• moistclump@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      11 months ago

      Maybe she recognizes that it’s a good start and maybe if we all did our part like this brave woman we would be able to make a difference in this world.

      • Dasnap@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        We had rationing into the 50s which fucked with people’s views on food for decades. It’s fine now but I’d assume most food people eat here is foreign inspired.

        Funnily enough I think Ireland had the same issue. Being an island was helpful during the war but not the years after.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          9
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          11 months ago

          No, Irelands relationship with food was more influenced by Britain taking our food to sell, while forcing millions to die due to potato blight. The great hunger. You might have forgotten, but we didn’t.

          • Dasnap@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            11 months ago

            I’m talking about post WWII specifically though. I know about the blight. We’re taught about it in schools here, at least I was.

        • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 months ago

          It’s fine now but some “staples” of our cuisine are trash. If you value your low blood pressure, don’t go into threads about people asking for food recommendations while visiting Britain. It’s just full of people recommending actual garbage like fish and chips from a take away. Are people delusional? I’ve been to dozens of chippies across the country, and save one meal at the Magpie in Whitby, I’ve never had a chippy tea that’s lived up to expectations.

          Recommend a good haggis or something rather than the bland meme food.

            • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              11 months ago

              I like fish and chips from an actual restaurant or homemade. With the exception of the Magpie in Whitby, which is a restaurant with an attached take away, every take away fish and chips I’ve had has been flavourless chunks of varying textures.

                • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uk
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  11 months ago

                  Sure, if you insist. Though the barrier for “nice” is really low. If you like beer that isn’t Stella or Carling, you’re not calling beer trash in general.

          • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            The Wee Chippy in Anstruther and Oh My Cod in Larnaca, Cyprus are the two best chippies in the world

        • EnderMB@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 months ago

          It amazes me how Americans seem to have no clue about our food, despite it being pretty well-documented that we don’t eat spotted dick, and that our baked beans are absolutely nothing like the beans they eat.

        • Dasnap@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          11 months ago

          I’m gonna assume you’re talking about scripted television because English standup is probably some of the best in the world. Half of English TV after the watershed is basically ‘let’s get a load of standup comedians in a room and let them piss about for a bit’.