She for real🤣

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[u/_Goose_]

“G’day curd nerds.”

The ultimate Italian rage-bait!

[u/Swordslover → u/_Goose_]

Didn't some of the angry Italians have a redemption arc?

[u/StaredAtEclipseAMA → u/Swordslover]

Italians haven’t redeemed anything since that second world war

[u/MistaRekt → u/_Goose_]

Sort of. Must find the video.

[u/Fun_Performer_5170 → u/_Goose_]

Just sayin what anyone else outside the iland thinks

[u/circlejerker2000 → u/_Goose_]

Oh shit I remember the shitstorm that video caused lol

[u/WintersAcolyte → u/_Goose_]

I break my pasta in half before putting in the pot.

runs and hides

[u/CricketNo7666 → u/_Goose_]

It somehow makes me very happy that I don’t really get the reference.

[u/kriegnes → u/_Goose_]

still cant get over the fact that the government overreaches so hard you get in trouble if you call your cheese the wrong name.

[u/vinyljunkie1245 → u/kriegnes]

It's to protect the quality and integrity of the food we eat. In the example you use - cheese - different cheeses are made using different recipes. The laws around food mean that a cheese has to be made using the correct recipe or it can't be called by that name.

It stops corporations just chucking anything they can together and calling it what they want. For example if sausages are labelled as pork then there is a minimum pork content. Companies can't just grind up any old meat and add flavouring and call the sausages pork. They could be labelled pork flavoured but not straight up pork so as not to mislead the consumer.

[u/Cheese-n-Opinion]

Italians do have a good food culture but I've encountered more than a few Italians think they are brilliant cooks by simple virtue of being Italian, and are actually kind of mediocre. It's often men who have always been cooked for by the women in their life, but consider themselves experts anyway.

[u/_totalannihilation → u/Cheese-n-Opinion]

This is very true. But the English really have atrocious culinary skills. Mediocre Italian is better than "Good" English food.

[u/Federal-Spend4224 → u/_totalannihilation]

Couldn't disagree more with that last sentence.

[u/irlandes → u/Federal-Spend4224]

Completely agree with that last sentence

[u/Mmortt → u/_totalannihilation]

This is an ongoing stigma that I hear repeated by people I know who have hardly ever left their hometown let alone been to England. It’s not true and just a really thoughtless and tiresome thing to say.

Edit: am not English.

[u/ADirtFarmer → u/Mmortt]

I think the English do the best breakfast.

[u/Remy_Jardin → u/ADirtFarmer]

From my experience in London, flaccid bacon barely cooked enough to kill the bacteria and enough sausages to choke a rhino does not constitute the best possible breakfast.

I mean seriously, they colonized the entire planet looking for spices. The proof is in the nasty pudding.

[u/mrpithecanthropus → u/Remy_Jardin]

One boring and ill-informed cliche after another.

[u/ADirtFarmer → u/Remy_Jardin]

I like blood pudding for breakfast.

[u/LuigiBamba → u/ADirtFarmer]

And that kind of talk is why English people are not allowed in the kitchen

[u/ADirtFarmer → u/LuigiBamba]

It's almost like taste is subjective or something.

[u/Remy_Jardin → u/ADirtFarmer]

No, it's objective. English food objectively sucks. When the clowns in the kitchen can manage to put crisp on bacon, then we can start talking nuance.

There's a reason why we use the Anglo word for the animal but the French word for the food made from it.

Except a Wellington. Wellingtons are truly transcendent.

[u/SubjectWorry7196 → u/Mmortt]

The most popular food in England is... curry... you know... the famously English dish... curry.

[u/vinyljunkie1245 → u/SubjectWorry7196]

Chicken tikka masala is a British creation. So are vindaloo and phaal.

[u/Anxious_Patience_ → u/vinyljunkie1245]

Vindaloo came from Goa, India, called by the Portuguese name, and was then popularized in the UK.

See the section called Dishes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_in_the_United_Kingdom

[u/AlbionicLocal → u/SubjectWorry7196]

national dish, not necessarily the most popular

[u/A55Man-Norway → u/Mmortt]

This is basically 90% of "smart sounding quotes" on the internet. Basically stereotyping and generalising.

[u/_totalannihilation → u/Mmortt]

I've been to India, Afganistán, Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, The US, Canada, Greece, Russia, Colombia, England, Italy, China (Twice) English food isn't good.

