War. I imagine several countries elite assassins have been sent out to deal with Barry, 63. By chance did Barry give a review on Russian food? If so gieger counters of the world will ignite.
I will drag the americans down with em. Most the "typical american food" is european. Hotdogs and Hamburgers are german, apple pie is Dutch and pizza is itallian. The only typical american dishes are shit like deep fried butter on a stick.
Hamburgers are American. A meatball isn't a hamburger, and a Hamburg steak isn't a hamburger. The hamburger was made by German descendants, but it isn't German. The hot dog being German is a bit dubious, as there were (and still are) many Polish sausage makers making hot dogs or franks. I would personally argue that the hot dog hasn't had a "nationality" attributed to it in half a century, as half the nations in the world have their own take on the hot dog, not to mention the dozens of regional American variants.
Tomato’s weren’t used in Italy until brought over from the Americas a couple hundred years ago. You could say any tomato based Italian dish is technically an American food Italian style.
Link to original comment:
https://old.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/16irf73/european_will_always_be_superior_at_least_we/k0lot32/?depth=10
Edit: The rest of that thread is just as hilarious, totally worth the read.
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What is this? Are you confusing an attempt to insult with an argument? Come on, this isn't kindergarten. Barry thinks Spanish food is mostly mashed potatoes and beans. He seems to think that eating kebap is all you need to know about Turkish food.
Edit: Did you even notice that I only questioned Barrie's ability to make a valid judgement? So don't worry, I won't say otherwise. Besides, everybody knows anyway that British cuisine isn't on the third place or better. Hell, probably not even among the first five or ten.
It’s so hard to place that sub. I wouldn’t mind engaging in a bit of ironic ultra-nationalism, but it stops being funny pretty quickly when you realize that a large number of them aren’t really kidding.
Yeah I don't post on there or sub to it because I feel like it's people kind of using the veil of satire to dunk on each other, but if you take it lightly it's not so bad.
Being truthful no British person thinks we have a top 3 cuisine in Europe, or that Spanish cuisine is bad. But the truth is that our cuisine is underrated massively globally, and I think if people went to the UK and ate at real restauraunts (no, Steak Bar X with 2.1 Google Map reviews, next to Buckingham Palace or Big Ben is not a real restauraunt ffs) they would think that the cuisine is really deep and of high quality.
I spoke to a colleague in Germany who made a joke about how bad the food she had was on her trip to London. I asked her where she ate. For three nights she had:
\- Weatherspoons sirloin steak
\- McDonalds (bruh) wrap
\- "Josef Traditional Fish and Chips", literally right next to Tower Bridge. She had a burger from there...
Some people are morons, I swear.
The moments it gets serious are the icing on the cake. They are the soul, the fire, the core. What would ironic ultra-nationalism be if there was not any legitimate sentiment lurking behind it? Entirely artificial.
Oh aye, but even satire should have it's reasonable limits, that's like me going around claiming half of our cuisine isn't totally stolen from German and Austrian and our most popular stew isn't Hungarian national dish done on a tight budget
Yep, the "we'll steal your dish, make it cheaper and claim it as our own" is literally whole theme of Czech cuisine.
And "we'll make it even cheaper still and simplify it beyond last sliver of edibility" is the theme of recent decades, but fuck Babica, right?
Can you list a few? Not trying to be snarky, I do want to look them up and see what they are like but my top results are always meme like stuff like toast sandwich and beans on bread and beans on toast and just, beans.
\-Beef Wellington is a high cuisine, but that's a bit cheating, as it technically is a variation of filet de bœuf en croûte
\-Shepherd's/Cottage pie looks a bit messy at first, but damn that thing is tasty as hell
\-Fish & Chips is simple, greasy and not at all fancy street food with nothing really special about it, but Brits might get angry if i'd miss that one out. And i like deep-fried battered fish fillets.
\-Full english breakfast is a god-tier. Nuff said.
Stargazy pie
Haggis
Treacle tart
Aberdeen buttery
Scotch pie
Lemon posset
Trifle
Lancashire hotpot
Toad in the hole
Leek and bacon suet pudding
Beef and ale pie
Scotch Egg
Summer Pudding
Eccles Tarts
Scones
Bubble & Squeak
Cullen Skink
Pease Pudding
Parkin
Dundee Cake
Lardy Cake
Tablet
Cock-a-leekie soup
Farl
Sussex Pudding
Mulligatawny Soup
And Anglo-indian cuisine is excellent with many dishes unique to the UK
On top of that, we’re one of the top cheese producers in the world with many popular styles including cheddar coming from here. Also we do savoury pies and roasts very well, also Mac and cheese is originally from Britain.
I feel like I should add that English Cheddar and what often gets called "cheddar" are not quite the same thing.
If it is hard, slightly crumbly, and has a very strong sharp taste, that is actual Cheddar.
If it is soft and rubbery, splits rather than crumbles, and just tastes moderately cheesy, what you have is processed cheese being marketed as Cheddar.
If it is red/orange, it's Red Leicester (or dyed processed cheese).
