• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I know British food tend to be memed as “brown stuff”, but this doesn’t even look half bad, the lighting makes it look worse than it actually is.

    Slap an Instagram filter on it and it will look way better.

    • Raab@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      A thick beef stew with boiled potatoes and buttered bread was a common meal in my 90s Midwestern USA childhood. It is delicious

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      4 months ago

      The unseasoned boiled potatoes and the untoasted bread are just bland.

      The ground beef and carrots in the undefinable brown liquid would be a textural nightmare. I cannot fathom how it tastes because the closest thing in the US would be a sloppy joe.

      The real problem with this is lack of technique and seasoning.

      Here’s how I would “fix” this: Toast the bread, roast and season the potatoes, make the ground beef and sauce into a something resembling Salisbury steak, and cook the carrots as their own side dish.

      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Laugh at this ne’er-do-well who can not see the beauty of a plain slice of buttered white bread.