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tocfanke4
My breakfast is two cups of strong black coffee and an Adderall
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Don’t most kids just eat a bowl of cereal?
Coyotebd
British people wish they had a cooked breakfast as awesome as the Full English.
Honneameow
You guys are eating breakfast?!
VibratingNipples
So she is admitting Europeans are weak, that a weird thing to flex about
OhIfIMust
ReallyOG
NightOwlRally
What robber baron is out there eating cooked breakfast?
klarseth
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. I eat all night and eat all day.
Spoonland
I cut down trees. I eat my lunch.
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
And have buttered scones for tea.
darthinebriated
I cut down trees, I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women's clothing
And hang around in bars
apLundell
Don't worry, if you look more closely at the filmographic evidence, you find that although Mom prepares a large multi-course breakfast, the family just hurriedly grabs a piece of unbuttered toast on their way out the door.
Neurisko
"Sorry, can't stay, I'm already late!"
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Why do Japanese girls always run to school late with a slice of toast in their mouths?
mothmam
I’m American and I usually have yogurt. Big cooked breakfasts are for weekend brunches after a couple Bloody Marys, so a special occasion
TheCrazyMick
I fry up some corned beef, and then when it's crispy, pour egg mix on it and mix it all up. I call it dirty hash and it's delicious.
Neurisko
Throw that on a tortilla and you've got a walking breakfast!
stonebrood
cause I'm hungry in the morning and it tastes good? are people genuinely this stupid
rossimus
People love to judge; people are rarely curious.
mjperk
Has the OP ever seen a full English breakfast?! I mean come on, seriously. I get that they aren't eating that every day. As an American, I hardly ever eat breakfast (bad habit, I know). But when I do, it's almost always cold and uncooked stuff.
Detacheddavid
I wonder how many people eat a proper English breakfast bacon, pork sausages, eggs, mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread, black pudding, ...
stevestevensonthesteve
I don't usually eat breakfast but I will cook breakfast foods for other meals cause that shit is tight
brightlightbarking
TIL a plate of pepperoni pizza rolls is not only "a cooked breakfast", but also more than what most Imgurians eat for breakfast.
famtifa
She thinks we can afford breakfast? Check your privilege asshole
TheAccursedHamster
Christ people will gatekeep fuckin anything.
HamAdvocate
I drink a pot of coffee and stare menacingly at the first 20 people I encounter for breakfast each day.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
A) That sounds like a rule in your game, not mine, and
B) 2 generations of my family have *never* seen a movie-style cooked breakfast in person.
Xenarion
Never? Damn. We did it once in a while when we were kids.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Same, my gran liked to put on the dog when we visited, at breakfast and dinner every horizontal surface had to have a dish on it. My generation, my nieces and nephews and their kids have never had that kind of free time.
Misteree8
Actual answer, Most Americans used to work in some physical labor-intensive industries, so the heavybreakfasts madesense. Post-war, the American farms colluded to market the traditional eggs, bacon, and potatos with milk and orange juice as a needed balanced breakfast to increase sales. It worked.
happyrabbitzz
When I was a kid my maternal grandparents had a farm that required them getting up before dawn to tend (cows and horses mostly). My grandmother made huge breakfasts for when the menfolk came back in from predawn activities. I was a prized grandchild because I could snarf down so much food. Also because I wasn't smart enough to be afraid of the livestock (moo).
REOJackwagon
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ProbablyABitDrunk
I'd say "heavy manual workers" is an accurate description of a relatively large portion of employed americans though?
PersonalityFire
hhhURRRRR ME AMERICAN ME BRAKE ROCKS INTO SAND 4 EUROPEAN COMPUTAH JOB OFFICE WORKAS
MacTually
This is not how Americans are portrayed in media or on social media.
Not even to Americans.
Pulsifer
shh, no fat shaming
nclu
I'm seeing 6-13% fitting the definition
ProbablyABitDrunk
I would bet we're thinking different things. Rather than just "lift heavy stuff" like construction/movers/warehouse I'd also include any consistently fast paced on-your-feet job such as kitchen, groundskeeping, some factory (I've done furniture assembly for example), and even some retail (15,000 pounds a day sort quotas + miles of walking to stock product is no joke). I've worked a lot of jobs that have all been very physical in different ways.
