New York Times thinks Yorkshire pudding is a dessert, Brits get angry - Sensationalist Headlines

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This is why no one likes English food

Yorkshire pudding is delicious

Could the BBC report some actual fucking news instead?

For some reason, the British get super insulted if someone gets a fact about their bizarro food wrong, even though literally all of it tastes like cardboard. Te British committed 500 years of genocidal imperialism in search of spices, and learned to use none of them.

I suppose British food would taste like cardboard if you're only ever used to American foods where they just pile the sugar and cane syrup into fucking everything.

It'd be pretty easy to describe american food in unflattering terms. The general population eats fast food(and not even the good tasting kinds) by the regular, food which to me, genuinely tastes like hot greasy garbage. British food is actually really good. So is american food. Both countries have excellent national dishes, specialties, regular cuisines and a whole host of immigrant dishes that are excellent. Yorkshire puddings are a fluffy half pastry/half bread concoction that are genuinely my favourite food stuff at thanksgiving/christmas/easter because they're just so unique, flavourful and just good. Bangers and Mash, sausages and mashed potatoes with a gravy is awesome if done right. Again, the same thing goes for a good cheeseburger or whatever. If it's done well, it's awesome. Your generalization of food culture breaks my foodie heart

A yorkshire pudding is more like a dry dumpling... sort of. It's jsut a bit of bready something to go with meat, veg an gravy.

Understandable, there's no meaning to life without Yorkshire pudding You take that back motherfucker

one shitposts riles up the whole of the commonwealth another culturall victory

Ah yes, London's best food: Indian food. Says quite a bit about your standard British "cuisine". Theres no myth about British food being bad. A plate of genuine British food food in London costs like $40 USD and has the flavor of an empty salt shaker.

s-show me where the beans on toast spilled on you

A unique combination of the two cultures, yes how hypocritical coming from a nation that doesn’t actually have much of anything that it can say is it’s own. Everything America has is from immigrants. Apple pie pie is a Canadian tradition, roast beef and mashed potatoes is too. I struggle to think of an “American” dish that is truly American. and I full well acknowledge Canada has nothing but poutine, smoked meats, and maple syrup to offer so don’t worry about covering that. I’m aware. We’re also just food adopters.

They're distinctly different items, even if Americans call thick-cut chips 'french fries' it's not correct. Chips are thick, slab-like chunks of potato, whereas fries are thin cuts.

Southern Cooking for the most part, though that has a spotty past due to the whole Slaves coming up with it. Fastfood, as you mentioned, is also on that list though its core parts such as Hotdogs and Hamburgers are uniquely American. Rubens. French Fries(not chips though). Anything at all dealing with corn, also Apple pie is principally Dutch so uh, careful with your generalizations there. Also what we consider to be nominally called Pizza is American.

His point is that we have long eaten apple pie as a dessert, much like Americans have -- on account of the new world having all the land one could want for apple orchards, it's something that's always been quite plentiful. He wasn't claiming that Canada invented apple pie. It's known to be part of our cuisine, as it is in American cooking, even though, as @HumanAbyss specifically points out, America's "national" cuisine originated from its immigrant populations' homelands and you just breeze right past that with a redundant Well done.

Sounds like you went into a shitty tourist trap and got conned for a frozen meal.

Truely, the king of kingdoms when they have bread sandwiches.

we grow more potatoes than the UK, we get to decide what dishes involving them are named. I'm not saying its fair, I'm just saying it's how it is

Well no. Hamburgers come from Hamburg which got it from somewhere else but put it on bread. Again, innovation, not creation. Roman pizza is very similar to American pizza in terms of general ingredients and is several hundred years old as a tradition, but certainly the American Italian immigrants innovated it to what they had around. Hotdogs are a German tradition but Americans put them between buns in the early 1910’s I believe, and innovated that as well. It truly is it’s own food today though as you can see huge regional changes in the types of hotdogs eaten across the states. And in many respects it’s right that those cuisines are a huge base for cuisine worldwide. Food culture is fascinating and should be studied more.

Bread sandwiches were made up by some woman for sick people with low appetites to eat 150 years ago and then forgotten about, it only became a thing recently because some people thought it was the cheapest possible 'meal'. No one regularly eats them, it isn't British cuisine.

If they got that wrong wait until they try black pudding

Can someone British please explain why you guys call some sausages "pudding"?

Pudding just meant dessert

Pudding originally meant encased, steamed meats. It changed to its modern meaning later on but some old food like black pudding kept the original name.

Or savory dish apparently

You talkin' 'bout tater wedges? Them's the good 'uns.

Wait, do Brits think pancakes are dessert? Most American breakfasts are very sweet.

pancakes ARE dessert. They're nothing but carbohydrates. Here in Sweden the traditional way of eating them is after pea soup with pork.

In America they're typically a breakfast served with syrups, jams, whipped cream, butter, or some combination of the four. Then again we also think powdered sugar Beignets are breakfast too, maybe we just like eating dessert first.