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Pookah posted:Up until maybe 20 years ago, gripe water was a very common thing given to babies for colic in Britain/Ireland. That explains so much…
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Tac Dibar posted:Is this what a script for a porn movie looks like? I was gonna say it sounds like rules for a Competitive Gay Orgy
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Apr 6, 2021 14:48
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Oh man I really love Blatz (thought I can't really find it far outside of Milwaukee), but considering it tastes somewhere between ginger ale and a cream soda, I'm not shocked babies would love it.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaD_f-uflo
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Antigravitas posted:That explains so much… Between this and the bizarre story of iodine deficiency which, afaik, is still a thing today, everyone in this country is actually brain damaged
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Regarde Aduck posted:Between this and the bizarre story of iodine deficiency which, afaik, is still a thing today, everyone in this country is actually brain damaged That's because the british don't put salt on their food
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Apr 6, 2021 17:27
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Milo and POTUS posted:That's because the british don't put salt on their food Pork_brains_sodium.jpg
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Apr 6, 2021 18:11
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Atticus_1354 posted:Pork_brains_sodium.jpg 
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Apr 6, 2021 18:17
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He just got the two meanings of pork mixed up
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Apr 6, 2021 19:43
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I always thought it was a joke that people from certain cultures don't season their food at all. But last week I had a conversation with someone from country redacted, who will use either salt or pepper on their food (never both at the same time) and sometimes onion. And that's it. No herbs, no spices, never even tasted garlic. I genuinely sat in shock for about 30 seconds. I don't think I've ever cooked a meal that this person could eat.
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Apr 7, 2021 01:06
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That could be many places and we need to know!
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Apr 7, 2021 01:54
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My uneducated guess based on stereotypes is England.
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Apr 7, 2021 01:55
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Onion, salt, and pepper is how my grandmother used to cook so UK seems likely, I assume it's a rationing thing. Other than the refusal to use more than one at a time which is just weird. Other than baking, oddly, where she would use nutmeg vanilla and cinnamon and stuff.
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Apr 7, 2021 02:09
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What do you mean, “could eat”? Are they unable to eat anything that is seasoned? Or are they just like your typical only order chicken fingers and fries at every restaurant?
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RCarr posted:What do you mean, “could eat”? This has reminded me of a time some goon was talking about a problem getting their soda or whatever and then someone was like “drink water or something?” And they were like “NO, you don’t understand, I really can’t!! I’m not just being picky!!! I really can’t because of [special physiology or some dumb poo poo]” and multiple other goons piled on to say they couldn’t drink water or eat vegetables or what have you while others were bewildered that any such person would dare to claim not to be a whiney dipshit
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Apr 7, 2021 02:15
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From 'A Year in Provence': “The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.”
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OwlFancier posted:Onion, salt, and pepper is how my grandmother used to cook so UK seems likely, I assume it's a rationing thing. Other than the refusal to use more than one at a time which is just weird. According to my Mom, her grandmother (Who was born in England around the turn of the 20th century and moved to the US after WW2 when my great-uncle got a job there) was much the same way. She seems to have considered garlic to be low-class and overly foreign. Luckily my grandmother made a concentrated effort to learn the local cuisine, although there was still a few Britishisms in her cooking.
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You know, I think we can probably trace all the ills in the world back to England. Opium wars, small pox blankets, under seasoned foods. The list is endless.
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Nah, the person's from Finland. My grandmother learnt to "cook" in England, and everything she ever made was full of 5 spice or curry powder and raisins, so I always assumed that, rather than blandness, was stereotypical of English food. RCarr posted:What do you mean, “could eat”? Fine, "would be willing to eat more than a mouthful of without being overcome by the spiciness." They weren't totally unfamiliar with spice; they just thought that anything more than salt, pepper and onion was too spicy. Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 06:13 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Apr 7, 2021 06:09
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You know you got some honkey-rear end friends when mayonnaise is "spicy."
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Apr 7, 2021 06:24
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Curry powder and raisins is also british but it is a different kind of british.
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Apr 7, 2021 07:19
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We're not all that bad honestly. Most of us, but not all.