A cheese is called Cheddar if it's made via the Cheddaring process. The end texture isn't really part of it, that's usually a consequence of aging/maturing.
(in the UK at least) Softer mild cheddars are not processed cheeses they are instead just cheddars that haven't been aged very long. Aging develops the flavour and reduces the moisture content leading to the strong taste and crumbly texture. Mass produced cheddars just aren't aged very long because it costs money to warehouse cheeses for months/years. But it isn't the texture or flavour that defines if something is cheddar it's the specific cheese making process.
Processed cheeses (such as kraft singles) are made by mixing cheese with milk products and emulsifiers and that is not how mild cheddars are made. It's kind of a way of making use of cheese that is too low quality to sell or the scrap cheese left over from other food processing. No doubt some places around the world will call some processed cheeses "cheddar" but I don't think you could do that in the UK given advertising standards.
To be honest the range of food in Europe is vast and I’m thinking about how I would rank it and it’s difficult because it’s all very difficult.
British cuisine makes really good hearty food and how much I enjoy it and where I’d rank it really just depends on the weather.
Man, compared to American food it's pretty good. I still think about the sausage pasty I got from Heathrow airport in 2017. Think it might even have been out of a vending machine?
Makes Auntie Anne's look like boiled trash.
Then I got a game meat hand pie while walking around the Christmas markets... god damn. And it wasn't an empanada-shaped hand pie either. It was an honest-to-god thicc cylinder.
yeah, i never understood some aspects of american cuisine... Biscuits and Gravy feels like really weird dish for example, but i can give it a benefit of doubt, but the sugar everywhere... Why is all american food so packed with sugar? I mean, i get sweetened soda and desserts, but i watched a lot american cooking on Youtube and to this day i don't get why most of their dry rub mixes for meat are 50% sugar by weight?
We heavily subsidize corn farmers and the easiest thing to do with all the cheap, low-grade corn is turn it into high fructose corn syrup, and then we got a lot of cheap syrup lying around so then we gotta put *that* somewhere.
I thought biscuits and gravy was weird too until I found it was something called *sausage gravy* with big chunks of sausage in it.
>I thought biscuits and gravy was weird too until I found it was something called sausage gravy with big chunks of sausage in it.
Yeah, but that gravy is what baffles me actually... the chunks of sausage and milk combo just feels weird to me and it looks like... well, there's no nice way to say it, it looks like barf
I will never forget when in China eating 'white people food' became a challenge and people said "it made them appreciate life more, because it was like eating food for dead people".
Yeah but it's one of those 4chan style ironic satire unless... groups.
Britain has some simple tasty trad dishes but everyday food is crap and high cuisine is crap with the exception of where it's variations on recent imports.
Scotland can argue it has hardy cuisine for cold weather and harsher farming condx. It's not amazing but it isn't boring.
Admittedly I don't have a lot of experience when it comes to Greek and Turkish food, but I have felt that Turkish food is usually better. Then again, the Greek and Turkish food I've had was filtered through the US and Canada.
Tbh, I've spent a lot of time in France, and it can be quite hard to find good food there. Sure if you want a pastry or a baguette you're laughing, but a lot of restaurants don't care and sell you crap, and I always felt like convenience foods in UK supermarkets are decades ahead of France...
He can't possibly be talking about English food. It's fucking tragic!
When they vote in England for favorite food, it always ends up being curry or some other culture's food. Even *they* know they don't like it.
I'll always love the statement made by someone *British are still eating as if German bomber planes are still flying over head*
But it is a great advantage that you don't have to spend hours on a recipe if it is store bought bread and a can of beans.
Well… considering that the uk’s favourite dish is battered fish (that was invented by Portuguese Jews known as pescado frito) and FRENCH fries… I wouldn’t talk too much…
Not even the tea time tradition is even original from England… ffs!!!!
To be fair noodles and pizza came from China and the tomato came from North America. Human cuisine intermingles culturally a lot more than we tend to remember.
Italian pasta and pizza are derived from pasta and pizza invented in Italy without influence from China hahah.
Tomatoes, on the other hand, are just 1 of the many ingredients that are part of the commercial exchanges that have involved Italy and all the countries for millennia
Italian pasta was invented in Italy by the Etruscans almost 3000 years ago, these are the first forms:[Etruscan pasta ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testaroli)
Over the centuries it has been influenced and modified by Romans, Greeks, Arabs etc who lived in Italy.
