Pfft, you think we invaded everyone for spices to eat them? Absolutely not. We did it so that we could sell them to the French, thereby making the French poorer by exploiting their degenerate addiction to food that tastes nice
Your comment made me wanna google the two economies and related stats. They’re a lot more Similar than I expected. Pretty cool. So I guess UK’s plan failed? xD unless France used to be richer.
While I was joking, of course, France’s economy actually was quite a lot more bigger and more powerful than the UK’s up until the industrial revolution and the about a century of everything going very badly for France. France was the most populous country in Europe by a wide margin, and back then that basically was the whole economy. It has quite a lot more land than the UK, and that land is a lot more productive too; the north of Wales and most of Scotland do not make for good farmland. Unlike Germany and Italy it united and centralised quite early, and it just outweighed Spain and the Low Countries the same way it did the UK, so for a long time France had the edge over all of its neighbours.
During the Napoleonic wars, France managed to raise forces that matched the UK, Prussia, Austria, and Spain combined in number. Some of that was due to other factors like how he organised it, but you’ve still got to have the people available somewhere if you want to match four major powers at once
That website is so neoliberal brained it makes me want to puke.
“Property Rights Index” “Investment Freedom Index”
What’s next? “Oppression of Working Classes Index”
All European colonial empires used to be richer.
Not the same kind of oil lol. Do not fry your food in petroleum
You’re not my dad, if I want to fry my chicker nuggers in the black sticky icky I will!
It’s a joke
Big if true
Honestly at this point if people want to try this I’m not gonna stop them.
I was going to post deep fried Oreos, but I think this takes the cake.
Go to Scotland and taste the joys of a deep fried Mars bar, now you’re talking!
Have some deep fried pizza as an appetiser.
Deep Fried Beer is a pretty good one, too. Not very tasty, though…
Dear god, this shit is why I support Texas becoming independent
There’s also Fried Coke, which was invented by the same guy
Minnesota had deep fried ranch at the state fair last year.
The British national dish is curry.
That’s the Indian national dish, and Britain got so mad about losing the empire they stole it.
There’s plenty of British-created curries or ones that have been heavily modified in the UK. If you went to India and wanted a tikka masala. I imagine it would be pretty hard to find one, and if you did it wouldn’t be like it was in the UK.
Personally I do prefer Indian curries because they get more interesting with the veggie ones though.
According to that logic, Pizza Hawaii is an Italian specialty
I understand why Europeans don’t like pineapple pizza, for some reason all the restaurants here put it on after baking. Genuinely insane
Stole it? I think adopted is more apt. And curry isn’t one thing and varies from region to region in India. But Britain loved it so much that there is an Indian (or Pakistani) restaurant practically everywhere. And while Indian / Pakistani chefs have invented new dishes (e.g. chicken chasni is the best goddamned curry ever), I wouldn’t call it cultural appropriation.
That’s the Indian national dish
Uh, no it isn’t…
Yes it is. It’s a chicken tikka masala specifically.
Peak sarcasm. I love it.
See, they stole it so thoroughly you don’t even know.
Bastards.
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British people love curries and other spicy things. For most people curries, biriyanis are going to be in the rotation. Even “traditional” British food will usually have things like black pepper, nutmeg, mace, ginger, cumin, cloves, mustard, bay leaves, juniper berries in it. More recently cumin, paprika, tumeric, coriander, curry powder might be thrown into dishes.
If you add star anise and garlic to British food it magically transforms into French food
Chicken tikka masala would like a word.
Pretty sure it was an Indian immigrant
Most “American” foods were brought by immigrants too.
Meanwhile in Scotland, they deep fry fucking chocolate.
USAians be like: amateurs
That sounds painful
Scot’s deep fry everything. Deep fried Mars bar is amazing.
You need spices for mince pies and fruitcake. Worcestershire sauce and HP sauce. Cakes and sauces basically.
Now i want to try the legendary Chicago Deep Fried Pizza.
