Hey, the Golden Globes is in January and the Oscars are in March, and I really, really want to be a winner instead of a nominee this year, can you blame me?
As a Latino, the first time trying sweet beans in a pastry was so alarming. I still don't like them, it's so weird.
Now sweet, fried plantains with a side of refried beans and avocado? Yes please!
An acquaintance of mine bought an ice cream in china thinking it to be grapes or something, but it was bean ice cream, they were pretty shocked. But anyway sweet bean paste in pastry is really good, and seems to be popular in all of the Asia
People shit on British food and come over here and make out its the best thing ever.
I couldn't convince my girlfriend to try my pie with veggies and fat chips all covered in gravy. Then she ate it and said "actually that's really nice".
"british food" has come to mean "british food from ration times", which is obviously going to result in it being dogshit because people had to stretch a hunk of ham over an entire week.
And traditional dishes like corned beef and cabbage. I love me some corned beef with lots of mustard. And cabbage, you can eat it by the head and it has so few calories plus it has lots of vit c and fiber. It is excellent diet food.
Always cracks me up when Americans diss British food. Many have no idea how many American staple foods originate from Britain, especially in the Midwest.
I think it's more of a meme than real at this point. Most of the time when I see "British food", I think it looks pretty good, even if it's not flashy.
There is great english food. It's just that your average brit ain't making it either. Ive been to Bournemouth on a school language program several times and we had amazing Yorkshire Pudding and more good stuff once. But we also had Microwaved raw Broccoli with soggy disgusting Pizza another time.
Also: You guys have an unhealthy obsession with vinegar.
Right, because Fish&Chips doesnt contain any of that Salt and fat.^/s
Truth be told, every nation has their food quirks. It's just that from my german pov all your vinegar chips are disgusting. Chips and Crisps need Salt amd probably also paprika to be perfect. But that's decidedly german.
The UK has some of the best produce in the world. What the average person at home does is of course something else but that's no different in a lot of countries.
As someone mentioned rationing didn't help the image but also the drabness of industrial canned food in the brown seventies. And people just forgot how to cook.
Beans, Beans,
They're good for your heart,
The more you eat,
The more you fart,
The more you fart,
The better you feel,
So eat some beans with every meal!
Beans, Beans
They're good for your heart
The more you eat,
The more you fart.
The more you fart,
The more you eat,
The more you sit on the toilet seat!
Off topic, but yesterday I tried a tamale for the first time. Apparently they're a common Christmas food in Mexico, so my boss brought some to our party. The first bite or two were strange (as a very picky US-American), but then it was really good! 10/10 would recommend and all that
Best use of my pressure cooker*! Bulk black and pinto beans, 40m in the cooker with water and salt, then onto the stove with sauteed onions and garlic, a fair amount of oil, apple cider vinegar, pickled jalapeno or two, spices... absolutely fantastic with some rice. And our toddler loves it too.
*Instant Pot, but pressure cooker sounds more... haute cuisine.
Fish and chips is the other national dish, and the first one. While I like it, it isn't exactly full of flavor.
Classic British cuisine doesn't really have spices, because the British Isles don't really have too many foods that can be used as spices. Sure, once they colonized India, they got some spices, but even still classic British food mostly stayed the same.
And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.
Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it's working class food, without being fetishised 'exotic' working class food.
I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you've ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haven't been much of a cook in a while, but for some reason the part of my brain that recalls these things really wants me to suggest using a pressure cooker for beans. I honestly don't know if that's a good idea. I apologize for this information.
Definitely pressure cookers are great for just getting them cooked from dried. I do it with black beans and it takes about 40 min. It is a huge time saver vs the old way. I wouldn't do that here though because there is a browning of the top involved and time spent simmering in the sauce that you need and you won't get that with a pressure cooker.
Having lived in the UK and near the US southern border, they’re both great. Charro and frijoles are sublime, and Heinz baked beans are a superb side dish for potato or meat.
I still can’t enjoy sweet BBQ beans though, Bush’s just tastes like corn syrup with fiber blobs 🤮
As a Vermonter that's been told that we have a lot of British influences I'm surprised beens are not common in our diet. Like the only times I've ever had the chance to eat beens is when their mashed up for the 2 times I've had tacos. Tbh I didn't even know the Brits even had beens. Granted I'm presuming they are common over there due to the context of this meme.
Maybe if you've only had Mexican food made in Britain? Baked beans are good but relatively one dimensional. In Mexico, beans, rice, and corn are the staples of most meals. They're eating them at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Children have mashed beans and rice as their first solid food.
Do you think British people eat baked beans with every meal? They do in Mexico. They obviously make them in better and more varied ways.
They're prepared differently. Don't usually see baked beans of any kind in Mexican cuisine, just like you don't see a lot of refried beans in British cuisine.
Why is it that everything on this platform is about Linux, Star Trek and beans?
Is there more to life?
