Taste is subjective, and if you still doubt it, just talk to people about whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza. Straight off the bat, you will hear contradictory answers and see just how eager folks are to defend them.
A few weeks ago, Reddit user 1060west-addison made a post on the platform, saying "What is the most controversial food opinion you have?" And it instantly blew up.
As of today, the post has over 20,000 comments, many of which have ignited heated discussions. From cupcakes to beets, continue scrolling to see what things are tearing everyone apart.
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Only vaguely a food opinion, but, there’s no such thing as a “special occasion” food. Like, cakes are often associated with parties. But I’m a grown man and if I want cake because it’s Wednesday I’m gonna go get myself a Wednesday cake.
Breakfast is an "anytime" kind of food. It doesn't have to be restricted to 5 AM - 1030 AM. Sometimes I like bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and strawberry vanilla crepes at 8:47 PM.
Cupcakes with super thick and ornate frosting are fun to look at but rarely tasty
If they don’t have thick, genuine buttercream frosting, they are just sad muffins.
Just because you like hot food, doesn't mean you have to use the absolute hottest sauce you have.
I can handle hot, but prefer medium, where I can enjoy the heat but still actually taste my foods flavour.
I honestly don't think rice belongs inside a burrito. Get the carbs from the tortilla and any veggies. Rice is just a useless filler to make the burrito seems fuller than it really is. Also corn tortillas are superior for tacos.
Runny eggs are gross. Your favorite chef's "perfect scrambled eggs" look like vomit.
Sushi rolls shouldn’t be so big you have to take more than one bite or else they disintegrate
Just eat your sushi, rolls, maki or sashimi in an actual Japanese restaurant : taste before size. Leave the big fake ones to the western fast food chains
Sticking to the traditional authentic versions of foods is not necessarily better. It’s ok to be creative in cooking and mix things from different cuisines
Sometimes you have to modify them to suit the tastebuds of the people you’re serving them to. I don’t just mean people who weren’t raised on them, there are also people whose gastrointestinal system is somewhat delicate, and can’t take hot, spicy foods. Or wheat. Or dairy. Or…you get the picture.
Anything tastes good when you put sugar on it. People who think they like rhubarb are just kidding themselves. No one liked rhubarb. They like sugar.
Edit: rhubarb was capitalized and it doesn't deserve it.
Why are french fries not suitable for breakfast but tater tots are? I should be able to eat whatever I want for breakfast even if it’s not typically a breakfast food because it’s still mostly the same.
All food is food. Food doesn't have a schedule. Eat a curry for breakfast and cereal for dinner. The food doesn't care.
The cookie part of the Oreo is better than the stuffing part
Horseradish is amazing and belongs on more than just roast beef
Mayo on fries. Never realized how controversial it was until I moved to the States
Cream cheese in sushi is f*****g gross
WHO EVEN DOES THIS GIVE ME THEIR ADDRESS AND I WILL PERSONALLY HIRE MY CAT TO ASSASSINATE THEM (free advertising moment- she works 200 buckaroonies an hour and always gets the job done)
Roasted marshmallows are only worth eating if they have been fully caught on fire first. Burnt sh’mellows hit different.
Circus Peanuts and Candy Corn are NOT food and are completely repulsive!......
Truffles are overrated. They are used on everything as a buzz word and generally don’t even need to be there to begin with.
They are usually added so sparingly, that I'm still not sure I know what a truffle tastes like. I would quite like to eat a whole one, just to find out.
Bananas do NOT go in fruit salad!
The texture does not match the rest of the fruit, and the mush ruins it
Wrong, bananas are a MUST on fruit salad, their texture os no different than grapes or kiwi, and the flavor they give its amazing.
Unless it is a very good steak, burgers are better.
too much cheese on/in food stops being enjoyable
Bacon is fine, but is vastly over appreciated. It’s salted meat. Chill out everyone.
Most British food is awful, like terrible, yet nobody will admit it.
EDIT: A lot of people seem to think I’m not British. I am. Whenever I eat out, it’s foreign food for this guy. Keep your Sunday dinners to yourself.
Not sure what kind of British food you are talking about, but I pity you
Nothing beats an expertly made Shepherd's pie.
