Spotted today in Iceland.
Is this an insult to cuisine or a hidden gem of fusion food?
I think I’d rather eat the european maggot cheese
I haven’t tried it but beans on toast with loads of cheese is a banger, so I can imagine it works.
Try beans & tuna on toast. Oh. My. God. It will make you question your sexuality, your entire existence.
The cool tartness of the tuna resting on top of the warm, almost-tasteless beans. The contrast in temperatures. It’s just mouth-ecstasy. It’s a lot of calories though! Tuna (200) + beans (400) + toast (250) ~= 850cals!
Oh my
just wait until you find out about baked potato tuna cheese and beans
Yes. Yes you have.
Sincerely, from Italy with
lovemuch hatred and anger.I regret to inform you that there is also Heinz ketchup pasta sauce on our shelves
I hope that one day we can improve and earn your forgiveness
I think anything beyond what mamma put on the pizza at home is too much for Italians lol
Yes.
The worst pizza I’ve ever paid money for was in Italy. In Ravello, not too far from Naples, so you’d have thought they might have a fucking clue.
Well I am sorry for your loss. It happens. You might have stumbled on a “tourist trap”, places where they make disgusting food that no local would ever touch and exclusively bank on foreigners who know no better. The Costiera Amalfitana is filled to the brim with foreign tourists, especially in summer, so I’m guessing there’s no lack of such scummy places.
Oh, absolutely, but if you were to ask me what genuine Italian pizza was like based on personal experience, then ‘thick, under-cooked dough and bland, uninspiring toppings’ is what I have to go on.
That said, we also had some of the best food I’ve ever eaten in Ravello, Positano, Minori, and Sorrento. Simply, but perfectly, cooked seafood in particular. I’d happily go back. I just might not order the pizza.
I think we found it. Something worse than pineapple on pizza.
I’m not a fan of Pineapple, but the worst pizzas by far are altoona and rhode island
Altoona looks like they tried to make a burger pizza, only they used Kraft singles instead of mozzarella.
Rhode island looks like someone took bolognaise sauce and just… Glopped it onto the pizza before cooking it and calling it a day
Pineapple on pizza is delicious. The key is pairing the toppings correctly.
Pineapple and anchovies it is! (And I’m not really joking).
Literally just anything salty enough. Bacon is the default for a reason
Yeah, and more realistically pineapple and pepperoni is a firm favourite of mine too. A bit of sweet with the heat.
No, fuck you.
Something sweet (pineapple), something salty (pepperoni or ham), something spicy (jalapeño). The perfect pizza.
pineapple + ham isn’t a physically disgusting combination
gloppy tasteless british liquid on huge canned beans on top of pizza sounds gross
…but isn’t
is to me
you need to be more adventurous
Pineapple on pizza is pretty good and this probably is, too
How do I upvote only the first half of a comment?
Are you trying to tell me that beans and cheese on toasted bread sounds gross?
Well we didn’t stop at Marmite peanut butter
Marmite peanut butter
I didn’t know this was a thing. It sounds so wrong. Like dipping your bare feet into a bowl of baked beans.
I’ve not tasted the peanut butter, but if the marmite hummus is anything to go by, it’s less like dipping feet, more like tasting them (and I love both marmite and hummus, but they do not work together).
The marmite peanut butter sounds like it should be awful but actually isn’t. It’s also good for those moments of indecision when you just can’t decide which to have on your toast.
I had no idea ready mixed Marmite peanut butter was a thing, but I’ve been making Marmite & peanut butter on toast since I was a kid. It’s delicious. I had it for breakfast just this morning, actually. It’s also great hangover food- carby and proteiny and salty and savoury in a big “kick you square in the taste buds” sort of way.
My parents would send me to school with peanut butter and Marmite sandwiches. Slightly annoying that just because there’s a ready-mixed version that people are now acting like it’s a new thing, but at least more people get to experience it.
Britain invaded half the world to take their spices and then never use them in cooking
There are like 10000 curry shops in Britain today.
keyword being “shops”
How is that the keyword? The point is British people love spicy food; curry, a cuisine stolen from our former empire, is our national dish and you can get it everywhere.
Why the hang-up about “shops”? It’s a colloquialism for restaurants.
Not recently.
Baked Beans on pizza has been a thing for over thirty years!
I’m about to have an existential crisis now that I know beans on pizza is older than I am!
I’m about to have an existential crisis from knowing my marriage is older than you are.