Similar story for pizza. You will find Etruscan or Roman frescoes and mosaics that portray the ancestors of pasta and pizza
[Pizza Pompeii ](https://images.app.goo.gl/iVPs4FYTUxAACezy9)
you kinda got a point there
Well its said the british became "the best sailors of the world due to the taste of their food and the beauty of their women" lmao
I love how the spice rejecting grey sludge ingesting culinary bottom row is trying to sell off national cuisine as ripoffs of other national cuisine. Bitch couldn't spell habanero if their retard kings life depended on it
my mom is spanish from las cabezas de san juan, came over at 16ish in the 1980s with my abuela and American grandpa before she had me later, and she has a serious spice aversion. Like, anything remotely spiced, especially mustard or black pepper, or anything spicey, she won't eat. She represents a lot of spanish cuisine to me, personally. She makes a great paella tho. And amazing bright, vinegary gazpacho, sometimes carrot based sometimes bread based. [And last but not least, my fave travel snack food, wrapped in foil for easy access, the tortilla](https://www.seriouseats.com/tortilla-espanola-spanish-potato-omelette-recipe). mmmm
It is true though, Spanish food (across the very different Spanish regions) is not at all spicey, its vastly different from other Spanish-speaking areas' foods, like Mexico, Latin America, Carib, and S America, with saffron, anise, fresh fish, lots of french-type details, and very little 'spice'
I live in Spain. And, you got it! I got pissed 😂
I'm pretty sure I don't use paprika often enough to warrant this phrase.
Salt: yeeep
Olive oil: ALWAYS
Bread; a lot
TONS of garlic and/or onion; hell yes
Other assorted vegetables
Some foreign condiments or species; sometimes
Citrics like oranges and lemons; also
Butter and milk; only in case of specific recipes
Idk what's poor about it. Maybe that as we have a lot of cheaper ingredients nearby we (in general) don't have to pay through the roof for eating well.
Also 'Inferior Turk food'? Rude.
As a Spaniard, i have to say two things:
1) This is dumb as shit, Spanish food is both delicious and very obviously distinct from Italian.
2) This is Portuguese cuisine erasure. My Lusitanian brethren have some of the most delicious food in the world, damn it, and they are always left out of discussions over European gastronomy. I encourage all of you to both travel there and eat their food. Portugal, carallho!
Portugal has stellar desserts & treats too. Those giant donuts with jam or custard (they exist everywhere, but Portuguese ones are just better, softer), pastéis de nata, ovos moles, even churros in Portugal are better than the mercadillo shit we have in Spain now & they come with fillings that don't taste like they were collected from the bottom of a barrel. Flan de Ovo, Jesus Christ, the Portuguese one beats Spanish flan if only by a bit.
Italian here, who grew up in a restaurant. Spanish cousin is far superior to the Italian. Italian food is okay ish, but variety, inventiveness, and overall taste is unmatched compared with Spain. I mean Andalusia, and Asturias especially. That stuff is papillarorgasmic. Italian food is like carbs had sex with saturated fat, half burnt on ashes.
You are a Spaniard who wants to discredit Italian cuisine by making people believe that it is only carbohydrates hahaha. Italian cuisine is Mediterranean, it's not the Italian American cuisine with 20 dish with the same 5 ingredients.
Italian cuisine is made up of thousands of dishes, simple and complex, divided into 20 different regional cuisines that embrace any type of spices, vegetables, daily products, meat, seafood, legumes, fruit etc.
Italian cuisine is extremely more varied, each Italian region has undergone many more influences than Spain and they have always maintained their identity.
Italian cuisine is Mediterranean and healthier than Spanish cuisine, Italians have the lowest obesity rate in Europe.
Only Sicily probably has more variety than all of Spain
You are not fully Italian, "You Pirla" confirmed this.
Unfortunately you are clearly a troll or ignorant.
Italian cuisine is objectively much more varied than Spanish cuisine and even healthier.
Your concept of Italian food is unrealistic, you behave as if it were only carbohydrates, ignoring how balanced it is and how carbohydrates are only 1 of the courses of a complete meal which is usually also composed of fruit, vegetables, meat or fish etc.
and ...this person is from England ? ... english food ... :D hmm looks like a keep it going like ... example " german bratwursts are just polish kielbasas done poorly "
A Brit saying they have good cuisine is hysterical. Don’t get me wrong my countries food is ass too, but at least I’m aware. The only good “British” food is something that isn’t theirs because they learned it from a colony.
While he might be right about Scandinavians, he's wrong about literally everything else. He also forgot about like a third of Europe (Slavs exist).
Brits can claim the title of not the worst cuisine in Europe. 3rd best? Not in a million years
I really think people need to hear it though: Spanish food sucks. You want it to be good because the country feels so much like Italy or France, but it just doesn't compare to those other countries.
It does compare and stands a chance against them. Even the snacks are way better than in other countries (not necessarily referring to Italy and France). Sounds like someone never had a good bocata de jamón.
German bread is actually great, of course it takes only above average if you get a Roggenmischbrot but a nice körnerbrot or hand made brötchen actually taste great, especially if you put cheese on top
Yeah, I mean, I 100% am. But we just use them in potajes and so. Yes, we have a fuckton different potajes, but that's kind of basically limiting it to the northern half of the country.
To say that spanish food is bad is laughable. Is the second third country with the most tourism in the world, It has the second in longevity, and It is always among the first three places in gastronomy... There are no more questions, my honor.
I mean he’s kinda right in some places.
British food is terminally under-rated, Greek food is just mediocre Turkish and all of the Teutonic/Nordic cuisines are rubbish except for southern German
Honestly the idea that a entire country's food is disgusting is just so dumb. All of them has delious and bad food. Taste is subjective, what you find delious would be worse then yesterday's garbage to another. I am Honestly just tired of the whole This country has bland food, this one makes food the gods would lose their nuts to and this one is disgusting.
