Why are beans on toast the poster food when it comes to mocking british cuisine?
I mean I get that the Brits eat a lot of weird shit, but there is plenty of tasty food, too.
I got a can of baked beans on a whim and didn't know what to do with them. Didn't feel like cooking tonight, so
>lel, let's try it
I stand corrected, bretty gud.
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they seem to be the current one because toast sandwiches and jellied eels were getting old.
Because it's convenient, cheap sustenance that doesn't require any actual cooking skills. And while it is actually pretty tasty it's the kind of depressing meal a uni student or lonely bachelor would whip up. There's a grimness to it that people frequently associate with British cuisine.
American sugar baked beans barely resemble heinz tomato baked beans, so there is a misconception about how this meal tastes.
It's also pretty drab and one dimensional without lots of doctoring.
It doesn't seem like it'd be amazing but it's probably miles ahead of eel pie and toast sandwiches.
I think you could roughly equate the beans on toast dish to an American grilled cheese sandwich, it's a plain piece of junkfood that's cheap and has some broad appeal.
>It's also pretty drab and one dimensional without lots of doctoring.
So is a grilled cheese, I want at least a slice of ham and some mustard in there.
The American grilled cheese evokes childhood nostalgia for many. It's something your mother might have made for you, whereas beans on toast is what you make when you're out on your on and don't have mommy to cook for you.
>It's something your mother might have made for you
In that sense, I feel Mac & Cheese is a better dish, because it can very easily be improved by the addition of lots of fresh ground pepper (and maybe some fried ham/bacon, if you want to get it fancy).
Them roomies aren't eating any of that chipotle sourdough, I'm fixin to toast, i'm fixing to heat beans, oh it's comin.
I have some super multigrain whet bread, but I expect the sourdough to go better with beans.
Beans on toast is lame. Over easy eggs on top of beans with toast on the side is far superior. Even just beans with toast on the side is superior.
that's entirely tied to your own experience. i have never made myself beans on toast, only my mum or the fat ladies who ran aftercare did it for me
I can cook just fine, and I actually have the kitchen full of better food. I just tried it on a whim, like I said, expected nothing and it was fine.
Not unlike perlmeni just with sour cream or a plate of scrambled eggs, simple but tasty. Not amazing, but tasty.
A fried egg along with them sounds really good though.
How about sausage?
I bought the wrong kind of beans. What the fuck can I do with these?
Dude, I'm no fatty, but I would still have a hard time finding something sausage doesn't go well with...
Beans on toast with cheese and black pepper is a top quality breakfast
>or a plate of scrambled eggs
A big plate of scrambled eggs with cheese can be pretty damn satisfying on a cold weekend morning, where you have ample time to make yourself a hot meal for breakfast.
This is exactly how you have beans on toast, the stronger the cheddar the better. I don't have it often because it's carb city, but it's fucking delicious and cheap.
Do British people really eat this?
Yup, mix 55% yoghurt, 40% tomato ketchup and 5% mint sauce for an excellent pakora dipping sauce.
That was pretty much the point.
no
Yes, that looks like a kind of shit one, but yes, it's delicious with lamb.
Put them on toast.
it's basically the british grilled cheese
both are fine low tier food but beans on toast is more nutritious
Who cares. American opinions are worthless.
make a disgusting burrito
it's even better if you melt some cheddah on there.
because it isn't?
combine with cheese and a tortilla and some hot sauce for a shitty burrito
fry ground beef w/ onion, garlic, and jalaps
mix in refried beans
top with cheese
scoop with tortiller chips.
at this point i'm convinced that OBSESSED posters are actually American trolls
they're a mix.
i definitely grew up making those kinds of chauvinistic comments about americans. i went to a fancy private school and all my friends' parents thought americans were buffoons
but obviously you also have burgers just stirring the shit
frankly i never truly understood the muricans r dumb meme, beyond perhaps a poor understanding of foreign cultures and geography which, given the size of the US, shouldn't seem like such a grave offence
I dated a French girl who felt the same way as you did but as soon as she got here she realized we have things like NPR and liberals and it totally changed her mind
Non-english must keep in mind that English baked beans are not very similar to yank baked beans...our are less sweet and more tomato based.
>toast
>butter
>baked beans (cooked long enough so the sauce is reduced)
>extra mature cheddar cheese
Tastes good, cheap, nutritious...
740kcal, 44g protein, 21g fibre, ~£.1.25
>your political leanings determine intelligence
Top fucking wew lad. Did you bang?
it didn't help that there was a lot of american and canadian made media about how dumb americans are coming out around that time. idiocracy, bowling for columbine and shit. there is this narrative of excess and superficiality that was only reinforced by the big differences between contemporary bong and burger media, especially tv.
there are also behavioural differences between us which i think alienate us from each other. like you're well-known for being friendly, but i generally have found that to feel quite affected, and i have had a lot of awkward interactions with americans especially in big cities. more hostility than i might have been expecting.
also when you hear 'oh you're from london? fascinating! i've been to paris' for the 20th time your benefit of the doubt powers do tend to wane.
