It's not fair really because the food in America is a rip-off of other countries all over the world. British food is traditionally cooked until it has no texture, lucky if you get salt or pepper and questionable items in the sausage. Love, an American with a full seasoning rack.

Is this a post from the 1980s?

It obviously predates Katherin Whitehorn's 'Cooking in a bedsitter'.

*Katherine I know a Katherin, and dropping the 'e' has become a habit.

Oh … come on American food is appalling. It’s designed to make you all end up like Trump. For the prosecution Chic fil A.

Tbf, both of these things are stereotypes and I think we all know it! Both countries have ranges of high quality produce and cooking styles and ALSO have terrifying stuff that makes foreigners go "...this is food?" and back away slowly.

Ofc, stereotypes often have kernels of truth and a whole popcorn of falsehoods that get assumed to be the be-all & end-all in the face of all available evidence to the contrary.

True and I have experience with British foods (I don't count London Chinatown and the Indian food which saved me from starving the Spring of 1992). I will concede that I might not have had all the UK had to offer.

Why are you posting at 3 am your time?

Firstly, 1992 was a long time ago, and secondly, tourists go to tourist traps

I love that a six month period spent in the UK thirty-three years ago - the entire lifespan of two Labradors! - makes one an expert on how we all cook and eat in 2025. (I'm having quinoa salad for lunch if the local mini-Tesco actually has it next to the rice.)

I saw this about an hour ago and I'm still mulling timespans per labrador lifetimes. I have a dose of mild plague so my brain is wandering off on tangents about labrador crossbreed lifespans for precision dating.

You measure time in Labradors?

Please there is no reason to start cursing people. Every population is allowed a lapse in judgement. Do you like all of your leaders?

“Yeah honey, I know I slept with your sister and shot your father but everyone’s allowed a lapse in judgement”

Pedophiles and incest is not a good example of sameness to the analogy☹️ I presented.

Do you put canned soup in stuff and call it a casserole?

Absolutely not. That is an American White culture thing. My family is from the south. New Orleans, Delta of Mississippi and Memphis. I admit I am such a snob that I refuse to even try the BBQ in California. But Cali has the best sushi outside of Hawaii.

yeah, that isn't true though

What, you’re saying the Brits don’t boil the shit out of vegetables? And cut a weird little cross on a Brussels sprout? Then boil it for 20 minutes??

That’s easy to say from Yanks who put sugar in their bread and think burgers are healthy. Boiled vegetables are significantly healthier than the fried or roasted sort - just need to eat them al dente.

I'm not saying it never happened, or that everyone can cook, but these stereotypes are at best half a century out of date

You haven’t met my other half’s mum. Mind you she’s 76.

Also - there are lots of terrible cooks out there! That doesn't make it representative of a nation of 70 million people

You haven’t met my other half

And the "Brits can't handle flavour!" myth is what leads Americans to believe their mustard must be stronger than ours, and then this happens www.tiktok.com/@cooking_com...

That was really funny.

It's one of those odd ideas that confuses me. I've travelled there since 1970, lived there for 5 years, most American food is fine, but relatively bland apart from "Mexican" imports . In particular adding plastic cheese and/or mayo to every sandwich flattens taste & US mustard is sweet

Oh, I feel like you did not spend enough time in the southeastern parts of the USA. New Orleans. Or the BBQ capital of Kansas City.

I did spend quite a lot of time in the South East (not KC tbf). I enjoy BBQ, enjoyable, tasty but after a while....exciting? Very good but a bit samey. Not knocking it at all, nor most food I had.

Fair, last time I was in London was Spring 1992.

If that's the case, then this is like saying that all cars driven in Britain are Ford Cortinas.

You sound like you *want* to be attacked by Weresprouts.

Love the word play.

"Questionable items" is it? Allow me to introduce you to the delightful American concept of "Allowable filth."

And the whole 'not eating soft boiled eggs because American eggs are crawling with parasites' thing. That's nice too.

Agreed. Completely. Our food wholesomeness and oversight in some areas could benefit from more care.

?, interesting... This may be founded in some truth but over exaggerated a bit by the visual.

A rack? They must have doubles... here in the UK I have two cupboard shelves of spices. Anise to Sage, and I grow chilli, peppers, basil, tarragon, rosemary, sage, dill, bay, coriander and parsley.

kindly eat shit, burger champ. love, england.

Sometimes it did have that imagined sensation of doing as you requested.

do you even know what garam masala is?

My experience of American food is that it is mainly salt, sugar, fat and additives. Protein and vegetable extract optional!

We once had American guests over and they cooked us a meal. They were looking for the "spices". The one they were looking for was MSG! 😬

Marmite would do the same job…. but would probably blow their heads that you spread it on toast and devour raw

Nothing like some boiled kale or my preference spinach.

MSG? Hmmm, that is hard to find on the store shelves in my part of the USA but I think it is overly maligned. Asian cultures use it as a regular flavor enhancer and they have some of the longest longevity.