I'm surprised Shepherds Pie isn't too popular outside of the UK. It tastes amazing, and it's a british dish I think actually has a decent presentation, but maybe people just assume it's worse lasagna like yous said even though they taste so different.
I think this is the second most popular UK dish abroad aside from fish and chips (maybe I'm biased cause I ate it growing up) But usually it's cottage pie labelled as shephard's pie
English food was hit by a few catastrophes back to back. Puritans came up with the idea that trying to enjoy anything with finery and unneeded additions was evil, early industry put millions into the wost sanitary conditions imaginable for generations, everything was boiled and the world wars really killed the rest, they knew they'd be cut off from trade and changed agriculture to food grown in abundance. The the places we consider good cooks didn't industrialise much if at all.
Ironically WW2 actually improved the diet for a lot of working people as their vegetable intake went up massively. That it was served up as blitz soup was another matter, nutritious but not the best dish. Probably as good as you're getting for it being cooked in a tube station though.
@@chetmanley1885kinda yes kinda no, it depended pretty heavily on when you’re talking about. Sure, at the beginning it was definitely a improvement for the impoverished… but by the end? Gods no. Fucking no way in hell. Our foods supplies were stretched thin as paper and our trade was practically nonexistent. When you started making recipes for fake bananas you know people are desperate lol Fr tho, that’s why our food isn’t necessarily spiced, you couldn’t import a lot of spices at the time.
That, and the availability of good, varied food has continued to remain behind the rest of the world from the end of the wars to today thanks to a mixture of several economic crisises and deliberate, government-enforced poverty. Britain didn't really recover from the Second World War at all, and only came out of rationing and absolute squalor in the mid-1950s. There was a very brief window from the 1960s to about the mid-80s when there was sufficient social and economic security for British cuisine to really develop (and it did, this is where Balti and other interesting styles appeared), but it was cut short by de-industrialisation and neoliberalism driving most of the UK back into poverty. Socio-economic factors improved somewhat in the 2000s thanks to the New Labour governments, but were immediately driven into even deeper poverty by Austerity policies. I don't think people outside of the UK actually realise how bad it is today. A considerable amount of the population relies on charity (food banks) just to get enough food to survive. Many families are choosing between eating and heating their homes on a daily basis. Malnourishment problems that should be eliminated in a first-world nation, like scurvy and rickets, are now commonplace in urban areas. And make no mistake, this is all intentional. For the last decade, multiple British governments have decided that this entirely acceptable, that people who cannot afford basic human necessities simply deserve it. And all their friends in the press trot out excuses about "economics" and "benefits fraud". Cuisine simply can't develop when your nation's political class has decided you should starve.
It's just internet brain rot. Most cultures have a bunch of ultra simple working peoples meals that have adapted to work days, preventing long cooking times. Only british food seems to get judged based only on these simple family meals.
it's their whole cuisine they're vehemently proud off. they have some good technical/presentable dishes but they're mostly desserts and not the staple ones.
Most countries and cultures just have much better working people’s meals. Bangers and mash is cool but not in a million years would I take it over basic sichuan noodles or a Turkish kebab dish
@Audreythescrub I agree more or less. I can't think of any situation where it would be my number one choice. But the internet acts like it's literally inedible. I just find it's absurd, pretending to be too good for meat and gravy all of a sudden.
@@AudreythescrubNo they don't, most food cultures are pretty boring from the outside. You forget that most cultures are not one of the known ones. Slovenia, Burma, Senegal, Peru, Norway all have their own food cultures, and most of it would be too boring to sell in a restaurant.
The issue with a lot of British foods is that they are brown, Bangers and Mash, shades of Brown, Cornish Pasty, Shepard Pie Cottage Pie, Yorkshire pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Sunday Roast, Steak and Kidney Pie, Cheese and Onion Pasty, Fish and Chips, all varying shades of brown, Exception being Chicken Tikka and that's a radio active red for some reason. They all taste amazing, especially this time of the year when it's cold, wet and gets dark early, they really warm you up.
I've made proper British Indian restaurant style chicken tikka and the secret to the colour is insanely potent food colouring powder. This stuff isn't your normal food colouring you use for baking etc. If it gets one something that thing is then orange or red. It stained my hand for weeks. I had to keep it in it's jar in a plastic container in a bag in another plastic container and use it outside.
I don't think British food is gross or even ugly looking. It just FEELS LAZY. Like oh you made a sandwich with fries or chips in the middle. Or wow you put beans on toast. So original
I think SungWon's take on German food is understandable based on his growing up in the Midwest. We have a lot of German heritage, but the only German food that came with them is the kind of boring, old-fashioned traditional stuff that poor farmer immigrants latch onto when they move overseas. The great breads, cured meats, etc either didn't make the jump or got dissolved into general American cuisine.
Sad to hear. I live in Kentucky and we have Germantown, Kentucky; where the bread, cured meats, cheese, and lager traditions are well maintained…. The really good deserts however did not manage to survive the journey.
I grew up in Vienna and my Mom's even German but I'm hard-pressed to think of German dishes that aren't also Austrian dishes 😅 I'm not sure what's popular up north really. Best I can do is recommend Austrian dishes lol Käsespätzle, Schwammerlsauce mit Semmelknödel, Cordon Bleu, Kaiserschmarrn, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (ok that one's German 😆) None of these even have Sauerkraut even tho I do love me some 😋 If you're ever in the area, dun skimp out on the Turkish food. It's phenomenal, can't recommend enough.
@@chetmanley1885The best representation of british food is a sunday roast. Absolutely fantastic. If somebody finds fault with it it's simply because their tongues have been destroyed by endless chemicals, salt and obtuse spices. However the average brit probably sees a fish and chippy as the national dish.
@@Hyundaii10Supercar British people are the only people who I see complain about food being spiced and its so funny to me. Not helping the stereotype at all
British Cuisine is far from the best but people act like you cant find any good food there. There's a lot of banger (pun intended) dishes and with good research you can find tons of great food.
People don’t genuinely think no good food exists there, it’s just that the food that is considered traditional British food online makes it look like they haven’t realized world war 2 ended and are still subsisting on rations.
Also annoying when people say British curry arn’t British, they use similar spices but they are no ware near the same as Indian curries they are designed for the British pallet. We don’t even use the same meats Therefore they are British. most Indian curry’s don’t even use meat. And yea they are probably more renouned but i don’t think either one is better they are just different.
Just stop, go to any country and you will easily find restaurant selling only traditional cuisine of the country. Meanwhile in Britain it is mostly foreign food and flavours. Stop trying to cope and accept reality. Rhetoric about how British food is underrated are just pure COPE. It absolutely deserves its reputation. Also, food culture in Britain is still trash.
You don't get to brag about diversity in Britain when the white nationalists are gaining ground and Islamophobia is on the rise again. Why yes, Muslims from Pakistan also make curry.
Garlic longganisa absolutely slaps, but if I had to pick either the Phils or UK for sausages I'd still pick the UK. And I dunno about the rest of Asia but I do agree sausages in Japan are not great. Be especially wary of anything labelled "chorizo" if you ever go there.
@@Sparkle0310-k9w Connor and Garnt touched on this once. They agreed that Thai sausages are really good but a lot of it has to do with spices they used to enhance the flavours to make up for the meat quality
Other than it seeming quite lazy, I don't think many people (inside and outside the UK) have an awareness of past events, like having strict rationing for 15 years does things to a generation... And then their their children... Being a very north country limits what can be grown in abundance - full English breakfast and our cakes/biscuits and the cottage/Shepard's pie somewhat redeem us though
@JStack er of course other places have had food shortages of various causes, but that isn't relevant to this discussion. Different people and groups deal with issues in different ways, and the "reputation" for bad food comes from American whilst we was still in the middle of rationing or just after. The food here now is pretty nice actually
Is lazy a bad thing? Consider a change of perspective, change lazy to accessible. Now is it a bad thing? In Britain, because our food is so simple and still fairly nutritional, even vulnerable people can manage to cook (well "cook") something and keep themselves going, which means they have a far better chance of managing on their own. They don't need to be waited on 24/7 to ensure they eat, just teach them how to use a toaster and a microwave. Beans on toast can get you through tough times. I can't cook, if it wasn't for the simplicity of some of our food, I'd have starved. I don't think I'd have survived so easily elsewhere, not without being a greater burden. I suppose it's not something you'd consider as a normie.
British food emphasises the meat flavours over raw spices, it's why our food doesn't sit well with people whose idea of flavor is "Can I burn my tongue on this?"
English cookery is fantastic. What you see here is convince food slapped down on a plate. Actual British and Irish food is not just a collection of ultra processed items with condiments.
I mean if roast and mash is what you're selling your country food options are trash lmao. toxic waste pit , what makes you think UK is not? the thing is you don't have to eat ultra processed foods in the US dudes are just lazy
theres a lot of factors to why "traditional" british cuisine is so bland, but one of the main things is quite literally the puritans decided that food and life shouldnt be enjoyable / that enjoying things is a sin. not to mention that a lot of working class folk didn't have access to a lot of produce that they were farming in great quantities - that went to the landlords. working class food is shit looking because it is shit. its a lot of struggle meals and growing up with very little money and access to the poorest quality ingredients there is. fish and chips is a staple, but its only "good" in the minds of brits because we sort of had to. our economy and culinary advancements were severely limited by austerity and poverty & pretty much everywhere outside of the south of england is heavily underfunded. the major multicultural hubs are all the expensive, wealthy places like london & london adjacent. ww2 somehow improved the average consumption of veggies and the like for working class people but unfortunately vegetables here, especially fresh, are so fucking expensive that a lot of working class people just can't afford it. the amount of hours we work and the prep needed for fresh veg isnt viable for a lot of us anymore, so you see a lot of meals from tins or frozen foods or processed foods or takeout because its quick, easy, and accessible. even though its more expensive in the long term, when you dont have decent benefits & your landlords fuck you over by kicking you out every couple years to up rent, a lot of brits live on paycheck to paycheck.
As usual people seem to forget we have fantastic sea food, cheese second only to france, brilliant vegetables and fruit as usual British quisine is judged on simple dishes and junk food, same as the US who also have some fantastic food.
Personally for cheese I say it’s Spain, Britain, Italy, the Dutch, Mexico, then France. I am not trying to knock French cheese btw, it just kinda all tastes the same to my pallet; so I rank it lower. Spanish cheese to me is #1 because it’s in you face for about a minute, but doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
@@hosswik You can't seriously be putting all of those nations cheese above the UK. I agree that France should be nudged down the list a bit, but UK has to be somewhere in the top 3. Dutch cheese is underrated though I agree.
Sorry for the confusion, I put them in order. The only country that on average I think makes better cheese than the UK is Spain… and that has less to do with Spain having better cheese… and more to do with the UK having enough bad cheese options, that it pulls down their average enough for Spain to narrowly take the lead.
It seems bad because alot of people tend to compare it with other cuisines on the continent like French, Italian and Spanish cuisine which are easily some of the best in the world. When you compare the UK with Germany, Netherlands, all the nordic and eastern european countries its absolutely on par and in most cases better.
He ain't lying! British and German food looks bad but it tastes so good! They need to add some salt and pepper to make it taste better. IMO I love fish and chips but it has to be done right or it sucks. Shepherd's pie is great
@@thewanderer4781 It allows the customer to add however much salt/pepper they want to the food. When I cook food I prefer the taste when the salt and pepper is added afterwards, unless I'm roasting something then I add it before roasting.