If you're gonna have sausage with your eggs/beans/toast, you might as well go the whole way and have a full english breakfast.
Oh man, you're going to cum in your pants when you have one of these motherfuckers
>not having beans on toast with mushrooms topped with nutritional yeast
may aswell mass suicide lads
cheese/meat is degenerate
of course we banged
and while political leanings don't determine intelligence they do relate to educational levels so it's perfectly acceptable to bring that up as she was someone who thought we were all knuckle dragging retards from rural alabama who couldn't spell "strawberry" if their lives depended on it. The stereotype abroad for Americans is that we are right wingers and it is true that our political leanings are more right wing in comparison but we also have things like socialists and progressives. Obama would be right of center in Europe, he's practically a commie over here
Because farting out old stereotypes is one of the few things people can do on the internet.
It's like saying americans are all 500lb lardasses in motorized trolleys shopping at SHART IN MARTS when they rock the olympics and aren't even the fattest nation
It's like saying british has bad teeth when statistically they have some of the best teeth in terms of cavities per person
or french being pussies in ww2 etc.
It's just a tired memetic, reinforced by shitposting mongoloids on the internet.
people in big cities are assholes anywhere, why do you think japs all freak out when they visit paris and realize it's a dirty, minority infested shithole and not at all like the animes that depict it as some sort of dream world
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And I totally get being annoyed that we treat europe as essentially all the same shit but fucking Kansas is larger than your whole country
Remember Heinz beans pizza?
t. Couldn't find either Kansas or France on a blank world map, just like 80% of ameritards.
from london? fascinating! i've been to paris' for the 20th time your benefit of the doubt powers do tend to wane.
Yes theyre very different. But theyre also really close to each other from a none european perspective.
i've eaten home made veggie bean chili and home made toast every night for years. I'm addicted.
Why don't you homemade kill yourself?
jokes on you faggot, i won the geography bee
Where, in Cletusville, MS, population 1038 and dropping?
>open can of beans
>add tobasco, sriracha, chilli flakes, ground pepper
Spicy beans are best beans
Highland Park, IL
It was doubly hard because I had to beat a bunch of Jews
>but there is plenty of tasty food, too.
There really isn't, at least not "plenty".
It tends to be nutritious, for the most part, but drab, bland and easy to prepare.
my mum made me beans and toast all the time
Maybe its not a childhood thing in america but it definitely is here
beans+butter+grated cheese+black pepper
prove me wrong
I like beans. Beans are great when you're hungry and you want to eat 200 of something.
yeah i say this to myself, but i think the fact that we're entirely different and very prominent nations should ideally count for something, right?
mostly i just find it amusing because it delineates another old rivalry, between england and france.
Bean spread on toast is good
>both are fine low tier food but beans on toast is more nutritious
I can imagine.
>and i have had a lot of awkward interactions with americans especially in big cities. more hostility than i might have been expecting
That's the thing, you're more likely to find the shittiest Americans in the big cities, and some of the shittier cultures.
There's this segment of New York culture which basically revolves around just being kind of a rude asshole just because. I talked to a Texan guy who felt kind of hurt on his visit there, I'd greet people in a friendly manner, hold the door for people, take off his hat, etc. He wanted to be friendly and courteous like he usually was but lots of people just looked at him like he was a fucking freak.
>they do relate to educational levels
To a point, I mean, only a complete mouth breather who slept through history class would be a communist in this day and age.
>The stereotype abroad for Americans is that we are right wingers and it is true that our political leanings are more right wing in comparison
If anything I think it's because America is one of the few places where the constitution has real life legal weight, where you can actually take your government to court for violating them (and have a chance of winning). Lots of places have a constitution of sorts but it's rarely more than symbolical outside of MAYBE free speech, for instance, no other country in the western world has something like the Second Amendment.
Many left leanings have a much more collectivist approach to rights.
>Obama would be right of center in Europe
I'd argue that's because Euro politics are really warped.
Also he really wasn't very functionally different from Bush
>or french being pussies in ww2 etc
That one never ceases to amaze, they just kind of fucked up and didn't properly ready themselves (the Maginot line was kind of a halfbaked idea), but even under Nazi occupation they royally stomped Fascist Italy's colon and conquered some land from them even. They were never really cowardly.
True, most really big metropolitan cities have shit culture.
I would never call the French cowardly, but nobody can deny their snooty arrogance.
This is the one I always hear about in relation to beans on toast, and it'd be sensible because it'd taste better and make it more filling.
I don't get the hate for beans on toast.
