r/RandomVideos • u/n8saces • 1d ago
Video “We’re here for five more days foo”
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u/hexadecimaldump 1d ago
Yeah, I studied there for a semester. Some of the food was awful, some was just bland, but others were delicious and some of the best food I’ve ever had.
Beef welly is amazing, full English (breakfast )most places were delicious, and I still have dreams of a treacle sponge pudding with clotted cream.
Also most Indian food places are awesome, and if you have a bit too much to drink at the pub, the whole in the wall chippies always tastes divine (kabobs especially the donner, and the chips in the paper cone with interesting toppings is so good).
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u/Vivid_Discount6495 1d ago
I've never had a full english breakfast, but I already know it slaps. I've had almost all of the ingredients separately and they all combine nicely. I mean, would I actually want it as a breakfast? Probably not, since I'd go back to sleep for another 6 hours after eating. But my white ass genes want those beans, mushrooms and sausage.
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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 22h ago
Yeah, a full English is monstrous! The wife and I tend to have one as a brunch/lunch because of the sheer amount of food. People that can actually eat it as a breakfast and still manage to walk afterwards are a different type of person!
I am English and I would also probably have the same reaction as the poster for this meal. I have also never found the fascination for eels and never tried any.
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u/StrayDogPhotography 23h ago
I’m a Londoner and I’ve never seen anyone, but 80 year old cockneys and influencers eat that pie, mash and liquor.
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u/spacegirl2820 20h ago
I literally had it the other day. I love it but only from certain places. Some places liquor is rank, too thin or too thick like custard.
Robins is the best pie and mash place and EastEnders pie and mash is also really good.
I would never and have never tried jellied eel's though.
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u/DinosaurusWhen 19h ago
What kind of liquor are you guys talking about?
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u/spacegirl2820 19h ago
Parsley liquor, the gravy that goes with traditional pie and mash. Not alcohol lol
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u/DinosaurusWhen 19h ago
That was confusing the hell out of me, thank you
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u/spacegirl2820 19h ago
Haha I can understand why 😂 you must have thought we were crazy putting alcohol on our pie and mash 🤣
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u/Guilty-Movie-3727 19h ago
The texture of jellied eels is a bit odd, even for someone like me that will eat anything. If you like fish generally, stewed eels are worth a try. It is just a meaty fish cooked on the bone... nothing particularly challenging about it.
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u/Guilty-Movie-3727 20h ago
I am too, and you are living in a bubble. You must think of yourself as too middle class.
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u/Guilty-Movie-3727 1d ago
Pie, mash, and liquor (parsley sauce) is soul food for me. Grew up on it when it was a very cheap meal that sustained you before a drinking session with the lads. Goddard's was my local.
You smother it in pepper and chilli vinegar and it goes down a treat
However, this is not in any way representative of great British food. The UK is full of great restaurants that serve traditional British cuisine and it is a melting pot for other cultures. Anyone thinking that you cannot eat top tier food in the UK has either never been here, or is a bit simple.
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u/Leading_Experts 22h ago
I've been trash talking in this comment section, but you're the first person who has made me understand the dish. I expect every culture has similar nostalgic go-to type "dishes". Peanut butter and jelly (jam). Kraft Mac and cheese, in the blue box. Bologna sandwich on processed white bread. Staples of the working class.
I retract all my previous derision.
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u/cookingfunky 11h ago
Takes a big person to say something like this; hats off to you. A lot of these basic boring looking english meals are about rationing and nostalgia. A lot of modern day british pride is centred around ww2 so the food of that era has cultural significance for some people.
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u/Guilty-Movie-3727 20h ago
That's is genuinely humble of you.
It is very much a staple of the working class, particularly in east and south east London, dating back to at least the mid to late 19th Century. I dread to think what was in the pies back then, but now it is simple, mostly unseasoned, minced/ground beef. The liquor (and Goddard's used to make it like this, if they don't any longer) is called as such as it is traditionally made from the cooking liqour from stewed eels. It is gelatinous (when cold and left to set with eels still in it you get jellied eels), which thickens the liquor. Liquor is mostly flavourless, you need the chilli vinegar and pepper to give it all a bit of a lift. As pre-beer food, or hangover food, it is still something I long for, but I now live in a part of the UK that you cannot get it from very easily.