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Apr 7, 2021 07:55
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Enchant me with a good aged cheddar and my clan may excuse the English for some of their crimes
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Solice Kirsk posted:You know, I think we can probably trace all the ills in the world back to England. Opium wars, small pox blankets, under seasoned foods. The list is endless. Don't let the spanish of the hook now. They did some terrible stuff in america.
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Apparently Queen Elizabeth doesn't like garlic, so all the meals served in Buckingham Palace are sans garlic, even though the standard cuisine served at state events there is 'classic french'. Prince Phillip reportedly likes curries but he can't ever have a curry just for himself if he's eating with her because she's the Queen and everyone has to eat what she's having because Protocol.
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Pookah posted:Apparently Queen Elizabeth doesn't like garlic, so all the meals served in Buckingham Palace are sans garlic, even though the standard cuisine served at state events there is 'classic french'. Prince Phillip reportedly likes curries but he can't ever have a curry just for himself if he's eating with her because she's the Queen and everyone has to eat what she's having because Protocol. I'm pretty sure stuff like that has been baked into the foundations of royalty as an institution just so people like me can go "lol" at the most privileged people on earth. It's like they carefully revised a handbook to cause themselves some many minor unpleasantries to even out their vast wealth and exploitation of everybody else.
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Apr 7, 2021 11:28
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Pookah posted:Prince Phillip reportedly likes curries but he can't ever have a curry just for himself if he's eating with her because she's the Queen and everyone has to eat what she's having because Protocol. Just, like, pretend. The City of London leases two parcels of land from the crown in a ridiculous ceremony where the same axe, knife, six horseshoes, and sixty-one nails are handed back and forth yearly. No one even knows where the land is anymore, yet the ceremony marches on. Philip can have his meal with the substance of Boeuf bourguignon and the accidents of curry, while Elizabeth has her Boeuf bourguignon with Boeuf bourguignon accidents.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Don't let the spanish of the hook now. They did some terrible stuff in america. I recently read a bit about Portugal's handling of Angola, and they definitely shouldn't be let off the hook either. I think that probably colonisers in general should be held accountable for their crimes.
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Apr 7, 2021 14:07
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Royalty is the stupidest poo poo
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The divinely ordered dynasties of kings is possibly the most historically harmful idea ever farted by rich assholes.
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Platystemon posted:Just, like, pretend. Transubstantiation is fine for fun little relics like religion and other such party games, but this is serious stuff and needs to be done properly.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:18
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Regarde Aduck posted:Between this and the bizarre story of iodine deficiency which, afaik, is still a thing today, everyone in this country is actually brain damaged Please post the bizzare story
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Android Apocalypse posted:You know you got some honkey-rear end friends when mayonnaise is "spicy." Everyone on my mom's side of the family thinks black pepper is spicy. My dad's side uses so much salt you can't taste anything else. I'm a chef and I won't cook for any of them.
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Apr 7, 2021 23:47
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Tac Dibar posted:Is this what a script for a porn movie looks like? If you're sexually aroused by cricket, I suppose so. Regarding British food and lack of seasoning - it's actually because we hate the French. They are very proud of their cuisine, but we see it as them having to fool around with fancy sauces to hide the fact that their meat is often high (or in some cases, named "Dobbin"). In Britain fresh meat is more readily obtained and so the natural flavour can be enjoyed. That's also the source of our respective national insults. We call the French "frogs" because they eat weird poo poo including but not restricted to frogs, and they call us "rosbif" because we eat - oh, the horror! - roast beef with no special preparation.
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The French are frogs because the Dutch were frogs because the Dutch live in marshes, like frogs. The national enemy changed, but the insult did not.
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Jedit posted:If you're sexually aroused by cricket, I suppose so. Everything after sexually aroused by cricket is wrong.
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Apr 8, 2021 12:33
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French food was too good, so the English decided to eat mushy pees to prove a point It’s the classic “taze your balls to own the live” of food nationalism
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Apr 8, 2021 13:05
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Imagine conquering half the loving world over spices, and never using any of them.
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Don’t get high on your own supply
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Jedit posted:In Britain fresh meat is more readily obtained and so the natural flavour can be enjoyed. The natural flavor of boiled beef. Truly something to build a culture around.
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