this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
52 points (98.1% liked)
History Memes
921 readers
109 users here now
A place to share history memes!
Rules:
-
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.
-
No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.
-
Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.
-
Follow all Piefed.social rules.
Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world
founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
Cheap? Yes. But it still amuses me every time
- The British love spicy food - British Indian curries like Chicken Tikka Massala are crazy popular
- I will not have a word said against fish fingers and beans. It's my comfort meal of choice
Brit here. I love a tikka masala. But spicy it is not.
Come on Mr Jesus, you know better than to point at an (albeit delicious) children's meal and to claim it's representative of all we eat. Stick some Worcestershire source on that bad boy and you're in for a treat. In fact, come over and have something with horseradish or English mustard on, or maybe some curries!
I'm sorry, my inner American forces me to make fun of the Brits anyway 😔
We'll have no making fun in this meme community!
Careful bud, they'll use some Midwestern food based on jello and mayo and claim that's what we all eat.
That would be awful!
Everyone knows us Americans deep fry our food 💪
Entirely fair, but have you had branston pickle? Shit is bomb.
I believe your people would frame this as kids on the “short bus” making fun of the kid riding in the Bentley at the “intersection”. Christ you have mangled the lingo something awful.
American food is delicious, that's why it's 90% grease and sugar
Stick some Worcestershire source on that bad boy and you're in for a treat.
I have no horse in this race but, like, we'd need to pronounce "Worcestershire" right first.
No idea what you're talking about! Just this week I've had some lovely spicy British food - chicken curry; chorizo and salmon; chicken tinga and a lovely kebab with ras-el-hanout and harissa.
Sounds truly British.
What could be more British than stuff we've collected on our "travels"?
Chicken Tikka Masala was almost certainly invented in Britain.
That's why it's correctly spelled Tickle My Salad.
I'm German and even I know that Brits love Chicken Tikka Masala. Also, I'd assume that German food is about the same amount of bland as British food.
Lots of traditional British food with spices, too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog's_pudding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg (there's a bunch of different "deviled" dishes that all contain oriental spices as standard ingredients)
mayonnaise-based dips typically feature various spices like pepper, chili, paprika, worcestershire sauce
On the topic of worcestershire sauce, it's a whole thing they invented and it's full of eastern spices, just not chili so it's not obvious to people who only one kind of spice.
I'd assume that just like in Germany, roasts and general brown sauces will at minimum have pepper included, which is one of the main spices that was imported from the far east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding "mixed spices" aka "cake spices" seems like a standard ingredient for christmas baking.
And obviously, gingerbread!
London hosts over 450 world quisines, the most of any world city by a considerable margin. Fair to say that Germany is far blander than Britain.
It's debatable how "British" those world cuisines are, though. Tikka Masala at least is a dish that was adapted from Indian cuisine, not just copied/imported, and I'd assume that most white Brits don't make vietnamese or ethiopian food themselves. If Brits ate spiced dishes all the time but each and every one of those dishes was made by restaurants run by people with immigration histories, while all the homemade food that white Brits cook is bland, OP's meme would still be true, but it's demonstrably not - even traditional British cuisine contains lots of spices.
Nah
Here we go again, more mocking from the country that invented spray on “cheese” and flavours everything with sugar.
The English have been eating curry since at least 1747.
Here we go again, more mocking from the country that invented spray on “cheese” and flavours everything with sugar.
💪💪💪💪💪
If it comes from NATURE then I DON'T WANT TO TASTE IT
My cousin's motto is "if it comes out of the ground, I don't eat it."
Aren't you kind of doing the exact same thing by reducing the breadth of American cuisine to sugar and fake cheese?
The curry example is kind of ironic, though, given how famously bland English curry is compared to it's traditional counterpart lol
It's OP who started it, it's fair game to shoot back IMO.
The curry example is kind of ironic, though, given how famously bland English curry is compared to it’s traditional counterpart lol
The one time I had curry in the UK it was almost inedibly spicy to me, and I ate scoville-spicy food fairly regularly back then (by european standards, but still, chili/pepperoni was a common ingredient for me back then). It's not that ironic when you consider that high scoville values just aren't normal for european cuisine.
I just thought it was funny/ironic because England took an Indian dish and made it English by making it more bland for the reasons you described. It's like someone saying Canada has a history of great rock musicians and using Barenaked Ladies as the example lol
For what it's worth, I love a lot of the "bland" English staples. Beans on toast, fish and chips, shepherds pie, etc. I make chicken tikka masala twice a month, too.
Also, you probably had traditional Indian curry in England!
Possibly! But it was some kinda mom-and-pop restaurant run by two middleaged, ethnically British-looking people in the countryside, so it's not exactly what you'd expect. Which kinda drives home how far Indian cuisine has penetrated British culture.
Well, Indian cuisine is like the best food in the world so I get it
I like the concept of it, spices are good and I like a bit of heat. But I definitely prefer Indian-European fusion if these hyper scoville values are the norm for Indian cuisine. IDK if you just have to grow up with it, but from my perspective it's whack - takes all the taste out of food and replaces it with a burning sensation.
I don't prefer it super spicy BUT there's flavor behind the heat with "real" spices (as opposed to distilled hot sauce)
I stopped eating spicy food for years and my tolerance tanked but I've been building it back up again and loving it.
Not entirely true. There’s a product in British supermarkets named only “Brown Sauce”, whose sole raison d’être is to say “we have India and the Caribbean”
They followed Rule #1 that Sosa gave to Tony Montana:
Never get high on your own supply.
Hmmm.... so we all know British food isn't really that bad... but it's OK to make fun of them bc it's like "kicking up", right?
But the British Empire fell and their country's a mess, so now it's like "kicking down" which is not OK...
BUT the American Empire is in the process of collapsing so... have we already fallen so low that we're "kicking up" again?
Brits are not a significantly disadvantaged people (all of us are a mess right now tbqh), therefore, it's okay to rib them a bit.
Americans are not a significantly disadvantaged people (I mean, as a whole, we did this latest development to ourselves tbqh), therefore, it's okay to rib us a bit.
It was due to some British nobility who got angry at the poor being able to eat the same food as him, so he came up with the idea that "a good chef does not need seasoning", yet the common folk tried to copy him.
And y'know, WW2. I hear they're still salty about it.
"Oi! There's salt in all of those things. That's a spice, right?"
Those spices were for selling, never get high on your own supply.