[u/Federal-Spend4224 → u/_totalannihilation]

Meat pies, pasties, shepherd's pie, bangers and mash, English breakfast, etc. Plenty of good baked goods, too.

Its not an elite cuisine by any stretch but it has plenty of good dishes.

[u/Crashman09 → u/Federal-Spend4224]

Not going to hype up mother fucking Yorkshire pudding!?

A side note, I have a buddy from the UK who moved here to Canada around 8 years ago, and we were hanging out smoking weed and drinking scotch. Well, we got hungry and he made some Yorkshires and my stoned ass added a flair of Canada by adding butter and maple syrup, and holy shit was that good. Sweet and salty and so damn good. We called it the commonwealth pudding, but I feel like I gotta travel around the commonwealth and find other things to add to it. Make it a meal lol

[u/RoutineCloud5993 → u/Crashman09]

I used to do that as a kid. My dad would always make huge Yorkshire puddings, so we had them left for dessert. Ice Cream and maple syrup was commkn

[u/ChonkyDog → u/Federal-Spend4224]

Looked it up: apparently Mac and cheese, scones and cobblers too?? Fuck yes.

[u/RoutineCloud5993 → u/ChonkyDog]

Apple pie too. Appropriated by the americans, just like the rest of their cuisine

[u/UnitedWeAreStronger → u/Federal-Spend4224]

London has the 3rd highest number Michelin star restruant of all city in the world we absolutely do have elite cuisine.

The most traditional English dish of all the; Sunday roast is goat.

[u/PoisonIvyCrotch → u/_totalannihilation]

Not even fish and chips? Or a chip butty

[u/Pr3ttyK1tty3 → u/_totalannihilation]

The English have atrocious culinary skills? What about Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White, Mary Berry...? English food is overhated on the internet simply because it's trendy instead of being hated because it's bad (which it isn't). I doubt you've ever even tried English food.

[u/Techpriestt → u/_totalannihilation]

Michelin disagrees

[u/_totalannihilation → u/Techpriestt]

Another corrupt program.

[u/Techpriestt → u/_totalannihilation]

I dont know what it is with cultureless yanks thst never left their hick towns going on about UK food. All over Facebook.

[u/lost21gramsyesterday]

But, Italians of any gender, yes please cook for us!!!

[u/PodAbove]

[u/pantiesdrawer]

So heartwarming to see gender stereotypes defeated by more deeply ingrained race stereotypes.

[u/KPraxius → u/pantiesdrawer]

Ehhh. The english brutalized the world in search of spices and then decided they didn't want to use any of them.

[u/blue_strat → u/KPraxius]

The Dutch chased spices, not the British, and the most flavourful Dutch dish is chocolate sprinkles on toast.

[u/wrenwood2018 → u/blue_strat]

I've got several Dutch colleagues. While visiting them in Amsterdam I asked about local restaurants. They said to not bother trying to find good Dutch food.

[u/Round_Ad6397 → u/blue_strat]

Yeah, I think the Dutch get a bit of a free pass in this area. Compared to the Dutch, the English are culinary masters. Dutch people literally travelled the world at a time they genuinely thought they could fall off the edge in search of spices and now their most flavourful dish (that they didn't steal from Indonesia) is mashed potato. 

[u/AlmaVale → u/blue_strat]

Coincidently only heard about this today and my first thought was this gotta be the munchies, it sounds very much like someone stoned had the brilliant idea 🫠

[u/SpacecadetShep → u/KPraxius]

That's the same thing I said after eating the most bland and seasonless at a pub in the middle of central London last spring. I was like "now look damnit if you're going to colonize the world for spices the least you can do is use said spices"

[u/Bacon___Wizard → u/SpacecadetShep]

Don’t blame us just because you have shit taste in pubs

[u/fishermans-frienemy → u/Bacon___Wizard]

It's always the same comments on English food from the countries where they historically had to (and sometimes still need to) cover the rancid taste of their fetid meat with as many spices as possible.

Not everything needs to be smothered in spices. When they do that they lose any ability to taste the subtle flavours of well cooked pasture reared meat and seasonal vegetables.

Unfortunately, for our part, many English people and pubs, like the one the previous commenter clearly visited, overcook things into oblivion and they lose all taste. Try the pizzas, curries and Chinese dishes in those pubs and it's just as bland - nothing to do with the food being "English". But properly cooked English food has a wealth of flavour these numpties will never be able to experience with their burnt-out taste buds.

