Not only “spices” but paprika and white pepper too!
Battered fish uses tumeric to get the yellow colour (fish and chips)
They’re also the curry capital of the world
What do you think is in the beans??
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Heh
Popular misconception that they invaded for spices. They were actually looking for someone to play cricket with.
Absolutely captured the vibe lol.
They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.
Better than cricket conquering the universe…
England is good at inventing games that they then lose at. In America we just try to make sure no populous countries play them. Canada is just being magnanimous by letting others win sometimes.
This is why Scotland invented Curling, a sport that no-one else wants to play.
Except the canucks
See this game documentary for more details: Cricket through the ages
I’m partial to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwB4Bps3pT4
I’m British and I see it’s wrong because it simply isn’t true… We have a ton of spicy foods. The stereotype that we only eat comfort foods like in the meme is old and worn out. Maybe that’s all you eat, but that’s on you.
What in hell is comforting about that picture?
yea personally I feel quite distressed
As you say, lots of spicy food options. Our National Dish is actually a curry - chicken masala and Phall, the hottest curry, was invented in Birmingham.
Also - in the picture are baked beans. They’re invented in the USA. We adopted them, but they’re not ours.
Just like when British people assume all America is Texas
What examples can you give of British food?
Jellied Eel.
Yeah yeah, we know y’all love Tikka masala over there.
Brb, gonna go have hamburgers and french fries for breakfast and shoot my guns for lunch.
But why don’t your comfort foods have spices?
In this context I think it’s comfort food because it’s kiddy food. Something simple and familiar that reminds you of being younger. In England, children’s menus will usually contain basic things like chicken nuggets and fish fingers that aren’t (heavily) spiced.
Yes, they have an infantilized culture.
I see you were asking the question in bad faith and you didn’t really want an answer.
My and many others’ comfort foods have spices. Something makes us different.
Yep because no British person ever eats curry as a comfort food…
The white ones probably don’t.
It’s the same here in the US. Crackers just want sugars and fats, nothing complicated or interesting.
Could you be any more openly racist?
You can’t be racist against white people. 😊
Don’t forget potato salad with no salt and mostly just mayo.
The perception of Britain that most Americans have is that of the 40’s and 50’s. It’s hardly surprising that it’s completely fucking wrong.
Yeah never got this. The nation’s favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn’t it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?
Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.
Yep, just seems disingenuous to act like the history of the spice trade hasn’t affected our food culture when it clearly has massively. Hell, even curry in Japan is popular not because of India but because of British influence. The reason “Katsu Curry” is called Katsu is because of the English word “Cuts” referring to the cuts of meat in the curry, which is Japanese sounds like ‘katsu’.
We also gave currywurst to the Germans
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But that’s just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Good luck getting a decent fry-up in any of those hellholes.
Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven…
But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else’s cuisines.
By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Exactly.
And India doesn’t have chillies add Italy doesn’t have tomatoes… Where do we stop?
chillies is neither a dish nor a cuisine, so we do stop there
Stops carving the Sunday roast
Fun fact: Britain didn’t invent roasting hunks of meat. Or Sundays. Or the combination thereof.
apple crumble
That’s not a real thing. That’s just something English people say to sound whimsical.
By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Correct. Only Neolithic cultures have their own foods.
Edit since it’s apparently not as obvious as I thought it would be: jk 😄
Apple crumble is 100% a real thing and it’s delicious with warm custard.
I know lol, I was kidding around 😁
Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.
Slightly ho-hum fact: I was being quite tongue in cheek throughout 😁
Oblivious fact: Me
Except all the most popular curries in the UK aren’t Indian, they’re British, and infact pretty much any curry outside of southern Asia was introduced by the British (or occasionally Portuguese) like Japanese curry for example.
I see nothing wrong because buttered bread, fish fingers and beans is a banger of a meal
That’s true. Nothing against it, but acting like there aren’t spicy options is silly.
If you’re five, sure.
Lol, thx actually. I finally upgraded my perspective.
The only people I know are polish relatives who live in scotland and well, do have their own custom and creative dishes
Oh my god no one cares, Clive!
Banger meal tbh, if you want to top it with 10 quids worth of spice that’s up to you, but most people who eat this on the regular can barely afford salt and pepper.
Yeah the meme pretty much ignores the classism aspect of who ended up getting the spices
How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices?! You can get a good few for 5 at Lidl or Aldi.
Also, having been someone that poor, people in that position should understand spices and at least have a few of them because it was one of the few things that kept me going that at least my toast and tinned veg & hotdog pasta both had some flavour.
How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices
If it isn’t saffron and Italian white truffle, it doesn’t go on their toast.
British fish fingers are usually mind-blowingly tasty compared to American fish-sticks. That might explain some of the disagreement.
It must be a cultural thing you guys are used to, cause the idea of beans and fish sticks turns my stomach. Replace the fish sticks with scrambled eggs or sausage and you got a good breakfast though
Ah I see where you’re going wrong. Those aren’t fish sticks, those are fish fingers.
I’m actually having fish fingers, chips, and beans tonight.
I’m late thirties and there is nothing wrong with fish finger and beans.
Edit: Don’t even have to be poor to enjoy it by the way.
Based
Tbf, wouldn’t coffee, tea, chocolate and sugar cane have been considered spices by then’s definition?
So were opium and cocaine
Yeah I’ll have that everything bagel
The more I think of it the more not fun that bagel sounds. I’ll have mine with just the Columbian sugar please
Poppy seeds are definetely also a spice tho. And coca is an herb, which I guess can also be used as a spice… Use of coca by native populations seems to have been mostly medicinal… But then again, that’s also how many spices were used until the 19th century.
Ironic because poppy seeds have very little flavor and coca literally numbs your tongue.
Shhh. That’s the secret ingredient.
And it’s very more-ish.
Tea would be a herb.
“Herb” and “spice” aren’t mutually exclusive tho.
Generally I find they are. Herbs are leaves, flowers and (herbaceous) stems, spices are other parts. A plant might provide both a herb and a spice, but they will typically be different parts of a plant.
Saffron is from a flower and is considered a spice tho. It might be the way it’s processed that makes a difference. Regardless, when talking of the East India Company, the spice trade, and how that led to conquests, tea is always an important part of that story.
Like coriander vs cilantro. Actually that’s the only example I know.
perhaps a tiny bit of tartar sauce for the fish sticks, but otherwise its a delicious and fast meal :)
Fish sticks?!?!?!?
Fish fingers.