AgamemnonsMemes
So you make me very curious about the actual percentage split so i checked the IS Bureau of labor statistics.. I couldn't find easy percentages so i gave up but I can tell you that management, professional and related occupations make up the VAST majority of US jobs https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Yea, the vast majority of jobs are bullshit.
David Graeber, PhD anthropologist, wrote a book aptly titled "Bullshit Jobs" about this very topic.
maas2908
ya cops and farmers are super frequent consumers of huge american breakfasts
TheDoctorCrankenstein
What do cops have to do with heavy manual labor jobs? Pigs are the laziest fucks
BigV
My thoughts as well... Not only that, but a cooked breakfast is generally (not always) a healthier breakfast.
varonicaED
A big cooked breakfast is actually a modern innovation, it started during the industrial revolution with people like mill workers who were required to work from morning to evening and had no breaks for lunch. A large breakfast was essential for them to work throughout the day. The ages before that, porridge, gruel, bread and cheese, maybe leftovers from the day before, breakfast was a minor meal, it's only recently we started pretending it was the most important meal.
AllBent
Thank you Kellogs.
luckybreak91
I mean, penicillin is actually a modern innovation as well, it's still very important for general health and wellness. What's in question is if having a cooked breakfast on a regular basis is better for you on average then the alternatives, it's newness isn't super relevant.
varonicaED
It isn't: "Nutrient quality counts: Heated foods like eggs, baked beans, or sautéed tomatoes offer good protein and nutrients, but cold options like porridge with berries, yogurt, or overnight oats are just as healthy."
RecurringNightmare
whut? people dont eat steamed cale for breakfast, they eat bacon and eggs or pancakes with syrup and stuff like that, no way all that fat and/or sugar is healthier than some muesli with milk...
sharK11
streamed kale is cooked breakfast
bambulina
My cooked breakfast is an egg sandwich on an English muffin. No one's making piles of pancakes on a random weekday.
EntropyReign
Eggs and some kinda meat with toast is probably better than cereal in some respects, the sodium content in breakfast meats probably drops that a bit in the balance though
BishlamekGurpgork
Add some fruit or nuts or both to get it more nutritionally complete, but muesli is pretty good nutritionally speaking.
Eggs and bacon, the fat is higher, the carbs are lower, it's missing fiber, but it's still a really good foundation nutritionally. The zinc is more bioavailable, the protein is higher (protein isn't retained long, so it's good to make sure you have it on a daily basis).
Pancakes, maybe on a weekend or as a treat. Nobody's having pancakes and syrup on the daily.
BigV
You should look up the nutrients in those meals and compare them. Depends on how much milk you're drinking, I guess, but eggs are basically a multivitamin. And you might not find the phospholipids or choline on the nutrient list either. Bacon too - taurine and carnosine are vitally important to our health.
Assuming someone isn't eating cured meat every single day or multiple times a day, it should be fine.
Picoshi
Man that's some American copium right there, have you heard of saturated fats? How about sodium? How about that's not a fucking healthy meal to eat more then maybe once a week.
Blud4BludGod
Milk is... also good for you??? It's a nutritionally unbalanced food, sure, in the sense that making it a significant part of your daily calorie intake would be bad. But everything in it is useful. It's not like a soda or something where it is *just* bad, completely vacuous of any nutritional benefit.
People in this comment thread are debating the worthiness of two solid breakfast choices, meanwhile the "American Breakfast" that is actually horrible is a Monster and a couple donuts or something
BigV
Haha, that's true, that IS the real American breakfast :D
Milk is definitely good for you, I just meant the amount that's consumed in oatmeal isn't usually a lot... of course I don't eat a ton of oatmeal so what the hell do I know
TriggerWarning
What do Brits eat? It's not Bacon, eggs, sausage, beans, and toast every day? I know Americans eat either "pancakes" or "cereal".
