Slop Wars: British v. Mexican Cuisine, and American's pallet
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I can agree with many of AA & Carl's points regarding American corporate food being junk, and having our pallets ruined to a degree. I can also agree that Mexican food, can be just slop.
However, I can't agree that the British diet of Beef and Gravy for nearly all hours and occasions is anything but patently absurd. Sometimes I have to be reminded that Britain is an an Island Chain, and yet fish is not a staple of their diet compared to beef. And yes, the inside of your weird beef-pot-pie is slop, and when you won't stop adding gravy, it also becomes slop.
Don't worry Britbongs, your slop can be good to, I think. At least you don't eat marmite.
What is confused about AA's perception of Americans is that he forgets we aren't European. Evola is correct. We are Liberal revolutionary republic, and within that we actually did create a new nation of people called Americans. We really aren't our predecessors, and we don't actually want to be European. We don't owe them, and we don't see them as superior, because they aren't. This isn't a rejection of "tradition", it's a rejection of them. We went our own way centuries ago.
"If you want to make a comment supporting Mexicans food, I'll just delete your comment."
Sensitive flex, but okay.
50 years of non-European immigration has completely obliterated your retarded civnat worldview. America was founded by, and almost entirely consisted of, white Christian Europeans. Whatever laws and values we imposed upon ourselves were still rooted in the anthropic reality of our racial/ethnic demographics. We’ve seen clear evidence of this as our attempts to export our “democracy” around the globe have been met with nothing but terrible failure. Similarly, as our own demographics have shifted beyond repair at home, our institutions and values have collapsed into sectarian strife, foreign interests, and communism.
How can you continue to harbor such retarded ideas in the face of everything around you? Looking out your window every morning should feel like a punch in the face. Even Richard Dawkins was eventually forced to recognize that his own non-racialist secularism still very much relied upon the foundation and sustained environment of a Euro-Christian West.
Agreed. America was founded on a lie. We are not all created equal.
As if non-European immigration didn't occur prior to Hart-Celler. As if the same total incompatibility argument wasn't made against any European peoples, including Catholics.
It is because Evola is correct. That was his major criticism. America is not a place where Americans settled to continue thier traditions for a thousand years. People come to America to become American. It's an inverse of the traditional manner. However, that means that integration and assimilation is mandatory, and that immigration itself can only be purely voluntary for that purpose: to abandon your previous life to become American.
America's immigration policy, specifically around mass migration, isn't sustainable for anyone or anything.
I only recently had real English cheddar for the first time, and it was one of the best taste experiences ever. It feels like I've been lied to my entire life by people calling Wisconsin cheese "cheddar". Red Leicester is even better.
So cheddar, meat pies, and fish and chips are at least three delicious original English foods. You can skip the gravy.
Welsh rarebit is pretty good.
Meat pies are weird, I'll just take the meat. Then also the fish, cheddar... and fries.
It took me a while to understand what pallets had to do with food taste.
It's what you serve it on when plates aren't big enough because the cow is still mooing.
dammit
Oddly enough, eels used to be such a staple in old England that you would pay your rent with them.
https://youtu.be/iC5jQZWshx0
To me British food as they prepare it is generally just bland.
The worst bangers and mash I've ever had was in Ireland (I know, not England, but they have the same issue), where it's supposedly one of their "trademark" dishes. The sausage was completely lacking in flavor, like it was just ground up meat with no seasoning at all.
It's all in the preparation. As a kid, I hated the local Mexican food, which was mostly bland tacos, burritos, and enchiladas stuffed with flavorless beans, cheese, and meat. Now that I've traveled all over, I've had really good Mexican food from southern CA and TX and learned that it's less about the dish itself and more about the chef preparing it.