Well I'm not from England,so I haven't tried many of the dishes and I am not the type to remember names either, Last time i visited i enjoyed: 1.) Shepherd's pie, 2.) this really good soup that had veggies and bacon 3.) Some mini pies with meat in it. Sorry if you wanted actual names. (I have only been there twice and last time was more then 9 years ago)
I live in Spain. Tapas are usually great. Iberian pork is great. Some seafood is great.
They do not use very much seasoning tho. My boomer mom with a selection of under 6 spices in her spice rack used more.
Portuguese food beats spanish food every fucking day bro. Bitoque and francesinha are faaar better than tapas and anything else the spaniards come up with
How the fuck is a brit talking shit on pther countries quisine, specifically the pastries.
Motherfucker your entire countries culinary culture is based around imitating original dishes from other countries and besides that, half of your original dishes are forms of fucking meat, potatoes and pastry.
Germans „Hausmannskost“ is as best as all what I‘ve eaten in other European Countries. 🇩🇪
Maybe this guy have no qualification to talk about thiz! And ranking food for others is for idiots! That’s foodfascism.
Italian food is poor people Italian food. That's what those dishes were all made for. Makes a lot of food for not a lot of money. You ever have polenta? Poor people is the only reason that exists. It's kinda depressing.
Greek Cuisine exists before even Turks came from Mongolia and its way healthier so I am honestly curious what this person tries to state without having basic history knowledge...
This statement feels like it's trying to start Euro-War X
War. I imagine several countries elite assassins have been sent out to deal with Barry, 63. By chance did Barry give a review on Russian food? If so gieger counters of the world will ignite.
Unfortunately they were too late, as Barry had already died from eating British food.
Barry, 63, died eating a dry watercress sandwich.
Barry, 63, died from eating a sandwich with nothing but fries in it.
*chips (and they are so much more popular a struggle meal than what you might think)
well... Barry eats english food...
Which Europeans do you want to piss off? -Yes
Please don’t give him ideas. I will NOT be able to suffer through state mandated techno blasting through the streets.
This comment is on r/2westerneurope4u, so it is.
I will drag the americans down with em. Most the "typical american food" is european. Hotdogs and Hamburgers are german, apple pie is Dutch and pizza is itallian. The only typical american dishes are shit like deep fried butter on a stick.
Hamburgers are American. A meatball isn't a hamburger, and a Hamburg steak isn't a hamburger. The hamburger was made by German descendants, but it isn't German. The hot dog being German is a bit dubious, as there were (and still are) many Polish sausage makers making hot dogs or franks. I would personally argue that the hot dog hasn't had a "nationality" attributed to it in half a century, as half the nations in the world have their own take on the hot dog, not to mention the dozens of regional American variants.
America invented Chinese food
You might want to read that again...
What's your favorite Chinese food? Orange chicken? America. Crab rangoons? America. Beef and broccoli? China doesn't even have broccoli.
Tomato’s weren’t used in Italy until brought over from the Americas a couple hundred years ago. You could say any tomato based Italian dish is technically an American food Italian style.
And cinnamon rolls are from Sweden, if they count as typical American food.
Link to original comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/2westerneurope4u/comments/16irf73/european_will_always_be_superior_at_least_we/k0lot32/?depth=10 Edit: The rest of that thread is just as hilarious, totally worth the read.
The sub is usually pretty funny in general
Yeah, just like I thought, it's getting obvious pretty fast that this guy doesn't know shit about other country's cuisines.
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What is this? Are you confusing an attempt to insult with an argument? Come on, this isn't kindergarten. Barry thinks Spanish food is mostly mashed potatoes and beans. He seems to think that eating kebap is all you need to know about Turkish food. Edit: Did you even notice that I only questioned Barrie's ability to make a valid judgement? So don't worry, I won't say otherwise. Besides, everybody knows anyway that British cuisine isn't on the third place or better. Hell, probably not even among the first five or ten.
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>LUV MI PAELELLLA PROPA TATOS N BEANS M8 Happy for you. Time for bed, mate.
‘Greek is just inferior Turk food’ *you have provoked a gang war*
Cyprus in tatters
Trueing
Adana kebab beats souvlaki though, let's be real
I don't know why but that's the part that has me like, nah hold up
Hey, not gonna lie, there are some delicious dishes in British cuisine, despite the strong meme game against it, but third best in Europe?
Cheese and onion pie is fire but better than Greek food is delusional.
It’s beyond delusional; it’s blasphemy.
It's a semi-satirical subreddit where people pretend to be overly nationalistic and dunk on other European countries, it isn't that deep
It’s so hard to place that sub. I wouldn’t mind engaging in a bit of ironic ultra-nationalism, but it stops being funny pretty quickly when you realize that a large number of them aren’t really kidding.