JCentauri
Also, eggs several different ways.
johnxbear
I've been a big fan of a little oil in the pan and cooking them over easy. Then mixing with hash browns and bacon.
TriggerWarning
Never tried morning hashbrowns, fried potato is a dinner time fast food to me :p Do you make them fresh or do they come in a box?
johnxbear
Depends how lazy I'm feeling. I usually get a bag of pre-shredded because it's easier to just dump them in the pan. But fresh potatoes taste....fresher.
TriggerWarning
You're making sense, I asked because you can't usually get them premade where I live, and I wondered how it was over there.
Lemic24
They prefer spam with spam spam spam and spam.
With some spam, as a treat
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Xenarion
huh?
Muffinburgler
This doesn't even make sense, faggots are either cigarettes or sticks. Did you confuse your funny haha words with spotted dick?
Korrd
Nasty-ass meatballs, evidently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
SidonisAntares
I feel like an American breakfast ain’t got nothing on the Full English for volume
acountrymember
“You, dad! I learned it from watching you” — USA
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
It's also tastier. I love eggs and hashbrowns and pancakes/waffles, but it's so carb-heavy and kind of monotonous. The full English has a lot more variety and doesn't make you wanna take a nap first thing in the morning.
SidonisAntares
Carbs don’t make me sleepy, but excess protein does 🤷🏻♂️
Badgerbadgerson3
Yes, but it beats it in EDIBLE volume. 3 separate things in an English breakfast are inedible
DesperateDunn365
Which parts?
Badgerbadgerson3
Black pudding, beans on toast, and the....things. M******ms
SidonisAntares
Sounds like personal tastes, not being inedible
Keitterman
When I was in London, the "full English breakfast" always had some sort of sausage that looked good, but turned out to be mostly potato (I think?) which I love potatoes, I don't love soggy sausages.
Korrd
Why the censoring on M******ms? Are they... offensive somehow? Just disgusting? I mean, I'd agree, but I've never seen anyone censor the word before.
Badgerbadgerson3
They're the worst thing ever to exist on the planet.
happyrabbitzz
You eat what you want, I'll eat what I want.
Avilan1972
Heinz should go to a doctor.
happyrabbitzz
lozeldatkm
No, no, Spotted Dick is a pudding. So, you know... it's too late for the doctor.
acountrymember
You act like you’ve made a telling point, and it might seem so to anyone who doesn’t know what pudding means in England
Spoiler: it’s congealed blood, and/or suet and chopped organ meat. WTF?!
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The only worse thing is when I learned there is “fish sauce”. I figured it was sauce *for* fish, or maybe just a goofy name, like buffalo wings
Not no, it’s Asian, so not only is a sauce made from fish — it’s fermented
For the love of god, *they’re fermenting the fish*, people. *on purpose*
lozeldatkm
I was quoting a bit from a local band I know... unfortunately though I could show you a live video of them performing the song in which they usually make the joke in question, the video cuts off too early so you still wouldn't get the joke... maybe I shouldn't comment jokes online so obscure only a handful of people I know IRL would even get it. But fuck it.
lozeldatkm
Here's the video of the song sans the joke that made me think of it in the first place. Still worth watching it's great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtFmjrh-c5Q&list=RDrtFmjrh-c5Q
AzgarOgly
what is "cooked breakfast"?
DangerBaer
It's a breakfast that is not yet washed.
Xenarion
I'm guessing things like eggs or pancakes that are cooked, rather than cereals?
Avilan1972
Breakfast that some Americans and a lot of British people eat. Seriously, I am confused about the tweet because stereotypically Americans eat cereal and coffee or just get a 9 dollar coffee at Starbucks with nothing else for breakfast, while British people eat spotted dick, warm canned beans and eggs for breakfast...
Junkman9096
Look up "Full English Breakfast". Cooked and a great way to start a day traipsing around London. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Full+breakfast&ia=images&iax=images&atb=v515-1
anjeleyezjr
A normal breakfast. Eggs, bacon, you know the stuff.
toogoodtomiss
Your guys get breakfast?
johnxbear
A breakfast that has been cooked according my sources.
Perkunas687
Like a breakfast that's gotten in trouble with the law?
