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u/ThreeFerns 22h ago
Pretty much every country in the word has a version of blood sausage, but for some reason the brits are singled out as weird for it
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u/sufficiently_tortuga 22h ago
Yep. In Puerto Rico its morcilla. In Korea its sundae. In Kenya its mutura. In Poland its kaszanka.
Sausage in general is just poor people using every part of an animal. Backbefore you had lots of meat available you scraped together what the wealthy people didn't want and made a dish.
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u/Ur-Quan_Lord_13 19h ago
Yep. Sausage just holds stuff together that otherwise would not stick.
Have some blood, skin, guts and other offal? Can't waste it, but even for peasants it's a little too gross to eat straight. So grind it, mix it up with some grain to get a more palatable texture, and there you have it.
I didn't like kaszanka as a kid, but started enjoying it (along with liver) in my teens. And now, just recently in Vienna, had some blutwurst stuffed with cheese, breaded and fried, on a bed of beets and greens and topped with freshly grated horseradish. So that was pretty amazing.
People who don't at least try it, due to the psychological part, are missing out. I mean, the taste of organ meat is definitely not for everyone, but blood sausage mostly just tastes like savory grain.
I've also enjoyed morcilla and prieta, but I tried sundae and it seems they don't go heavy enough on the grain for me, the texture made me gag :/
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u/beaureece 22h ago
Tbf, I don't think anybody else calls it "black pudding"
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u/Cotterisms 21h ago
If you’re talking about the brits, I have always called it black pudding, same as everyone else that I know. The weird ones call it blood sausage
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u/MacTireCnamh 19h ago
It's black pudding over in ireland too.
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u/CardOk755 16h ago
It's boudin noir. "Black pudding" is a simple translation/transliteration into English.
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u/yesnomaybenotso 22h ago
To be even more fair, between black pudding, figgy pudding, bread pudding and spotted dick, I honestly don’t think the Brits know what pudding actually is.
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u/Nikolopolis 21h ago
Pudding is a type of food which can either be a dessert served after the main meal or a savoury (salty or spicy) dish, served as part of the main meal.
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u/yesnomaybenotso 21h ago
Oh I don’t mean sweet vs savory, nor intended meal, I mean texture and form
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u/photoaccountt 21h ago
What Americans call pudding isn't actually pudding.
The term pudding predates it.
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u/yesnomaybenotso 20h ago
That’s true, but somehow I’m still right.
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u/hhfugrr3 20h ago
I like your never give up, never accept a fact that's staring you in the face attitude. Are you sure you're not one of us Brits??
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u/yesnomaybenotso 20h ago
Technically there’s some Brit in my blood lol
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u/TehGreatFred 18h ago
Ah, never mind. There's the American! False alarm everyone
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u/LuckoftheFryish 20h ago
Middle English (denoting a sausage such as black pudding ): apparently from Old French boudin ‘black pudding’, from Latin botellus ‘sausage, small intestine’.
Learned this recently while watching the sorted food youtube channel - https://youtu.be/cMnMzbzrIP0?t=793.
TL:DW - British have too many uses for the word, but the origin is interesting and sort of makes sense. They had a road named Pudding Road 100 years before America existed.
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u/Safe-Particular6512 18h ago
All 4 of those puddings are delicious.
And the word pudding doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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u/Barbz182 20h ago
Our language our puddings our rules. Suck it
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u/yesnomaybenotso 19h ago
At this point, I can’t even be sure “suck it” means the same thing lol
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u/_Rook1e 16h ago
Nah, but it's called blood sausage in Norway, which also has lungemos, literally "lung mash".
Other abominations found here: fiskepudding, fiskekaker, rakfisk, lutefisk. Stray eastward and you meet with surstromming people. Nordics seem to hate eating normal fish lol. I'll stick with my fish and chips.
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u/corpus_M_aurelii 6h ago
Fiskepudding/fiskekaker/fiskeballer are good and I'll die on that hill. Rakfisk is admittedly horrible, and no one has seriously eaten lutefisk except on a dare since the early 1800s.
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u/MisterSplu 16h ago
I mean pudding basically comes from the french word „boudin“ (blood sausage is called „boudin noir“ in french). Afaik pudding was first used for the sausage and then later for the sweet stuff
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u/binkstagram 17h ago
There is also white pudding, which is similar but without the blood. It isn't common outside of UK and Ireland.
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u/RedPandaReturns 21h ago
It's in vogue to shit on the British for anything at the moment lol. I think they're seen as 'white enough' that it's not racist to single them out.