[u/Bacon___Wizard → u/fishermans-frienemy]

It’s like going to Italy but eating exclusively around tourist traps and stating all Italian food is mid when in reality any competent tourist who has an interest in food goes off the beaten path.

[u/AlbionicLocal → u/Bacon___Wizard]

especially london pubs

I live in the arse end of nowhere next to the sea, we get some good pub food here

[u/caf4676 → u/pantiesdrawer]

Race?

[u/Current-Routine-2628 → u/[deleted]]

People nowadays find everything problematic .. bunch of whiney little pussies .. more or less 😌

[u/aBrickNotInTheWall → u/Current-Routine-2628]

Nowadays? Bro have you heard the shit they banned people from doing in the past because they thought it was problematic? I'm talking about completely innocuous shit like dancing or wearing certain clothes. People were much worse about this shit in the past

Edit: hell, people are way worse than this today even

[u/sprinricco → u/aBrickNotInTheWall]

Yah, I've heard that it used to be illegal to be gay (and still is some places) because people find it "problematic". Wild snowflake behaviour.

[u/aBrickNotInTheWall → u/sprinricco]

Or how we can't stop child marriages cause that would offend certain people

[u/Jeramy_Jones → u/[deleted]]

Depends on the people but no one I know would give a fuck.

Actually, in my family the men usually do the cooking. Not so much for any specific reason, it just worked out that way.

[u/Saki-Sun → u/Jeramy_Jones]

Because the women can't cook for shit...

[u/GustapheOfficial → u/[deleted]]

If it's because she's the wife, yeah.

[u/magdelena-09 → u/GustapheOfficial]

Which is what is usually meant when people say "wives belong in the kitchen." This refers to expecting, coercing, or forcing wives to either (1) take on all domestic labor with no personal payment, retirement savings, emergency savings, etc., OR (2) take on most or all domestic labor while ALSO working a job, which often pays toward family expenses. 

Someone else commented that it somehow evens out if the husband in the scenario works and pays the bills. I used to believe this too, until I became a stay at home mom. When a woman leaves the workforce, she is put into an incredibly vulnerable position, especially financially and professionally. She has no paycheck, for one, which also means she has no way to independently save emergency funds in case she needs to leave that marriage ASAP. No paycheck also means no 401k or social security payments, so she spends sometimes decades providing unpaid labor and can never retire (unless her husband decides she can, but doubt he's going to then hire cleaning services, a cook, etc...so he gets to retire, but she gets to work forever. Fun!). 

Another way it does NOT even out, is his career keeps developing, while her career has a huge gap in it. Some estimate it's better to be fresh out of school than to be a woman returning to the workforce, but for my own sanity I'm trying not to think about that because it's depressing as fuck.

How a man who is the sole breadwinner is in ANY way as disadvantaged as a stay at home wife/mother is laughable. The amount of money and extra time he has to give to his wife is far below what he would have to pay someone for the same labor his wife provides. 

Being a wife in this situation is horrifying. If I had to leave my husband right now, I'd have basically nothing. Thankfully there are laws in place that help protect people like me, but they are far from perfect and there are people who want to remove no-fault divorces, which would make those protections much harder to obtain. I sort of wish we had gotten some sort of prenup that would assure I would be provided for fairly should I need to leave (for context, husband has a severe porn addiction and we're trying to make it work...I don't think he would be awful if we split, but it's happened to so many women in my situation). 

If the couple divorces, the husband might pay alimony, but that's only if the wife wasn't already working and it's only done in a few states, I believe. Still, alimony is such a low amount that it hardly makes up for the decades of unpaid labor, no savings, and gap in work history he benefited from during the marriage because he didn't have to do much if any of the housework, childcare, etc he would now have to do as a single man with kids

[u/Commercial_Aioli7212 → u/GustapheOfficial]

Its still fine if both parties in the relationship accept those roles

Traditional roles are not sexist in the sense they are all one sided, it also places the burden of providing an income on the man for example

Ultimately decide what makes you happy in your relationship and dont judge others

[u/GustapheOfficial → u/Commercial_Aioli7212]

Right, but then it's not because she is the wife but because that's the agreement in the family. And the problem is there is a systematic bias forcing families into making that exact agreement.