@@handsomedio5916 Its cod it doesn't have much flavour, the thing is people prefer it to other fish because its not too "fishy" they tried replacing it with Pollock but people don't really like it. Also, when I catch myself a flounder I personally throw cajun seasoning on it and cook it with red bell peppers and red onion.
@@YrCleddyf that feels weird I mean i kinda see the appeal to add more salt to your taste but i thought adding salt and pepper when cooking is more proper cooking I feel weird if you just want to taste the ingredient,and eat cooked food,blandly
You can shit all over north european food, but mashed potatoes with some garlic and butter are alone a fulfilling dish. We don't need to cheat by oversaturating it with spices. It's filling, nutritious, easy to make, and satisfying. Most of all, it's simple. It's really hard to make a perfect steak, but it's pretty easy to make good mapo tofu, most of the work comes with the prepackaged spicy bean sauce and other concoctions.
No its the exact opposite. Its very easy to make a perfect steak, its very hard to make a perfect mapo tofu. Comparing a prepackaged mapo tofu to a real mapo tofu is like comparing a steak you found at Walmart vs wagyu. Steak is literally one of the easiest things to make.
@Alsry1 Agreed. If you want a good steak put it in a ziplock bag or a Tupperware bowl with a lid. Sprinkle both sides with black pepper, paprika, seasoned salt, and thyme. Then add in some soy sauce, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, and about a teaspoon of Szechuan sauce. Then fill with just enough water to just barely completely submerge the steak entirely. Close the container and give it a good shake to mix the marinade, and let it sit for a few hours. Dump the contents of the container into a heated oiled pan, and cook to almost rare, then add in some sliced peppers and veggies of your choice and cook till your preferred steak degree. Simple and easy and you only need a single pan and a spatula if you used the ziplock bag. Mapo tofu is really hard IMO on the other hand, unless you can stop caring about if you break the tofu.
@ghosthunter0950 I think you are just joking with me lol, but just in case.. I actually did, I said to “cook till your preferred steak degree” though I did forget to mention using the spatula to stir the veggies while waiting for the steak to cook. Also if you are not good with heat control it’s 100% okay to use a Meat thermometer to cheat. I don’t judge on if people like rare, medium-rare, medium, medium well, or well done…. With raw, well-well done, burnt, and it’s dead Jim; I however 100% reserve the right to point, laugh, and make fun of you lol.
i'm from the uk and can quite happily say I have never once in my life ordered bloody chips from a Chinese just get rice or noodles tf? The only chips I would try from a chinese are like those spice bags from Ireland they look like a good snack but still not something you get delivered for dinner.
I’m pretty sure it’s a North West (Liverpool and Manchester) thing mostly. But certainly in Liverpool, almost every Chinese is also a chippy, and almost every chippy is also a Chinese
I mean, most food is innately a very dull color and your view of it comes from experience from childhood. Only people that have either grown up eating very healthy with colorful salads, or very unhealthily with garbage food with colorings will look at something like a Roast Dinner or Shephards Pie and think it "looks" awful. Anyone that's grown up knows that gravy mince meat with mash and sweetcorn is the tastiest thing on planet earth, while having the best contrast of textures.
@@osmacar5331 The correct term is "fromage en grains". You can't out-poutine a Québécois. (But fair enough, I'm not very aware of the English terminology, thanks for the correction)
People want to paint British food as all bad, but they don't have Yorkshire puddings so they're the real losers in the end. Meanwhile in London I can go get virtually any cuisine I want from the world over. American, Mexican, Italian, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, whatever. And it's authentic quality because people migrated here to share their cooking with people who enjoy variety. That's what people miss when they make these stupid assumptions. As if all Brits just want bland. If that were true, our urban centres wouldn't have such mad culinary diversity. I'd bet only the US beats us in that regard.
Tbf when I visited London for the first time this year, I felt the Asian cuisines kinda lacking. Sure there's some authentic chains but a lot of the restaurants were kinda "white-washed" in a way, like 90's NYC Chinatown type of joints. I've noticed the past couple of years in Toronto, there's been a trend of more modern, mainland type of restaurants you'd see in China pop up here, and I wish other places would have those too.
Y’all are getting there but currently Canada, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea also have you all beat. If you guys keep up the recent trend (like finally having American BBQ joints) I expect you to pass South Korea and possibly Mexico within a decade. Japan has crazy diversity in their Vending Machine game btw, and may end up even surpassing the U.S. if they haven’t already.
People who clown on other countries cuisines never really tried their food tbh. You can find dishes that suit your taste everywhere and even then there might be hughe differences depending on the region. I'm a German who lives in Switzerland and the swiss clwon on german food and vice versa but like, there ar amazing dishes in german cuisine and amazing ones in swiss cuisine. Most of the time it's just people sticking to weird stereotypes.
I am an Asian immigrant living in the UK and British food is bad. The food culture here is awful so the standard is low. British people just use their national pride to compensate for everything.
Honestly, I can't blame them. I definitely don't wanna taste British food based on how it looks. And I'm Russian myself, our food isn't particularly good-looking either, but it's still not even close to that.
Comments: OMG, British food is disgusting. It's so bland and awful and has no spices. Me: Interesting. Please stand up if you have actually tried British food and aren't just basing your opinions on internet memes and stereotypes? **Crickets**
British food doesn't have a lot of spices because the focus is usually on bringing out the meat flavor, which is why Yorkshire puddings are made with gravy, but also the spices are usually found in the ubiquitous sausages.
American breakfast is high quality unless you're talking about McDonald's or something. At least in rural places it is, Southern people will riot if the suasge isn't good
In regards to Korean food in Britain, I don't think we were "slow to adopt it", I just think there wasn't much of a distinct Korean ex-pat community in the UK until recently. In London, for example, we've had really decent Vietnamese food for years in places like Hackney because we had a sizeable Vietnamese population in that area. I think Koreans traditionally would head to America because of their ties to each other's countries but, for whatever reason, in the last 20 years Koreans have started coming to the UK in large numbers, often to study. I walk around parts of London now and there are Koreans everywhere (& I think it's great by the way) and with that many are settling here now and they've brought their food with them. We're not going to 'adopt' another culture's cuisine when there are too few representatives of that culture actually here to show us how to do it properly, that would be weird. Brits get a lot of stick for our food but, the fact is, we're actually pretty open to foreign foods - Indian food being a staple here since the 1800s is the obvious example. On a separate note - American Food. You guys just can't do proper cheese, sorry.
@@Sleepysod fair, I ain’t been to New Malden specifically. In general though, Koreans have traditionally settled in America rather than Europe and whilst there may have been a decent number in New Malden there are LOADS of Koreans everywhere in London these days, and that feels relatively recent. I could be wrong though, I’m not basing that on any statistics, just observation.
Most Nordic, British, Irish, north German and Lowlands, food is very similar, it’s all cooked meat, potatos and some other vegetables with a sauce I have seen Americans slate British food but glorify Irish food, even though it is literally exactly the same.
The issue with fast food in the UK is that it varies so drastically from one place to another. Theres also the issue of some fast food places [namely kebab shops] being used to launder money. Theres two Chinese resteraunts near me one is pretty gross and the other is S tier, I think the difference is that the crappy resteraunt is owned by a guy that only cares about money and the good resteraunt is owned by a guy that moved here from Hong Kong years ago with his wife and loves what he does. Its the same story with Chippies, we had a "top chippy" and a "bottom chippy" in my village, no one went to the top chippy because the food was terrible whilst the bottom chippy was always packed. Sadly the owners moved back to North Wales and the new owners food is terrible, the portion sizes are terrible and the pricing is double what it was under the old owners.
@@Lonewolf_121 Not really, fast food chains are usually fairly consistant. In the UK most of our takeaways are independantly owned and taste vastly different from one another even if they offer the same menu items. Theres three kebab shops in my area all ran by guys from the Middle-East and Turkey. The shop closest to me is ran by two guys from Iraq and Afghanistan that have a passion for cooking and they migrated here to escape the wars in their countries, they use fresh ingredients and their kebabs are the best I've ever eaten. The 2nd closest is ran by Turkish guys that came here like 10 years ago to make money on the fast food industry.. I've been given expired drinks there and one time there was a spider carcass in my food which ultimately stopped me eating there. Their kebab was mid at best. The final place is again ran by Turkish guys that came here 10 or so years ago to make money on fast food. This is by far the worst location because they use exipred/expiring ingredients, they undercook the food and they mess up your order, this is one of those businesses that I believe to be money laundering since its been open for over 10 years despite no one eating there (except people not from the area since they don't know how bad it is) The difference here is that one group of people opened a takeaway because they like food and cooking whilst the others opened a takeaway purely as a means to make money with the latter taking it to the extreme with their expiring ingredients.
@@YrCleddyf Not to mention how much it varies by menu item and even what time you're ordering. My mum worked at an Indian takeaway place for a while and their popular curries (Tikka Masala and Madras IIRC) would get made at the start of the day and reheated when people ordered them, I think they sometimes even stayed made for a couple of days. Hygiene wasn't amazing there either, so you could maybe get a good Madras in the morning but by the evening it would be a risky proposition. All their other curries were made-to-order and pretty good though. You also always have the fish and chips shop that does good fish and the one that does good chips, sometimes they're the same shop but often they aren't. Sometimes you even have to make the call between the shop that does the best-tasting fish and the shop that properly de-bones their fish.
Tbh I think a lot of those perceptions of Chinese takeout/restaurants here in the UK that they mentioned come from those older places that have been around for years, especially in the smaller towns and villages that were heavily adapted for the tastes of the average Brit back in the 70s or whatever decade those businesses started popping up. In the big cities these days (where the populations are generally more diverse) these days you can find places with much more authentic food. Some of it is still going to be adapted somewhat for the "British palette", but if you want a more authentic menu you can probably find it if you know where to look. But that goes with your point I guess that it varies majorly depending on where you live.
What really gets me is when you see those videos on TikTok of "tavern food" and it's just British food but bc they don't call it "British" people actually like it. Cottage Pie is one of my favorite dishes of all. It feels like grandma's cooking even though I'm from the other side of the continent. Especially now that it's so cold and gloomy it hits home.
I think we can also attribute the explosive korean food boom to korean englishman, and it would e interestig if you guys can have them in the podcast like comparing the entertainment industry and how different it is being a youtuber covering japan and youtuber covering korea.
It's not totally unrealistic. A roast dinner is a fine thing, if you can cook it. I make a great one, I wouldn't let my wife do it. Scotch eggs can be great, but if you buy one from the supermarket it's like eating a sponge.
Kind of, British recipes are great and we have many great chefs like Ramsay, Marco or the insane Blumenthal (look up the fat duck) but many people of Kay's generation grew up during rationing or when the country was very poor and the war also destroyed many regional variations (nearly every town or village had their own cheese).
