Why don't British people season food?

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[AnthonyManzo-ooss]

I've cooked professionally for over a decade. You would be surprised how different a recipe tastes when you season every step as opposed to seasoning at the end. Night and day.

[islandsicedtea]

“it is a window into our soul-“
**grayscale, bonk sound effect**

[jeannemara]

My mother was reared by her Irish grandmother and learned cooking from her. I always enjoyed my mother's food, but my husband asked me, "Does she not put anything in anything?!?

Years later, my husband and I went to see an Irish comedian. The comedian said, " My mother thought water was a spice." I elbowed my husband so hard, he almost fell off his chair.

[acmejr]

"That's not really how cooking works" LMAO Gabby HAS A POINT!🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[juliusferrer]

colonized countries for spices, doesn’t season food.

[totestazz]

Spices in England used to be used as a status and class symbol. By the mid 1800s spices became more accessible to the common classes the upper classes switched their tune about them. Then it became all about how the quality meats and cuts should be the only flavor of the dish. That the meat was so high quality that adding something to it would lessen its value. The upper classes and royalty would do anything to distinguish themselves from lower classes including eating the most bland food ever.

[smartmars]

"Is British food always bad?"

"If you make it correctly, yes."

[Hamza]

“British Soul food” is a term I never want to hear again 😭

[dereknez]

A window into our soul. . . Soul looks like a wet napkin, that needs to be seasoned

[GEMTelemaco]

"British soul food"

I've heard it all at this point.

[BlackoutCYANIDE]

"It is a window into our soul"

Guess thats why they call it Window Pain

[debajyotidatta]

Boil anything edible, you get British food. 😁

[mr.greenbrier]

That's why Gordon Ramsy is so successful.

[bunnyfufu]

Gabby hit the nail so hard they are confused 😂😂

[halfdeadfish]

The British soul is a gray amorphous blob

[DevonRex]

I feel sad that you grew up in households with such poor cooking.

Even a bog standard Sunday roast had tonnes of seasoning in our house.

Take roast chicken:

Chicken - lemon in the cavity, garlic in the flesh, bay leaves under the skin, and salt and pepper on it.

Stuffing - lots of herbs, particularly sage, garlic, and black pepper.

Bread sauce - cloves, nutmeg, black pepper, and bay leaves.

Swede and carrot - nutmeg.

Leeks in a cheese sauce - mustard to bring out the cheese flavour.

Peas - mint

Admittedly, only salt on the potatoes, but they were cooked in beef dripping or goose fat so nothing else was really required.

The gravy would be made out of the pan juices (inc. any caramelised vegetables) and retained veg water).

[gamingsnake]

I used to work the New Zealand guy who spiced our chips. Just salt, pepper, paprika and garlic powder after they had just come out the oil. He was told not to do it anymore as people found it too spicy

[thenecessaryevil]

And yet the British lack of seasoning only dates back to the rationing right after WWII ended. Medieval english recipes that have been reconstructed tended to be over spiced. Usually with a single spice.

[AJGomez]

As a mexican American. The pain to see food without seasoning hurts my soul and the souls of my ancestors 😂

[joannstonebarger]

My mother was born and raised in Leicester England I loved her food as a child when I moved out and found spices I took her recipes and added while cooking. OMG delicious I didn't know what I was missing.
Edited for spelling.