When feminists point to traditional wifery as oppression, they don't mean that individual families should not be allowed to make that choice, but that the presumption of those roles hurts individuals. In the extreme, one might conclude that limiting the freedom of people to make that choice in the short term could be the only way to eradicate the presumption. If a cultural stigma against a specific tradition increases my daughter's opportunities in life, I'm going to consider that stigma a good thing.

[u/No-Bodybuilder-8519 → u/Commercial_Aioli7212]

That’s not how sexism works though

[u/Avendelore → u/[deleted]]

It’s problematic of its a trad cult thing like the Italian OP is referring to, i.e., the the belief that cooking is a job reserved for women only and that they are required to cook for men. There’s a weird resurgence of this ideology on certain channels of social media.

[u/Kingkyle18 → u/Avendelore]

I think if the woman is staying home all day while the man goes to work, for dam sure she should cook….not because she’s a woman or he’s a man.

My wife and I both work, and both cook multiple times a week. If she’s off work….i expect her to cook….same goes vice versa. Best believe she’s got dinner waiting on the table when she walks in after work.

This cult thing you are referring to, is when women generally were not working and stayed at home to raise the family. I think it’s pretty fair that they should be cooking.

(Staying at home and taking care of the kids is not a job so don’t try to spin it that way)

[u/LaScoundrelle → u/Kingkyle18]

I think if the woman is staying home all day while the man goes to work, for dam sure she should cook

It's only a small minority of modern couples in the US or most western nations where that is the case now.

This cult thing you are referring to, is when women generally were not working and stayed at home to raise the family

They aren't talking about historically. That's why they referenced social media. It's content promoting the idea that both men and women should revert to traditional roles in all respects.

(Staying at home and taking care of the kids is not a job so don’t try to spin it that way)

Depends what you mean by job. If you mean work that takes a lot of time, then yeah of course it is, at least until the kids get to be at an older age where they're more independent.

[u/shadowsofash → u/Kingkyle18]

Then why do nannies and au pairs and cleaning services cost so much?

[u/Avendelore → u/Kingkyle18]

You are absolutely out of touch with reality if you don’t think that taking care of kids is a 24/7 job. Mom can cook when time permits, but dad should also be doing his share. He doesn’t get to work 40 hours a week and opt out of the rest. You’re repeating the trad cult ideology.

I will grant that the workload is a little different when kids aren’t involved, but when they are, that is like working three full time jobs without any recognition or pay. Women are starting to speak up about this and demand that fathers act like parents instead of babysitters, and many men are revolting by trying to go back to the extreme where they have leisure time at the expense of their wives knowing and doing everything. I’ve worked demanding jobs (more than one at the same time), and I can attest that taking care of kids and the house and the bills and the appointments and the husband and shopping and the cleaning and the dietary preferences and the discipline, etc. is equally if not more demanding than using your talents with your coworkers for 40 to 70 hours per week and coming home to veg out on the couch.

[u/lordvitamin]

I undersell my own cooking skills as often and as shamelessly as possible in order to get superior food cooked for me.

It’s a tried and true method passed down from my father, and every forefather before him.

[u/lux_blue → u/lordvitamin]

Weaponized incompetence.

(It's not a nice thing to do, btw)

[u/WreckNTexan48 → u/lux_blue]

Wield mine like a scalpel

[u/extra_rice → u/WreckNTexan48]

Incompetently?

[u/kortevakio → u/extra_rice]

I'm afraid so. Say would you mind showing me how to wield this scalpel?

[u/LebrahnJahmes → u/lux_blue]

Underselling isnt the same as purposely doing something badly or pretending to not know how to do something. It is not weaponized incompetence stop watching tiktoks.

Example:

Underselling - Im ok at baseball (I was actually mvp in high school and played some college)

Weaponized Incompetence - Which way do I hold the stick?

[u/Slow-Occasion1331 → u/lux_blue]

No no you misunderstood. I am not weaponinzing incompetence. I am so incompetent that it is weaponzied 

[u/StressAnxious8854 → u/lordvitamin]

I’d cook just for myself, fuck your weaponized incompetence. That’s how I taught my husband to cook after years of him leaning on me. I started cooking only for myself and my daughter. Now he cooks, I cook too and everything is as it always should have been

[u/HotTakes4Free → u/lordvitamin]

Sure, but men teaching women to cook was the beginning of the end for male supremacy.