AzgarOgly
do your sources consider putting piece of cheese over a slice of bread cooking?
johnxbear
What part of that do you think is cooked?
AzgarOgly
Depends on a definition of cooking. As I googled, in English it strongly suggests heating the food. In my native language it is any preparation of food, for heat treatment of food there are separate words for frying, stewing, boiling, etc. Chopping up and mixing salad is cooking, making a sandwich is cooking.
NotedNuance
It might depend on what state the bread was in before they started
Xenarion
I guess if the bread was toasted, it technically counts.
TopBananna999
Oatmeal, but the OP is probably referring to the breakfast spreads seen in movies
Cranbananarama
DukeDarkwood
That's breakfast, lunch, AND dinner, right there.
Korrd
Yep. It's a special occasion breakfast that you have to mentally prepare for three days in advance.
NotedNuance
They are most likely thinking of the breakfast spread you see in movies... eggs bacon pancakes kinda deal. As opposed to like fruit or yogurt or whatever. But ya know its movie nonsense, hence the Mary Poppins reply.
ConspiratorM
Don't forget the glass pitchers of milk and juice sitting on the table. And then the kids barely eat anything and head out the door.
GilliamTheButcher
I always wondered why that was so popular in movies and TV. Juice in the morning? No thanks, I'll feel sick for several hours after.
NotedNuance
Ah yes... nothing I love more than to get through a pitcher of milk with my bacon and eggs. Anything else would be unpatriotic.
Cookiesnm1lk
geez, who has the money for that in this economy?
Volpe42
But the brits eat baked beans
lozeldatkm
cold, no less. I love a good full Irish/English brekkie, even black pudding, but I don't care much for cold beans.
Volpe42
I have a family recipe for baked beans and when there's left overs I will use them as a cold dip for tortilla chips
Imapseudonym
Canned baked beans on toast
NotedNuance
Im not sure how this is a counter point, but they sure do bud
Volpe42
That's cooked food, it's something that gets cooked for hours to make.
NotedNuance
While technically correct, the person eating them generally doesn't spend time cooking them in the morning before eating them. They open a can and throw em on toast. Also thats more a counter point to what the post is about rather than what I said and still would be kinda missing the point of the post's confusion about American breakfast habits.
B99Reactions
So you don't eat pancakes or eggs or bacon?
NotedNuance
I mean most days I dont eat breakfast... but I do occasionally have those things... eggs and bacon more often than pancakes. Big cooked breakfasts like that are things we eat... and maybe someone does it every day... but for most its occasional rather than frequent.
Korrd
All of the above every day? No. Most people do not.
axiomatik
Sometimes. That is generally more like a weekend breakfast. I’ve never known anyone to eat like that on a week day like it Is often portrayed in movies or ads.
mrthewhitee
Ain't no one got time for that during the week.
I agree full bacon and eggs style breakfast is usually a weekend thing or sometimes I have it for dinner.
johnhatten2
Am canadian. Bacon and pancake is more occasionnal, but eggs are definitelly an everyday meal
IDontReadEverything
A breakfast that has been cooked.
dwilson0725
Who the fuck out here eating sushi for breakfast.
FreeSpacePlace
Me
Murrdogg
HypnagogicHallucinations
But what if it's raw? Does that still count?
CongratsYouAreHereNow
As opposed to a cigarette and a sigh
ElbowDeepInSaintCelestine
Or beans on bread like its feckin WW1 still.
Swordguy
This is about Brits and Yanks. Not the French.
MajMalfunction2
Technically, the tobacco gets cooked.
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Kulsius
Smoked ham on top of slice of bread and some butter. Aka, a ham sandwich. If assembling that is "cooking" for you, then im really sorry to hear that.
ThighsocksandKnots
Cereal, yogurt, smoothies, cookies, fruit… the list goes on
MajMalfunction2
Fruit
Milk
Overnight oats
Turkleturts
Cereal? I'd even argue that something like toast isn't really cooked. Or anything microwaved.
Starlatan
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Avilan1972
You are being obstinate on purpose.
