It’s uh… It’s literally just noodles, pastas, and meats. Gets really monotonous tbh.
Don’t even get me started on Panda Express. Americanized Chinese cuisine that’s been completely bastardized because most of us white people flip out over a single drop of hot sauce in their food.
Blacks
into the pit, bud
Thinking of white people losing their shit over MSG at a Chinese restaurant even though they eat things like tomato soup on the regular.
I always get mixed messaging from different people when it comes to MSG fearmongering. Some, traditionally, think it’s a scary Asian chemical, while others think it’s something that American Chinese restaurants use and that “real” Chinese food has no MSG.
Meanwhile me adding MSG to anything savory:
Jesus Christ just shut the fuck up all of you the entire world just shut the fuck up
are cajuns the chosen whites?
Or white Latin Americans. They can take the spices pretty well. It’s really white anglos who have the hardest time with spices. Germans too.
I really think it’s not that true anymore for the English. Indian food has been a significant part of British life for probably a century or more. Our national dish is a curry. The first curry house opened in 1810. Carribbean food came to Britain at large after WW2 and today it’s everywhere.
Maybe if you live in the arse end of nowhere it’s the case, but where I live pretty much everyone eats curry and jerk chicken as often as they have a full English breakfast (if they’re eating out that is). Even Greggs does a tandoori pizza.
Yeah that’s true. I guess the stereotype itself is pretty dated.
Alot of It depends on where you grew up and what you ate growing up. I am German-American by both side of my family in heritage (so extremely white) but I grew up eating Southwest cuisine, living by the desert and Rocky Mountains, my whole life because my dad worked in Asia for a long time and grew to love spicy and spiced food, and my mother begrudgingly would make it for him (though she has grown to love it herself).
Due to this, I can handle spicy and spiced food extremely well, though not as well as someone who like, grew up with it for every meal. My cousins who never moved out of the Midwest? Not so much. Except for one, who is now a professional chef and used to regularly crush hot sauce challenges throughout the Midwest as a hobby, and has like, multiple varieties of ginger in his spice rack.
I’m pretty d*ng white but somehow my German friend and I are tied for the title of spicy food enjoyer in our set of friends (and I promise it’s a diverse group). My Indian roommate has told me that I’ve significantly increased her spice tolerance since living with her.
Guess we are the exceptions that prove the rule though
This is literally why people say white people don’t have spice/have bland food.
The topic is spice (all them aromatics) but you are talking specifically about one kind of spice (hot kind).
I eat a lot of spice, I don’t eat spicy food.
Fair enough, I guess I misread the comment I replied to. I thought it was talking about hot spicy, which yt people also have a reputation for being unable to handle.
In my case, though, I eat plenty of food with plenty of (non-hot) spices as well. It’s actually hard for me to imagine someone not tolerating food with lots of spices, and I have no idea what I’d make if I were cooking for someone in this category.
I do always get a kick out of the “white people no spice” jokes having grown up in the one part (maybe two if you count NM) of the US where white people food has spice.
If you think US white people food is bad, you should try Australian white peoole food
It’s even worse than the standard British stuff.
Stale, insipid, bland.
Fairy bread is funny to me
It’s like, just put some sugar on the bread and broil it for a second
But no, sprinkles
fairy bread was funny to me until I found out the origins, now it just makes me sad
Wait, what are the origins?
we were too poor for cake ingredients. it’s a birthday cake replacement
there’s also apparently some links to it first being served to kids with TB in their quarantine/clinic/“consumption sanatorium” as it was officially termed in 1920’s Hobart
Oh
Okay but that one looks cute so it gets a pass
I’m literally cute and no one gives me a pass
put some sugar on the bread and broil it for a second
That’s cinnamon toast
I’ve heard it has flavors that are invisible to adults.
It’s food for kids, almost exclusively for young kids birthday parties hence the colourful simple food, but adults will steal a slice or two
Was it also a Great Depression treat? I feel like hot buttered bread with sugar kept coming up during English class until I went home and made it for myself.
Could’ve been, I wasn’t around during the depression
but adults will steal a slice or two
A suspicious number of uncles hovering next to the party pies and footy franks, and not near the ricotta and roasted pumpkin salad I just made
Ugh! What the fuck!?
Yep
And thanks to Bluey, it’s spreading
What do you mean? We have: yeast spread, sugar on bread, sugar dessert with fruit, Pie, but with meat, and sossig
I’m afraid to ask, what’s sossig?
Cute-ish spelling of sausage
sausage, but said in a funny way
It’s sad that Vegemite is the only one of those I consider good, even then it’s only good if you use it sparingly and with butter
Pavlova is pretty nice, but it’s basically just meringue with fruit, so I don’t know if it counts as a truly original dish.
I have heard that other countries don’t have spring rolls like we do though, they’re pretty good, not sure if they count as Australian though.