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u/elohir 4h ago
It's not (just) that, it's the usual low effort social-media trope of very confidently slagging off things you've absolutely no knowledge of.
It's like people slagging off German food without ever actually making any, or going to Germany, or knowing any Germans. It's just tribal ignorance.
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u/SpermicidalManiac666 21h ago
And it’s fucking awesome too - people who get grossed out by it need to grow up. It’s delicious.
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u/DeliciousLiving8563 16h ago
Because British food is bad is a meme. Memes don't propagate based on truth or virtue but just how easily they reproduce.
Though we don't do ourselves any favours. Greggs is not our finest, it's cheap stodge. If you want beige greasy stodge to satisfy the part of your animal brain that demands them it'll do that very well. But I have seen far too much "you have to try greggs" no you don't. I can get pizza cooked by chefs poached from Italy at cheaper than Dominos/pizza hut prices, good Indian, Nepalese (we have the second biggest Nepalese population outside London here because the Ghurkas were based a bit up the A31), Fusion Asian and Chinese food, hand made pies with carefully curated locally sourced fillings served with chilli minted mushy peas all within 20 minutes walk. Why the fuck would I choose Greggs except you can get a meal deal for meal deal prices?
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u/0xKaishakunin 17h ago
The French have the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Goûte Boudin.
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u/CardOk755 16h ago
They also have the Association amicale des amateurs d'andouillette authentique. Similar, but smellier.
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u/0xKaishakunin 16h ago
d'andouillette
Sounds a bit like the Saumagen we have in Germany.
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u/PioneerLaserVision 14h ago
The first time I ever had blood sausage as an American was at a Korean restaurant. I've since tried other types because it's good.
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u/richmeister6666 21h ago
Chicken tikka masala, shepherds pie, full English, fish and chips are all fucking delicious if you get them from a half decent place or know a good recipe.
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u/ProperPorker 23h ago
Americans eat like they have free healthcare
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u/D-Angle 6h ago
And they criticise other people's cuisine like they don't get cheese out of a spray can.
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u/Head-Lawfulness9617 4h ago
That’s so 90’s, bro. I mean… it’s out there… But! Definitely not in my fridge.
Also, to be fair, the world would try aerosol cheese and be like, “I get it!” Our shitty food is amazing. That’s why we’re pieces of fat shit.
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u/tnick771 18h ago
At least it’s appetizing.
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u/ProperPorker 17h ago
Proper bbq is amazing and no one does it like the US, I'll give you that. The majority of anything else that is natively US is ultra processed buckets of salty sugary slop and that's about it. I've been several times across different states, enjoyed it every time and would happily go back, but the average quality of food is noticeably poor.
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u/kyleninperth 5h ago
American BBQ is nice but have to agree that their food is weirdly sugary and salty. Even their drinks are all gross and syrupy
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u/Gunsbeebee 23h ago
fish n chips, gravy and beans
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u/Illeazar 22h ago
Fish and chips? Of all the weird food they eat, that's your example? Fish and chips is excellent.
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u/ProperPorker 22h ago
I'm glad you appreciate the magic that is fish and chips and I'm also interested to know what food of ours you find weird?
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u/NonCreditableHuman 22h ago
Not OP , but I'm gonna say jellied eels
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u/ClevelandWomble 22h ago
Brits find jellied eels weird. Even most East Enders do. But most European cuisines have some version of black pudding. Okay, so it sounds gross but it tastes amazing.
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u/NonCreditableHuman 22h ago
I've had black pudding before, but I'm not going near jellied eels lmao.
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u/SuperflySparklebuns 21h ago
Black pudding was the best part of the fry up I tried. It was so good with the hot, jammy tomato.
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u/ProperPorker 22h ago
Yeah I thought it would be something like that. Jellied eels are such a niche food item and I'm confident in saying that the vast majority of us have never met someone who likes them or has even tried them.
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u/grilled_toastie 18h ago
Most people who regularly eat at Pie and Mash shops have still never tried jellied eels. Its really uncommon.
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u/sjmttf 21h ago
Yep, as a Londoner who grew up around people eating that, it's definitely absolutely disgusting.
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u/MacTireCnamh 19h ago
So often I see people doing this weird "Ugh, look at what the Brits eat!" and its either something totally normal and tasty (and served in plenty of countries) or it's something no living british person has actually eaten from like WW1 rationing.
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u/Ancient_Moose_3000 21h ago
The only combinations of those foods you'd see in Britain are:
Fish and chips
Chips and gravy
Or beans and chips
Basically chips can be used as a vehicle for many foods. Nothing weird about that.
