Popular misconception that they invaded for spices. They were actually looking for someone to play cricket with.
See this game documentary for more details: Cricket through the ages
I’m partial to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwB4Bps3pT4
They conquered the whole planet in search of someone they could beat at cricket.
England is good at inventing games that they then lose at. In America we just try to make sure no populous countries play them. Canada is just being magnanimous by letting others win sometimes.
I’m British and I see it’s wrong because it simply isn’t true… We have a ton of spicy foods. The stereotype that we only eat comfort foods like in the meme is old and worn out. Maybe that’s all you eat, but that’s on you.
The perception of Britain that most Americans have is that of the 40’s and 50’s. It’s hardly surprising that it’s completely fucking wrong.
Lol, thx actually. I finally upgraded my perspective.
The only people I know are polish relatives who live in scotland and well, do have their own custom and creative dishes
But why don’t your comfort foods have spices?
Yep because no British person ever eats curry as a comfort food…
Yeah never got this. The nation’s favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn’t it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?
Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.
But that’s just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Except all the most popular curries in the UK aren’t Indian, they’re British, and infact pretty much any curry outside of southern Asia was introduced by the British (or occasionally Portuguese) like Japanese curry for example.
Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven…
But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else’s cuisines.
By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Exactly.
And India doesn’t have chillies add Italy doesn’t have tomatoes… Where do we stop?
Stops carving the Sunday roast
Fun fact: Britain didn’t invent roasting hunks of meat. Or Sundays. Or the combination thereof.
apple crumble
That’s not a real thing. That’s just something English people say to sound whimsical.
By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Correct. Only Neolithic cultures have their own foods.
Edit since it’s apparently not as obvious as I thought it would be: jk 😄
Apple crumble is 100% a real thing and it’s delicious with warm custard.
I know lol, I was kidding around 😁
Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.
Slightly ho-hum fact: I was being quite tongue in cheek throughout 😁
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Yep, just seems disingenuous to act like the history of the spice trade hasn’t affected our food culture when it clearly has massively. Hell, even curry in Japan is popular not because of India but because of British influence. The reason “Katsu Curry” is called Katsu is because of the English word “Cuts” referring to the cuts of meat in the curry, which is Japanese sounds like ‘katsu’.
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I see nothing wrong because buttered bread, fish fingers and beans is a banger of a meal
If you’re five, sure.
Oh my god no one cares, Clive!
Banger meal tbh, if you want to top it with 10 quids worth of spice that’s up to you, but most people who eat this on the regular can barely afford salt and pepper.
Yeah the meme pretty much ignores the classism aspect of who ended up getting the spices
It must be a cultural thing you guys are used to, cause the idea of beans and fish sticks turns my stomach. Replace the fish sticks with scrambled eggs or sausage and you got a good breakfast though
Ah I see where you’re going wrong. Those aren’t fish sticks, those are fish fingers.
I’m actually having fish fingers, chips, and beans tonight.
I’m late thirties and there is nothing wrong with fish finger and beans.
Edit: Don’t even have to be poor to enjoy it by the way.
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How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices?! You can get a good few for 5 at Lidl or Aldi.
Also, having been someone that poor, people in that position should understand spices and at least have a few of them because it was one of the few things that kept me going that at least my toast and tinned veg & hotdog pasta both had some flavour.
How the fuck are you spending 10 quid on spices
If it isn’t saffron and Italian white truffle, it doesn’t go on their toast.
British fish fingers are usually mind-blowingly tasty compared to American fish-sticks. That might explain some of the disagreement.
Tbf, wouldn’t coffee, tea, chocolate and sugar cane have been considered spices by then’s definition?
So were opium and cocaine
Poppy seeds are definetely also a spice tho. And coca is an herb, which I guess can also be used as a spice… Use of coca by native populations seems to have been mostly medicinal… But then again, that’s also how many spices were used until the 19th century.
Ironic because poppy seeds have very little flavor and coca literally numbs your tongue.
Shhh. That’s the secret ingredient.
And it’s very more-ish.
Tea would be a herb.
“Herb” and “spice” aren’t mutually exclusive tho.
Generally I find they are. Herbs are leaves, flowers and (herbaceous) stems, spices are other parts. A plant might provide both a herb and a spice, but they will typically be different parts of a plant.
Like coriander vs cilantro. Actually that’s the only example I know.
Saffron is from a flower and is considered a spice tho. It might be the way it’s processed that makes a difference. Regardless, when talking of the East India Company, the spice trade, and how that led to conquests, tea is always an important part of that story.
perhaps a tiny bit of tartar sauce for the fish sticks, but otherwise its a delicious and fast meal :)
Fish sticks?!?!?!?
Fish fingers.
