I ate a lot of good food when I visited the UK. Honestly anyone who claims <place> has only bad food has a skill issue.
Yeah I agree, there was always weird things like every culture, blood pudding and stuff, but generally there is absolutely nothing wrong with average UK food, except it’s not that healthy.
an empire built on stealing spice from brown people and they REFUSE to use them
They refused to use the spices, not the brown people.
I used to eat potato chip and bologna sandwiches. Thats as weird as I got
I still do this. I save easily $200/month eating it 3 days a week. Pro tip: the bread and bologna at Aldis is S tier and with the right addons and seasonings it’s a fantastic light meal.
I feel like I’m the strange person for answering yes, I eat these now and again. I like to toast only the middle slice, and when it is done, butter salt and pepper both sides. The butter soaks in and softens the toasted slice up again, but it keeps a chew. Gives it a meaty texture that way.
For a while, I was toasting sandwhiches by stacking the top bread piece under the bottom one with topings on top of it. You end up with a sandwich (with actual sandwich toppings) just toasted on the inside and soft on the outside.
I love the texture just like I loved putting plain potato chips between two pieces of bread. Soft then crunch.
This isn’t typical cuisine, this reads much more extremely poor so all I have is bread and fortunately butter.
It’s a wartime / depression era food, not something you’d make by choice, typically
Cause bread was cheaper than say meat or cheese or what not
First appeared in an 1861 cookbook, target for this was sick people. Would be easy to keep down, carbs and fats to nourish more than just a broth.
Ive had it a couple of times, for a laugh, while broke as a joke. Only just discovered that i didnt invent it though.
Ok, Brits… what is GOOD British food? Fish ‘n Chips? Mushy Peas? Full English? Sunday Roast? I’ve been to the UK more times than I can count and even the Pubs often serve international fare instead of Spotted Dick.
Not a Brit but I would add the different pies/shepherd pies etc to that list. But really I don’t think you can not count the imported cuisine because I do love getting Indian, Caribbean, etc when I’m there. Even Italian TBH you can get some nice pizza (but not quite like Italy obviously).
I quite like Yorkshire puddings.
But I agree, British cuisine is pretty beige in vibe
Explains all the extra paddin on Patty MacFadden
Also British food: jellied eels. Cut up eels in jello.
Fuck that.
Didn’t the US have pasta in jello?
By 1930, there appeared a vogue in American cuisine for congealed salads, and the company introduced lime-flavored Jell-O, to complement the add-ins that cooks across the country were combining in these aspics and salads. Popular Jell-O recipes often included ingredients like cabbage, celery, green peppers, and even cooked pasta.[10]
I’m pretty sure people were writing recipes as shit posts back then. There’s no way any human being willingly ate those.
Not even my dad ate this and he liked all sorts of crazy rationing-era foods he’d grown up with in the war.
No wonder they started wars over spices.
That says it’s from the 19th century. What American food from then wasn’t garbage?
Uh, your average breakfast in the U.S. was basically a shitload of protein and potatoes in the 19th century. Idk about you but I definitely like pork, oatmeal, fried potatoes, eggs — with a couple pieces of toast that’s all I need in current year.
So do we 😂
Sounds delicious imho
It’s strangely tasty.
Tried it when I first heard about this and somehow the crunch and the butter work really well with the untoasted bread.
Someone made this after discussion here or on reddit, I can’t remember, and said it was surprisingly good.
In my 5 decades of Britishness I’ve never ever heard of a toast sandwich. And for one and a half of those decades we were so poor that we sometimes had sugar sandwiches just so we wouldn’t starve.
But, yeah, I’d give it a go. Hell, I may even have one today.
sugar sandwiches
Fairy bread without butter?
Nope. Slice or two of bread, some margarine spread (we couldn’t afford butter), and sugar sprinkled on it. That’s it.
Damn, that’s like “milk toast “. My dad used to make that but looking back it’s likely from lean times on the farm when he was a kid…… put some milk on the stove, briefly dip slices of bread, then serve with a giant pat of butter. Also clearly influenced by the farm he grew up on being a dairy farm
My grandfather would make me these now and then. He’s from Ukraine
can’t tell you how many mornings i had to make cinnamon toast for the ex’s kid before taking him to school
Had cinnamon roast a lot as kid before school (US). We just ate small breakfasts so it was no big deal.
Don’t knock it until you’ve been on rationed flour for several years
Are you Native American?
Fry your flour in butter.
Also rationed.
I tried the fabled beans on toast and i was shocked when I bit into the toast that there was butter on the toast. It was a dumb thing to be shocked by but I did not expect it 😂.
That being said, it looks really stupid in person because it’s literally toast with a ton of beans. Taste wise, it was ok.
Here’s a crappy photo:
What sort of catastrophic mental state do you have to be to think
I shall put beans on thine toast. And yea; there was much rejoicing
It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be taste wise. Like I finished all of it no problem. But amongst all breakfast foods its pretty mediocre and nothing to write home about.
Poor… And not normal poor, but wartime poor. It was invented by Heinz to sell beans in England.
Mmmm the fabled half english.
Compliments to the british chef
