This meme brought to you by people who think high fructose corn syrup is an ingredient
Contrary to popular belief, in terms of health, high-fructose corn syrup is not really worse for you than sugar. It's very unhealthy, of course, but that's because it's sweet, not because of its chemical properties.
That being said, in many things (such as soda), people prefer the taste of sugar over high fructose corn syrup.
What’s bad about corn syrup is how fucking cheap it is (subsidized to hell or not). So they put it in way more things, keep us all addicted to sweet stuff and rake in profits at the same time.
Also see soy in everything (my wife is allergic so I’m biased, but it’s really nuts how many things (again, bread?) it’s in).
Dietary fructose is worse for you than sucrose. Or glucose
In the same vein, putting highly transformed industrial sweets in your homemade bakery to make it cooler.
There's people other than you and the Yanks
Largest people on earth. Hoorah!
BIGLY
He's only really angry in the US shows though.
And is that Bill Burr?
Yeah, it’s Bill Burr.
Its funny how people assume colonization benefitted all Brits equally, and spices, tea (& riches) weren't hoarded by royalty and the gentry.
How the hell do you think the East India Company got so rich? It wasn't by selling it to... shudder ... normal and... wretching... poor people. They can stick to their traditional true British spice, Salt & vinegar! /s
But you'd think some of the rich people recipes would make their way to what's now known as British cuisine.
ooh valuable insight into how this came to be, thank u for helping me challenge my heretofore unquestioned assumptions :)
We invented one of the world's most popular cheese, Cheddar, which is actually named after an English village. Also our national dish is Chicken Tikka Masala. I dare you to say we don't use spices. We invented several varieties of spiced sausage, spiced cakes and fruit bread, even some kinds of spices rum.
Don't get me wrong, lots of British cuisine is lackluster for sure, and I don't think we can compete with the likes of Thailand or Italy. That doesn't apply to everything we do though, and some of our deserts and cheeses are top tier. Thailand is literally known for diplomacy through food as well, so hardly a fair comparison.
Chicken Tikka Masala uses waaaay fewer spices than traditional Indian food. It's the thing people who don't like Indian food order in Indian restaurants.
It doesn't actually have less spices as such, it has less chilli and more cream so that it's less hot. Korma which is legitimately Persian and from the indian subcontinent is more mild than Chicken Tikka Masala. Likewise Makhani and Hydrabaddi are Indian dishes with a comparable amount of cream and hotness. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not a hot curry, but it's not weaker than some of the things coming from India or Pakistan.
Anglo-Indian cuisine is a product of the British colonization of India and the fusion of British and Indian culinary traditions. This unique blending of flavors and techniques creates a cuisine that is both savory and flavorful, while remaining distinct from traditional Indian or British dishes.
too bad they had to keep it distinct, could have been greatness
If it's curry it's Indian, just like American Chinese takeout is American but still Chinese and Pizza is American but still Italian. The flavors derived from those specific cultures to spice up the bland food people were used to. Tea was mostly a Chinese tradition and the Indians stole it to trade with Britain, because it was cheaper.
True, but I would argue that American Chinese food is a distinct cuisine in its own right, just as Anglo-Indian is.
If the argument is that the British Empire didn't incorporate seasonings and spices into its own traditional cuisine, then I'd argue that none of the European powers did. French cuisine is still undeniably French and spice-less, despite their colonialist history in Africa and the Caribbean.
I’m not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better.
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
You're not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better...what? What aren't you going to let it do?
"cheese"
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
don’t worry this has never not been my plan 😸
I remember John Oliver jokingly said on Steven Cobert that his favorite British food is a good curry.
That's not really a joke though? There are lots of curries that were invented in the UK and the British are actually the ones that introduced curry to most of the world and the curries you get pretty much anywhere outside of South Asia are British curries or based on British curries.
That’s what Padme wants in this image macro though
Brit’s do pies though, anything in a pie then it’s British. A curry pie then there you go
Tikka Masala is a British dish.
It is the colonialism you see.
You think that's bad, wait until you hear Americans trying to claim apple pie or pizza.