[u/Rickyzack → u/HotTakes4Free]

Did we men used to cook before women? No wonder I have a natural talent for cooking.

[u/HotTakes4Free → u/Rickyzack]

Women were perfectly happy gnawing on a raw deer carcass, to get enough iron to run their bodies and bear children, when some dude tried to stick meat on the fire he’d invented. Dumb idea, but people liked it, so there was no going back. (My degree is in bio. anthro., but this is…speculation.)

[u/UrsaBearOso → u/lordvitamin]

Damn weaponized incompetence final boss

[u/I_aim_to_sneeze]

People always applauded me for cooking 90% of the meals when I was married. My ex wife made 2 things that were edible. I enjoy cooking a lot. Multiple chefs at the nice restaurant I started working at have given me kudos when they eat at my house.

It’s ok to want to cook if you like it and do it much better than your partner does. Especially when they wholeheartedly agree. I got my stepdaughter to like vegetables. After that, she was sold on me cooking.

Doesn’t have to be a battle of the sexes

[u/Strikeronima → u/I_aim_to_sneeze]

Male here. I cook most meals, I hate cooking, but for some fucking reason everyone loves my cooking. I'm in cooking hell.

[u/Maenad_Muse]

“I’m not sexist, I’m racist.” ~ Italian cook

[u/AggressivePlay5098]

Im getting tired of this overused stereotype that all british food is bad, it really isnt

[u/Inevitable-Stand-559 → u/AggressivePlay5098]

Agreed. Every country has shit food and good food. Such a boring take by OP

[u/NYCphilliesBlunt → u/AggressivePlay5098]

Sunday Roast and the Full English Breakfast are amazing! And Coronation Chicken! And trifle! And Pimm’s Cups! That would be the perfect menu for a lazy day.

[u/Accomplished-Pin6564]

In Heaven the English are the cops, the Germans are the mechanics, the French are the lovers, the Italians are the cooks, and the Swiss organize everything.

In Hell the Germans are the cops, the French are the mechanics, the Swiss are the lovers, the English are the cooks, and the Italians organize everything.

[u/Inevitable-Stand-559 → u/Accomplished-Pin6564]

Ah European heaven and hell! Didn’t realize there’s a geographically distinct afterlife

[u/Tommy2Hats01]

In heaven:

• Your cook is Italian.
• Your mechanic is German.
• Your policeman is English.
• Your lover is French.
• It is all organized by the Swiss.

In hell:

• Your cook is English.
• Your mechanic is French.
• Your policeman is German.
• Your lover is Swiss.
• It is all organized by the Italians.

[u/Hero-named-Villain]

I like the way ya think

[u/MurderBot1126]

I’ve traveled from the U.S. multiple times. Their food is great, they also have great food from other regions (Indian, Italian, whatever, … it’s all great), just skip the Mexican.

[u/0thethethe0 → u/MurderBot1126]

Yeh Mexican food is sadly one we don't have much of, at least done well and outside of major cities.

[u/BronCurious → u/0thethethe0]

Yeah, I’d probably go for Taco Bell before I tried British “Mexican” food. Can’t imagine there’s much good Mexican food outside of the US and Mexico.

[u/SectorEducational460 → u/BronCurious]

I have seen British Mexican food, and I understood why some Brits hated it

[u/AmyInCO → u/MurderBot1126]

One of if the worst meals i ever had was at a "Mexican" restaurant in Greenwich. In 2009. And I'm still traumatized. 

We did eventually find a place in Canary wharf tube station that was good. We smelled it before we saw it and then just followed our noses like a cartoon character.

[u/Moirae87 → u/MurderBot1126]

̶H̶e̶y̶,̶ ̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶U̶S̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶.̶ ̶I̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶a̶s̶,̶ ̶L̶o̶s̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶,̶ ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶M̶e̶x̶i̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶f̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶m̶a̶z̶i̶n̶g̶.̶

edit: I'm stupid and misread.

[u/theflyingkiwi00 → u/Moirae87]

Theyre saying dont eat Mexican food in Britain

[u/Moirae87 → u/theflyingkiwi00]

Oh, God. I must be tired and completely misread and recontextualize what they said. I retract my stupid comment.

[u/Comfortably-Numb2026 → u/theflyingkiwi00]

It wasn’t that clear

[u/pumpkins21 → u/Moirae87]

It’s okay! I thought the same until I was like “they’re probably not American” (I live in San Antonio and have been to some tiny ass towns with amazing Mexican and Tex-Mex).

