As a Brit, I believe that it is mostly down to the fact that for us, cooking and eating are just chores. We don’t like complicated stuff, just something that you can prepare in no more than 40 mins, and eat in no less than 20 minutes. Throughout history, Britain is known for having no real cuisine, after all only rich people used to eat meat, for most people stew was the meal, and something solely intended to fill you up. Regarding spices, many Brits don’t see the need to put an “unpleasant burning feeling” in their food, they just want to eat and finish it quickly. And regarding the “overcooking” part, there’s definitely a kind of paranoia about “undercooked” foods, with Brits scared of getting food poisoning. TLDR: Cooking and eating are just necessary evils for us, and we just can’t be bothered to spend any more time than we have to in that field.
Well, that about sums it up - we heard it straight from a Brit :D I guess there are many people in Sweden too that see cookng as a necessary evil. Especially given how much of our food that's just herring and potatoes.
The unpleasantness of British food for me at least, has always been something of a mystery. Most of it is passable at least, but the bread is what i reserve my ire for. During the war something called 'the chorleywood bread process' was adopted, and the UK has had truly awful bread ever since. Yes many Brits will get upset at that, and say we have great bread, but my answer remains the same, no, it's usually awful, even the expensive stuff is just 'ok'.
I read up a bit on the Chorleywood bread process now, and that explains a lot about why I'm not a fan of British bread. Strange really, that a country with so many nice raw food ingredients has to resort to over-processed bread like that!
I really wanted to like British food. I’m Caribbean and British food was different. It’s hard to go from food that has seasoning to food with none. I think you just go in there knowing that they will lack spices.
I suspect (as an American) that Caribbean cuisine is based on British cuisine, but with seasoning added. Compare the Cornish pasty to the Jamaican beef pie.
I understand and agree with a lot of your points, but I have to ask where you got your full English and fish and chips from… A proper, authentic full English or Fish and chips from a nice shop is like no other. Personally I’d only get one from a part of England near the coast like Liverpool.
Haha, I just grabbed the first option I could find! I figured that I'm not too picky about the quality and it'll be fun footage to use for the video if it's pretty bad 😄
Even the best fish and chips are not on the same level of craft and sophistication as Tempura. And if that is the best that the British has to offer in terms of food, then I'm afraid the stigma and stereotype are very much real.
British food is good for people who can’t eat spicy food because their digestive systems overrides their taste buds by causing all sorts of issues if you like the taste of spicy foods. In England, Wales, Scotland and both Irelands their breakfast fast is the same. The Titanic Museum in Belfast had the best fish and chips because it wasn’t greasy and had enough salt that made it tasty, not bland at all.
Yeah, although some Indian food can be quite spicy in the UK too! Hmm.. There's a Titanic museum in Belfast? It seems like there are many places associated with the Titanic. I thought it would've been one in Liverpool too. But oh well, good that they have decent food there at least!
The lack of food culture goes back through history. British cuisine has always been the most depressing unappetizing shit - it almost seems like food was made to punish people.
5:40 "They're probably filled with entrails." Or vice versa. I've never heard it said that British ingredients are poor quality--only that British cooks don't know what to do with them. Could British imperialism be to blame? That urge to suppress and destroy local culture may have begun at home, in their own kitchens. 😆
Oh yeah, the entrails go in all directions! Haha, that's a good idea.. But then again, what is it they say - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" :D
My theory is, cold weather countries simply do not make good food. UK, Scandinavia, Germany, Dutch, Canada, Russia etc. are not famous for making great food. Cold weather all-year means less food growth and less variety of food that will grow, plus people are less willing to go out and farm and hunt and forage (in the old days) for food to take home and cook. Hence the food culture never had a chance to grow.
That's.... actually a really solid idea! And it makes perfect sense. When people are struggling just to grow grain and raise a few pigs they don't care as much about finer cooking...
Yes, it is part of the explanation, but not all of it. Germany, Denmark, Holland etc. still has notable food cultures, while Britain is lacking in comparison.
@@joeysausage3437 Hmm.. Some places online says that the combination is an English invention, even if the different parts like the fried fish came from immigrants. Oh well, maybe there's more to it than that!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Even if fried fish comes from a different country, I don't think that means fish and chips isn't British, tempura came from Portugal originally until the Japanese changed it to suit their palette, although people wouldn't say Tempura isn't Japanese.
I’m someone who has travelled a lot and has tried food from many different nations. And I’m not saying that English is my favourite, but it’s up there amongst my favourites. Although they don’t have a vast variety of flavours, English food can be very hearty without being bland when made properly and with love. There’s not a lot out there that can make me feel complete with satisfaction in the same way a lot of English dishes can.
Really? I mean, this video is a bit tongue-in-cheek but I haven't really heard many say that British food is in the top. (But then again, there are quite a few top restaurants from the UK as well so...)