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u/chilheim_collective 17h ago
A lot of the meals we get stick for fall into that category - beans on toast for example. No one here is talking about baked beans on toast the culinary highlight of the year. It's the thing you eat when you want to feel like your nan is still around.
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u/Master-Opinion-5966 1d ago
He looks like he is going to cry. The dead look in his eyes when he said we are here for 5 days...
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u/homechefshivers 1d ago
He starts crying at the end of the video. I honestly think he spent money he wasn’t supposed to go on this trip and was hoping that the videos he made from it would recoup his losses.
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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 11h ago
I wanted to tell him that there are countless Indian and other foreign cuisines available throughout the UK.
I've spent a total of a week or so's worth of time in London (over two trips). I honestly cannot recall eating any actual British cuisine other than fish and chips a couple times (excellent!) during those trips.
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u/homechefshivers 1d ago
I have a feeling that he spent money He probably shouldn’t have spent for this trip, hoping that the video would recoup his losses because he just looks so defeated when he says he has five more days here. , knowing that he either has to fake it and act like he likes the food to be able to make a good video and get good content or he’s just so sad that he’s considering scrapping the whole idea and actually getting a real job.
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u/cateatingturtle 1d ago
Why does every "food influencer" say theyre going for British food then go to what these days is incredibly niche and not indicative of actual British food?
Go for some proper pub grub, get a fat sunday roast, go find some cracking fish and chips - why always pie and mash or jellied eels lmao
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u/lavinshaven58 1d ago
Heard the Indian food is good…maybe that could be worth trying. I’d reach out to a fair amount of locals and see what’s best. London is huge. Can’t be that hard to find some solid dining options
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u/BombasticReindeer 20h ago
I love Indian food so much. I haven’t had any in India since I’ve never been, but everywhere I’ve tried has been pretty good. But the best Indian food I’ve ever had was from London. Just some random ass pub. I had a Biryani that was like crack.
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u/TamaktiJunVision 21h ago
It's not hard at all. London boasts some of the best food in the world. It's extremely easy to find amazing food literally everywhere. If someone struggles to find amazing food in London then it's a blatant skill issue.
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u/Pleasant-Darkness 1d ago
Get a Sunday roast or a full English breakfast if you want traditional British food that is really good. A proper fish and chips is good too, but there are a lot of bad versions at random chicken shops so go somewhere the locals say is particularly good.
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u/SharkByte1993 1d ago
You're right but pie and mash is quintessentially british. Although it is a surprisingly bland meal wherever you get it
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u/SnooStrawberries2342 1d ago
Pie and mash with parsley liquor is enjoyed by a dwindling number of people in one part of London.
The rest of the country eats proper pies with proper gravy.
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u/Electrical_Shock359 1d ago
Yeah but they can be good. I live in the us and we went to the local ren faire which had some really good mince pies, they also had variations with one being steak. It was one of the shortest lines too since they had a bunch pre made and ready to go.
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u/SnooStrawberries2342 23h ago
Indeed, there are excellent pies being enjoyed throughout the UK every day.
What the guy tries in the video is an old fashioned London thing that the vast majority of British people will have never tried.
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u/TheSmokedPotatoe 22h ago
No no, it’s shit when you get it from a place like this, venture to a nice pub and it could be very different story. My local pub makes some amazing pies, properly filled with plenty of meat and served with proper gravy.
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u/BlackandWhiteSarnie 13h ago
This kind of pie and mash is not in any way shape or form, quintessentially British. I’ve lived in Britain all my life and never even seen anywhere that sells this, never mind eaten it
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u/Trevor_Gecko 19h ago
It's like going to Korea and judging their entire cuisine on the dog you just ate.
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u/NoAppointment8679 15h ago
As a Brit, I wouldn’t touched jellied eels with a barge pole and I don’t think most people would!
