They really do be eating like the Germans are still flying overhead
Britain is the only country who improved their cuisine with war rations.
didn’t a significant part of the UK actually enjoy rationing?
It’s like poutine, but with peas instead of the best part
Paul Revere ‘saved’ America from poutine, apparently, too. Joke’s on them!
I feel like a war of 1812 reference would be more apropos here. Regardless, we’ve already successfully stolen poutine like we do all the other great foods of the world
I’m glad someone pointed this out. Plus the chips look soggy and underfried. Honestly if this looked like good quality chips I would give it a fair shot (even if it’s doomed to be inferior to cheese curds). But as is? No way, this is trash tier food
You ever had a samosa though?
I love samosas. Smack some chutney on these fries and I may be on board
Okay, it ain’t for everyone.
But, you never have peas and mashed potatoes, then have them get mixed up with some gravy? It’s delicious, even if the peas are canned.
Chips/fries just add extra texture to the basic idea, with a little of that brown goodness frying causes.
Shit, I could pan roast some peas, make some nice brown gravy, and do up some camp fries, throw it down and nobody would complain once they ate some. It’s the execution in the pic that makes it look yucky. Not saying the texture of what’s in the pic is ideal, but it’s not going to be worse than smashed potatoes and gravy. The peas being mushy is a thing that not everyone likes, but it isn’t going to be a problem with the fries giving some tooth to it.
I’d at least try the version in the pic because the basic flavor combo is a sure bet.
The first bite is with the eye. Britain is blind af.
Listen it’s alright mate. We understand why Britain had to invade nearly every country on Earth in search of food with some flavor, you don’t need to go and make that point for us.
Well, since we threw their damn tea in the ocean, our culinary might has grown here in the US.
I just don’t understand the point of mushy peas. I’ve had them three times and each time every other component of the meal was better. It’s not like they’re there for their texture. I guess if you’re a new parent and you run out of baby food it’s convenient to be able to run out to the local chippie and get some.
- The peas honestly need to be Marrowfat peas, it makes a difference
- Add lard or beef drippings
- Avoid the premade trash most pubs (and restaurants) serve.
But even so, it’s still pretty mid imo. Just like grits in the southern US; yes I will eat it if served as such, no I won’t pay for it.
Just like grits in the southern US; yes I will eat it if served as such, no I won’t pay for it.
You take that back, you dirty thing!
The thing about grits is that they will basically taste like whatever you put in them. So to me, saying you don’t like grits says you don’t like what you put in them.
You ever had hominy grits? Some people think that cornmeal is grits, and you’re dead right about them having a very flat taste. But hominy grits? There’s a bit more to them. Yeah, you gotta salt and pepper them, maybe some butter, but they have this earthy, kind of bread like taste.
The process that turns corn into hominy changes it a lot.
Mind you, cornmeal mush is pretty tasty by itself, but it’s a flat, one note taste.
I’ve always been a little befuddled by folks saying grits only taste like what you put in them. I mean, I know not everyone tastes things the same way because our tongues, noses, and brains process things differently. It just kinda amazes me how many people can’t taste the richness in grits. Makes me sad for them too, the way I’m sad cilantro tastes like soap for me lol.
Legit, if anyone comes across this, try picking up hominy grits, and not the instant kind. Cook them up with just salt and pepper, with butter at the end. Give that a try and see if it can taste that earthy depth or not. I know the instant grits aren’t as good for sure, and I’d hate to think of anyone missing out on that yummy goodness.
Fwiw, hominy itself is also worth trying at least once.
Same with potatos. If you don’t like potatoes you’re simply wrong.
Cheese grits are good. Plain grits are a blank canvas for butter and pepper, and I’d rather have mashed potatoes or veg for that tbh
I mean, salt and pepper go on everything. Butter too for most things.
But there’s flavor in there, that’s just the grits. And that’s true of both real grits, aka hominy grits, and cornmeal mush that some folks call grits.
Man, this is one of those times I wish I could cook online. I responded to another comment about what I taste in grits, and that it could be the kind of grits that is messing things up for folks. I’ve never had anyone turn down seconds of grits, and I do them up just with salt, pepper, and butter. And that includes damn yankees ;)
I just want everyone to be able to enjoy that flavor I taste because it’s just so fulfilling. All earthy and bready. I love me some potatoes too, but grits have way more taste for me.
I’ve had Cracker Barrel et al ‘grits’ that taste like warmed gruel that Chef Mike worked over, and authentic “momma opened a breakfast spot” grits that were definitely miles better, but still just… cracked corn - I didn’t find that much depth in the taste palette. It’s legacy peasant food meant to fill your belly from cheap ingredients - every culture has them, the Brits straight up pan fry cabbage and potatoes ffs
I also really do not care for white gravy, but will power through an unhealthy amount of biscuits, fried okra, and Brunswick stew… There’s a lot southern food I like but grits bewilder me
I’d have to be starving to eat grits. Rivaled by okra for worst southern cuisine.