@@John-kc4cg Kay didn't grow up during rationing lol. Maybe her grandparents did though. Kay makes the food like that because thats her unique selling point and why people watch.
england has the best fish and chips. their food may consist on different shades of brown but it is effective food, it fills you up tastes good and perfect for cold weather
Tbh the thing with British food is that a lot of it is easy to make baked goods and comforting/fulfilling food, rather than "dishes". Pies, pastries, cakes, biscuits, and soups/broths. That's just what we do, and we do that very fucking well tbh
To make something like shepherds pie look good you just neatly cut a square of it, put it on the plate neatly with some greens and carrots to add colour and drizzle over some gravy. But what is the point when its going to be inhaled in like 5 minutes while you watch goggle box...
There shall be no green or orange on my plate. Shepards pie looks great with just brown meat and beige potato, add a little cheese and pepper, perfect evening meal. And forget cutting a square, just eat it out of the dish you baked it in. Saves on washing up, but it may upset the family if you are lucky enough to have one.
3:32 Poutine isn't just chips and gravy, notably-- Proper poutine is fresh cheese curds over chips (fries) with hot gravy poured over top. You know cheese curds are fresh when they're squeaky when you chew them.
If you want British cuisine, go to a rural restaurant. They serve dishes that were ubiquitous in households across the Isle prior to the rationing convention that stuck around after the War ended - it’s for this reason that a lot of (mostly working-class) slop you see is what’s taken for ‘British cuisine’ by foreigners.
Bruh Scandinavia and the Netherlands are worse than the British, British PR is just horrific. (For somewhat reasonable reasons, but people conflating modern uk common people with the past aristocrat war crime lovers is a bit dumb) Never mind, the stupid memes and ignorance of context/history. It shouldn't be surprising that people who live in the Mediterranean where more "vibrant" raw foods can be grown in abundance would be able to therefore create foods with them. A lot of modern foods that countries are known for come from the fact the common populace could make them and there is no way that any person from the UK would have been able to come close to a country closer to the equator. A lot of the time when people say "British food is gross" it often falls flat to me given that it is usually just what the common people in the past simply HAD to eat. Nevermind, that the woman of the UK were put to work and stuff earlier than most countries and especially due to the World Wars and the austerity/class divide that the UK continues to live through. Many people call British food "survival food" which a lot of the time, yes that is what it literally is. How can you maximise what you do have to make something good. Which given the ingredients I would say is usually fulfilled. Now modern days, people are able to be introduced to more outside influences and can now finally try to do something more with food but I find people online just constantly barrage people who are British and trying to cook and it is just kind of sad. (Be the way this is coming from someone who is from an immigrant family to the UK so the above doesn't apply to me, I am just talking about what I sometimes see other people around me end up going through) And as I stated before, the memes and the dog piling on British people do not help. Especially when the reason the hate(?) is justified is due to past colonial exploits which is often far removed from anyone they are actually criticising, it just looks dumb.
The hate isn't justified so no need for the question mark. Being upset that your great great great grandfathers lost to a bunch of pale fellas with teeth like a bucket of smashed crabs doesn't justifying hating them and aspects of their culture over a century after the fact. Such scar collecting will eventually bite you on the arse when you realise that your own nation is no better. Most likely a lot worse. That's why it's so stupid. There's also the issue of blaming the hammer, completely ignoring the wielder.
If you say British cuisine is just fish fingers, chips and beans thats like saying the only food that represents America is the Big Mac. Personally I will not eat overly spicy food that burns my tongue. Is it any kind of surprise that traditional British cuisine is based around what we can grow here, which does not include spices? In recent years we have adopted foods from all around the world, so everyone can get whatever they want.
2:27 Filipino here! Does Tender Juicy hotdog count as a sausage? I love Filipino hotdog, but I don't like longganisa 😅 3:08 I don't think it looks like worse lasagna, am I crazy?? It looks appetizing
As a Filipino who was raised in the Bri'ish isles specifically in the valleys in South Wales. Hotdogs and Sausages are completely different foods that sort of look the same but taste completely different. Kinda like tocino and bacon. Having tasted both Tender Juicy (with and without the cheese inside) and a good sausage. I prefer a good sausage whether it be british or German.
When people complain about British food, my go to rebuttal is Shepherds Pie. Like its sauteed beef, with onions, carrot, peas, flavoured with spices and Worcestershire sauce, topped with mash potato, and if you want, grated cheese on top, then baked. Its delicious.
It only “looks horrible” because the vast majority of people online are idiots who think they are master chefs😂 a full English breakfast would be an amazing start
Americans will claim Pizza and Mexican food as their national cuisine, even though it's developed from meals from immigrants' home countries but then say "Britain doesn't use spices" when some of the world's most popular curry dishes were invented in the UK.
Can y’all Brits stop this? I lived in the UK and while i can say the British cuisine wasn’t terrible, let’s not get into wars about originality cause the Heinz beans you all love so much aren’t even British.
@@MoebiusChungusthe issue with these kind of arguments is that a lot of food in the west was inspired by each other and even by some eastern stuff. Meanwhile the east countries have been more culturally separate from the west so they went their own way.
The issue with French food is that people don't know what it is. British food is French but less pretentious and with more lamb, pastry, and potato; take any French stew and put it inside pastry and you've got a British pie.
A lot of our dishes are probably supposed to be paired with sauces and jams and chutneys, but for whatever reason a lot of people don't bother with those.
My partner's Thai, and she loves British food. Unfortunately, her favourite dish is sausage, chips and beans 😅 But I've used the fact that a Thai person (who hates Italian food, fwiw) enjoys British cuisine to argue that our food isn't as bad as everyone's convinced it is. She didn't come with the preconception that it would be bad which probably helps a lot.
Vegas buffets absolutely make their money back by the simple fact they make it so people don't need to leave the casino to eat. The whole system is set up to mess with your sense of time, keep you in that building as long as possible and convince you you're getting a good deal. It's a buffet to make you overeat to "get your moneys worth", all rich quality heavy food that makes you wanna sit down and digest for 2 hours.
My theory is every other countries food is meant to taste nice, British food is meant to be hearty and fill you up. What other food fills you up more than British.
I know a few others that can tie with the Brits, but none that can surpass… unless you count the USA, Canada, Central America, and South America technicality (the food is mostly equally filling, just with larger portions sizes, which I believe shouldn’t count in this context.)
Not defending it, but I think the thing with chips with oriental food is that the oriental tastes great ... but it doesnt fill you up. Nobody has the patience to make the multiple different dishes required to make it filling so you just slap the chips on the side for bulk.
bubble and squeak is underappreciated. its just a delicious filled hash brown like dish, or latka. usually made with left over veggies and turned into a fried potato cake
Alright im defending as any culture has the right to defend its own beloved food! Im not sure connor knows much about the good side of british food (based on this opinion an that he had to remind himeself of our food lmao bro didnt even mention any welsh food like the full welsh!) as someone who actually cooks proper british properly (as in with love, care and pride) what you get in cities is not a good reflection on the cuisine (unless its a good restraunt) and if you think for a second you'll know why Imo if you want the true feel on quality british food i always go to little villages in the countryside they usually have there ingredience come locally at high quality alot of people dont realise some of the best produce in the world comes from the UK BUT we use very little of our own ingredients because the gouvernment are bastards an make foreign ingredients cheaper to import than it is to use our own ingredients, unless someone is local to where it is produced such as small buisnesses (eg villages) the food looks, and feels more loving on average maybe do to the fact that the countryside is slower an more love goes into cooking but yeah Also some seaside towns out of the way have amazing seafood at high quality because they arent heavily commercialised! Im abit of a nerd when it comes to british food being british myself and cities imo is where the worst of it is found always seems to be lazy. The reason i recogn its better in villages is because they dont have huge influxes of foreign cuisine like we do in cities, so they use the cuisines they know more readily but with technique, cant beat locally sorced produce and even sometimes foraged! Fish and chips for example, there are a few that do it in the true traditional style and those are the true gems, such as the places that still use coal based ovens! Because at that point its a labour of love its a pain to use those ovens, and they need servicing an care more often! So you would want the food to be upto par if your putting in so much effort for the ovens! Btw if you want a true experience of unique cuisine in the uk that is presented beautifully i recomend getting the Welsh breakfast at "the Welsh house" in Swansea it is in terms of all the uk countries breakfast has some very unique foods on there ( it is a mix of animal protein and seafood with some tasty toast and such) it was rated quite high an the quality looks amazing the ingredients are all local aswell they try to show off welsh produce and food an its done beautifully! I think any culture has good food its just knowing where to find it
I would go further and say almost all other nations fit this criteria too lol. It doesn’t help that it’s usually the bland, basic, strange, and simple dishes that get shown off. People are naturally lazy, so they judge by what they see online/on t.v; rather than looking for dishes from that country that actually suit their own palettes.
No. Indiana might have no room to talk shit on British food, but Louisiana? Louisiana can talk all the shit it wants on British food. American food is probably A tier, with only India and Mexico being better, and is on par with China, France, Italy and Turkey. Get away from McDonald's, find a small mom and pop, and you'll have some truly amazing food in America.
@@kayrosis5523 I come from NC and let me tell you nothing in the world beat whole hog with a vinegar based bbq sauce. Honestly the whole south just kills it for food and anyone acting like the US has bad food is just blind
British food was hit hard by the wars. Being on an island, food was very difficult to deal with. They had to import a lot of their food. After ww2, rationing in britain continued until like 1955 because the lingering food shortages. American cuisine was also hit hard by the wars like how we use no spices now either xD But also public education in both countries has hurt cooking the worst because we dont teach cooking or home ec. No one knows how to cook so everyone lives on fast food, junk food or simple bland meals.
The deal with British food is, it only works if you put effort into it. If the gravy sucks, if you don't make the potatoes well, if you don't season it.. then it's going to suck. But if you can do all that stuff right and add some extra flair. (Alchohol boils down into some really nice sauces and gravies), you’ll end up with some really tasty home food. And that's the best way I can describe it, homely. There's nothing better than sitting down at a bowl of gravy and seasoned roast potatoes, it tastes delicious, it fills you up, and it keeps you nice and warm. Tldr: British food = Peak wartime food. We never left the war and just made it part of our cultural meals. Ultimately, food is produced to get chewed and then swallowed. As long as it tastes good, and it keeps you from starving, any more effort going into a meal is a waste of time and energy if you can just slap together potatoes, sausages and gravy into one of the best british meals.
English Chinese is amazing! Nothing better than for shredded chilli beef, egg fried rice and chips with both the curry sauce and sweet and sour. It's absolutely scintillating!! Also- chips are still everywhere, including every Chinese You go to. Thanks for reading my Ted talk ^^.
I think a lot of British food gets forgotten about because it was carried to the US. A great example being apple pie. And even the humble sandwich itself was British, named after the earl of Sandwich who supposedly invented it while wanting a meal to eat while playing cards. The ones that feel more distinctly British were the Victorian foods that came after the colonisation of the US.
@@Ash_Wen-liTaste over artificial presentation drenched in spices to the point you taste the spices rather than the food? I'll choose the former, I want to taste my food, not taste anything but spices thank you.
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Poutine isn’t “chips and gravy”. Cheese curds are essentially impossible to find in the UK. They need to be squeaky and fresh. It’s a gravy sauce, not mere gravy. Etc etc And no one said it was a complex or complicated dish. There’s plenty more delicious Canadian foods.
British cuisine doesn't only look bad. What's really good in the UK are foreign restaurants. For example: Chinese restaurants in France don't taste anything like the real deal. The Chinese (and others) had to french up their dishes for the local taste. Chinese (and others) restaurants in the UK never had to adapt their recipes to the local taste, as there isn't any.
