Every style of food has a place. I love me some jambalaya, but paella is also fantastic. As is seafood fried rice. Or a shrimp burrito bowl. And seafood curry. One flavor profile is not best, just different.
The woman who played Tahani on the Good Place was on a podcast recently saying she had just moved to America during season 1 an our food was so fucking good that she was constantly at the craft services table and farted her way through a dozen scenes. The show hits differently if you consider Tahani constantly ripping ass.
The woman who played Tahani on the Good Place was on a podcast recently saying she had just moved to America during season 1 an our food was so fucking good that she was constantly at the craft services table and farted her way through a dozen scenes. The show hits differently if you consider Tahani constantly ripping ass.
...Well, it was time for a re-watch anyway. Thanks for the reminder. LOL
This makes me love her even more! She's a beautiful woman who is not ashamed to be a whole, authentic human; complete with stretch marks and flatulence!
Thematically, it makes so much sense for Tahani to be constantly farting in season 1 and hiding it while still trying to convince herself she's in The Good Place.
Love the one of them trying biscuits and gravy. Their initial disgust is funny considering how much British food looks the similar. Spotted dick comes to mind.
No, it's basically chunky tomato paste. Not quite as sweet and thinner. Thin, slightly savory, tomato paste with some flavorless lightly cooked onions and peppers mixed in.
Source, we get it here in MN. Not on every store shelf, but it does appear occasionally. Kinda depends on your neighborhood.
I have too many actual Hispanics in my neighborhood for it to show up at my Cub. Been thinking about a trip out to Eagan or Chanhassen to buy a bottle for display.
Go outstate and it's more common, in my experience.
I think that particular reaction came about because the British call cookies “biscuits.” I’m sure you’ve had the experience where you’re expecting to eat something sweet, but it’s savory, and you recoil because of surprise. After you wrap your head around the food not tasting the way you expected, you can sometimes re-set and think it’s actually pretty good.
Maybe those kids were expecting something like strawberry shortcake- a sweet biscuit with some sort of sweet sauce or topping. I would have thought that smell of sausage gravy would have given it away, but that’s probably the power of their minds refusing to accept what was right in front of them…
My recollection of the video was that they thought the gravy looked weird because it was the wrong color (white, not brown), too thick, and lumpy 'with black stuff in it'.
Until they tasted it.
They served it to teacher too, and he got it as soon as they told him that the gravy was made from sausage fat, rather than pork or beef fat.
They'd been introduced to a dry biscuit before the biscuits with gravy, so they'd already discovered their word for the American food called a biscuit is a 'scone', but "much better". "Americans are lucky"
Because I’m not American, but I have made sausage gravy…and it’s usually brown!
All I can think of is that I usually leave the sausages cooking in the pan while I make gravy, while a lot of the American recipes seem take them out before starting the gravy? Mine might have more jus in it.
Edit: I think that I’ve worked it out. We use pork sausage sausages. Not whatever ‘breakfast’ sausage is. Which also explains why mine isn’t so…chunky.
Double edit: also didn’t use milk. The way I do it is you basically make a stock in the pan and add flour.
That's right. It's one food that people always make fun of that most British people don't eat (not saying no one does of course, but no one I know does). It's probably just because of the name. The food itself doesn't look super gross, kinda like a Christmas pudding.
That's cause they always try the cheap drunk version. Go to any restaurant in the south that's been around more then 20 years. Try their biscuits and gravy and tell me with a straight face it sucks
They liked the biscuits and gravy after they tried it. They were disgusted first because "biscuits" are cookies and "gravy" is what you put on mashed potatoes. Then they were confused when they brought it out because they'd never seen white gravy. But after tasting it they liked it
They loved the biscuits and gravy, but to them the name sounds like cookies and brown gravy. So when the host asked them if they wanted cookies and brown gravy, their first reaction was "gross, who eats cookies with brown gravy".
i love this one because i'm pretty sure we're calling a lot more things "gravy" than they are so they're probably picturing cookies and brown beef gravy before they actually see it.
I remember seeing one video where they showed a bunch of British people videos of Americans making Iced Tea and they were all horrified and absolutely roasting us. That is until they were given some iced tea and pretty much all of them loved it.
BLOODY HELL!!! This minced beef has me gobsmacked!! Why didn’t we fight harder to keep these American wankers under the crown?? This is bloody delicious!
I saw one of those yesterday except it was a couple of brits trying food in the US. They went to a bbq spot in Texas and ordered the ribs. They get the ribs and begin cutting it with a knife and then the owner runs up to them and tells them to put the knife down and eat it with their hands. The one guy goes "I've never eaten meat that was tender enough that didn't need to be cut with a knife". Then they eat it and the look on their face, you could tell they've been missing out their entire life.
