https://twitter.com/BlightyChap/status/1635615412074184704
Oh God, I just googled 'jellied eels'; no offense to Anglos, but like just why? That looks horrifying.
No faulting for the Pie and mash though (cause I love savory pies), but this is a complete joke.
Also, I'm currently working abroad in the Middle East, and guess what: ooooh noooooo, people have replaced Salam Aleikum with good morning and hey how's it going, and rice and hummus with big macs and fried chicken. I mean I haven't noticed the local population being put out by it but I've really been meaning to convince them that actually they're supposed to be really upset about it because some guy on the internet is throwing a wobbly about it.
Uncritical support to delicious Lebanese cuisine replacing the uncivilized English trash goblin food
it is absolutelly unreasonable of any englishmen to complain as foreigners are pretty much fighting a crusade to liberate the british people of whatever the fuck they call food up there
Used to be a half a tuppence for a nice warm pint o' sloshers and a plate o' sludged lamprey blood mince pie. Now theyve gone n' put bloody cumin in the sausage rolls nearly killed me nan. Almost makes me shed a tear 'er majesty can't see we've gone up the apples and pears lads
oi me and the lads haven't had a good bowl of anglerfish brain pudding in a donkey's age, sall gone innit. I go into bluddy Tesco and am forced to purchase some rubbish called "spices."
:england-cool:
Gonna conquer half the world and then complain the world is too much
The death of jellied eels has nothing to do with brown people. It is caused because jellied eels are so fucking disgusting even white people don't want them.
Like, for real the explanation for almost all food trends is because people got better standards lmao. When you're fucking starving you'll eat anything.
Also, it's a cultural shift that happened so long ago that probably more than half the population has no conscious memory of it
These old fucks just want to live in a theme park version of The East End, essentially.
Aren't eels also more expensive and can be cooked in way more delicious ways (lookin' at you Unagi), like who the fuck puts perfectly good meats in aspic anymore and isn't some time traveling inbred Duchess?
They gotta import it from the Netherlands nowadays cause they overfished the Thames, so its basically just nostalgia and/or novelty food.
At least American novelty food has the benefit of being double deep fried and covered in sugar and pepper flakes, British novelty food are all cognitohazards to the senses.
I thought the same. Smoked eel is my personal favourite fish dish.
Jellied eels sounds much less appetizing, but at least they use fully grown fish for that. Eating glass eels has always sounded like horrible waste to me.
It's weird that people don't realize glass eels are all immature eels that have yet to reach maturity (then again its likely deliberate suppression by fishing groups to reduce blame for when the species becomes extinct).
How does a restaurant stay open serving a dozen customers a week.
no offense to Anglos
Max offense to my fellow Anglos, there's a reason why our food gets replaced by another culture's cuisine every time there's competition.
i think it's funny how british nationalism when it's not about defending the divine right of kings, is about how cool it is to be a lazy alcoholic.
liquor in this context isn't booze, its 'liquor sauce' which is a sort of herby, parsley bechamel (its usually quite thin and light for a bechamel)
Its quite nice - if you're going for a specialty london food I would definitely go for pie mash and liquor over fucking jellied eels
Jellied eels was poor people slop, putting it in jelly helped keep as much of the nutrients as possible from cooking it and it was cheap protein compared to alternatives.
Literally the only fish that could still live there so that was their only option, the more you read about the East End the more it sounds like someone writing an unsubtle novel about the horrors of industrialising capitalism.
people writing novels about the horrors of industrialising capitalism are writing about the east end whether they know it or not
Look sometimes you eat cultural delicacies because they're delicious. And sometimes you eat cultural delicacies because you live on a marginal island at the end of the world and if you didn't you'd starve.
It's what you say when you almost forget to bring your Ancient China (The country) with you somewhere.
Imagine being mad at jellied eels being replaced by good food:data-laughing:
the angloid saxonoids complaining about being civilized instead of eating dogfood
Just picturing this tweet to the reddest pie-faced gammon possible wanking off in one hand and saluting the dead queen with the other.
English people seriously don't understand that their slang sounds like a baby talk.
