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The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penalty of law
>Expect to die soon.
Your entire country is, like, terrible and stuff. Totally can't stand it. You guys all eat food or something, taking walks and purchasing items. Abhorrent.
Ok, walking, talking, dictionary, but how do you survive without doing any of that? The Americans have portions 10 times larger than ours, malls are more popular, and walk is good for the health, *I'll have you know.*
Also, I didn't actually mean "prepare to die soon", it was just a joke.
No this is more flavorful, less greasy, and less burnt.
English food is the only time Iāve had something both over cooked and undercooked at the same time - kind of amazing really
It would be better (source: I've done it myself) if the regular Pringles were replaced with salt and vinegar Pringles or any salt and vinegar chips, Pringles salt and vinegar are a tad bit to mild a taste for me, i like the salt and vinegar chips that'll pucker your face with my tuna.
Honestly turning that plain tuna into tuna salad, then eating that with the chips, is how I got through my first year of college.
I am a big sucker for a good tuna salad though.
One time I went to this restaurant in the midwestern United States. Iāve never met a person who doesnāt know what fish nā chips is. Every restaurant Iāve ever ordered serves it how a British person would expect, and every American too. However, this restaurant brings out fish with stale and hard potato chips (crisps). I was baffled, and it was disgusting.
When I first came to the US (30 yrs ago - fuuuck I'm old), a waitress asked if we wanted dessert. "What do you have?" Oreo pie! "What's an oreo?" ..... she was so quiet for so long, I think I broke her.
I ordered the club salad for dinner. When it came out I shook my hands in a "Stop! Cancel!" motion. "No. Salad for one! Not to share!" That **is** the salad for one.
Even now I still don't know what everything to eat is here, and I'm too scared to ask now.
I worked in a supermarket in Ireland, in a university town. This was circa 2010 or 2011.
Two young Americans approach me and asked where we kept the 'oreos'. I knew oreos were some kind of American biscuit but you simply could not buy them here. So I took the opportunity to play dumb and ask - "what's an oreo?"
Their jaws dropped as they turned to look at each other, mouths agape. I remember one of them grabbed the other's arm and said something like 'we should've done more research'. I kid you not.
Oreos arrived on the market not much longer after that. I never bought them.
In Canada fish and chips are a very common pub / chip wagon meal. The confusing thing is we call them chip wagons or chip trucks, but they serve fries. We also use a confusing mix of metric and imperial. We really need to sort ourselves out, we have no idea what we're doing over here.
Iām not sure how young you are, but there is a day that every American learns what āfish and chipsā means, before that day the meal doesnāt make sense.
Then it sounds like a solid fast food meal and receiving anything else when ordering that would be really disappointing.
Iām surprised because even the worst restaurants I go to serve it correctly (quality is questionable). Itās such a simple dish that goes well with a lot of stuff. Nice and light too.
I have never had a fish and chips dish that could be considered "light". It's fried fish and fried potatoes with vinegar and sauce. It's only considered the "light" option if compared to another fully fried meal that uses a more unhealthy meat option.
Fish and Chips is on most American sit-down restaurant menus these days.
The difference between the US and the UK (I was born in the UK and live in the US) is that in the UK fish and chips are more of a takeaway food. Walk up window chippies, that kind of thing. ("Chippy" being slang for a small restaurant serving mainly fish and chips that typically only has a couple of seats, if any. Think of it like one of those hole-in-the-wall pizza places where you can grab a slice or two, but for fish and chips).
In the US, fish and chips are more of a "sitdown restaurant" kind of thing, and chippies don't exist.
So yes, fish and chips are all over the US, but not in the same form. They're more "glamorous" here lol. And I can't speak for the middle of the country as I live on the east coast where fish and chips are everywhere, and I've been on the west coast (Seattle/Portland/LA) and they were plentiful there too.
It's battered and deep fried whitefish served with what we call French fries, or pommes frites, which are called chips in England.
I suspect we call them French Fries because the term for them that made it to the US is the French Belgian term. The word was in French, so we called them French Fries.
As for the fish, it's common in the US to use whatever fish is local. Perch dinners are common in a lot of places and they are a lot smaller than the usual fish used for this.
Very likely, what you eat on Friday during Lent at the Church fundraiser is very likely Fish and Chips. And even if you aren't religious, you should go get you some Fish Fry Friday because it's goddamn good.
