Samuel
@samuel.fm
British people are never beating the terrible food allegations :(
10 18 108 10 18 108Samuelwhoopsie, alt: Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad) saying that Mexican food looks “legitimately unpleasant” and “this isn’t a meal, it’s an assault on the senses”
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Whywhile in Scotland for a few days this year i saw three billboard advertisements for *potatoes*
4 18Samuel…were you persuaded to buy a potato?
1 1WhyI may have ordered tatties at the pub that night, but thats just because all meals in the UK contain potatoes.
1 8SamuelI’m struggling to argue with that. I have literally no idea what we did before potatoes were brought over from the New World
1 5Whyturnips i guess?
2 3Samuelthat and just a whole bunch of cereal grains
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊Dairy products.
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Donncha ar Imeall an Domhainnimill.blogspot.com/2017/11/bia-...
What the Gael ate before the potato, according to a Spaniard who survived the Armada wreck. Run either the original or the Irish version thru the translation mill. I found that the the Irish comes out better than the somewhat archaic Spanish. Tá fáilte romhat.
Bia na nGael fadó
Cur síos é seo ar aiste bia na nGael "fiáin" a bhí ina gcónaí i gCo. Sligigh sa bhliain 1588, de réir an Spáinnigh Francisco de Cuéllar, a ...
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Leoithne 
Donncha ar Imeall an DomhainTá dán meánaoiseach ann a liostálann an bia atá “adha” (oiriúnach) i ngach séasúr.
Bealtaine: beoir, meacain, gruth úr;
Lúnasa: torthaí, lusra;
Samhain: feoil, beoir, cnónna, ispíní, bláthach, im úr;
Imbolc: “promhadh (blaiseadh) gach bia in ord,” cibé is ciall leis sin
1 6Donncha ar Imeall an DomhainMhol @aidanosullivan.bsky.social “Early Irish Farming” le Fergus Kelly cúpla lá ó shin (“very readable”) agus aontaím leis. Tá chuile rud ann, ó bháicéireacht go bánbhia & conas a tháinig siad go dtí an mbord, chomh maith leis na glasraí agus cnuasach trá agus coille.
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LorcánLéite agam roinnt blianta ó shin & aontím leat! Bhí innilt séasúrach na neallaí suimiúil freisin, más buan mo chuimhne.
1 2Donncha ar Imeall an DomhainBhí buailteachas an-choitianta sa sean-am agus déantar fós é in áiteanna ar fud an domhain.
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🚬🗿They’re nearly nutritionally complete, after all.
1 4WhyI feel like “nearly” is doing a lot of work there
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OrualThe Irish poor survived off them almost exclusively before the famine and didn't get nutritional deficiencies the way American poor people eating corn incorrectly did.
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shreyan (wise)note to self: eat more potatoes
2 7shreyan (wise)"Taters? Wot's taters, precious?"
"Po-tay-toes"
3🚬🗿No they really are, you’d just have to eat an inhuman quantity of them. (IIRC somebody figured out mashed potatoes with milk and butter are actually nutritionally complete, but the same caveat applies).
1 5WhyOh damn, thats a TIL. I assume theres a requirement to eat the skins?
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Prose and KhansYep. Traditional poor Irish diet, until the potato famine at least. (How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? Zero.)
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Danielle HarlanTo be clear: potato chips don’t count, right? Because they don’t have the skins?  Do we get partial nutritional credit for eating potato chips, or does the cholesterol and heavy salt negate everything?
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David Buchananthose are not just potatoes, those are M&S potatoes
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Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsPlenty of spuds up there but they are appreciated by the English
Aracelerii 🏳️⚧️I'm not joking when I say this, one of the major reasons my bf decided to move to the United States once he can was that the food here actually has flavor
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MorsoI WANT BETTER FOOD I WANT TO TASTE FOOD PLEASEEEEE
2 3Aracelerii 🏳️⚧️dw the food in ohio has flavor it's just goofy at times
1 3Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsThe % of American is massive when it comes to Diabetes be wise and avoid sugar and you might live longer than the bullet
Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsYou best bet is eat food without added Sugar!!
Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsI disagree with you food is far better in Britain your boyfriend is pulling a fast one on you lol 😂
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Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more)"The English made regular use of only two flavours--salty and not salty--and did not seem to recognize any of the others. For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them...
1 1Seth Christenfeld, present and upright (don't expect more)...in all his time in Hampstead, he never tasted a dish that could be properly described as 'seasoned', let alone 'spicy'."
- R.F. Kuang, BABEL
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Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsLike what? About British people!
1Samuelare you agreeing with Carl here?
1Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsAgree to what?
1Samueldoes the food look “legitimately unpleasant” to you?
1Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsFood is food but I like it to look tasty
1SamuelAnd does the food in the image look tasty?
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jesopo
Cheeky… but honest with my thoughtsA strange remark
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