Fuck that. Every culture has great food if you're willing to get over your preconceptions.
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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.
They did fuck all with the spices
The British national dish is curry.
Bigotry always goes hand-in-hand with ignorance.
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.
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.
You know toad in the hole doesn't have actual toads in?
This is what Japanese people eat for breakfast, it’s basically their version of beans on toast called Natto:

It has the texture of chunky snot. Most of y'all ain't ready for nattou.
Some* Japanese people eat it. Even among them it's not universal enjoyed.
I personally love it. Add some soy sauce and mustard, stir until foamy, enjoy.
I get that some people won't get over the texture, but people like okra as well so…
British food is thoroughly underrated. Who could say no to even a small part of a full english breakfast?
I'd always say no to the black pudding >///<
the rest is quite OK
Fish and Chips are pretty nice (especially with a good sauce tatare)
I'm not a football fan myself, but that did just make me think of this image.
what even is the norwegian one? boiled cabbage and meat? it's like you guys have never heard of lutefisk
Ahh yes lutefisk, or how l like to call it slimy ghost fish goop :S
Icelandic people: “Enjoy the rotten shark lass!”
French: Enjoy rotten milk with rotten grape juice?
Comparing the Nordic rotten fish stuff with cheese and wine is certainly a choice.
Using consistent language.
If fermented fish is rotten then cheese is rotten milk, bread os rotten dough, wine is rotten grapes, beer is rotten wheat, Jamon is rotten pork...
Beans on toast is amazing. With cheese 🤌
I am a Brit though
I'm Irish, but I like beans on toast. I don't see what people find weird about it
Tldr tropical areas have more food sources than not tropical areas and coincidentally the cuisine from those areas is more vibrant.
As a Japanese person, I fucking LOVED beans on toast when I visited London. Don't listen to the stupid haters.
My British friend actually eats beans on toast unironically and I'm curious if anyone's tried this as well, he says he enjoys it but dislikes the decision making when it comes to actually eating it with bare hands or with a fork and knife
People don’t chat shit about quesadillas, pupusas or burritos, but when the British do beans + starch + tomato + cheese, everyone loses their FUCKING MINDS
I mean, it’s a hell of a lot better for you (especially the brands without added sugar) than something like a grilled cheese, to use a comparison of similarly low effort. It’s a quick and easy meal, not a whole culinary tradition. No one is whipping up a sushi platter in Japan when they get home exhausted from work.
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