Why is British cuisine considered bland in comparison to Italian or Spanish?

[5GT. D34N]

I can't fathom how bland everything is (their dishes or palate), for example: cucumber sandwiches (really?) that is just boring as f*ck, well there are known examples such as: Shepherds pie, bangers & mash, baked beans, blood sausage, etc. while French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese food win as they at least have flavor.

[Hapless]

Continental barbarians will eat anything and call it cusiene. The yanks even wash their food in chlorine.

[peppermint hollows]

It was actually pretty tasty before, but they started making it bland after you deleted your last thread.

[Hobbit XIII]

Originally posted by 5GT. D34N:

I can't fathom how bland everything is (their dishes or palate), for example: cucumber sandwiches (really?) that is just boring as f*ck, well there are known examples such as: Shepherds pie, bangers & mash, baked beans, blood sausage, etc. while French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese food win as they at least have flavor.

It was bland back about 500 years + ago.

One of the reasons other countries really spiced up their food was because the produce meat and veg were poor quality so the extra spices and herbs covered it up.

Shepherds Pie is not bland, you can add any sauce or spices or herbs you like to it.
It is down to the cook and wants of those wanting to eat it.

Bangers and mash?
Eat my mash its not bland , but it is heavy on the calorie and dairy side.
BAngers? depends what sausages you are using and what else is on your plate, including the gravy.

Beans on toast, is a snack and you can have it part of something like a fry up as well or whatever you want.

Blood sausage?
Black Pudding is that?
I like black pudding you get different types and again depends how you put it with other things on the plate.

I can cook all sorts of food rarely bland.
I find some American things not as nice because they like over flavour because the tastes are used to it.
Had a Lasagne in the USA and I thought why bother putting mince in this they could have put tofu or lentils or anything in and you wouldn't know the difference outside of the texture.
Then there is also lots of American food I like and other countries.

[salamander]

Originally posted by < blank >:

so it's bland and unidimensional, you just won't admit it

greggs sausage rolls are the great cuisine on our earth, friend.

[salamander]

Originally posted by < blank >:

Originally posted by salamander:

greggs sausage rolls are the great cuisine on our earth, friend.

i tried them as a kid, it was bland back then too
even the pastries were bland

*GASPS*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7gEZcK_9VY

[Angel]

Subjective opinion but the flavours and techniques of British food isn't as strong as the others mentioned. The British to me have a very home cooked style as comfort food but it's not as exciting as those of the French and Italian. British precision isn't shown in food nor are much of their plating skills and accented flavours.

It's not to say all British food are like this as there are many chefs and restaurants that have achieved this along with awarded with Michelin stars.

[St✩rlight]

I don't know, my city has tons of exotic restaurants from all around the world

[Ulfrinn]

Why would you want pizza and lasagna when you could have haggis and blood sausage instead?

[Chaosolous]

The problem is it looks gross.

There's lots of times I've seen Brits show a picture of something and it looks like dog vomit but they're always like "Yeah but it's so good."

I don't care. It looks like a bodily function.

That said, it's not all bad.

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lard lard lard... cold weather... eat lard

[Fake]

The brits literally have beans for breakfast. . . .

[Mauserich]

Taste is a highly adaptable sense. Foods and flavours have developed differently in different regions due to the different conditions. The same goes for flavour adaptation.

It is not possible to create a hierarchy here. And Lao Tzu already knew one thing: Spices make the flavour stale. Perhaps the traditional Englishman tastes his cucumber sandwiches much more intensely because his sense of taste is more sensitive.

[Bjørn]

Spices are also more traditionally used in warmer countries (besides them being able to actually grow there) to hide the taste when meat and fish went off a bit more quickly than in colder ones, where you can basically just keep it chilled outside.

Norway has some weird food traditions, though, like dried fish and meat, fish soaked in lye and all the smoked stuff.

[Chrisader]

Why have actual food, when you can stick artificial chemicals into all of it and act like that's food instead.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

English Quisine *was* bad, decades ago, post war.

At least it was outside of posh restaurants.

Nowadays it's up there with the best in the world but we still have junk food/greasy cafe like everywhere else.