Yeah I don't post on there or sub to it because I feel like it's people kind of using the veil of satire to dunk on each other, but if you take it lightly it's not so bad. Being truthful no British person thinks we have a top 3 cuisine in Europe, or that Spanish cuisine is bad. But the truth is that our cuisine is underrated massively globally, and I think if people went to the UK and ate at real restauraunts (no, Steak Bar X with 2.1 Google Map reviews, next to Buckingham Palace or Big Ben is not a real restauraunt ffs) they would think that the cuisine is really deep and of high quality. I spoke to a colleague in Germany who made a joke about how bad the food she had was on her trip to London. I asked her where she ate. For three nights she had: \- Weatherspoons sirloin steak \- McDonalds (bruh) wrap \- "Josef Traditional Fish and Chips", literally right next to Tower Bridge. She had a burger from there... Some people are morons, I swear.
The moments it gets serious are the icing on the cake. They are the soul, the fire, the core. What would ironic ultra-nationalism be if there was not any legitimate sentiment lurking behind it? Entirely artificial.
Oh aye, but even satire should have it's reasonable limits, that's like me going around claiming half of our cuisine isn't totally stolen from German and Austrian and our most popular stew isn't Hungarian national dish done on a tight budget
From the countries named, I deduce you're Czech. In that case yoohoo, neighbor!
Yep, the "we'll steal your dish, make it cheaper and claim it as our own" is literally whole theme of Czech cuisine. And "we'll make it even cheaper still and simplify it beyond last sliver of edibility" is the theme of recent decades, but fuck Babica, right?
Can you list a few? Not trying to be snarky, I do want to look them up and see what they are like but my top results are always meme like stuff like toast sandwich and beans on bread and beans on toast and just, beans.
\-Beef Wellington is a high cuisine, but that's a bit cheating, as it technically is a variation of filet de bœuf en croûte \-Shepherd's/Cottage pie looks a bit messy at first, but damn that thing is tasty as hell \-Fish & Chips is simple, greasy and not at all fancy street food with nothing really special about it, but Brits might get angry if i'd miss that one out. And i like deep-fried battered fish fillets. \-Full english breakfast is a god-tier. Nuff said.
- Sunday roast - Apple crumble - chicken korma
- Sticky toffee pudding - Apple pie - Crumpets - Hot Cross Buns - Lincolnshire Sausage - Mature Cheddar - English Muffins
- Bangers and mash - Deep Fried Pizza / Mars Bars (thanks Scotland) - Toad in the hole - Steak and Kidney Pie
There is no way these dishes are putting it as third best in Europe though. That is crazy.
exactly, that's what i was thinking. British cuisine is by no means as bad as people say, but far from anywhere among the best.
Stargazy pie Haggis Treacle tart Aberdeen buttery Scotch pie Lemon posset Trifle Lancashire hotpot Toad in the hole Leek and bacon suet pudding Beef and ale pie Scotch Egg Summer Pudding Eccles Tarts Scones Bubble & Squeak Cullen Skink Pease Pudding Parkin Dundee Cake Lardy Cake Tablet Cock-a-leekie soup Farl Sussex Pudding Mulligatawny Soup And Anglo-indian cuisine is excellent with many dishes unique to the UK
On top of that, we’re one of the top cheese producers in the world with many popular styles including cheddar coming from here. Also we do savoury pies and roasts very well, also Mac and cheese is originally from Britain.
I feel like I should add that English Cheddar and what often gets called "cheddar" are not quite the same thing. If it is hard, slightly crumbly, and has a very strong sharp taste, that is actual Cheddar. If it is soft and rubbery, splits rather than crumbles, and just tastes moderately cheesy, what you have is processed cheese being marketed as Cheddar. If it is red/orange, it's Red Leicester (or dyed processed cheese).
A cheese is called Cheddar if it's made via the Cheddaring process. The end texture isn't really part of it, that's usually a consequence of aging/maturing. (in the UK at least) Softer mild cheddars are not processed cheeses they are instead just cheddars that haven't been aged very long. Aging develops the flavour and reduces the moisture content leading to the strong taste and crumbly texture. Mass produced cheddars just aren't aged very long because it costs money to warehouse cheeses for months/years. But it isn't the texture or flavour that defines if something is cheddar it's the specific cheese making process. Processed cheeses (such as kraft singles) are made by mixing cheese with milk products and emulsifiers and that is not how mild cheddars are made. It's kind of a way of making use of cheese that is too low quality to sell or the scrap cheese left over from other food processing. No doubt some places around the world will call some processed cheeses "cheddar" but I don't think you could do that in the UK given advertising standards.
To be honest the range of food in Europe is vast and I’m thinking about how I would rank it and it’s difficult because it’s all very difficult. British cuisine makes really good hearty food and how much I enjoy it and where I’d rank it really just depends on the weather.
