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Spotted today in Iceland.
Is this an insult to cuisine or a hidden gem of fusion food?
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Edit: For non-UK folks, Iceland is a supermarket in the UK which specialises in frozen food. I didn't spot this in the country of Iceland!
Spotted today in Iceland
Have the Brits conquered that too? I must have missed the news...
I applaud the bravery and conviction of the British people to their beans.
Not until somebody punctures Britain and it starts sinking into the sea
I´ll see your baked beans with sausage pizza and raise you pretzel pizza with bavarian veal sausage and sweet mustard.
You consume the blandest baked beans on the planet. That was already too far.
Y'all conquered the world for spices, but that was clearly just for capital, since you don't use them for anything. I thought white people food in America was bland, y'all exist on an entirely different level.
(I went to London once and the beans were awful. This is the end of my grievances for today)
See, people think white people food is bland, but it's really just yankee food. The South got all the good food in the divorce, and even when we remarried, we kept the seasonings via prenup.
Aren't most foods associated with Southern cooking not originally "white people food" though?
I often wonder how British people manage to survive. How can man live on flavorless foods and bad pairings?
But then on the other hand the majority of Americans drink piss beer so...
How can man live on flavorless foods and bad pairings?
Maybe they're trying to create a bri'ish variant of russian diet: sausage and beans in place of cigars and vodka
Yawn.
We don't live on flavourless (with a u, as is right and proper) food and bad pairings. We have almost all the cuisines of the world at our disposal. I've eaten carbonara, butter chicken, sundubu ramen, and black bean quesadillas this week alone, as well as a traditional roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings.
But even if you do just stick with Bri'ish classics, you could have a full English, a steamed steak and kidney pudding, kedgeree, a rich and warming Shepherd's pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash with onion gravy and some fiery English mustard, a hearty bowl of cullen skink, and today, of all days, maybe throw in haggis, neeps, and tatties with a whisky sauce. None of these are lacking in flavour unless you're a shit cook.
Historically British food wasn't heavily spiced because we had plentiful access to quality ingredients so we didn't need to mask any potentially iffy flavours with a heavy layer of spice. And then we went around the world and conquered a quarter of its landmass and a quarter of its population and brought home a lot of the world's recipes.
What fucked us was two world wars and rationing that lasted for decades after when most British cooks suddenly lost access to fancy items like spices and had to make do with the absolute basics (and shitty versions of the absolute basics like powdered eggs). We didn't have all those quality ingredients we were used to, we just had fucking spam. And nothing to spice it up with. Not surprisingly, our cuisine took a bit of a hit for a while. But we got better. Promise. Come round my place and I'll cook you up a storm of flavour. With a u. As is right and proper.
Well we didn't stop at Marmite peanut butter
Marmite peanut butter
I didn't know this was a thing. It sounds so wrong. Like dipping your bare feet into a bowl of baked beans.
I've not tasted the peanut butter, but if the marmite hummus is anything to go by, it's less like dipping feet, more like tasting them (and I love both marmite and hummus, but they do not work together).
The marmite peanut butter sounds like it should be awful but actually isn’t. It’s also good for those moments of indecision when you just can’t decide which to have on your toast.
Britain invaded half the world to take their spices and then never use them in cooking
I think we found it. Something worse than pineapple on pizza.
Pineapple on pizza is delicious. The key is pairing the toppings correctly.
Pineapple on pizza is pretty good and this probably is, too
How do I upvote only the first half of a comment?
Are you trying to tell me that beans and cheese on toasted bread sounds gross?
Not recently.
Baked Beans on pizza has been a thing for over thirty years!
I'm about to have an existential crisis now that I know beans on pizza is older than I am!
Yes. Yes you have.
Sincerely, from Italy with ~~love~~ much hatred and anger.
The worst pizza I've ever paid money for was in Italy. In Ravello, not too far from Naples, so you'd have thought they might have a fucking clue.
I haven't tried it but beans on toast with loads of cheese is a banger, so I can imagine it works.
Try beans & tuna on toast. Oh. My. God. It will make you question your sexuality, your entire existence.
The cool tartness of the tuna resting on top of the warm, almost-tasteless beans. The contrast in temperatures. It's just mouth-ecstasy. It's a lot of calories though! Tuna (200) + beans (400) + toast (250) ~= 850cals!
Oh my