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The more I read about English cooking ( recipes, their history, and the history of the cuisine itself), the more I am convinced that the dreariness is the result of post-war rationing. There are plenty of very tasty English recipes. People get surprised when I tell them the meal they liked was English cuisine.
Interesting. I definitely know I didn't try enough English food while I was there, but I didn't know what to look for or where to go. Sadly we ended up eating from American chains mostly except for a Chinese restaurant in London and when I made gumbo for my friends from there.
Load More Replies... I know I'm biased being a Brit but i think the rest of the world judges British food too harshly. Sticky toffee pudding, jam poly poly, spotted d**k, shepherds pie, tikka masala, Yorkshire puddings, fish and chips with mushy peas. Nothing better than a full English or proper Sunday roast. 😋
I visited my sister in England, and had nothing but tasty food .... not sure where you have been eating?????
Eh? This person is talking s**t. Would be interesting to see the menu in their local pub, it must be food from everywhere else but the UK. What a numpty.
Lots of chain pubs in the UK will have burgers, steaks, hunter's chicken (chicken in bbq sauce with cheese and bacon), maybe Korean chicken wings and some curries. None of that is traditional British food.
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Then you must live with a bad cook. A great deal of British food is very tasty.
Before the war, Great Brittan was the top of the food chain. Unfortunately, rationing had a huge effect on the British public forcing people to create simple but nutritious meals. The Boomers grew up on that food and when they tried to get experimental, they got carried away it went terribly wrong (Looking at you 1970's!!!). The age of convenience followed and those boomers fed their kids pretty much solely out of the freezer (Glad I grew up in rural Ireland), creating a generation that didn't have a fecking clue how to cook. Now almost all of the UK think that "British food" consists of cottage pie, fish & chips and a Sunday roast! But historically, some are so liked that another nation will adopt it as their own....
You know the saying "As American as Apple Pie"? Whelp, it's British. What about a nice Italian Lasagne? Sorry, but that's also British, the Italians only added tomato to a British dish. Fancy an Indian? Balti & Tikka Masala invented in Brittan, by a Brit (Granted with a massive Bangladeshi influence). What about a slice of Madeira cake? Surely that comes from the island of Madeira? No, again British! The list goes on........... Although..... sadly it has not grown much in recent years. But with a renewed effort and huge multi-cultural society to draw from things could improve.
Load More Replies... Look at some the menus and recipes from medieval times, Tudor times. Amazing flavorful stuff. Things got a little stodgy with the Victorians I’ll admit, but as one of the other commentators here said, the majority of the bad rap comes from the war years and rationing which went on well into the 50s. Bit difficult to be creative with tasty food on one egg and and oz of butter a week.
Exactly this. Though harsh on the Victorians who loved their desserts! There are centuries of recipes, multiple influences from times Britain was invaded. Yet people focus on post war food when times were immensely hard. There was no money, of course the food was s h I t while we recovered. Anyone claiming the food is bland is making some poor choices when eating out and a lot of assumptions.
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I have eaten excellent food in Pubs. It usually was the big chain carveries where things got tastless and drowned in a runny sauce.
Runny sauce, do you mean gravy? That's what's most likely to be poured on food in a carvery and traditionally in the UK gravy is fairly runny, though should still be deliciously savoury. Bad gravy is gloopy. Though I'd agree with Remi that big chain carveries, big chain most things, are places to avoid, ugh.
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There's plenty of tasty British food - you've just got to find good restaurant or cook. I mean, I'm part-Iranian and part-South African, so there's also non-British foods I enjoy. But to say all British food is terrible - Nah, you've just never eaten good food here.
Seems like a lot of people are making really bad choices when picking a restaurant! They must be picking known chains that focus on convenience and cost rather than award winning pubs and restaurants. They'll never give a good impression of ANY country's food.
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Which British food? The Brits eat all kinds of stuff, with Indian food being a favourite take-away.
Blaming the food instead of the cook is like blaming the pitbull instead of the owner.
Will confess to loving them with salt and vinegar but I can see why people might not like it! Sharp and piquant! Yum.
