• Deebster
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      336 months ago

      Americans visited the UK during WW2’s rationing and never updated their stereotypes.

        • Kabe
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          436 months ago

          Bold talk from the nation that eats cheese from a spray can.

          • @[email protected]
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            66 months ago

            Don’t be mad we actually make better cheddar than the UK.

            Also, not gonna lie, cheezwhiz has its place. It’s just not the height of culinary cuisine.

            • Kabe
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              Ha! Don’t make me spit out my tea. Your cheddar is cheese-flavored plastic in comparison.

          • UltraMagnus0001
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            Here in America we eat freedom cheese, meaning cooperations are free to add whatever they want to our foods unlike in the EU, where certain chemicals are not allowed in your foods. Yay for obesity. We have Pink Slime and chemically sprayed potatoes to prevent black spots on our McDonald’s Freedom Fries.

        • @[email protected]
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          136 months ago

          And what goes into beans on toast? That’s right: cumin, paprika, garlic, onion, pepper… Spices

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

          Three bean salad with croutons, hummus on pita bread, vegetarian burritos are all technically beans on toast

    • Nougat
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      I am amused by the fact that the word “distinct” sounds similar to “Dis stink!”

    • UltraMagnus0001
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      If it’s curry it’s Indian, just like American Chinese takeout is American but still Chinese and Pizza is American but still Italian. The flavors derived from those specific cultures to spice up the bland food people were used to. Tea was mostly a Chinese tradition and the Indians stole it to trade with Britain, because it was cheaper.

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        True, but I would argue that American Chinese food is a distinct cuisine in its own right, just as Anglo-Indian is.

        If the argument is that the British Empire didn’t incorporate seasonings and spices into its own traditional cuisine, then I’d argue that none of the European powers did. French cuisine is still undeniably French and spice-less, despite their colonialist history in Africa and the Caribbean.