@@ThreeStarVagabond the way I see it, bad food isn’t the fault of the cuisine, but the cook itself. English food doesn’t have to be bland and disgusting. Any chef who really knows what he’s doing can make any dish taste good and look appetising, no matter what nation the dish is from, he just has to know what he’s doing. Maybe the UK has more bad chefs than most other countries but they don’t represent English food. I think you probably would have had a better experience with English food if you were a guest to an English family, feeding you the freshest homemade food As for marmite, I have a love/hate relationship with that. Sometimes I like it but I can definitely understand the hatred people have towards it 😂
@@nicolasjackson209 Agreed - it's all about the execution (and the produce used I guess), since just about every dish can be made into a pleasant experience. And I don't truly believe that the UK has that many bad chefs - not worse than any other country. I'd guess that home cooking is wonderful in every country. Even dull Swedish dishes can be made extremely well at home, even if they leave a lot to be desired when you get them at a restaurant.
@@nicolasjackson209 A better-than-average cook can render a superior version of a usually bland and disgusting dish, but if the result is atypical then the cuisine is at fault. If a disproportionate number of bad chefs is characteristic of the UK, then that actually does speak poorly of British cuisine, and its food culture. Both circumstances say that good British food is unusual and so British cuisine is bad.
I am 27 years old and was born in London to italian parents. I really don't mind British people cooking authentic British food however British people can't even cook that anymore. That's the real issue.
Post-War British cooking was delicious especially back in Edwardian and Victorian times. Even back in the 15th century British food wasn't that bad. Elaborately roasted meats (with spices, sauces ,sugar etc.. ) and desserts sculpted out of sugar etc.. At some people though it seems Brits just gave up in the kitchen.
I always love eating an English Breakfast...good info. so true about Marmite!! My wife is from New Zealand and they love eating Marmite. it's so discusting.
Wait what, how did I miss that part about marmite?! Aaah, the comment is edited! Haha, I would never say "I do too" when talking about people loving to eat marmite :D
British food culture is about price, not flavour. A fry up is evaluated on its cost. Ditto for "most popular" beers. These are popular because they are cheap, not because they taste good. Guiness is black laxative, as is Carlsberg. High quality food is low volume, and usually local, like craft beers.
Haha fair enough! I guess "best" and "good" etc is all relative after all, depending on what you value - and maybe your current mood as well. Makes perfect sense! 😊
"High quality food is low volume, and usually local, like craft beers." = This is also the US in a nutshell except we supersized the idea and ourselves in the process. You are the root cause though.
Marmite is delicious on toast and it's impossible to eat a real English breakfast in Sweden as the Swedish ingredients are inferior "bacon and sausage" love these videos 👍
Virtually every sausage is inferior to Italian salami, German sausage and specialty American small-batch sausage which is probably just ripped off recipes from Italy and Germany.
@@user-ohmy I've tried wheatabix once and I have no idea why people would want it. Ever! Actually I felt the same way about pop-tarts in the US to be honest.
There really seems to be a lack of fresh fruit and fresh fish. Where are the poke bowls? Not many place to get smoothies, etc. Not much of a focus on healthy eating. Coming from California it has been very challenging.
That's a very good observation - there's a lot of focus on carbs and meat. I think Sweden is somewhere in between the UK and California in that regard.
I think you're right that there's, perhaps, less of a focus on healthy eating - certainly where I live. But there's a Poké place near me (and I live in Leeds, not London!). So they are about. I actually ordered this incredible Black Sesame Halibut Bao last night. People, perhaps, forget that we're pretty multicultural, for a small country, and there's more to our cuisine than our, admittedly simple/bland "traditional" cuisine.
Strangely enough, it's an island that doesn't eat fish. Maybe the water around it is that bad? Plus, I don't know what the sewage policy is around the UK and surrounding countries.
Lol! Well put. I really should some more videos about horrible food one can find in Sweden or other Scandinavian countries. The problem is that all of it is just fish.
Nailed it, super accurate analysis! And according to my experience of living here for years, the british rendition of foods from other cultures is also highly lacking and gross (especially Indian food) - it usually never fails to leave a gaping void of disappointment in you, both due to the terrible pricing accompanied by the blatant theft of recipes and inspiration from other cultures with minimal credit/ respect.
Thank you! I'm just a visitor there - but here we have a testimony from someone with a lot more experience. So I'm not completely barking up the wrong tree!
@@ThreeStarVagabond 🤣 have to agree that the beer in this country is pretty abysmal. This is why I drink craft beer all the time now, so much nicer, and usually stronger. Much better than that rubbish English Carling lager.