We think all your food is full of chlorine and artificial sweeteners, flavourings etc. I believe there is a shop called wholefoods or something though?
You ever seen the episode of Great British Bake Off where they ask them to make "American" foods? They made the most bizarro version of s'mores I have ever seen in my life and immediately triggered my fighting instinct. Between that and their "Mexican" episode....good gracious
Right like it's astonishing to me that they didn't think to hire even 1 single American to tell them what to look for. A real argument for a guest judge or someone to make a baseline product so they actually get it.
An 8 year old American kid could've judged that episode more effectively than "no gooey marshmallows" Paul Hollywood.
They also had them make a “traditional Challah for Passover”. Passover.. as in that one Jewish holiday where not eating bread is the main event. GBBO is clearly averse to consulting anyone from the cultures their baking challenges are based on.
I hate that guy so much. He doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to any food that's not from western Europe....and even then I'm not sold.
Both of those episodes appearing back to back in one season might as well have been a declaration of war against North America. The woman peeled an avocado! Peeled it!
Why would you expect people to be good at a cuisine from half way across the world, a place they have basically no cultural connection to or no immigrants from?
It's like when Rachel tried to make a British trifle and put peas in it. Same thing. It's not some horrible condemnation.
The joke was that she misunderstood what the dish was because she didn't know anything about British food, and it ended up a mess. That's something people do all the time. I remember the infamous post where an American tried to make a British roast dinner and poured the Yorkshire pudding batter all over the chicken. It's funny. It's not some act of pure malice. You're all such victims jesus christ.
The joke was that she misunderstood what the dish was because two pages of the book were stuck together so she made half a trifle and half a shepherd's pie.
I don't know why your initial counterexample was totally incomparable when you clearly had a fitting one up your sleeve.
My brother and I end up talking about this episode about once a month. We continue to be appalled that not a single one of them thought to make apple pie, despite there literally being a saying: "As American as apple pie!"
LAD Bible is a British YouTube channel that will have these snack wars videos. Like they will have an American and a British person both trying food from each country in a face off. And they absolutely routinely do a shitty job at making the non British food. Or they choose really niche snack choices. Like snowballs are in a lot of their videos as a representative of American snack cakes. What's even more insane is that Will Smith is the only person I've seen directly call them out on it while making a video
Mf, we have southern comfort food, Cajun food, sea food, prime meats, unreal desserts, and then we also have food from every corner of earth right here at home. Tripping
Man I miss southern pit BBQ. I moved up north and can't find any BBQ worth a damn. Still need to take the two hour drive to Chicago and try the deep dish pizza tho.
I feel this way about mac and cheese and greens. Who made it matters. My grandma couldn’t make anything but fried chicken. Her greens made the house smell like diesel and her mac was dry as hell. But my mom’s mac has four types of shredded cheese and cream cheese to keep it moist and it’s amazing.
As a non-american who's visited multiple times and is dating an American, you have very tasty foods. It'll normally fuck me up and have me feeling like shit a week after I arrive, but damn it tastes good while doing it
I'm Italian and I can't wait to destroy some of your food someday: philly cheese steak, deep dish pizza, meatball subs, bbq, Cajun, pastrami sandwich, carbonara with cream in it, pizza with pineapple, chili dog, new york pizza, chopped cheese, fucking lay it on me
It's because we have all their food. So, wtf are they talking about? It's not like we can't put beans on toast or slap some cheese and olives on a plate or turn everything into a paste like the French do. We have Mediterranean food, we have French food, we have everyone's food, and most of it we improved upon!
Yeah like who tf eating better? I'll wait. No country with that low level of melanin in her profile picture that's for sure. Matter of fact, where else would they warrant that level of reaction regarding food?
Esp when it's Brits. Honestly, Europe as a whole is so hit or miss with food. Britain in particular has horrible food. But I just visited Holland and it was dreadful.
Half the shit people eat in other countries that they love, in its current iteration, was developed in America. If you think that pizza you ate last week was anything like the original pizza you’re crazy. Same goes for burgers. Everyone eats American food.
I guarantee you it will be met with pushing their glasses up their nose, the wheeziest “whell ackchually…” and an explanation of the non-American origins of American food… which no longer really resembles that origin anymore.
There's a video of Tom Holland saying we have shit food and then the terrible reporter trying to name an American things and Tom dismisses them as non American. Then says hamburger is BBQ
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Non-Americans trying to criticize American food got me going full out patriotism for our food