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I read an interesting article a while back. Rather long but one of the key points was previously spices were expensive and only available to the upper class, and were used in their foods fairly extensively. As spices became more affordable to lower classes they were used, but then the upper class haute cuisine stopped using them because they’d lost their exclusivity. Instead they focused on techniques to highlight a food’s inherent flavor, particularly with things like meat.
Interesting. Certainly tracks with other culinary trends, though! Like lobster, which had a reverse journey - in the 19th century, when it was dirt-common, it was fed to prisoners, and prisoners complained about it. Nowadays? There are people who'd gladly go to prison if it meant free lobster several times a week, lmao.
Probably an urban myth, though
https://www.boston.com/news/wickedpedia/2023/10/10/did-prisoners-eat-lobster-in-colonial-times/
I think the difference there is widely available large quantities of butter.
Mate, you should have some UK food that isn't white man comfort food straight from the freezer. We're a multicultural society now.
First of all, whilst everyone knows about the Anglicisation of Indian curry into the Chicken Tikka Masala, fewer know about the Indianisation of the Full English Breakfast and my GOD is it tasty.
Second; Roast Dinner. Enough said.
Third, if you find yourself in a UK city like London, Birmingham, or Manchester and want a simple meal, look for a Fried Chicken shop that has a huge queue that is ethically diverse. Guaranteed to be a thick chicken burger dripping with sensational spice.
Like seriously, we've had people from food tiktok travel all the way from London to try Miami Crispy in Manchester.
That's just three examples.
There's good and well seasoned food in the UK, you just have to know where to find it, and your best bet is looking for cuisine that is the legacy of empire and immigration that's been adopted by the local population. You know, like how all the best food you can find in the US is either from Italian or Mexican heritage.
like how all the best food you can find in the US
I'm always saying the biggest argument for diversity is food.
Someone drove 200 miles? Laughs in American
Pretty far to get fried chicken though
Must be a Tuesday.
To be fair, fish and chips is perfect just the way it is. And as for beans... Well this is Lemmy, is it not?
What really astounds me is bangers and mash with absolutely no spices in the sausage, not even pepper. And yet sometimes that really hits the spot. (caveat: I usually lay on the HP sauce.)
Potatoes demand pepper.
You need gravy thick enough to hold the fork up for proper bangers and mash
This ancient meme brought to you by the people who think their food tastes better simply due to the vast amounts of salt, butter and high fructose corn syrup
Fuckin brave way to eat when you can't afford a heart attack 😂😂
This meme is older than the silk road.
This ancient meme brought to you by the people who think their food tastes better simply due to the vast amounts of salt, butter and high fructose corn syrup
You forgot the deep-frying 💪💪💪💪💪
Who replaced the chips with french fries???
Get out, and stay out.
We'll 'ave none of that foreign muck round 'ere!
I (only having left the US once) thought that "chips" was the British word for french fries (or you could reverse that).
What's the difference?
Chips are like fries American cousins.
The answer is appreciated but, unfortunately, I don't know what that means.
Fatter and greasier.
Well, thank you for the edification.
They sound like fried yucca, so I'm in favor.
Chips for eating with fish should be substantially thicker, to the point of having a noticeably soft core while crunchy on the outside.
Chips 'cut in the French style' (as seen here) just means cutting them thinner.
Ah, that does indeed sound like steak fries. Thank you.
British chips are what I would call wedges.
I can see where your coming from, but wedges are the bigger fatter cousins of chips, usually with some potato skin still on display, and are excellently paired with some sour cream and sweet chilli sauce and I want some...
Americans allegedly have access to the best education in the world, yet constantly post inane unoriginal shitposts like this.
Americans allegedly have access to the best education in the world,
What horrible lies foreigners tell!
Have access to in the sense that the schools are there, but so far out of your price range, you get heart palpitations standing near them.
Which triggers your health insurance premiums to rise.
They have brown sauce, whose initial purpose was as proof of having access to ingredients from both India and the Caribbean
it also contains the most flavour out of any condiment ever made
They were very good about not getting high on their own supply.
This is more historic than a meme, the majority of those “Spices” were addictive drugs.
A good dealer knows you never get high on your own supply.
Some of the spices that are used in ketchup and/or baked bean tomato sauce include: allspice, cayenne, cassia, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mustard, paprika, and pepper.
What do you think tea is made of? Rocks?