You consume the blandest baked beans on the planet. That was already too far.
Y’all conquered the world for spices, but that was clearly just for capital, since you don’t use them for anything. I thought white people food in America was bland, y’all exist on an entirely different level.
(I went to London once and the beans were awful. This is the end of my grievances for today)
See, people think white people food is bland, but it’s really just yankee food. The South got all the good food in the divorce, and even when we remarried, we kept the seasonings via prenup.
Aren’t most foods associated with Southern cooking not originally “white people food” though?
And they can’t even blame the Brexit for this…
Not until somebody punctures Britain and it starts sinking into the sea
I´ll see your baked beans with sausage pizza and raise you pretzel pizza with bavarian veal sausage and sweet mustard.
Actually looks good
Spotted today in Iceland
Have the Brits conquered that too? I must have missed the news…
I know this is a joke but just in case anyone is confused Iceland is a shop in the UK which specialises in frozen food.
What I love is that they actually have an Iceland in Iceland. I’ve driven past it.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I wasn’t familiar with Iceland as a frozen food shop. Makes sense now!
There has been an ongoing court case about the trademark: Iceland v Iceland Foods Ltd
I applaud the bravery and conviction of the British people to their beans.
Beans are love. Beans are life.
I often wonder how British people manage to survive. How can man live on flavorless foods and bad pairings?
But then on the other hand the majority of Americans drink piss beer so…
How can man live on flavorless foods and bad pairings?
Maybe they’re trying to create a bri’ish variant of russian diet: sausage and beans in place of cigars and vodka
Yawn.
We don’t live on flavourless (with a u, as is right and proper) food and bad pairings. We have almost all the cuisines of the world at our disposal. I’ve eaten carbonara, butter chicken, sundubu ramen, and black bean quesadillas this week, as well as a traditional roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings.
But even if you do just stick with Bri’ish classics, you could have a full English, a steamed steak and kidney pudding, kedgeree, a rich and warming Shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash with onion gravy and some fiery English mustard, a hearty bowl of cullen skink, and today, of all days, maybe throw in haggis, neeps, and tatties with a whisky sauce. None of these are lacking in flavour unless you’re a shit cook.
Historically British food isn’t heavily spiced because we had plentiful access to quality ingredients so we didn’t need to mask any potentially iffy flavours with a heavy layer of spice. And then we went around the world and conquered a quarter of its landmass and a quarter of its population and brought home a lot of the world’s recipes.
What fucked us was two world wars and rationing that lasted for decades after when most British cooks suddenly lost access to fancy items like spices (or even eggs for that matter) and had to make do with utter basics. Suddenly we didn’t have all those quality ingredients, we just had fucking spam. And nothing much to spice it up with. Not surprisingly, our cuisine took a bit of a hit for a while. But we got better. Promise. Come round my place and I’ll cook you up a storm of flavour. With a u. As is right and proper.
Clearly I struck a nerve. My comment was a joke. It was pretty painfully obvious
I got that it was a joke. A tired old joke.
The British have bad food and bad teeth. Americans are fat, gun-crazy loudmouths. The French are rude, stink of garlic, and surrender at the first sign of danger. Australians are all criminals. Greeks are feckless scroungers. Russians are all drunk. Yay, such funny.
What about Germans? Suspicious you mention everyone but Germans when you have a German name. Are you a secret German?
I mentioned the war once, but I think I got away with it.
British food, generally, is bland though. And that’s what the joke was about. Not all that other shit.
Yawn.
Everything is permitted on a pizza. Not even bri’ish but work at a fancy pizza place and have done Beans on Toast pizza and it went over pretty well. White beans, tomato sauce, parm, basil, sprinkled with oregano and drizzled with a very oiled down to make it super super mild and spiced molasses. It went over big even though tbh we were having a contest to see where we’d rotate who make up.the special and the person who tells them what different meal to make a pizza out of. Sometimes it was a goofy challenge other times it turned out to just be a good idea, falafel thin crust pizza slaps, hummus base, falafel balls or crumble, roasted red pepper and pickled red onion, spoon on tabouli after the oven, mind blowing food. We also did a Thai style green curry one that was also really amazing. Anything that has a sauce and a carb can become a good pizza if you put your mind to it and have an industrial kitchen at your disposal. Ooh! This winter I did a garlic oil base, boccocini chunks, this super cinnamon nutmegged date/fig jam I made, roasted garlic and arugula post oven, it tasted like visting grandma for Christmas.
