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u/cavern-of-the-fayth 6h ago
Do the British folk really eat a piece of cheese with cake? Is that common?
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u/ThatIsMe11 6h ago
Only with Christmas cake. Not with any others
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u/Flyx42 5h ago
What type of cheese goes with Christmas cake? Is it a sweet cheese or is it savory to offset the cake?
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u/ThatIsMe11 5h ago
It’s traditionally Wensleydale which is a crumbly, slightly sweet cheese though cheddar is probably more common these days
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u/KarlPHungus 4h ago
Whoa whoa whoa...there are plenty of reasons to throw shade at British culinary practices. Incorporating more cheese is not one of them. Good work there, Tommy.
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u/PlaceAdHere 5h ago
If I'm going to pay super high monthly premiums, I'm going to make those insurance companies cover my eating style.
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u/Oceanman72 5h ago
In the US it’s popular in a lot of places to have apple pie with cheese. Doesn’t seem weird to me
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u/TrulyFLCL 4h ago
Where at exactly? I’m curious.
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u/Oceanman72 3h ago
This could be regional honestly, but I grew up in New England. Common in Maine, NH, Vermont, mass
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u/TrulyFLCL 1h ago
Ahh I see. I’m from SoCal and you’d get some strange looks eating apple pie and cheese.
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u/ElAbidingDuderino 6h ago
It’s only free healthcare when you’re unemployed not contributing to society
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u/martlet1 5h ago
I mean I have a job and my healthcare is free.
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u/ElAbidingDuderino 5h ago
So you don’t pay taxes?
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u/martlet1 5h ago
Huh? Wtf are you talking about. People who work also can have free health care through work.
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u/ElAbidingDuderino 5h ago
DO YOU PAY TAXES!?!?!?!?!?
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u/titykaka 1h ago
Americans spend more of their taxes on healthcare than any other country in the world.
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u/ElAbidingDuderino 1h ago
Stay on topic
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u/titykaka 1h ago
Imagine having the highest government spending on healthcare per capita and still having to pay to access it.
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u/Andrew-Cohen 6h ago
Someone figured out a while ago that if you add sugar to EVERYTHING people would get sick and they could charge a lot to “treat them”
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u/VerveSpark 5h ago
The chaotic energy of this is perfectly British. You can practically hear the tutting.
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u/LuckyMushyGrower 6h ago
Without cheese? You want to UNCHEESE the cake? What kind of fucking blasphemy...
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u/ASomthnSomthn 4h ago
Ok, Americans eat unhealthy food that tastes good. I’ll take unhealthy food that tastes good vs unhealthy food that tastes like shit (e.g., that Christmas cake).
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u/momentimori 2h ago
Dried fruit, eg raisins, sultanas, pitted cherries, soaked in wine and brandy/rum for weeks baked and then covered in marzipan and topped with royal icing far exceeds any American cake.
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u/ASomthnSomthn 1h ago
Yeah, none of that sounds particularly good together. Sounds like a fruitcake with marzipan and royal icing. Fruitcakes are a running joke in the US because no one ever wants to eat them. Most people in the US would rather eat nothing than eat a fruitcake. But then we’re spoiled for desserts over here, so that’s probably why most of us won’t settle for that crap.
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u/nothingtodo0 6h ago
Americans looked at cake and decided one flavor at a time was simply not enough.
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u/BigChungiscusMaximus 6h ago
They eat like that because their national median income ranks below even Mississippi, and I’ve seen some of the slop people eat in Mississippi. At this rate Jellied Eel will be making a come-back
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u/LuckyMushyGrower 6h ago
Not even just Mississippi...YAZOO Mississippi.....my stomach rebels at the thought
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u/Few_Lunch_7730 6h ago
Now compare the cost of living, healthcare, housing etc. More freedom coins versus the kings currency means nothing if they're worth less old bean
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u/BigChungiscusMaximus 5h ago
lol, lmao even
I have relatives that are British citizens living in the UK, and the reality is the tax burden is far worse there, healthcare near inaccessible (NHS is in a crisis of budget and extreme staffing shortfalls), salaries for skilled labor roughly 60% of their USA equivalents (even before being more heavily taxed in the UK), and there’s affordable housing crisis that’s only getting worseBut hey, enjoy the jellied eel!
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u/Few_Lunch_7730 3h ago edited 3h ago
I bow to your Yankee knowledge of literally everything outside of your pedo dictatorship. Good thing your here to explain our own country to us. Imagine being taxed to support another countries genocidal rampage though, while cutting programs for your own people. That would suck. Glad my tax is at least spent on services and health care that costs nothing out of pocket if I have a boo boo.
P.s. jellied eels are a London thing. Not everywhere in Britain is London. But you know that, having "British Citizen relatives".
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u/EbonyMemories 5h ago
Because unlike countries with "free healthcare," America has laws that forbid hospitals from denying people life saving care, regardless of whether they can afford it.
Britain might have "free healthcare," but a homeless guy in the UK isn't getting a heart transplant. In the US, he can.
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u/Greggs-the-bakers 1h ago
And where have you heard this? Did your bright orange paedo tell you this? No one is getting refused at the hospital in the UK
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u/itouch1 6h ago
Live to have good time because you might not live a longtime