why is it that most british people are poor cooks?

Question

1 can you please tell me why foods with asda,saintsbury, morrison brands are of poor quality?
2. why is it that british people find it hard to cook vegetables very nice so that they don,t lose their nutrients?they need to learn how to cook vegetables, not boil them in too much water. some vegetables lose their nutrients once they are boiled, and so something should be done to preserve the nutrients. so boiling them and throwing the water away is a problem and waste of nutrients.
3. i have eaten from various restaurants and take aways that a british foods, and they are a waste and boring, why is it like that?

4. why is the british pork sausage very funny in taste, too smooth like baby paste than the polish sausage pork which is very nice and of quality?
5. is it possible for the british factories to learn from the polish how to make that tasty pork?

i mean most food not (bread and cheese, or salad cream or vegetables, these are ok)

Answer 1

Lol, i have to admit, its something british cuisine has heard before.

1. They are of poor quality because production is more based on quantity than quality. The faster the production process, the lower the price, the less care. If you don't like the quality there, go Mark's and Spencers or Waitrose...even Harrods if your quality is very important.
2. I think most vegetables on a british dish is treated like a side salad, theres always something better on the plate, like roasted meat. It seems like vegetables aren't used as a garnish, more like a filler such as rice or potatoes.
3. I think the traditional british food is more about simple eating and along with that simple flavours. Just everything very simple, simple ingredients, simple cooking and simple serving. Plain roasted meat along with just some salt and pepper will allow you to taste the real texture and flavour of meat.
4 & 5. Proud of the polish sausages arent you? lol. British do have have ''chunky'' grinded sausages. If not those in the supermarkets, go to the butchers with sausage specialists. Afriad to say it, but the very refined pork will probably be down to the fact that sausages are never 100% meat. Some are bones, some are cartilage, alot is fat and yes, some private parts are in there aswell. British factories pay too much for high production machines, no reason to slow it down if its making a lot of money anyway.

Answer 2

You really don't know anything about the Britsh.It's how you eat something,it's what it is eaten with.I am not a fancy chef in a big restaurant,but i do have a large family to cater for,and i have never had any complaints from them or anybody i have cooked for.
I steam my vegatables,and have done so for many years,and if i do boil my veg,i use the water to make my gravy with,so that way the nutrients are not being lost.
There are many different varieties of pork sausages,and they are all individual in there tastes and textures.Maybe you should try each and every one of them,before you degrade our foods.
Foods from our supermarkets are not of poor quality,it's knowing how to use them,it sounds like you've only ever had the best of everything,well over here,you make do with what you can get.

Answer 3

Look. Not all British people are bad cooks, and just because you prefer a different form of pork sausage, that's a matter of taste, and doesn't mean that your opinion is necessarily more valid than mine. If you don't like British sausages, that's your taste, and you should buy some continental sausage from Aldi. Some people in Britain don't cook as well as others, just as this is the case in most countries (especially when people don't learn how to cook, as ready-meals are cheap and easy to make when they're tired after a hard day at work). Some people in Britain are excellent cooks, some are very good, and some don't know how to. If you find British cuisine so objectionable, then cook for yourself. There are good and bad cooks in every country, so don't be such a racist.

Answer 4

Well, to answer your second question, we use a lot of water when cooking our veg because, once the vegetables are done, the cooking water is used to make the gravy that goes with the meal. We don't throw the water away!! Therefore none of the nutrients are wasted. You obviously know very little about British cooking methods!

Answer 5

If you want the best in prepared food go to Marks & Spencer.

The smooth sausages you talk about are not traditional British bangers. Real ones are rough in texture. The ones you ate must be some German sausage or economy sausages.

British world beaters, best cooked at home and eaten fresh cooked. You need to buy good quality ingredients. Just like in computers, you put crap in and you get crap out:-

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
Roast Chicken (oven roast not spit roast)
Roast Pork with crackling
Roast Turkey
Fish and Chips
Chicken stew
Beef Stew
Melton Mowbray pork pies
Yorkshire Tea

Answer 6

Hey I know a lot of good cooks and there all british,Ive been married for 50 years and I know how to cook vegetables,I don't boil vegetables I steam them.I do a good Sunday roast too and there is nothing wrong with british
sausage.

Answer 7

I believe the British food is not as tasty as food outside UK, because the majority of people don't like to cook, they prefer to buy food than to cook it.
However, there are some people that can actually cook quite well. But the majority of UK restaurants, are not as picky as the remaining restaurants all through Europe.
The British people don't like strong flavours, and that is one of the reasons why they don't add enough seasonings, such as: garlic, oregano, cumins, nutmeg, etc.
About the nutrients lost in boiling water, you can always use that water in a soup, and you will have a very tasty soup with a lot of nutrients.
Now, I don't care if you are from Poland or not, but I agree with you the British cuisine is very poor. And I can't understand why everybody is so upset. The British have a lot of good things, but their cuisine is not include in this pack!

Answer 8

I'll have you know that I am a very good cook.

From you comments on food, it would appear to me that you are eating too many ready prepared or mass produced foods.

You are also making the assumption that all chefs in British restaurants are British, probably not.

Answer 9

For 1000's of years since the last ice age Northern Europeans had mostly, only meat to eat. Whereas in Southern Europe and Asia the diet was far more varied....fruit, vegetables, olives, pulses etc
Also as civilisation was more established they had plenty of good restaurants in Rome and Byzantium 2,500 years ago but not many in Londinium until the Romans came. But they left and the Danish and German tribes arrived with their austere diet. The climate was still pretty cold so we could only manage turnips,apples,cabbage, dairy and meaty stuff still.

Of course discovery of the new world gave us Potatoes, tomatoes and many other things that could only be grown by southern Europeans again.

Anyway, in reply, We've lacked ingredients for 1000's of years and need to catch up. It's only in the last 30-40 years ( due to immigration and cheap travel ) that the UK has become aware of good food. Thank God for Italian, Indian,Thai, Turkish, Arabic, and Chinese immigrants or we'd still be eating roast beef and Yorkshire pud with spotted dick.

Answer 10

well its not that British people can't cook. its that you don't know any who can. i have to say you dont have to live here there are other countries,maybe they will provide better food for you,but then again maybe they won't