@@continentalcoxons It's so weird though! I actually thought that English beer was really good...and then I started looking at what's available at the pubs, and it's just the craft beer and newer stuff that's any interesting 😀I love stuff like Brewdog though
Personally I'm perfectly fine with the food in the UK, but it is a bit of a running joke that British food is bad. This video is a little bit tongue-in-cheek though :)
@David Johannes You'll never get brilliant traditional British food if your tradition isn't brilliant but what you will get is authentic and that's just the standard
Chicken is imported Park is imported the majority of all livestock originally was imported but I can tie that wasn't imported that fuzz top of your head
@@americanmade6996 That's the best kind of defense isn't it? Just try to point out that something else is worse - then your own thing has to be good by definition, right? :D
"Traditional" British food is also prepared in many cases. It is premade sausages, tinned beans, and mashed potaotes from powder. I see a similarity to the USA in that regard. People don't actually cook, they just throw some premade food together, and maybe stick it in the oven if they feel fancy. And what do people who can't cook do, they buy more prepared food, takeouts etc. Fish and Chips is a very common takeout, and English breakfast you get at the local pub.
Yeah but they also have disgusting food like: Black pudding, Jellied eels, Stargazy pie, Haggis, Steak and kidney pudding, Why steak yum.............. kidneys really?
I don’t know if you’ve had black pudding, but for me personally, it’s very nice, no one has ever eaten jellied eel, and haggis and steak and kidney pie is just healthy organ meat
I would bet that's because historically the nobles hoarded all the good food and the peasants had to subsist off of what was left. What was left was not that great. The French solved this problem with the revolution whereas the English choose to tolerate it. Guess who's food is better?
@@Not-Ap Much of the best French food comes from the skilled use of mundane ingredients. The same can be said of Chinese and southern American cuisine. Britons may have been poor, but that doesn't explain eating poorly.
@Three Star Vagabond If they loved like the French or Italians, for example, then, maybe you'd taste the love in the food instead of it tasting like the outside of a condom.
The UK: So we can serve anything with our great culture and spices right?Let's do that! Also the UK: Let's draw the line on beans on toast, and fish n chips because that's what makes us special! Having food with about that we created is so last century...
@@ThreeStarVagabond I mean most the food people say is great from the UK was brought over by the French, Italians or Indian cultures. When I think of the UK all I can think of immediately is the two things I mentioned, it's just so boring. Not to say that it's bad perse but I've had canned food with more originality! Except for beans on toast, that is a war crime...
@@celiafrostborn I actually don't mind beans on toast very much! I have a harder time with stuff like Marmite... But it's a bit weird that there are so many great cooks from the UK...but also so many complacent people who're satisfied with bland stuff.
They just wanted the money that came from the spice trade. They had no interest in it for there own purposes. That's the only logical reason I can think of for this.
This video made me furious🤬 we are a multi cultural group of countries, even our national dish is a chicken tikka massala. I am of Scandinavian descent and you have made a mockery of us Brits and our melting pot of cuisine.
I didn't know that British food is crappy like our United States food 😆😆 . Full of salt and sugar and that's all. Must be nice to eat in Sweden , so healthy and tasty!
Haha, oh we eat plenty of crap in Sweden too! Google "kebab pizza" for example - it's something most Swedes eat every so often... I think there's good and bad food in every country! 😀
Sweden is and was famous for its bland food so it's a little amusing to hear a swede have to talk down about others food. Makes sense though, they're all instilled with an unwarranted sense of superiority despite the fact their country is falling apart.
Haha. Sorry, you're not qualified to comment on a Swedish youtuber since you're not Swedish. Congratulations - you just won the most ridiculous comment of 2023!
I mean you can describe any food in such a dismissive attitude; Pretzels are overcooked pieces of dough, Hotdogs are just crappy sausages boiled in bathwater, pasta is just noodles in tomato sauce. Cornish pasties, the variety of pies, sunday roasts... all are glossed over or dismissed entirely. Let's not forget that you sound so smug when talking about the lack of famous english beers, when much of the beer tradition in england is craft brewing with local beers sold at the pub. One can go from one region to another and find a whole different selection of ales all made locally. The fact you miss this makes me wonder if you were willing to give Britain a fair shake or if you just wanted to have your views validated.
"Asian"--you're talking about dozens of countries with almost five billion people and hundreds of cuisines. You might as well talk about the Asian language.
@@americanmade6996 bruh, dont lump me with your fellow americans. of course im fully aware that asia is a continent and yes all their cuisine style are still better than british cuisine. I probably have visited heaps of asian countries than you. ever had uzbek cuisine? but yeah worry not cause russians have the worst food
You're talking about British food let's talk about Sweden culinary delight the only exports are meatballs attached to a budget furniture shop and that British food got us through World War II unlike your country who just let Germany have it's way with you
What the fudge u talking about man......English breakfast looks frigging delicious,way better than the American version it combines vegetables,meats and eggs and toast....that combined with a proper cup of coffee it’s a killer....
