there's literally like one place still doing the jellied eels thing. they can get good tacos in london now. i know this because i've seen it on the information super highway, which it's time for you to get on
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Gen Xer here. I was there 10 years ago and even back then I had some of the best food I’ve ever had in my life. Only caveat is that a little haggis goes a long way.
sep 1, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
But how do they say "quesadilla?"
sep 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 4 0 • view
we’re not unfamiliar with Spanish words! Spain is right there!
sep 1, 2025, 12:27 pm • 8 0 • view
I've seen videos of you guys on holiday.
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
To be fair, I think a lot of people I know would say something like “kwes-a-diller”
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 3 0 • view
You're pretty unfamiliar
sep 1, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Why the short A sound consistently, then?
sep 1, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
That's how Spanish works.
sep 1, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 12:40 pm • 0 0 • view
There are a few YouTube videos of linguists addressing why British people say pasta, taco, etc. differently from how they’re said in their original language. Some maintain it’s “correct,” others say it’s not, one even calls it “passive-aggressive.”
sep 1, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly, we are too conditioned by the monarchy that we saw “que” and stood up to salute before we’d finished reading the word
sep 1, 2025, 12:26 pm • 3 0 • view
After Napoleon Dynamite, this word could not be mentioned in our house without interchangeable family smartasses admonishing the speaker to “make yourself a dang case-a-dilla.”
sep 1, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
they can also watch videos on their phone over there and learn to pronounce it the normal way
sep 1, 2025, 12:30 pm • 13 0 • view
But in 2019 (precious), they couldn’t use their phone to look up how to make a Bloody Mary? I mean, sure, Central London, but really??
sep 1, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Precious=precovid
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet
sep 1, 2025, 1:09 pm • 9 0 • view
I saw clips from the great British bake off where they were making tacos for some reason. Or as they said “tackos” with “picko de gal-o.”
sep 1, 2025, 1:29 pm • 5 0 • view
guackilolol
sep 1, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
food IN Britain ≠ British food y'all don't get to take credit for tacos
sep 1, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
I've had surprisingly good pizza there and I've also had some of the most absolutely cursed sandwiches imaginable with like unmelted shredded bagged cheese. Kind of a mixed bag.
sep 1, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
can we still make fun of individual british people when they express some "picky little baby with fucked up teeth" food opinions tho
sep 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
But British people get so angry about it! If one of my bros got that angry about the one time in college that he got a bad haircut, you'd better believe we would be mentioning it at his funeral and cracking up.
sep 1, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Partly of the reason people get very annoyed is that the way Americans discuss this (accidentally) echos the way the far right here talks about immigration (eg arguing that immigrant communities aren’t/can’t be British, that only things eaten in the 1940s count as British food etc)
sep 1, 2025, 2:40 pm • 5 0 • view
The other thing is that a lot of it seems to derive from stereotypes that (to the extent they have a founding in reality at all) mostly date from when GIs were here in WWII and we are a much much better fed and much less white country than we were in 1944, for obvious reasons.
sep 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
There's a pie shop a few blocks from me in South Philly that does jellied eels sometimes. I bet they're actually great, but I've still never been able to do it.
sep 1, 2025, 12:38 pm • 3 0 • view
All the other stuff is incredible though www.stargazywastaken.com
sep 1, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
The best mexican food I've had outside the American continent was in Zurich. You just never really know these days. People are everywhere. It's cool.
sep 1, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
How does the smack barm wet thing fit in?
sep 1, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I knew things were bad when I was, as an Irishman, getting annoyed on Britain's behalf.
sep 1, 2025, 12:26 pm • 14 1 • view
I'll happily complain about Irish food as well! ;) Except for pastries, you all have lovely treats.
sep 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 12:58 pm • 3 0 • view
The thing with the jellied eels is they're not great, but most people are rejecting it on a reflexive level of ew gross words, because eel and meat jelly. Having grown up with fish leftovers that naturally end up in a gelatinized broth, the eels are only bad because they're pretty bland.
sep 1, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Last I checked British people were still Peanut Butter Skeptics, and I would like to see that issue fixed before I buy into that particular Cuisine Platform.
sep 1, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Almond Butter is a superior butter.
sep 1, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
all of europe is peanut butter skeptic! they deny themselves the simple pleasure of eating it directly off the spoon.
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 pm • 2 0 • view
That's just bizarre. Peanut butter was in my sandwiches when I was 5 over 40 years ago! And it was very normal in the UK then! There are multiple brands sold in every supermarket in the UK.
sep 1, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
We use our peanut butter for making satay. I do admit to having tried PBJ sandwiches as well though.
sep 1, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
lol "admit". There is no shame in enjoying the humble goober pea in any way you like.