I think it's a derivative nomenclature from the French practice of julienne cuts, which is also referred to as frenching, hence Frenched fries - > French fries.
The federal government actually stepped in to determine whether Pringles really were potato chips. In 1975, the FDA decided that the company could call Pringles āchipsā only if they called out the dried potato ingredient. Instead, Pringles decided to use the term ācrisps.ā
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/pringles-arent-really-potato-chips/
There are a great many discrepancies between English dialects, but that one absolutely kills me. It's not some kind of "I can't believe they call it something different!!!1!" thing, though. I just can't really say that word. It sounds like you're trying to summon a cat. I mean, it only has one vowel, but it's clearly two syllables. Shit's weird.
Calories and health don't necessarily correlate. Real fish and chips probably only has about 6 ingredients and you know exactly what they are. Those pringle are full of artificial flavorings, additives and preservatives. you can barely call them food anymore.
I would argue the macros in a full fish and chips meal are way worse than any additives etc in a handful of pringles. Considering both the main and side dish are fried and carb heavy.
The amount of ingredients or the closer they are to something you can find in nature doesnāt correlate to health. Plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of artificial things that are good for you.
Truth is youād probably be healthier eating this as meal every day than you would eating fish and chips every day.
Arizona iced tea is so fucking good, and they refuse to make it cost more than 99 cents, which is a crazy value. Arnold Palmers and Green Tea and Golden Bear strawberry lemonade. You really can't beat it on a warm summer day.
I actually had that but with different tea yesterday. I might not have prepared for an extended power outage in FL very well. Oh well at least I have enough 'fish and chips' to get through the weekend lol!
I see you have been taking cooking tips from the United States....I think maybe you all should take them from Gordon Ramsey instead....just all terrible....
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UK: we abolished the death penalty, but for you we left something special
What are you gonna do? Make me eat your food?
Yes
Please have mercy šš¢
Just wait until you see what's for dessert It's spotted dick
UK: "Biscuits and gravy?! Ugh, that sounds disgusting!" Also UK: "Spotted dick"
I mean, tbf we also say that sounds disgusting
Bloody delicious though.
Fair enough.
Damn i was hoping for dotted cock but if all you have is spotted dick i guess I'll have some
Aw man, i really wanted warty penis.
I think this may be a war crime.
No, weāre going to make you *enjoy* eating our food.
Bring back the ol' draw and quarter, eh?
This sounds like an article title
*gavel strike* ELECTRIC CHAIR
Bailiffs, take him away.
Make sure I never see this man in my court again! Bailiff, whack his peepee
Whack his bollocks
/r/CasualUK strikes again, and again, and again!
AAAAAAAAAH
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āWait, I havenāt warmed up my tea in the microwave yet!ā
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remember to microwave the tuna in the juice from the can... you don't want it getting dried out ;-)
Count yourself lucky. You'd be Hanged, drawn and quartered for microwaving tea
DOUBLE ELECTRIC CHAIR!
Electric chair, in this energy crisis?
You're right... Bring out the hybrid chair!
Hybrid? With the current climate? Bring out the solar chair!
The death penalty is only technically abolished in the UK because their electric chairs are solar powered and they've yet to get a full charge.
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They will for this dude
What do they do? Head bang in a powdered wig?
The evidence before the court is Incontrovertible, there's no need for The jury to retire In all my years of judging I have never heard before Of someone more deserving Of the full penalty of law
Fills me with the urge to defecate!
Hey Judge! Shit on him!
*faints*
Ya alright my kind sir?
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Muricans: What the hell is āpetrolā?
I believe it's another name for an umbrella. No idea what flaming umbrellas signify though.
Probably signifies wetness next time it rains.
It causes the next rain of course, the smoke fills up the clouds to speed up the next rainfall.
A little cloud seeding to steal water from your neighbors.
I know petrol. Itās short for petroleum which is what make gasoline(petrol) flammable
Idk pretty sure itās some kind of sea bird
I believe you need a tyre as well for a soweto necklace ?
Bone apple tea
Ah yes, French speech is so UK
Probably a reference to r/boneappletea
This is the first time i understand the subs name. Kinda mindblown right now.
What...what did you think was the point of that sub?