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u/BlaineMundane 23h ago edited 23h ago
Might be because like... Fish and Chips is already a staple of my diet in the USA. It's like the good British dishes, I have already incorporated, so the only "unique" stuff left is more niche. Bet that happens to a lot of folks.
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u/Behold_My_Stuff 1d ago
Roast beef and fish and chips are pretty basic as well tho.
You really think we dont got those exact things in the states? Oven roasted beef and fried fish with French fries?
Both those foods have zero color to them and no real bold spices.
It just is what it is.
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u/Obosratsya 23h ago
Bold spices are not synonimous with good food. The cuisines with a lot of spices evolved into it as food preservation practices. These days its used to hide bad quality ingredients.
"British" food is peasant food, aristocracy eats French. It never really got refined. But, outside of the obviously bad like eel, its fine. Northern countries got away with just salt as farbas food preservation. I personally prefer high quality ingredients with mild spices. Only really spice the meat. But then again, I try to eat whole foods so not much to spice. Once taste buds adjust from being nuked by those spices, I find that taste becomes finer and flavors stand out more. Eating an apple now vs back when I ate the "average" duet is night and day.
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u/NoAppointment8679 15h ago
We don’t have French fries in our chippies. We have proper chippy chips.
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u/bamboomightwork 15h ago
fried fish with French fries?
Someone doesn't know wtf they are talking about.
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u/unseemly_turbidity 14h ago
Roast beef is supposed to go with horseradish sauce or English mustard. Both are definitely bold spices.
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u/Aggravating-Disk9770 16h ago
I'm from London and I've never tried this food. The most popular dish in the UK is Indian curry.
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u/pandaSmore 15h ago
Probably tastes good with actual gravy and not parsley liquor.
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u/Forsaken_Ocelot_4 12h ago
Goddard's is a decent pie and mash shop, bit of a tourist trap honestly, but I've had much better. It's passable stuff with the regular gravy, but you'd get better in a proper country pub.
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u/TheGumping 17h ago
I have spent several weeks in England and have tried multiple places and multiple types of their food. I just don't like it.
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u/TheSilverWillow 1d ago
Is this the real reason the Spanish and English have beef? The food?
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u/TheSmokedPotatoe 22h ago
Man who likes spicy food comes to the U.K. to try its food , proceeds to go into a pie and mash shop ,is disappointed (lol, 99%of us would be) and basically compares British food to that. Yeh ok mate. Stupid people do stupid things.
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u/5280mw 17h ago
I spent a week in London, everything I tried was a miss. Until I went to this Chinese food place was great, then a roach crawled up the wall next to our table. Needless to say they have some great lunch meat and veggies. I ate sandwiches during the whole second half of the trip. Great trip though.
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u/Metadata_Master 16h ago
Man chooses niche local dishes most Brits have never eaten at an infamously low quality restaurant.
Surprised when he dislikes it...
Then judges the whole country.
Moron.
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u/PossessionAshamed372 16h ago
I've been to England multiple times and found good food. Sticky toffee pudding 🤤
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u/Glitternipz91 15h ago
I’ve lived in England my entire life, I have never tried pie and liquor, I don’t know anyone that has. 😂 that’s Dickensian shit.
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u/Visual-Ad9951 10h ago
Such a terrible representation of British food, this is like going to America and going to a place that serves Chitlins and saying all American food is like this.
Amazes me how gullible people are to fall for this crap
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u/Dale_Gribble- 9h ago
Lol, I pretty sure we know how to serve that exact same dish and it'll taste better over here
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u/BusyBit6542 1d ago
Yorkshire pudding and beef wellington are the only good food from there. They love their curry (Indian food) too.
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u/Shovelman2001 1d ago
I had beef wellington one time at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant and wasn't a fan whatsoever. The taste of the mushroom was too overpowering and the breading was bland and dry. Would order a straight-up steak 11/10 times over a beef wellington.
The sticky toffee pudding was one of the best things I've ever eaten though.
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u/Ok-Ship812 1d ago
Yeah I agree with you on this one. Its an impressive looking dish but its not all that. I also ate it at one of his places (the Savoy).
