Welp, now we need a fifth panel with an Argentinian Miku 😞
As a Japanese person, I fucking LOVED beans on toast when I visited London. Don’t listen to the stupid haters.
I actually had something similar on an English breakfast when I was in Canada, but the beans were sweetened with maple syrup.
I’m Irish, but I like beans on toast. I don’t see what people find weird about it
I mean it’s something my 8-year-old would come up with. Doesn’t mean it tastes bad, it’s just childish
great video about perceptions of british food (Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities, 48 min)
Never tried it, but beans and wheat together give you all the essential amino acids (like rice and beans), so it makes sense.
That and pretty much any other meal
Fuck that. Every culture has great food if you’re willing to get over your preconceptions.
And the comparison doesn’t even make sense. Like British beans on toast is low effort breakfast food that people make at home. Japanese people rarely make sushi at home. A better comparison would be Natto.
Beans on toast is an all day breakfast
Yeah, beans on toast isn’t even that common or widely enjoyed. It’s ok but it’s not amazing.
The English stole all that spice to sell it, not put it in their food.
They didn’t trade spice, that was the Dutch, the British traded opium
There’s a whole other comment thread about that. But food doesn’t need spices to be delicious - most relevant to the picture, sushi does not have spices in it.
Not only that, but the British use a hell of a lot of both herbs and spices in traditional cooking. And also there’s the whole mildly racist element in not considering Anglo-Indian cuisine (which is very distinct from traditional Indian) to be British food.
I’m shitposting here, don’t take me seriously.
baked beans have like 10 different spices in them. What do you think makes the sauce orange?
We stole the spice so we could make them inhale cinnamon powder.
Whilst they were coughing profusely we then stole the opium…
Would you like the Norwegian potato or the potato?
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You can maybe also have cabbage or a dried cod
And many have horrible food, war crime level food (Im looking at you haggis).
Haggis is great
Lorne sausage is so bad they had to fashion it into a novelty shape
The British crime of pork pies should never be forgiven
Every culture has horrible food too, but so what?
Haggis is a bad example though. Bet you’ve never eaten it.
I’ve had it, it’s nice
Guilty. Basing my statement on internet vibs.
I had it for the first time last year. It’s actually really good, and not weird.
Hehe! It’s actually pretty good. Just - like all good peasant food - don’t think about what it’s made of :)
Natto is an acquired taste, but regular haggis is just grains with meat and gravy. It’s baseline good, and can be really good if seasoned well.
Of course you can find horrible versions that are basically just a sack of fat. But you can find bad versions of all food.
If by meat you mean sheep offal, then yes.
Organ meat is meat. And at least lung, heart, and liver are delicious.
I’ve never been to england but I know curry is a big thing there and curry massively outranks every food in the comic
There are four types
Japanese - bland and tasteless
Chinese - spicy
Indian - OMG
Jamaican - MOAB
chicken tikka masala was invented in England
Curry is South Asian. But for us it’s a side dish with rice or roti as the main dish. Having curry by itself is a British thing.
You should go for a food tour. They have the best and most diverse food I’ve ever seen.
Yeah fish and chips are excellent. And natto is absolutely horrible
You’re right it’s just that some are more vibrant and contrasting to others. Like for instance if one is living in a jungle there’s just going to be more sources of food than in an area in the arctic or tundra. Like traditional Mongolian cuisine is going to contrast from somewhere tropical like Vietnam or Indonesia. I think that’s the big take away here.
Yeah. I don’t think the meme is just about “vibrancy” or “contrast though”. Miku looks depressed in the last panel, and the food is a negative stereotype.
I guess when I’m saying vibrant I also mean in taste. Like certain areas just have more going on food wise and some areas trend more toward brown food, brown taste. Obviously now we have global society so you can find sushi in the Sahara but what the general population generally eats is definitely contrasting in flavors from one region to another. I can say pretty comfortably that Nigerian food is simply more flavorful than kenyan cuisine in most circumstances.
So some food is more flavourful than others, hence some cuisines will be more flavourful than others. But I don’t actually want every dish I eat to be very flavourful, because that in itself becomes boring. So where it becomes problematic is when people pretend that being less flavourful means being bad or boring, and that being on average less flavourful means always less flavourful.
Baked beans, even though they’re brown, from a can, and pretty mushy, are packed with flavour: the sauce is made with tomatoes (acid! sugar!), enhanced with vinegar (more acid!) and brown sugar(!) and a load of garlic and onion powder (aromatics!) and pepper (spicy heat!) are dumped in there. Beneath it all is a bit of Worcester (or similar) sauce, which is a fermented fish (salt! umami!) sauce containing more spices. All that in a can of goop that you heat up in the microwave as a student.
This is lazy stereotyping.
Beans on toast is just a struggle meal; dont make it your national identity, I implore you.
Yeah yeah Taco Friday and all but there is great food to be had in Norway, it’s not just the noble potato
Bean on toast isn’t even bad. It should be jellied eels or a toad-in-the-hole.