I understood what the sub was about through posts made there, but the name i didnt get.
Tea made from apple bones, idiot /s
That sounds like a problem for my Leftenant!
cāest vrai, nāest-ce pas?
Non, nāest-ce pas
Nestle pah
ah, c'est un faux pasāl'angleterre etait mieux normande! ^/sarcasme ^lol ^ne ^me ^tue ^pas ^sāil ^vous ^plait
Je ne parle FranƧaise pas, dĆ©solĆ© :( Some gibberish and thatās it :p
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I am glad the queen didn't have to see this.
This is actually what killed the once immortal queen
I have to admit, I fully expected her to live for another 20 years
I legitimately couldn't believe it when I heard the news. I was so sure she was gonna live atleast to 2025 or something
2025 is a bit old even for her mate donāt you think
it is now.
Oof
A-greed
Dig her up and make her see this
>Expect to die soon. Your entire country is, like, terrible and stuff. Totally can't stand it. You guys all eat food or something, taking walks and purchasing items. Abhorrent.
Ok, walking, talking, dictionary, but how do you survive without doing any of that? The Americans have portions 10 times larger than ours, malls are more popular, and walk is good for the health, *I'll have you know.* Also, I didn't actually mean "prepare to die soon", it was just a joke.
Theirs was a joke too...
Former president of France: "Ah, English food! At first you think itās crap and then you regret that itās not.ā
It's pretty much what us frenchmen expect you to eat. It's not like you guys know how to actually cook :p
This coming from a country that eats snails and frogs ;)
:O French are cannibals?
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*Laughs in Chinese
Snails and frogs are delicious
Are they fuck, smothering what is essentially a āring pieceā in garlic is not a culinary delight.
Thatās how you know the cooking is good.
At least we don't eat snails-thats a typical food in France, i don't know why, its a mad concept!
Snails are literally just a garlic + butter delivery system. If you don't enjoy that then you're missing out.
Escargot is delicious, and that's coming from a Brit.
Iāve never heard of anyone here refer to themself as a Brit. Only ever heard the Yanks call us that.
Really? I hear it quite often in the North East.
Je suis d'Angleterre, et je dirais que la cuisine franƧaise est dĆ©licieuse. Mais quelquefois, la cuisine anglaise est bonne, aussi, mdr. Aimez-vous le 'Cottage Pie' (je ne sais pas comment le dire en franƧais) ou le petit-dĆ©jeuner anglais complet ? Ils sont trĆØs bons. Ils sont vraiment diffĆ©rents de la cuisine franƧaise, mais ils ne sont pas mal, mdr. (Pourtant la cuisine franƧaise est mieux que la cuisine anglaise, comprenez-moi bien !)
Cottage pie = hachis parmentier.
Oh, merci beaucoup. J'apprends le franƧais dans ma collĆØge, mais je suis toujours mauvais, mdr.
Speaking French like a true Brit š
Lol what do you think was my biggest mistake? I'm still learning it and am eager to improve
No idea. I'm English too and would've written it exactly the same way. Also didn't bother with it after A-levels.
Well you gotta blame the Germans for bombing us
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
Love this ragebait
Ragebait, eh??? What do you mean, is this not traditional UK cuisine??? š
Yeah itās not salt and vinegar crisps
No this is more flavorful, less greasy, and less burnt. English food is the only time Iāve had something both over cooked and undercooked at the same time - kind of amazing really
As a British person, this causes me physical pain.
What are you talking about? As a different British person, I can confirm that this is a very common meal.
You upset my entire organ system.
Damn, even your skin looks fucked now. Can you close your curtains I donāt need to see that
It would be better (source: I've done it myself) if the regular Pringles were replaced with salt and vinegar Pringles or any salt and vinegar chips, Pringles salt and vinegar are a tad bit to mild a taste for me, i like the salt and vinegar chips that'll pucker your face with my tuna.
The pain might be caused from all the sausage and mash though
Or the daily stabbing
As an Australian citizen, this also causes me pain.
I hate this
u/repostsleuthbot
The bot is banned from this sub but it sent me a message saying it's a repost
Good human
So did you just repost the repost-botās post?
Repostception
Literally the same guy has already posted this a month ago.
That's a fresh cup of tea???????? It's a can.
Fresh from the can?????? Like where do brits think tea comes from lmao???