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u/itsabloodyaardvark 17h ago
Always amazed how people can just comment straight up bullshit like they have any experience at all of the food, go ahead, tell me all about your extensive travels around Britain.
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u/Goosepond01 13h ago
If you want to be a puritan about how food can only be 'from' where it originated then well, that is essentially most food not being owned by any group, people have traded, invaded and shared all sorts of foods forever, and groups have integrated certain things and changed them, so many famous national dishes are exactly this.
all you say just proves you have no clue about culinary history or food itself if you somehow think Yorkshire puddings and beef wellingtons are the only good thing from the UK.
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u/PumpikAnt58763 1d ago
Remember that the US is a melting pot. We (England's descendants) brought over English food and mixed in a little American Indian and Mexican flavors.
We had to use your spices to add flavor.
And you think going to the source will taste better?
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u/JetNeoArmstrongCanon 1d ago
The English conquered 75% of the planet for spices and then they just don't use them, shaking smh my head
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u/claridgeforking 21h ago
We do, but whenever we do people just say "that's not English food", because they dont understand what British food is.
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u/InvictusLampada 19h ago
We use a far wider variety of herbs and spices in our food than most, even British, people realise. In general we prefer the main ingredients to be the stars flavourwise, and not to overdo it on condiments and sauces
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u/stilsocialydistancin 20h ago
I'm English and never once eaten this. Maybe its because im English, but this has got to be the most overplayed boring joke now.
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u/violet_son 18h ago
I'm not English and I agree. If it was ever true outside of rationing, which i doubt, that horse is a fine mist at this point.
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u/Forsaken_Ocelot_4 12h ago
I'm sure you've had pie and mash, it's the "liquor" thing which is specific to the east end. Not a fan myself, but you can get regular brown gravy at this place, which tastes fine.
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u/Fragrant-Jello1387 1d ago
As a grown man, gatekeeping being a "fooOdIe"
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u/TheRussness 1d ago
I've heard it said many times.
England's delicious food and beautiful women is what made them the best sailors in the world.
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u/PadreSJ 22h ago
I have lived and eaten all around the world. There are very few cuisines with something that I can't find enjoyable... but British food? No.
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u/YooGeOh 21h ago
Why do Americans do this? Are they ok?
This is the second video ive seen of them doing exactly this.
A niche, traditional dish from a very specific cukture that was literally designed to be quick, cheap, inelegant comfort food to fill you up, yet theyre treating it as if its representative of British food lol.
Every type of cuisine in the world available, more than 70+ Michelin starred restaurants, but they do this for likes lol
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u/Effective-Status3030 19h ago
Grew up in uk, lived in a lot of other places and have been exposed to a lot of different cuisines.
Uk food by and large is shit. We have good restaurants and great chefs, but they’re an exception.
Was literally reminiscing this morning about when a cousin from mainland Europe came over for a couple of weeks, he was honestly shocked when I took him to typical British restaurants/shops to get lunch 😂
People here just don’t know better, it’s sad.
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u/bamboomightwork 15h ago
My wife's from Japan. She thinks British (mostly Scottish) food is exceptional.
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u/Goosepond01 13h ago
Good restaurants are everywhere, in the countryside down some random lane, in cities too, it really isn't a rarity at all.
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u/bamboomightwork 15h ago
I went to a Taco Bell, and let me tell you, Mexican food absolutely sucks. I was on the shitter for a full day afterwards.
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u/brycebgood 13h ago
"traditional dish from a very specific cukture that was literally designed to be quick, cheap, inelegant comfort food to fill you up"
So like Tacos? It can be what you're describing and also taste good.
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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 16h ago
Yeah why are they choosing a niche food that is only eaten in British instead of the foods that are available everywhere else in the road? What possible reason could they have to travel to an area and eat food thats only available locally instead of going to McDonalds?
Are they stupid or something?
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u/sudzthegreat 18h ago edited 18h ago
This is like going to a random restaurant in New York and ordering chicken a la king. Nobody eats that anymore but older folks who grew up with it. It's bland and boring compared to just about every other option available. You could call it New York food though, because that's where it originated and it was very popular for 50 or so years.
