Hey everyone! Thanks for the love on this, quick clarification. My last two longform videos took two different approaches, for this one the budget went completely on an editor. For the Last one (Amsterdam food tour) the budget went on the content itself and I handled the whole production. Its clear the use of AI isnt going down well with you guys, and the edit pulls away from my style too much, so in future Ill be taking a different approach, but thanks for watching regardless.
Usually, the voices making fun of British cuisine are Americans, but they forget a few things. 1) British traditional cuisine is pretty heavy, because that's typical for northern Europe. See German, Irish, Eastern European and Scandinavian food. So naturally it doesn't have the same characteristics as food from southern Europe and overseas. 2) Americans often eat the same food, such as fish and chips, for example. And beans. 3) British food has evolved since the rationing days and before. What was haute cuisine 90 odd years ago would be pretty boilerplate today.
@@invisibleman4827 that is unsurprisingly true But our neighbours overseas just like to yammer on about how our food is ‘bland’ and ‘boring’, as if their food isn’t just over processed and overpriced slop (plus, all the additives and dyes used is definitely not healthy…. And they have roast chicken in a can. Why.)
@@Scoutbutball British food has the spice and consistency of a joke told by James Corden. The United States is so multicultural that we've got a bit of everything here. Especially in the south, Cajun food is my favorite personally. British people need to come here lol, it'll be like a food spiritual awakening.
@@Foogi9000Britain also has a bit of everything too. We are still very much a multicultural nation, with food from all over the world. You can't compare multicultural foods to native, just because traditional British food doesn't include spices and cajun, doesn't mean we don't have those foods.
i also blame the photography side of things. We're used to seeing photos of food taken like they're gonna be on Italian Vogue, but a lot of the "gross British food" photos are taken with crappy lighting and grainy quality that only make the dish look dull and lifeless. Sure the examples actually show off crap food a lot of the time, but a lot of those dishes would probably look better if they just opened a curtain or turned on a lamp for some warmer lighting
no, its because the british predominately eat things like pigs/toads in blankets the names are very different and unusual because english is the main trade language of the world. and everyone just understand the bland expressions that are translated to our own different cultured minds. For example what is dutch food to the british. often i get to hear. ah you mean snitzel man. but thats actually austrian. or when you ask germans why not the entire country wears bavarian clothing in oktober. its that stereotypical bs mixed with a lot of misinformation that makes it much worse.
@@bruhed1117 the British eat utilitarian. The French eat overcomplicated, the Dutch and Germans just eat what was available and efficient, the danish over produced on its main trading articles. To the point of them being gullash barons. I think that covers most of Western Europe. And for added bonus the Italians have a lot of dishes we eat and love that came from poor regions or poor people.
My German wife had heard that British people added mint to everything. The idea of mint sauce with meat sickened her to the same amount as a pineapple on a pizza would a normal person. We didn't realise that to Brits, mint usually means Garden Mint whereas to them, mint means Peppermint. I made a salad that tasted 1000% of the 0.1% Peppermint I added to it before I figured that out.
@@leviturner3265 I guess it depends on what you're used to (eat). Mint to me shoud be left for a tisane (herb tea). Or some cold sauce to go with Middle Eastern food. Lamb meat is very delicate. I make fricassé, saddle steak or lamb cutlets (with rosemary, thyme and oregano), shanks, or leg roast. But no mint please. I'm Norwegian !
There's actually a bit of folk lore around the lamb and mint sauce. Supposedly, the British were eating too much lamb and the supply of sheep couldn't keep up, so the ruler at the time, I believe either queen Victoria or Elizabeth I, ordered that all lamb had to be eaten with mint sauce. This was meant to stop people from eating lamb, as it was thought that lamb and mint sauce would be terrible. However, the common folk loved the mint sauce so much that the plan backfired and they ate even more lamb than before.
Mint sauce is good with lamb, the acidic sweet sauce cuts through the fat and lamb can be rather fatty. Its like using redcurrant sauce with venison or gamey meat...or using cranberry sauce in a bacon and melted brie sandwich.
Or they eat it but don't know it's from here, to this day Americans will even claim Alexander Graham Bell or Andrew Carnagae are Americans so its no surprise that they don't know that macaroni cheese, apple pie, possibly fried chicken, and many other dishes are British.
Well, I must admit the Stargazer Pie looks a bit... Different. That said, Norwegians eat fermented mountain lake trout, and fermented cod. (Only Icelandic cousins take it one notch up, with fermented shark, and whale blubber ditto). The Swedes of course have a mad love for über fermented herring. 😮 But that's close to suicede... Love from Norway 😊❤
As a Belgian food blogger (Vegatopia), I don't quite understand the bad reputation of British food. Until the 1980's cuisine in most of Western Europe was incredibly bland, with the Netherlands as somehow an exception because of colonial influence. We crossed the border for more flavourful groceries. Several of my childhood dishes were even quite similar like "balkenbrij" (check Wikipedia) and black pudding. I had it with pan fried apple slices. On the one hand British food is mocked at because it is supposed to be weird, bland and overcooked, on the other hand British chefs conquered the world and influenced many other cuisines. So, the there's a contradiction and not so much rationality. Be proud of your heritage!
You forget western europe included Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and sorry as a Portuguese i have to say you're incorrect we have and INCREDIBLY LONG AND COLOURFUL FLAVOURFUL EVEN culinary history stretching back to the age of discovery we started by sailing around africa to reach india and capitalise on the spice trade before the UK dutch or any other European had the chance, then with the discorvery of the new world Portugal and Spain were thr FIRST european to use POTATO'S (Portuguese keeps the exact same word as the natives in south america used to refer to BATATA) As well as peppers and the first people outisde of mexico to start using chilis and cacao were portugal and Spain also. Without Portuguese spreading chillies to africa india china etc there wouldn't be the same piri piri chicken no spicy indian curries like you know or chinese food you might be familiar with either. Due to the favourable climate in southern europe we have been cultivating these plant's for near 5 centuries did i even mention tomatoes too😂 what would Italian cuisine be like now without these contributions from south America brought to the outside world by Portuguese and Spanish explorers? Not to mention our amazing history of pastries cakes and baked goods which gave rise to some of the deserts and cakes you see in macau china and japan today ! Truly an extensive and tasty culinary history to be found in western europe if you ask me! No fish and chips or tea time in England either the list goes on😂
Interesting, because Dutch food nowadays has a reputation for blandness similar to the British (yes it does, Dutch people, stop pretending it doesn't!).
Most of the distaste about british food culture is because we have a very honest food culture. What we say we eat is what we do eat, for everyone. In most other countries, their food culture is aspirational, but the UK's is WYSIWYG.
That's true. I've been living in Japan for 3 years and honestly, and people can be served a turd and it won't complain. On TV, they just start yelling "OISHIIII" (delicious) before the food even reaches their mouth. Part of the reason for this is to be polite, the other is that being defaming a business, even if it's your own perfectly valid opinion, is a crime. Ironically there's a cafe/bakery near me, called Penny Lane, a beatles themed place and it is heaving. Despite the isolated location, it's stupidly busy even on weekdays and it's the only place in Japan I've found which serves proper pub grub with proper pub style burgers and triple cooked chips, nice pies etc. Yet, if you asked any of those diners "Do you like British Food?" They'd probably turn around and say "Like Stargazy pie? Nah! British food is terrible!" (Probably in Japanese of course.)
True, most British food in restaurants are basically tarted up versions of what people eat at home. In many other countries, the food you get in restaurants is almost never eaten at home, maybe only on a special occasion.
@@327legoman yeah but we can’t exactly claim burger and chips as British food. As you describe it, it’s just a British spin on a quintessential American food. But I do agree in essence. If there was a restaurant doing proper pie and mash, Sunday roasts, toss in the hole etc then people would love it (may need to adjust for each countries palate as we do here).