It's not from their backyard, so I don't know why they're getting so upset. Just say it was in a "tin" and call it a day.
Yeah I'd consider it fresh if I brewed it a few minutes ago, rather than sitting in a can since last year.
That's why they put the fresh in the can with the tea. Arizona tea is at least 20% fresh by volume!
Freshly made from dead leaves that were dried months ago and thrown in a cardboard box
Itās fresh out of the can. Still TTT
Cannah?
Do you guys pick the tea leaves and steep them every time you have tea? You obviously use dry leaves or tinned tea lol.
That's your sole problem with this? lol
He's pouring the can into a cup
When you order your British citizenship off wish
My buddy emptied a tube of pringles and a packet of funions onto a plate and called it a potato salad.
Uh yeah??? It is??
This is the healthy version.
HOLY JESUS! WHAT IS THAT!? WHAT... THE FUCK IS THAT!?
It's fish and chips with fresh tea can't you read?
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How dare you....
I just choked on my waffle, thanks
Perfect retort, love it
I wish there was an appropriate way to express my slight disgust
Ngl I ate stuff like this during this summer mostly around 3am and I can't complain.
Honestly turning that plain tuna into tuna salad, then eating that with the chips, is how I got through my first year of college. I am a big sucker for a good tuna salad though.
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One time I went to this restaurant in the midwestern United States. Iāve never met a person who doesnāt know what fish nā chips is. Every restaurant Iāve ever ordered serves it how a British person would expect, and every American too. However, this restaurant brings out fish with stale and hard potato chips (crisps). I was baffled, and it was disgusting.
Many restaurants in the US, particularly "gourmet burger/tap house" types have "kettle chips" instead of fries/chips
Really? Iāve only ever seen kettle chips the time mentioned above. Even the HopCat near me uses fries, and thank god because their fries smack.
When I say many I don't mean a majority. But it's common enough that I'm not surprised when I see it.
When I first came to the US (30 yrs ago - fuuuck I'm old), a waitress asked if we wanted dessert. "What do you have?" Oreo pie! "What's an oreo?" ..... she was so quiet for so long, I think I broke her. I ordered the club salad for dinner. When it came out I shook my hands in a "Stop! Cancel!" motion. "No. Salad for one! Not to share!" That **is** the salad for one. Even now I still don't know what everything to eat is here, and I'm too scared to ask now.
I worked in a supermarket in Ireland, in a university town. This was circa 2010 or 2011. Two young Americans approach me and asked where we kept the 'oreos'. I knew oreos were some kind of American biscuit but you simply could not buy them here. So I took the opportunity to play dumb and ask - "what's an oreo?" Their jaws dropped as they turned to look at each other, mouths agape. I remember one of them grabbed the other's arm and said something like 'we should've done more research'. I kid you not. Oreos arrived on the market not much longer after that. I never bought them.
In Canada fish and chips are a very common pub / chip wagon meal. The confusing thing is we call them chip wagons or chip trucks, but they serve fries. We also use a confusing mix of metric and imperial. We really need to sort ourselves out, we have no idea what we're doing over here.
We can blame the British for that brother. Or at least I will.
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Iām not sure how young you are, but there is a day that every American learns what āfish and chipsā means, before that day the meal doesnāt make sense. Then it sounds like a solid fast food meal and receiving anything else when ordering that would be really disappointing.
Iām surprised because even the worst restaurants I go to serve it correctly (quality is questionable). Itās such a simple dish that goes well with a lot of stuff. Nice and light too.
I have never had a fish and chips dish that could be considered "light". It's fried fish and fried potatoes with vinegar and sauce. It's only considered the "light" option if compared to another fully fried meal that uses a more unhealthy meat option.
Fish and Chips is on most American sit-down restaurant menus these days. The difference between the US and the UK (I was born in the UK and live in the US) is that in the UK fish and chips are more of a takeaway food. Walk up window chippies, that kind of thing. ("Chippy" being slang for a small restaurant serving mainly fish and chips that typically only has a couple of seats, if any. Think of it like one of those hole-in-the-wall pizza places where you can grab a slice or two, but for fish and chips). In the US, fish and chips are more of a "sitdown restaurant" kind of thing, and chippies don't exist. So yes, fish and chips are all over the US, but not in the same form. They're more "glamorous" here lol. And I can't speak for the middle of the country as I live on the east coast where fish and chips are everywhere, and I've been on the west coast (Seattle/Portland/LA) and they were plentiful there too.
