I'm British and I see it's wrong because it simply isn't true... We have a ton of spicy foods. The stereotype that we only eat comfort foods like in the meme is old and worn out. Maybe that's all you eat, but that's on you.
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Yeah never got this. The nation's favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn't it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?
Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.
Yep, just seems disingenuous to act like the history of the spice trade hasn't affected our food culture when it clearly has massively. Hell, even curry in Japan is popular not because of India but because of British influence. The reason "Katsu Curry" is called Katsu is because of the English word "Cuts" referring to the cuts of meat in the curry, which is Japanese sounds like 'katsu'.
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But that's just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven...
But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else's cuisines.
By this logic the Japanese don't have curries and the Americans don't have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Exactly.
And India doesn't have chillies add Italy doesn't have tomatoes... Where do we stop?
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Except all the most popular curries in the UK aren't Indian, they're British, and infact pretty much any curry outside of southern Asia was introduced by the British (or occasionally Portuguese) like Japanese curry for example.
Eh, to some extent, but we've got the foresight to accept these dishes as being British when you consider that the foods we eat aren't authentic to those areas. Spag Bol isn't being eaten in Italy, nor is Chicken Vindaloo in India.
We've got a long enough history that we can trace back when the Normans and Saxons came here, alongside the culture changes of Indian settlers, Jamaican workers, Irish, etc. That acceptance is not only why there're a lot of distinctly British versions of different cultures' food, but why many cities in the UK also serve decidedly authentic food at some of the best restaurants in the world - and that doesn't even factor in how some cultures have fused over time.
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But why don't your comfort foods have spices?
In this context I think it's comfort food because it's kiddy food. Something simple and familiar that reminds you of being younger. In England, children's menus will usually contain basic things like chicken nuggets and fish fingers that aren't (heavily) spiced.
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As you say, lots of spicy food options. Our National Dish is actually a curry - chicken masala and Phall, the hottest curry, was invented in Birmingham.
Also - in the picture are baked beans. They're invented in the USA. We adopted them, but they're not ours.
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Yeah yeah, we know y'all love Tikka masala over there.
Brb, gonna go have hamburgers and french fries for breakfast and shoot my guns for lunch.
The perception of Britain that most Americans have is that of the 40's and 50's. It's hardly surprising that it's completely fucking wrong.
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I see nothing wrong because buttered bread, fish fingers and beans is a banger of a meal
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Popular misconception that they invaded for spices. They were actually looking for someone to play cricket with.
They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.
England is good at inventing games that they then lose at. In America we just try to make sure no populous countries play them. Canada is just being magnanimous by letting others win sometimes.
This is why Scotland invented Curling, a sport that no-one else wants to play.
Except the canucks
Better than cricket conquering the universe....
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Tbf, wouldn't coffee, tea, chocolate and sugar cane have been considered spices by then's definition?
So were opium and cocaine
Poppy seeds are definetely also a spice tho. And coca is an herb, which I guess can also be used as a spice... Use of coca by native populations seems to have been mostly medicinal... But then again, that's also how many spices were used until the 19th century.
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Tea would be a herb.
Not only "spices" but paprika and white pepper too!
Battered fish uses tumeric to get the yellow colour (fish and chips)
They’re also the curry capital of the world
The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made them the best sailors in the world.
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