I don't know, considering you get to watch his content for free (unless of course you're a Patron) then a few extra phalanges (or arms) shouldn't make you apoplectic. 😱
AI generated images are used on a lot of low quality content (with AI generated scripts and voices). People are being trained to associate them with low quality, fake or plagiarised content.
@@jamesfx2 I guess I care more about the information I'm receiving than what it looks like. You're right, though, people ARE being "trained" (there may be a better descriptive word than that, perhaps) and that is truly a sad thing. We are now in a world where most people are getting their news from Facebook, Twitter and the like, at least in my moron-filled country. May Dog have mercy on our souls. 🐶☮
Absolutely adored the abundance of alliteration in this food focused feature. The clever, continuous cadence of culinary commentary kept me captivated!
Growing up in Canada, there was a type of Selection Bias guiding our opinions of "British Food". We thought of every day food as "British" (even when it was not) while restaurants served "Exotic" foods. ie. Beans on toast, sandwiches, canned soup, hard-boiled eggs, breakfast sausage, meat & potatoes, and boiled vegetables were "British". The very plain, mostly flavourless, low effort home cooking. But when we went to restaurants that's where we saw 'foreign cooking'. Food that was prepared with some flare: shish kabob, Sweet n' Sour chicken with pineapple, lasagne, biryani, enchilades, and crepes suzette. What we didn't get from British cuisine were any of the items from fine dining: Christmas goose, Yorkshire pudding, trifle, steak and kidney pie, cranachan, or meat pies. tldr; we got mediocre British food to the point where we identified mediocre food as British. We didn't get mediocre 'foreign' food, only a selection of the most appealing. That solidified the bias that British food was inferior.
Funny thing is, a lot of those fancy dishes you list will almost certainly be the British version of that dish. And the British dishes you've listed aren't mediocre, there's only mediocre preparation. My nan was a Cordon Bleu chef and when _she_ made those dishes, I'm sad that as good as I am at cooking, I will never be that good.
To be clear, Yorkshire pudding is the very opposite of fine dining, it's one of the simplest foods we have and came from using cheap/leftover ingredients. It's very bland too, but super crispy and airy and tender and the perfect vehicle for flavourful gravy and sweet sauces/jams 😋
The bad reputation used to be deserved. I was born in the early 60’s. As a kid getting school dinners, every single one of the adults serving the food had gone through the Second World War and the subsequent rationing. This led to an ‘eat what you’re given and be grateful’ mentality. Not much sympathy for kids who didn’t like that particular food (yes beetroot I’m looking at you). This ‘mustn’t grumble’ mentality accompanied your average Brit in the ‘60s and ‘70s when they dived out. Nobody would ever complain about restaurant food so there was no incentive to improve it. Lastly there’s the emergence of the fridge/freezer. We had no fridge when I was a lad. There was a marble slab in the cupboard under the stairs where mum kept the butter etc. she’d also shop twice a day and pick up what she needed for the next meal. Owning a fridge allowed the shopper in the family to indulge in fantasies about modern dishes.
Because baked beans in the US Vs UK are very different. They've never tried Heinz beans before. And TBF, the beans themselves taste better than they look
@@MostlyPennyCat It's an American company, it's not an American product, they don't really sell them over there. Well they sell baked beans but they're not the same. I think they do actually sell some called "British style" or something (edit: Oh, they are literally pictured in this video) because I saw a video about it, which compared them to actual British Heinz Beanz, but even they are not identical, and most people probably don't even know you can buy them. For some reason as a kid I didn't like baked beans. I thought they were kinda gross. Nowadays I think they're pretty good. Oh and Heinz aren't even the best.
Beans is a less costly, good source of protein if you can't have meat. In Norway we serve tomato beans with thick slices of fried unsmoked salty bacon. This is eaten with steamed potatoes and white sauce. The Danes add chopped parsley to the sauce, where as in Sweden they just swap tomato beans for brown beans. Very typical Scandinavian... 😊❤
@hartmann3288 I don't even consider it the proper meal yet without cheese tbh. The pictures you see people react to are always just beans on an underdone bit of cheap, pre-sliced white toast. No wonder they aren't impressed, GET SOME BLOODY BROWN SAUCE ON IT 😤
Jellied Eel sounds good. I'm deffinetly gonna give it a try. Here, in Ukraine, we have jelly but made out of pork. I'm really excited to taste jellied fish. (in Ukraine we call jallied pork like [holodets])
We have pork jelly too, but usually we only use it to fill up the space in a pork pie between the meat and pastry that's formed as the pie cooks. Keeps the meat away from the air and adds an extra texture and juiciness.
I've been making Halupsi, except I now need a meat grinder to make them really well. And I want to use fermented sour cabbage however I think that's, er, can't remember the nation that's from.
British food has a bad rep because rationing led to very poor food during a period when there were 3 or 4 million US troops in the country. So if they ate outside the unit mess would have been served a very bad or ersatz version of something they ate at home.
Baked Beans were the standard Sunday meal in colonial New England. Basically, they banked the oven fires on Saturday night. They set the crock with beans and sauce in the oven the night before, and it was ready the next day. This made cooking on the Sabbath unnecessary. 12:50
"I won't be trying it, because I know it's going to be gross" Based. Although, that is how I used to feel about black pudding. I am now in the "Still haven't tried it, but am open to the idea" phase.
Best video yet on this channel, and by some distance. A fascinating watch, not just for the food, but also the history. The history of British tea is also the history of the British empire. The most prized possessions in the west were the Caribbean islands where sugar cane was grown. Tea was bought from China (tea being a corruption of cha), which led to a shortage of British silver and the need to get some back (resulting in the Opium war and Hong Kong). The search for other sources made Sri Lanka important. Milk in tea was a result of drinking habits in India.
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Maybe.. I've never seen Jamie make anything and not make massive technical errors and add weird flavors. Like starting fried rice with rice in a cold wok and adding water to the rice 😂 As a non-brit to us he is like the archetype of blasphemous British cooking.
Beans on toast is actually going to be one of my meals tomorrow. Dunno which one yet, but I've decided to figure out why it's so popular myself. Wish me luck.
Some advice: 1) Stove top, medium heat, don't let it boil. Microwaves don't get them hot without a disproportionate amount of effort 2) Well browned toast, don't skimp on the butter 3) taste your beans while cooking, adjust seasoning as needed, enhance the flavour without making it salty. 4) Optionally add some butter to the beans 5) If they look a little thin, reduce the sauce a bit until they thicken up 6) Optionally season with worcestershire sauce 7) put beans on toast, few turns of black pepper and optionally serve with grated cheddar.
@MostlyPennyCat @Pudddle Thanks for your advice. I happen to have a piece of delightful Snowdonia cheddar in the fridge, which will definitely turn it into a worthy meal. 😄
@@MostlyPennyCat Alright. I think I can see the point now. I didn't have the genuine Heinz beans at hand, so some cheap Italian baked beans in chilli sauce had to suffice, but in the end, it made for a hearty and filling meal with nothing screaming "this is wrong" in it. As advised, I spread some butter on the toasts, added a squirt of Worcester sauce into the beans, and topped it all up with a pinch of fresh black pepper, and a fair amount of mature cheddar. Very nice.
People really do forget that unlike America, the majority of people in Britain had very limited options for food for different reasons. The First World War led to food shortages, after that unlike America there was no great economic uplift in the 1920s, compounded by the Great Depression, and then by the Second World War and rationing which went on for nearly twice as long as the war did. So that's four decades of limited food options for many people. Okay it's an excuse the French, Italians and Spanish could have as well but don't, but for a lot of people born in the 50s and 60s, all they'll have known growing up was crap, unseasoned food
I don't buy these excuses. British empire was the biggest empire in history with territories in the Americas, Asia and Africa so historically they had access to many ingredients and techniques meanwhile Japan also went through famine and rationing, destroyed in war but had much more limited access to other ingredients and their cuisine is considered one of the bests of the world. Japanese cuisine often focus on making the best of limited ingredients, one of their most famous dishes is raw fish with no spices or other ingredients besides some soy sauce.
