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One time, I had “pie and mash” in Greenwich (pronounced “Grinnich” innit bruv) village. It was the blandest shit I’ve ever tasted. For all the pillaging and conquest the English have committed over the centuries, you’d think their food would taste better.
What’s the blandest thing on the menu?
If you want tasty spoils of empire, try a curry or Chinese. There’s a reason “pie and mash” is only served in London, it’s because the rest of the country wouldn’t stand for it.
You need to try a Pieminister mothership.
That sounds like a dirty euphemism and I refuse to look it up (in case it isn’t).
I had an absolutely exquisite curry in Burrow market.
That’s more like it - proper British cuisine.
Delicious
EnglishIndian foodA surprising number of the standard curry dishes you’ll find in the UK were invented here: the balti, madras, jalfrezi, vindaloo, phall and people still.fight over the origin of the tikka masala but likely here.
There were moves to get the balti registered as an EU traditional speciality for Birmingham but Brexit ruined that. It’s sad to see that the Balti Triangle, which I visited a lot back at in its heyday is a sorry shadow of itself.
Thanks for teaching me something! I want to try all of those curries now, I don’t think I’ve ever had the balti, madras, jalfrezi or phall.
Definitely give the balti a go if you are in a standard curry house but avoid the phall - I lived not far from the Balti Triangle for a while in the eighties and nineties and it was a revelation.
However, curry in Britain has moved on quite a bit since then and we have a lot more restaurants serving more authentic Indian food. So, if you can, check out good local Bengali, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, etc eateries - I’m an especially big fan of the last one as me default curry house is a locals Nepalese that has won a number of awards. I also have a top vegetarian Indian restaurant not a million miles away and their food is amazing.
Now I’m proper starving - mid-afternoon curry binge anyone?
I would never call clearly Indian inspired dishes “British food” regardless of who or where it was invented.
The comment is in the spirit of the community and a) highlights how much “British” grub has been stolen from elsewhere during our imperialistic phase and b) how different it actually is from the actual food in the countries which inspired it (good luck getting a balti in India). I am always intrigued by the latter - getting my first donner kebab in Turkey was a revelation (it made the British “elephant leg” look worse than before) and I always like to check out what Chinese people are eating when I’m tucking into a banquet as there is virtually no overlap.
And yet Hamburgers are listed as American food, even though they literally have Hamburg in their name.
should’ve had the jellied eels instead m8 if you wanted flavour
I’ll show you a jellied eel
Looks like scrambled eggs and raw mushrooms on that plate, that’s a discount English.
That’s the ‘no true English breakfast’ fallacy.
Is it a takeaway though? The plate and cutlery suggest he brought it from home, which is a more impressive achievement.
Maybe they just walked out of a Roasters, plate and all.
Now that’s a power move - the service has been slow and you are about to miss the train, so you throw down the correct money and walk.
When you need your hearty breakfast to make it through the day but you’re running late for work.
That was my thought. I’ve never had a full English on account of being in Norn Iron but my experience with takeaway fryups of which I have quite a bit is that it comes in a styrofoam container.
There was a kebab/burger/chicken/curry/whatever-else place near where I once lived in the East End in London that did fryups on cardboard plates wrapped in foil. Used to find them all around the parks when I’d take my dog on walks. Nestled in with all the CO cartridges in the bushes and along the kerb.
But most were served in styrofoam, yeah.
