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Brits: Salt is a spice
  • It depends if you are looking for traditional or contemporary cuisine.

    Traditional:

    Can't get much more traditional than a Sunday roast. Perhaps not the most spiced dish, but relies on a complexity of ingredients cooked just right, and served with a combo of rich gravy and various sauces (mint, cranberry, redcurrant, horseradish, mustard etc are all common). Certainly a flavourful dish when done right.

    Pies and pasties are historically very popular. These days sometimes mistakenly viewed as plain food due to the availability of simpler fast food offerings, but there are a huge variety of styles, flavours and complexities around. Pies as a category cover those made with different types of pastries, as well as those topped with potato (cottage pie, shepherds pie, fish pie etc).

    There are a huge variety of other traditional dishes from across the UK to explore which Google can list out a load of, but truth is historically much of British cuisine was based on what was locally or seasonally available; seasonal veg, seafood, cheeses, breads and cakes.

    Local knowledge and variety is also huge. I'm Welsh and could name dozens of Welsh dishes others in the UK won't have even heard of, and you won't find much mention of even online and know what you're looking for.

    Contemporary:

    ..per the meme, Britain's imperial past does mean a multicultural present, and the reality is that that has influenced common cuisine in a big way - what many British people are eating on a regular basis are based in fusion.

    Curries are incredibly popular, and it is worth noting that written British curry recipes predate the founding of the USA, and imported recipes predate that by hundreds more years - it isn't a particularly recent or novel thing. British curries are as unique to Indian curries as eg Chinese or Japanese curry is. Not only that, each country within the UK has unique variations of curry attributed to them.

    Anglo-Chinese and Italian food are also particularly popular - most towns across the UK that are big enough to have a couple of restaurants will have a minimum of a fish and chip shop, a Chinese, an Indian/curry house, kebab shop, and an Italian restaurant. Most cities have places serving foods from dozens of countries available. In big cities, London in particular, it is probably easier to name countries that there isn't food from than there is.

    Growing up, a typical week of 7 home cooked dinners looked like Pasta bake or lasagne, curry, stir fry, jacket potato and/or soup, fish & chips, fajitas, Sunday roast.

    .. That turned into a bigger answer than intended 😂

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    Insurance as a product invites monopolisation and collusion though, so competition relies on strong regulation, which not all insurance markets across the world enjoy..

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    I guess if you're very used to it you don't notice but I can see how that would jade or confuse new/inexperienced users and lead to buying the wrong or an imitation product.

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    Same reason many people choose iPhones, they can just turn it on and use it without thinking or needing to configure it. Meanwhile those with more knowledge who might actively be looking for customisation may prefer another option.

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    Plus if you just want to add extra support for someone, YouTube does already have the members feature which generally adds more value than twitch subscriptions

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    So I view it as £2pm to remove YouTube ads for the whole family as well as enabling YT offline and background play.

    I think that's a good deal, particularly given as a family we watch more YT than any other TV service, however if you're not willing to pay for a music service I can see how you might feel differently about that

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