• Nacktmull@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I just had baked beans on toast with eggs today. Made them myself with onions, mushrooms, garlic, smoked paprika powder, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon and a shot of maple syrup. It tasted great and I am not even English.

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      11 months ago

      Well you used spices and things with flavor, so it’s not very British.

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        11 months ago

        If you’re going to ignore the entirety of British-indian cuisine, then Americans really shouldn’t be calling Mexican food their tastiest creation.

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        11 months ago

        Are you not aware that a British national dish is Chicken tikka masala?

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          11 months ago

          Brit here. National dish is fish and chips or a roast, tikka masala is top 3 but not number 1.

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            11 months ago

            Oh come on lad! I am defending you guys here and you have nothing better to do than back stabbing me?

            Also:

            Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish

            Robin Cook, British foreign minister, 2001

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          11 months ago

          Fish and chips is the other national dish, and the first one. While I like it, it isn’t exactly full of flavor.

          Classic British cuisine doesn’t really have spices, because the British Isles don’t really have too many foods that can be used as spices. Sure, once they colonized India, they got some spices, but even still classic British food mostly stayed the same.