The trope of Americans and hating on beans on toast when they invented the damn thing 😂 then they’ll say “American as apple pie” invented I England. It’s just brain rot
Reminds me of Brits hating on Americans saying soccer, when they Oxford where the ones who called it that when they helped introduce the sport to the U.S. Same with organizing by month, day, year. It was think tanked by a British bank, as a way to improve filing productivity. They tested it in both the UK and the U.S. In the UK productivity went marginally up but the workers kept complaining. In the U.S productivity went up by 35% with minimal complaints, impressing the government enough to co-opt it.
Beans on sourdough toast is still eaten regularly in my area, and I live in the southern United States. Though to be fair it also comes with your choice of fried ham or bacon on the toast too.
@SweetLotusDreams I know you all do 😆. My comment was directed at the war rations guy. A lot of people here in the states make it out like it’s a weird outdated dish, that magically disappeared in the U.S after WWII (for context it got mainly pushed out of the way by Jell-O, casserole, and frozen dinners in the 50’s thanks to some really strong marketing campaigns 😢) I like to remind them that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans that still eat it to this day… we just moved on from Heinz Beans… and use mostly molasses or bourbon based beans, instead of tomato based.
Literally the only things US has the English beat is on the amount of JUNK chemicals in the foods, practically most meats taste the same in both countries.
@PointlessRantz you seem to miss the point, cajun and barbecued meats are good but it's not like it's mutually exclusive to only being in US cuisine. Think the main issue we have in England is presentation of the dishes we serve and lack of variety in the taste selection, most foods are clean which isn't necessarily bad it just becomes quite mundane. - Never got the chance to travel south of USA to try the food but I'd love too however I can only go off the basis of my time in NYC which like I said most food was pretty subpar. Drinks and snacks I'll admit the Americans have us beat hands down but it's all on what your preference is.
@@iamthecommentman I agree if love to travel the south to try some real American food. The issue is that is the only real American dish that isn't just stolen. Half of the wikipage for American foods are non American foods! They gave us eggs Benedict, hash brown and a few prawn dishes.
"British chinese restaurant food had always a lot of chips" chinese restaurant chips are always so really good for some reason, they are always spectacular
In my experience, the best food is messy. I've been to posh restaurants with the most elegant presentation, and the flavour was pretty mediocre. Although it was quite hard to tell what it tasted like, as the portions were microscopic, so there was barely any opportunity to taste anything. This week I treated myself to a slow roasted shoulder of lamb and a medley or roasted root veg, cooked at home. It worked out about £3.50 a portion for 6 big portions, and was fucking delicious. That's about 5 to 10 times cheaper than you'd pay in any restaurant for the same dish. Is it British? I have no idea, and really don't care.
Garnt, we added cheese curds. Chips and gravy is just chips and gravy, and you can't just use any fuckin' gravy with poutine. As long as you have the base of chips, curds and gravy, you can also add a LOT of other stuff. Your lack of knowledge about poutine is just embarrassing, sorry for you babe. Chips and gravy is just a snack, poutine can legit be a whole ass meal.
Yeah, for anyone who honestly doesn't know, google the menu for like Smokes Poutinerie, as an example. And that's just what one place has to offer. If you're cooking it at home you can add literally whatever you want/have. As long as you have the base 3 items, there's no other sort of restrictions, no "if you add this it stops being poutine", no "adding that goes against the very nature of poutine".
The best way I could describe english food is comfort food. 99% of it was made for a specific necessity, like how pasties were made for miners to have a quick but fulfilling meal whilst in the mines. Its all comfort food in that sense.
Thats mostly because younger generation dont exactly love vegetables tbh Also this is british food in the city experience roast dinners have all sorts of roasted vegetables herbs an such Infact the uk has an increased number of people who forage so wild salads an cooking with wild ingredients is increasingly better
My problem with English food is that the only seasoning it has usually is just salt, some herbs and hopes and dreams. It isn't bad but coming from a mexican family, its bland in comparison.
I always find it funny when people assume we don't like spicy stuff in the UK. Even leaving aside how popular Indian curry is here, go eat a teaspoon of English mustard and get back to me.
This is because British food is focused more on how food or is prepared or cooked rather than what is added to it. Same with a lot of other European culinary traditions. We just get the worst rep because Yanks get the easiest exposure to our food because we both speak English. Plus, if you look at the history of why spices were added to food, it's not the prettiest picture 😅
Recently visited New York as a Brit. We visited an Irish owned pub and asked the waitress for beans on toast for my young niece. She had to go ask the chef if he could do it haha When it arrived, it was a bowl of beans with 2 slice of toast on a separate plate. But the plate was too small to pour the beans over. And this from the nation that thinks putting peanut butter and jam in a sandwich is acceptable 😂
As a British Indian who grew up with both cuisines, British is fine and definitely not as bad as the memes make it out to be but it's mid in comparison to other cuisines. Definitely has some nice food but it pales in comparison to what other cuisines have to offer.
Everyone insults British (and by extension a lot of "white" American) food without realizing they only see those foods as "bland" or "unoriginal" because it's a part of their culture. They just don't realize it. Typical westerners thinking Western culture isn't a culture of its own. People here are whining about a sandwich and fries when a rice ball is way simpler and basic... But Japanese culture is "exotic," so it doesn't get that treatment. You guys are being insanely Euro-centric without even realizing it.
I'm surprised Shepherds Pie isn't too popular outside of the UK. It tastes amazing, and it's a british dish I think actually has a decent presentation, but maybe people just assume it's worse lasagna like yous said even though they taste so different.
IMO too many British pubs outside the UK don't do it right (not warm enough in the middle) , fish and chips can be hit or miss.
I think this is the second most popular UK dish abroad aside from fish and chips (maybe I'm biased cause I ate it growing up)
But usually it's cottage pie labelled as shephard's pie
I’m literally eating shepherds pie rn bruh it’s fire
@@Ssj_tainaka that's great to hear. Shepherd's pie deserves more love from people around the world
I ate it at a local British pub that’s owned by a guy from England. It tasted rather…nasty. I’m probably just used to my dad’s Italian cooking. 🙃
English food was hit by a few catastrophes back to back. Puritans came up with the idea that trying to enjoy anything with finery and unneeded additions was evil, early industry put millions into the wost sanitary conditions imaginable for generations, everything was boiled and the world wars really killed the rest, they knew they'd be cut off from trade and changed agriculture to food grown in abundance.
The the places we consider good cooks didn't industrialise much if at all.
Ironically WW2 actually improved the diet for a lot of working people as their vegetable intake went up massively.
That it was served up as blitz soup was another matter, nutritious but not the best dish. Probably as good as you're getting for it being cooked in a tube station though.
@@chetmanley1885kinda yes kinda no, it depended pretty heavily on when you’re talking about. Sure, at the beginning it was definitely a improvement for the impoverished… but by the end? Gods no.
Fucking no way in hell.
Our foods supplies were stretched thin as paper and our trade was practically nonexistent. When you started making recipes for fake bananas you know people are desperate lol
Fr tho, that’s why our food isn’t necessarily spiced, you couldn’t import a lot of spices at the time.
@@chetmanley1885Vegetables are mostly meaningless. Meat is the only nutrition worth consuming.
That, and the availability of good, varied food has continued to remain behind the rest of the world from the end of the wars to today thanks to a mixture of several economic crisises and deliberate, government-enforced poverty. Britain didn't really recover from the Second World War at all, and only came out of rationing and absolute squalor in the mid-1950s. There was a very brief window from the 1960s to about the mid-80s when there was sufficient social and economic security for British cuisine to really develop (and it did, this is where Balti and other interesting styles appeared), but it was cut short by de-industrialisation and neoliberalism driving most of the UK back into poverty. Socio-economic factors improved somewhat in the 2000s thanks to the New Labour governments, but were immediately driven into even deeper poverty by Austerity policies.
I don't think people outside of the UK actually realise how bad it is today. A considerable amount of the population relies on charity (food banks) just to get enough food to survive. Many families are choosing between eating and heating their homes on a daily basis. Malnourishment problems that should be eliminated in a first-world nation, like scurvy and rickets, are now commonplace in urban areas. And make no mistake, this is all intentional. For the last decade, multiple British governments have decided that this entirely acceptable, that people who cannot afford basic human necessities simply deserve it. And all their friends in the press trot out excuses about "economics" and "benefits fraud".
Cuisine simply can't develop when your nation's political class has decided you should starve.
@@tharkas3077 the definitions of catastrophe we use appear different.
It's just internet brain rot. Most cultures have a bunch of ultra simple working peoples meals that have adapted to work days, preventing long cooking times. Only british food seems to get judged based only on these simple family meals.
it's their whole cuisine they're vehemently proud off. they have some good technical/presentable dishes but they're mostly desserts and not the staple ones.
because other simple meals like pasta pomodoro are very good foods.
But I think the whole world agrees on randome stew of the day
Most countries and cultures just have much better working people’s meals. Bangers and mash is cool but not in a million years would I take it over basic sichuan noodles or a Turkish kebab dish
@Audreythescrub I agree more or less. I can't think of any situation where it would be my number one choice. But the internet acts like it's literally inedible. I just find it's absurd, pretending to be too good for meat and gravy all of a sudden.
@@AudreythescrubNo they don't, most food cultures are pretty boring from the outside. You forget that most cultures are not one of the known ones. Slovenia, Burma, Senegal, Peru, Norway all have their own food cultures, and most of it would be too boring to sell in a restaurant.
The issue with a lot of British foods is that they are brown, Bangers and Mash, shades of Brown, Cornish Pasty, Shepard Pie Cottage Pie, Yorkshire pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Sunday Roast, Steak and Kidney Pie, Cheese and Onion Pasty, Fish and Chips, all varying shades of brown, Exception being Chicken Tikka and that's a radio active red for some reason. They all taste amazing, especially this time of the year when it's cold, wet and gets dark early, they really warm you up.
"...especially this time of the year when it's cold, wet and gets dark early..."
So, just Britain all year 'round? :P
I've made proper British Indian restaurant style chicken tikka and the secret to the colour is insanely potent food colouring powder. This stuff isn't your normal food colouring you use for baking etc. If it gets one something that thing is then orange or red. It stained my hand for weeks.
I had to keep it in it's jar in a plastic container in a bag in another plastic container and use it outside.
Maillard reaction: *makes food taste good and look brown*
The world to Britain: "Why is your food so brown?"
Sheep+herd, shepherd.
@@hmoham i think pies are a very anglo-saxon thing
I don't think British food is gross or even ugly looking. It just FEELS LAZY. Like oh you made a sandwich with fries or chips in the middle. Or wow you put beans on toast. So original
Have you visited UK or is this view based on TikTok/UA-cam/insta?
This is like judging American cuisine on grilled cheese or PB&Js
I’ve been the food at ethnic restaurants is bland usually, and the traditional UK food spots I visited were also lackluster
@ genuinely interested as to where you went and where you are from to be able to compare it?
@Ash_Wen-li look Britain has to stop judging american food and cheese based on kraft singles first
I think SungWon's take on German food is understandable based on his growing up in the Midwest. We have a lot of German heritage, but the only German food that came with them is the kind of boring, old-fashioned traditional stuff that poor farmer immigrants latch onto when they move overseas. The great breads, cured meats, etc either didn't make the jump or got dissolved into general American cuisine.