@@americanmade6996 Dammit, I think you got me there. It's pretty hard to define, isn't it? I'm in two minds about that: either the "American breakfast" you get abroad at hotels, which is...just normal stuff like bread and eggs. Or the breakfasts I see in media, like big pancake piles with syrup and stuff. That's the ones I'm thinking of, where it's way too much sugar for my liking.
@@ThreeStarVagabond That might be it: American pancakes seems to be the one common breakfast that dismays people from other countries, although it's hard to imagine that morning flatbreads and griddlecakes aren't common around the world. Maybe it's the butter and syrup. Still, I haven't heard anyone complain about a breakfast of freshly made pancakes (except for those two parochial Brit brats Joel and Lia, who think jam goes on eggs).
It reminds me of typical british salad, it starts in homes, through kebab places and even good rated restaurants, their whole knowledge bout salads its literally either coleslaw or lettuce, cucumber slices, onion, tomatoes. yes they call it a salad XD
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As a Brit, I believe that it is mostly down to the fact that for us, cooking and eating are just chores. We don’t like complicated stuff, just something that you can prepare in no more than 40 mins, and eat in no less than 20 minutes. Throughout history, Britain is known for having no real cuisine, after all only rich people used to eat meat, for most people stew was the meal, and something solely intended to fill you up. Regarding spices, many Brits don’t see the need to put an “unpleasant burning feeling” in their food, they just want to eat and finish it quickly. And regarding the “overcooking” part, there’s definitely a kind of paranoia about “undercooked” foods, with Brits scared of getting food poisoning.
TLDR: Cooking and eating are just necessary evils for us, and we just can’t be bothered to spend any more time than we have to in that field.
Well, that about sums it up - we heard it straight from a Brit :D I guess there are many people in Sweden too that see cookng as a necessary evil. Especially given how much of our food that's just herring and potatoes.
Takes 10 seconds to sprinkle a little container of seasonings.
If he said this about any other cuisine he’d be cancelled
Haha I'd love to see that. "What?! Did he insult-a my pasta? I shall cancel this-a imbecile who's criticizing Italian food!"
At least there are other "cuisines". British food doesn't qualify as that.
The unpleasantness of British food for me at least, has always been something of a mystery. Most of it is passable at least, but the bread is what i reserve my ire for. During the war something called 'the chorleywood bread process' was adopted, and the UK has had truly awful bread ever since. Yes many Brits will get upset at that, and say we have great bread, but my answer remains the same, no, it's usually awful, even the expensive stuff is just 'ok'.
I read up a bit on the Chorleywood bread process now, and that explains a lot about why I'm not a fan of British bread. Strange really, that a country with so many nice raw food ingredients has to resort to over-processed bread like that!
I really wanted to like British food. I’m Caribbean and British food was different. It’s hard to go from food that has seasoning to food with none. I think you just go in there knowing that they will lack spices.
Lol...no seasoning....behave😅
Oh, I think they have plenty of salt most of the time at least ;D
I suspect (as an American) that Caribbean cuisine is based on British cuisine, but with seasoning added. Compare the Cornish pasty to the Jamaican beef pie.
@@JohnWilson-hc5wq it has indigenous and African roots.
@@JohnWilson-hc5wqno, it's not.
I understand and agree with a lot of your points, but I have to ask where you got your full English and fish and chips from… A proper, authentic full English or Fish and chips from a nice shop is like no other. Personally I’d only get one from a part of England near the coast like Liverpool.
Haha, I just grabbed the first option I could find! I figured that I'm not too picky about the quality and it'll be fun footage to use for the video if it's pretty bad 😄
Even the best fish and chips are not on the same level of craft and sophistication as Tempura. And if that is the best that the British has to offer in terms of food, then I'm afraid the stigma and stereotype are very much real.
British food is good for people who can’t eat spicy food because their digestive systems overrides their taste buds by causing all sorts of issues if you like the taste of spicy foods. In England, Wales, Scotland and both Irelands their breakfast fast is the same. The Titanic Museum in Belfast had the best fish and chips because it wasn’t greasy and had enough salt that made it tasty, not bland at all.
Yeah, although some Indian food can be quite spicy in the UK too! Hmm.. There's a Titanic museum in Belfast? It seems like there are many places associated with the Titanic. I thought it would've been one in Liverpool too. But oh well, good that they have decent food there at least!
The lack of food culture goes back through history. British cuisine has always been the most depressing unappetizing shit - it almost seems like food was made to punish people.
Haha! Now that's a phrase I should have used in the video :D
I feel like food is a very important thing while traveling… You didn’t convince me to go any time soon! 🤣
I think I did a pretty poor job at selling the UK as a destination right now 😀 But in their defense, there's great Indian and other types of food! 😄
@@ThreeStarVagabond yes come to india people :)
@@ThreeStarVagabond come to UK to try indian food lol
@@ThreeStarVagabond A very poor job. A totally biased, and one sided opinion.