Brits made those up so the colonies would give them the spices willingly, out of sheer pity.
They did fuck all with the spices, but that’s not the point.
Traditional British food actually uses a lot of spices, just not usually chilli. British food is full of coriander seed, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, aniseed, mace, rosemary, parsley, black pepper, mustard etc. They were originally used because people believed they would preserve meat and extend the shelf life. So recipes from before refrigeration use a lot of it, but also things like Christmas food and desserts use a lot (especially cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves). There’s a blend of spices sold in British shops specifically for sweet things called mixed spice similar to pumpkin spice in the states.
But even if you take spice to mean only hot capsicim Peppers, the hottest curries (phall) are a British recipe. Tabasco is one of the few non British companies to receive The Royal Warrant of Appointment (permission to use the Royal cost of arms on their products) because the Royal Family love Tabasco so much.
Also Britts drink a lot of ginger. Both alcoholic and non alcoholic ginger beer and ginger wine.
They did fuck all with the spices
The British national dish is curry.
Racism is always rooted in ignorance.
I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again
apparently it isn’t like an ‘official’ national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as “a true british national dish” in a speech
Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy. (full speech) (wikipedia)
The Brits are like the OG Big Daddies of spreading bigotry across the world, its ok to give it back, they are severely in bigotry debt.
Spectacularly missing the point of why bigotry is bad in the first place.
Telling someone they’re in “bigotry debt” over something that someone they’ve never even met did 200 years ago, and therefore fair game for pig-ignorant abuse, is as close to textbook racism as you can get. You have absolutely zero moral high ground here.
It’s like how if your people got genocided you get the genocide pass.
No it isn’t, bigot.
Curry is not British
This take is spicier than 99.5% of English cooking.
What spice is in every single British savoury recipe?
Having got three wrong answers in a short space of time, the correct answer is pepper. Now guess where pepper grows…
Probably pig blood or boiled yew tree bark but with a posh name.
Salt. In at least 50% of their savoury dishes
Close, but salt is not a spice.
Are you even British?
The correct answer was pepper.
Found the frogeater!
Black Pepper is also in a few sweet dishes. It goes very nicely with strawberries and cream.
Bay leaves, maybe?
WTF toad in the hole is amazing! What do you even think it is?
It means something different in America.
The British one (sausage baked into Yorkshire pudding) is fantastic.
The American one (a piece of fried bread with an egg in the middle) is pretty sad.
I have never heard it referred to as toad in a hole, but fried bread with an egg in the middle is pretty good. Just pan fry with a bit of butter and salt appropriately
You know toad in the hole doesn’t have actual toads in?
It’d probably be nicer if it did, tbh. I don’t know how you make a Yorkshire pudding worse, but they did it.
it’s sausages in yorkshire pudding. do you hate sausages?
well ain’t you a contrarian
Or stargazey pie
Nooo. Noooooooo. Nooooooooooooooo. I DID NOT WANT to know this exists. (Vomiting noises…)
It’s fish with breading. It can’t possibly taste much different from something like fish and chips
oh yeah everyone hates fish in sauce in pastry. Every American in New England would never eat fish in sauce in pastry
Not if it’s staring at them.
This is what Japanese people eat for breakfast, it’s basically their version of beans on toast called Natto:
It has the texture of chunky snot. Most of y’all ain’t ready for nattou.
Tastes kinda like peanut butter though and it’s surprisingly good in sushi rolls where the texture can absorbed by the rice somewhat, especially when there’s some other veg involved too.
It’s definitely slimy but if I had to pick one “chunky snot” texture food it’d be raw oysters. I like oysters and natto both, but I can see how people with texture issues are turned off.
It’s not a very fun meal due to the smell and mess it can make if you’re not careful. The taste isn’t awful but it’s not something I’d go out of my way to eat again.
My first experience was a hand roll bought at a konbini on the platform of a train station. It was windy and blew the strings of natto into my hair.
Tbh though, 10/10, I love natto.
Some of us enjoy the flavor. There are dozens of us!
The texture doesn’t bother me too much anymore, but those sticky strings are annoying.
interesting way to describe something
Some* Japanese people eat it. Even among them it’s not universal enjoyed.
I personally love it. Add some soy sauce and mustard, stir until foamy, enjoy.
I get that some people won’t get over the texture, but people like okra as well so…
I get that some people won’t get over the texture, but people like okra as well so…
Slimey cooked oat porridges too.
I had this once In high school, it was rlly nice :3
It’s the after taste that gets me every time I try Natto.
I’m not a football fan myself, but that did just make me think of this image.if they play well they get to tavel to countries with better food.
It’s a national encouragement
Icelandic people: “Enjoy the rotten shark lass!”
French: Enjoy rotten milk with rotten grape juice?
Comparing the Nordic rotten fish stuff with cheese and wine is certainly a choice.
Using consistent language.
If fermented fish is rotten then cheese is rotten milk, bread os rotten dough, wine is rotten grapes, beer is rotten wheat, Jamon is rotten pork…
Bread is heat treated rotten milled grain
It’s all spoiled stuff
British food is thoroughly underrated. Who could say no to even a small part of a full english breakfast?
