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JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 1 day agoI mean, that’s true, but hasn’t been the case for at least a century, so why do they still eat like the aristocrats are hoarding all the spices?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
West_of_West@piefed.social 1 day ago
I always wonder whether it’s a lingering effect of rationing,which didn’t end until the ‘50s.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We don’t. It’s a bit.
The part people forget is that we didn’t just take the spices, we took the whole cuisine and the people who could cook it.
The general British public has been eating a multicultural diet for a very, very long time. So when you see bangers and mash, rather than wonder why it isn’t spiced, consider that we’re just being retro and tomorrow we’ll have Indian and the next day Chinese and…
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What you call Chinese comes with fries and gravy, man.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Gravy is something Americans put on everything.
And even in Belgium, we don’t get fries with our Chinese food.
So sounds like you are projecting.
Goforce5@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Americans absolutely do not put gravy on everything. Thats the british and canadians.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
You guys are hilarious. I couldn’t imagine being so confidently wrong all the time.