ThighsocksandKnots
Are you autistic or just pedantic?
axiomatik
In the context of the original question, they are asking about a meal where someone in the household cooks the meal. Examples would be eggs and bacon, pancakes, waffles, the kinds of breakfast you often see portrayed in movies or advertisements. This is not rocket science.
TheAnswerIsViolence
Anyone else not get hungry for a few hours after you wake up? I never eat breakfast except for maybe a "gravy and biscuit" every couple of months. Somehow it's the only thing that isn't unappealing in the AM.
LateNightBunnyParty
I've always been the same way. I can't eat til i've been up for a couple of hours, at least. I do indulge myself with a daily can of Dr. Pepper every day at 9:00 a.m. though.
fudgycurmudgeon
Coffee and nicotine gets me to lunch.
darkninja2992
I put breakfast mix in my coffee
mthrndr01
I did, then I started on insulin and nope! Eat as soon as you're awake or shit goes bad fast.
TheAnswerIsViolence
I'd have to only do juice or something. My body physically rejects food some mornings.
mthrndr01
Probably need at least a protein drink or something, juice doesn't sustain super long, though it'll spike blood sugar effectively.
jridley
I try not to eat for 6 hours before bed, so I'm usually hungry in the morning.
StankStankitus
Same here. I'd rather skip dinner than eat late, so by the time morning rolls around: I'm hungry!
Green11ndys
I usually eat fruit and drink some coffee
PolyTheWicked
Yeah, I have to eat very light for the first few hours. I’d go without eating, but then I get lightheaded. Usually, I have a yogurt soon after getting up and then eat a small meal 2 hours later.
ArcherPointingFromTheComments
Check your cortisol levels
viva93
most people regardless of culture skip breakfast now. it used to be reversed in some cultures. still is but even modernly has become a kind of "day off" thing. America is by far not alone in this. Personally? last thing I want in the morning is to eat. it's honestly make me feel sick at worst or tired at best. Because biologically we work that way usually and it takes awhile for our systems to 'wake up' and adequately use reserved energy.
viva93
but even then it isn't uncommon for me to get looks when I wake up early for things and turn down breakfast and explain I'll wait for lunch or even dinner. you either seem to go all in on eating when you wake up or don't. even though skipping breakfast worldwide is exceptionally common. I often just feel sick if I eat within 4-5 hours waking up. I can't do it.
Rayfire3535
Yo!
Neurisko
Coffee takes the place of breakfast for me a lot of times. It kills my appetite. Without coffee I'd probably eat.
xeffi
I feel like im gonna puke if i eat solid food unless ive been awake for 3 or 4 hours. Im right there with you.
Zedrapazia
The reason for that is apparently that the peristaltic movement of some people's gut, which slows down when asleep, doesn't power up that quickly when they wake up.
That means if you eat something right after waking up, your body is quite literally not ready to digest it yet, so you feel sick.
I have the same thing, I just have milk and take something with me that I can eat later on before lunch.
DesperateDunn365
Similar for me. Eating within the first hour hour of waking up does the same to me.
LuvinTheBebehKitties
You too! I can drink a juice-like protein breakfast drink and some days, even that makes me nauseated. Solids? I throw up. Even as a child.
Arbitrarynamehere
10:00AM is my cutoff. Not sure why!
LittleAzie
It usually takes me a few hours to get hungry, so my breakfast is normally a smoke and a monster. When I get to work a few hours later, its usually a snackpack of 6 or 8 sammich crackers until lunch.
garbuhj
Consider making some healthier choices. It may feel fine now, but as the years roll on you'll have accumulated a lot of damage that'll make you feel worse
LittleAzie
Please, tell me more how I have already fucked up my life because of the choices my parents made, shitty doctors/medical system, and how I am already facing my mortality and a dramatically early death. I completely enjoy it.
garbuhj
I didn't say anything like that. I wish you well
ladyfirewitch9000
Almost the opposite. If I don't get adequate food into my stomach in under an hour of being awake, I get terrible headaches or even nausea. Weekends this means immediately making eggs/meat/toast, work days it means grab and go bar while getting ready followed by fruit/yogurt or a breakfast sandwich shortly after getting to my store.
stephseviltwinII
Me too, I also get the shakes, and pass out within 2 hours of waking if I don't eat.