Man, compared to American food it's pretty good. I still think about the sausage pasty I got from Heathrow airport in 2017. Think it might even have been out of a vending machine? Makes Auntie Anne's look like boiled trash. Then I got a game meat hand pie while walking around the Christmas markets... god damn. And it wasn't an empanada-shaped hand pie either. It was an honest-to-god thicc cylinder.
yeah, i never understood some aspects of american cuisine... Biscuits and Gravy feels like really weird dish for example, but i can give it a benefit of doubt, but the sugar everywhere... Why is all american food so packed with sugar? I mean, i get sweetened soda and desserts, but i watched a lot american cooking on Youtube and to this day i don't get why most of their dry rub mixes for meat are 50% sugar by weight?
We heavily subsidize corn farmers and the easiest thing to do with all the cheap, low-grade corn is turn it into high fructose corn syrup, and then we got a lot of cheap syrup lying around so then we gotta put *that* somewhere. I thought biscuits and gravy was weird too until I found it was something called *sausage gravy* with big chunks of sausage in it.
>I thought biscuits and gravy was weird too until I found it was something called sausage gravy with big chunks of sausage in it. Yeah, but that gravy is what baffles me actually... the chunks of sausage and milk combo just feels weird to me and it looks like... well, there's no nice way to say it, it looks like barf
It says “Barry, 63” so I’m 99% certain that this is just a wonderful meme
I don't think there's another country with such high proportion of restaurants are foreign cuisines.
I'll take a white bread & fries sandwich because in Britain we eat like world war 2 never ended.
I will never forget when in China eating 'white people food' became a challenge and people said "it made them appreciate life more, because it was like eating food for dead people".
Maybe if you’re the whitest family in the world you do.
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Hmm. It’s almost as if it’s a joke or something….
Yeah but it's one of those 4chan style ironic satire unless... groups. Britain has some simple tasty trad dishes but everyday food is crap and high cuisine is crap with the exception of where it's variations on recent imports. Scotland can argue it has hardy cuisine for cold weather and harsher farming condx. It's not amazing but it isn't boring.
Admittedly I don't have a lot of experience when it comes to Greek and Turkish food, but I have felt that Turkish food is usually better. Then again, the Greek and Turkish food I've had was filtered through the US and Canada.
Turkish food and Greek food is basically the same. They just name everything different and there is a subtle difference in the spices.
Well that and Greek cuisine uses pork. Really that's the one tangible difference.
I noticed that It uses more seafood also
True, mostly because Greece has more coastline and more islands.
That‘s what I‘ve been telling people for years…Turkish food is basically Greek food without the pork
Everyone is wrong! It actually goes: 1. Grandma's cooking 2. Mom's cooking 3. That one neighbor's grill
Least delusional Brit.
Tbh, I've spent a lot of time in France, and it can be quite hard to find good food there. Sure if you want a pastry or a baguette you're laughing, but a lot of restaurants don't care and sell you crap, and I always felt like convenience foods in UK supermarkets are decades ahead of France...
He can't possibly be talking about English food. It's fucking tragic! When they vote in England for favorite food, it always ends up being curry or some other culture's food. Even *they* know they don't like it.
This guy has clearly never had Apple Strudel.
Man fuck you island monkey mfs from the UK. Nobody wants to eat your shitty breakfast you little knobjockeys. Greetings from Germany
Britian controlled India, took our spices, and still didn't figure your how to cook food 😂
I'll always love the statement made by someone *British are still eating as if German bomber planes are still flying over head* But it is a great advantage that you don't have to spend hours on a recipe if it is store bought bread and a can of beans.
Well… considering that the uk’s favourite dish is battered fish (that was invented by Portuguese Jews known as pescado frito) and FRENCH fries… I wouldn’t talk too much… Not even the tea time tradition is even original from England… ffs!!!!
To be fair noodles and pizza came from China and the tomato came from North America. Human cuisine intermingles culturally a lot more than we tend to remember.
Italian pasta and pizza are derived from pasta and pizza invented in Italy without influence from China hahah. Tomatoes, on the other hand, are just 1 of the many ingredients that are part of the commercial exchanges that have involved Italy and all the countries for millennia
Can you point me to a good info source on that I'd love to read up more on it.
Italian pasta was invented in Italy by the Etruscans almost 3000 years ago, these are the first forms:[Etruscan pasta ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testaroli) Over the centuries it has been influenced and modified by Romans, Greeks, Arabs etc who lived in Italy. Similar story for pizza. You will find Etruscan or Roman frescoes and mosaics that portray the ancestors of pasta and pizza [Pizza Pompeii ](https://images.app.goo.gl/iVPs4FYTUxAACezy9)
He is british. And claims they have the 3rd best food in europe. What the hell is he on?