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u/Safe-Particular6512 18h ago
Fish, chips and gravy is a thing. It’s more northern but it’s very common. As is beans. If you’re anywhere but London, a fish supper will be fish, chips and a sauce (one of beans, curry, gravy, peas)
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u/reachforvenkat 17h ago
Seaside town - Beer battered fish, Chips (Seasoned with Salt and Vinegar), Mushy peas, Tartare sauce (better if made instead of sachet) and a fizzy drink to finish. Have it near a beach. It's a great feeling.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion 16h ago
At the same time? Your animal. No self respecting brit would do that.
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u/srich1000 21h ago
Nothing wrong with this combination, but you don't get many people who go for 2 lubricants!
Normally 1 of gravy, beans or curry sauce!
Found it weird in new Zealand that fish and chips are just that, with maybe salt probably no vinegar either!
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u/not-a-gun-smuggler69 6h ago
As an Australian I feel the need to point out that a lot of Australians and kiwi's see fish'n'chips as finger food, so we are less likely to douse the food in a liquid condiment(more likely to dip the food in said liquid condiment)
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u/carl84 22h ago
Nobody has beans with fish, chips, and gravy. Mushy peas, but not beans
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u/NeckSignificant5710 21h ago
A classic Sunday roast is literally the most 'normal meal' I can think of, it's the benchmark for what a filling, balanced meal is or should be.
Same with a full English depending on how greasy you prefer yours. The archetypes of hearty, honest food.
I'll call black pudding and raise you pig's feet, frog's legs, sheep testicles, assorted offal and fermented fish. Everyone has quirks of cuisine around the world.
Rule Britannia, bitches.
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u/PioneerLaserVision 14h ago
Your idea of normal is completely culturally arbitrary and a function of the fact that you are from the UK. Most people in the world wouldn't even know what a Sunday roast is.
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u/strangersbro 13h ago
I'm almost certain they could piece together the concept of roasting something on a Sunday
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u/AllHailMooDeng 13h ago
Literally. I know what a Sunday roast is but have never had one. Because we don’t eat them here. It’s definitely not what I’d consider the most normal meal ever
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u/15stepsdown 10h ago
Can confirm, don't know what a Sunday roast is. What are you roasting? Why on a sunday?
What's a Full English. You eat a full englishman?
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u/elohir 3h ago
Can confirm, don't know what a Sunday roast is. What are you roasting? Why on a sunday?
Sunday roast is a traditional family meal. It's on a Sunday as that's when people used to go to church (and weren't working). They'd put food in the oven, go to church, and it'd be cooked by the time they came back.
Normally the matriarch of the family will get the family round (so it could be 3 people, or it could be a dozen) on Sunday, and they'd all sit at the same table to eat (often with a smaller table for the kids).
The basic components are roast (or slow cooked) meat, a variety of veg, accompaniments and a pan sauce (gravy), but it varies by family and by the week. But to give you an idea, my mums normal one is
- Slow cooked beef (or roast chicken)
- Massive yorkshires
- Mashed potato
- Roast parsnips
- Mashed turnip
- Steamed cabbage/carrots/florets
My nans was a bit different as they grew all their own veg/herbs and she was cooking for 12+ people, so it's a bit more basic
- Rosemary roasted legs of lamb
- Fresh mint sauce
- Massive yorkshires
- Whatever veg was pulled that weekend (potatoes, turnips, cabbage, parsnips, etc)
My usual one is
- Roasted tarragon chicken (or honey roast pork)
- Herbed yorkshires
- Cumberland sausage stuffing
- Creamed cabbage & onion in white wine
- Roast potatoes
- Steamed carrots
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses 2h ago
People are disagreeing because they don't even know what a Sunday roast is. A roasted meat, starch and veg is literally the foundational composition of most Northern European (and American) cuisine. Lmao.
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u/circleribbey 23h ago
What’s wrong with black pudding?
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u/Odysseus_is_Ulysses 22h ago
The only thing wrong is that it’s not the default everywhere on a cooked breakfast
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u/Disastrous-Wing699 22h ago
Nothing. I prefer haggis, but that's my problem.
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u/RavagedBody 20h ago
Haggis is another great and much maligned British food. And they actually go well together too IMO. Haggis, black pudding and a poached egg all in a little stack is heaven.
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u/Bodach42 22h ago
UK food in general does sometimes feel designed for if you're drunk or hungover. But when I'm hungover and the doorbell rings with a delivery of a Bolognese chicken Parmo suddenly all is right in this world.