At least the south gave us biscuits and gravy.
Think of mushy peas like British hummus. It’s literally just mashed up beans and you can dress it up however you like.
I like mushy peas on toast with sliced tomato, salt and pepper and a drizzle of toasted sesame oil.
It’s a kinda similar concept to refried beans I think. Add a bunch of lard and it’s like a condiment almost.
Tbh, mushy peas are an acquired taste, and they aren’t my graduated favorite. But, if you start with good peas, they really add a lot of flavor to dishes like that. You have to think of them more like bullion cubes or whatever, they’re something to provide a bump of green flavor and thickness.
Well, except when they’re a side of their own, and that’s not exactly an easy taste to acquire as an adult
Sprouts and mashed potatoes are also terrific.
Mushy peas are boiled marrowfat peas, which have a completely different taste and texture to mashed garden peas.
They’re delicious though, and very filling, especially served with chips or other carbs.
Come on, you’re far worse than the Brits when it comes to grammar. The American Revolution did not save you from a missing comma.
I’m having an aneurysm trying to find out where you think a comma needs to go.
After the chips, I guess?
I’m not sure the nation that birthed forth the quesarito upon the world was really saved from anything.
I see you are jealous of our superior American constitutions, which allows us to just barely cling to life no matter what concoctions we torment our arteries with
The superior American digestion maybe, but I think the value of the American constitution is all too clear these days.
hol up, that’s TOO real, you’re makin’ me sad
Improper quesarito slander.
Ok but the Crunchwrap?
I feel like the fries make this worse.
Ngl it looks pungent in that pic but that food is hella tasty. I lived a couple years in the UK and learnt to love it.
(Yes my french mother would guillotine me for saying this).
The American equivalent is watching “football” whilst eating a boiled Pigs Anus in a plastic skin, accompanied by a beer that is essentially diluted water.
I know which I’d rather be doing
Don’t even act like they don’t also eat questionable meat stuffed into casings and pies, because they definitely do
Agreed. Bangers and mash, one of the most famous British foods! Their sausages are amazing, btw.
And black pudding is delicious, but its old blood in a butt-tube.
This is also true
The difference is that pig anus tases amazing with a bit of sauerkraut.
Fair enough on the beer though.
Are you suggesting we should just let the pig anus go to waste???
I could reduce the photo ingredients to sound gross too
What do you mean? The photo ingredients already sound gross, that’s the whole point of this post.
Fyi Paul Revere didn’t even do the his whole ride, he got cold and went home.
Instead a iirc 16yr old girl completed her whole ride and gets basically zero credit, like she got a statue but no actual note in any regular school history book.
If memory serves, Paul Revere only got credit because his name was easier to rhyme with.
It’s because he was a he and she was a she, Ludington is a pretty rhyme able name.
And William Dawes, Samuel Prescott, and Israel Bissell faded into obscurity as well, any idea why?
No they didn’t?
The dawes family is still very powerful.
Prescott is presumed to have died in prison as a pow.
Bissell Wasn’t hugely influential after, no but he’s mentioned in most school history books I’ve seen. Ludington just isn’t and that’s ignoring the whole “the British are coming” thing that’s at least portrayed as being factual.
Idk I’d never heard of any of them except Paul Revere.
Maybe they were mentioned one time in a class in 5th grade or something but Revere was constantly referenced.
That’s sorta my point, there were 5 and the most famous is the one that snitched and completed the least amount of a ride.
Oh I thought your point was one was forgotten because of their gender.
Where did you learn that?
History books?
What do you believe I’ve said that isn’t factual.
What history books? I’ve never heard of this before, despite going through pre and post civil war American history classes in college, and watching tons of history and discovery channel programming back when they were actually good networks.
What do you believe I’ve said that isn’t factual.
I’m wondering about your source because of what I said above. I didn’t imply you were wrong, I merely asked a question.
Yes the source for which part?
Mrs Ludington has a wiki.
Paul Revere has a wiki which also states he was captured, snitched and then returned to home.
Revere walked to Rev. Jonas Clarke’s house, where Hancock and Adams were staying.
There’s some amount of dispute about of the towns already knew.
Vile. Texture hell. At least make the fries crisp
It’s always the limp soggy fries that really get me
What fries? I only see beefy, masculine, imperial chips.
I was in the UK for six days and if I learnt one thing there it was that the British like their food soggy and mushy.
Perhaps when President Musk and First Lady McDonald take power in a few days they can liberate us from this terrible fate with imports of nutritious hotdogs, Twinkies, chlorinated chicken and steroid beef.
I’ve never mixed chips with peas, but it does sound good. Mashed potatoes with peas are great, so there’s no reason chips with peas would be a lesser dish.
So…. UK nachos?
Thank God for Mexico
This is what I look forward to, is it?
(Actually, I’d eat it…)