@@PortmanRd Nah, it was a good job. You're biased, and presenting your one sided opinion on that.
5:40 "They're probably filled with entrails." Or vice versa.
I've never heard it said that British ingredients are poor quality--only that British cooks don't know what to do with them. Could British imperialism be to blame? That urge to suppress and destroy local culture may have begun at home, in their own kitchens. 😆
Oh yeah, the entrails go in all directions! Haha, that's a good idea.. But then again, what is it they say - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Sausage is just (re)filled entrails.
Yeah, that's what I meant with "all directions" - both on the inside and the outside :)
when you destroy multiple cultures because you feel inadequate about your food
Offal reimagined.
My theory is, cold weather countries simply do not make good food. UK, Scandinavia, Germany, Dutch, Canada, Russia etc. are not famous for making great food.
Cold weather all-year means less food growth and less variety of food that will grow, plus people are less willing to go out and farm and hunt and forage (in the old days) for food to take home and cook. Hence the food culture never had a chance to grow.
That's.... actually a really solid idea! And it makes perfect sense. When people are struggling just to grow grain and raise a few pigs they don't care as much about finer cooking...
Yes, it is part of the explanation, but not all of it. Germany, Denmark, Holland etc. still has notable food cultures, while Britain is lacking in comparison.
For a country that has bland food, the British sure know how to drink their liquor like whiskey and gin
Of course, they need something to wash down the food with
@@ThreeStarVagabond
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Britons dunt know anythin pin head
The only problems British cuisine has are the ones that exist between the plate and the chair.
It's pretty fascinating what self-suggestion can do for some people
A Swede slaging off British cuisine.....oh the irony 😅
Oh trust me, I'm thinking about doing a video about disgusting foods in Sweden. I just don't want to expose myself to all the horrors over here :D
Currently in Scotland and the food literally sucks. Bland, tasteless and mushy. Who in the heck serves “minted pea purée” with fish and chips?
Oh damn, that sounds completely vile! Haha I'm happy you're there and not me 😂
@@ThreeStarVagabond It’s all good😂
Thad, they do. And fish and chips is not british. Look it up.
@@joeysausage3437 Hmm.. Some places online says that the combination is an English invention, even if the different parts like the fried fish came from immigrants. Oh well, maybe there's more to it than that!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Even if fried fish comes from a different country, I don't think that means fish and chips isn't British, tempura came from Portugal originally until the Japanese changed it to suit their palette, although people wouldn't say Tempura isn't Japanese.
Britain make one of the best whisky in the world
Oh absolutely! Although the Japanese are doing pretty decently too...
I’m someone who has travelled a lot and has tried food from many different nations. And I’m not saying that English is my favourite, but it’s up there amongst my favourites.
Although they don’t have a vast variety of flavours, English food can be very hearty without being bland when made properly and with love. There’s not a lot out there that can make me feel complete with satisfaction in the same way a lot of English dishes can.
Also that English breakfast looked cheap, that doesn’t represent a real good quality English breakfast
Really? I mean, this video is a bit tongue-in-cheek but I haven't really heard many say that British food is in the top. (But then again, there are quite a few top restaurants from the UK as well so...)
@@ThreeStarVagabond the way I see it, bad food isn’t the fault of the cuisine, but the cook itself. English food doesn’t have to be bland and disgusting. Any chef who really knows what he’s doing can make any dish taste good and look appetising, no matter what nation the dish is from, he just has to know what he’s doing.
Maybe the UK has more bad chefs than most other countries but they don’t represent English food.
I think you probably would have had a better experience with English food if you were a guest to an English family, feeding you the freshest homemade food
As for marmite, I have a love/hate relationship with that. Sometimes I like it but I can definitely understand the hatred people have towards it 😂
@@nicolasjackson209 Agreed - it's all about the execution (and the produce used I guess), since just about every dish can be made into a pleasant experience. And I don't truly believe that the UK has that many bad chefs - not worse than any other country.
I'd guess that home cooking is wonderful in every country. Even dull Swedish dishes can be made extremely well at home, even if they leave a lot to be desired when you get them at a restaurant.
@@nicolasjackson209 A better-than-average cook can render a superior version of a usually bland and disgusting dish, but if the result is atypical then the cuisine is at fault. If a disproportionate number of bad chefs is characteristic of the UK, then that actually does speak poorly of British cuisine, and its food culture. Both circumstances say that good British food is unusual and so British cuisine is bad.
I am 27 years old and was born in London to italian parents.
I really don't mind British people cooking authentic British food however British people can't even cook that anymore.
That's the real issue.
