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Bean on toast isn't even bad. It should be jellied eels or a toad-in-the-hole.
Brits made those up so the colonies would give them the spices willingly, out of sheer pity.
They did fuck all with the spices, but that's not the point.
Traditional British food actually uses a lot of spices, just not usually chilli. British food is full of coriander seed, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, aniseed, mace, rosemary, parsley, black pepper, mustard etc. They were originally used because people believed they would preserve meat and extend the shelf life. So recipes from before refrigeration use a lot of it, but also things like Christmas food and desserts use a lot (especially cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cloves). There's a blend of spices sold in British shops specifically for sweet things called mixed spice similar to pumpkin spice in the states.
But even if you take spice to mean only hot capsicim Peppers, the hottest curries (phall) are a British recipe. Tabasco is one of the few non British companies to receive The Royal Warrant of Appointment (permission to use the Royal cost of arms on their products) because the Royal Family love Tabasco so much.
Also Britts drink a lot of ginger. Both alcoholic and non alcoholic ginger beer and ginger wine.
The British national dish is curry.
Bigotry always goes hand-in-hand with ignorance.
I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again
apparently it isn't like an 'official' national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as "a true british national dish" in a speech
The Brits are like the OG Big Daddies of spreading bigotry across the world, its ok to give it back, they are severely in bigotry debt.
It’s like how if your people got genocided you get the genocide pass.
Spectacularly missing the point of why bigotry is bad in the first place.
Telling someone they’re in “bigotry debt” over something that someone they’ve never even met did 200 years ago, is as close to textbook racism as you can get.
No it isn't, bigot.
This take is spicier than 99.5% of English cooking.
What spice is in every single British savoury recipe?
Having got three wrong answers in a short space of time, the correct answer is pepper. Now guess where pepper grows...
Salt. In at least 50% of their savoury dishes
Close, but salt is not a spice.
Are you even British?
The correct answer was pepper.
Found the frogeater!
Probably pig blood or boiled yew tree bark but with a posh name.
Black Pepper is also in a few sweet dishes. It goes very nicely with strawberries and cream.
Bay leaves, maybe?
WTF toad in the hole is amazing! What do you even think it is?
It means something different in America.
The British one (sausage baked into Yorkshire pudding) is fantastic.
The American one (a piece of fried bread with an egg in the middle) is pretty sad.
I have never heard it referred to as toad in a hole, but fried bread with an egg in the middle is pretty good. Just pan fry with a bit of butter and salt appropriately
Or stargazey pie
Nooo. Noooooooo. Nooooooooooooooo. I DID NOT WANT to know this exists. (Vomiting noises...)
It's fish with breading. It can't possibly taste much different from something like fish and chips
oh yeah everyone hates fish in sauce in pastry. Every American in New England would never eat fish in sauce in pastry
Not if it’s staring at them.
You know toad in the hole doesn't have actual toads in?
It'd probably be nicer if it did, tbh. I don't know how you make a Yorkshire pudding worse, but they did it.
it's sausages in yorkshire pudding. do you hate sausages?
well ain't you a contrarian