I’ve always wanted to try vegemite but nobody sells it where I live, the cowards
I saw an Australian restaurant, looked at the menu, and could not underrated why anyone would go there
Eating out in Australia is a lesson in pain. I was out with friends the other weekend and we all were hungry and decided to find a place to eat. All of these places were expensive as hell and served shit you would find at a cheap cafe. The same mass-produced muffins and slices you see in every cafe here, same stuff you’d find at a super market except they charge 9 dollars for a custard square that tastes like fridge. The actual meals? Nothing under $30. That wouldn’t ve so bad if the food was good, but it was awful. I got fish and chips and the fish was very obviously a “we buy a ton of cheap, already battered fish and oven chips and just heat them up” kind of thing.
As someone who grew up in New Zealand, I could rant for ages about how god awful Australian takeaway is, especially fish and chips. In New Zealand, Fish and Chips is cheap, and they actually batter and fry the food there. It’s unhealthy but it actually tastes like food at least. In Australia I have never had takeaway that I didn’t immediately regret eating. It all tastes stale and is always undercooked. The batter on their fish and chips (if you can even call it batter) IS FREAKING YELLOW SOMETIMES! They batter their hotdogs on a stick in some weird sickly sweet powerdy yellow flour too! Always massively expensive and yet genuinely cheaper and nastier tasting than microwave meals you get at the supermarket.
I’m not a food snob I swear, it’s just that bad. It’s even worse than the cornsyrup slop most US food is now, at least Dr Pepper is good.
Okay fine Australia has one good food product, Bundaburg Ginger Beer (not the rum, that shit sucks) probably because that ginger beer is the only drink here outside of Dr Pepper that actually uses real cane sugar.
I just realised that this is the most New Zealander comment I have even made lol
The batter on their fish and chips (if you can even call it batter) IS FREAKING YELLOW SOMETIMES!
Complaining that Australians sometimes use an unfamiliar spice in a food is an incredibly white person thing to do:p
It’s just turmeric mate. It barely affects the flavour but if done right the batter has a nicer colour after cooking, that’s all. Not that the food here is good, you aren’t wrong at all… But complaining about Australians actually employing a spice where the kiwis don’t made me laugh. You can get good meals in Australia but a lot of it is overpriced garbage.
OH NO I’M WHITING OUT
Are you sure that’s what makes it yellow? I thought it was cornflower or vegetable oil or something. I’m talking uniformly yellow, not like its sprinkled with a spice or something
Cornflour is white!:D like, whiter than wheat flour, if anything. It may not always be turmeric but I’m pretty sure that’s what it traditionally is.
Ooooooh I see
Cornflour
fun fact cornflour comes in basically any color corn comes in. white blue red yellow etc
May be a difference in terminology here but generally “cornflour” is a synonym for “cornstarch”. Like I am looking at the box in my pantry to make sure I didn’t imagine anything and it’s definitely cornstarch. Masa, here, would be closer to the product we call “cornmeal” (although I believe masa is made from nixtamalised corn/hominy but cornmeal isn’t? I dunno, never cooked with either). Yes, whole ground maize can be any colour, but cornstarch afaik is always extremely white.
Yeah get em New Zealander! Don’t let those Aussie fucks get away with it.
alright, now the fun begins…
thoughts on pies?
WHY THE FUCK DO AUSTRALIANS CALL THEM MEAT PIES. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHY DON’T YOU SAY WHAT KIND OF MEAT? HOW CAN THIS COUNTRY BRAG ABOUT PIES BUT ONLY HAVE THE MOST BASIC ASS PIE FLAVOURS! IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE! I HATE IT HERE!
Idk I’ve never called them meat pies, just pie. The only reason you’d say meat pie is to disambiguate from mince pies, which is only gunna be relevant for like three months of the year for most people
Low key I don’t think our pies are that good. I haven’t been to nz but i heard that they run laps around ours
Four n twenty is absolute trash. Gravy with gristle. Average cbd bakery (bread shop) is a roll of the dice between 4n20 analogue and ‘i guess this’ll do’, I’ll drown it in sauce. Country bakery will be the same lows with a 1/20 chance of ‘someone back of house actually put their foot down and says we want to introduce some standards around here’. 1/35 bakeries will be ascended but will be in some far off suburb or town that you only ever pass through once a year on way to (other destination). If you think you live next to your city’s best bakery, you don’t.
(Two of my good mates are kiwi expats and say that yeah while the economy over there is a cooked chook, the food is actually what we imagine ours to be)
THEY CALL MINCE PIES MEAT PIES ITS MADDENING
ALSO THEY CALLED AOLI GARLIC MAYO UNTIL LIKE 2016 WHAT IS UP WITH THAT
But mince pies was already trademarked by Big Raisin to trick kids into eating fruit
i’ve never heard of anyone calling aioli “garlic mayo”, not once. not even during the initial hipster cafe wave of aioli in the early 2010s
They also made Dragon talk in the 2013 musical version of Shrek
You have sugar sprinkles on bread. I have beans on toast. If we combine our powers we have a full three course meal.
whip those beans into a spread and get some jelly for a beanut butter and jelly treat
I’m white. I live along the Mexican border. I eat chili piquins off the plants in my back yard. I make jellies and jams w the scotch bonnets I grow. I eat the scotch bonnets off the plant. None of that is of import because what I eat doesn’t matter to anyone else.
