And the comparison doesn’t even make sense. Like British beans on toast is low effort breakfast food that people make at home. Japanese people rarely make sushi at home. A better comparison would be Natto.
There’s a whole other comment thread about that. But food doesn’t need spices to be delicious - most relevant to the picture, sushi does not have spices in it.
Not only that, but the British use a hell of a lot of both herbs and spices in traditional cooking. And also there’s the whole mildly racist element in not considering Anglo-Indian cuisine (which is very distinct from traditional Indian) to be British food.
You’re right it’s just that some are more vibrant and contrasting to others. Like for instance if one is living in a jungle there’s just going to be more sources of food than in an area in the arctic or tundra. Like traditional Mongolian cuisine is going to contrast from somewhere tropical like Vietnam or Indonesia. I think that’s the big take away here.
Yeah. I don’t think the meme is just about “vibrancy” or “contrast though”. Miku looks depressed in the last panel, and the food is a negative stereotype.
I guess when I’m saying vibrant I also mean in taste. Like certain areas just have more going on food wise and some areas trend more toward brown food, brown taste. Obviously now we have global society so you can find sushi in the Sahara but what the general population generally eats is definitely contrasting in flavors from one region to another. I can say pretty comfortably that Nigerian food is simply more flavorful than kenyan cuisine in most circumstances.
So some food is more flavourful than others, hence some cuisines will be more flavourful than others. But I don’t actually want every dish I eat to be very flavourful, because that in itself becomes boring. So where it becomes problematic is when people pretend that being less flavourful means being bad or boring, and that being on average less flavourful means always less flavourful.
Baked beans, even though they’re brown, from a can, and pretty mushy, are packed with flavour: the sauce is made with tomatoes (acid! sugar!), enhanced with vinegar (more acid!) and brown sugar(!) and a load of garlic and onion powder (aromatics!) and pepper (spicy heat!) are dumped in there. Beneath it all is a bit of Worcester (or similar) sauce, which is a fermented fish (salt! umami!) sauce containing more spices. All that in a can of goop that you heat up in the microwave as a student.
Fuck that. Every culture has great food if you’re willing to get over your preconceptions.
Would you like the Norwegian potato or the potato?
And many have horrible food, war crime level food (Im looking at you haggis).
Every culture has horrible food too, but so what?
Haggis is a bad example though. Bet you’ve never eaten it.
Guilty. Basing my statement on internet vibs.
I had it for the first time last year. It’s actually really good, and not weird.
Hehe! It’s actually pretty good. Just - like all good peasant food - don’t think about what it’s made of :)
Natto is an acquired taste, but regular haggis is just grains with meat and gravy. It’s baseline good, and can be really good if seasoned well.
Of course you can find horrible versions that are basically just a sack of fat. But you can find bad versions of all food.
If by meat you mean sheep offal, then yes.
Organ meat is meat. And at least lung, heart, and liver are delicious.
And the comparison doesn’t even make sense. Like British beans on toast is low effort breakfast food that people make at home. Japanese people rarely make sushi at home. A better comparison would be Natto.
Yeah, beans on toast isn’t even that common or widely enjoyed. It’s ok but it’s not amazing.
I’ve never been to england but I know curry is a big thing there and curry massively outranks every food in the comic
You should go for a food tour. They have the best and most diverse food I’ve ever seen.
Yeah fish and chips are excellent. And natto is absolutely horrible
The English stole all that spice to sell it, not put it in their food.
There’s a whole other comment thread about that. But food doesn’t need spices to be delicious - most relevant to the picture, sushi does not have spices in it.
Not only that, but the British use a hell of a lot of both herbs and spices in traditional cooking. And also there’s the whole mildly racist element in not considering Anglo-Indian cuisine (which is very distinct from traditional Indian) to be British food.
I’m shitposting here, don’t take me seriously.
baked beans have like 10 different spices in them. What do you think makes the sauce orange?
We stole the spice so we could make them inhale cinnamon powder.
Whilst they were coughing profusely we then stole the opium…
You’re right it’s just that some are more vibrant and contrasting to others. Like for instance if one is living in a jungle there’s just going to be more sources of food than in an area in the arctic or tundra. Like traditional Mongolian cuisine is going to contrast from somewhere tropical like Vietnam or Indonesia. I think that’s the big take away here.
Yeah. I don’t think the meme is just about “vibrancy” or “contrast though”. Miku looks depressed in the last panel, and the food is a negative stereotype.
I guess when I’m saying vibrant I also mean in taste. Like certain areas just have more going on food wise and some areas trend more toward brown food, brown taste. Obviously now we have global society so you can find sushi in the Sahara but what the general population generally eats is definitely contrasting in flavors from one region to another. I can say pretty comfortably that Nigerian food is simply more flavorful than kenyan cuisine in most circumstances.
So some food is more flavourful than others, hence some cuisines will be more flavourful than others. But I don’t actually want every dish I eat to be very flavourful, because that in itself becomes boring. So where it becomes problematic is when people pretend that being less flavourful means being bad or boring, and that being on average less flavourful means always less flavourful.
Baked beans, even though they’re brown, from a can, and pretty mushy, are packed with flavour: the sauce is made with tomatoes (acid! sugar!), enhanced with vinegar (more acid!) and brown sugar(!) and a load of garlic and onion powder (aromatics!) and pepper (spicy heat!) are dumped in there. Beneath it all is a bit of Worcester (or similar) sauce, which is a fermented fish (salt! umami!) sauce containing more spices. All that in a can of goop that you heat up in the microwave as a student.
This is lazy stereotyping.