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I quite agree! Steak and Ale Pie? Disgusting! Fillet of Haddock with Chips? Awful! Sausages, bacon, mushrooms, baked beans, fried eggs and fried bread? The food of the Devil! A nice Beef Stew? Or even worse, Lamb Casserole? Haggis? Scouse? Lamb Chops and minted peas? The poster doesn't know what he's talking about. There is whole lot of dishes other than just "Sunday Roasts", which are superb and not just British! My god, even the French (foreign people!) like roast dinners! I bet he loves "Chicken Tikka Masala", a dish created in........ Britain!
I'd take fish and chips, Hunter's chicken and some Welsh rarebit, but could honestly leave the rest, even the tikka. Cottage pies, shepherd's pie, full English, Sunday roasts, bangers and mash, gammon with a pineapple, you can keep the lot. Compare to some proper Asian foods (authentic Indian or Chinese, or Indonesian/Malaysian for example) and the above are painfully bland and unseasoned, and they lack the flexibility of American bbq food, as you're not going to want to play around with spices or sauces in some peas and mashed potato.
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Oh dear. One sad person who has probably never had a good English meal.
I'll try stay neutral on this but... never liked what was marketed as "Cheddar Cheese" in Australia - bland rubbery stuff only a couple steps up from cheese singles.... then had REAL cheddar in the UK - my god it's like AMAZING..... BUT English Fish and Chips I tried to find good Fish and Chips in the UK and all but one place was worse than the worst F&C's I've eaten in Australia.... the one good one was in Gairloch Scotland (and it was actually really good)
There are many excellent chippies in the UK, br hard to get round them all.
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Eat Irish cuisine for a week, and you'll be smacking your lips for English food.
I've had bad and good food in the US and the UK. Wonderful cauliflower cheese for lunch in a pub, a beautifully sauteed plaice fillet in a country restaurant, the best steak sandwich of my life in a cafe in the Glasgow train station, fried fish so good that we went back to the restaurant a second night, all UK meals that I remember fondly. But outside of some nice haricot vert (green beans), they do fall down on many veggies. Had way too many plates filled out with watery "grilled" tomatoes and cheap baked beans, as well as overcooked peas.
Most decent restaurants are very good with vegetables, the problem is that people will often go to lower end eateries and expect too much. Watery grilled tomatoes and cheap baked beans are mainly going to be found in cheap B&Bs, naff pubs or greasy spoon cafes. You get what you pay for.
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It may have been more than ten years by now, but I remember a rat infestation appeared on the English side of the Chunnel, and Brit's claimed the French were responsible for it, that they came from the French side. The French responded to this accusation by saying "Why would a French rat go to England? For the food?"
Bit like the other old joke... Q: What's the best place to hide your money? A: Under a Frenchman's soap.
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Yeah? How funny that 'People' can be so wrong. Spices have been in use for centuries. Did you know that the Silk Road, which was made in the Bronze Age, brought Asian spices & plants to Europe for the first time. In the 1st century AD a sea route to India was discovered. The Roman Empire then imported their pepper. Prices fell and pepper use spread throughout the empire. The Romans invaded Britain remember and brought their cuisine, with them. In 330 AD, Constantinople became a trading metropolis, and nutmeg and cloves were brought to Europe for the first time. Most of these criticisms are based on a short period of a few decades, just after the two world wars left Britain in financially bad shape, when food was not good. Which is hardly surprising. It takes a long time to recover from something like that. British food is seasoned. All countries have great food, average food and poor food and it's almost as if, shockingly, that people have different tastes!
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I'd agree with you regarding the older Anglo cuisine, but the British Indian cuisine is fantastic. Though, when done well, classic British Fish and Chips (with vinegar and a cold frosty ginger beer).
What is older anglo cuisine? Have you ever tried recipes from the Elizabethan period? Casseroles with spices for a start. People have a very, very limited notion of what makes British cuisine.
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You like what you grew up with. I love pizza but I grew up with is not even remotely close to real Italian pizza sooooo eat what you like and don’t eat the rest!
Just asking but here in the states, it sounds like Indian takeout, especially curry, has replaced Fish and Chips as the national food. Is that true or false?
