American tradition of Thanks Giving dinner is an typical English roast just improvising with the local american bipedal land poultry. You might enjoy a website called food timeline. foodtimeline.org/ I'm posting it for you because you're making up history again through your own version of logic and grand sweeping statement. Why not know historical facts instead?
Chase Anderson
oh lord I see it now
Logan Bennett
>Why not know historical facts instead? Because they're British and think they invented the Lasagna lol
Ich mag die Bayern auch nicht, aber wenn's ums Essen geht, wissen sie wies geht.
gezeichnet, Hesse
Noah Perez
it's not like most of europe has rations at the time and most of it was even poorer that britain
Nolan Brown
Time to stop lying Nigel
Adam Thompson
their food is alright, yeah.
Asher Lewis
I've never seen it happen in my country before.
Kevin Roberts
Although not a national cuisine in its own right, I want to stick up for Southern/Soul Food. It's not all fried brown things with a side of empty carbs (mashed potatoes/macaroni & cheese) and gravy.
We have a variety of produce like turnips and collard greens with cornbread, black eye peas, okra and tomato stew (yes we eat okra that hasn't been battered and fried, sometimes whole and uncut too), squash and onions, butter beans, corn grits before it was called rediscovered as polenta and made cool, etc.
Grayson Ramirez
Europe is pretty split in that regard, isn't it. I wonder how fucked the south really is sometimes
Levi Martinez
Germany here, it used to happen alot with dried milk because the Chinese often import food from here. It only really causes a problem with dried milk from time to time tho.
I wouldn't even know where to buy dried milk here. At Edeka or Rewe? Aldi? Never seen it there....
Owen Campbell
Wanna hear a contradiction in terms? German fine dining.
Nathaniel Long
Oh Nigel
John Ross
>Wanna hear a contradiction in terms? English food
Parker Cook
he is right. German cuisine is simple and that is fine but haute cuisine it isn't. t. german
Wyatt Ward
Mämmi is pretty great but good luck trying to get you southern pansies to try it.
Zachary Gomez
There's nothing better than a good Pierogi. Really reminds me of my childhood.
Fuck I want some now
Luis Rodriguez
Britain industrialized first, which people became separated from the normal type of food they had been cooking and eating. It also had more of a puritan way of thinking, where extravagant eating was seen as decadent. But mostly, Britain always looked to France for this kind of culture, instead of developing its own. English kings had French chefs. British food has also suffered because it relies on quality ingredients cooked simply, but with factory farming and market incentives to use the lowest passable grade of food, it's more difficult.
Also even if you accept that British savoury food isn't that great, you definitely can't say that about the baked goods like cakes and sweets.