Post-War British cooking was delicious especially back in Edwardian and Victorian times. Even back in the 15th century British food wasn't that bad. Elaborately roasted meats (with spices, sauces ,sugar etc.. ) and desserts sculpted out of sugar etc.. At some people though it seems Brits just gave up in the kitchen.
THE MOST BORING FOOD IN THE WORLD
...is Swedish food! Haha I think the UK might actually have better food.
I always love eating an English Breakfast...good info. so true about Marmite!! My wife is from New Zealand and they love eating Marmite. it's so discusting.
Haha I do too actually! But I do think a lot of the stuff you get is pretty "meh" :) Thank you!
Wait what, how did I miss that part about marmite?! Aaah, the comment is edited! Haha, I would never say "I do too" when talking about people loving to eat marmite :D
Our marmite in New Zealand is slightly different. Over here British marmite is called "our mate".
Wtf I have just watched
Oh no! A person on the Internet is upset! Woe is me :(
British food culture is about price, not flavour. A fry up is evaluated on its cost. Ditto for "most popular" beers. These are popular because they are cheap, not because they taste good. Guiness is black laxative, as is Carlsberg.
High quality food is low volume, and usually local, like craft beers.
Haha fair enough! I guess "best" and "good" etc is all relative after all, depending on what you value - and maybe your current mood as well. Makes perfect sense! 😊
"High quality food is low volume, and usually local, like craft beers." = This is also the US in a nutshell except we supersized the idea and ourselves in the process. You are the root cause though.
Sweden isn’t exactly known for its food either haha
Sweden is infamous for its crappy food!
Watching this while eating my Chicken Tikka Masala with a Tom Yum Soup with shrimp as a side dish. Good video though.
Haha! It's good food regardless whether or not it's British. But thank you so much! 😀
@allergy5634 Right, I heard! It's like much Chinese food as well, right? Invented in the west...
@allergy5634 no you can google and see its based on Indian butter chicken. Also your Heinz beans is American so even beans on toast is Not UK
Marmite is delicious on toast and it's impossible to eat a real English breakfast in Sweden as the Swedish ingredients are inferior "bacon and sausage" love these videos 👍
Haha let's agree to disagree about marmite! But I'm with you on the poor Swedish excuse that we call bacon...
Virtually every sausage is inferior to Italian salami, German sausage and specialty American small-batch sausage which is probably just ripped off recipes from Italy and Germany.
@@manictiger Are the American recipes truly "ripped off" if they used by legitimate German and Italian descendants?
This is great, ive been saying this for years and people defend it
Haha, well there's both good and bad food in the UK - just like there's pretty bad (and good) food in most countries.
@@ThreeStarVagabond also can you explain wheatabix? Like when I went there that was a staple household breakfast wtf
@@user-ohmy I've tried wheatabix once and I have no idea why people would want it. Ever! Actually I felt the same way about pop-tarts in the US to be honest.
There really seems to be a lack of fresh fruit and fresh fish. Where are the poke bowls? Not many place to get smoothies, etc. Not much of a focus on healthy eating. Coming from California it has been very challenging.
That's a very good observation - there's a lot of focus on carbs and meat. I think Sweden is somewhere in between the UK and California in that regard.
Americans eat heathy?? 🤣🤣🤣
@@PortmanRd I specifically said California. There's a difference.
I think you're right that there's, perhaps, less of a focus on healthy eating - certainly where I live. But there's a Poké place near me (and I live in Leeds, not London!). So they are about. I actually ordered this incredible Black Sesame Halibut Bao last night. People, perhaps, forget that we're pretty multicultural, for a small country, and there's more to our cuisine than our, admittedly simple/bland "traditional" cuisine.
Strangely enough, it's an island that doesn't eat fish. Maybe the water around it is that bad? Plus, I don't know what the sewage policy is around the UK and surrounding countries.
I'm British and I just eat Indian, Chinese and Italian foods. Don't bother with British stuff really.
I like the big English breakfast, and Fish and Chips. Marmite is gross, and so is Veggiemite. I eat herring from a jar so I can't point fingers.
Lol! Well put. I really should some more videos about horrible food one can find in Sweden or other Scandinavian countries. The problem is that all of it is just fish.
Nailed it, super accurate analysis! And according to my experience of living here for years, the british rendition of foods from other cultures is also highly lacking and gross (especially Indian food) - it usually never fails to leave a gaping void of disappointment in you, both due to the terrible pricing accompanied by the blatant theft of recipes and inspiration from other cultures with minimal credit/ respect.
Thank you! I'm just a visitor there - but here we have a testimony from someone with a lot more experience. So I'm not completely barking up the wrong tree!
Always interesting to see what visitors think of food in this country. 😂
I actually don't mind it all that much! I have such an unrefined palate, but it's fun to diss anyway ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond 🤣 have to agree that the beer in this country is pretty abysmal. This is why I drink craft beer all the time now, so much nicer, and usually stronger. Much better than that rubbish English Carling lager.