@@whome9842 Its not like Japan didn't have a substantial empire too. If that theory held then other empires would show as much impact by the countries they ruled over. I think most of the influence went the other way. Japan was rebuilt by the west, mostly for the west. Their international cuisine is probably more tailored to a western palette that it would otherwise have been.
@@MartynPS When did Japan had colonies in the Americas, Africa and Oceania? Potatoes, tomato, corn and many other things came from the Americas. UK couldn't have fish and chips without their colonies.
@@whome9842 You're ignoring the biggest thing Nibbles didn't really go into, Britain's extremely rigid class system. The working class didn't have access to the imported goods of the empire. The peasant farmers who raised cows spoke Anglo-Saxon wheras the nobility who ate the meat of cows called it beef because they spoke French, this continued for centuries.
@@whome9842 IIRC it was the Spanish who introduced the Potato to Europe, and the Portuguese who have the earliest example of fish and chips. I don't recall either being part of the British Empire. 'Modern' changes British food, like much of Europe, is influenced by its neighbours via the upper classes. Until globalization started kicking off most new foods and techniques were out of reach of most of the population.
Gonna be honest, born and raised a Brit and still, just do not see the appeal of our food. Even when it's genuinely good it's really only "nice". My mouth drools at the thought of kebab, tacos, pad Thai, sushi, korma, etc. But the only British cuisine I can think of that does anything like that for me is haggis, black pudding and sea food chowder (which may actually be French, not super sure). That and some British food people seem to love like roast dinner, lamb, etc kinda turns my stomach, ngl. There may be some foods here which get me going but I've never heard of them and I've lived here all my life. The average Mexican person or Chinese person or Indian person etc definitely has day to day access to some kind of food I would love, even our fancy, best representation of our cuisine just isn't that great for me personally.
@@normalhumanperson4149 and that is absolutely fine, people can like what they like 😊. The main issue is people hating on British food because it is a stereotype without ever actually trying it to have an informed opinion. It would be like me hating and disparaging Thai food just because I haven’t tried it.
Foreigners say the same about Finnish food and cuisine. And as a result, in Finland we have, for example, a pizza named after the Italian Perlusconi and Gordon Ramsay is forced to eat Finnish food every time he visits Finland, especially sweatened rye porridge, i.e. mämmi and Karelian pies.
It could still be a gamble. You never knew if there was a dead sheep half a mile up the river, but it was definitely a better option than the water out of the Thames.
I think the biggest problem is that the UK is very bad at marketing themselves in a positive way. Quite often British people tend to react negative on there own food ir culture in general. Just ask them where they are from and then ask what they think of said place. quite often they will say it's shit. If we do try look in to UK (home made) foods to replicate outside of the UK. (like here in The Netherlands) The things that are shown. are often focused on very calorific heavy dishes. I mean I get it the Dutch kitchen has a similar issue. Great for the winter/cold period but during the summer less. And maybe a last issue, a lot of north and north western European dishes are already to similar. Where it is very difficult to do see a certain dish as ether British, German, Danish , Dutch or the likes. Save from the very very regional products. People even in said home country might not even know outside said local area. What I could see help if people in the UK would marked more there summer fresh products when the UK does get the most tourist to the UK. Also have more UK style restaurants outside of the UK that is not just a pub. Like we have those to. I for one would love if the UK would bring over the cider products more as it's funny to how much appels we do grow but almost no cider exist. that does work in the summer very well.
I'm one of those people who'll extol the virtues of his city (Portsmouth) and it's culinary content It's very compact (it's an island) so every cuisine of the world is jammed together in 5 minutes walking distance And not just restaurants either, ethnic grocers abound, every European nation, every nation of the Indian sub continent, many far east nations and African, they all have representation here somewhere. Our Iranian kebobs are to die for. And of course British cuisine, many places to eat. We used to have the emsworth for festival but it got too big and boisterous for the locals, tens of thousands of people coming to eat our food. Incredible butchers, incredible fishmongers. It's my city and I love her.
@@MostlyPennyCat are there dishes that would be very typical for your local area people would make at home. And how would you sell those to people outside of the UK.
@sirBrouwer That's Hampshire, our beers and cheeses I guess. We're more about our produce, famed for our beef, pork, lamb, trout, crab, cheese, beer and watercress. We make excellent sausages! Our local fayre can be best described as _rich_ We spice our puddings and desserts, we use herbs in our mains and starters. Being a port (I live in Portsmouth) we have a lot of other cuisines and influences here.
Oddly enough that’s part of our culture, self-deprecating humour. We can say what we want about the place but we get peed if others outside the country do it.
I can recall an episode of Upstairs Downstairs in which Mrs. Bridges, the cook, was making Italian food, but drew the line at Italian cheeses. Not for her pecorino romano or parmigiano reggiano!
Bro couldn’t even find an image of someone looking at some fish fingers in a shop or even a pub so he resorted to AI images smh. Still a good video regardless, I am now very hungry
I'm glad you made an attempt at this video! Though I do wish you'd re-visit it again after your long format video making skills are more up to par. I love you stuff but the editing in this video was super wonky and the volume level on the mic was going up and down like mad. Best of luck with making videos in the future! Would love to chat too if you ever wanted the thoughts of a jaded Brit who's lived in Japan (Supposed the holy land of good food according to every American influencer) for 3 years!
Hi mate, been loving your shorts for ages now, great longer video too. Only criticism is that the use of AI imagery is a bit outputting. Otherwise, nicely done
I arrived to the UK about 13 years ago from the north of Spain, a region where food is really nearly a religion. This is what I personally think about British food, according to my palate: It is not at all that bad, and I really like some stuff, but I find it bland. There are two categories of food: -Really nice: Things like scotched eggs, multiple variants of meat pies are super tasty and I have incorporated them into my weekly diet -Most food is very bland: Ingredients are good quality, but the way they are cooked on the UK makes it taste like paper. Vegetables, Sunday roast dinner (Sorry, but tasteless sliced meat and over boiled vegetables is not that great to me). -Ah, and meat & fish is usually way too overcooked. Meat is usually cooked until it's a grey, hard substance which drains any moisture from your body, and fish is cooked on the oven till it becomes jerky and all the flavour is totally killed. But again, I just buy on the supermarket and cook it myself. Just don't ask for stuff like hamburgers, steak or salmon on a restaurant, and go for "traditional" British food!
british food is not so bad a bit bland and boy what you do to vegetables is a travesty. but compared to the stuff the yanks consume your cuisine is prime dinning.
and boy what you do to vegetables is a travesty -what do we do ?- Bake it -some salt oil etc.? or boil it in a panon the stove - like what we don't do. Any tips though -
I love our pork sausages, they just perfectly present you with the flavour of pork. We like taking just a few ingredients and cooking them to perfection to present their unaltered flavour.
Well, Wellington was born of Anglo Irish parents in Dublin, the French were cooking beef filet in pastry long before he beat them at Waterloo, and naming the dish after him and making it popilar seems to have happened long after his death in America. Other than that, yes, it's a classic British dish.
and then they eat something that has more common to a Plasticbag than something fit for Human Consumption and have a healthcare system that doesn't leave them debt ridden
easy answer - the italians hate all other cooks then them the french use suger and butter in all their recipies India spices their food so much they literally cannot eat anything else but spiced food America- is a mixture of all 3 but to the extreme, they also try to deflect from the fact they invented "Junk food" . its also important to remember 2things with british cooking, 1 , we come from a line of cooks that use herbs, which has delicate flavours, so our food is designed to enhance the meats not overpower them which is lost on people that put suger and spice in everything and 2, every person that thnks we dont spice our food just means we dont over spice our food,(for the reasona above) but also forgets every curry they can name was probably invented by the british or in britain, they dont eat vindaloos in Bombay.