Sad to hear. I live in Kentucky and we have Germantown, Kentucky; where the bread, cured meats, cheese, and lager traditions are well maintained….
The really good deserts however did not manage to survive the journey.
I grew up in Vienna and my Mom's even German but I'm hard-pressed to think of German dishes that aren't also Austrian dishes 😅
I'm not sure what's popular up north really.
Best I can do is recommend Austrian dishes lol
Käsespätzle, Schwammerlsauce mit Semmelknödel, Cordon Bleu, Kaiserschmarrn, Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (ok that one's German 😆)
None of these even have Sauerkraut even tho I do love me some 😋
If you're ever in the area, dun skimp out on the Turkish food. It's phenomenal, can't recommend enough.
True. German food is great, but you tend to see the most simple and bland versions.
Beef Wellington would be the meal I’d serve if I wanted to defend Britain cuisine
Not for me that one. Pain in the arse for very little reward.
Give me a decent sausage over that any day
@@generalimlerith8356 lamb cobler with cheese scones is how i would.
@@chetmanley1885The best representation of british food is a sunday roast. Absolutely fantastic. If somebody finds fault with it it's simply because their tongues have been destroyed by endless chemicals, salt and obtuse spices.
However the average brit probably sees a fish and chippy as the national dish.
@@Hyundaii10Supercar everytime I remember the national dish is a curry, I always get surprised that it was that over a roast dinner lol
@@Hyundaii10Supercar British people are the only people who I see complain about food being spiced and its so funny to me. Not helping the stereotype at all
British Cuisine is far from the best but people act like you cant find any good food there. There's a lot of banger (pun intended) dishes and with good research you can find tons of great food.
People don’t genuinely think no good food exists there, it’s just that the food that is considered traditional British food online makes it look like they haven’t realized world war 2 ended and are still subsisting on rations.
I swear, British food made well is one of the best kept culinary secrets. The problem is finding somebody who will make it well for you...
Also annoying when people say British curry arn’t British, they use similar spices but they are no ware near the same as Indian curries they are designed for the British pallet. We don’t even use the same meats Therefore they are British. most Indian curry’s don’t even use meat. And yea they are probably more renouned but i don’t think either one is better they are just different.
Just stop, go to any country and you will easily find restaurant selling only traditional cuisine of the country. Meanwhile in Britain it is mostly foreign food and flavours. Stop trying to cope and accept reality. Rhetoric about how British food is underrated are just pure COPE. It absolutely deserves its reputation.
Also, food culture in Britain is still trash.
You don't get to brag about diversity in Britain when the white nationalists are gaining ground and Islamophobia is on the rise again. Why yes, Muslims from Pakistan also make curry.
2:23 "There are no good sausages in Asia."
Meanwhile Southeast Asia (Specifically the Philippines):
Garlic longganisa absolutely slaps, but if I had to pick either the Phils or UK for sausages I'd still pick the UK. And I dunno about the rest of Asia but I do agree sausages in Japan are not great. Be especially wary of anything labelled "chorizo" if you ever go there.
Longanisa is amazing
Food don’t slap
Problem with SEA sausage is they use too much low quality meat. Their seasoning is good like Thai Spicy sausage
@@Sparkle0310-k9w Connor and Garnt touched on this once. They agreed that Thai sausages are really good but a lot of it has to do with spices they used to enhance the flavours to make up for the meat quality
Other than it seeming quite lazy, I don't think many people (inside and outside the UK) have an awareness of past events, like having strict rationing for 15 years does things to a generation... And then their their children... Being a very north country limits what can be grown in abundance - full English breakfast and our cakes/biscuits and the cottage/Shepard's pie somewhat redeem us though
Yeah only the British have had food insecurity
@JStack er of course other places have had food shortages of various causes, but that isn't relevant to this discussion. Different people and groups deal with issues in different ways, and the "reputation" for bad food comes from American whilst we was still in the middle of rationing or just after. The food here now is pretty nice actually
Is lazy a bad thing?
Consider a change of perspective, change lazy to accessible. Now is it a bad thing?
In Britain, because our food is so simple and still fairly nutritional, even vulnerable people can manage to cook (well "cook") something and keep themselves going, which means they have a far better chance of managing on their own. They don't need to be waited on 24/7 to ensure they eat, just teach them how to use a toaster and a microwave. Beans on toast can get you through tough times. I can't cook, if it wasn't for the simplicity of some of our food, I'd have starved.
I don't think I'd have survived so easily elsewhere, not without being a greater burden. I suppose it's not something you'd consider as a normie.
@@systemchrismy guy Ireland is next door 😂😂😂
@Calmzat er I'm aware of Ireland, and it's history - oddly enough they also have no reputation for food when actually the food is pretty good
British food emphasises the meat flavours over raw spices, it's why our food doesn't sit well with people whose idea of flavor is "Can I burn my tongue on this?"
@@nebula8851 yeah, so america.
Ah, so no seasoning is a point of pride?
@Thanaroa ok american. We season our food quite a lot. You lot however, will never know what food is.
@osmacar5331 hit a nerve did I? It was a joke but go off.
@@Thanaroa ok american. Whatever you say.
English cookery is fantastic. What you see here is convince food slapped down on a plate. Actual British and Irish food is not just a collection of ultra processed items with condiments.
Ireland's food scene has blown up in the last 15 years. You'll struggle to find a bad meal.
@@Ricky-oi3wv that's american "food"
People have a hard time eating in some European countries yall just hating
@@myleschance2002 all because it's not a toxic waste pit.
I mean if roast and mash is what you're selling your country food options are trash lmao. toxic waste pit , what makes you think UK is not? the thing is you don't have to eat ultra processed foods in the US dudes are just lazy
theres a lot of factors to why "traditional" british cuisine is so bland, but one of the main things is quite literally the puritans decided that food and life shouldnt be enjoyable / that enjoying things is a sin. not to mention that a lot of working class folk didn't have access to a lot of produce that they were farming in great quantities - that went to the landlords. working class food is shit looking because it is shit. its a lot of struggle meals and growing up with very little money and access to the poorest quality ingredients there is. fish and chips is a staple, but its only "good" in the minds of brits because we sort of had to. our economy and culinary advancements were severely limited by austerity and poverty & pretty much everywhere outside of the south of england is heavily underfunded. the major multicultural hubs are all the expensive, wealthy places like london & london adjacent. ww2 somehow improved the average consumption of veggies and the like for working class people but unfortunately vegetables here, especially fresh, are so fucking expensive that a lot of working class people just can't afford it. the amount of hours we work and the prep needed for fresh veg isnt viable for a lot of us anymore, so you see a lot of meals from tins or frozen foods or processed foods or takeout because its quick, easy, and accessible. even though its more expensive in the long term, when you dont have decent benefits & your landlords fuck you over by kicking you out every couple years to up rent, a lot of brits live on paycheck to paycheck.
As usual people seem to forget we have fantastic sea food, cheese second only to france, brilliant vegetables and fruit as usual British quisine is judged on simple dishes and junk food, same as the US who also have some fantastic food.
Personally for cheese I say it’s Spain, Britain, Italy, the Dutch, Mexico, then France.
I am not trying to knock French cheese btw, it just kinda all tastes the same to my pallet; so I rank it lower.
Spanish cheese to me is #1 because it’s in you face for about a minute, but doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
@@hosswik You can't seriously be putting all of those nations cheese above the UK. I agree that France should be nudged down the list a bit, but UK has to be somewhere in the top 3. Dutch cheese is underrated though I agree.
Sorry for the confusion, I put them in order.
The only country that on average I think makes better cheese than the UK is Spain… and that has less to do with Spain having better cheese… and more to do with the UK having enough bad cheese options, that it pulls down their average enough for Spain to narrowly take the lead.
@2:23 Asians love sausage, you guys just haven't had Lao / Hmong Sausage
As a guy who loves lap cheong this opinion hurts me lmao
Asians eat dogs to be fair
Asians also love really bad sausage. the only people I know who eat hotdogs from a can (yeah) are Chinese students
@@zeno.7519same! I've even made my own
Hmong sausages are the best sausages tbh, especially the extra spicy ones.
It seems bad because alot of people tend to compare it with other cuisines on the continent like French, Italian and Spanish cuisine which are easily some of the best in the world. When you compare the UK with Germany, Netherlands, all the nordic and eastern european countries its absolutely on par and in most cases better.
French,Italian and Spanish lol.italian is a shite version of Chinese. Indian and Chinese are a million times better than all those combined
He ain't lying! British and German food looks bad but it tastes so good! They need to add some salt and pepper to make it taste better. IMO I love fish and chips but it has to be done right or it sucks. Shepherd's pie is great
I always confused,why do you need to add salt and pepper after the cook is done? Why dont just add it when cooking?
Also for fish and chips add something in the batter because the fish is just fking bland
@@thewanderer4781 It allows the customer to add however much salt/pepper they want to the food.
When I cook food I prefer the taste when the salt and pepper is added afterwards, unless I'm roasting something then I add it before roasting.
@@handsomedio5916 Its cod it doesn't have much flavour, the thing is people prefer it to other fish because its not too "fishy" they tried replacing it with Pollock but people don't really like it.
Also, when I catch myself a flounder I personally throw cajun seasoning on it and cook it with red bell peppers and red onion.
@@YrCleddyf that feels weird
I mean i kinda see the appeal to add more salt to your taste but i thought adding salt and pepper when cooking is more proper cooking
I feel weird if you just want to taste the ingredient,and eat cooked food,blandly
You can shit all over north european food, but mashed potatoes with some garlic and butter are alone a fulfilling dish. We don't need to cheat by oversaturating it with spices. It's filling, nutritious, easy to make, and satisfying. Most of all, it's simple.
It's really hard to make a perfect steak, but it's pretty easy to make good mapo tofu, most of the work comes with the prepackaged spicy bean sauce and other concoctions.
No its the exact opposite.
Its very easy to make a perfect steak, its very hard to make a perfect mapo tofu.
Comparing a prepackaged mapo tofu to a real mapo tofu is like comparing a steak you found at Walmart vs wagyu.
Steak is literally one of the easiest things to make.
@Alsry1 Agreed.
If you want a good steak put it in a ziplock bag or a Tupperware bowl with a lid. Sprinkle both sides with black pepper, paprika, seasoned salt, and thyme.
Then add in some soy sauce, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, and about a teaspoon of Szechuan sauce.
Then fill with just enough water to just barely completely submerge the steak entirely.
Close the container and give it a good shake to mix the marinade, and let it sit for a few hours.
Dump the contents of the container into a heated oiled pan, and cook to almost rare, then add in some sliced peppers and veggies of your choice and cook till your preferred steak degree.
Simple and easy and you only need a single pan and a spatula if you used the ziplock bag.
Mapo tofu is really hard IMO on the other hand, unless you can stop caring about if you break the tofu.
@@hosswikbro said nothing about how to actually COOK the steak which is the difficult part.
Really hard to trust anything you say lol.
@ghosthunter0950 I think you are just joking with me lol, but just in case.. I actually did, I said to “cook till your preferred steak degree” though I did forget to mention using the spatula to stir the veggies while waiting for the steak to cook. Also if you are not good with heat control it’s 100% okay to use a Meat thermometer to cheat.
