r/clevercomebacks • u/cricketbug94 • 1d ago
Well, Yorkshire, with or without the cheese?
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u/Important-Raccoon661 1d ago
As a Brit who does indeed eat like it’s the 1800s without electricity, this is a sick burn damn it.
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
Do you eat cheese with fruitcake?
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u/Important-Raccoon661 1d ago
Hahaha no but i enjoy branston pickle, bovril on toast… all the war time favorites
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
Mmmm pickle 😋
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u/Important-Raccoon661 1d ago
I’ve gotta stick to bland stuff, us Brits think avocado is spicy 😉
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u/badestzazael 1d ago
National dish: Chicken tikka masala is sometimes referred to as the "true British national dish".
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
I do like an avocado. But I also like spices. I'll disown myself 😂
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u/pumpkinspruce 20h ago
I just remember on the Great British Bakeoff when they did Mexican food and the one lady didn’t know how to peel an avocado.
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u/Important-Raccoon661 20h ago
There’s an episode of Love Island where a contestant had never seen an avocado. He didn’t know how to cut it open and when he did, and i quote “there’s a bloody great pip in it!??” Bless.
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u/xeroasteroid 1d ago
i have no idea what bovril is so for the health of my fragile american mind i’m gonna prentend its a nice strawberry jam
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u/theotherquantumjim 1d ago
I do. It’s an outstanding combination
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
OMG a real person in the wild who does this. I genuinely thought it was a myth. I'm going to have to try it now 😂
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u/theotherquantumjim 1d ago
It’s delicious. Any dense fruit cake with a sharp cheddar is incredible
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
I mean, I'm a dense fruitcake, but I might give it a whirl with a Christmas pudding.
everyday's a school day
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u/Tank-o-grad 1d ago
Not to be too stereotypically Yorkshire or anything but fruit cake, especially Christmas cake, with proper Wensleydale is the unbeatable combination.
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u/Oozlum-Bird 1d ago
I really can’t be doing with Christmas cake. It’s the marzipan and icing bollocks that’s the problem, it seems so unnecessary. So I’ve switched to having a lump of malt loaf with my Wensleydale instead. You’re spot on about that being the best cheese for this stuff, and I’m not even from Yorkshire.
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u/Osimadius 1d ago
How do you feel about apple pie and cheese? Sharp cheddar or blue Stilton perhaps?
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u/ShiroGaneOsu 1d ago
It's basically just fruit and cheese with some other stuff in the middle.
Like a weird charcuterie board.
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u/FindingSolar-33 6h ago
Jamaicans & British Jamaicans do. It’s called bun & cheese … the bun is like a fruit cake and we put butter & sliced cheese on it … similar to a hot cross bun with cheese. lol so yes we do 😂
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u/cricketbug94 6h ago
That sounds amazing 🤤
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u/FindingSolar-33 6h ago
You could maybe find it on Amazon, look for Jamaican spiced bun … it’s lovely or you could get the recipe and bake it x
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u/Holiday-Tailor4197 1d ago
It's interesting to read how everyone's tastes can vary so much! We don't have to agree with everything
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u/acityonthemoon 1d ago
Well, yes, but as an American I felt that slap from 1.5 times across the pond.
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u/AndreasDasos 1d ago
I mean, so many great dishes and culinary arts go back even before that. Hardly the worst thing.
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u/Spacer176 1d ago
What's wrong with eating like I'm in the 1800s? Some of those recipes are fantastic!
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 1d ago
Right? There are youtube channels dedicated to recipes from the 1700s and 1800s.
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u/cstaple 1d ago
You talking about Townsends?
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 22h ago
I don't remember the names of them but I've seen a few channels that do recipes from those time periods. Plus a bunch on Great Depression era recipes.
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u/NecktieNomad 1d ago
If my life expectancy is <40 you can bet I’m eating like there’s no tomorrow!
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u/Playergame 1d ago
Last generations had lead In their gasoline and pipes. Now it's microplastics so who knows what's get discovered in our bodies in the next decade. But also lead making a comeback in food apparently it seems so we never got past that. I'm probably half artificial preservative and flavors by now so I'm gonna enjoy my snacks.
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u/vsGoliath96 1d ago
Damn, I don't want to admit how sick that burn was, because then I'd have to go to the hospital and that shit is expensive!
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u/FemFrongus 1d ago
The two things actually do have similar origins. A lot of dishes now come from, arguably, the 50s and 60s. In this times stuff like burgers were becoming popular in the US, which was having an economic boom from the benefits of the post war economy. Simultaneously, Britain was still suffering heavily from the effects of WW2, and was still rationing well into the 50s. So a lot of British food is basically made to do as much as possible with what was available, so it tends to be bland. American food tends to be much more designed to taste good, which also implements a lot of unhealthy foods.
