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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Excuse me but that isn't an official, original "Colin the Caterpillar" cake from Marks & Spencer, but an inferior and entirely unauthorised " Curly the Caterpillar" clone from Tesco.

As a proponent of fine British cuisine I take offence to this dire misrepresentation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh god you're right. I'm sorry I was blinded by the glory of the bean pizza and didn't notice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Glory!?

It is a warcrime

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Look, I visited Britain a few years ago and you guys had pie with fish in it, which seemed kinda unique, fish & chips with vinegar in a newspaper, shortbread, haggis and other non-dessert "puddings" and breakfast with sausages etc.. (Also, we went to an Indian restaurant in Britain and it was really good. Like world class good ngl.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

British cooking has a bad reputation, but they make really good comfort food. Sunday roast, yorkshire pudding, steak and ale pies, shepherd's/cottage pie, full english breakfast, pasties, fish pie, beef wellington, scones! I could go on. Sure it's mostly brown and beige food but cooked properly all of these dishes are really tasty!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

beef wellington

Corn dogs for rich people

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This meme is British people poking fun at ourselves.

Americans just recycle the same jokes from Reddit "lol conquered the world but doesn't use spice". From people who've never left their home town. You can ignore those.

The French also insult our food and they have more of a point but that's another matter and I'll personally fight them over it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

British Curries are different than a lot of "authentic" indian curries, but they have become a thing in of them selves, over the years, and they are great.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They should lock the whole country up for the baked beans pizza

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Heinz is a US brand. You can blame them.

I'd like to try it though. Looks... interesting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I prefer to get a normal pizza and put my own baked beans with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Look at Gordon Ramsey over here, bet he serves it on a plate and everything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Somehow this is such a Ken M response lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's great that you acknowledge that beans on a pizza is in fact not normal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not normal for a pizza to come with beans included, no. More normal to provide your own beans.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess this is what the US thinks the UK likes, and the UK likes it enough for Heinz to keep manufacturing it and selling it in their country 😂

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A long, long time ago when I worked somewhere that briefly made Fridays optional over time days, on a Friday we’d order breakfast to work sausage, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, and beans on something baguette like was very common. The old adage applies …”don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”.

I haven’t had beans on pizza. I’ve probably had worse though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry ma'am, here's 250~~g~~ ml of ~~sugar~~ corn syrup

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You mean 32 bumblebee's, right?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No no, savage is eating meat straight off the bone.

This is refined... One might even say "Ultra Refined".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Why skulls, though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the fried noodle looking thing on the left?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Turkey twizzler. There's a whole Janie Oliver backstory...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jamie Oliver

Say no more. I already know it's inedible.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hold on Uncle Rodger... He tried to get them banned, therefore logic dictates that they're actually pretty good!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

He gets more flack than he deserves. He tried to change school dinners yes, but the government at the same time were severely cutting back the budget for school dinners in general. Once the quality fell through, they used Jamie as a scapegoat for the whole thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From Turkey or is it at least made of actual Turkey?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Low quality turkey (animal) meat, mashed up and mixed with rusk, water, other low quality "meats" (offal, ears, pig trotters, bumholes etc) and an array of flavourings and sweeteners and reconstituted into a helical shape and coated with breadcrumbs and oven baked.

Basically the same as any other easily affordable breaded, reconstituted meat product, except it's in a helix instead of a sausage or burger pattie shape.

I've never had one, but they're probably delicious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

bumholes

For true, British tastebuds. Yummy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I liked them as a kid, your comment on suger is correct though, they were strangly sweet.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sick of people coming at Canada for Hawaiian pizza when the British are putting baked beans on their pies.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

These british cunts are trying to steal our fucken frogs!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey we also have Bärchenwurst in Germany

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do other countries have potato waffles or is that an us thing?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's scottish but potato scones and square sausage is the best breakfast food ever.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point we salute the fallen.

The beans and sausage filled Findus Crispy Pancake.

o7

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Gone but never forgotten

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Baked beans pizza? I'ma bout to change my position on England's tariffs...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Heinz baked bean pizza sounds kind of amazing... I'm guessing that ones not available outside the UK though lol maybe I can make it myself at home

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