The whole fucking thing is tiresome.
Don’t even get me started on Panda Express. Americanized Chinese cuisine that’s been completely bastardized because most of us white people flip out over a single drop of hot sauce in their food.
General Tso is a hero in this house, end of story!
Buffalo wings? Flaming Cheetohs? Deli sandwich with some good strong horseradish? Those giant shakers of pepper flakes at pizzerias? Diablo sauce ant Taco Bell? Along with the aforementioned Gen. Tso’s.
There’s some truth to the stereotype (look at Texas A and M breeding milder jalapeños), but if there’s a pattern to “white people food” it’s to allow increasing spice to individual taste at the point of consumption.
There’s some truth to the stereotype (look at Texas A and M breeding milder jalapeños),
If I remember correctly talking to a farmer one time, the jalapeños crop like on a whole is on a gradual trend towards losing their capsaicin levels through the generations and years that its gotten to the point industrial food manufacturers have to add in synthetic capsaicin to actually make spicy jalapeño based products. The reasoning if I remember is that huge crops of mild jalapeños create a large stable flavor baseline that the manufacturers can adjust upwards more easily rather than relying on arbitrary nature and plants or some sort of expensive sorting system to try and create hot, medium, and mold jalapeño based products.
Long story short capitalism is a fucking cracker that hates flavor
what they hate is natural inconsistency. you cant have a hot sauce where the exact heat level depends on the specific farm the pepers came from, or changes with the years as different years produce different levels.
so it has to be mild peppers + industrially adjusted/calibrated levels of pure chemical heat.
A true observation can still be a grating cliche if made too often.
The Ham Sandwich race diverges from humanity’s racial pinnakkkle’. Their genetic defect, namely not having two genes - SLC24A5 and SLC45A2 made them ironically weak to the sun, despite the sun being the main source of energy and life in this planet. Without the aid of cream chemicals, under a beautiful sunny day and blue skies, they will burn and their skin will turn pink-red like the Ham sandwich they like so much. Then their skin will peel off, and they will spend the next couple days in agony. Another sad deformity in the ham sandwich race is capsicum receptors in their tongues. A hint of the mildest spices will burn their tongues, internal organs, and cause them diarrhea. As such, their mastery of the culinary art is inferior. A food for an adult ham sandwich race is equivalent to a toddler’s food in other kkkulture. The ham sandwich race rely on processed animal products like mayonnaise, cheese, and sour cream, instead of superior STRONG spices grown from Earth’ good soil with anti-bacterial properties like jalapeños, chilis, cumin, tumeric, cardamom.
This is why I love the fact that I live in a city with significant amounts of immigrants
This is why i miss living in a city with significant amounts of immigrants
This is why I envy everyone who got the chance to live in a city with significant amount of immigrants
In the land of excess we eat only the most processed meat and carbs and call it progress.
Morning: sugar nuggets or plate of brown
Lunch: bread with pink mulch or something brown
Dinner: something brown with a side of browner
Desert: spotted dick
Its also why i hate Italian food because theres only so many times you can make bread/pasta with tomato and cheese before i start to think your cooking is crap.
Italian food is the most overrated cuisine, and it exists mainly as a form of pro-Mussolini propaganda.
I heavily judge people who say Italian is their favourite cuisine.
GABAGOOL
Don’t even get me started on Panda Express. Americanized Chinese cuisine
I don’t know what that tastes like but if it’s anything like the small town fast food shops where I live, the “Chinese” food is always the most blandest brown sauce variant you’ll ever eat. It’s offensively bad.
Damn you’re missing out. Around here where I live hole in the wall Chinese places are really good, providing you like american chinese food, which I do, so you can’t go wrong with staples like garlic chicken, general tsos, house special lo mein, or mei fun.
We have a “How Lee’s” where I live, and I enjoy it.
Bland. It’s bland. Panda Express is so fantastically bland.
I always have mix feelings. On one hand when I get a new recipe from a well to do white person I always double the seasoning and spices and ad my own. On the other hand, I have to be carful with spice or my IBS will keep me in the bathroom all night. At one point I had increased my tolerance over time and then it just left me one day??? It pisses me off.
My wife gets to make fun of me a lot cause if I accidently order something too spicy I will refuse to back down and will end up red faced and 5 cups of water by the end of it…then in pain later that night.
We did the hot sauce challenge once. I only got to like sauce 4 or 5 and that night was fucking rough for me.