Found the British sleeper agent
Vegans?
Accepting in advance the downvotes from people who get fucking weird pavlovian style when they see that word in order to give you a straight and obvious answer to your question.
They can have the beans, mushrooms, tomatoes and toast though. Doesn’t sound too awful to me.
Also vegan sausages exist
I mean, that’s true, but I’d prefer one of those big ol’ mushrooms. Why emulate one thing when you can have a great real thing? Fried potatoes/bubble’n’squeak/hashbrowns I’d go for though
Animals were brutalized to make half of it, the texture of the tomato is weird, and marmelade is too monotonically bitter for what is available to be combined with.
Beans on toast are honestly the best part.
But the real shame is that for an extra 10% of the price it could be so much better by adding spices. A full English isn’t depressing because of its materials but because of its potential.
It’s fine food, sure, but it is on the low end of dishes that include its ingredients.
(For the record, I’m Dutch, our “traditional” (read: late 19th century puritan) slop involves doing extra work to be actively hostile to flavor, making a full english seem indulgent).
The animals are the best bit. As for spices, I add curry powder to the beans, tarragon and thyme to the mushrooms, basil and black pepper to the tomato, and then dust the entire dish with chilli flakes. Serve it with homemade Carolina reaper sauce. The Scottish version is objectively better than the English one as it includes haggis and tattie scones. You can also serve it with deep fried cigarettes and buckfast tonic wine.
You can do a very nice vegetarian full English. Veggie sausages and black pudding (I make my own black pudding with black beans which works really well); halloumi is a better bacon imo, and the rest is all vegetarian
I don’t care much for breakfast in general, but veggie sausage is fucking delicious.
You can do that. But I’m Scottish, and vegetarian haggis is just really sad.
Fair enough. You’d be surprised how good/close some of this stuff can be if you make it yourself when it’s stuff like sausages, black pudding, haggis.
The hard ones for me are things like lamb shank — can’t replicate the texture or fat marbling in something like a tagine.
Look I try to eat vegan and if I find a good replacement I thoroughly enjoy and promote it (there’s some extremely good vegan foie), but sadly all the replacements of black pudding or morcilla I’ve tried have been a disappointment.
Also, blood is usually a byproduct of the meat industry so the animal didn’t die for that specific ingredient, which in my logic makes it one of the least “evil” non vegetarian products.
Anyway, please do share your bean based replacement if you want, it’s probably delicious.
I broadly did this one: https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/vegan-recipes/vegan-black-pudding/,
But I cut a few corners — because it didn’t need to be a sausage as I was eating it at home, I cooked stuff a bit longer to reduce the moisture content, made it into a dough-type thing, and fried it up in rounds.
I don’t disagree — I think offal and blood products are certainly at the better end of things, and if I were to eat meat I’d definitely practice nose-to-tail.
Also I’ve made this and it was excellent: https://veganbellyful.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/pate-de-campagne/
I added some redcurrant jelly as it was lacking depth and I felt a bit of sweetness would help, plus I associate it with chicken from childhood.
My favourite variant is the Welsh, which comes with cockles.
Not really convinced about adding random spices to the parts, as it’s already plenty salty and quite well balanced. A cafe near me started adding herbs to their mushrooms and that kind of ruined them, as they were really nice just in butter. The chili sauce thing is just depraved though and makes me suspect you may soon start rubbing it on your eyeballs just to feel something.
You forget the laver bread
I’d always say no to the black pudding >///<
the rest is quite OK
Fish and Chips are pretty nice (especially with a good sauce tatare)
Sauce tartare…
Your clearly not from round here mate!
I mean, if I was British and said something nice about the British cuisine wouldn’t that be the Obama awading himself a medal meme?
Just wanted to make the case that it isn’t completely hopeless, even if the sauce tatare is a bit of cheating I admit xP
More of in the UK we call it tartare sauce 😀
I’ve seen some weird sad sausages in english breakfast before
what even is the norwegian one? boiled cabbage and meat? it’s like you guys have never heard of lutefisk
Fårikål
Which, to be fair, is boiled cabbage and meat
The five traditional ingredients are: sheep, cabbage, salt, pepper, and fucking water.
Ahh yes lutefisk, or how l like to call it slimy ghost fish goop :S
amnamnam goop
If its slimy, you’re cooking it wrong. Heavily salt it and bake it in the oven to draw the liquid out. It should only smell like dick cheese (kukost) before cooking. Afterwards it should smell and taste like slightly caustic fish and be barely palatable if you have it with mashed potato, bacon bits, and mushy peas and wash it down with strong astringent alcoholic drink. It’s pretty rank but by no means the worst Nordic dish. A dubious honour that probably goes to Greenland’s kiviak.
You are not selling it to me at all, I’ll pass and continue not appreciating norwegian kitchen
Yeah, people like to shit all over British food, but the truth of the matter is that Nordic food is either just as bland as people say British food is, or it’s just plain grim.
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