best food from Orwell's "In Defense of English Cooking"

tablet looks like some toothsome if hazardous cross between jaggery and kendal mint cake (which i like)

tiffin (scottish version) is amazing though, especially homemade, and you should all be eating more of it

wah wah my knife oh noes
clotted cream atop jam is a far superior taste and textural experience. I will not let this go.

there it is

the good opinion

tablet is just crumbly fudge y?

yeah, kind of a grainy, brittle fudge - condensed milk, regular milk, butter, and a catastrophic, heart-stopping amount of sugar

the appropriate amount of crumbliness in fudge is a hotly-contested issue tho

er, tablet rather

it's generally not as teeth-breakingly mineral-form as kendal mintcake IME

also lacks mint, to the return to the true subject of this thread

and of course it's all the better for it

with you there

Kendall mint cake would literally be the last thing I ate unless I thought I was about to die

new thoughts on the failure of scott's expedition to the pole

let's face it, if your next supply dump contained 3 stone of Kendall mint cake and a few Husky steaks you wouldn't rush back to it

pony not husky -- the norwegians ate their dogs and triumphed -- but yr point perhaps stands (except in france)

supply dump

aptly-named in that case for sure

anyway since the Great Horsemeat Scandal of '13 we're all pony-eaters now

pony steaks makes all the difference, I think we can definitely narrow it down to the mint cake

had an excellent pasta with lemon and mint yesterday btw

toothpasta

i am pro mint but the joke was necessary there

I actually tried the jam/cream experiment (using scones) a few weeks ago in a posh tea room and it does taste much better with the cream on first.

Also if haggis is in here then cranachan deserves its place as well. As does Eton mess which is far too Tory for Orwell but no one ever claimed Tories don't have some of the best food.

how can a post so right follow a post so rong

I am allergic to mint, and it is *really* annoying. The artificial flavouring (eg in mint choc chip ice-cream) is no problem, but my toothpaste and lebanese food choices are quite restricted.

Alex James claims all the worlds best food comes from the CursedWorlds.

The last time I used mint was in a Chicken Biryani, so as well as pleasing yr dentist it is a diverse little fucker, tbf.

I forgot to add Alex James from ILM favourites Blur.

maybe we metropolitan poshos prefer cream first because it feels more opulent to treat cream as if it were a mere dairy spread rather than the crown jewel of the piece

this was informative:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/jun/12/how-to-eat-cream-tea-scones-jam

i think i would have to go to whole foods to even buy clotted cream. i'm not in a hurry...

That article has surely managed to piss everyone off in some way

that article is violence

that article is nothing but lies and idiocy

When I was a nipper there was an old fashioned dairy in Honiton which sold an ice cream cone thusly:
1. take one cone (nondescript mass-produced, the cone really is a delivery device here)
2. big scoop of clotted cream ice cream, pressed down on the top to be slightly concave
3. slightly smaller scoop of clotted cream on the top

Quite properly, I wasn't allowed one of these very often, but OMG it was good.

wait, do they have brown bread in a can in england? just wondering. one of the more fanciful phenomenas of my new england youth. meant to accompany your B&M baked beans and cut up hot dogs obviously.

https://www.vermontcountrystore.com/ccstore/v1/images/?source=/file/v5001168238188991354/products/H2657.main.png&height=700&width=450&outputFormat=JPEG&quality=0.8&outputFormat=JPEG&quality=0.8

looks a bit like soreen

I'm beggin of you please don't take my can

Even out here in the Real Cursed World there is old diary farm up the road that sells its ice own posh cream. I can't stand the fucking place tbh. But they do have some cute goats you can pet.

lol bm bread

we sure don't have that, wtf is it? just like regular made-from-flour bread-type bread in a can? not everything needs to be canned, americans

lol i wz abt to post my solomonic #galacticbrane solution to the jam-cream wars but i am a tiny baby compared THAT

it looks even more appetizing when you see it in all its glory:

http://www.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/10-bizarre-foods-you-can-get-in-cans-6.jpg

jesus god scott what the fuck

"Brown Bread? You'll wish you were."

is it sweet? it looks like gingerbead (nasty canned gingerbread)

it looks like malt loaf, as nxd said

i wouldn't eat beans on soreen tho

i mean i probably would, but i wouldn't go out of my way to prepare it

probably

I can remember seeing instant croissant mix in a collapsible tin once. But nothing like that.

you know what might be pretty good is a bacon/soreen sandwich now that i think about it xp

it just tastes brown. which is why people cover it with baked beans. you would never eat it unless you grew up eating it. i can't say that i've eaten it much. my mom liked to bake.

x-post

the idea that anyone who is not stockpiling for some apocalyptic event would ever choose to buy canned bread over literally any other alternative is mindboggling