@@continentalcoxons It's so weird though! I actually thought that English beer was really good...and then I started looking at what's available at the pubs, and it's just the craft beer and newer stuff that's any interesting 😀I love stuff like Brewdog though
Yes I do love a Brewdog. Always have a Punk IPA
@@continentalcoxons Exactly! I like Dead Pony Club too
Bang out of order for dissing marmite and fish and chips like that! 😧 The rest of it, yeah fair play 🤣👍🇬🇧
You can talk all the smack you want about Swedish meatballs in return :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond Sounds like a fair exchange! 🤣
The food in The UK is good but if your comparing it to the rest of Europe or United States food it’s Obviously not gonna compare very well.
Personally I'm perfectly fine with the food in the UK, but it is a bit of a running joke that British food is bad. This video is a little bit tongue-in-cheek though :)
@@faytstrife5782 Unfair! Food like Thai and Mexican are just so awesome that everything else pales in comparison 😀
"It's good if you've never tried food from any other country"
@David Johannes You'll never get brilliant traditional British food if your tradition isn't brilliant but what you will get is authentic and that's just the standard
@@davelovesdrums "The best food is Britain is something that is not British".
Chicken is imported Park is imported the majority of all livestock originally was imported but I can tie that wasn't imported that fuzz top of your head
If you try really hard you might be able to construct a sentence that makes some sort of sense one of these days. I believe in you - you can do it! ❤️
@@ThreeStarVagabond there's plenty of other comments I left for you let's be honest Vikings what have you done since then oh yeah I fermented a shark
@@ThreeStarVagabond I miss spelt one word you know what it meant I can't see much horns going through that thick f****** hair of yours
@@ThreeStarVagabond Notice that in all of his rant-and-rage comments he never once says anything resembling, "British food is good".😄
@@americanmade6996 That's the best kind of defense isn't it? Just try to point out that something else is worse - then your own thing has to be good by definition, right? :D
I liked this but I don't think he quite nailed it
Sorry, I gave it my best shot. I'm not a Brit of course, so I might have missed a lot :)
What about the Sunday roast ?
That one is pretty nice isn't it! Haha, I might have been a bit selective in my examples
"Traditional" British food is also prepared in many cases. It is premade sausages, tinned beans, and mashed potaotes from powder. I see a similarity to the USA in that regard. People don't actually cook, they just throw some premade food together, and maybe stick it in the oven if they feel fancy.
And what do people who can't cook do, they buy more prepared food, takeouts etc. Fish and Chips is a very common takeout, and English breakfast you get at the local pub.
dont confuse the way you eat with English cookery
Yeah but they also have disgusting food like: Black pudding, Jellied eels, Stargazy pie, Haggis, Steak and kidney pudding, Why steak yum.............. kidneys really?
Haha! I can only agree completely! There are some really weird stuff over there...
I don’t know if you’ve had black pudding, but for me personally, it’s very nice, no one has ever eaten jellied eel, and haggis and steak and kidney pie is just healthy organ meat
I just looked up Stargazy pie. Oh, My Gaghkk.
I would bet that's because historically the nobles hoarded all the good food and the peasants had to subsist off of what was left. What was left was not that great. The French solved this problem with the revolution whereas the English choose to tolerate it. Guess who's food is better?
@@Not-Ap Much of the best French food comes from the skilled use of mundane ingredients. The same can be said of Chinese and southern American cuisine. Britons may have been poor, but that doesn't explain eating poorly.
The British don't have a natural love affair with food
Could be that simple, yeah!
@Three Star Vagabond If they loved like the French or Italians, for example, then, maybe you'd taste the love in the food instead of it tasting like the outside of a condom.
@@carltonlambert7608 I can only agree! There's something special about the taste of food from passionate countries. Haha, and very well put :D
The UK: So we can serve anything with our great culture and spices right?Let's do that!
Also the UK: Let's draw the line on beans on toast, and fish n chips because that's what makes us special! Having food with about that we created is so last century...
Haha! I think that was a perfect summary of the British mindset regarding food :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond I mean most the food people say is great from the UK was brought over by the French, Italians or Indian cultures. When I think of the UK all I can think of immediately is the two things I mentioned, it's just so boring. Not to say that it's bad perse but I've had canned food with more originality! Except for beans on toast, that is a war crime...
@@celiafrostborn I actually don't mind beans on toast very much! I have a harder time with stuff like Marmite... But it's a bit weird that there are so many great cooks from the UK...but also so many complacent people who're satisfied with bland stuff.
i also appreciate how we name our food, like no fancy name or anything, the name and the description are one and the same
@@thejuiceking2219 So, spotted dick is...
