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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:32:46 AM EDT
[#1]
 Attached FileI don't see a single spice on any of these last three images. So yeah, I'm going with bland. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:38:17 AM EDT
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op showed pics of food that looks like it needs a shit ton of salt and pepper
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:43:38 AM EDT
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You say they don't do spices, the first pic you show has pepper on the eggs
 If they didn't do that, you did, which proves that it is indeed bland Edit: that bacon looks like microwaved turkey jerky 
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:45:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This wonderful braised ox cheek that I had in Edinburgh was completely flavorless. I don't normally photograph food but I did this because I couldn't believe how lacking in flavor it was. https://i.postimg.cc/RZBkK9MC/img-1-1689394904834.webp My brit friend hypothesizes that Americans have becomes so used to so much salt in our food that elsewhere seems flavorless. Americans do use too much salt and we think a lack of peppers (heat) means no spice. There are a ton of spices in English food, they just aren’t all salt and pepper… |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:46:53 AM EDT
[#5]
Thorazine thread
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:57:04 AM EDT
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In heaven:
The chefs are Italian The police are English The engineers are German In hell: The chefs are English The police are German The engineers are Italian |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:57:36 AM EDT
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No one ever-
We should go out to a nice British restaurant for dinner! |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 12:58:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryBut nachos and cheese whiz at a sporting event is somehow better???? |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:09:25 AM EDT
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British food is dogshit.
Every time I've been with UK troops in the US they want to eat at Texas Roadhouse every day. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:12:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryI’ve been to mainland Europe and it’s the same. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:13:37 AM EDT
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That looks bland and nasty, especially with the beans in pissy shit water from a can that they pour on everything.
They even pour beans on pizza. 
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:21:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: England conquered the entire goddamn world in the search for spices, then failed to use any of them. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:22:51 AM EDT
[#13]
FadedSun is using reverse psychology on yall. As usual.
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:23:44 AM EDT
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British have good hangover food.
Hearty, greasy, but no overwhelming flavors to upset the boose-ravaged stomach. So yes, bland is the standard. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:25:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: England conquered the entire goddamn world in the search for spices, then failed to use any of them. Wrong. They conquered the entire known world for money. They didn't give a single solitary fuck about how they made that money. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:36:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: England conquered the entire goddamn world in the search for spices, then failed to use any of them. Pretty ironic. The country literally controlled the spice trade world fucking wide but the odds of finding a British cook that knows fuck all about spices is nearly zero. When you understand that salt, and by extension, MSG are flavor enhancers it’s easy to know why the food in the USA has more flavor. Another thing to remember is when eating airplane food it has tons more sodium than any restaurant because they are fighting with the fact your taste buds don’t work the same at the higher altitude. 
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:50:12 AM EDT
[#17]
Looks like pictures of food from a nursing home brochure.
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Posted: 9/10/2023 1:54:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: FadedSun is using reverse psychology on yall. As usual. Everything ShadedBum says is like a poof of wind-driven popcorn fart, psychology be damned. 
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:00:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This wonderful braised ox cheek that I had in Edinburgh was completely flavorless. I don't normally photograph food but I did this because I couldn't believe how lacking in flavor it was. https://i.postimg.cc/RZBkK9MC/img-1-1689394904834.webp My brit friend hypothesizes that Americans have becomes so used to so much salt in our food that elsewhere seems flavorless. We are lucky in the fact that, we have been improving on bland British food, for centuries now! |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:02:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That looks bland and nasty, especially with the beans in pissy shit water from a can that they pour on everything. They even pour beans on pizza. https://i.imgur.com/LRzJdMa.jpg British folk aren’t the only ones who put stupid stuff on pizza. Allow me to introduce you to Ohio |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:09:13 AM EDT
[#21]
But how does this affect Ukraine???
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:10:40 AM EDT
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Quoted: You’re just not looking at it right. Every nation has a “signature” dish and how they prepare the majority of their foods. The folks in the UK, being primarily island farmers and livestock herders don’t do spices (there’s takeaway for that). It’s all primarily cooked in gravy or other sauce (the spiciest Being mint sauce served with lamb). English food is delicious and to proclaim its bland is ignorant. https://i.postimg.cc/hPMVCsjH/IMG-5093.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/N02Tjw4c/IMG-5099.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/T1Jnvqc5/IMG-5100.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/4ygp0FpT/IMG-5101.jpg It’s not bland at all. You just need to open Your horizons. End rant Side note: some of the best restaurants in the world are in London. And yes, they serve French food  Where'd the china come from? |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:18:20 AM EDT
[#23]
Yeah, virtually the entire professional culinary world disagrees with that sentiment. And anyone else with a palate.
