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Huh?
White people can't cook is the joke.
Honestly, seeing what some people call seasoning, they have a point.
It is generally true, due to a bunch of factors. Personally, I've observed 2 factors:
a lot of culinary tradition was lost by the boomers and their parents due to the advent of mass-produced, packaged food and the Great Depression. A lot of very basic, holistic techniques like making broth, rendering fat, became less common as magazine recipes, refrigeration, and boxed food encouraged discrete "buy x y z for recipe A" instead of having an assortment of preserved veggies/meats, broth, lard from previous days etc, to work with and learn from. I was genuinely confused to find my dad had to teach himself a lot of it in his 20s and my mom never learned.
Economic/cultural history. A lot of families didn't see making food better as worth sparing any effort or time on. My grandma's boiled veggies and potatoes, no seasoning, and meat fried in a pan, no sesoning, eaten and cleaned up as quickly as possible come to mind.
It depends on the location, honestly. A lot of country grannies can cook, because they depended on what they could provide for themselves, milk, eggs, butter, cheese, canning, freezing, smoking. A lot of sub/urbans couldn't do that and lost the art.
Can confirm 1, dad grew up on TV dinners and canned food; and somehow Grandma thought it was ok to add ketchup to make spaghetti sauce. That second one might be 2, too, actually.
Also, and in addition.
Man, it's gotta have 3 or more large eggs, a pound of block or hoop (not Velveeta) cheese, grated + some to go on top, and real butter. If it's not golden brown with crispy edges, it's not done. Even better if it has shrimp, crab, or lobster in it.
Like macaroni pie, I love breadcrumbs on top and just an ungodly amount of mature cheddar… literally by weight more than the pasta, and some milk!
Seasoning = salt.
Almost every aspect of this video is so annoying but I refer to it all the time
dear god the comment section ☢️
That was annoying but correct
Non YT version, but it's still tiktok 🤮
https://inv.nadeko.net/mCzzlGcpll0
American white people.
It's a running joke that the British refuse to season their food, this isn't just an American thing.
So french, Italian, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, and every other country I refuse to list (sorry if so left your out) don't count?
I love how hard you're trying to be offended here.
I admit we Finns and other scandinavian people don't really season our traditional foods, so we just say we like "natural" or "pure" flavors
Compared to the British, those are amazing
Compared to the Creoles, those are pretty bland too
Please remove Germany from your list, they make the rest of us look bad.
Until you have experienced a Mettigel you don't get to shittalk German Küche. Bonus points for Toast Hawaii.
Ignorant bigotry does indeed exist in many places.
These jokes usually accompany photos of actual British food. I'm a white person of British descent, to be clear.
https://macattackcle.com/blogs/mac-chat/the-black-history-of-mac-and-cheese
Yeah, because Italian "noodles" weren't born in China. That is a myth that has long since been busted.
Mac and Cheese originated in medieval England anyway.