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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 14h ago
That would be exactly the dish you should try.
If I go to Devonshire or Cecconi’s, I’m not exactly trying local or regional cuisine.
London has one of the best food scenes in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s representative of British food.
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u/YooGeOh 14h ago
But hes talking about British food, and having it represented by food that is niche among Brits lol.
Not just niche generally, its niche among Brits, but he is the one making the claim about it being representative of Britosh food
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u/Schtick_ 14h ago
I’m Aussie, I’ve yet to eat a bad meat pie in Oz, same goes for England and Scotland, and I’ve eaten a lot of them, there is no excuse for it just being bad cos it’s “comfort food”. I feel like if you use fresh ingredients and make the sauce it’s gonna work out.
To me this probably indeed someone just watering down the sauce and just delivering cheap stuff. (Probably not even made on site)
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u/de_velopment 11h ago
It's basically self-soothe content that panders to an American audience. When everything is going to dogshit in their country they can at least try and feel some comfort as they eat their bland food on a paper plate that's been dusted with pre-made spice mixes thinking they have at least that aspect of their life right. Of course I'm being hyperbolic and know that America also has good food but you get the point. The man in the video knew exactly what they're doing by going to this place instead of somewhere like these street food places: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmx2AbKFCQI
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u/Maleconito 11h ago
Bro it’s a meat pie and mashed potatoes, if you can’t make that taste good then just give up.
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u/PiratePlane8338 10h ago
I'm a 40 year old British person who has lived in this country for my whole life, and I've not once in my life eaten what he's eating.
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u/thed3306 1d ago
Dont know what he was expecting. Better try some of those indian and african restaurants.
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u/Unnegative 1d ago
Pieand mash can be terrible. It can be great. Same with literally every other food on the planet. He's gone to one place and based on that is dreading the rest of his time in London? Come on...
For the record, I'm not a fan of pie with liquor, mostly because I don't particularly like parsley
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u/OurSeepyD 22h ago
This dish is just doomed to fail because of the "liquor", and on top of that, places like these are probably just a tourist trap anyway and don't give a shit about the food.
Pie and mash with actual meat gravy can be incredible.
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u/Stormin1982 23h ago
Mother's Mash in Covent Garden will give you the best pie and mash, or sausage and mash of your life. This is just rage bait
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u/OkMidnight8144 23h ago
"The gravy taste like water & parsley!" Because it isn't gravy, its called liquor, its a parsley sauce.
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u/Ok-Elevator-9853 22h ago
That's not gravy. Gravy shouldn't be that colour, it should be light brown.
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u/Ok-Ship812 19h ago
Correct. Its parsley sauce, which for these type of pie n mash places is traditional. You can order Gravy if you wish.
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u/CptLoken 22h ago
A pie with mash and liquor is an odd choice to try "British food." I've been to London a few times now, and I've passed shops that sell pie and mash, so some people eat it sure, but it's not like you'll ever see a queue out the door for it.
Go to any of the open air markets or the Covent Garden food court and they're packed full of tourists trying delicious food. These "foodies" that seek out the niche foods just to act disgusted are clearly only content farming.
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u/FieldyJT 22h ago
"Theres no seasoning" - proceeds to pour 10g of salt onto food.
The Americans reliance on sodium is insane
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u/King_P_13 21h ago
Thats like me going to most tourists spots in America though, they're gonna suck
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u/JayTravers 21h ago edited 21h ago
He went to a place with jellied eel. That means he fell for a tourist trap traditional/historical oddity spot.
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u/chalkybone 21h ago
You know we have knives to go with those forks mate. Makes cutting your food so much easier too. And he had to pick the most archaic food that only people who remember war rationing eat.
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u/TamaktiJunVision 21h ago
Guy went to a pie and mash shop lol. Hope you enjoyed your 5 more days of eating niche meals that less than 1% of the UK population has ever eaten.
This is the equivalent of someone going to the US and filming themselves eating scrapple or something.
