• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Meanwhile yanks with their two spices - butter and sugar

    “Our food is the tastiest in the wuuuurld”

    Aye but yous can’t afford that coronary eh mate 😂

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      6 months ago

      Is this where we pretend that Brits don’t consume obscene amounts of sugar and butter?

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        6 months ago

        No, there’s no point pretending they’re not fat cunts as well

        But we’re pretending they don’t consume vast amounts of spices too. They’re fat smelly cunts tbh

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      6 months ago

      Butter was a luxury prior to 150 years ago limited to a hard 20 mile radius of milk farms. 10 if you wanted it to taste good. Refrigeration changed this.

      Sugar was similarly limited due to either trade with the far east or the establishment of colonies in the west indies. Russia didn’t have a sugar source until sugar beets in the late 1850s.

      Most regional European cuisines were developed in the 1700s with the introduction of Tomatoes and Potatoes from the Americas. Both of the spices called out were still luxuries at the time.

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      You are clearly making a poor joke, but… Butter is literally what the French are known for. Sugarcane is from the South Pacific and sugar itself originated in India.

      Southern and Creole cuisine originated in America however, and that uses a ton of spices on par with native Indian cuisine.

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        Industrial use of high fructose corn sirup is all American Capitalism, though.

        … And southern france hardly uses butter btw.

        sugar itself originated in India

        Lol, what? Also: it’s not about where the stuff came from but rather what the cuisine does with it. Italian or German cuisine doesn’t become south american all of a sudden cause of tomatoes and potatoes.

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          Look I feel sorry for the Italians and the Germans but their food is American now. It’s just the way the world works. :)-