On the other hand Americans eat like they have free healthcare...
This reminds me of that post
"Is British food really that bad?"
"If made correctly, Yes"
To all of you saying "this literally looks like poop", "why are they eating boiled vomit", etc, post the last thing you made and I'm sure I could come up with some shitty things to say about it.
It's fucking very obviously a normal ass plate of potatoes and meat stew with carrots. Do the potatoes look a little bland? Maybe, but there's stew to dip it in. Regardless, a well seasoned potato has a good flavor all by itself. The stew looks like every other homemade stew I've ever seen. It's hard to make that shit look "pretty", but I know y'all scarf shit like that down. Get off your high fucking horses. There's plenty of other valid things to complain about with British culture, but making fun of their food is asinine.
Deconstructed Sheppards pie
And now it is suddenly fancy enough for the insta crowd.
What is that? Potatoes with a side of stew on a plate?
Nearly - minced beef in gravy with some chopped vegetables thrown in (usually peas and carrots), next to boiled potatoes (that are usually mashed up).
Some parts of the UK have bread and butter as a side with everything.
It is a hearty dinner mind - it's not flashy or instagram-ready, but it is tasty and fills you up.
Rationing lasted until the mid-50s and left a lasting impression on people's diets. It's taken decades to recover socially, mainly with the aid of foreign cuisine.
Indian immigrants are the MVPs 👍
At first, I thought that you declared Indian immigrants as a minimum viable product. After some googling I guess it's meant to be most valuable players. Small but significant difference. 😂
Looks like a lovely bit of scran that does. Yall too obsessed with overdone memes to appreciate a nice bit of comfort food.
Nah I'm just too obcessed with spices and would like to see some used in this meal, especially on those naked potatoes.
You can't actually be sure that stew doesn't have a ton of ground spices in it, because they wouldn't show. The flavor could be so intense you might need the plain potato bites to rest your mouth. (Highly unlikely but possible.) The real crime is the complete lack of anything green on the table. It's like they looked around at the lush greenery all around them and decided to leave it all outside.
But like...
Why aren't the potatoes in the sauce?
That just seems obvious to me 🤷♀️
I know British food tend to be memed as "brown stuff", but this doesn't even look half bad, the lighting makes it look worse than it actually is.
Slap an Instagram filter on it and it will look way better.
The unseasoned boiled potatoes and the untoasted bread are just bland.
The ground beef and carrots in the undefinable brown liquid would be a textural nightmare. I cannot fathom how it tastes because the closest thing in the US would be a sloppy joe.
The real problem with this is lack of technique and seasoning.
Here’s how I would “fix” this: Toast the bread, roast and season the potatoes, make the ground beef and sauce into a something resembling Salisbury steak, and cook the carrots as their own side dish.
A thick beef stew with boiled potatoes and buttered bread was a common meal in my 90s Midwestern USA childhood. It is delicious
FWIW it wasn't the Germans flying overhead that led to the shitty food and not much of it - it was the Germans in their submersible tin cans that were the big problem.
You know the kids who make and enjoy memes are usually back of the class types.
“Bloody Indians, Pakistanis and Indians, coming over here, inventing us a national cuisine.”
If you get the reference, you have exquisite taste in comedy. Basic Lee is on tonight!!
The yanks seem to be attracted to this meme like somebody desperate to paint a target and distract attention away from themself.
Things are pretty fucked here and what I thought were saner parts of the world seem like they're starting to fall for the same shit. We need distractions.
Oh please. That was from about the 1950s. Now it’s just known as Irish cuisine.
Stop moaning yanks. Not everything needs artificial cheese sprayed on it.
by the same token, everything here isn't degenerate midwestern or Alabama bullshit.
Anyway, how about raw vegetables? This photo is just missing something like a salad, coleslaw, a few radishes, and some sort of sauce for the potatoes (easy cheese obviously).
Something something "The cuisine and company of the finer sex helped contribute to making the Brits the finest sailors in the world"
The Aussies would just grab all that and wack it into a shortcut / puff pastry meat and potato pie. Not half bad actually.
It is basically a meat pie filling just with potatoes instead of pastry. People will look down their noses at this because of the plating and then happily eat hundreds of extremely similar foods.
British Empire conquered the world at one point, and had access to unimaginable variety of spices, herbs, flavors and tastes.
and they still eat nothing but boiled vomit.
Englishman here. I've never eaten anything like this? Just me?
Same. I dont even know what it is. It's like they wanted to make shepherds pie but they were too lazy to mash the potatoes
The dinners aren't the problem. It's the baked beans for breakfast... Also, my Dad, who was born in London, insisted on eating Marmite, which I know many of you will defend, but also piccalilli and Daddies sauce and if you like those things, I will give you major side-eye.
To be fair, the Brown Sauce is actually pretty neat. But not in everyones taste tho.
The stew might be super tasty, but those white potatoes look bland as fuck. Throw them in an oven or skillet with some of that butter, get the edges a little crispy, sprig of whatever herbs were used in the stew, and they will be much better.
I’m not talking about the stew. I mean the bottle on the upper center of the picture.
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