I don’t judge on if people like rare, medium-rare, medium, medium well, or well done…. With raw, well-well done, burnt, and it’s dead Jim; I however 100% reserve the right to point, laugh, and make fun of you lol.
@@ghosthunter0950 sous vide to preferred temp and then sear on each side.
quite literally a fool proof way to cook a perfect steak, no skill required.
What on earth is this??? I had NO idea Abroad in Japan's side kicks had a podcast :D That's hilarious!
Chris is the secret fourth member
Funny cuz I had the same reaction but it was when they just started the podcast. Highly recommend any episodes with Chris or Pete!
@@carlconstantdeflon2373 You have some catching up to do
i'm from the uk and can quite happily say I have never once in my life ordered bloody chips from a Chinese just get rice or noodles tf? The only chips I would try from a chinese are like those spice bags from Ireland they look like a good snack but still not something you get delivered for dinner.
I’m pretty sure it’s a North West (Liverpool and Manchester) thing mostly. But certainly in Liverpool, almost every Chinese is also a chippy, and almost every chippy is also a Chinese
I mean, most food is innately a very dull color and your view of it comes from experience from childhood. Only people that have either grown up eating very healthy with colorful salads, or very unhealthily with garbage food with colorings will look at something like a Roast Dinner or Shephards Pie and think it "looks" awful.
Anyone that's grown up knows that gravy mince meat with mash and sweetcorn is the tastiest thing on planet earth, while having the best contrast of textures.
Hey hey hey. Poutine isn't just chips and gravy. You're forgetting the cheese. It ain't poutine without the cheese.
@@Mercure250 cheese curds. Not cheese. Come my little syrupy denisen. Get it right.
@@osmacar5331 The correct term is "fromage en grains". You can't out-poutine a Québécois.
(But fair enough, I'm not very aware of the English terminology, thanks for the correction)
@Mercure250 you can. But to do that has to be a brit. Where like half the cheeses you know come from.
@osmacar5331The UK doesn’t really do cheese curds.
@osmacar5331 I know way more cheeses from France and Italy than British cheeses.
People want to paint British food as all bad, but they don't have Yorkshire puddings so they're the real losers in the end.
Meanwhile in London I can go get virtually any cuisine I want from the world over. American, Mexican, Italian, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, whatever. And it's authentic quality because people migrated here to share their cooking with people who enjoy variety.
That's what people miss when they make these stupid assumptions. As if all Brits just want bland. If that were true, our urban centres wouldn't have such mad culinary diversity. I'd bet only the US beats us in that regard.
Yorkshire puddings are S tier. Me and one of my uncles have a joke that we fight over the Yorkshire puddings 😂
Tbf when I visited London for the first time this year, I felt the Asian cuisines kinda lacking. Sure there's some authentic chains but a lot of the restaurants were kinda "white-washed" in a way, like 90's NYC Chinatown type of joints.
I've noticed the past couple of years in Toronto, there's been a trend of more modern, mainland type of restaurants you'd see in China pop up here, and I wish other places would have those too.
Y’all are getting there but currently Canada, Mexico, Japan, and South Korea also have you all beat.
If you guys keep up the recent trend (like finally having American BBQ joints) I expect you to pass South Korea and possibly Mexico within a decade.
Japan has crazy diversity in their Vending Machine game btw, and may end up even surpassing the U.S. if they haven’t already.
@@shanellemurrey9300only with gravy. People who eat them dry, are heathens
People who clown on other countries cuisines never really tried their food tbh. You can find dishes that suit your taste everywhere and even then there might be hughe differences depending on the region. I'm a German who lives in Switzerland and the swiss clwon on german food and vice versa but like, there ar amazing dishes in german cuisine and amazing ones in swiss cuisine. Most of the time it's just people sticking to weird stereotypes.
I am an Asian immigrant living in the UK and British food is bad. The food culture here is awful so the standard is low. British people just use their national pride to compensate for everything.
Honestly, I can't blame them. I definitely don't wanna taste British food based on how it looks. And I'm Russian myself, our food isn't particularly good-looking either, but it's still not even close to that.
@@34口2fds蛋トマgs ok bot.
@@ForOne814 won't go into the western block eastern block nonsense EVEN THOUGH IT WAS AMERICAS FAULT NOT OURS!
@@ziro4073 most of those are made up by america to diminish and condemn Europe.
British food is good it just lacks palate variety. Lacking doesn't mean its bad.
Comments: OMG, British food is disgusting. It's so bland and awful and has no spices.
Me: Interesting. Please stand up if you have actually tried British food and aren't just basing your opinions on internet memes and stereotypes?
**Crickets**
"Britain colonised the world for spices just to not use them"
*People who have never even been to Britain starts wheezing while slapping their knees*
it is lazy and basic. it makes italian cuisine look complex and fancy and that's saying something
British food doesn't have a lot of spices because the focus is usually on bringing out the meat flavor, which is why Yorkshire puddings are made with gravy, but also the spices are usually found in the ubiquitous sausages.
@@一本のうんち -person who's entire knowledge of Italian cuisine is Pizza Hut
British ppl do the same shit with American food
American breakfast is high quality unless you're talking about McDonald's or something. At least in rural places it is, Southern people will riot if the suasge isn't good
In regards to Korean food in Britain, I don't think we were "slow to adopt it", I just think there wasn't much of a distinct Korean ex-pat community in the UK until recently. In London, for example, we've had really decent Vietnamese food for years in places like Hackney because we had a sizeable Vietnamese population in that area. I think Koreans traditionally would head to America because of their ties to each other's countries but, for whatever reason, in the last 20 years Koreans have started coming to the UK in large numbers, often to study. I walk around parts of London now and there are Koreans everywhere (& I think it's great by the way) and with that many are settling here now and they've brought their food with them. We're not going to 'adopt' another culture's cuisine when there are too few representatives of that culture actually here to show us how to do it properly, that would be weird. Brits get a lot of stick for our food but, the fact is, we're actually pretty open to foreign foods - Indian food being a staple here since the 1800s is the obvious example. On a separate note - American Food. You guys just can't do proper cheese, sorry.
@@matthewwalker5430 New Malden in South West London has been home to the largest Korean expat community in Europe. Has been here since the 1950s
Also Americans can’t do cheese - 100% correct
@@Sleepysod fair, I ain’t been to New Malden specifically. In general though, Koreans have traditionally settled in America rather than Europe and whilst there may have been a decent number in New Malden there are LOADS of Koreans everywhere in London these days, and that feels relatively recent. I could be wrong though, I’m not basing that on any statistics, just observation.
@ think you are correct that there has been an influx of young Korean students in last few years in central London
@@matthewwalker5430 there's also a lot of Koreans in Germany, more than in the UK
People will always cry about 'no spices' and then forget herbs exist. A good herb crust on a cut of meat does wonders.
its the classic 'where is the seasoning' whilst your putting in fresh garlic and herbs lmao
Herbs aren’t spices 😂
Most Nordic, British, Irish, north German and Lowlands, food is very similar, it’s all cooked meat, potatos and some other vegetables with a sauce
I have seen Americans slate British food but glorify Irish food, even though it is literally exactly the same.
Eh, Americans literally live off instant mash and fake cheese. They are not an authority on good food
American here.
Never even *heard* of Irish food. I just assumed they ran out.
The issue with fast food in the UK is that it varies so drastically from one place to another. Theres also the issue of some fast food places [namely kebab shops] being used to launder money.
Theres two Chinese resteraunts near me one is pretty gross and the other is S tier, I think the difference is that the crappy resteraunt is owned by a guy that only cares about money and the good resteraunt is owned by a guy that moved here from Hong Kong years ago with his wife and loves what he does.
Its the same story with Chippies, we had a "top chippy" and a "bottom chippy" in my village, no one went to the top chippy because the food was terrible whilst the bottom chippy was always packed. Sadly the owners moved back to North Wales and the new owners food is terrible, the portion sizes are terrible and the pricing is double what it was under the old owners.
@@YrCleddyf I agree, I would say our biggest weakness is skill consistency across the country
You just described the situation for fast food in every cou try in the world
@@Lonewolf_121 Not really, fast food chains are usually fairly consistant. In the UK most of our takeaways are independantly owned and taste vastly different from one another even if they offer the same menu items.
Theres three kebab shops in my area all ran by guys from the Middle-East and Turkey. The shop closest to me is ran by two guys from Iraq and Afghanistan that have a passion for cooking and they migrated here to escape the wars in their countries, they use fresh ingredients and their kebabs are the best I've ever eaten.
The 2nd closest is ran by Turkish guys that came here like 10 years ago to make money on the fast food industry.. I've been given expired drinks there and one time there was a spider carcass in my food which ultimately stopped me eating there. Their kebab was mid at best.
The final place is again ran by Turkish guys that came here 10 or so years ago to make money on fast food. This is by far the worst location because they use exipred/expiring ingredients, they undercook the food and they mess up your order, this is one of those businesses that I believe to be money laundering since its been open for over 10 years despite no one eating there (except people not from the area since they don't know how bad it is)
The difference here is that one group of people opened a takeaway because they like food and cooking whilst the others opened a takeaway purely as a means to make money with the latter taking it to the extreme with their expiring ingredients.
@@YrCleddyf Not to mention how much it varies by menu item and even what time you're ordering. My mum worked at an Indian takeaway place for a while and their popular curries (Tikka Masala and Madras IIRC) would get made at the start of the day and reheated when people ordered them, I think they sometimes even stayed made for a couple of days. Hygiene wasn't amazing there either, so you could maybe get a good Madras in the morning but by the evening it would be a risky proposition. All their other curries were made-to-order and pretty good though.
You also always have the fish and chips shop that does good fish and the one that does good chips, sometimes they're the same shop but often they aren't. Sometimes you even have to make the call between the shop that does the best-tasting fish and the shop that properly de-bones their fish.
Tbh I think a lot of those perceptions of Chinese takeout/restaurants here in the UK that they mentioned come from those older places that have been around for years, especially in the smaller towns and villages that were heavily adapted for the tastes of the average Brit back in the 70s or whatever decade those businesses started popping up. In the big cities these days (where the populations are generally more diverse) these days you can find places with much more authentic food. Some of it is still going to be adapted somewhat for the "British palette", but if you want a more authentic menu you can probably find it if you know where to look.
But that goes with your point I guess that it varies majorly depending on where you live.
What really gets me is when you see those videos on TikTok of "tavern food" and it's just British food but bc they don't call it "British" people actually like it.
Cottage Pie is one of my favorite dishes of all. It feels like grandma's cooking even though I'm from the other side of the continent. Especially now that it's so cold and gloomy it hits home.
I think we can also attribute the explosive korean food boom to korean englishman, and it would e interestig if you guys can have them in the podcast like comparing the entertainment industry and how different it is being a youtuber covering japan and youtuber covering korea.
Parmos might not be the most presentable, but they'll always be the underrated peak of British food imo
My mate from the north practically worships the humble parmo
Agreed, I fucking love a good parmo
This makes British food sound like either Gordon Ramsey or Kay’s Kitchen. 😂
It's not totally unrealistic. A roast dinner is a fine thing, if you can cook it. I make a great one, I wouldn't let my wife do it.
Scotch eggs can be great, but if you buy one from the supermarket it's like eating a sponge.