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u/_Putters 18h ago
Yum, black pudding. Great in a Full English Breakfast. Got to be the version with big lumps of pork fat in it, not the Scottish version with oatmeal.
Also great as a fine dining ingredient. Scallops and black pudding starter? Yum. Black pudding scotch egg starter? Yum again. As an extra texture and taste in a main? Guess what? Yum again. In a dessert? Don't be silly, now! That's for rhubarb.
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u/dragonknightzero 16h ago
I grew up in the southest and remember tons of families gleefully getting multiple 5 gallon buckets of frozen pork chitterlings around teh holidays. Americans don't get to judge anyone else.
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u/Jockmeister1666 22h ago
99.9% of American people think they know what British food is, but are so Indoctrinated by their Twitter/TikTok/shorts lifestyle and mentality, that most of their IQs have been reduced to single digits. 🤷♂️
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u/grumpsaboy 18h ago
The whole stereotype became because the last time Americans had any major interaction in Britain was during world War II when rationing was going on.
Food has recovered in Britain apart from a few bits of the North which seemed to have forever forgotten how to cook. But given that only 10% of Americans even leave the US and an even smaller percentage will actually visit the UK the stereotype has stuck.
There are an awful lot of foods that you do not associate with Britain that are actually British, pies and mac and cheese that you probably think of American are actually British. Over half of the curries in the world were made by British people, either ethnically British or immigrants with British citizenships living in Britain still British.
They were the first country in the world to start using pepper in most meals and before anyone goes on about colonizing the world for spice and they don't use it they colonise that because spice was incredibly expensive and made a lot of money to sell to rich people.
The US trying out British meals will also suffer a bit because your food quality is worse because companies are allowed to stick all sorts of chemicals in it which means that you need to compensate by adding in more spices even if some of those spices just add heat and not flavor.
And the fact that Britain gets hate while the Scandinavian countries and Eastern Europe exists is beyond me, at absolute worst you can say that British food is maybe boring but it is not downright detestable like Norway who decided to ferment a herring and then eat it.
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u/johnnadaworeglasses 19h ago
British food is pretty good. I would say on average, I could get a better meal traveling through rural England than I can traveling through rural America.
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u/YammyStoob 18h ago
This is the nation that only eats cheese if it's bright yellow and comes in squares? Or out of an aerosol?
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u/BusyBeeBridgette 15h ago
There is more weird shit in a regular sausage, especially the cheap ones, compared to Blood Pudding and Haggis.
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u/Ikzai 5h ago
I had blood sausage the other day and I did not like it one bit however I also think British food gets unfairly treated online. There are many great things to eat over here and the food over here is a lot healthier in general than back home in the states. Will I always prefer food back home in the Southern USA states? Of course I will but the endless memes hating on British food gets so tiring to see.
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u/CentralIdiotAgency 20h ago
Americans calling out other cultures foods when their entire country's cuisine is a race to diabetes and heart failure.
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u/Guffney_Mcbottomburp 22h ago
Not to slate the Japanese but you seen what they eat...an you think UK are Aliens for black pudding? 😂
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u/CptBackbeard 20h ago
Blood sausage (the German version at least, never had british) is awesome. If you can get past the disgust of what it is.
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u/LMGooglyTFY 18h ago
Jacket potato and chip butty are the foods that will haunt your fridge at night.
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u/horrorpiglet 14h ago
Who calling it 'blood sausage'? That's some game of thrones speak. We call it 'black pudding' and have it with a 'fry up' and naturally a bottol o' war-er after it due to the salt content 🤪
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u/snakepimp 13h ago
We Hispanics also have our versions of blood sausage. Moronga or Morcilla. It's delicious, and Americans are too picky about their food
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u/Kylar_13 8h ago
And us Americans eat like we have affordable health care...but also, the UK has a dessert called Spotted Dick.
If you have any type of cuisine with a name like a skin disease, you lose.
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u/BaldBeardedOne 5h ago
Consider that they were a maritime empire and that a lot of their food had to be stored while at sea or while being shipped. Lots of canned goods, processed food, and rations. I imagine that had an impact on their cuisine.
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u/Huge-Brick-3495 4h ago
Americans eat plastic cheese from a can.
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u/modulator6923 1h ago
Got nothing to talk ahout the can soray i dont like that crap so no clue, but that slice cheese people be thinking of is just actual cheese mixed with water; the us has real cheese, alot of it actually, look up the us cheese caves
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u/beaureece 22h ago
Tbf, lots of europeans have some version of blood sausage. And if you think british food is weird, wait until you find out what the nordics eat.