• Noxy@pawb.social
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    4 hours ago

    that’s the worst tea I’ve ever seen

    I get that brits use “for tea” to mean “as a snack” which has fuck all to do with the beverage, but they still have literal royalty so I understand they’re a bit off

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    That’s student eats.

    Perfectly fine for a bit of nostalgia but don’t be a twat … throw a sausage and a bit of brown on the side for everyone’s sake.

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    5 hours ago

    Why is British food almost always some shade of brown? I honestly can’t recall the last time I actually saw colourful British food.

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    I’d be repulsed in general. This genuinely looks like something a 3 year old would make. It looks like it would have the smell of stale cereal to it that kids have to them sometimes.

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      You eat the left-eye(s) then drown the faces in the beans until the smikes turn to frowns, and then go for a nugget-face-bean scoop combo and force it down your gullet

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    Doesn’t look authentic to me. Those potato smiles look to have a bit of browning on them - ought to be straight out the big bag in the freezer and into an oven that’s not quite up to temperature, then served pale and slightly soggy. Also needs some brown sauce and a fried egg on that plate, otherwise it’s not nutritionally complete. Good attempt for a foreigner, tho.

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        No. Forks on left and knife and spoon on right.

        Though I guess if you are left handed you could reverse it.

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          This never made any sense to me. I’m right handed and use my fork in my right hand. It should go on the right side of the plate.

          Just because some aristocrats made up some bullshit about “etiquette” hundreds of years ago, doesn’t mean it makes any god damn sense, or that we should have to still follow it.

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            It’s because when you use a knife and a fork, which is kind of the opening move of the entree course really, you’re using the knife with your right hand and your left hand holding the fork. Pretty simple.

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              that’s absolutely unhinged, why?? i keep my fork in my dominant hand and use the knife with my other hand. I’d go insane switching forking hands like this!

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                The idea is that you use the knife in your dominant hand, probably because it requires some kind of precision when cutting.

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                  I’ve found I can be precise enough cutting with my non dominant hand!

                  but to be fair I suppose I’m also a bassist and keyboardist so I’m extremely accustomed to doing intricate things with both hands??

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              I don’t do that though. Fork is always in my right hand when eating. Only time that is swapped is if I am carving a large chunk of meat to serve.

              I remember being taught to do it the way you described. But its stupid.

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                It’s not stupid, it’s better to use your dominant hand when you’re cutting with a knife. It’s extremely un stupid. It’s the safer and more precise way to cut things.

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                  I agree in most other situations. It just feels unnecessary for cutting food right before eating. The fork in your right hand stabilizes the food being cut. The plate is usually very stable on a table. Of the countless times I have cut myself with a knife I was using for various tasks. Not once has been while cutting food on my plate while eating it.

                  I am convinced the safety argument is merely an attempt to justify something that is simply a table manners thing decided arbitrarily by some bored noble. The other excuse I have heard for it is that constantly having to put the knife down, and switch fork hands, slows down how fast people eat.

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    I suspect this wasn’t made by a genuine Brit because of the American portion size.

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    Between the ages of 5-35, this would have been a solid tea. But here I am at 46, thinking about the heartburn this would inspire.

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        The beans are there to go on top of the smilies. Creating a partly soggy, partly crunchy beany delight.

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      Repulsed is a bit of a strong word here but I would be underwhelmed and eat out if politeness. Ultra processed, but also heavy on the carbs and overall sweetish in flavor. I’d rather have a buttered toast and call it a day. But to each their own