• tiramichu@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    Excuse me but that isn’t an official, original “Colin the Caterpillar” cake from Marks & Spencer, but an inferior and entirely unauthorised " Curly the Caterpillar" clone from Tesco.

    As a proponent of fine British cuisine I take offence to this dire misrepresentation.

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    Look, I visited Britain a few years ago and you guys had pie with fish in it, which seemed kinda unique, fish & chips with vinegar in a newspaper, shortbread, haggis and other non-dessert “puddings” and breakfast with sausages etc… (Also, we went to an Indian restaurant in Britain and it was really good. Like world class good ngl.)

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      British cooking has a bad reputation, but they make really good comfort food. Sunday roast, yorkshire pudding, steak and ale pies, shepherd’s/cottage pie, full english breakfast, pasties, fish pie, beef wellington, scones! I could go on. Sure it’s mostly brown and beige food but cooked properly all of these dishes are really tasty!

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      25 days ago

      This meme is British people poking fun at ourselves.

      Americans just recycle the same jokes from Reddit “lol conquered the world but doesn’t use spice”. From people who’ve never left their home town. You can ignore those.

      The French also insult our food and they have more of a point but that’s another matter and I’ll personally fight them over it

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      26 days ago

      British Curries are different than a lot of “authentic” indian curries, but they have become a thing in of them selves, over the years, and they are great.

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      24 days ago

      British “Indian” restaurants are genuinely S-tier. In Oz curries are too wet and they put cream in all of them regardless of the dish.

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        They have curry in Oz? Idk how I missed that part of the movie

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      26 days ago

      Heinz is a US brand. You can blame them.

      I’d like to try it though. Looks… interesting.

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      26 days ago

      A long, long time ago when I worked somewhere that briefly made Fridays optional over time days, on a Friday we’d order breakfast to work sausage, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, and beans on something baguette like was very common. The old adage applies …”don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”.

      I haven’t had beans on pizza. I’ve probably had worse though.

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        25 days ago

        I’d imagine it tasting pretty good. I also imagine a severe case of food coma.

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      26 days ago

      I’m sorry ma’am, here’s 250g ml of sugar corn syrup

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      26 days ago

      Turkey twizzler. There’s a whole Janie Oliver backstory…

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          26 days ago

          Hold on Uncle Rodger… He tried to get them banned, therefore logic dictates that they’re actually pretty good!

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            26 days ago

            If I remember right he tried and successfully got them removed from school dinners. They tasted so good.

            They are back now, but a shadow of their former glory.

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              26 days ago

              Yeah, that’s right. Tbh I’ve not tried one in years. Something’s are better left in the nostalgic past. Crispy pancakes being a prime example.

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                26 days ago

                Wait, no, don’t tell me they’ve ruined Crispy Pancakes?!

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                  Maybe just a child -> adult palette change but I tried 'em during lockdown and wasn’t impressed

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        He gets more flack than he deserves. He tried to change school dinners yes, but the government at the same time were severely cutting back the budget for school dinners in general. Once the quality fell through, they used Jamie as a scapegoat for the whole thing

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          Low quality turkey (animal) meat, mashed up and mixed with rusk, water, other low quality “meats” (offal, ears, pig trotters, bumholes etc) and an array of flavourings and sweeteners and reconstituted into a helical shape and coated with breadcrumbs and oven baked.

          Basically the same as any other easily affordable breaded, reconstituted meat product, except it’s in a helix instead of a sausage or burger pattie shape.

          I’ve never had one, but they’re probably delicious.

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          26 days ago

          Lab analysis inconclusive. But either way they’re great.

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    25 days ago

    I’m sick of people coming at Canada for Hawaiian pizza when the British are putting baked beans on their pies.

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    25 days ago

    It’s scottish but potato scones and square sausage is the best breakfast food ever.

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      I’ll add haggis to that breakfast food list.
      Nothing better than a morning roll with bacon, haggis, square sausages and an egg.

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    26 days ago

    Do other countries have potato waffles or is that an us thing?

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    24 days ago

    At this point we salute the fallen.

    The beans and sausage filled Findus Crispy Pancake.

    o7

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    26 days ago

    Heinz baked bean pizza sounds kind of amazing… I’m guessing that ones not available outside the UK though lol maybe I can make it myself at home

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      26 days ago

      it’s beans on toast (with cheese) with extra steps

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        26 days ago

        Presumably it’s on pizza crust instead of toast. I know I can get the UK Heinz baked beans at a few different stores here so I might try to do it myself lol