My mom is a really good baker & used bake us bday cakes when we lived in the UK. She still has the book from which my brother & picked them out. My favorites were a butterfly & a shoe cake from the nursery rhyme.
Oh I think we were also lucky (looking back fifty years) at having so many European influences. In the 1970s if you went out for a meal the chances were it was Greek, Italian, Indian, or Chinese.
Sure. If you went for a metal in the 1970s there plenty of car breaker yards, mostly behind corrugated iron walls and barking alsation dogs. But not much to eat unless it was from a caravan with a hatch that served hot dogs and strong tea.
Oh no I didn’t mean to imply I take issue bc of the haircut, I was just trying to identify one of the sex offenders and then after I was like “hmm that’s too broad” 🤣
Lol, I'm ok with the jibe 😺 but what exactly is American cuisine? Steak, burgers, hot dogs and French fries 😉?
People say, yes but we have Mexican, Chinese, Italian, French, Thai, Indian - yeah so do we, and it's not American! UK cuisine is actually quite rich 😋
semi-seriously, californian sushi is imho pretty good, I certainly prefer it to the sushi in Japan.
More controversially I think american pizza generally more interesting than the Italian trad-pizza and I don't really care what any Pizza chef (or his mother) thinks.
As a non-american I feel like I can enter this and be somewhat a chauvanist for the american foods since my own country is worse and not part of this discussion.
American food has a pragmatic fusion to it, which I think is underrated.
For what it's worth I've spent a lot of time in the U.K. and I'm really fond of y'all's food too! But American food is a lot more than burgers just like yours is a lot more than fish and chips, lol!
I know. I meant what defines true American dishes compared to true English dishes ie excluding the foreign cuisine that we both heavily engage with. But, by jove, I could murder some fish & chips right now! 😋
Fluffy pancakes, crabcakes, Cincinnati chili, grits, gumbo, cornbread, pulled pork, collard greens! American food is great. It's just a bigass country so we have a lot of regional cuisines. There's Cajun, there's New Mexican style Mexican, there's a barbecue style for every southern state...
Fluffy pancakes? Everyone has pancakes! Gumbo is very much foreign influence. New Mexican is mexican with a twist (like English Indian). Barbecue is just meat - albeit delicious 😋
No, my point is that there is a lot of great native English cuisine that gets an undeserved bad rap.
Some foods and cuisines are variations on stuff from immigrants' old countries, like Cincinnati chili, which has unexpected Mediterranean spices. Others, like grits, are based on Native foods. Some are a mashup of both. African Americans have made huge contributions to Southern cuisine in particular
My favorite part is that eventually they're like "ok fine, FINE, we'll do one that's all British foods to please the gammons" and it's still never beans on toast or mushy peas and all the judges choke it down pretending it's actually good
When they try to do foreign food is when it always go sideways though. I will always have the image of the woman painfully trying to PEEL an avocado with a paring knife.
'We should have known this was the wrong timeline when conservatives started making shows about learning empathy and tolerance'. You're definitely getting mad at the wrong thing dude.
I recently learned that this stereotype apparently comes from American GIs' impressions of British food during rationing. So the circumstances weren't ideal for making a good impression.
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He has a bad haircut
People say, yes but we have Mexican, Chinese, Italian, French, Thai, Indian - yeah so do we, and it's not American! UK cuisine is actually quite rich 😋
(This, like the original joke, is tongue in cheek. Thanks for being good sports y’all)
More controversially I think american pizza generally more interesting than the Italian trad-pizza and I don't really care what any Pizza chef (or his mother) thinks.
burgers, maybe also?
American food has a pragmatic fusion to it, which I think is underrated.
And of course we do very good Indian food 😉 - which is not much like real Indian food...
No, my point is that there is a lot of great native English cuisine that gets an undeserved bad rap.
And the American version...
Well done! :D
I was just like yes, I also like merengue because it’s 100% sugar
But let's not split heirs.
This Wikipedia page is a fascinating rabbit hole
https://youtube.com/@tastinghistory?si=I7i51xbQvVjRUe1a
And I miss the hell out of those overhead grills.
I will still pine for fat in the eye.
very nice. Excellent post.