“Can Someone Please Tell Me”: American Says They Are “Confused” By These 30 Things In Britain

Geoffrey Chaucer in 1381 wrote the recipe for Apple Pie and it was added to a recipe book called Forme of Cury written by Samuel Pegge in 1390. Geoffrey Chaucer died in London on November 1400. America was discovered. Not counting the vikings visit, America was discovered in 1492 which means Geoffrey Chaucer died 92 years before America was discovered. Add to that the fact that the first orchard, with imported apple trees as the only apple tree in America at the time was the crab apple tree, was established 70 years later. Apple pie is not American. Sorry

Just as fish and chips and many other dishes that's considered very "british", infact isn't british, rather jewish as it were.

How could one die in 1391 "on November 1400"?

I accidentally typed in the wrong date from earlier. I blame the apple pies

Oh gosh, and no one else in ANY other country came up with the idea of cooking little fruits inside little disks of dough. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Exactly, much like the UK's fish and chips - whilst fish and chips itself iirc, Originates in Britain, the two components did not. Pastries, we can thank ancient Egypt, and its no secret that Brits love Indian food, so much so that one of our national dishes is Chicken Tikka Masala, an indian dish. But we never (to my knowledge) took a known recipe and literally named it something different or pretended it originated here. Cuisine is taken and modified the world over.

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I regret to inform you, your comment is just as poorly worded

I think your "naive American" wording was inadvertent, yet apt.

Any chance of posting a recipe for a traditional native dish that is quick and easy to make. I would love to try some dishes

This is facinating I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing. My mom used to make fry bread on occasion and sadly I didn't learn it was a native tradition until adulthood but had always wondered the origin. Now I make it for Christmas breakfast for my kid. The lazy version with premade dough. Im in Montana so I've had several occasions to eat it made from scratch though.

white fish aqutuk is my favorite.

Most of any country is stolen at one time or another from the previous dwellers.

We did. Just a fact. We “discovered” and claimed “American”. Never mind that the whole area was inhabited by other human beings. We didn’t accept that the indigenous were real people. We called them savages and took their land because GOD wanted us to have it…Manifest Destiny. I guess that made it OK to embark on widespread genocide. So you want to quibble over recipe origins??? Amateurs

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Didn't say Hotpockets don't suck. But it's a brand name product in the US that is exactly what's in the picture, just with the ingredients chopped up. Can't really tell how many preservative the items in the picture have, but I wouldn't eat them either. I didn't realize this was a list of things people shouldn't put in their mouth.

That's an entire sausage in a roll. How could you mistake it for a hot pocket?

Because its a crappy version of real food wrapped in dough that you cook in the microwave when you you dont have time to actually cook. How is that not a Hotpocket,except that the guts aren't chopped up? I wouldn't eat either one, but if you think one of them is awesome, you must be super awesome too. Mm mm. Enjoy.

Or is hotpocket.just a euphemism? In that case you probably should leave the sausage whole. Either way England has no grounds for acting like they know what food should be like. Other than fish and chips I've never heard of an authentic British cuisine anyone anywhere else would even consider.

Nah, Republicans are destroying that.

Most of us know that I promise! I've had some lovely trips to the US and met some wonderful Americans in many countries across the world!

I think that's part of the reason I'm on bp. Not just my UK friends but insights from all over the world!

Exactly! They have interesting things to say!!!!

At least a different perspective.

I like that some of them are actually from places that I have always wanted to go to. And they can tell us really cool things about them.

That's so nice!!!!!!!