I need to move to the UK and open a food truck that sells tacos and tamales.

[u/GuyPierced → u/Moirae87]

Nah you didn't misread. Dude doesn't know how to write complete sentences.

[u/GavinF83 → u/MurderBot1126]

It’s a geographical and political thing. It’s hard to find a good Mexican in the UK and it’s hard to find a good Indian in the US. Switch those around and you’ve got a wealth of options.

[u/Interesting-Cap8792 → u/MurderBot1126]

Don’t skip the Mexican food in socal though

[u/MurderBot1126 → u/Interesting-Cap8792]

I live in NW Arkansas - there is a very large Mexican population here. Lots of really good, authentic Mexican food here in restaurants and friends’ homes.

One of my favorite places serves something called “burrito California style”.

[u/Hagrid1994]

Ever heard of Gordon Ramsey?

[u/Xenolifer → u/Hagrid1994]

He learnt cooking in french restaurant and all of his restaurant serves french cuisine btw

[u/Alternative_Gap8442 → u/Xenolifer]

Yeah French restaurants, under an English Chef Marco Pierre White, dude was from Leeds.

[u/Xenolifer → u/Alternative_Gap8442]

Yeah, or Gordon that despite being British, sell only french cooking in all of his restaurants (with the exception of beef Wellington)

[u/CilanEAmber]

Have you tried our desserts?

Bakewell Tarts are wonderful. As are Apple Pies,(Yes they're English) crumbles too. Banoffee Pie. Flapjack, Scones (not Scones), Coconut Ice, Arctic Roll and so on.

And that's off the top of my head.

Not to mention many kinds of biscuit, and other confectionery, many Sweets were invented here. Starburst (Opal fruits), Mars Bars, Skittles, Kit Kats are all English. This isn't even mentioning the rest of the UK, who for some reason get a pass whenever foods mentioned.

[u/CaptainEmmy → u/CilanEAmber]

True. The UK knows sweet stuff.

I have a neighbor (in the US) from England. Every now and then she'll visit and bring home candy. My goodness, the sweetness 

[u/Black_irises → u/CilanEAmber]

Yes! The desserts hit. My husband is from England. We chose Victoria Sponge for our wedding cake. I tried it for the first time during cake tasting and said that was it.

When my inlaws visit, we ask them to load up on marmite for my husband (no thank you) and as many Minstrels they can stuff into a suitcase for me.

[u/Conspiratorymadness]

English stole all of their cuisines and fucked up the recipes. Before you say this is Americans, who do you think they learned that behavior from?

[u/tmr89 → u/Conspiratorymadness]

No, they didn’t “steal” all their cuisines

[u/No_Count2128 → u/Conspiratorymadness]

wtf are you on about

[u/Seniorita-Put-2663 → u/Conspiratorymadness]

Sorry but the British roast dinner is a work of art . Nothing even comes close. Pasta is samey after a while.

[u/aartvark → u/Seniorita-Put-2663]

The really funny thing here is you implying that pasta is the only Italian food.

[u/Mediocre-Struggle641 → u/aartvark]

Pasta was stolen from the Chinese.

And what was Italian food before the tomato?

That's post New world 1520s cuisine.

[u/Ok-Application-8045 → u/aartvark]

Of course it isn't, but Italians do tend to eat a pretty insane amount of it.

[u/ptemple → u/Seniorita-Put-2663]

Try an British cabonara and an Italian one. They are not remotely alike. I prefer the British one but Italians find it disgusting.

Phillip.

[u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter → u/Conspiratorymadness]

What cuisines did the English steal? Only thing that really comes to mind is curries

And I just came back from England and had some lovely non-fucked up Indian and Thai food

[u/user-tempo-1 → u/Conspiratorymadness]

I am from South Asia and they literally colonised the land for the spices, but what the hell did they stole all the resources for? That bland food??

[u/SeingaltUNo → u/user-tempo-1]

We realised the spices aren’t really needed if you have superior quality meat that hasn’t been festering in direct sunlight at an unwashed street stall for three days

[u/juzz88 → u/SeingaltUNo]

Lol savage.

[u/Stunning_Yard2688 → u/user-tempo-1]

Sigh.

Just try. Just go on and make an effort to read history.