TheAnswerIsViolence
You'd love those "sitcom breakfasts" where they have like a full continental breakfast but just grab a piece of toast and run out the door.
ladyfirewitch9000
TBF, I read the shit out of every piece of media I see doing that. Ungrateful little shits, wasting perfectly good pancakes and fresh OJ. Pouring milk into cereal just to eat two bites and still be late for the bus.
ladyfirewitch9000
My girlfriend is like you, tho. Can't stand the thought of food before noon, excepting the very occasional donut with the coffee
Armyguy8382
A bowl of oatmeal is not enough for a physical job. Neither is a couple of pop-tarts. And why did the English conquer 1/4th the world looking for spices and then decide to never use them? And wtf is with beans on toast for breakfast?
varonicaED
Yes it is, because before the industrial age where people were made to work continuously throughout the day to tend machines in the mill farm workers and other occupations had opportunities during the day for eating and snacking, the Victorian Industrial era changed all that and a big breakfast was essential for the workers so they could slave non-stop all day on the machines without a break. Breakfast is not the most important meal, that's a myth created by Victorian factory bosses.
Turkleturts
Spices were essentially a form of currency. They conquered the world for them because they were worth a shitload of money. You don't smoke your own stash, as it were. As for beans on toast, it's rather delicious.
johnxbear
Legit though when I was a mover I ate Wheaties a lot. They helped me feel full longer because we didn't really get standard breaks because everyone just wanted to get the job done not stay in the heat.
poscduke
At one point spices were a sign of great wealth, eventually they because cheaper and accessible and lost appeal
ArkoneAxon
The answer to both questions is: "Rationing during and after WW2." If all you have is a can of beans and a loaf of presliced bread, you're going to make beans on toast.
On a happier note, there's some REALLY good British food from prior to WW2, and in more recent decades British cuisine has had a resurgence, not to mention the influence of foreign cuisines. https://theconversation.com/british-food-was-complex-multicultural-and-flavourful-in-the-18th-century-despite-what-you-might-think-291809
rossimus
The spices were for the aristocracy, not the general populace
DesperateDunn365
I'm not a Brit (Irish, so similar breakfast habits). I agree with the rest of it, but beans on toast is great, especially with some melted cheese and either Worcestershire or tabasco sauce.
nickswoop
The beauty of their women and the deliciousness of their food made Brits the finest sailors in the world
Sevulturus
I remember seeing a video somewhere that basically said. Spiced food was very popular with the English upper class until immigrants started showing up and cooking with them. So spiced food became associated with being poor, and we can't have that...
mutedia
oatmeal and some protein is definitely enough
shitheadtookmyname
Breakfast isn't even all that necessary. "The most important meal of the day" was a marketing slogan by Kelloggs 100 years ago to promote their cereal. just like "pork the other white meat" (it's red meat just like beef) was a slogan by the national pork board to make it seem healthy.
OhIfIMust
"The English my friend, they do not have the cooking, they have only the food." - Poirot
astrangehop
Poirot is dummy thicc not because he's a Belgian, but because he's just drinking raspberry cordial all day long. Like imagine your drink of choice being liquid jam, or cough syrup
Gruesslibaer
slowshootinpete
Beans on toast are pretty legit, to be fair
viva93
cereals, fruits, and drinks is largely what is eaten around the world for breakfast
not exclusively just commonly. Plenty cultures do eat "cooked" breakfasts but breakfast is also commonly literally and often skipped in every culture. People outside the US think Americans eat breakfast like they see in American movies where mom makes a full course breakfast of eggs fruit bacon toast juice sausage oatmeal cereal jams coffee tea but the star only grabs an apple cause they gotta get to school.
Cyrakhis
Steelworker here, depends entirely on the person. I'm 6'0 and 200lbs and my breakfast is usually just a piece of fruit and a granola bar. Few othera on my crew are the same. Then there's the ones that come in every morning with their mcmuffin.. lol
nickswoop
Pittsburgh? Cleveland?
