• Margot Robbie
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    Why is it that everything on this platform is about Linux, Star Trek and beans?

    • @[email protected]
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      217 months ago

      As a Latino, the first time trying sweet beans in a pastry was so alarming. I still don’t like them, it’s so weird. Now sweet, fried plantains with a side of refried beans and avocado? Yes please!

      • @[email protected]
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        What? Red bean paste filling is one of the most delicious mochi fillings! Don´t be a bean Nazi.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          It’s all about the way you were raised. I’m just not used to adding sweet directly into the bean paste.

          It’s like British beans and Mexican beans, both are beans but their taste and prep is like night and day

    • lad
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      An acquaintance of mine bought an ice cream in china thinking it to be grapes or something, but it was bean ice cream, they were pretty shocked. But anyway sweet bean paste in pastry is really good, and seems to be popular in all of the Asia

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      Not when I was stocking them. People got sooooooooooooooooo mad that they couldn’t find the “beans”.

      • kase
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        97 months ago

        looks at a label with a big picture of beans on it

        No, no this can’t be it!

  • SuiXi3D
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    157 months ago

    Beans, Beans,
    they’re a hit!
    The more you eat,
    the more you shit!
    The more you shit,
    the better you feel,
    so eat beans for every meal!

    • @[email protected]
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      137 months ago

      Beans, Beans, The magical fruit, The more you eat, The more you toot, The more you toot, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!

      • kryllic
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        Beans, Beans, They’re good for your heart, The more you eat, The more you fart, The more you fart, The better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal!

  • @[email protected]
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    157 months ago

    People shit on British food and come over here and make out its the best thing ever.

    I couldn’t convince my girlfriend to try my pie with veggies and fat chips all covered in gravy. Then she ate it and said “actually that’s really nice”.

    Like of course its a pie covered in gravy!

    • @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      “british food” has come to mean “british food from ration times”, which is obviously going to result in it being dogshit because people had to stretch a hunk of ham over an entire week.

    • ThePowerOfGeek
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      Always cracks me up when Americans diss British food. Many have no idea how many American staple foods originate from Britain, especially in the Midwest.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      And traditional dishes like corned beef and cabbage. I love me some corned beef with lots of mustard. And cabbage, you can eat it by the head and it has so few calories plus it has lots of vit c and fiber. It is excellent diet food.

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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      I think it’s more of a meme than real at this point. Most of the time when I see “British food”, I think it looks pretty good, even if it’s not flashy.

    • Bigmouse
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      There is great english food. It’s just that your average brit ain’t making it either. Ive been to Bournemouth on a school language program several times and we had amazing Yorkshire Pudding and more good stuff once. But we also had Microwaved raw Broccoli with soggy disgusting Pizza another time.

      Also: You guys have an unhealthy obsession with vinegar.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Vinegar is better than salt or fat.

        Vinegar is fucking awesome. Can’t have chips without it. Its just wrong.

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          Right, because Fish&Chips doesnt contain any of that Salt and fat.^/s

          Truth be told, every nation has their food quirks. It’s just that from my german pov all your vinegar chips are disgusting. Chips and Crisps need Salt amd probably also paprika to be perfect. But that’s decidedly german.

    • @[email protected]
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      The UK has some of the best produce in the world. What the average person at home does is of course something else but that’s no different in a lot of countries.

      As someone mentioned rationing didn’t help the image but also the drabness of industrial canned food in the brown seventies. And people just forgot how to cook.

  • kase
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    137 months ago

    Off topic, but yesterday I tried a tamale for the first time. Apparently they’re a common Christmas food in Mexico, so my boss brought some to our party. The first bite or two were strange (as a very picky US-American), but then it was really good! 10/10 would recommend and all that

    • @[email protected]
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      this comment actually made me upset I’ve realized we’re halfway through December and I haven’t had tamales yet

  • @[email protected]
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    American: Beans with your eggs and bacon? Disgusting.

    proceeds to slop more sand textured corn porridge on plate

  • Gyoza Power
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    Beans (asturian* food):

    *One of Spain’s northern regions

    (Viva la fabada)

  • @[email protected]
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    Best use of my pressure cooker*! Bulk black and pinto beans, 40m in the cooker with water and salt, then onto the stove with sauteed onions and garlic, a fair amount of oil, apple cider vinegar, pickled jalapeno or two, spices… absolutely fantastic with some rice. And our toddler loves it too.

    *Instant Pot, but pressure cooker sounds more… haute cuisine.

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    I just had baked beans on toast with eggs today. Made them myself with onions, mushrooms, garlic, smoked paprika powder, a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon and a shot of maple syrup. It tasted great and I am not even English.

    • kase
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      17 months ago

      I would try this if I weren’t a) a bad cook and b) terrified

    • Cethin
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      Well you used spices and things with flavor, so it’s not very British.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        If you’re going to ignore the entirety of British-indian cuisine, then Americans really shouldn’t be calling Mexican food their tastiest creation.

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            Oh come on lad! I am defending you guys here and you have nothing better to do than back stabbing me?

            Also:

            Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish

            Robin Cook, British foreign minister, 2001

        • Cethin
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          Fish and chips is the other national dish, and the first one. While I like it, it isn’t exactly full of flavor.

          Classic British cuisine doesn’t really have spices, because the British Isles don’t really have too many foods that can be used as spices. Sure, once they colonized India, they got some spices, but even still classic British food mostly stayed the same.

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      And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.

      Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it’s working class food, without being fetishised ‘exotic’ working class food.

      • kase
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        27 months ago

        I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you’ve ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