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This meme brought to you by people who think high fructose corn syrup is an ingredient
Contrary to popular belief, in terms of health, high-fructose corn syrup is not really worse for you than sugar. It’s very unhealthy, of course, but that’s because it’s sweet, not because of its chemical properties.
That being said, in many things (such as soda), people prefer the taste of sugar over high fructose corn syrup.
YOUS PUT IT IN YOUR FECKIN BREAD
What’s bad about corn syrup is how fucking cheap it is (subsidized to hell or not). So they put it in way more things, keep us all addicted to sweet stuff and rake in profits at the same time.
Also see soy in everything (my wife is allergic so I’m biased, but it’s really nuts how many things (again, bread?) it’s in).
You joke but today Curries are one of the most popular takeaway options in the UK. Only took us til after decolonisation.
Some of them were invented in the UK. Unheard of in India
As a second gen Indian in the UK, so much of my family’s dishes are based on sauces with tomatoes and chilli, many of them have potato. But none of these are actually native to India, these would have been brought over after the colonialisation of the Americas.
We invented one of the world’s most popular cheese, Cheddar, which is actually named after an English village. Also our national dish is Chicken Tikka Masala. I dare you to say we don’t use spices. We invented several varieties of spiced sausage, spiced cakes and fruit bread, even some kinds of spices rum.
Don’t get me wrong, lots of British cuisine is lackluster for sure, and I don’t think we can compete with the likes of Thailand or Italy. That doesn’t apply to everything we do though, and some of our deserts and cheeses are top tier. Thailand is literally known for diplomacy through food as well, so hardly a fair comparison.
Chicken Tikka Masala uses waaaay fewer spices than traditional Indian food. It’s the thing people who don’t like Indian food order in Indian restaurants.
fuck. I had a weird allergic reaction the last time I got indian and I haven’t gone back because I don’t take risks with allergies. I miss my malai kofta.
You could always learn to make it yourself
I have. I need to identify the spice I am allergic to before trying it again. It was hospital bad. Fun fact, allergy tests at allergy doctors don’t have that specificity.
Yeah fairs. Have they given you an epipen or something for next time?
No, because the MDs refused to recognize that the allergic reation came from food. I had to literally steal one. USA! USA!
How do you know it’s from food?
I remember John Oliver jokingly said on Steven Cobert that his favorite British food is a good curry.
You think that’s bad, wait until you hear Americans trying to claim apple pie or pizza.
To be honest, pizza in its best known iteration originally was from Naples and parts South. When Italian-American GI’s (most were descended from immigrants from Southern Italy where they had pizza) were helping to rid Italy of Nazi’s during WWII, they were aghast that places North of Naples didn’t have pizza. These formerly pizza-free zones then started making pizza to sell to the GI’s and thus to this day you can find pizza even in places as North as around Lake Como. So pizza is more American in Northern Italy than it is Italian.
I’m not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better.
Leave our beige food in a brown sauce with overcooked veg alone.
You’re not going to let a country that thinks spraying more cheese on something makes it better…what? What aren’t you going to let it do?
That’s a very good point, and will teach me for not proofreading when rewriting half a sentence twice!
I’m not going to let them mock our “cuisine”. There.
Perhaps switch to xz ?
