British food being bad is a meme. Pies are top tier. Generally the whole 'x nation makes bad food' just reeks of racism/chauvinism/nationalism.
What most Brits eat is bad, but I assume thats because of material conditions and really if we go that direction a lot of countries should be described as having bad food
The whole thing we do where we put specific foods in specific countries is also just ridiculous and only serves to reinforce nationalism. It doesnt help my argument that there is a group of Brits who seem to insist on only cooking their stereotypical foods out of some sort of national pride, but they’ve just fallen for their own propaganda. Jellied eels is a meme and geezers insist upon it, but they’re geezers so fuck em.
It’s the same here in Denmark where we have so many people thinking all danish food is just pork. Ridiculous. Pick up an almanac or something from before factory farming and you’ll find so many fantastic seasonal and regional dishes.
On top of that as a society we decide that newer foods “don’t count” somehow. British curry isn’t really British, because it’s made by immigrants. The Danish variation of Dürum is still just middle Eastern food because people from the middle East can’t be Danish. It just reinforced conservative ideas of nationhood.
Also classism.
Hate when people go “ewwww pig knuckles” (for non-vegan reasons, I love it when they do it because eating animals is nasty). You fucking philistines would have balled at eating lobster until the nice man on TV told you it was classy actually. Try the dish and evaluate it on that instead of some arbitrary idea of what part of food is nasty - For some reason the cut of meat that’s the animals ass is often good? That’s close to shit! Ewwwwww. Also don’t eat meat.
Thanks for posting, I’ve been saying this for ages, whenever topics like this come up. I hate it almost as much as “which country has the silliest language”.
British food being bad is a meme. Pies are top tier. Generally the whole 'x nation makes bad food' just reeks of racism/chauvinism/nationalism.
What most Brits eat is bad, but I assume thats because of material conditions and really if we go that direction a lot of countries should be described as having bad food
The whole thing we do where we put specific foods in specific countries is also just ridiculous and only serves to reinforce nationalism. It doesnt help my argument that there is a group of Brits who seem to insist on only cooking their stereotypical foods out of some sort of national pride, but they’ve just fallen for their own propaganda. Jellied eels is a meme and geezers insist upon it, but they’re geezers so fuck em.
It’s the same here in Denmark where we have so many people thinking all danish food is just pork. Ridiculous. Pick up an almanac or something from before factory farming and you’ll find so many fantastic seasonal and regional dishes.
On top of that as a society we decide that newer foods “don’t count” somehow. British curry isn’t really British, because it’s made by immigrants. The Danish variation of Dürum is still just middle Eastern food because people from the middle East can’t be Danish. It just reinforced conservative ideas of nationhood.
Also classism.
Hate when people go “ewwww pig knuckles” (for non-vegan reasons, I love it when they do it because eating animals is nasty). You fucking philistines would have balled at eating lobster until the nice man on TV told you it was classy actually. Try the dish and evaluate it on that instead of some arbitrary idea of what part of food is nasty - For some reason the cut of meat that’s the animals ass is often good? That’s close to shit! Ewwwwww. Also don’t eat meat.
Okay, but consider that shitting on the British is fun.
Best take by far. Tastes vary and every country will have literally countless options.
I am vegan btw (sorry I just miss the times were I spent most of my time on vegancirclejerk)
Thanks for posting, I’ve been saying this for ages, whenever topics like this come up. I hate it almost as much as “which country has the silliest language”.
I mostly agree except for dutch which I’m still not fully convinced is real
Dutch sounds like danish so whenever I hear someone speak it I think I’ve had a stroke and forgotten my own language
Its always just a bunch of anglos saying ignorant shit