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:20:33 AM EDT
[#24]
Not going as expected
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:26:53 AM EDT
[#25]
Aside from the mashed potatoes, that shit looks like it's pretty bland. Those beans don't look good, and they're on top of an egg?
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:34:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: But how does this affect Ukraine??? Great question. No clue |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:38:52 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:46:23 AM EDT
[#28]
Pasties are good stuff. So are fish and chips. That's pretty much my only experience with English food (not counting "American" food that has its roots in English cuisine).
Oh, and English muffins aren't bad either. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:47:18 AM EDT
[#29]
In the whole of the history of human consciousness, never has a personal opinion been wrong, but yours just was, OP
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:50:17 AM EDT
[#30]
I love me a full English with Marmite or Vegemite
. Beans in tomato sauce with cheddar on toast is also decent. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:51:19 AM EDT
[#31]
Can we have kippers for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear.
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Posted: 9/10/2023 3:09:39 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fish and chips are excellent. Other than that, not a fan. Or bangers and mash Or Cornish pasties? Or sausage rolls? |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 3:20:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryFuck, I'm hungry now. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 3:21:40 AM EDT
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Quoted: The folks in the UK, being primarily island farmers and livestock herders don’t do spices Wtf was their entire empire for then? Taking spices and giving them to other people? |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 3:36:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How can anyone not like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding? Or bangers and mash Or Cornish pasties? Or sausage rolls? Stop, I’m hungry now |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 3:37:22 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/10/2023 5:25:19 AM EDT
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It's been just shy of 40 years since I spent about a month there.
I had some really tasty stuff that has stuck in my mind ever since. So many great curries and other Indian food, great Italian from places where only one or two people working there could communicate with the customers, those kinds of things. Otherwise, it's where I learned to ask for ketchup to make the beans edible in the signature English breakfast and to look upon the pickle in country pub Ploughman's Lunch with suspicion. Some of those things were far from bland. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 5:28:40 AM EDT
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OP, do you have any positions that aren't completely wrong?
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Posted: 9/10/2023 5:54:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Brits boil meat for Chrissake. Sane people don't do that shit. Sous vide? |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:01:05 AM EDT
[#40]
I don't recognise any of the horrible shit on these pages.
Honestly, the nearer to London you are, the shit tier the food is, and always has been. I'm off to my local pub for Sunday lunch and a few pints. Here's the menu. https://www.chefandbrewer.com/pubs/lancashire/spread-eagle/menu |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:02:45 AM EDT
[#41]
The Germans should have dropped cookbooks
And you should drop that American flag from your avatar ukrbro |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:27:48 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pretty ironic. The country literally controlled the spice trade world fucking wide but the odds of finding a British cook that knows fuck all about spices is nearly zero. When you understand that salt, and by extension, MSG are flavor enhancers it’s easy to know why the food in the USA has more flavor. Another thing to remember is when eating airplane food it has tons more sodium than any restaurant because they are fighting with the fact your taste buds don’t work the same at the higher altitude. It's not that different from what we all eat around Thanksgjving... most "traditional" American food is bland too. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:28:54 AM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That looks bland and nasty, especially with the beans in pissy shit water from a can that they pour on everything. They even pour beans on pizza. https://i.imgur.com/LRzJdMa.jpg Better than pineapple |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:29:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, virtually the entire professional culinary world disagrees with that sentiment. And anyone else with a palate. Ironic then that by size the UK has far more Michelin stars than the US. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 6:51:29 AM EDT
[#45]
Why do they put beans on their eggs?
Never have understood that one. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 7:55:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: OP said that's because they were farmers that lived on an island and couldn't afford salt and pepper News flash - islands are surrounded by salt. You just have to boil off the water. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 8:00:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are a million Chinese take out places in the US. The are a million pizza and hoagie take out places in the US. There are plenty of other ethnic food take out places in the US. AFAIK there are few if any British food take out places. Arthur Treachers was popular for a while, but I have no idea how it compared to a real British fish and chip place. Yep, Brit food is bleh. Now meat pies in Scotland can be very good. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 8:37:22 AM EDT
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They built an empire that circled the globe to control the flow of spices yet, none of them seems to have made it to the home island…
ETA: Beat by the last post on Page 1. 
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Posted: 9/10/2023 8:41:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That all looks fucken terrible Ayup |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 8:49:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ironic then that by size the UK has far more Michelin stars than the US. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yeah, virtually the entire professional culinary world disagrees with that sentiment. And anyone else with a palate. Ironic then that by size the UK has far more Michelin stars than the US. But not for Brit food. |
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