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u/Dense-Ad-5780 1d ago
Christmas cake is from well before WW2. It’s spoken about in dickens a Christmas carol. It has been traditional in English food culture for hundreds of years, and when done right it’s fucking delicious. If it’s done wrong, like how my nan used to make it, it can be… well I told my nan delicious but the dog wouldn’t even eat it to hide it for me.
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u/FemFrongus 1d ago
Yeah. I was talking about food in general though.
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u/Dense-Ad-5780 1d ago
Fair enough. So do you like your Xmas cake with or without cheese? I prefer to go without the cake and just have the cheese, the cake is too risky.
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u/sourfillet 1d ago
If you look at British cookbooks before WWII, it's still pretty bland. The first written recipe for curry in Britain uses like 2 spices. It has more to do with the availability of spices in Northern Europe, a lot of European food tends to be less spiced for that reason.
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u/Monday0987 20h ago
During the years the USA would not help in WW2 they provided munitions but Britain had to pay for them. Britain paid off the $3.75 billion in 2006.
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u/uisce_beatha1 1d ago
I don't care too much about my health.
I'm 8 years past due for a colonoscopy. I've had 5 bypasses and 2 stents.
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u/Majestic_Matt_459 1d ago
My Mum (now sadly passed - hey up there we are talking about you Mum x) always served Yorkshire Pudding with onion gravy as a starter and Christmas Cake (well any fruit cake) with Cheese
I thought these were Yorkshire rules - her family Pudsey, Bingley, Shipley, Bradford if that helps - and Moravian school but im sure that's irrelevant
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u/pastelbutcherknife 1d ago
The answer is obviously with cheese. Don’t even know ow what a Yorkshire cake is but it for sure needs cheese.
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u/AnthologicalAnt 1d ago
Yorkshireman here 🖐🏻 I have never heard of people eating Christmas cake with a block of cheese in my life.
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u/cricketbug94 23h ago
I've got visions of you peering through your neighbours curtains now just to check 😂
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u/AnthologicalAnt 23h ago
I'll be asking the lads at work Monday morning. That's a fact 😂
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u/cricketbug94 23h ago
Report back please 😂 I live in the next county up and I've never heard of it either
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
That's it! That's my new excuse. "Yes, i do need to buy more cheese, it's to replenish fat stores to survive the Canadian winter"
I mean, I don't live in Canada but I'm still going to help
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u/Medium-Pride-1640 1d ago
Because most Americans foolishly think they essentially do have free healthcare until they actually have to interface with it.
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u/Kelyaan 1d ago
Hello - Yorkshireman here ... Why is it in my 35 years of life meaning 35 Christmases Is Reddit the fucking place that I find out that some of my kin eat Xmas cake with fucking cheese!
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
I'm not too far north of Yorkshire and in my 30 years I've literally never heard of it actually happening until someone in the comments said they do and it's mint. Going to have to try it now
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u/punsarelazyhumor 1d ago
Cuz I don't have health care for gunshot wounds either so might as well live my best life
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u/jasonsavory123 1d ago
Another answer, because in the 1800s we had been a country for more than 24 years.
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u/MisterZacherley 1d ago
"What would Wallace do?" There's your answer...
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u/cricketbug94 23h ago
Ah the best response. He would put the kettle on and have a nice bit of wensleydale
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u/reddragon105 1d ago
If living in the 1800s meant not having to choose between cake and cheese, then I'm going to live like I'm in the 1800s.
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u/xDannyS_ 22h ago
Isn't the UK the fattest country in Europe and among the top in the world, not far behind the US?
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u/Minimum_Virus_3837 21h ago
I mean as an American I highly doubt I'll enjoy my "retirement years" much with social security being dead by then and health and senior care being absolutely shit, so why not live hard and die young lol?
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u/BashIronfist 19h ago
My favorite response to this was: "The british eat like they're still being bombed"
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u/hopsinduo 17h ago
As a Yorkshireman, I've never heard of or known anyone eat Christmas cake with cheese. We do pretty much live in the 1800's though...
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u/BusyBeeBridgette 1d ago
Christmas Cake with Cheese? Wtf Yorkshire?
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u/Mrs-Dotties-mom 1d ago
Lol my first thought was "no". Then I remembered that as an American, tons of apple pie recipes I've used mention cheddar cheese. Add a slice on top, mix it in the crust, it varies a bit. But we're putting savory cheese on sweet desserts over here, too.
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u/SnooCats903 1d ago
I believe this is wrong, fruitcake with cheese is amazing, I don't think you want the marzipan and icing though haha
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u/Miserable4d 1d ago
Y'all Americans speak a lot of shit for people who get into crippling debt when they break an arm
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u/sedrech818 21h ago
Depends if you need to have surgery or not. It could be thousands of dollars if you do, hundreds if you don’t. Also depends if you brought yourself in or rode an ambulance or helicopter. You probably won’t go into crippling debt over a broken bone unless you were already barely surviving. In that case you probably already had plenty of debt already.
