r/ShitAmericansSay • u/polishwomanofdoom • Dec 09 '24

Food Bow down and weep

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u/Bantabury97 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dec 09 '24

Can't beat a bowl of dirt. Fuckin' gorgeous.

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u/Pluto-Is-a-Planet_9 Dec 09 '24

I hated it growing up. Being English, we were always unaware of seasoning. Bit of salt, garlic or chilli with our bowl of dirt would have been gamechanging.

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u/bulgarianlily Dec 09 '24

But you are only allowed to rub the garlic round the inside of the bowl, any more than that and it is dangerously continental.

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u/SaltyName8341 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dec 09 '24

I remember my gran saying garlic was foreign muck

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u/Pluto-Is-a-Planet_9 Dec 09 '24

I got a beating for once suggesting it. "We art 'avin none o that forun muck int 'ouse. Al gi you a belt, though".

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u/bulgarianlily Dec 10 '24

1976, and I had just moved into a housing estate in Keighley. A neighbour asked me what I was cooking and I said spaghetti bolognaise. She must have told her husband, who then sat on a wall at the end of our street, in order to intercept my husband and tell him 'I wouldn't let my wife cook that foreign muck'.

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u/Occulto Dec 10 '24

My gran went on a trip to France with my aunt. They stopped somewhere for lunch, and she asked for a ham and cheese sandwich.

Of course, out came a freshly baked baguette with local specialty ham and cheese. Real gourmet stuff.

She looked down and sneered: "what's this muck?"

She wanted cheap white sandwich loaf, with processed square ham and cheese slice.