@@requiemforameme1 well Gordon Ramsey is British so...
I am one of the people who are still waiting for Gordon to have another redemption attempt at making a grilled cheese sandwich…. Just saying.
Kind of, British recipes are great and we have many great chefs like Ramsay, Marco or the insane Blumenthal (look up the fat duck) but many people of Kay's generation grew up during rationing or when the country was very poor and the war also destroyed many regional variations (nearly every town or village had their own cheese).
@@John-kc4cg Kay didn't grow up during rationing lol. Maybe her grandparents did though. Kay makes the food like that because thats her unique selling point and why people watch.
Random fact about cornish pasties. They were probably too expensive for the average tin miner, especially meat pasties.
A well made traditional Cornish pastie is food of the gods!
england has the best fish and chips. their food may consist on different shades of brown but it is effective food, it fills you up tastes good and perfect for cold weather
Tbh the thing with British food is that a lot of it is easy to make baked goods and comforting/fulfilling food, rather than "dishes". Pies, pastries, cakes, biscuits, and soups/broths. That's just what we do, and we do that very fucking well tbh
To make something like shepherds pie look good you just neatly cut a square of it, put it on the plate neatly with some greens and carrots to add colour and drizzle over some gravy. But what is the point when its going to be inhaled in like 5 minutes while you watch goggle box...
There shall be no green or orange on my plate. Shepards pie looks great with just brown meat and beige potato, add a little cheese and pepper, perfect evening meal.
And forget cutting a square, just eat it out of the dish you baked it in. Saves on washing up, but it may upset the family if you are lucky enough to have one.
A scotch egg (preferably from Fortnum & Mason) is peak snack.
Pork pies too.
@@starrk7158 YES!
A scotch egg can be spectacular, it can also the worst shit imaginable.
@@chetmanley1885 Very much agreed! That's why I'm pretty particular about F&M. The classic is always good. Consistent quality.
Connor: The worst thing about Asia is the lack of appreciation for sausages
Laos:...
3:32 Poutine isn't just chips and gravy, notably-- Proper poutine is fresh cheese curds over chips (fries) with hot gravy poured over top.
You know cheese curds are fresh when they're squeaky when you chew them.
Yes, it's delicious yet the Brtis beieve they invented cheese n chips (poutine)
British cuisine either remind you of nostalgic wholesome and rustic feelings or plastic chairs and the colour blue and yellow for some reason XD
If you want British cuisine, go to a rural restaurant. They serve dishes that were ubiquitous in households across the Isle prior to the rationing convention that stuck around after the War ended - it’s for this reason that a lot of (mostly working-class) slop you see is what’s taken for ‘British cuisine’ by foreigners.
Vegas local. The era of Vegas Buffets is gone. We have 4 decent ones no good ones. None are worth the price anymore
Beef Stew and Sunday Roast. Figgy Pudding and Roast Goose.
Bruh Scandinavia and the Netherlands are worse than the British, British PR is just horrific. (For somewhat reasonable reasons, but people conflating modern uk common people with the past aristocrat war crime lovers is a bit dumb)
Never mind, the stupid memes and ignorance of context/history.
It shouldn't be surprising that people who live in the Mediterranean where more "vibrant" raw foods can be grown in abundance would be able to therefore create foods with them.
A lot of modern foods that countries are known for come from the fact the common populace could make them and there is no way that any person from the UK would have been able to come close to a country closer to the equator. A lot of the time when people say "British food is gross" it often falls flat to me given that it is usually just what the common people in the past simply HAD to eat.
Nevermind, that the woman of the UK were put to work and stuff earlier than most countries and especially due to the World Wars and the austerity/class divide that the UK continues to live through.
Many people call British food "survival food" which a lot of the time, yes that is what it literally is. How can you maximise what you do have to make something good. Which given the ingredients I would say is usually fulfilled.
Now modern days, people are able to be introduced to more outside influences and can now finally try to do something more with food but I find people online just constantly barrage people who are British and trying to cook and it is just kind of sad.
(Be the way this is coming from someone who is from an immigrant family to the UK so the above doesn't apply to me, I am just talking about what I sometimes see other people around me end up going through)
And as I stated before, the memes and the dog piling on British people do not help. Especially when the reason the hate(?) is justified is due to past colonial exploits which is often far removed from anyone they are actually criticising, it just looks dumb.
Great comment 👏 very much all true!
The hate isn't justified so no need for the question mark. Being upset that your great great great grandfathers lost to a bunch of pale fellas with teeth like a bucket of smashed crabs doesn't justifying hating them and aspects of their culture over a century after the fact. Such scar collecting will eventually bite you on the arse when you realise that your own nation is no better. Most likely a lot worse. That's why it's so stupid.
There's also the issue of blaming the hammer, completely ignoring the wielder.
If you say British cuisine is just fish fingers, chips and beans thats like saying the only food that represents America is the Big Mac. Personally I will not eat overly spicy food that burns my tongue. Is it any kind of surprise that traditional British cuisine is based around what we can grow here, which does not include spices? In recent years we have adopted foods from all around the world, so everyone can get whatever they want.
2:27 Filipino here! Does Tender Juicy hotdog count as a sausage?
I love Filipino hotdog, but I don't like longganisa 😅
3:08 I don't think it looks like worse lasagna, am I crazy?? It looks appetizing
As a Filipino who was raised in the Bri'ish isles specifically in the valleys in South Wales. Hotdogs and Sausages are completely different foods that sort of look the same but taste completely different. Kinda like tocino and bacon.
Having tasted both Tender Juicy (with and without the cheese inside) and a good sausage. I prefer a good sausage whether it be british or German.
When people complain about British food, my go to rebuttal is Shepherds Pie. Like its sauteed beef, with onions, carrot, peas, flavoured with spices and Worcestershire sauce, topped with mash potato, and if you want, grated cheese on top, then baked. Its delicious.
Shepherds pie is with lamb. Cottage pie is the one with beef.
It only “looks horrible” because the vast majority of people online are idiots who think they are master chefs😂 a full English breakfast would be an amazing start
Before watching: Based on 11 years of experience the looks reflect the taste.
Americans will claim Pizza and Mexican food as their national cuisine, even though it's developed from meals from immigrants' home countries but then say "Britain doesn't use spices" when some of the world's most popular curry dishes were invented in the UK.
It’s so funny how the best “british” national cuisine is a less appealing Indian ripoff, keep taking buddy
Can y’all Brits stop this? I lived in the UK and while i can say the British cuisine wasn’t terrible, let’s not get into wars about originality cause the Heinz beans you all love so much aren’t even British.
@@MoebiusChungusthe issue with these kind of arguments is that a lot of food in the west was inspired by each other and even by some eastern stuff.
Meanwhile the east countries have been more culturally separate from the west so they went their own way.
@@MoebiusChungus That was the entire point of the argument...
The issue with French food is that people don't know what it is. British food is French but less pretentious and with more lamb, pastry, and potato; take any French stew and put it inside pastry and you've got a British pie.
How many times did he say "I fuck with food" throughout this video? Is he trying to tell us something?
A lot of our dishes are probably supposed to be paired with sauces and jams and chutneys, but for whatever reason a lot of people don't bother with those.
My partner's Thai, and she loves British food. Unfortunately, her favourite dish is sausage, chips and beans 😅 But I've used the fact that a Thai person (who hates Italian food, fwiw) enjoys British cuisine to argue that our food isn't as bad as everyone's convinced it is. She didn't come with the preconception that it would be bad which probably helps a lot.
Vegas buffets absolutely make their money back by the simple fact they make it so people don't need to leave the casino to eat. The whole system is set up to mess with your sense of time, keep you in that building as long as possible and convince you you're getting a good deal. It's a buffet to make you overeat to "get your moneys worth", all rich quality heavy food that makes you wanna sit down and digest for 2 hours.
My theory is every other countries food is meant to taste nice, British food is meant to be hearty and fill you up.
What other food fills you up more than British.
I know a few others that can tie with the Brits, but none that can surpass… unless you count the USA, Canada, Central America, and South America technicality (the food is mostly equally filling, just with larger portions sizes, which I believe shouldn’t count in this context.)
Not defending it, but I think the thing with chips with oriental food is that the oriental tastes great ... but it doesnt fill you up. Nobody has the patience to make the multiple different dishes required to make it filling so you just slap the chips on the side for bulk.
So THAT'S why people in Asia are less fat...
Fry out, roast dinner and for the wow get the Gordon Ramsey beef wellington
bubble and squeak is underappreciated. its just a delicious filled hash brown like dish, or latka. usually made with left over veggies and turned into a fried potato cake
Alright im defending as any culture has the right to defend its own beloved food! Im not sure connor knows much about the good side of british food (based on this opinion an that he had to remind himeself of our food lmao bro didnt even mention any welsh food like the full welsh!) as someone who actually cooks proper british properly (as in with love, care and pride) what you get in cities is not a good reflection on the cuisine (unless its a good restraunt) and if you think for a second you'll know why
Imo if you want the true feel on quality british food i always go to little villages in the countryside they usually have there ingredience come locally at high quality alot of people dont realise some of the best produce in the world comes from the UK BUT we use very little of our own ingredients because the gouvernment are bastards an make foreign ingredients cheaper to import than it is to use our own ingredients, unless someone is local to where it is produced such as small buisnesses (eg villages) the food looks, and feels more loving on average maybe do to the fact that the countryside is slower an more love goes into cooking but yeah
Also some seaside towns out of the way have amazing seafood at high quality because they arent heavily commercialised!
Im abit of a nerd when it comes to british food being british myself and cities imo is where the worst of it is found always seems to be lazy.
The reason i recogn its better in villages is because they dont have huge influxes of foreign cuisine like we do in cities, so they use the cuisines they know more readily but with technique, cant beat locally sorced produce and even sometimes foraged!
Fish and chips for example, there are a few that do it in the true traditional style and those are the true gems, such as the places that still use coal based ovens! Because at that point its a labour of love its a pain to use those ovens, and they need servicing an care more often! So you would want the food to be upto par if your putting in so much effort for the ovens!
Btw if you want a true experience of unique cuisine in the uk that is presented beautifully i recomend getting the Welsh breakfast at "the Welsh house" in Swansea it is in terms of all the uk countries breakfast has some very unique foods on there ( it is a mix of animal protein and seafood with some tasty toast and such) it was rated quite high an the quality looks amazing the ingredients are all local aswell they try to show off welsh produce and food an its done beautifully!
I think any culture has good food its just knowing where to find it
I just want to say that the salt and pepper chips you get at a chinese takeaway is absolutely phenomenal, despite the photos
As a sidenote, Americans have no room in criticizing the Brits... :-P
I would go further and say almost all other nations fit this criteria too lol. It doesn’t help that it’s usually the bland, basic, strange, and simple dishes that get shown off.
People are naturally lazy, so they judge by what they see online/on t.v; rather than looking for dishes from that country that actually suit their own palettes.
No. Indiana might have no room to talk shit on British food, but Louisiana? Louisiana can talk all the shit it wants on British food. American food is probably A tier, with only India and Mexico being better, and is on par with China, France, Italy and Turkey. Get away from McDonald's, find a small mom and pop, and you'll have some truly amazing food in America.