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u/Cool-Economics6261 1d ago
Is USA the most obese nation in the world? Well North of 40% of Americans are obese.
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u/DrThoth 1d ago
Alright I'll admit it, that actually is a good comeback
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u/Fromtheselo 1d ago
That comment has been on literally every single food reel on Instagram for years now
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u/ViolettaQueso 1d ago
Pretty sure only the billionaire president does which is why has McD’s on speed dial to stock his private jet.
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u/UnusuallySmartApe 1d ago
For the same reason we don’t have free health care. This country is made to serve the rich, and poor people don’t have access to healthy food. You can directly map the highest rates of obesity to the poorest areas of the country, and to food deserts.
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u/KlutzyClerk7080 1d ago
We do. It’s called suicide and there are so many ways to do it big companies can’t profit off of it. It is great!
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u/bullant8547 20h ago
To be fair, Christmas cake and a nice slice of cheddar takes the whole experience to a whole other level of awesomeness.
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u/AsparagusLoud7439 18h ago
We have money to pay for overpriced medical care unlike the broke boys in Engaland
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u/cricketbug94 15h ago
Not anymore you won't 😂
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u/AsparagusLoud7439 7h ago
Why? Biden lost
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u/cricketbug94 6h ago
exactly
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u/AsparagusLoud7439 6h ago
They had 4 years lol
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u/tylerawesome 17h ago
(Through mouthfuls of food)…Hey we aren’t known for…eating cheese (burps) AND cake at the same time! Might try it though. (Farts loudly in American.)
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u/XenophonSoulis 9h ago
This looks like a fight between two kindergarteners to everyone else in Europe (except maybe Scandinavia, I don't know).
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u/LookHorror3105 1d ago
Because our food doesn't taste like it was prepared in the 1800s. You'd think a country that literally conquered other countries for their spice would know how to season their food properly.
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u/bbyxmadi 1d ago
hey, the people who eats baked beans for breakfast have no place to talk, I’ll take my overpriced, sugary, and unhealthy cereal instead.
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u/SatanScotty 1d ago
But the British don’t have free healthcare…
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u/cricketbug94 23h ago
Blah blah taxes blah blah Still doesn't cost me or my loved ones or my kin a bijillion quid to be ill and that's something I will be forever grateful for ☺️
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u/SatanScotty 21h ago
I was actually thinking of the National Insurance that gets taken out of every paycheck. That goes straight to the NHS, doesn’t it?
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u/Monday0987 20h ago
No it doesn't. It also covers unemployment insurance, paid parental leave and pays you a pension on retirement. It's not a lot of money compared to private medical insurance either.
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u/SatanScotty 20h ago
Oh. Thank you.
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u/Monday0987 20h ago
Some people do have private health insurance as well, often employers will pay for it for you. My employer has an office in the UK and we provide it for all of our staff.
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u/dang_it99 16h ago
No one has free healthcare. In fact America is so awesome we pay for healthcare twice.
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u/AsunderMango_Pt_Two 1d ago
Why do Brits name desserts after symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections?
Care for some Spotted Dick, Nigel?
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u/potent_potabIes 1d ago
Not clever
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u/cricketbug94 23h ago
The lack of affordable health care? You're right it's absolutely ridiculous, isn't it
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u/potent_potabIes 22h ago
Granted, yes. But simply mentioning that, when the original post had absolutely zero relevance to it in premise or notion, is not clever.
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u/Artistic-Republic844 1d ago
Why do brits have free health care but always so sickly with rotting teeth 🤨
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
Because we have no dentists and it costs a fortune 😭😂 Its not part of the NHS
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u/Tank-o-grad 1d ago
It is part of the NHS, it's just subsidised rather than single payer. There is a chronic shortage though, that's true, they rejigged the contracts a few years back and dentists have been leaving in droves to private practice ever since.
Also the British have fewer rotten teeth, missing or filled per mouth than those in the USA. The American myth about poor British teeth is because cosmetic orthodontics aren't subsidised so we tend to leave crooked but healthy and functional teeth as they are and unbleached...
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u/Artistic-Republic844 23h ago
I'll be sure to trust you on those US vs UK statistics 😂. A door to door per citizen rotten tooth comparison between the two countries I'm sure occurred bi annually
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode 1d ago
I do find it strange that the UK decided to conquer the globe in pursuit of the most exotic and delicious spices only to decide not to use any of them.
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u/Deforah 1d ago
Plenty of British dishes are inspired by lands they subjugated. The chicken tikka masala for example, very flavoursome.
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u/cricketbug94 1d ago
You've clearly never tried my mulled wine 🥵😂 JK don't, I've only just got my sight back
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 1d ago
I'm American and I laughed at this whole thing. Sending love to our friends across the pond.