To be honest, pizza in its best known iteration originally was from Naples and parts South. When Italian-American GI's (most were descended from immigrants from Southern Italy where they had pizza) were helping to rid Italy of Nazi's during WWII, they were aghast that places North of Naples didn't have pizza. These formerly pizza-free zones then started making pizza to sell to the GI's and thus to this day you can find pizza even in places as North as around Lake Como. So pizza is more American in Northern Italy than it is Italian.
They can keep whatever that shit they do in Chicago is though. Nobody else wants credit for that.
very possible for a region to validly claim a certain iteration of a food, even if it originated elsewhere.
for example, anglo-indian food would not exist without british influence. in the same fashion, american pizza, hamburgers, american-italian beef and US “chinese food”, while not utterly distinct from their precursors, are iterations of the cuisine that would never have come about in their countries of origin.
Do you mean Stephen Colbert?
yep
American here, but I think a lot of Americans have not actually been to Britain and eaten their food.
I have, but I don't actually remember the food. That must mean it was fine since I don't remember anything being bad.
London seemed like most other large cities to me, in that there was a wide variety of food from different cuisines available. It's not like every restaurant was all jellied eels and boiled meat.
Britain conquered the world for spices, then decided they didn't like any of them.
Britain is a little bit autistic. Loves order. Hates sensory overload.
I can't seem to find it, but this reminds me of a greentext that's stuck with me for years. The gist of it is that most of British history can be summed up as sailing around the world looking for something good to eat.
They used them for tea
I've been to the UK and I found out this stereotype/meme is kinda true...
Some foods are a little bland.
I'm from Portugal, who together with Spain started the so-called "Age Of Discovery" back in the late 14th century and for a long time had sugar plantations in Brasil.
Not only does the local culinary have an insane variety of cakes and sweets (I suspect that, whilst monks in convents in other countries were finding new ways to brew beer, the ones in Portugal were just inventing new desserts) but most traditional culinary dishes use one more spices that do not grow locally or at least did not originate locally (you also see a similar effect when it comes to other ingredients: for example the frequent use of tomato that originate from the Americas or Oranges that originate from China)
I also lived in both England and The Netherlands, both countries which were much more successful at trade with and conquest of the "discovered" lands than Portugal, and the local culinary tradition in both is way smaller and blander.
The problem with food traditions in the UK is that fuck all grows there due to climate. And all the cool imported stuff was traditionally very expensive, thus only accessible to the rich. Portugal has a much better climate for growing food, so back in the days you could import some seeds, plant them locally and exotic stuff became cheap and available to everyone. Brits couldn't do that really, so exotic stuff was rare and mere mortals didn't know about it.
Well the popularity of Indian food kind of puts the lie to this. Though I suppose it makes more sense to simply switch to Indian food, rather than to try to tart up the wretched crap that passed for food in the UK before colonialism.
Hey, don't bad mouth salt seasoning! Portugal uses plenty of it (due to using salt preservation in the old days) and i think their food is pretty damn good!
You joke but today Curries are one of the most popular takeaway options in the UK. Only took us til after decolonisation.
Some of them were invented in the UK. Unheard of in India
As a second gen Indian in the UK, so much of my family's dishes are based on sauces with tomatoes and chilli, many of them have potato. But none of these are actually native to India, these would have been brought over after the colonialisation of the Americas.
FISH AND CHIPS INNIT
Curry on chips!
This meme reminds me of the "Going for an English" sketch: https://youtu.be/H-uEx_hEXAM?feature=shared
Is that why they withdrew from our country? Damn
I vaguely remember some TIL post awhile back that essentially blamed some aristocrat with a sensitive stomach for the meme version of traditional British cuisine, under the auspices of WWII rationing. He apparently recommended cutting spice and overcooking veg both for "health" and import cost/availability reasons during wartime rationing, and this got swept up in the unified national "keep calm and carry on" wartime rhetoric as quintessentially British. Supposedly prior to the war, traditional cuisines in the isles generally were more flavorful and varied
so going backwards isn't just a new fascination for Brits
This is outrageous, it's unfair. How can you have tasty spices and not use them in your cuisine?
It's called the "ashamed colonizer fish and chips". It uses only homegrown ingredients. Britons are just too ashamed of their actions to make us of stolen food in their dishes.
Fish and chips was invented by Jewish immigrants. Our food is a melting pot of different influences from a myriad of different cultures, and we like it that way.
