It's funnt because it's true

The Dutch and British just took home the natives of their colonies as immigrants who opened restaurants. Why try to emulate when you can get the real deal?

The same reason you have all of human knowledge at your finger tips, yet only use the same tired joke over and over.

Fucks me up as a German, too. Globalization gave us all kinds of tasty spices, but go to any public event and you'd be convinced our greatest culinary achievement is sausage with tomato ketchup and curry powder.

They just wanted control of the spices so they could sell it to everybody else.

The best restaurants in the world are in London. Of course they don't serve English food. The Brits just knew to bring the best stuff home.

Legitimately, though: I listened to my sister tell her 4-year about "yummy spices" at Thanksgiving. The example she used was "like salt!" I was horrified.

She also made & brought the absolute worst green bean casserole I have ever tasted in my life. It was like wet, crunchy green beans covered in French-fried onions (which came from a can, which is why it's pretty much the only thing she got right).

She used "no added salt/sodium" cream-of-mushroom soup, the green beans, and the canned fried onions, and added nothing else.

I love green bean casserole, as it's one of my favorite Thanksgiving foods. Even offered to make it for everyone this year! But she insisted that she wanted to do it.

The only thing that was salty this Thanksgiving was me.

In this thread: people that think spices = spicy

True, my dad calls food "spicy" and breaks out in a sweat when I put black pepper on.

You had access to the entire spice trade, WHY DIDNT YOU USE IT???

I'm British. Don't put the Dutch in the same group as us. Our local 'cuisine' truly is a crime to food.

This is quite the circlejerk.

What do you think tea is made of?

Dunno, have you ever had a curry in Birmingham on the mile?

I went with two American colleagues and one of them couldn't finish his 'medium' heat dish because they said it was too spicy.

The English have tikka masala, the Dutch have satay chicken.

Sure, it was for spices, definitely not for money.

It was a different time. We don't do that anymore!

Yanks on their way to just cover bland, mass produced shite in butter and salt so they can proclaim it "the gradest food in the wuuuurld"

They really did did Kill millions of people to get spices and then decide they didn't like any of them.

Theres a lot of great dutch food! I will defend pannenkoek, stampot, oliebollen, Gouda, spekkoek, krokets, poffertjes, stroopwafel... hell, I love pickled herring.

Dutch food is very underrated!

This reminds me of an old post I remember seeing where it depicted the contrast between anime food and English film food with some eggs. The anime ones were drawn with utmost care to look downright heavenly, while the English film eggs were very scraggly.

BUT THERE IS SOME REALLY GOOD CURRY IN THE UK BECAUSE SOME CONQUERED PEOPLES WERE COERCED TO THE OLD IMPERIAL CORE TO TRY TO ECONOMICALLY SURVIVE SO TAKE THAT

I played too much red dead, I'm like " I don't remember a character named Brits.

What about Dutch pancakes? Your choice of toppings, covered in syrup. Divine.

They might have had good foods when they looted. Paying for good stuff is not what they do.

That’s why they needed spices so badly

My Jamaican friend once said: "How many times do I have to tell you people flour is not a spice".

I'm jealous of the funnt spices they have now. 4-MMC

At least some Dutch food integrated the spices (Speculaas), the Brits have no excuse

TBF to the Dutch, the regular food they serve you at a restaurant nowadays beats the USA by a mile.

stroopwafels are good

They got better!

But on a more serious historical note, this stereotype is largely a result of post-ww2 economic reality on the ground in western Europe.

LMAOOOO

Dutch and British food isn’t bad, unless your a yank that only eats things pumped full of sugar.