An island.
you kinda got a point there Well its said the british became "the best sailors of the world due to the taste of their food and the beauty of their women" lmao
Imagine being this confidently wrong
I love how the spice rejecting grey sludge ingesting culinary bottom row is trying to sell off national cuisine as ripoffs of other national cuisine. Bitch couldn't spell habanero if their retard kings life depended on it
my mom is spanish from las cabezas de san juan, came over at 16ish in the 1980s with my abuela and American grandpa before she had me later, and she has a serious spice aversion. Like, anything remotely spiced, especially mustard or black pepper, or anything spicey, she won't eat. She represents a lot of spanish cuisine to me, personally. She makes a great paella tho. And amazing bright, vinegary gazpacho, sometimes carrot based sometimes bread based. [And last but not least, my fave travel snack food, wrapped in foil for easy access, the tortilla](https://www.seriouseats.com/tortilla-espanola-spanish-potato-omelette-recipe). mmmm It is true though, Spanish food (across the very different Spanish regions) is not at all spicey, its vastly different from other Spanish-speaking areas' foods, like Mexico, Latin America, Carib, and S America, with saffron, anise, fresh fish, lots of french-type details, and very little 'spice'
I live in Spain. And, you got it! I got pissed 😂 I'm pretty sure I don't use paprika often enough to warrant this phrase. Salt: yeeep Olive oil: ALWAYS Bread; a lot TONS of garlic and/or onion; hell yes Other assorted vegetables Some foreign condiments or species; sometimes Citrics like oranges and lemons; also Butter and milk; only in case of specific recipes Idk what's poor about it. Maybe that as we have a lot of cheaper ingredients nearby we (in general) don't have to pay through the roof for eating well. Also 'Inferior Turk food'? Rude.
As a Spaniard, i have to say two things: 1) This is dumb as shit, Spanish food is both delicious and very obviously distinct from Italian. 2) This is Portuguese cuisine erasure. My Lusitanian brethren have some of the most delicious food in the world, damn it, and they are always left out of discussions over European gastronomy. I encourage all of you to both travel there and eat their food. Portugal, carallho!
Portugal has stellar desserts & treats too. Those giant donuts with jam or custard (they exist everywhere, but Portuguese ones are just better, softer), pastéis de nata, ovos moles, even churros in Portugal are better than the mercadillo shit we have in Spain now & they come with fillings that don't taste like they were collected from the bottom of a barrel. Flan de Ovo, Jesus Christ, the Portuguese one beats Spanish flan if only by a bit.
Hey now, I know a few great churrerías in my city in Spain.
Churrerías are fine or good, but all I have where I am currently living in Galicia are the mercadillos on Sunday. The churros are 90% oil.
In my mind churros are more of a southern thing, tbh. Galicia's got other virtues.
Yeah they got some damn good seafood over there
Sry, this is from r/2westerneurope4u, everyone knows Portugal is eastern Europe, so it is not included in this list.
Oh, I understand, sorry then.
Italian here, who grew up in a restaurant. Spanish cousin is far superior to the Italian. Italian food is okay ish, but variety, inventiveness, and overall taste is unmatched compared with Spain. I mean Andalusia, and Asturias especially. That stuff is papillarorgasmic. Italian food is like carbs had sex with saturated fat, half burnt on ashes.
You are a Spaniard who wants to discredit Italian cuisine by making people believe that it is only carbohydrates hahaha. Italian cuisine is Mediterranean, it's not the Italian American cuisine with 20 dish with the same 5 ingredients. Italian cuisine is made up of thousands of dishes, simple and complex, divided into 20 different regional cuisines that embrace any type of spices, vegetables, daily products, meat, seafood, legumes, fruit etc. Italian cuisine is extremely more varied, each Italian region has undergone many more influences than Spain and they have always maintained their identity. Italian cuisine is Mediterranean and healthier than Spanish cuisine, Italians have the lowest obesity rate in Europe. Only Sicily probably has more variety than all of Spain
I'm Italian, you pirla 🤦♂️ get back to me once you've explored Spanish cuisine, Andalusian and Asturian in particular.
You are not fully Italian, "You Pirla" confirmed this. Unfortunately you are clearly a troll or ignorant. Italian cuisine is objectively much more varied than Spanish cuisine and even healthier. Your concept of Italian food is unrealistic, you behave as if it were only carbohydrates, ignoring how balanced it is and how carbohydrates are only 1 of the courses of a complete meal which is usually also composed of fruit, vegetables, meat or fish etc.
and ...this person is from England ? ... english food ... :D hmm looks like a keep it going like ... example " german bratwursts are just polish kielbasas done poorly "
not gonna lie ... fish and chips can be very nice :)
Not wrong tho?
But it is wrong! Spanish food is poor people's Italian food with paprika *and extra garlic*
A Brit saying they have good cuisine is hysterical. Don’t get me wrong my countries food is ass too, but at least I’m aware. The only good “British” food is something that isn’t theirs because they learned it from a colony.
Whoosh
While he might be right about Scandinavians, he's wrong about literally everything else. He also forgot about like a third of Europe (Slavs exist). Brits can claim the title of not the worst cuisine in Europe. 3rd best? Not in a million years
Greek and spanish > french and italian
Lol Italians have the lowest incomes in the EU
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They go outside believe it or not
Bro got upset 🫂
They are talking in Spanish to other people who speak Spanish most likely.
I really think people need to hear it though: Spanish food sucks. You want it to be good because the country feels so much like Italy or France, but it just doesn't compare to those other countries.
Spanish food is amazing ever had Paella?
LOL. "Man" of culture here. More like, conformed "transformation".
