• tiramichu@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    Excuse me but that isn’t an official, original “Colin the Caterpillar” cake from Marks & Spencer, but an inferior and entirely unauthorised " Curly the Caterpillar" clone from Tesco.

    As a proponent of fine British cuisine I take offence to this dire misrepresentation.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Look, I visited Britain a few years ago and you guys had pie with fish in it, which seemed kinda unique, fish & chips with vinegar in a newspaper, shortbread, haggis and other non-dessert “puddings” and breakfast with sausages etc… (Also, we went to an Indian restaurant in Britain and it was really good. Like world class good ngl.)

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      35 minutes ago

      This meme is British people poking fun at ourselves.

      Americans just recycle the same jokes from Reddit “lol conquered the world but doesn’t use spice”. From people who’ve never left their home town. You can ignore those.

      The French also insult our food and they have more of a point but that’s another matter and I’ll personally fight them over it

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      10 hours ago

      British Curries are different than a lot of “authentic” indian curries, but they have become a thing in of them selves, over the years, and they are great.

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      11 hours ago

      British cooking has a bad reputation, but they make really good comfort food. Sunday roast, yorkshire pudding, steak and ale pies, shepherd’s/cottage pie, full english breakfast, pasties, fish pie, beef wellington, scones! I could go on. Sure it’s mostly brown and beige food but cooked properly all of these dishes are really tasty!

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        8 hours ago

        He gets more flack than he deserves. He tried to change school dinners yes, but the government at the same time were severely cutting back the budget for school dinners in general. Once the quality fell through, they used Jamie as a scapegoat for the whole thing

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          14 hours ago

          Hold on Uncle Rodger… He tried to get them banned, therefore logic dictates that they’re actually pretty good!

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            11 hours ago

            If I remember right he tried and successfully got them removed from school dinners. They tasted so good.

            They are back now, but a shadow of their former glory.

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              11 hours ago

              Yeah, that’s right. Tbh I’ve not tried one in years. Something’s are better left in the nostalgic past. Crispy pancakes being a prime example.

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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          14 hours ago

          Low quality turkey (animal) meat, mashed up and mixed with rusk, water, other low quality “meats” (offal, ears, pig trotters, bumholes etc) and an array of flavourings and sweeteners and reconstituted into a helical shape and coated with breadcrumbs and oven baked.

          Basically the same as any other easily affordable breaded, reconstituted meat product, except it’s in a helix instead of a sausage or burger pattie shape.

          I’ve never had one, but they’re probably delicious.

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    16 hours ago

    Heinz baked bean pizza sounds kind of amazing… I’m guessing that ones not available outside the UK though lol maybe I can make it myself at home

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        8 hours ago

        Presumably it’s on pizza crust instead of toast. I know I can get the UK Heinz baked beans at a few different stores here so I might try to do it myself lol