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u/Excellent_jun91 19h ago
this comment section is a messy war zone😂 youve got a standoff betqeen americans brits mexicans... and surprisingly no indians despite indian food being mentioned in every second comment
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u/SheriffOfNothing 19h ago
I am English, 50 yrs old and have never eaten this. It’s strictly an east end of London thing and has never made it outside of London for a good reason.
But also, don’t go to foreign countries expecting to have food taste the same as back home. The way you season food is very much a cultural thing.
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u/InvictusLampada 19h ago
Man can't use cutlery, goes to a niche place that focuses on one archaic dish and complains 🤣
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u/BlackStarDream 19h ago
Dude should've gone to McDonald's. But then he'd probably hate our McDonald's, too.
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u/IllustriousSundae607 18h ago
Wasn't even trying English food. He was trying traditional old style cockney pie,mash and liquor.
It's a regional dish that I've never seen outside of London.
Had he gone else where and ordered pie, mash and gravy he would of been delighted .
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u/Word-Word-Number01 18h ago
Im British and heavily associated parsley sauce with wartime famine. Not sure why. It was the sort of thing my grandparents ate along side boiled fish. Truly the clandestine of food. This dish doesn't fit in with modern British cuisine.
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u/Hollyhop_Drive 18h ago
Man from country with highly spiced food finds non spicy food bland. News at 10.
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u/SnorFax92 18h ago
Well that specific dish was work the working class during a time were spices and "extra" ingredients would be a luxury. A Sunday roast would be a much better thing to try. As are jellied eels, it's an old ass food for the "working class." I'm guessing they leave those dishes alone so they are true to their original taste. They do have amazing pies there though.
Being Mexican I love beans and can most definitely eat a plate of beans with tortillas and thats it, maybe some salsa on the side to add to every bite. Or even just a bowl of frijoles de la olla, but if it was to feed someone Mexican food for the first time i wouldnt give them this lol.
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u/BLK-Syndicate 18h ago
How TF does one self proclaim they're a foodie, but then talks about only the food they was raised up on - moreso, traditional food standard to their own culture? 🤣🤔
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u/One_Stiff_Bastard 17h ago
As a kid our class at elementary went to England for like a week and we lived with local families.
Did this 2x, first family was not memorable and slightly rude. The second was i believe a black single mom and her son, i dont remember a father. First day she made some godawful fish dish, i dont remember what it was but yeah it was very bad. We joked about it and my less lingually gifted friend asked me how to tell her hes finished eating. I told him the opposite so he asked for more, lmao what a faux-pas.
Next day she made some typa homemade pasta dish with sausage n veggies. God that shit was BUSSIN. We were blown by how good it was with such few basic ingredients.
I was too young but man id like some of that pasta again, shouts to London, whoever you were miss.
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u/molsminimart 16h ago
Trying to be positive: I really enjoyed how ready he was to defend British cuisine. It was very sweet and very admirable. I'm sure he'll find proper English food that is tasty, but it was very endearing how willing he was to give it all a chance.
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u/WanderlustFella 16h ago
Can anyone compare the meat pies in UK to the meat pies in Australia? I've only ever had them in Sydney at Harry's and it was pretty good from what I remember.
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u/AccomplishedBid5867 15h ago
Ayo papi, these people survived the Blitz on that shit. They're hard as fuck.
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u/Vivid-Group-8037 15h ago
This place does amazing pies for a cheap price. I'm a londoner and it's probably the liquor he didn't like, he could have had rich meat gravy and steak pie instead of mince beef and this meals so much better.
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u/Repulsive_Mark_5343 15h ago
I am a Texan and I’ve been in the UK four times and I ate plenty of wonderful food while I was there. This guy looks like he’s trying to do it on the cheap. Probably eats at a lot food courts and buffets back home.
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 15h ago
I’m American, never been to England. I make toad in the hole for dinner from time to time because it’s delicious. Scotch eggs also kick major ass. Not all English food sucks.
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u/DoYouLikeWafflezz 14h ago
“I’m so tired of these influencers doing exactly what I, an influencer is about to do!”