Three pieces of toast with salted butter and canned beans is amazing. Such a satisfying meal, especially with milk.
>Why are beans on toast the poster food when it comes to mocking british cuisine?
Because the even more retarded chip butty, AKA french fry and butter sandwich, is still largely unknown outside the inbred isles.
Gonna be honest, if I was gonna pick between a sandwich with fries on it, and a sandwich with baked beans on it, I would go for the beans every time, it would be more nutritious, filling and satisfying I would bet.
This is so nasty. Do British people really eat this?
It just seems so dumb, only a step above the toast sandwich.
I made a full English fry up for breakfast on Christmas morning. So good, but so fucking greasy. I shit five times that day, it just slid right out of me.
This is why American opinions are worthless.
>unironically defending the chip butte
I guess I found the lamb sauce.
I has considered it, but they don't seem to work like normal baked beans. I think it would just slide off the toast. I could try it using a knife and fork or something.
I've never eaten a burrito in my life, I wouldn't know where to begin.
So to make a burrito, I put stuff into a tortilla wrap? One of those big soft flat bread things? Or is it the hard shell thing?
This looks like a winner. Presumably there would be nothing to stop me from using this as a filling in a burrito, in addition to using doritos as a scooping mechanism? i.e. it wouldn't look out of place to have such things inside a burrito?
Do Americans actually think chip sandwiches are bad?
They probably tried it using those shitty thin american 'fries', and decided it wasn't very good. I'm not sure if those cunts even have normal chips.
>soft bread
>crunchy chips
>sweet/spicy sauce
Chip sandwiches are GOAT. Billions of bonus points if you use HP sauce rather than tomato sauce.
Baked beans are even worse than refried when it comes to sliding off toast. Baked beans on toast are messy meal you just gotta accept
As a Brit i can accept that our food is bad, but whilst the Italians, french and spanish were cooking the brits were busy inventing in no peticular order:
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LIGHT BULB
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
CARBON FIBRE
STEAM ENGINE
WORLDWIDE WEB
HYPODERMIC SYRINGE
REFLECTING TELESCOPE
TELEPHONE
STEAM TURBINE
TELEVISION
RAILWAY
MILITARY TANK
TOOTHBRUSH (really)
MODERN TORPEDO
JET ENGINE
CEMENT
STAINLESS STEEL
ELECTRIC MOTOR
PHOTOGRAPHY
HYDRAULIC PRESS
SEWAGE SYSTEM
ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER
ATM
ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANER
DISC BRAKES
DECODING THE GENOME
THE SWINGING SIXTIES
MEGA ROCK BANDS
SKA
PUNK
DRUM AND BASS
GRIME
DUBSTEP
AN EMPIRE WHICH STILL THE SUN NEVER SETS ON
Britfag here, I thought ancient Egyptians invented the toothbrush?
>sewage system
Pretty sure the Greeks and Romans did those before you did m80
How do you invent a language?
That still seems like a lot.
eel & (suet) pie is a TYPE of meal... eel pie isn't really a thing, at least not traditionally.
O B E S E D
Back the fuck up there chappie...brits had absolutely nothing to do with www...
That was Al Gore...
you tell me, we are conversing in it at the moment.
I'll just get it out of the way....
I try again. How do you INVENT it?
open trenches V Isambard Kingdom Brunel sewer system.
Right ohh.
Some places in ancient Greece had toilets which were all connected to a tunnel with a water current, the water current carrying off any waste, does that count as a sewer or just a flushing toilet of sorts?
You don't invent it but the fact that you picked on that instead of the others just proves your 3rd world scum and your creed has done nothing to advance the Human race.
OK provide a source for this information.
I picked it because it was on top and didn't make any sense.
I know you can construct/invent a language, like esparanto whatever.
I just wasn't aware that the english language was of such construction.
What language are you using? is it your native tongue?
Are you serious? Americans have always been the laughing stock of the civilized world, Obama just veiled it for a while because he was black and the media loved him.
You should have seen this website in the Bush era, no mercy.
I use multiple languages. English isn't my native language.
It's not, however I suppose such a unique variation/evolution could be considered a creation.
Basically the Brits invented the template for modern industrialized capitalism, which the Americans ran with after WWII. A problem with that world view is that while it leads to power and affluence it has kind of a grim Protestant view toward the pleasures of the table. So you end up with a lot of people leading modern, affluent lives eating crap.
>It just seems so dumb, only a step above the toast sandwich.
How about a white rice sandwich....with lard.
..and I agree. The poster just implied some brits 'invented' their language.
>using a reddit tier image with censored text
Get out right now.
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You will miss me.
I'm the poster. The fact that everyone has dived on the "english language" and ignored the contribution of the British speaks volumes.
The language was not an invention but was a very important export from these small shores so i included it in "inventions".
Only piss poor non countries got vexed by this.