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.
YOUS PUT IT IN YOUR FECKIN BREAD
Just checked now. The loaf of sliced bread in my pantry does not contain 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).
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
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.
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.
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.
Americans visited the UK during WW2's rationing and never updated their stereotypes.
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.
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?
That’s a very good point, and will teach me for not proofreading when rewriting half a sentence twice!
I’m not going to let them mock our “cuisine”. There.
"cheese"
American here, but I think a lot of Americans have not actually been to Britain and eaten their food.
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.
Maybe this one?
That's not the one I was thinking of, but I'm happy that you posted it as it's pretty great.
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.
We've been completely screwed over by the supermarkets on this one. A lot of our base ingredients are now bland and tasteless. This has had a knock on effect.
Good, traditional English food is far from bland and tasteless.
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.
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.
You joke but today Curries are one of the most popular takeaway options in the UK. Only took us til after decolonisation.
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!
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