British food is thoroughly underrated. Who could say no to even a small part of a full english breakfast?
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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...
what even is the norwegian one? boiled cabbage and meat? it's like you guys have never heard of lutefisk
Ahh yes lutefisk, or how l like to call it slimy ghost fish goop :S
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.
if by "british food" and "nordic food" you mean the stuff people ate in the winter because it's all they had, then yeah sure it's grim
but a much more accurate summary of all germanic food is "potatoes, meat, and gravy" which is sufficiently enjoyable that it's an international staple at IKEA.
Bean on toast isn't even bad. It should be jellied eels or a toad-in-the-hole.
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.
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.
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...
Black Pepper is also in a few sweet dishes. It goes very nicely with strawberries and cream.
Salt. In at least 50% of their savoury dishes
Close, but salt is not a spice.
They did fuck all with the spices
The British national dish is curry.
Bigotry always goes hand-in-hand with ignorance.
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.
It’s like how if your people got genocided you get the genocide pass.
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.
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)
Curry is not British
chicken tikka masala was very much invented in britain
Again, I'm talking about curry in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry
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.
Or stargazey pie
Nooo. Noooooooo. Nooooooooooooooo. I DID NOT WANT to know this exists. (Vomiting noises...)
oh yeah everyone hates fish in sauce in pastry. Every American in New England would never eat fish in sauce in pastry
Beans on toast is amazing. With cheese 🤌
I am a Brit though
Can't say I've eaten much English beans on toast, but I've recently started putting refried beans on toast (With a Mexican-inspired spice mix in the beans, sometimes salt on top) and it's pretty good.
For baked beans on toast, I recommend adding the following to your beans:
- paprika (1/4 - 1/2 tbsp)
- a small amount of ground pepper
- sriracha sauce (optional, amount depends on your tolerance/preference, I like to use roughly 2-3 tbsp)
- garlic powder (1/4 - 1/2 tbsp)
- soy sauce (0 - 2 tbsp)
- depending on your baked beans and if/how much soy sauce you used, add salt to taste
Feel free to experiment with the amounts and adding some other stuff, would love to hear your thoughts if you ever give it a try :)
Get some Hendo's relish on it as well - meal for for a king.
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.
The texture doesn't bother me too much anymore, but those sticky strings are annoying.
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…
Some* Japanese people eat it. Even among them it's not universal enjoyed.
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