• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yeah because the British are a historically poor country right? Not like South America or Asia!

    What those people do to beans should be considered a war crime.

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          9 months ago

          UK food has lots of seasoning, I really don’t know where this meme comes from.

          The UK actually has spicier food than anywhere else in Europe. The only other countries really being Spain and Hungary.

          Even putting aside how massive British-Indian cuisine is here, there’s extensive use of English mustard, which is spicy (try it if you haven’t, it’s nothing like American or Dijon mustards), and horseradish, which is basically wasabi.

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          9 months ago

          They abandoned the spices when France did. The reason? Poor people could also afford spices so it was no longer a status symbol. The new status symbol was simple meals of very fresh meat and vegetables cooked with complicated methods requiring many hours and loads of practice.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, although the American ones come in a different, much more sugary sauce, which has led to Americans being confused as to why people would put it on toast and top with cheese.

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          9 months ago

          American bread is also more sugary than uk bread too right? I’ve never tried it but I’ve heard from a lot of other fellow Brits that it almost tastes like cake in comparison