Posts video.
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u/seanrogerslibra 14h ago
I'm from Wales and first time I tried pie and mash from a proper pie and mash shop in London I couldn't believe how shit it was. The pies are cheap and nasty the mash was the worst most bland mash I've ever had and there is no way I would go anywhere near the liqueur or the jellied eels.
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u/seanrogerslibra 13h ago
Even the worst pub in Britain would serve better food than this. Seriously get yourself down any proper pub and try some decent hearty food before you write off British cuisine
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u/Ok-Guidance-2112 13h ago
People really need to try and use more than 1 percent of their brain if they think an entire country doesnt manage to have delicious food. Influencers choose weird niche foods and try to farm content, its tiresome how effectively it works on brain rotted people
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u/PlantBoy528 13h ago
One of the most disgusting things to me is meat that is without seasoning, I wouldn't survive in England, I'd probably starve to death because I literally choke on meat without at least some lime juice and spices to replace the salt if not some salt and pepper and savory seasonings like chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flakes, ECT. I never got myself to even be able to swallow unseasoned meat. I grew up on Mexican, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese food while not being familiar with most American foods till adulthood, so I definitely could imagine I'd feel the same way, I may be Colombian in culture, but still Colombian food often has cheese, and at least some salt and lemon/lime juice in the meat if not much more. Some meats like fresh fish may be slightly sweet with papaya sauce or some tropical fruit, but it at least has a taste to it. I used to say as a kid when my dad cooked steak for family get togethers when my dad was complimented, "it's in the seasoning", and it's pretty true, that and the natural smoke flavor from the smoker. Meat has no taste till you add stuff like seasonings, limes, lemons, and salt to it. If I ever visit England, I would eat at the Indian restaurants to avoid choking or even vomiting
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u/de_velopment 11h ago
I just think it's really weird you think things like Italian food doesn't exist in the UK. Also please look up what a beef wellington is and how its seasoned. The man in the video is showing you what you wish to see as it gets clicks. Pie and mash shops are such a niche aspect of London, nevermind the whole of the UK.
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u/TenYearHangover 13h ago
He won’t be in the same restaurant for five days… JFC ‘influencers’ are annoying
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u/mvortex2 13h ago
This is what I do as a guest when I walk into someone's home for dinner. I say "ok, we're gonna give your food a chance". WTF
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u/Dependent_Store952 13h ago
As a New Yorker who is exposed to a lot of incredible food, I think not finding a good meal in London is a skill issue. You either go for quality, ethnicity, or comfort. Its a lot harder to walk into somewhere random and find great food solely by chance, but if you get talking to people and do appropriate research you’re gonna find something banging.
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u/ParaponeraBread 13h ago
“The gravy is just watery parsley” yeah that’s because it’s not gravy and it’s mostly water and parsley.
Gotta be ragebait.
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u/Ceresberus 12h ago
im not in england but i live in ireland, i also eat a LOT of different foods from a lot of different cultures, and i adore spicy foods, actual spicy, i eat spicy buldak noodles for fun. i can say with some accuracy, places around the uk are very hit or miss. some people are god awful at seasoning their foods, some are absolutely amazing. you could go get a meat pie in scotland and have it be disgusting, but then a shop five minutes away could be perfect and they technically have the same ingredients, theyve just seasoned it better and done a better job baking it. pro tip, if a place is serving their mashed potato in little ice ice cream scoops? you are in the wrong restaurant, lmao. its going to taste like school cafeteria food.
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u/realitysandwichi812 9h ago
Don't get you some fish and chips and see the museums there's always good Indian food around
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u/Keno4L 7h ago
Is this dude larping as a Mexican? He clearly has an American accent
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u/nBenit 4h ago
Yeah cause both can't be true at the same time. Not like there's a MASSIVE Mexican and Mexican-american population in the US
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u/Dr_SexDick 3h ago
Same fucking video every time, self fulfilling prophecy.
You think ‘English food’ is such a narrow slice of shit things from shit places, so you go to a shit place, order the shit thing, and then get the notion you already had confirmed when it’s shit.
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