Cyrakhis
Canada.
nickswoop
Good for you, I'm jealous
Cyrakhis
It's been a lot of turmoil the last couple years. My job is safe but I've seen 15+ co-workers laid off. But I am very thankful to live north of the border.
10MinutesSoberAndCounting
Curry is one of, arguably the, most popular dishes in England.
Blethigg
Simple, they didn't.
When the Yanks belatedly joined WW2, they arrived in the UK to find a country which had been under siege for years, with food strictly rationed. They went home later with the weird assumption that the diet was matter of choice. US media dominates the world, so also do their assumptions and prejudices.
Volpe42
They needed the spices to cover the taste of spoiled food. They didn't have refrigeration back then.
ArkoneAxon
Untrue. Spices were EXPENSIVE. If you could afford spices, you could afford fresh meat.
Volpe42
Not wrong at all. Meat wasn't the only food people ate.
Dagordae
No, meat was the expensive food. But still nowhere near expensive enough for it to be worth more than the spices needed to cover up it going bad.
And if the expensive food was worth less than the spices supposedly used to salvage it then why would you think the cheap food would be a better option.
You are simply repeating an urban legend, it has no historical backing. We know what they did with spoiled foods, there’s a lot of recipes dedicated to reprocessing material that’s started to turn
Dagordae
Into an edible form. And what they did with the stuff that was simply beyond salvage(Animal feed, the desperately poor, fertilizer).
ArkoneAxon
Do you think they were eating spoiled veggies or bread? If they had food, they ATE it. If the food was old, they turned it into new foods (like bread pudding, for instance). The claim of spoiled food comes from the same place as myths about medieval combat: the Victorians making shit up.
"You see, pre-Renaissance folks were so stupid that they ate spoiled meat covered in spices and swung swords that weighed twenty pounds or more! My source is that I made it up!"
ChloeRed
There was spice forgery it was so desired.
Dagordae
And like pineapples it was regularly used as a literal display of wealth. Just giant piles of spices as decoration. Don’t know if you could rent spices for such a purpose like you could with fruit.
TheRealSauceBoss
Even to this day brits have no idea why they still eat the beans on toast. It was a struggle meal because of WWII that they never gave up. NOW, I'm not gonna lie, when my family would barbecue on sundays there would always be some garlic toast and bushes brown sugar baked beans. And that shit was the bomb!!!!
eventide215
The most ironic part is that struggle meal came from the American Heinz beans being shipped there.. so their big staple food is because of America. But yeah if you ask most Brits why they eat it they won't really know. They won't even really be able to claim it's good. Most will even tell you they're just used to it.
shitheadtookmyname
Bro do you know where the "Mexican" food that's popular in America came from? Mexican Americans during the great depression using welfare food. You ever wondered where the phrase "government cheese" came from? Literal blocks of yellow cheese given to struggling people. That yellow cheese then is why "Mexican" food in the us uses yellow cheese. Real Mexican is quite different from flour tortillas, cheese enchiladas, crispy tacos with beef and cheddar cheese, nachos, etc.
TheRealSauceBoss
We have a few taco trucks in my city that are owned by the same family. As far away from taco bell type tacos as possible. No shredded cheese or anything like that. And talk about getting your moneys worth. We eat like kings when we visit. Years back when some dipshit magat politician said, "so you want a taco truck on every corner?" FUCK YES WE DO.
OhIfIMust
shitheadtookmyname
The "Mexican" food so beloved in the usa is struggle food too. So is American BBQ by the way: poor people slow cooling and smoking very tough cuts of meat until they're tender and delicious.
battery1979
And red beans and rice. That was a wash day meal.
DesperateDunn365
Most of the best national dishes are peasant food and largely for the same reason you mention. Trying to make the cheaper meat taste better.
Awkwardsaw
You're right, except we're talking about beans on toast, not a delicious cuisine
Dagordae
Most famous foods are struggle foods.
Turns out a majority of humans throughout history lived in a state of borderline starvation and thus the most common and thus popular foods were the ones that the poors ate constantly.