Its crazy, British conquered the world for spices, only for its culinary culture to hate spices 😂
The irony is amazing. "Let's bring home all of these spices! But yeah, just use them sparingly, okay?"
They just wanted the money that came from the spice trade. They had no interest in it for there own purposes. That's the only logical reason I can think of for this.
@@Not-Ap Don't forget: spices were expensive back then. It made sense to use them sparingly. Maybe the habit just continued.
"So how come the food is so bad"
Summary of the video: It isn't.
This video made me furious🤬 we are a multi cultural group of countries, even our national dish is a chicken tikka massala. I am of Scandinavian descent and you have made a mockery of us Brits and our melting pot of cuisine.
No, you managed just fine to make a mockery of yourself without my help! :D
No darling british food is dogshit compared to spainish and Italian food.
I didn't know that British food is crappy like our United States food 😆😆 . Full of salt and sugar and that's all. Must be nice to eat in Sweden , so healthy and tasty!
Haha, oh we eat plenty of crap in Sweden too! Google "kebab pizza" for example - it's something most Swedes eat every so often... I think there's good and bad food in every country! 😀
Not even close to being true.
Sweden is and was famous for its bland food so it's a little amusing to hear a swede have to talk down about others food. Makes sense though, they're all instilled with an unwarranted sense of superiority despite the fact their country is falling apart.
If you grew up in America with parents that can't cook, just say that.
@@MooseCastle He did confess Sweden had lots of bad food. Northern Europe isn't the place for culinary delights.
The British are just overly flippant and dismissive with good food. It's why they look older than their age.
Sorry, but if you’re not British then you aren’t qualified to review British food and culture lol
Haha. Sorry, you're not qualified to comment on a Swedish youtuber since you're not Swedish. Congratulations - you just won the most ridiculous comment of 2023!
I mean you can describe any food in such a dismissive attitude; Pretzels are overcooked pieces of dough, Hotdogs are just crappy sausages boiled in bathwater, pasta is just noodles in tomato sauce.
Cornish pasties, the variety of pies, sunday roasts... all are glossed over or dismissed entirely.
Let's not forget that you sound so smug when talking about the lack of famous english beers, when much of the beer tradition in england is craft brewing with local beers sold at the pub. One can go from one region to another and find a whole different selection of ales all made locally. The fact you miss this makes me wonder if you were willing to give Britain a fair shake or if you just wanted to have your views validated.
anyone who boils hotdogs deserves to chug the water
i still prefer asian cuisine
Agreed on that! Most Asian kitchens are vastly superior to a lot we have in the west
"Asian"--you're talking about dozens of countries with almost five billion people and hundreds of cuisines. You might as well talk about the Asian language.
@@americanmade6996 bruh, dont lump me with your fellow americans. of course im fully aware that asia is a continent and yes all their cuisine style are still better than british cuisine. I probably have visited heaps of asian countries than you. ever had uzbek cuisine? but yeah worry not cause russians have the worst food
You're talking about British food let's talk about Sweden culinary delight the only exports are meatballs attached to a budget furniture shop and that British food got us through World War II unlike your country who just let Germany have it's way with you
So? I've already covered Swedish awful cuisine earlier. Some people are just ridiculous with their patriotism.
Stop trying to defend the indefensible ffs.
What the fudge u talking about man......English breakfast looks frigging delicious,way better than the American version it combines vegetables,meats and eggs and toast....that combined with a proper cup of coffee it’s a killer....
Oh everything is better than an American breakfast though! I have to admit that I'm not much of a breakfast person so I'm a bit biased anyway.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Out of curiosity what do you consider an "American" breakfast?
@@americanmade6996 Dammit, I think you got me there. It's pretty hard to define, isn't it? I'm in two minds about that: either the "American breakfast" you get abroad at hotels, which is...just normal stuff like bread and eggs. Or the breakfasts I see in media, like big pancake piles with syrup and stuff. That's the ones I'm thinking of, where it's way too much sugar for my liking.
@@ThreeStarVagabond That might be it: American pancakes seems to be the one common breakfast that dismays people from other countries, although it's hard to imagine that morning flatbreads and griddlecakes aren't common around the world. Maybe it's the butter and syrup. Still, I haven't heard anyone complain about a breakfast of freshly made pancakes (except for those two parochial Brit brats Joel and Lia, who think jam goes on eggs).
There breakfast sucks!
Hear ye, hear ye! I like parts of it but it's totally overrated
@MsMissy I think someone needs to take a pill and go lie down.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Your descendants will be Muslim. Know your place.
@MsMissy It sucks.
It reminds me of typical british salad, it starts in homes, through kebab places and even good rated restaurants, their whole knowledge bout salads its literally either coleslaw or lettuce, cucumber slices, onion, tomatoes. yes they call it a salad XD
I have to admit that that's basically my understanding of a salad as well :D Maybe I'm secretly part British?!