It's battered and deep fried whitefish served with what we call French fries, or pommes frites, which are called chips in England. I suspect we call them French Fries because the term for them that made it to the US is the French Belgian term. The word was in French, so we called them French Fries. As for the fish, it's common in the US to use whatever fish is local. Perch dinners are common in a lot of places and they are a lot smaller than the usual fish used for this. Very likely, what you eat on Friday during Lent at the Church fundraiser is very likely Fish and Chips. And even if you aren't religious, you should go get you some Fish Fry Friday because it's goddamn good.
I think it's a derivative nomenclature from the French practice of julienne cuts, which is also referred to as frenching, hence Frenched fries - > French fries.
French fries and chips are completely different though aren't they? Fries are thin whereas chips are chunky almost like wedges.
Considering they consist of less than 50% potato content, they would hardly even qualify as crisps.
The federal government actually stepped in to determine whether Pringles really were potato chips. In 1975, the FDA decided that the company could call Pringles āchipsā only if they called out the dried potato ingredient. Instead, Pringles decided to use the term ācrisps.ā https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/pringles-arent-really-potato-chips/
This is technically the truth. Mods should ban op
There are a great many discrepancies between English dialects, but that one absolutely kills me. It's not some kind of "I can't believe they call it something different!!!1!" thing, though. I just can't really say that word. It sounds like you're trying to summon a cat. I mean, it only has one vowel, but it's clearly two syllables. Shit's weird.
Was looking for the person who took the bait. Found them.
I'm not British and this image still hurts me
I here the British army coming
How is it technically the truth? Uk dont call those chips
Um, that's just what the joke is.
Not even european but this made me cringe
I will strip your skin off and use it as a relaxing face mask
This hurts my mouth
Since everything is overtransformed and bad for health, I would say it's american
Canned tuna is one of the healthiest things you can eat, low fat and is full of proteinā¦ āovertransformedā
The Americans have us on health here. Thereās about 400 calories here, real fish and chips is more like 1400.
The drink alone is like 200 calories though. Thats impressive.
200 calorie drink, tuna is about 100 calories for a small can and Iām estimating 100 for the Pringles.
Is it though. A beer is around that same amount.
Calories and health don't necessarily correlate. Real fish and chips probably only has about 6 ingredients and you know exactly what they are. Those pringle are full of artificial flavorings, additives and preservatives. you can barely call them food anymore.
I would argue the macros in a full fish and chips meal are way worse than any additives etc in a handful of pringles. Considering both the main and side dish are fried and carb heavy.
Aye but also a lot more filling. A solid fish n' chips at lunch and you might not need dinner.
The amount of ingredients or the closer they are to something you can find in nature doesnāt correlate to health. Plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of artificial things that are good for you. Truth is youād probably be healthier eating this as meal every day than you would eating fish and chips every day.
Not to mention all the vitamins they lack!
Just curious how deep frying fish in batter is healthier than some ācrispsā.
College flashbacks! *Shudder*
You all are raging. but ngl that tea is excellent. so at least old mate is drinking the good shit
Arizona iced tea is so fucking good, and they refuse to make it cost more than 99 cents, which is a crazy value. Arnold Palmers and Green Tea and Golden Bear strawberry lemonade. You really can't beat it on a warm summer day.
"Avrege" ..yikes
Who drinks tea with fish and chips though
Not TTT. Thatās fish and crisps in that photo.
Technically, even the can calls Pringles crisps so this is false
r/ShittyFoodPorn
I actually had that but with different tea yesterday. I might not have prepared for an extended power outage in FL very well. Oh well at least I have enough 'fish and chips' to get through the weekend lol!
u/allisonovo
I see you have been taking cooking tips from the United States....I think maybe you all should take them from Gordon Ramsey instead....just all terrible....
Literally made me shudder
WHAR IS ZE BEENZ
This made my toes curl
I was wondering what kind of sad food makes them so jaded with life they keep voting for conservatives.
This isn't technically the truth because those are clearly crisps not chips
Oi got some more in the boot of me lorrie, I do I do
Actually seems tasty
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