@@Weary_Wizard Vindaloo might not be eaten in Mumbai but down the coast in Goa pork with wine and potatoes is a popular dish. Indian is a big place and what is eaten in Simla and Madras is as different as Scotland and Scilly.
Curry and we'll seasoned food is fine once in a while, but like you said, the more you eat of it the less you enjoy other food, not because it's better, but because it makes your taste buds blind to anything else, plus, when im eating chicken curry, im not doing it for the chicken or rice, it's basically just eating curry sauce with a side of texture. Anyway there are tons of cultures that don't season their food like Japan and a lot of South American countries, but they don't get any crap for it. Seasoning is great but it's completely out of place in traditional british cuisine, except for like herbs and pepper/fresh vegetables
OP makes an excellent point, a lot of European cuisines are very insular. They don't do change or foreign influences. Britain is the original multicultural nation, we're obsessed with everybody's food and no, not because ours is "bad". Our food is fantastic, flavoursome and has been for centuries. Go look up the original ketchup, white ketchup and tell me that's bland. But we love everybody's food, we take in every influence we can and make new things with it.
We absolutely love food. We're obsessed with it, always have been. We very much conquered the world in the name of spices and we use all of them in many different dishes, ours, theirs, our versions of theirs and their versions of ours
The British have a very high standard of ingredient quality, Everything from potatoes to lamb is very heavily controlled and sourced usually from grass fed free range animals, And with such a small population all relatively close to each other, we don't have to transport food 1000+ miles across country in freezers, Combined with a "weekly shop" culture food doesn't have as many preservatives and fake flavourings added to combat the bland old produce that's been on a shelf for 6 weeks. So whilst we might not use every herb and spice know to man in our food, its because believe it or not, a simple well made mash potato with 2 local butchers sausages and some simple meat gravy has plenty of flavour and doesn't need dousing in "BIG TEDS FLAMING HOT GRILLED EAGLE DICK SPICE MIX" like they do in the good ol' USA. Also WW2 did some weird shit to us as well to be fair..
Tbh ive had enough of the bottle of water meme, as well as all the others, our food isn't bad at all when you look at it, but people nit pick at the worst parts which makes our food look bad as a whole, and then you look at americans trying to make tea 💀. But i guess most of these people who makes jokes about it haven't tried British food and just shame it for no reason
I like long form videos, but this just doesn't feel right, like it's missing that BigNibbles™ energy. It'd be more entertaining if you don't take things too seriously, channel in some those cynical bri'ish power that you're clearly repressing here and I think that you'll be on your way to (relative) sucess, someday, probably. Also you should try editing your own video, the editing in this one just feels too disconected, it's too professional and all the ai images doesn't seem to help either. For reference in 1:14, you don't need to be fancy, just add a picture victorian dude roasting fish and when the "mauling to death" is mentioned, just zoom out to show a png of a bear, or something, bonus memer points if it has watermark. I hope this helps, good luck on your long form journey, sir Big"BigNibbles"Nibbles.
Hello. I'm your friendly local pedant. Not moderninity but modernity. Not imigration but immigration. My work here is done. On to my next mission, pedant away!
I went to London for 2 weeks on business trip and Tried authentic British Breakfast, lunch and dinner......you guys should be ashamed of yourself and your cuisine
If anything we have better food Thame America we have English breakfast,fush and chips,steak pie,shepherds pie,cottage pie and the is Jase bickers which ain’t biscuits gravy that isn’t gravy and I think hot dogs
Brits who think British food is good are like Americans; they don't kmow what's available in the rest of the world Almost any other country beats British food easily As a Brit, British food is crap
This is a great video but you need to work on your spelling and pronunciation a bit. I mean this purely constructively: It's immigration, with two Ms Modernity, not moderninity milieu, not melee. And not gonna lie, saying voyage like mirage was an odd one
Edgy internet comedians mostly. There was a general decay of culinary skills in the 50s and 60s, not to mention American experience of war rationed food while over here. Plus there's the general "us and them" attitude of the continental European nations towards us. Changes in gender politics too, we very much had women pursuing careers and therefore not living in the kitchen. So convenience food reared its ugly head much sooner in the UK as opposed to more conservative European nations.
Hey everyone! Thanks for the love on this, quick clarification.
My last two longform videos took two different approaches, for this one the budget went completely on an editor.
For the Last one (Amsterdam food tour) the budget went on the content itself and I handled the whole production.
Its clear the use of AI isnt going down well with you guys, and the edit pulls away from my style too much, so in future Ill be taking a different approach, but thanks for watching regardless.
Usually, the voices making fun of British cuisine are Americans, but they forget a few things.
1) British traditional cuisine is pretty heavy, because that's typical for northern Europe. See German, Irish, Eastern European and Scandinavian food. So naturally it doesn't have the same characteristics as food from southern Europe and overseas.
2) Americans often eat the same food, such as fish and chips, for example. And beans.
3) British food has evolved since the rationing days and before. What was haute cuisine 90 odd years ago would be pretty boilerplate today.
@@invisibleman4827 that is unsurprisingly true
But our neighbours overseas just like to yammer on about how our food is ‘bland’ and ‘boring’, as if their food isn’t just over processed and overpriced slop (plus, all the additives and dyes used is definitely not healthy…. And they have roast chicken in a can. Why.)
@@Scoutbutball British food has the spice and consistency of a joke told by James Corden. The United States is so multicultural that we've got a bit of everything here. Especially in the south, Cajun food is my favorite personally. British people need to come here lol, it'll be like a food spiritual awakening.
@@Foogi9000Britain also has a bit of everything too. We are still very much a multicultural nation, with food from all over the world. You can't compare multicultural foods to native, just because traditional British food doesn't include spices and cajun, doesn't mean we don't have those foods.
@@Scoutbutball British food uses additives and dyes too, perhaps you should look in a mirror (or an ingredient list). And you have PIE in a can. Why.
It’s because social media only talk about beans on toast and that stupid fish head pie. British food is great when you look into it
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i also blame the photography side of things. We're used to seeing photos of food taken like they're gonna be on Italian Vogue, but a lot of the "gross British food" photos are taken with crappy lighting and grainy quality that only make the dish look dull and lifeless. Sure the examples actually show off crap food a lot of the time, but a lot of those dishes would probably look better if they just opened a curtain or turned on a lamp for some warmer lighting
no, its because the british predominately eat things like pigs/toads in blankets the names are very different and unusual because english is the main trade language of the world. and everyone just understand the bland expressions that are translated to our own different cultured minds. For example what is dutch food to the british. often i get to hear. ah you mean snitzel man. but thats actually austrian. or when you ask germans why not the entire country wears bavarian clothing in oktober. its that stereotypical bs mixed with a lot of misinformation that makes it much worse.
British food is definetly not as bad as people say, but with the exception of a handful of pretty good foods, it is super bland and uninteresting
@@bruhed1117 the British eat utilitarian. The French eat overcomplicated, the Dutch and Germans just eat what was available and efficient, the danish over produced on its main trading articles. To the point of them being gullash barons. I think that covers most of Western Europe. And for added bonus the Italians have a lot of dishes we eat and love that came from poor regions or poor people.
My German wife had heard that British people added mint to everything. The idea of mint sauce with meat sickened her to the same amount as a pineapple on a pizza would a normal person. We didn't realise that to Brits, mint usually means Garden Mint whereas to them, mint means Peppermint. I made a salad that tasted 1000% of the 0.1% Peppermint I added to it before I figured that out.
Mint is good on lamb meat. Mint sauce is vinegar, sugar, and mint.
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I guess it depends on what you're used to (eat).
Mint to me shoud be left for a tisane (herb tea).
Or some cold sauce to go with Middle Eastern food.
Lamb meat is very delicate.
