A-tier joke lmao

lol I actually quite like Irish food. Went to a random pub in Galway and had some stew and it was so good! Irish beef is awesome.

I have friends kinda like what you described though. No spices and they love bland food, lol.

I'm okay with people taking jabs at British food to be honest. Like, my first year back when I was an adult I didn't know what to eat and I actually cooked more because I didn't know what to get. It wasn't until I made some friends that I knew places to check.

Fish used to be poor people's food. It was plentiful around the sea, but it kept for just a few hours without modern refrigeration, so you couldn't really transport it to the main city market and sell it. It didn't give you much food security or much money, and it wasn't as luxurious as meat, which was the food of choice for the higher classes.

The only fish that was eaten by the higher classes were the ones that could be preserved by salting, drying or smoking, and they were eaten mainly during lent, as a "lean" alternative to meat. It was mostly viewed as a sacrifice. During the late Middle Ages and early modern era, the herring trade started to really flourish, with Holland being a major exporter of herrings, while the Nordic countries like Norway and Sweden exported lots of salted cod and Stockfish (dried cod).

So I'm sure it was at a moment where eating fish was seen as a humiliation, rather than a treat, like it is today. In North America lobster was considered as very poor food, cockroaches of the ocean, fed to those who couldn't afford anything else or to prisoners. Sometimes they were even used as fertilizer for the fields.

In the very early days of the colonial Americas, indentured servants along the eastern seaboard would sometimes go on strike to protest all the lobster they were fed because it was abundant and very cheap.

So yes, people get tired of the same old, same old foods every day.

Not known for fruits? Strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, apples…

I left the 2% for pretzels, sausage, and Haribo gummies.

And Italians also make bread, you'll notice they're not on the exclusion list.

The French have good bread as well. Not as good as what we have in Italy of course, but well, they're doing their best!

They sure like talking about their bread a lot. No one beyond their borders understands why however.

Germans have roughly one kind of bread that they're very good at.

Germany has tons of Turkish immigrants, but Germans won't buy pita bread unless they're getting a doner. They share a massive border with France but mostly ignore delicious French breads like croissants, baguettes, etc. They're right near Italy but you won't find much focaccia. Forget about naan, bagels, bao, corn bread, crumpets, injera, etc.

Branding and beans for breakfast. That's why the English get the win here, which is also occasionally called a full Irish breakfast if there's no Brits looking. Plus, the English hardly have any indigenous culinary variety or spices. Why else colonize with such a passion?

And I'm actually very much ok with black pudding, that's not the issue. I don't like northern French cuisine because it's just "how much butter and cream can we pump into this snail or these poor mushrooms or a potato that was fine all on its own? Can we drown this perfectly mediocre cut of beef in cream and butter to make it seem fancy?" I'm far more partial to living below the butter/olive oil border. Southern France on the sea is tolerable, they're also below the border.

Yes, that was intentional to attempt to be humorous. It was invented by brits returning home attempting to recreate Indian food.

There is a whole category of British-Indian food which is from immigrants creating completely new types of curries that dont exist in India.

Something I've seen brits complain about on the internet before, Something about Sunday roasts involving far too much boiling and not enough seasoning

I can! I come from that area and it's a real dish that is eaten commonly and served in pubs and restaurants. If you go to a local market, you can get then to take away with scoops of mushy peas in the container too.

I don't eat meat, so I can't speak to the taste, but mushy peas themselves are delicious and shouldn't taste anything like garden peas. They are more like a dal.