Depends on how you define national food. The nations favourite food? Curry, with some curries being created in Britain. What is culturally British? That's more complicated as British food has influences from being invaded multiple times way, way back. Some people try to say we have no traditional food and its just what we have filched from other cultures. They are ignorant, so ignore them! Some food is, for sure, but as a country that is many centuries old that is ignoring a lot of history and a lot of recipes! You can get a vast array of different cuisines in the UK. We have a lot of excellent chefs who do great things with food. Those who think the food in the UK is bland seem to think we are still stuck in a post war recovery period, which is weird. You would think they wouldn't want to look such an idiot, but there you go.
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I have heard this from more than one person. They talked about boiled bland food. Personally, I have tried a few items and like them - Shepherd's Pie comes to mind.
Boiled and bland was post war era food. Perhaps they would like to update their knowledge and experience? Or perhaps they only ate in McDonalds. Anyone saying boiled and bland is ignorant or out of date, quite possibly both so ignore them, they know nothing.
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I thought lots of people have expressed this opinion. Like to the point of it being a joke.
It is a joke, or at least some archaic notion based on little experience.
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fish and chips are just bigger portion fish sticks,thats why i love them
So tikka massala is a Brit invention (our take on "Indian food") There's a world of Brit food that you've clearly not tasted.
Kind of spoils the argument by using a picture of a nice looking fish supper!
When I visited England for the first time, I was prepared to dislike the food because of the stereotype that British food is awful. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed it very much.
It's said that this was one of the motivators of the great British Empire - the lousy food and the lousy weather.
The Brits have some good dishes, but overall it's pretty lackluster compared to other European countries..especially France and Italy.
It's heavily influenced by France and Italy - or did you not know that the UK were invaded by the Normans and the Romans. They brought a lot of spices to the country and these were certainly very popular during Elizabeth I reign. Though originally came to Britain even earlier. As for now it's so wide and varied I can't understand how people can think it's 'lacklustre'. Can only think they've not tried enough dishes and assume it's the same few that always get a mention.
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I admit, but I'm foreign so ppl get offended. The worst thing ever I tried was fermented milk (my own country) and Xmas cake with brandy butter icing from England. Just tears in eyes. Unfortunately food culture is poor here, you need to pay a lot to get good food and is not always the thing. Street food is shitty. In general it is true.
Brandy butter goes on Christmas pudding, not the cake. Not sure why that would bring tears to your eyes, it's just sweet. People must be eating in all the wrong places. Everywhere has bad and good food.
Load More Replies... A Sunday roast is awesome, but fish and chips are always way too greasy. There is a good reason that we have so many foreign restaurants.
Leave your curry in the fridge overnight if you want to see just how much grease there is in it. That revolting orange layer of fat on the top of it the next day. Yech. Chinese food, curry, pizza, all contain as much or more grease as fish and chips, but are far more processed and contain much more salt (and often msg if sodium is a problem for you).
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I'm a Yank. Once in London I saw a Texas BBQ place with a sign declaring it was voted best foreign restaurant of the year. I thought, "Barbecue is foreign? Oh, I guess it would be here." They say England colonized the world in search of decent food.
As you put down the art of boiling food, only a Yank would go to a foreign country and not recognise themselves as a foreigner ;)
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Sunday dinners are overwhelming. There’s too much going on between the meat and the veg and the potatoes and the gravy and the Yorkshire pudding. There should just be a Yorkshire pudding.
Not all Sunday roasts should have Yorkshire pudding, just ones with beef. Lamb has mint sauce, pork has apple sauce, lamb has redcurrant jelly or rosemary. Proper and traditional foods to bring out the flavour of the meat.
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Need a broom to help with those sweeping statements? Everything was horrid? You tried everything? Wow, that must have taken quite some time and involved a lot of travelling around the country. Hope you included all the award-winning fine dining restaurants as you Egon-Ronayed around the place. Britain is renowned for having some of the best Indian food outside of India. Your not liking it is irrelevant. 'Yucky' 🙄 As for ALL loaded with alcohol... what? There are some recipes where it is added, it's not the majority by any means. Why pick them if you didn't like food 'loaded' (they won't have been) with alcohol. Pick one of the many that aren't so you aren't subjected to that 'horrid' experience. Which meals were these anyway? If you're going to critique be a bit more informative with it.
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I won't downvote you, but if you come again, I'll show you some excellent food.
