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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"When this food is made good its made good" also applies to British cuisine. You're telling me that brandy cake made with a type of fat that supercedes butter for all of its baking properties, Corinthian raisins and a warm brandy/cream sauce doesn't sound good?

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I didn't say anything about British food being good or not good. I said that if you're gonna start with the premise that British food is bad and try to explain it with poverty you're gonna have to explain why impoverished people everywhere else are turning out bangers like Max Martin in 1999.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago
[-] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Their point is: poor people recipes from Italy taste better than poor people recipes from the UK, generally.

Your point is: it's possible to make UK recipes taste better if you do them a certain way, specifically.

They are speaking generally and you are speaking specifically. Hope that helps you understand.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

But I described the most basic recipe for spotted dick, made in the most peasant way possible?

Brandy is the cheapest alcohol and easily home-made, the peasant-way of preserving both fruit and bread (/cake) in the UK, suet is more peasant than butter or other forms of fat because it is the rendered fat from discarded animal carcasses, but that process actually makes it more rich .

[-] FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You gave a specific example of one recipe, to combat the notion that Italian food is generally better. I don't know how to explain it any differently to you, but you're not having the same conversation as the rest of us right now.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I figured "when food is made good its good" kinda covered that.

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