Watching Barbie, now available on Blu-Ray, of course!
Hey, the Golden Globes is in January and the Oscars are in March, and I really, really want to be a winner instead of a nominee this year, can you blame me?
When you do win, you should take a selfie on stage and only post it here.
Just to fuck with everybody.
But... Lemmy is still too small right now, and the longer I wait, the funnier it gets, right?
For peak comedy, take the photo but don't post it here
Endless bean content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqzIvdEo4U&t=0
We sometimes talk about not pooping...
Well, have I got a solution for you. Have you ever heard of beans?
That guy, Mizu, deleted his account...
Thank you Margot you bring a light to this beanchamber
It's bean pretty fun. 🫘
Free market doing its job, baby!
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Beans (Japanese sweets)
As a Latino, the first time trying sweet beans in a pastry was so alarming. I still don't like them, it's so weird. Now sweet, fried plantains with a side of refried beans and avocado? Yes please!
Avocado shake was strange to me as well but it's not bad
It's all about the way you were raised. I'm just not used to adding sweet directly into the bean paste.
It's like British beans and Mexican beans, both are beans but their taste and prep is like night and day
Are they real beans that taste sweet or sweats that look like beans?
Red Bean Paste. It's often sweetened and used as a filling in a lot of Japanese pastries and desserts.
Ya'll are missing out. Mochi with red bean paste is amazing. It's about the sweet and savory combination. Pretty similar to how halva works.
Hmm, maybe somewhere in between?
An acquaintance of mine bought an ice cream in china thinking it to be grapes or something, but it was bean ice cream, they were pretty shocked. But anyway sweet bean paste in pastry is really good, and seems to be popular in all of the Asia
Beans (the furry kind)
UwU
HЯ~
Frijoles>beans
Not when I was stocking them. People got sooooooooooooooooo mad that they couldn't find the "beans".
looks at a label with a big picture of beans on it
No, no this can't be it!
People shit on British food and come over here and make out its the best thing ever.
I couldn't convince my girlfriend to try my pie with veggies and fat chips all covered in gravy. Then she ate it and said "actually that's really nice".
Like of course its a pie covered in gravy!
"british food" has come to mean "british food from ration times", which is obviously going to result in it being dogshit because people had to stretch a hunk of ham over an entire week.
And traditional dishes like corned beef and cabbage. I love me some corned beef with lots of mustard. And cabbage, you can eat it by the head and it has so few calories plus it has lots of vit c and fiber. It is excellent diet food.
Always cracks me up when Americans diss British food. Many have no idea how many American staple foods originate from Britain, especially in the Midwest.
I think it's more of a meme than real at this point. Most of the time when I see "British food", I think it looks pretty good, even if it's not flashy.
I mean, it's the best thing available
I can taste how much butter you put in the dough
No, that's French cooking ;)
Go look at any chef making food.
He's an American chef making carrots.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUeEknfATJ0
There is great english food. It's just that your average brit ain't making it either. Ive been to Bournemouth on a school language program several times and we had amazing Yorkshire Pudding and more good stuff once. But we also had Microwaved raw Broccoli with soggy disgusting Pizza another time.
Also: You guys have an unhealthy obsession with vinegar.
Vinegar is better than salt or fat.
Vinegar is fucking awesome. Can't have chips without it. Its just wrong.
Right, because Fish&Chips doesnt contain any of that Salt and fat.^/s
Truth be told, every nation has their food quirks. It's just that from my german pov all your vinegar chips are disgusting. Chips and Crisps need Salt amd probably also paprika to be perfect. But that's decidedly german.
The UK has some of the best produce in the world. What the average person at home does is of course something else but that's no different in a lot of countries.
As someone mentioned rationing didn't help the image but also the drabness of industrial canned food in the brown seventies. And people just forgot how to cook.
Beans, Beans,
they’re a hit!
The more you eat,
the more you shit!
The more you shit,
the better you feel,
so eat beans for every meal!
Beans, Beans, The magical fruit, The more you eat, The more you toot, The more you toot, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!
Beans, Beans, They're good for your heart, The more you eat, The more you fart, The more you fart, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!
... they're the same picture
Sounds like you need go eat some beans ;)
Beans, Beans They're good for your heart The more you eat, The more you fart. The more you fart, The more you eat, The more you sit on the toilet seat!
England: "...and I took that personally."
Beans (Jelly)
Served raw with milk steak boiled over hard
Isn't that just refried beans?
And?
Beans
Beans (every flavour)
American: Beans with your eggs and bacon? Disgusting.
proceeds to slop more sand textured corn porridge on plate
Grits are mostly a southern thing. That said, they are absolutely awful IMO. I'd sooner try British beans with my breakfast.
You can't have Mexican food without hominy.