I make fricassé, saddle steak or lamb cutlets (with rosemary, thyme and oregano), shanks, or leg roast.
But no mint please.
I'm Norwegian !
There's actually a bit of folk lore around the lamb and mint sauce. Supposedly, the British were eating too much lamb and the supply of sheep couldn't keep up, so the ruler at the time, I believe either queen Victoria or Elizabeth I, ordered that all lamb had to be eaten with mint sauce. This was meant to stop people from eating lamb, as it was thought that lamb and mint sauce would be terrible. However, the common folk loved the mint sauce so much that the plan backfired and they ate even more lamb than before.
Mint sauce is good with lamb, the acidic sweet sauce cuts through the fat and lamb can be rather fatty. Its like using redcurrant sauce with venison or gamey meat...or using cranberry sauce in a bacon and melted brie sandwich.
i bet %99.9 of people who diss British food has never even been close to trying it
Correct.
And guess what they say when they do get to try our food? 😂
Or they eat it but don't know it's from here, to this day Americans will even claim Alexander Graham Bell or Andrew Carnagae are Americans so its no surprise that they don't know that macaroni cheese, apple pie, possibly fried chicken, and many other dishes are British.
Well, I must admit the Stargazer Pie looks a bit...
Different.
That said, Norwegians eat fermented mountain lake trout, and fermented cod.
(Only Icelandic cousins take it one notch up, with fermented shark, and whale blubber ditto).
The Swedes of course have a mad love for über fermented herring. 😮
But that's close to suicede...
Love from Norway 😊❤
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Americans think they invented planet Earth...
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@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 I am English ...and before this comment thread i had never even heard of stargazy pie. Its not a common item in UK diets.
As a Belgian food blogger (Vegatopia), I don't quite understand the bad reputation of British food. Until the 1980's cuisine in most of Western Europe was incredibly bland, with the Netherlands as somehow an exception because of colonial influence. We crossed the border for more flavourful groceries. Several of my childhood dishes were even quite similar like "balkenbrij" (check Wikipedia) and black pudding. I had it with pan fried apple slices. On the one hand British food is mocked at because it is supposed to be weird, bland and overcooked, on the other hand British chefs conquered the world and influenced many other cuisines. So, the there's a contradiction and not so much rationality. Be proud of your heritage!
You forget western europe included Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and sorry as a Portuguese i have to say you're incorrect we have and INCREDIBLY LONG AND COLOURFUL FLAVOURFUL EVEN culinary history stretching back to the age of discovery we started by sailing around africa to reach india and capitalise on the spice trade before the UK dutch or any other European had the chance, then with the discorvery of the new world Portugal and Spain were thr FIRST european to use POTATO'S (Portuguese keeps the exact same word as the natives in south america used to refer to BATATA) As well as peppers and the first people outisde of mexico to start using chilis and cacao were portugal and Spain also. Without Portuguese spreading chillies to africa india china etc there wouldn't be the same piri piri chicken no spicy indian curries like you know or chinese food you might be familiar with either. Due to the favourable climate in southern europe we have been cultivating these plant's for near 5 centuries did i even mention tomatoes too😂 what would Italian cuisine be like now without these contributions from south America brought to the outside world by Portuguese and Spanish explorers? Not to mention our amazing history of pastries cakes and baked goods which gave rise to some of the deserts and cakes you see in macau china and japan today ! Truly an extensive and tasty culinary history to be found in western europe if you ask me! No fish and chips or tea time in England either the list goes on😂
Interesting, because Dutch food nowadays has a reputation for blandness similar to the British (yes it does, Dutch people, stop pretending it doesn't!).
@@Croz89 Dutch food is the worst in Europe
When I go to the Netherlands I always look for Dutch croquettes, salted herring, smoked eel, appelstroop and salted liquorice.
Most of the distaste about british food culture is because we have a very honest food culture. What we say we eat is what we do eat, for everyone. In most other countries, their food culture is aspirational, but the UK's is WYSIWYG.
@@UnicornsAndUnions That’s actually a really good point.
That's true. I've been living in Japan for 3 years and honestly, and people can be served a turd and it won't complain. On TV, they just start yelling "OISHIIII" (delicious) before the food even reaches their mouth. Part of the reason for this is to be polite, the other is that being defaming a business, even if it's your own perfectly valid opinion, is a crime. Ironically there's a cafe/bakery near me, called Penny Lane, a beatles themed place and it is heaving. Despite the isolated location, it's stupidly busy even on weekdays and it's the only place in Japan I've found which serves proper pub grub with proper pub style burgers and triple cooked chips, nice pies etc. Yet, if you asked any of those diners "Do you like British Food?" They'd probably turn around and say "Like Stargazy pie? Nah! British food is terrible!" (Probably in Japanese of course.)
True, most British food in restaurants are basically tarted up versions of what people eat at home. In many other countries, the food you get in restaurants is almost never eaten at home, maybe only on a special occasion.
@@327legoman yeah but we can’t exactly claim burger and chips as British food. As you describe it, it’s just a British spin on a quintessential American food. But I do agree in essence. If there was a restaurant doing proper pie and mash, Sunday roasts, toss in the hole etc then people would love it (may need to adjust for each countries palate as we do here).
@@artspooner not American either 😂 German, Belgian and French origins.
The abundant use of AI 'art' makes it look horrible
Last time I use Fiverr for an editor
I don't know, considering you get to watch his content for free (unless of course you're a Patron) then a few extra phalanges (or arms) shouldn't make you apoplectic. 😱
@@Nathan-lp2iz the craziness goes with the channel and music.
quite like the dancing squirrel 😄
AI generated images are used on a lot of low quality content (with AI generated scripts and voices). People are being trained to associate them with low quality, fake or plagiarised content.
@@jamesfx2 I guess I care more about the information I'm receiving than what it looks like. You're right, though, people ARE being "trained" (there may be a better descriptive word than that, perhaps) and that is truly a sad thing. We are now in a world where most people are getting their news from Facebook, Twitter and the like, at least in my moron-filled country. May Dog have mercy on our souls. 🐶☮
Long form content lets go
I was hoping you'd point out that Scotch Eggs are English, as that always riles someone up. Solid video, and great editing!
Scotch eggs are fucking fire
Yesss
They are amazing
I knew this but had forgotten. Thanks!
Seagull eggs anybody ?
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Absolutely adored the abundance of alliteration in this food focused feature. The clever, continuous cadence of culinary commentary kept me captivated!
Growing up in Canada, there was a type of Selection Bias guiding our opinions of "British Food".
We thought of every day food as "British" (even when it was not) while restaurants served "Exotic" foods. ie. Beans on toast, sandwiches, canned soup, hard-boiled eggs, breakfast sausage, meat & potatoes, and boiled vegetables were "British". The very plain, mostly flavourless, low effort home cooking.
But when we went to restaurants that's where we saw 'foreign cooking'. Food that was prepared with some flare: shish kabob, Sweet n' Sour chicken with pineapple, lasagne, biryani, enchilades, and crepes suzette.
What we didn't get from British cuisine were any of the items from fine dining: Christmas goose, Yorkshire pudding, trifle, steak and kidney pie, cranachan, or meat pies.
tldr; we got mediocre British food to the point where we identified mediocre food as British. We didn't get mediocre 'foreign' food, only a selection of the most appealing. That solidified the bias that British food was inferior.
Funny thing is, a lot of those fancy dishes you list will almost certainly be the British version of that dish.
And the British dishes you've listed aren't mediocre, there's only mediocre preparation.
My nan was a Cordon Bleu chef and when _she_ made those dishes, I'm sad that as good as I am at cooking, I will never be that good.
To be clear, Yorkshire pudding is the very opposite of fine dining, it's one of the simplest foods we have and came from using cheap/leftover ingredients. It's very bland too, but super crispy and airy and tender and the perfect vehicle for flavourful gravy and sweet sauces/jams 😋
The bad reputation used to be deserved.
