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.
To be fair, fish and chips is perfect just the way it is. And as for beans... Well this is Lemmy, is it not?
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 💪💪💪💪💪
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.
You don't get to claim the rights to dishes from cultures you forcibly subjugated.
like how all the best food you can find in the US
I'm always saying the biggest argument for diversity is food.
fewer know about the Indianisation of the Full English Breakfast
You have piqued my interest. What can I look forward to with a Full Indian and where can I find them?
Americans allegedly have access to the best education in the world, yet constantly post inane unoriginal shitposts like this.
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
And some clown even got the flag upside down.
Easy to do that when the flag itself is designed by clowns
A good dealer knows you never get high on your own supply.
They were very good about not getting high on their 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?
excellent chain jerking OP, you really got them riled 💪
original image appears to be from CNN which explains the french fries and upside down flag https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/classic-british-food/index.html?gallery=8
anyway WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
A kilometer is a unit of length used by >96% of humanity.
Geeze, I knew you Americans had bad education, but I didn't knew it was this bad.
I actually learned how to use the metric system so I could choose not to use it 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