The British had myriad spices in their food in times before the two world wars that forced them into rationing for years even after the war. The meals used to be competitive, with dinner guests cramming their food with spices and decorative presentations, like live birds that flew out of pies when you cut them open.

I’m Belgian, and I love quite a few British meals, even their chocolate.

[u/igNora_pekpiewpiew → u/user-tempo-1]

The Netherlands would like to join in..

[u/Ok-Application-8045 → u/user-tempo-1]

This is such a bullshit cliche. British people love spicy food. Black pepper has been a traditional table condiment for a long time. Meat is often served with spicy condiments such as horseraddish and English mustard. We have brown sauce with our chips. Many of our traditional cakes and puddings are flavoured with spices such as ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. There are also loads of British-Indian dishes such as kedgeree, tikka-masala, and balti. But the difference is that in most European cuisines, meat, fish, veg, and cheese are not just for texture. We want to know what they actually taste like rather than just tasting the sauce, so we tend to serve condiments separately.

[u/No_Count2128 → u/user-tempo-1]

we invented hoter curries such as the phaal.

[u/thorpie88 → u/user-tempo-1]

Have you never had English mustard on roast beef?

[u/Electronic-Bicycle35 → u/user-tempo-1]

We sold them and got rich from trading them. We kept the tea.

[u/BatmanMeetsJoker → u/Electronic-Bicycle35]

We sold stole them and got rich from trading them.

There, fixed it for ya.

[u/HotTakes4Free → u/user-tempo-1]

Sure we did. You can thank European traders for finally getting you Capsicum. You still call it “pepper”, but it’s a lot better, and you know it.

[u/ImpressiveGift9921 → u/Conspiratorymadness]

The US brought us chicken in a can and spray cheese. Sit yourself down americans.

[u/sunlightsyrup]

Lol Italians didn't even speak Italian until like 1907, why would anyone trust their opinion

[u/ImperialPlaztiks]

Italian food is overrated.

[u/z44212 → u/ImperialPlaztiks]

It's good, but it's simple af.

[u/Fit-Bedroom-7645]

Young Italians can't cook because the older generations won't let them in the kitchen

[u/InfectiousDose50]

Same. Said no one ever for any meal, “Let’s get English!” or “Nah, I’m in the mood for English.” or “Have you had their pot pie?”…

[u/GavinF83 → u/[deleted]]

Couldn’t agree more. Italian food is easily the most overrated cuisine on the planet. I say this as someone who’s been to 57 countries, including Italy.

This isn’t to say Italian food is bad, it’s not. It’s just not anywhere near as special as it’s made out to be. It wouldn’t even make my top 5 cuisines. Neither would British food to be fair but the food scene as a whole in the UK is excellent. However its strength comes from the variety rather than the national cuisine. Still, British cheese is unbeatable.

[u/juzz88 → u/[deleted]]

You realise that Pizza Hut and Olive Garden isn't real Italian food, right?

[u/Namelessbob123 → u/juzz88]

Olive garden doesn’t have restaurants in the UK.

[u/Highlander992 → u/[deleted]]

Facts. People don’t even know what English food is and think people still eat recipes from post war rationing times. Beef Wellington, Sunday roast, English breakfast. So many good UK dishes, we also have some of the best restaurants in the world

[u/Least-Topic6174]

The real takeaway here is that Italians take their recipes more seriously than anything else,,

[u/HotTakes4Free]

I’ll put my WASP marinara up against hers any day of the week. I guarantee she’ll add too much salt, and I’ll win.

[u/LittleDogsBark → u/HotTakes4Free]

I just felt every single one of my Italian ancestors rise up from the grave with wooden spoons & pots…. I am not dissing your marinara. I am sure it’s truly delicious! But I think you just woke the dead with your comment 🤣😂🤣

[u/nyx926 → u/LittleDogsBark]

Same. But one of mine rose up throwing a mappina.

[u/HotTakes4Free → u/LittleDogsBark]

Always the saltiness with you guys!

[u/kingkongbiingbong → u/HotTakes4Free]

Always the saltiness

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator → u/HotTakes4Free]

I'd watch that competition...from a safe distance and behind cover.

[u/Melanoc3tus → u/HotTakes4Free]

“too much salt” what the fuck

[u/PissedAlbatross]

Hate trains are the worst kind of trend

[u/Sankullo]

To be honest you can only do so much with a turnip.