I was born in the early 60’s. As a kid getting school dinners, every single one of the adults serving the food had gone through the Second World War and the subsequent rationing.
This led to an ‘eat what you’re given and be grateful’ mentality. Not much sympathy for kids who didn’t like that particular food (yes beetroot I’m looking at you).
This ‘mustn’t grumble’ mentality accompanied your average Brit in the ‘60s and ‘70s when they dived out. Nobody would ever complain about restaurant food so there was no incentive to improve it.
Lastly there’s the emergence of the fridge/freezer. We had no fridge when I was a lad. There was a marble slab in the cupboard under the stairs where mum kept the butter etc. she’d also shop twice a day and pick up what she needed for the next meal. Owning a fridge allowed the shopper in the family to indulge in fantasies about modern dishes.
Baked beans taste great, I don't know why people dislike them so much.
Who dislikes them ?
Because baked beans in the US Vs UK are very different. They've never tried Heinz beans before. And TBF, the beans themselves taste better than they look
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It's literally an American product.
_Heinz_
@@MostlyPennyCat It's an American company, it's not an American product, they don't really sell them over there. Well they sell baked beans but they're not the same. I think they do actually sell some called "British style" or something (edit: Oh, they are literally pictured in this video) because I saw a video about it, which compared them to actual British Heinz Beanz, but even they are not identical, and most people probably don't even know you can buy them.
For some reason as a kid I didn't like baked beans. I thought they were kinda gross. Nowadays I think they're pretty good. Oh and Heinz aren't even the best.
Beans is a less costly, good source of protein if you can't have meat.
In Norway we serve tomato beans with thick slices of fried unsmoked salty bacon.
This is eaten with steamed potatoes and white sauce.
The Danes add chopped parsley to the sauce, where as in Sweden they just swap tomato beans for brown beans.
Very typical Scandinavian...
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Black pudding is legitimately good
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Why y’all foreigners dissing it >:(
beans on toast is peak too, especially with a bit of cheese on top
@hartmann3288 I don't even consider it the proper meal yet without cheese tbh. The pictures you see people react to are always just beans on an underdone bit of cheap, pre-sliced white toast. No wonder they aren't impressed, GET SOME BLOODY BROWN SAUCE ON IT 😤
Or add a fried egg
Make it crispy on the edges with salt and pepper seasoning
That makes things ten times better imo ❤️
FR, americans literally believe they know everything, the guys who diss our food i bet haven't even had it before 💀
Because I've had it, it tastes like liverwurst but warmed up, just ew
This is great, love the deep dive and clearly tons of effort has gone into this! Bonus points for defending our mid cuisine.
Jellied Eel sounds good. I'm deffinetly gonna give it a try. Here, in Ukraine, we have jelly but made out of pork. I'm really excited to taste jellied fish. (in Ukraine we call jallied pork like [holodets])
Jellied eel tastes better with some parsley sauce.
We have pork jelly too, but usually we only use it to fill up the space in a pork pie between the meat and pastry that's formed as the pie cooks. Keeps the meat away from the air and adds an extra texture and juiciness.
Yes, I thought of that too, but if there are bones in the fish it would be a pass for me
I've been making Halupsi, except I now need a meat grinder to make them really well.
And I want to use fermented sour cabbage however I think that's, er, can't remember the nation that's from.
@@MostlyPennyCat you mean sauerkraut? I think its german 🤔
It's because people want to be "edgy" but not make fun of an "oppressed" group
@@eversor10 Yup. Easy target + people (worldwide and inclusive of Brits) love to flog a dead horse.
exactly. "safe edgy"
Highly doubt that is a significant factor, bit of a weird theory tbh
@hsjshdhsjshsh958 nah you just lack imagination
Totally true. The British (English really) are the only people left on the planet that it is universally acceptable to mock.
British food has a bad rep because rationing led to very poor food during a period when there were 3 or 4 million US troops in the country. So if they ate outside the unit mess would have been served a very bad or ersatz version of something they ate at home.
German ancestry ?
Baked Beans were the standard Sunday meal in colonial New England. Basically, they banked the oven fires on Saturday night. They set the crock with beans and sauce in the oven the night before, and it was ready the next day. This made cooking on the Sabbath unnecessary. 12:50
"I won't be trying it, because I know it's going to be gross"
Based. Although, that is how I used to feel about black pudding. I am now in the "Still haven't tried it, but am open to the idea" phase.
Best video yet on this channel, and by some distance. A fascinating watch, not just for the food, but also the history.
The history of British tea is also the history of the British empire. The most prized possessions in the west were the Caribbean islands where sugar cane was grown. Tea was bought from China (tea being a corruption of cha), which led to a shortage of British silver and the need to get some back (resulting in the Opium war and Hong Kong). The search for other sources made Sri Lanka important. Milk in tea was a result of drinking habits in India.
Well done video, mate! Excellent culinary history lesson, replete with your wonderfully witty wordplay and delightfully dry analogies. ☮
Loved this long form video man. Naming Jamie Oliver among British 'culinary cred' was a big mistake though 🤣
Jamie has tought at least one generation of Brits to dare cook their own, simple meals...
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Maybe.. I've never seen Jamie make anything and not make massive technical errors and add weird flavors. Like starting fried rice with rice in a cold wok and adding water to the rice 😂
As a non-brit to us he is like the archetype of blasphemous British cooking.
I love Curry, Sunday Pot Roast, and Yorkshire Pudding with brown gravy. Getting hungry! 🇬🇧
Been making toad in the hole, I'm getting really good at it.
Beans on toast is actually going to be one of my meals tomorrow. Dunno which one yet, but I've decided to figure out why it's so popular myself. Wish me luck.
Some advice:
1) Stove top, medium heat, don't let it boil. Microwaves don't get them hot without a disproportionate amount of effort
2) Well browned toast, don't skimp on the butter
3) taste your beans while cooking, adjust seasoning as needed, enhance the flavour without making it salty.
4) Optionally add some butter to the beans
5) If they look a little thin, reduce the sauce a bit until they thicken up
6) Optionally season with worcestershire sauce
7) put beans on toast, few turns of black pepper and optionally serve with grated cheddar.
@@MostlyPennyCat I second all these tips, although cheese is mandatory for me
@MostlyPennyCat @Pudddle Thanks for your advice. I happen to have a piece of delightful Snowdonia cheddar in the fridge, which will definitely turn it into a worthy meal. 😄
@@MostlyPennyCat Alright. I think I can see the point now. I didn't have the genuine Heinz beans at hand, so some cheap Italian baked beans in chilli sauce had to suffice, but in the end, it made for a hearty and filling meal with nothing screaming "this is wrong" in it. As advised, I spread some butter on the toasts, added a squirt of Worcester sauce into the beans, and topped it all up with a pinch of fresh black pepper, and a fair amount of mature cheddar. Very nice.
Love this format, would love to see more educational long form food vids!! 👏👏
People really do forget that unlike America, the majority of people in Britain had very limited options for food for different reasons. The First World War led to food shortages, after that unlike America there was no great economic uplift in the 1920s, compounded by the Great Depression, and then by the Second World War and rationing which went on for nearly twice as long as the war did. So that's four decades of limited food options for many people. Okay it's an excuse the French, Italians and Spanish could have as well but don't, but for a lot of people born in the 50s and 60s, all they'll have known growing up was crap, unseasoned food
I don't buy these excuses. British empire was the biggest empire in history with territories in the Americas, Asia and Africa so historically they had access to many ingredients and techniques meanwhile Japan also went through famine and rationing, destroyed in war but had much more limited access to other ingredients and their cuisine is considered one of the bests of the world. Japanese cuisine often focus on making the best of limited ingredients, one of their most famous dishes is raw fish with no spices or other ingredients besides some soy sauce.