Load More Replies... I'm not British by heritage, though born here after my parents came over, and that's not remotely true. I have a lot of family come to stay from my parents country and they love the food. Well cooked and full of flavour - people just simply do not know what they are talking about. Too many come and eat in low quality cheap chain restaurants, fast food and junk which don't represent the country's cuisine at all. Those with a poor view are never the ones who go to one of the many fine dining establishments where you'll see what the food is truly about. It is expensive to eat out well in the UK, that's a fact, but don't judge the food unless you do. Don't bother to learn, stay ignorant.
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What were you eating that was bland? People make these comments but then never state what it actually was they found bland. You know, food can be subtle and still tasty. Some fish are very subtly flavoured but you can still taste they are fish. Potatoes hardly have the strongest flavour but people like chips, jacket spuds etc. Dishes don't have to be hot or spicy to be flavoursome. People like rice as a part of a dish, some foods need to be bland to work with other flavours. Beginning to wonder if people have messed up taste buds or are just ignorant as to how to pick foods that work together.
Load More Replies... Each to their own but, such as and why? Have you tried that much of it? I like a wide variety of food from many countries and cultures, and my heritage is not British, but I always find this surprising. It's so varied.
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Yeah? Better than those sickly waffles they serve in Belgium. Anglo-Saxon England developed meat and savoury herb stewing techniques before the practice became common in Europe. The Norman conquest introduced exotic spices into Great Britain in the Middle Ages. British cuisine has distinctive national varieties in the form of English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish cuisines. Modern British cuisine has also been strongly influenced by other cuisines from around the world over the centuries, and has in turn strongly influenced the cuisines of many other cultures around the world too. We took what from Belgium? Yeah, not a lot. See? It's easy to insult and just pick out the obvious.
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Actually a lot of dishes come from much older times, many from when Britain was invaded by the Vikings, Romans, the French. Britain was invaded multiple times which obviously influenced the food. These kinds of comments show a distinct ignorance about British history and the cultural significance of that on food. Yes, there are more recent influences but it still denies many things that are unique to Britain. It also seems a view stuck in post war Britain when there was no money and people were struggling, sorry but the war cost us dearly as a country. The bit that makes me laugh is how someone with this view then goes on to talk about American cuisine as though that isn't a hotchpotch. Oh no they cry we have invented our own... like apple pie? A lot of countries are melting pots of what has gone on before. At least we didn't inflict McDonald's on the world. Want dreary? Eat those fries.
Load More Replies... Canned fish is awesome! Not just sardines and anchovies but you can get all kinds of fish in cans, even stuff like clams and even squid! And if you prefer food without too many additives or processing, look at the back of the can, it typically says something like "ingredients: fish, salt, some sort of oil (veg or sunflower or something) and with some, the processing is so minimal the fish is just cooked in the can after sealing during the pasturization process.
Try kipper snacks, they kinda have a smokey bacon taste. Fantastic treat/snack
Kippers are amazing. Add a little butter and Mmmmm. Also, canned mackeral fillets in tomato sauce are perfect on toast. It doesn't sound good, but it is extremely good.
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This is yet another post of people criticizing others for having their own opinion. We're allowed to like what we like.
What I like is pineapple on pizza, scrambled eggs with mushrooms, fresh fruit, and craft beer!
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My coffee-deprived brain read "samosas" as "mimosas" which seemed an odd accompaniment to curry...
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It's basically clickbait. And we keep clicking.
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Comedian Matteo Lane said it best. “Pickles are cucumbers soaking in their own píss.”
Normalise people liking what they want ffs. Who cares how people like their food?!
No one gonna mention all this beautiful cakes that's totally non-edible because of all the sugarpaste? No?
This is yet another post of people criticizing others for having their own opinion. We're allowed to like what we like.
What I like is pineapple on pizza, scrambled eggs with mushrooms, fresh fruit, and craft beer!
Load More Replies... My coffee-deprived brain read "samosas" as "mimosas" which seemed an odd accompaniment to curry...
Load More Replies... It's basically clickbait. And we keep clicking.
Load More Replies... Comedian Matteo Lane said it best. “Pickles are cucumbers soaking in their own píss.”
Normalise people liking what they want ffs. Who cares how people like their food?!
No one gonna mention all this beautiful cakes that's totally non-edible because of all the sugarpaste? No?
