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British food is famous world worldwide, but I was wondering what foreigners think about it? So I went to the streets to interview them and find out :). This is going to be an interesting, controversial and funny video!
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Jam 1st if you are from Cornwall, Cream 1st if you're from Devon.
Itโs interesting because a lot of the British foods mentioned here are things that are pre-made, takeaway food or things you can eat in a restaurant. Our street food culture isnโt as developed as other parts of the world as most people used to just eat home cooked food.
British home cooked food for me is soups and stews, grilled or baked fish with seasonal vegetables, our specific styles of sausage and pork products. All the different regional savoury pies. All the cakes and desserts. Fresh bread or crackers with cheese, chutney and salad vegetables.
Regionally for me the main street food used to be โpork and stuffingโ sandwiches – roast pork with herby oniony stuffing served in a large bread roll. Old school working class food for factory workers.
Like anywhere it has a lot to do with seasonality and using what is traditionally available at different times of year. I guess the kinds of herbs we use too, sage is uncommon in other cuisines. And our sausages always have mace in them. Nutmeg, cloves and ground ginger are common in both savoury and sweet foods.We use a lot of parsley, rosemary, thyme, mint and different alliums like chives, leeks, onion and garlic.
Beige and bland?! But gotta love that boisterous Italian ladyโค
Marmite and butter on crumpets is the best!
Jam first! It's heavier than the cream.
What do you think of Cornish pasties? What about savoury pies, like cheese & onion, meat and potato? Have you ever tried Lancashire hotpot?
0:25 real fish and chips, made from fish caught off the coast that day, is almost all gone now and it was to die for
It's all FAS (frozen at sea) fish now, doesn't have any flavour anymore.
Hastings, go to Martha's, caught and cooked that day in hours for you.
It rearranges what it means to be delicious in your brain.
And it represents our core cuisine:
Take the very best ingredients you can source, fish, beef, chicken, and cook it as simply and well as you can
A few of the best ingredients (fish, potato) and use the preparation to frame the food, transparently, it's purpose is to get out of the way of the ingredient
0:45 And you absolutely MUST make yourself Bacon Fish o'leekie, it's divine.
Fish, rice, bacon and leeks, all cooked to perfection in the microwave.
Yes, the microwave
It's easy to find online and you REALLY must.
The two modifications you need to make:
1) Use a bag of frozen fish medley, they're typically used to make admiral pie
2) Use a LIDDED GLASS CASSEROLE DISH!! Don't bother with a glass deep dish and cling film, it's a nightmare.
Serve with the casserole dish centre table for people to serve themselves and have a bottle of LIGHT soy sauce (in a pouring bottle, like kikoman, the regular bottles openings are too wide, you will drown your food in half a bottle in a second. Pour into a spoon and sprinkle that if you can't find kikoman soy)
And a bottle of Tabasco.
Try a low sodium stock too, the bacon is already adding salt, season to taste and don't be afraid to push further when seasoning
1:25 And I went to point out that our cuisine was a match to the continents BEFORE the two wars as well.
We destroyed ourselves for generations stopping those wars and knowledge was lost instead of being passed down to children
1:35 And go watch John Kirkwood
2:54 We're actually obsessed with herbs, spices and strong flavours, always have been.
4:37 nope, a common myth.
We've been enthusiastically incorporating chilli into our cuisine since the 17th century, will recipe books appearing from 1740
Everything presented here are American myths from ww2 when we were deeply in trouble and could immortal import very little
Chilli then fell out of favour after the war and without the knowledge being handed down to children, it disappeared along with too much of it cuisine.
3 generations of loss.
Only been getting it back over the last 40 years
6:08 oh dear god, no, our first is not all the same it's arguabl that we have the very best seafood in the world and almost all of it here sent to the best restaurants into Europe, the world even
You just don't see it because you don't live next to the sea.
Or, again, it all fell out of favour after the war.
It's so depressing
And yes, potato, potato, potato
But I can say rice, rice, rice
Which we also use in everything and have done for centuries
And our potato gets paired with sauces, which they probably don't know of many.
I'm not having a go at any if these people.
But I'm so god damn sick of the stereotypes that came from America and get repeated with zero thought and zero consideration.
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And what we have now is what we had before and a century longer than the US has had too.
We never ever promote ourselves. All we do is tell ourselves how awful we are at this and then WE repeat the American rubbish.
how can an Italian say the food is beige when 90% of theirs is pasta… and her from Nepal with the potatoes, when Nepalese food is rice, rice and rice….
very amusing video.
When it's beige, that's when you add English mustard or horse-radish relish or worcestershire sauce, to add spiciness. That's why those traditional condiments exist, to make the comfort foods more interesting, but only if you want. Children don't tend to like strong flavours as much, because their taste buds are more sensitive.
As a Belgian I agree with the French guy 100%. It's totally unfair the Brits have kept that reputation when they have improved so much and countries like the Netherlands have always been worse and don't even try to improve at all. The Brits love food, they don't always have a good taste for it but they try and they caught up.
The italian response is so stereotypical and so hypocritical as italian cusine hardly ever uses any spices. She can only name fish and chips and a sunday roast, how cliched. Most Italian cheese is bland and tasteless most of their food is some sort of tomato based sauce over some sort of pasta, like the type makes any difference, or pizza, which is usually pretty good to be fair. But no, italian food is old fashioned stuck in the past(a) and frankly rather dull.
Regarding the lack of salt, there are regulations in the UK to make sure the food isnโt high in salt
Regarding our bad reputation, I think it comes down to cost as well. UK is an expensive country, so people may look to lower-cost food, which isnโt the nicest. Also, tourist hot-spots can be mixed. Farm shops and gastro-pubs are usually really nice, but a bit of town