@@whome9842 Its not like Japan didn't have a substantial empire too. If that theory held then other empires would show as much impact by the countries they ruled over. I think most of the influence went the other way.
Japan was rebuilt by the west, mostly for the west. Their international cuisine is probably more tailored to a western palette that it would otherwise have been.
@@MartynPS When did Japan had colonies in the Americas, Africa and Oceania? Potatoes, tomato, corn and many other things came from the Americas. UK couldn't have fish and chips without their colonies.
@@whome9842 You're ignoring the biggest thing Nibbles didn't really go into, Britain's extremely rigid class system. The working class didn't have access to the imported goods of the empire. The peasant farmers who raised cows spoke Anglo-Saxon wheras the nobility who ate the meat of cows called it beef because they spoke French, this continued for centuries.
@@whome9842 IIRC it was the Spanish who introduced the Potato to Europe, and the Portuguese who have the earliest example of fish and chips. I don't recall either being part of the British Empire.
'Modern' changes British food, like much of Europe, is influenced by its neighbours via the upper classes. Until globalization started kicking off most new foods and techniques were out of reach of most of the population.
Gonna be honest, born and raised a Brit and still, just do not see the appeal of our food. Even when it's genuinely good it's really only "nice". My mouth drools at the thought of kebab, tacos, pad Thai, sushi, korma, etc. But the only British cuisine I can think of that does anything like that for me is haggis, black pudding and sea food chowder (which may actually be French, not super sure). That and some British food people seem to love like roast dinner, lamb, etc kinda turns my stomach, ngl. There may be some foods here which get me going but I've never heard of them and I've lived here all my life. The average Mexican person or Chinese person or Indian person etc definitely has day to day access to some kind of food I would love, even our fancy, best representation of our cuisine just isn't that great for me personally.
@@normalhumanperson4149 and that is absolutely fine, people can like what they like 😊. The main issue is people hating on British food because it is a stereotype without ever actually trying it to have an informed opinion. It would be like me hating and disparaging Thai food just because I haven’t tried it.
Production value on this one is a bit crazy
Good job :>
This video is so well made! Definitely deserves more attention
Foreigners say the same about Finnish food and cuisine. And as a result, in Finland we have, for example, a pizza named after the Italian Perlusconi and Gordon Ramsay is forced to eat Finnish food every time he visits Finland, especially sweatened rye porridge, i.e. mämmi and Karelian pies.
Correction: water was a gamble in the cities not the rural areas.
It could still be a gamble. You never knew if there was a dead sheep half a mile up the river, but it was definitely a better option than the water out of the Thames.
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Hmm, yes.
Brown bog water can hide a lot of sins...
Luckily I'm Norwegian.
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I think the biggest problem is that the UK is very bad at marketing themselves in a positive way.
Quite often British people tend to react negative on there own food ir culture in general. Just ask them where they are from and then ask what they think of said place. quite often they will say it's shit.
If we do try look in to UK (home made) foods to replicate outside of the UK. (like here in The Netherlands)
The things that are shown. are often focused on very calorific heavy dishes. I mean I get it the Dutch kitchen has a similar issue. Great for the winter/cold period but during the summer less.
And maybe a last issue, a lot of north and north western European dishes are already to similar. Where it is very difficult to do see a certain dish as ether British, German, Danish , Dutch or the likes. Save from the very very regional products. People even in said home country might not even know outside said local area.
What I could see help if people in the UK would marked more there summer fresh products when the UK does get the most tourist to the UK.
Also have more UK style restaurants outside of the UK that is not just a pub. Like we have those to.
I for one would love if the UK would bring over the cider products more as it's funny to how much appels we do grow but almost no cider exist. that does work in the summer very well.
I'm one of those people who'll extol the virtues of his city (Portsmouth) and it's culinary content
It's very compact (it's an island) so every cuisine of the world is jammed together in 5 minutes walking distance
And not just restaurants either, ethnic grocers abound, every European nation, every nation of the Indian sub continent, many far east nations and African, they all have representation here somewhere.
Our Iranian kebobs are to die for.
And of course British cuisine, many places to eat.
We used to have the emsworth for festival but it got too big and boisterous for the locals, tens of thousands of people coming to eat our food.
Incredible butchers, incredible fishmongers.
It's my city and I love her.
@@MostlyPennyCat are there dishes that would be very typical for your local area people would make at home.
And how would you sell those to people outside of the UK.
@sirBrouwer
That's Hampshire, our beers and cheeses I guess. We're more about our produce, famed for our beef, pork, lamb, trout, crab, cheese, beer and watercress.
We make excellent sausages!
Our local fayre can be best described as _rich_
We spice our puddings and desserts, we use herbs in our mains and starters.
Being a port (I live in Portsmouth) we have a lot of other cuisines and influences here.
Oddly enough that’s part of our culture, self-deprecating humour. We can say what we want about the place but we get peed if others outside the country do it.
Love this!
Please do more deep dives on culinary culture in the UK.
your editing is fluid af omgg
but bro if you rendered this in 60fps, it'd be buttery
i think he went to a school for that or something
@@swankmankhe literally mentioned hiring an editor at Fiverr in another comment 😅
You look like my dt teacher
Yeah I agree he does look like your dt teacher
Yh a lot of similarities
So your DT teacher is fit then
You’d find him fit
I can recall an episode of Upstairs Downstairs in which Mrs. Bridges, the cook, was making Italian food, but drew the line at Italian cheeses. Not for her pecorino romano or parmigiano reggiano!
Bro couldn’t even find an image of someone looking at some fish fingers in a shop or even a pub so he resorted to AI images smh. Still a good video regardless, I am now very hungry
I'm glad you made an attempt at this video! Though I do wish you'd re-visit it again after your long format video making skills are more up to par. I love you stuff but the editing in this video was super wonky and the volume level on the mic was going up and down like mad. Best of luck with making videos in the future! Would love to chat too if you ever wanted the thoughts of a jaded Brit who's lived in Japan (Supposed the holy land of good food according to every American influencer) for 3 years!
Ayo the editing goes crazy
Hi mate, been loving your shorts for ages now, great longer video too. Only criticism is that the use of AI imagery is a bit outputting. Otherwise, nicely done
This video needs more views
I arrived to the UK about 13 years ago from the north of Spain, a region where food is really nearly a religion. This is what I personally think about British food, according to my palate:
It is not at all that bad, and I really like some stuff, but I find it bland. There are two categories of food:
-Really nice: Things like scotched eggs, multiple variants of meat pies are super tasty and I have incorporated them into my weekly diet
-Most food is very bland: Ingredients are good quality, but the way they are cooked on the UK makes it taste like paper. Vegetables, Sunday roast dinner (Sorry, but tasteless sliced meat and over boiled vegetables is not that great to me).
-Ah, and meat & fish is usually way too overcooked. Meat is usually cooked until it's a grey, hard substance which drains any moisture from your body, and fish is cooked on the oven till it becomes jerky and all the flavour is totally killed. But again, I just buy on the supermarket and cook it myself. Just don't ask for stuff like hamburgers, steak or salmon on a restaurant, and go for "traditional" British food!
british food is not so bad a bit bland and boy what you do to vegetables is a travesty. but compared to the stuff the yanks consume your cuisine is prime dinning.
Thanks lol
See, those are still myths.
Yes, some people are terrible cooks but we don't do bland and we know how to cook vegetables.
and boy what you do to vegetables is a travesty -what do we do ?- Bake it -some salt oil etc.? or boil it in a panon the stove - like what we don't do. Any tips though -
fish and chips are without lack of a better word, “bangin”
And we invented sparkling wine and corks for the bottles - yep.
Great video! Informative and entertaining. More content like this!
Drink every time he says “staple”
16:37 we all love a cold refreshing pint of B$ANG|E"|RS on a plate with a few salad leaves and a lump of butter
Here before 1 billion
Listen, when i had Bangers and Mash when I went to England, it changed my life.