@@kayrosis5523 I come from NC and let me tell you nothing in the world beat whole hog with a vinegar based bbq sauce. Honestly the whole south just kills it for food and anyone acting like the US has bad food is just blind
British food was hit hard by the wars. Being on an island, food was very difficult to deal with. They had to import a lot of their food. After ww2, rationing in britain continued until like 1955 because the lingering food shortages. American cuisine was also hit hard by the wars like how we use no spices now either xD
But also public education in both countries has hurt cooking the worst because we dont teach cooking or home ec. No one knows how to cook so everyone lives on fast food, junk food or simple bland meals.
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The deal with British food is, it only works if you put effort into it.
If the gravy sucks, if you don't make the potatoes well, if you don't season it.. then it's going to suck.
But if you can do all that stuff right and add some extra flair. (Alchohol boils down into some really nice sauces and gravies), you’ll end up with some really tasty home food. And that's the best way I can describe it, homely.
There's nothing better than sitting down at a bowl of gravy and seasoned roast potatoes, it tastes delicious, it fills you up, and it keeps you nice and warm.
Tldr: British food = Peak wartime food. We never left the war and just made it part of our cultural meals.
Ultimately, food is produced to get chewed and then swallowed. As long as it tastes good, and it keeps you from starving, any more effort going into a meal is a waste of time and energy if you can just slap together potatoes, sausages and gravy into one of the best british meals.
English Chinese is amazing! Nothing better than for shredded chilli beef, egg fried rice and chips with both the curry sauce and sweet and sour. It's absolutely scintillating!!
Also- chips are still everywhere, including every Chinese You go to. Thanks for reading my Ted talk ^^.
I think a lot of British food gets forgotten about because it was carried to the US. A great example being apple pie. And even the humble sandwich itself was British, named after the earl of Sandwich who supposedly invented it while wanting a meal to eat while playing cards.
The ones that feel more distinctly British were the Victorian foods that came after the colonisation of the US.
Slop food > cuisine food
What on Earth
@@Ash_Wen-liTaste over artificial presentation drenched in spices to the point you taste the spices rather than the food?
I'll choose the former, I want to taste my food, not taste anything but spices thank you.
@@Srakch so cuisine not slop.
@@Srakch Lmao, god this is so silly, why are British people so dumb
Beans are actually really healthy. Nothing wrong with British food, it's fine.
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Dude, Yorkshire pudding is amazingly good. Simple but satisfying, same as Bangers and Mash and Scotch Eggs.
Poutine isn’t “chips and gravy”. Cheese curds are essentially impossible to find in the UK. They need to be squeaky and fresh. It’s a gravy sauce, not mere gravy. Etc etc
And no one said it was a complex or complicated dish. There’s plenty more delicious Canadian foods.
French cuisine is amazing, however the French are so culturally insular, they don't care at all about non-French people, especially tourists.
4:26 "It's so warm and good"
Looks like fried cat food pate with gravy and vanilla ice cream.
pastys arent made to not spoil they were made to have a thick brim so the miners could hold it there with dirty hands and throw that bit away
To be fair, poutine also has cheese curds lmao
Literally the most important element that makes it so good. Add montreal smoked meat to it and it's a top 5 meals ever
@@TheInsaneTruth best i had was pepper sauce and added duck confit. God that was good.
Some people in the UK eat Cheesy chips with gravy
Some people also eat Cheesy chips with curry
British cuisine doesn't only look bad. What's really good in the UK are foreign restaurants. For example: Chinese restaurants in France don't taste anything like the real deal. The Chinese (and others) had to french up their dishes for the local taste. Chinese (and others) restaurants in the UK never had to adapt their recipes to the local taste, as there isn't any.
The trope of Americans and hating on beans on toast when they invented the damn thing 😂 then they’ll say “American as apple pie” invented I England.
It’s just brain rot
Reminds me of Brits hating on Americans saying soccer, when they Oxford where the ones who called it that when they helped introduce the sport to the U.S.
Same with organizing by month, day, year. It was think tanked by a British bank, as a way to improve filing productivity.
They tested it in both the UK and the U.S. In the UK productivity went marginally up but the workers kept complaining.
In the U.S productivity went up by 35% with minimal complaints, impressing the government enough to co-opt it.
Bro we don’t eat war rations anymore we up and I’m sure apple pie was something brought over we continue to eat today
Beans on sourdough toast is still eaten regularly in my area, and I live in the southern United States.
Though to be fair it also comes with your choice of fried ham or bacon on the toast too.
@@hosswikyou’d never believe it but we Brits can do that too. 😂
@SweetLotusDreams I know you all do 😆. My comment was directed at the war rations guy.
A lot of people here in the states make it out like it’s a weird outdated dish, that magically disappeared in the U.S after WWII (for context it got mainly pushed out of the way by Jell-O, casserole, and frozen dinners in the 50’s thanks to some really strong marketing campaigns 😢)
I like to remind them that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans that still eat it to this day… we just moved on from Heinz Beans… and use mostly molasses or bourbon based beans, instead of tomato based.
Chips and gravy does not equal poutine.
Americans critiquing our food is so funny.
Literally the only things US has the English beat is on the amount of JUNK chemicals in the foods, practically most meats taste the same in both countries.
@iamthecommentman also some prawn dishes, I'll give them that one
Yeah as if the south and cajun food just doesn't exist.
@PointlessRantz you seem to miss the point, cajun and barbecued meats are good but it's not like it's mutually exclusive to only being in US cuisine. Think the main issue we have in England is presentation of the dishes we serve and lack of variety in the taste selection, most foods are clean which isn't necessarily bad it just becomes quite mundane.
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Never got the chance to travel south of USA to try the food but I'd love too however I can only go off the basis of my time in NYC which like I said most food was pretty subpar. Drinks and snacks I'll admit the Americans have us beat hands down but it's all on what your preference is.
@@iamthecommentman I agree if love to travel the south to try some real American food. The issue is that is the only real American dish that isn't just stolen.
Half of the wikipage for American foods are non American foods! They gave us eggs Benedict, hash brown and a few prawn dishes.
"British chinese restaurant food had always a lot of chips" chinese restaurant chips are always so really good for some reason, they are always spectacular
Someone once said “British food bounces between two eras. Victorian and World War 2. And they don’t seem to be keen on going any farther.”
I mean hey, it could be worse. At least we dropped the maggot cheese! 😂
In my experience, the best food is messy. I've been to posh restaurants with the most elegant presentation, and the flavour was pretty mediocre. Although it was quite hard to tell what it tasted like, as the portions were microscopic, so there was barely any opportunity to taste anything.
This week I treated myself to a slow roasted shoulder of lamb and a medley or roasted root veg, cooked at home. It worked out about £3.50 a portion for 6 big portions, and was fucking delicious. That's about 5 to 10 times cheaper than you'd pay in any restaurant for the same dish. Is it British? I have no idea, and really don't care.
full breakfast....then take a nap 🙂
Garnt, we added cheese curds. Chips and gravy is just chips and gravy, and you can't just use any fuckin' gravy with poutine. As long as you have the base of chips, curds and gravy, you can also add a LOT of other stuff. Your lack of knowledge about poutine is just embarrassing, sorry for you babe.
Chips and gravy is just a snack, poutine can legit be a whole ass meal.
Yeah, for anyone who honestly doesn't know, google the menu for like Smokes Poutinerie, as an example. And that's just what one place has to offer. If you're cooking it at home you can add literally whatever you want/have. As long as you have the base 3 items, there's no other sort of restrictions, no "if you add this it stops being poutine", no "adding that goes against the very nature of poutine".
Every working class person from the north of England grew up on Chips, cheese and gravy it sits right at the base of the northern food pyramid.
The best way I could describe english food is comfort food. 99% of it was made for a specific necessity, like how pasties were made for miners to have a quick but fulfilling meal whilst in the mines. Its all comfort food in that sense.
Precisely, then there is fine dining which was normally reserved for when you had guests.
Also British cuisine seems to be allergic to the color green unless it's in some sort of mush
Oh yeah, british food is totally allergic to greenery. Except of course for sprouts, cabbage, leeks, lambs lettuce, asparagus, kale, spinach, thyme, broccoli, peas, samphire, marjoram, watercress, cucumber, fennel, crabapples, sorrel, chicory, sea purslane, marrow, broad beans, runner beans, parsley, chives, apples, rocket, mint, pears, gooseberries, greengages, rosemary and nettle.
Weird thing to say when the British cucumber is the most popular cucumber in the world.
Yeah that's just not true at all
British pub cuisine you mean?
Thats mostly because younger generation dont exactly love vegetables tbh
Also this is british food in the city experience roast dinners have all sorts of roasted vegetables herbs an such
Infact the uk has an increased number of people who forage so wild salads an cooking with wild ingredients is increasingly better
Bangers and mash, roast beef, roast chicken, roast pork, cottage pie, shepherd’s pie, meat pie, and toad in the hole; are all bangers (pun intended.)
Also I love “real” Chinese food; especially Mapo Tofu and Mapo Tofu rice… but I always order Butter Potato when I can; it’s just so addictive.
My problem with English food is that the only seasoning it has usually is just salt, some herbs and hopes and dreams. It isn't bad but coming from a mexican family, its bland in comparison.
I'm glad I'm not Mexican, because with that as your starting point, everything else is downhill.
Leave it to England to hoard tons of spices and use none of it
I always find it funny when people assume we don't like spicy stuff in the UK. Even leaving aside how popular Indian curry is here, go eat a teaspoon of English mustard and get back to me.
@tcrime i have, its not a spice. It doesn't really add much. Also spice doesn't automatically mean spicy.
This is because British food is focused more on how food or is prepared or cooked rather than what is added to it. Same with a lot of other European culinary traditions. We just get the worst rep because Yanks get the easiest exposure to our food because we both speak English. Plus, if you look at the history of why spices were added to food, it's not the prettiest picture 😅
hold on when they say chips, are they talking about fries?
Greggs sausage roll
@@toyota420xp yeup. Why the rioters who trashed one are americans. No brit would dare attack the gregs.
French peasant food is great, but you'll never find that in a restaurant, maybe a poncy version that's one tenth the size of the original.
Surprisingly my boyfriend is from India, a country full of spices, and he loves British food, especially baked beans and crumpets
Recently visited New York as a Brit. We visited an Irish owned pub and asked the waitress for beans on toast for my young niece. She had to go ask the chef if he could do it haha
When it arrived, it was a bowl of beans with 2 slice of toast on a separate plate. But the plate was too small to pour the beans over.
And this from the nation that thinks putting peanut butter and jam in a sandwich is acceptable 😂
As a British Indian who grew up with both cuisines, British is fine and definitely not as bad as the memes make it out to be but it's mid in comparison to other cuisines. Definitely has some nice food but it pales in comparison to what other cuisines have to offer.
Everyone insults British (and by extension a lot of "white" American) food without realizing they only see those foods as "bland" or "unoriginal" because it's a part of their culture. They just don't realize it. Typical westerners thinking Western culture isn't a culture of its own.
People here are whining about a sandwich and fries when a rice ball is way simpler and basic... But Japanese culture is "exotic," so it doesn't get that treatment. You guys are being insanely Euro-centric without even realizing it.
My mom’s side is Scottish and English and my dad’s is Italian. Let’s just say that I like my dad’s cooking better.
Cooking isn't genetic, you know.
Italian food is the most overrated food in Europe
urgh, all that basil and cheese.