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

Poisoned Yorkshire puddings were one of the main reasons the English lost the battle of Hastings in 1066 and was banned for near 200 years. Cumberland sausages were one of the primary winning elements in the British empirical expansion across India, without them, many men would have simply given up and went home.

Fuckin worth it for the puds tbh

In my experience, people that have strong convictions about how other people enjoy their food usually aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

America either pours heart attack fluid on a plate in the form of excessive fat and sugar, or makes the unholy abomination that is meat loaf. Can everybody on this thread just agree that it's probably mostly that a lot of foodstuffs is an acquired taste and we can move on to the topic at hand?

Honestly you can't say meatloaf is gross when your country eats haggis which is basically all the garbage no human would normally eat packaged inside more garbage.

Isn't haggis like just a thing in scotland?, and even then it's like a traditional dish as opposed to something people eat regularly. Ive literally never met someone who eats haggis. I bet you know someone who has eaten spray on cheese tho, lmao

First off, meat loaf is actually pretty nice, it's basically just a big rectangular meatball. Second and more importantly, it isn't even American, it's European and variations of it are eaten all over the world. We even have our own variation called haslet, except we usually have it cold and sliced thin in a sandwich or something. As far as I can tell, the only modification Americans have made is that they sometimes cook it with a sauce on top and they don't usually have boiled eggs inside.

Bread is sugar The US life expectancy is a lot more related to our work-related stress and poor exercise habits though.

My girlfriend's step dad is Scottish and he eats haggis whenever the opportunity presents itself. I've had it before too and it's pretty good, it basically just tastes kind of like crumbly sausage meat with a lot more herbs and spices than normal.

Can we get back to arguing about something less controversial such as gun control?

Huh. I stand corrected then. I will admit a shameful level of ignorance on the subject of haggis, Ive only ever seen haggis in tesco, once, as part of some Scotland themed promotion.

Anybody who's actually tasted Haggis and isn't an arsehole, will tell you it's fucking delicious. It's also a hell of a lot healthier than whatever artificial food-like substances you deep throat on a daily basis. I eat haggis on a regular basis. Especially after Burns night, nobody buys the gluten free ones so they're like £1 each, they don't taste any different, I just buy a fuck load and freeze em. Haggis neeps and tatties is pretty much a staple part of most peoples diets around where I live.

Everyone knows the more preservatives you eat the longer you live silly that's why they are called preservatives.

You. Don't. Know. How. To. Bake. My girlfriend went to patisserie school, as well as studied baking briefly. This isn't how you make bread. Bread really isn't sugary. Bread is savoury.

Carbohydrates, honey

Yes, bread is made of things that break down into various forms of sugars. They are not made of sugar though. However, bread is a vessel for getting things into your body. Many of the breads people are talking about here have savory components and other ingredients inside of them besides just "sugar". Look at unlevened flatbreads. They may be carbohydrates but they're also a vital source of energy for communities that struggle to have enough meats and veg.

Wow it's almost like it matters how much of a carbohydrate you take in and what you do with that energy Also they metabolize into the exact same thing so I don't understand what you're getting at there. Carbs are carbs.

But carbs are not just "sugar" lol. Even the article you cite here agrees with me on that statement.

one thing that the aussies and the british have in common. They have have shit tastes

bread with sugar https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/65d00190-2e5b-4c8b-9bb9-18de3dc95da4/image.png bread without sugar https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/113069/7fd9330d-5aef-4612-a3f4-91cd005d1b46/image.png

i just want to point out that those are movie theater sizes which are meant to hold you over for 2 or more hours and cost $12 and are filled to the brim with ice

Yeah, Haggis is awesome and I eat it if not regularly then certainly on more than just the traditional days it is associated with (St Andrew's Day and Burn's Night). A good plate of Haggis, neeps and tatties is a thing of wonder.

You know the sickest shit you can do with yorkshire puds? Fill them with gravy, chicken, and peas then eat em in one go. Fucking mini roast, lads.

British Imperialism wasn't about spices.

People also forget that a lot of curries are actually British inventions made in Britain

God man, you're the stereotype of an American, and its why the rest of the world hates you.

I'm from England, so I've never actually had haggis (it's a Scottish cuisine), but I will say that haggis would probably taste quite nice based on similar stuff I enjoy. I think the primary reason people such as yourself immediately assume haggis is bad is because it does at least look unappealing, but remember that things like steak probably looked really unappealing to you as a child, and that you just aren't capable of remembering that fact now due to it being at least an infrequent component of your diet. It's important for adults to be open to try new things, and this includes food. This off-shoot about haggis indicates that a lot of people need to be given that demonstration from their mother on how you "shouldn't knock something 'til you try it." If this were true, then why does Japan have such an exceptional life expectancy, whilst also having extremely high suicide rates fundamentally related to work stress? I'm sorry, but I wish you'd think your reasoning over in more detail before posting - we don't have to be right about everything, and it's cool to hypothesise, but you seem to be clutching at straws to cling to a nativist perception of whose food is better. The only way in which I'd argue certain countries have worse food is simply in that some countries are poorer and less able to access the tastiest stuff, but even then, one can find any number of delicious culinary experiences typically associated with their given origin country. And artificial colours are the only way that one is able to achieve black face without causing an uproar. I think you two are having a little bit of a sentimental argument. Bread is considered to be made of complex sugars, but would definitely be labelled as a savoury foodstuff. If bread had an equivalent level of glucose in it, you'd fucking notice, although carbohydrates do break down into glucose in the end, I think.

Yea I know, I was making a joke on the internet but thanks for the history lesson. God forbid the English ever learn to take a joke, they might actually stop losing whats left of their empire.

Wow I never thought facepunch could be so fired up over food When are we doing American civil war 2:electric boogaloo

The whole bread part of this conversation confuses me since it seems to have started with "muffins aren't bread" but never in my life have I seen someone claim muffins are bread, even when I worked for a donut shop that made and sold muffins.