YES
I love our pork sausages, they just perfectly present you with the flavour of pork.
We like taking just a few ingredients and cooking them to perfection to present their unaltered flavour.
Well, Wellington was born of Anglo Irish parents in Dublin, the French were cooking beef filet in pastry long before he beat them at Waterloo, and naming the dish after him and making it popilar seems to have happened long after his death in America.
Other than that, yes, it's a classic British dish.
In finland and especially tampere we have "black sausage" thats basically the same thing as black pudding
We live rent free in Americans' heads and all they can do is say the SAME 'jokes' over and over
and then they eat something that has more common to a Plasticbag than something fit for Human Consumption and have a healthcare system that doesn't leave them debt ridden
colonising their minds 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
easy answer - the italians hate all other cooks then them
the french use suger and butter in all their recipies
India spices their food so much they literally cannot eat anything else but spiced food
America- is a mixture of all 3 but to the extreme, they also try to deflect from the fact they invented "Junk food" .
its also important to remember 2things with british cooking, 1 , we come from a line of cooks that use herbs, which has delicate flavours, so our food is designed to enhance the meats not overpower them which is lost on people that put suger and spice in everything and 2, every person that thnks we dont spice our food just means we dont over spice our food,(for the reasona above) but also forgets every curry they can name was probably invented by the british or in britain, they dont eat vindaloos in Bombay.
@@Weary_Wizard Vindaloo might not be eaten in Mumbai but down the coast in Goa pork with wine and potatoes is a popular dish. Indian is a big place and what is eaten in Simla and Madras is as different as Scotland and Scilly.
Curry and we'll seasoned food is fine once in a while, but like you said, the more you eat of it the less you enjoy other food, not because it's better, but because it makes your taste buds blind to anything else, plus, when im eating chicken curry, im not doing it for the chicken or rice, it's basically just eating curry sauce with a side of texture. Anyway there are tons of cultures that don't season their food like Japan and a lot of South American countries, but they don't get any crap for it. Seasoning is great but it's completely out of place in traditional british cuisine, except for like herbs and pepper/fresh vegetables
@@davidwright7193
Ah yes, vindaloo that famously _Portuguese_ recipe! 😂
Vindaloo is a British version of a Goan version of a Portuguese dish!
OP makes an excellent point, a lot of European cuisines are very insular. They don't do change or foreign influences.
Britain is the original multicultural nation, we're obsessed with everybody's food and no, not because ours is "bad".
Our food is fantastic, flavoursome and has been for centuries.
Go look up the original ketchup, white ketchup and tell me that's bland.
But we love everybody's food, we take in every influence we can and make new things with it.
@@MostlyPennyCat- ketchup is the best you could think of 😂😂
What editing program do you use
FCPX
And thus begins the rejuvenation of British food
12:20 Why? Why did you animate the jellied eel?!🙀
It’s because it’s popular to hate on English food. Just because it don’t have a tons of seasonings, doesn’t mean it’s not tasty!
One defence I recently saw is that at least br*t*sh food isn't dutch food.
We didn't conquer the world for spices...
Maybe we did. Brits absolutely love curry. We've been eating it for centuries.
@@billps34 curry is peak >:)
We absolutely love food.
We're obsessed with it, always have been.
We very much conquered the world in the name of spices and we use all of them in many different dishes, ours, theirs, our versions of theirs and their versions of ours
The British have a very high standard of ingredient quality, Everything from potatoes to lamb is very heavily controlled and sourced usually from grass fed free range animals, And with such a small population all relatively close to each other, we don't have to transport food 1000+ miles across country in freezers, Combined with a "weekly shop" culture food doesn't have as many preservatives and fake flavourings added to combat the bland old produce that's been on a shelf for 6 weeks. So whilst we might not use every herb and spice know to man in our food, its because believe it or not, a simple well made mash potato with 2 local butchers sausages and some simple meat gravy has plenty of flavour and doesn't need dousing in "BIG TEDS FLAMING HOT GRILLED EAGLE DICK SPICE MIX" like they do in the good ol' USA.
Also WW2 did some weird shit to us as well to be fair..
You went straight from the Romans to the Vikings without mentioning the Anglo-Saxons.
Ahh, the british! The quality of their cuisine and the beauty of their women made them the best sailors in the world.
When he said "Henry VIII's body count"......not sure which is more, people he bedded & married, or people he executed lol
I had no idea, I think the food here is pretty tastey, of course I'm a pure blooded brit, but the food here has less shit in it than in the US.
Tbh ive had enough of the bottle of water meme, as well as all the others, our food isn't bad at all when you look at it, but people nit pick at the worst parts which makes our food look bad as a whole, and then you look at americans trying to make tea 💀. But i guess most of these people who makes jokes about it haven't tried British food and just shame it for no reason
Americans eat like they have affordable health care! They are not used to seeing a plate of food without a mountain of cheese and ranch dressing.
Amazing video! Full support! Still not bought on the whole British cuisine though...
dude, what a nice editing
Finlay
RIP Finlay.....
My dog died yesterday I’m sad
Long form content. This is really interesting
I like long form videos, but this just doesn't feel right, like it's missing that BigNibbles™ energy. It'd be more entertaining if you don't take things too seriously, channel in some those cynical bri'ish power that you're clearly repressing here and I think that you'll be on your way to (relative) sucess, someday, probably. Also you should try editing your own video, the editing in this one just feels too disconected, it's too professional and all the ai images doesn't seem to help either.
For reference in 1:14, you don't need to be fancy, just add a picture victorian dude roasting fish and when the "mauling to death" is mentioned, just zoom out to show a png of a bear, or something, bonus memer points if it has watermark.
I hope this helps, good luck on your long form journey, sir Big"BigNibbles"Nibbles.
1:28 typical British beach
Hello. I'm your friendly local pedant. Not moderninity but modernity. Not imigration but immigration. My work here is done. On to my next mission, pedant away!
Most countries eat a variation of blood sausage haha
What happened with Deep Fried Mars Bar?
Worcestershire sauce, globally loved, dates from 1837, nuff sed 👍,
I went to London for 2 weeks on business trip and Tried authentic British Breakfast, lunch and dinner......you guys should be ashamed of yourself and your cuisine
British food is great. Nobody does liver and onions like the British.
I think you blinked about twice in this video
If anything we have better food Thame America we have English breakfast,fush and chips,steak pie,shepherds pie,cottage pie and the is Jase bickers which ain’t biscuits gravy that isn’t gravy and I think hot dogs
Love to see you tackle more of the Celtic foods in the UK as most of what you said is mainly English experiences. Cawl is literally the dish of Wales.
And yet spag bol was never mentioned
@@SammyHodgepodge - why would it? That's Italian 🤣
@@danielcrafter9349 No the way we make it, the italians would be crying!
Want a bag of crispspspsstststs?
"Our produce is bad"???
What rubbish is this?
respect good quality
It’s boring! I like your desserts though.
Another interesting long form video let's go
Brits who think British food is good are like Americans; they don't kmow what's available in the rest of the world
Almost any other country beats British food easily
As a Brit, British food is crap
Best video ever
British is good
Compare British with French gastronomy!
This is a great video but you need to work on your spelling and pronunciation a bit.
I mean this purely constructively:
It's immigration, with two Ms
Modernity, not moderninity
milieu, not melee.
And not gonna lie, saying voyage like mirage was an odd one
My uncles sons dogs brothers mum got mauled by a fish🫡🫡😢😢
So what’s the reason?
Edgy internet comedians mostly.
There was a general decay of culinary skills in the 50s and 60s, not to mention American experience of war rationed food while over here.
Plus there's the general "us and them" attitude of the continental European nations towards us.
Changes in gender politics too, we very much had women pursuing careers and therefore not living in the kitchen.
So convenience food reared its ugly head much sooner in the UK as opposed to more conservative European nations.
I love british food, like indian or chinese