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
People keep insisting this is true, but my children wept with relief once we had our first meal in Paris after a week in London. I am sure it is possible to get a good taco in London, I am equally sure none of the British know what a good taco is.
sep 1, 2025, 1:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, I don't believe they understand Mexican food.
sep 1, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I've had the 'good tacos' in London and you can get better tacos for like half the price in most American cities. You can get good anything in London if you're willing to pay double what you would elsewhere. That's the real reason to dunk on this place, it's a luxury to eat what's basic elsewhere.
sep 1, 2025, 1:09 pm • 7 0 • view
The humble Taco as a stand-in for "Quality Cuisine" - the universal barometer of Good Eatin' that applies without exception, is one of the funniest assumptions that gets made in these interminable arguments.
sep 1, 2025, 2:17 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, American friend, I'm sure a country which shares a border with Mexico and which has tens of millions of Mexican-origin people living there has higher quality Tacos than somewhere thousands of miles away. I wonder why that might be.
sep 1, 2025, 2:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Already the British have been sabotaged! The curries you'll get in British cities blow what you'll find in most American cities out of the water, but they let the conversation be about tacos? Foolish tactical error.
sep 1, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
wahaca isnt 'good tacos' & shockingly, it is more expensive to import ingredients from mexico to the uk than the usa & places need to actually pay their staff appropriately in london. expecting to get a taco for a quid is fucking ridiculous & insulting
sep 1, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Assuming I said a lot of things that I didn't just to get mad about it. You should probably calm down, this is no way to live.
sep 1, 2025, 1:20 pm • 4 0 • view
u criticised the cost of tacos & their quality which is pretty insulting to those making them & their pricing, & something one of the chefs & owners of a taqueria i know gets particularly offended by for the reasons i already posted but by all means continue exacerbating that attitude
sep 1, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah sorry I'll consult with business owners before saying things that are true in the future 🙏
sep 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 3 0 • view
imagine getting big mad because some small independent taqueria has to charge enough to get proper ingredients & pay staff & business rates & rent etc. & deliberately conflating that person w like the ceo of tesco or w/e
sep 1, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes you are providing reasons that my initial statement is completely correct, thank you.
sep 1, 2025, 1:39 pm • 5 0 • view
imagine getting this mad at a stranger on the internet
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
imagine thinking im mad for saying it is good that restaurants pay their staff like i do not think u know what angry actually is
sep 1, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
no one is disagreeing with that part.
sep 1, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
i mean it's not cos the tacos are good & re expense do u say the same bullshit about any other cuisine or could there possibly be a bit of conditioning that mexican cuisine should be cheaper for some reason?
sep 1, 2025, 1:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I do in fact say that about nearly all cuisine here. I was responding to a post about tacos which is why tacos were the example used. You've decided you're speaking to someone who racistly undervalues Mexican labour and culture based on literally nothing. Again, calm down, this is no way to live.
sep 1, 2025, 1:45 pm • 4 0 • view
ok then i shall change my view of u to simply thinking food service workers shouldnt be paid properly just so u can go out for a meal for less than 10 pounds
sep 1, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Btw, they're not that good, but they're better than I've ever found up North so I appreciate that these things are relative and would never want to deny you your relative innocence on the subject of tacos. Good luck out there.
sep 1, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
The Indian food goes hard though, the one redemption arc please don't inquire about the history there.
sep 1, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Place in Philly still does jellied eels!
sep 1, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
We have learned a lot from footy scran (soccer food).
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Britain is not a suburb of East London.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Information super highway? The series of tubes? Does it some on 5 1/4"? I *know computers*, no one needs more than 640K of RAM.
sep 1, 2025, 12:26 pm • 3 0 • view
take liberty line to bermondsey, exit on jamaica street, turn right for about 100 meters, go to La Chingada. order whatever tacos you like but get the zocalot corn. trust me.
sep 1, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Tacos or tack-os?
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s an Ozzie accent
sep 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a Paul Holllywood accent
sep 1, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
A nation of people aged 45-60 yearns for the YouTube algorithm to show them a Sorted Food video.
sep 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 4 0 • view
kush and the lads would put them on the straight and narrow
sep 1, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
The Democratic Party needs to stop its search for the liberal Joe Rogan and instead start looking for American Barry.
sep 1, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
my wife and i went to london a couple years ago and every single meal was solid to great, people just need to better appreciate the familiar sometimes
sep 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Gotta say as a Londoner Mexican food there is kinda mid but Indian def makes up for it
sep 1, 2025, 12:39 pm • 10 0 • view
y'all have shwarma, which is a direct relative of carne asada! When I got tacos in London, it was like someone had used a grocery store spice mix. Sad, depressing, and grossly inadequate. Utterly baffling considering the high quality of the rest of the food that trip.
sep 1, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Anytime a boiled meat happens I'm like I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW HOW TO ROAST THINGS. Really I think it's just were disappointed that people have the capabilities to do better but they don't. It's like the cooking instincts are off.
sep 1, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Anyone that eats tacos in Britain deserves what they get. I can't imagine anything more disappointing. Bet they boil the beef for "carne asada."
sep 1, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I could get tacos when I was in London this year. I would not call them good. The curries and Chinese food, however, slap, especially from small family places, and my guide led me over an hour of walking and buses to get bagels from a hole in the wall, and it was worth every step.
sep 1, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't like it but you simply can't argue against this kind of evidence
sep 1, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
just be wrong once
sep 1, 2025, 12:33 pm • 13 0 • view
I guess this works, as someone just barely a millenial I don’t actually think all British food sucks but I still do this anyways sometimes because it gets such a big pop
sep 1, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
okay fine i take it back
sep 1, 2025, 12:32 pm • 6 0 • view
god damn it
sep 1, 2025, 12:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Perfect response
sep 1, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
It's so funny after having Gordon Ramsay on TV in the US for 20 years now.
sep 1, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
*bangs gavel* hosecoded
sep 1, 2025, 12:52 pm • 61 0 • view
our parents just let us run around and watch king ralph without any supervision
sep 1, 2025, 1:03 pm • 18 0 • view
Jellied eels would be great if they took the fucking bones out.
sep 1, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m imagining a lutefisk type texture? shudder…
sep 1, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view