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John Bull! Cast the spices into your food! Use them! (infosec.pub)
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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'm German and even I know that Brits love Chicken Tikka Masala. Also, I'd assume that German food is about the same amount of bland as British food.

Lots of traditional British food with spices, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog's_pudding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_egg (there's a bunch of different "deviled" dishes that all contain oriental spices as standard ingredients)

mayonnaise-based dips typically feature various spices like pepper, chili, paprika, worcestershire sauce

On the topic of worcestershire sauce, it's a whole thing they invented and it's full of eastern spices, just not chili so it's not obvious to people who only one kind of spice.

I'd assume that just like in Germany, roasts and general brown sauces will at minimum have pepper included, which is one of the main spices that was imported from the far east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding "mixed spices" aka "cake spices" seems like a standard ingredient for christmas baking.

And obviously, gingerbread!

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

London hosts over 450 world quisines, the most of any world city by a considerable margin. Fair to say that Germany is far blander than Britain.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's debatable how "British" those world cuisines are, though. Tikka Masala at least is a dish that was adapted from Indian cuisine, not just copied/imported, and I'd assume that most white Brits don't make vietnamese or ethiopian food themselves. If Brits ate spiced dishes all the time but each and every one of those dishes was made by restaurants run by people with immigration histories, while all the homemade food that white Brits cook is bland, OP's meme would still be true, but it's demonstrably not - even traditional British cuisine contains lots of spices.