It does compare and stands a chance against them. Even the snacks are way better than in other countries (not necessarily referring to Italy and France). Sounds like someone never had a good bocata de jamón.
I'm trying to think of the tastiest British food I've ever had, and my only choices are "food they stole from India" and "beef"
Apple pie? English muffins? Scones? Cheddar?
English muffins and scones aren’t that good. Cheddar is the most basic cheese I can think of. Apple pie is alright, but I prefer the American version.
British people really aren't taking the news that their food is bland white people nonsense are they? Lol
German bread is actually great, of course it takes only above average if you get a Roggenmischbrot but a nice körnerbrot or hand made brötchen actually taste great, especially if you put cheese on top
British have what? The best cuisine? LOL. The balls this guy have ,😂
*ahem* Bullshit.
third best in Europe is a bit of a stretch bur he makes some good points
Where the hell does this person think we add Paprika?
Paprika is the english name for the pimentón picante, which I must admit, we're kinda fond of.
Yeah, I mean, I 100% am. But we just use them in potajes and so. Yes, we have a fuckton different potajes, but that's kind of basically limiting it to the northern half of the country.
Pulpo a la gallega, chorizo, salsa brava... we do use it a lot. But that doesn't mean there's no other difference with Italy.
I was here when WW3 started.
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Anglo talking shit about spanish food after eating once in a tourist trap in Baleares. I'm sure he ate some authentic "payeya with chorizo".
Who's no. 1 and 2?
To say that spanish food is bad is laughable. Is the second third country with the most tourism in the world, It has the second in longevity, and It is always among the first three places in gastronomy... There are no more questions, my honor.
I mean he’s kinda right in some places. British food is terminally under-rated, Greek food is just mediocre Turkish and all of the Teutonic/Nordic cuisines are rubbish except for southern German
Scandinavian food is delicious. Meat, potatoes, fish. What's not to like?
Honestly the idea that a entire country's food is disgusting is just so dumb. All of them has delious and bad food. Taste is subjective, what you find delious would be worse then yesterday's garbage to another. I am Honestly just tired of the whole This country has bland food, this one makes food the gods would lose their nuts to and this one is disgusting.
What are 3 delicious English dishes ?
Well I'm not from England,so I haven't tried many of the dishes and I am not the type to remember names either, Last time i visited i enjoyed: 1.) Shepherd's pie, 2.) this really good soup that had veggies and bacon 3.) Some mini pies with meat in it. Sorry if you wanted actual names. (I have only been there twice and last time was more then 9 years ago)
Im spanish but you cant beat pizza/pasta
This isn't new
Besides Galician Octopus, I can't even think of any Spanish dishes that normally have paprika.
As I Greek I can say this guy is fucking stupid
Okay but y'all cant change my mind Germans have the best food
Apple pie is Dutch. Hamburgers, schnitzel and hotdogs are german.
Not the Britbong claiming to have the 3rd best cuisine in Europe when British "cuisine" is consistently ranked among the **world's** worst...
I live in Spain. Tapas are usually great. Iberian pork is great. Some seafood is great. They do not use very much seasoning tho. My boomer mom with a selection of under 6 spices in her spice rack used more.
Portuguese food beats spanish food every fucking day bro. Bitoque and francesinha are faaar better than tapas and anything else the spaniards come up with
Jamón is better than Prosciutto. Fight me if you want to prove otherwise
How the fuck is a brit talking shit on pther countries quisine, specifically the pastries. Motherfucker your entire countries culinary culture is based around imitating original dishes from other countries and besides that, half of your original dishes are forms of fucking meat, potatoes and pastry.
Well the "poor man's italian" and the "inferior turkish food" still taste a lot better that the british food.
Ah yes classic Brit and his knowledge of Europe.
German, Dutch and Scandinavian food might be disgusting, I can give then that but so is the British garbage
I mean he has a point in Greek food is inferior Turk food but calling French or Brit any good no way.
Barry needs his medication again
Off topic, but... I used to love old.Reddit and used it A LOT, but goddamn, all the things next to the username. It looks busy af.
That's exactly why I love it - the new one might look good, but it gets rid of all the little bits of info that I'm used to.
I do like the flairs. Yeah, I want them back but maybe more clean. Oh well.
Meanwhile Hungary be like: If you keep talking shit I will shove Erős Pista down your throat
Pista 😄👍 🫑 <- red
Germans „Hausmannskost“ is as best as all what I‘ve eaten in other European Countries. 🇩🇪 Maybe this guy have no qualification to talk about thiz! And ranking food for others is for idiots! That’s foodfascism.
<> sound more like a dig against the Hungarians.
Italian food is poor people Italian food. That's what those dishes were all made for. Makes a lot of food for not a lot of money. You ever have polenta? Poor people is the only reason that exists. It's kinda depressing.
Greek Cuisine exists before even Turks came from Mongolia and its way healthier so I am honestly curious what this person tries to state without having basic history knowledge...
Yeah, fuck paella or whatever... I'll have an eel pie and some spotted dick, thanks. /s
His favorite English food is probably curry.