As a Brit I will take this shit from anyone except Americans. Your chese is either sheets of plastic or comes in a can, you have no room to criticise any countries food.
Some of the best cheese in the world is made in Wisconsin. There is plenty to criticize about American food but cheese seems like an odd target.
Yeah some of the best chefs in the world are British. Its a joke response to a meme, not a serious point.
Also no one outside of America really cares about wisconsin cheese.
You literally have burger cheese. It’s the same shit.
The vast majority of people do not regularly eat Kraft singles just like the majority of brits don’t eat burger cheese every day.
Wtf. There’s so much more to cheese than ‘burger cheese’, whatever the fuck that is.
American cheese is one specific cheese made in America. It’s essentially cheese made into a cheese sauce, then chilled back into a block. There’s a number of quality levels of it based on how much they skimp on the cheese. And when eaten melted, it’s actually pretty decent, if mild.
Most grocery stores in the US have two cheese sections. There’s the cheap shredded/sliced cheeses, and then there’s a separate section with the fancier cheeses, both foreign and domestic.
Cheese in the US is weird. We make both Velveeta and Humboldt fog. An American cheese won the World Cheese Awards a few years ago, but most of the cheese eaten in America is cheap, mild, mass produced, pre-sliced/shredded semisoft cheese. Most of it isn’t “american cheese”, though.
Just like our beer. Yeah, budweiser is watery crap. There’s also a new microbrew popping up every week.
Also, American cheese exists for one thing: melting over everything. It provides the creamyness. If you want flavor, mix in some aged chedder, which normally doesn’t melt very well.
I bought a 20 year aged chedder from a local cheese maker this past year. It was wonderful.
You picked a cheese named after a place in the UK, not the best choice for a UK Vs USA argument
These weak xenophobic memes/mentality are exactly why I left reddit, ffs
Yeah, my bad, shouldn’t have mentioned reddit.
Still, it’s, three or four brain cell required, low hanging fruit, that’s been regurgitated a thousand times in echo chambers very similar to this.
It’s just a little depressing that this shit still gets lapped up, but I guess that’s social media, and the world, over.
British “food”
may i present, for your enjoyment, the toast sandwich. it’s a piece of toast in between two slices of bread.
IIRC, the toast sandwich is a wartime poverty thing, in an attempt to make the “cheapest meal”.
Frankly, with our fucked things are here, it wouldn’t surprise me to see it make a return…
I thought this was just a meme until I went there earlier this year. The food ranges from bad to bland.
The only legitimately delicious British food I had was a parmo. They got one thing right. I’d eat that every day.
Not to ruin the circle jerk but for as much as you can go to Greggs and ignore the Fat Duck, you can also go to Taco Bell and ignore The French Laundry, or Délifrance and ignore Guy Savoy…
Where did you eat, my man?
Mostly in pubs, but I did try a few places. Carvery buffet, a few different full English breakfast places. Those are the things I’d chalk up to bland but not bad. Brits truly do use less seasoning from what I could tell. Even the takeaway I tried was pretty boring, and all you have to do is fry and salt that stuff.
I don’t think your comparison of fast food vs. fine dining is fair. In the US, and the few other countries I’ve been, “pub food” or family style restaurants are usually always good. They’re not high quality but still tasty. I’ve only been to 7 countries so I’m not super well traveled, but the UK is the only place I’ve been where I consistently didn’t enjoy the food. I can only remember one meal in Serbia I didn’t enjoy.
Idk man, maybe you just got unlucky. I just got back from London and all the meals I had were well seasoned - didn’t matter if it was a pub, a fast casual place, or a fine dining restaurant.
It’s a meat cutlet battered and deep fried, covered in bechemel sauce and cheese. Common in the Teesside area.
Thanks. I read on Wikipedia:
Parmo was created by Nicos Harris, a Greek American navy chef. He was wounded off the coast of France, and brought to the United Kingdom to be treated at what is now James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
It makes sense, greek food is very good :D
It largely depends on where you go, and where you eat. It’s kinda like saying that I hate American food because I only visited Seattle and ate at shitty shrimp places.
It also depends on what you refer to as “British food”. It’s essentially comfort food, so you won’t find many places trying to do the gourmet version of it without busting your wallet open. The great thing about food in the UK is that you can get food from basically all cultures everywhere (if you’re in a city).
This has probably been posted and upvoted by people who put salad on the same plate as a roast dinner.
Hmm. I’ve lived in two very different countries and always had salad on the side of… Everything.
It’s interesting to find that it’s not done there. In which situations do you eat salad?
this is tangential to the general thread of salad and weird food culture, so i’m just going to leave it as a reply to your comment.
I grew up in the south in the USA. I’m, therefore, southern. Ergo, I grew up with southern cuisine.
Fast forward to my mid thirties. I now live in France. I invited some of my non-southern and non-american friends over for a thanksgiving dinner one year. I served fruit salad, as one does, on the side of dinner. Apparently that’s weird. Nobody else eats fruit salad as a dinner side except southerners, apparently. Also, the non-americans were weirded out by eating cranberry sauce on the bird.
The famous ikea swedish meatballs come with lingonberry marmelade on the meat, so it’s not unheard of
“I will have the spaghetti and a side salad. If the salad comes on top I send it back.”