Hominy hominy 😉
Off topic, but yesterday I tried a tamale for the first time. Apparently they're a common Christmas food in Mexico, so my boss brought some to our party. The first bite or two were strange (as a very picky US-American), but then it was really good! 10/10 would recommend and all that
this comment actually made me upset I've realized we're halfway through December and I haven't had tamales yet
Beans (asturian* food):
*One of Spain's northern regions
(Viva la fabada)
Wow it's so beautiful I had to google Asturias to confirm it's real.
Beans?
Thanks for sharing!
And maybe it was this one https://music.apple.com/us/album/look-at-them-beans/362607369?i=362607433
its proto-taumalipas
Qué haces en Tus ratos libres?
Best use of my pressure cooker*! Bulk black and pinto beans, 40m in the cooker with water and salt, then onto the stove with sauteed onions and garlic, a fair amount of oil, apple cider vinegar, pickled jalapeno or two, spices... absolutely fantastic with some rice. And our toddler loves it too.
*Instant Pot, but pressure cooker sounds more... haute cuisine.
Beans (The java + spring kind)
I would try this if I weren't a) a bad cook and b) terrified
Well you used spices and things with flavor, so it's not very British.
If you're going to ignore the entirety of British-indian cuisine, then Americans really shouldn't be calling Mexican food their tastiest creation.
Brit here. National dish is fish and chips or a roast, tikka masala is top 3 but not number 1.
If you think a friendly debate like that is backstabbing you clearly haven't been to south London
Fish and chips is the other national dish, and the first one. While I like it, it isn't exactly full of flavor.
Classic British cuisine doesn't really have spices, because the British Isles don't really have too many foods that can be used as spices. Sure, once they colonized India, they got some spices, but even still classic British food mostly stayed the same.
British people also have mashed peas as their guacamole-but-not.
And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.
Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it's working class food, without being fetishised 'exotic' working class food.
I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you've ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And then there's Southern American, Beans, hamhock, bacon, onions, cornbread. Amazing meal in the winter.
Corn is the same. I prefer the pale non-sweet corn from Mexico much more.
Elote with the flaming Cheetos crumbles on top...
Bixby corn from Oklahoma. The only good thing from that jesustan hellscape.
Baked beans are top tier, tasty and good for protein. Also good for farting.
Same thing with rice.
Don't knock baked beans.
I was just looking up recipes for them last night. Thinking of trying my hand at homemade.
Haven't been much of a cook in a while, but for some reason the part of my brain that recalls these things really wants me to suggest using a pressure cooker for beans. I honestly don't know if that's a good idea. I apologize for this information.
Definitely pressure cookers are great for just getting them cooked from dried. I do it with black beans and it takes about 40 min. It is a huge time saver vs the old way. I wouldn't do that here though because there is a browning of the top involved and time spent simmering in the sauce that you need and you won't get that with a pressure cooker.
Rod looking high af in that photo
Having lived in the UK and near the US southern border, they’re both great. Charro and frijoles are sublime, and Heinz baked beans are a superb side dish for potato or meat.
I still can’t enjoy sweet BBQ beans though, Bush’s just tastes like corn syrup with fiber blobs 🤮
I hate Bush's baked beans. They taste.. chalky. It's Van Kamp or nothing in my household.
No, no, Heinz beans are tasteless shite. You wanna go with branston baked beans instead. More flavour and cheaper.
As a Vermonter that's been told that we have a lot of British influences I'm surprised beens are not common in our diet. Like the only times I've ever had the chance to eat beens is when their mashed up for the 2 times I've had tacos. Tbh I didn't even know the Brits even had beens. Granted I'm presuming they are common over there due to the context of this meme.
Then there's beans, Québec maple style.
It's similar to British baked beans, but baked with lard and maple syrup.
Nothing can match that.
Actually...
And then there’s horse beans. If you don’t know, google it! For funzies!
Leave my baked beans alone!
Actually accurate given the end result of this episode.
Mexican beans pale in comparison the majesty of the British baked bean.
Maybe if you've only had Mexican food made in Britain? Baked beans are good but relatively one dimensional. In Mexico, beans, rice, and corn are the staples of most meals. They're eating them at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Children have mashed beans and rice as their first solid food.
Do you think British people eat baked beans with every meal? They do in Mexico. They obviously make them in better and more varied ways.
No I've been to Mexico. They don't even put their beans on toast 0/10 shit tier beans.
Yes they do dummy. They just make the toast real flat and round.
Flat bread isn't toast.
This really isn't up for debate. Frijoles always win.
Do frijoles come with little pork sausages in them? No? Then they are trash.
Enjoy your weird tomato soup.
It's more like a casserole than a soup.
Well, yeah. One of them has flavor.
I'm pretty sure beans are neither Mexican or British. They are a type of raw ingredient
Actually, funnily enough, the common bean originated in Mesoamerica.
They're prepared differently. Don't usually see baked beans of any kind in Mexican cuisine, just like you don't see a lot of refried beans in British cuisine.