• cRazi_man@europe.pub
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    22 hours ago

    I think you’ve unintentionally reinforced how bad British food is.

    In any other country, I don’t need to go looking for gourmet chefs and fine dining luxury ingredients for the food to taste good. In most countries I’ve been to, I could step into a backstreet little “fast food” type restaurant and it still tastes good; whether that’s in Italy, Spain, Thailand, Singapore, Croatia, Austria, America, India, etc etc.

    A gourmet chef with the finest ingredients can make anything taste good. And that’s what it takes to make British food taste good.

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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      22 hours ago

      I find that hard to believe, since I would go to India sometimes twice per year when younger (for over a decade).
      In 2005 we were told to be cautious of I think cabbage containing dishes, because it was making many people sick. It was also common for milk to be sold highly pasteurised and in blue bags within the city.

      I’ve also had questionable and not good food from those little backstreet fast food places whether in Atlanta, Minnesota, Arkansas, and I even had a rather average Chinese dish from near Santa Monica (which I didn’t rate well).

      There’s a good chance you were in the right area for good food, but that also exists here (example: Camden Town, which has been a ‘Foodie’ destination for a while now), or the plethora of food festivals all around London.
      I apologise if I gave the impression that they’re hard to find: they’re really not.

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        15 hours ago

        I think safety is orthogonal to how good the average food in an area is.