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Brits: Salt is a spice (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Embrace; Expand; Extinguish

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Myself: douse the fries with chilli sauce. 🌶😋

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (15 children)

i was told by a brit that american biscuits were "salty scones"

and i have never wanted to complain more in my life. Especially given the american propensity to make shit sweet as fuck.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The fish recipes I have seen use Turmeric

[–] yeah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

We use a lot of herbs, garlic and mustard traditionally.

[+] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not even that they don't use spices they just haven't even tried to evolve their cuisine. They still eat the same bland boring shit from 100 years ago. Meanwhile the rest of Europe thriving. It's like they opened the books once 50 years ago to let chicken Tikka in and then immediately closed the books again. They can always point to that one dish and be like see.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Which parts of Europe is that?

Is it Germany where you can only buy shnitzel, sausage and cabbage in various different forms?

Or Italy, where they're so proud of their food it's basically illegal to serve anything that isn't Italian?

Or France where spice and chilli is outlawed, only garlic and herbs allowed?

It's true that a lot of traditional British food is bland, but there are way more Chinese, Indian, Thai, mexican, Italian restaurants in any town in England than you'll find anywhere in Europe.

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a cope to me.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Hey, they also needed more people to play cricket with.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only British person who actually knows how to use spices is Gordon Ramsey, and he gets a pass on not using them cause he actually knows how to cook good food.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then he goes off and tells me to do something stupid like put cinnamon sticks in my chili, the Brits can't help themselves.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I've never watched Ramsey, and I'm not British, but a hint of cinnamon in ground meats is great. Cinnamon in savory foods is underrated in general, imo

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Cinnamon, good. Chili, good. I can see where he's coming from.

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He can’t handle spice. His 2 appearances on Hot Ones are their top-watched episodes. They’re also the best. He’s so funny. He had so much fun during his first appearance, he came back for their Holiday episode. It was awesome.

I highly recommend the watch.

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Desensitization based on routine is all there is to "handling spice". It is neither an achievement nor an ability. Anyone can get used to it by starting from small amounts and slowly increasing the spice level. Also, there are many spices, chili is only one of them.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It was a joke, mark. A Christmas joke.

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