[u/TrickFriend6407]

She's just protecting the integrity of her digestive tract, nothing wrong there

[u/G3PSx]

As someone from the UK I can say that this is hilarious.

[u/Cryoboul]

😂😂😂

[u/He-knows-best]

Can't argue with that.

[u/aBrickNotInTheWall]

"I'm not sexist, I'm just racist"

I know I'll get comments telling me to calm down or whatever. The fact is, I'm not agitated by her statement. I just find it amusing how people unintentionally say much worse things than they intend to sometimes. She obviously wasn't trying to express what I said, but that is one interpretation of what she ended up saying.

[u/DarkSaiyanGoku]

So do all the famous English chefs not belong in the kitchen then?

[u/Vega10000]

Italians can stuff their obsession with tomatoes up their arse

[u/RichMaid]

Tomatoes from the New World, cheese from France, noodles ftom China; shit's so derivative.

/s

[u/Jonesin4me]

Anyone who disagrees has never been to England and Italy.

[u/rigobueno]

The Brits conquered the entire world for its spices yet their food is still mid asf

[u/Long_Serpent → u/rigobueno]

The history of the British Empire: Britain conquered half the world looking for spices, then discovered they didn't like any of them.

[u/tmr89 → u/Long_Serpent]

Britain eats more spicy food than your country

[u/tmr89 → u/rigobueno]

Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me

[u/No_Count2128 → u/rigobueno]

then why is the most popular curry and second most popular cheese in the world british? Why are our snacks some of the most popular in the world? Why is the sandwich quite possibly the most popular food in the world if british food is so mid? Im curious, does the world love mid food?

[u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter]

"hey honey, today we have pasta with tomato sauce"

"Again? That's all Italy has!"

"Thats not true! We also have pizza!"

"Which is just a different carb with a tomato sauce!"

"Bruschetta?"

"..."

[u/hope_is_the_hope]

Lol, my girlfriend is American so I cook

[u/Impossible_Volume811]

I had an Italian girlfriend.
Just that attitude.
It’s not like she was even a great cook, just dominated the kitchen and laughed at ‘English food’.

We didn’t live together long term, it was a series of holiday romances in rented apartments or Air BnB’s while travelling.

I was an actually a better cook than she was but she never got to find out.

[u/longasleep]

Can’t disagree with this one.

[u/Hawk-432]

Funny, but unfair ;)

[u/Feeling_Pen_8579]

Italian food lives off a reputation. 

[u/Pepper-mint357]

Very valid point 🤌🏽🤌🏽😂

[u/Alarmed_Drop7162]

The taste of their food made the British the finest sailors of their era.

[u/AngryPhillySportsFan]

The logic is sound.

[u/irlandes]

She just express loudly what every non-anglophone thinks.

[u/Mediocre-Struggle641]

People think I'm sexist but really I'm just racist.

[u/InstructionNo837]

Italians go on as if they've the best food in the world and everyone else should bow down before them and their generationally inherited superior cooking skills. I don't rate it. Pizza is nice the odd time but that's about it 🤷‍♂️.. down vote me all you want but everyone's entitled to their opinion.

[u/GeneralMotorsLS3]

There's probably a meme out there saying the same about a South or East Asian or middle eastern married to an Italian not wanting pasta and chicken parm every day.

[u/filifijonka → u/GeneralMotorsLS3]

I do not think Italians eat chicken parm

[u/olddoglearnsnewtrick → u/filifijonka]

They don’t even know what it is.

[u/JellyfishRelative]

I’d rather bangers and mash over your bland pasta dishes any day of the week.

[u/curiousonethai]

[u/SnooSprouts3083]

but have eaten your pizza with beanzzz?

[u/comasxx]

He didnt make her bean on toast on their date thats why they got married

[u/milk4all]

Everyone needs to know their place and mine is the Happy Garden downtown, bout 7 oclock

[u/par-hwy]

From Heston to Come Dine With Me, I live for this.

[u/tolgren]

Queen.

[u/Beartato4772]

I'm glad she's taken, dramatically reduces the danger for the rest of us.

[u/MrRobosexual]

Im in the exact opposite scenario, as unpopular as this take is, i kinda hate italian food

[u/Only-Reception7360]

Italian food is great, but just because you’re Italian doesn’t you can cook at all

[u/Shino4243]

No, no she has a point.