They know their market

Papa John’s in the UK does a vegan stuffed crust. Pretty good.

It depends if you are looking for traditional or contemporary cuisine.

Traditional:

Can’t get much more traditional than a Sunday roast. Perhaps not the most spiced dish, but relies on a complexity of ingredients cooked just right, and served with a combo of rich gravy and various sauces (mint, cranberry, redcurrant, horseradish, mustard etc are all common). Certainly a flavourful dish when done right.

Pies and pasties are historically very popular. These days sometimes mistakenly viewed as plain food due to the availability of simpler fast food offerings, but there are a huge variety of styles, flavours and complexities around. Pies as a category cover those made with different types of pastries, as well as those topped with potato (cottage pie, shepherds pie, fish pie etc).

There are a huge variety of other traditional dishes from across the UK to explore which Google can list out a load of, but truth is historically much of British cuisine was based on what was locally or seasonally available; seasonal veg, seafood, cheeses, breads and cakes.

Local knowledge and variety is also huge. I’m Welsh and could name dozens of Welsh dishes others in the UK won’t have even heard of, and you won’t find much mention of even online and know what you’re looking for.

Contemporary:

…per the meme, Britain’s imperial past does mean a multicultural present, and the reality is that that has influenced common cuisine in a big way - what many British people are eating on a regular basis are based in fusion.

Curries are incredibly popular, and it is worth noting that written British curry recipes predate the founding of the USA, and imported recipes predate that by hundreds more years - it isn’t a particularly recent or novel thing. British curries are as unique to Indian curries as eg Chinese or Japanese curry is. Not only that, each country within the UK has unique variations of curry attributed to them.

Anglo-Chinese and Italian food are also particularly popular - most towns across the UK that are big enough to have a couple of restaurants will have a minimum of a fish and chip shop, a Chinese, an Indian/curry house, kebab shop, and an Italian restaurant. Most cities have places serving foods from dozens of countries available. In big cities, London in particular, it is probably easier to name countries that there isn’t food from than there is.

Growing up, a typical week of 7 home cooked dinners looked like Pasta bake or lasagne, curry, stir fry, jacket potato and/or soup, fish & chips, fajitas, Sunday roast.

… That turned into a bigger answer than intended 😂

If this is what a country’s cuisine looks like to you, I think it says more about your choice in food than what is available from that country’s cuisine.

The yes/no nature of the vote was also a mistake. “Keep it as it is” Vs “change something” lumped in everyone who wanted anything from a swiss or Nordic style deal down to hard brexiteers and protest votes into the same category, when normally they wouldn’t have agreed.

If it were to happen at all, it should have been a ranked vote.

Particularly given at the time it was presented as an opinion vote. Of course when it turned out the way the ERG wanted they couldn’t wait to push a retcon to make it binding through parliament because small margins apparently mean unassailable “will of the people”. Had it gone the other way they would have used it to push for another binding one “look nearly half of people want it… bla bla bla”.

Half of us in the UK knew this too. Just unfortunately a slither under half of those that voted at the time.

Please don’t tar us all with the same xenophobic self flagellating brush.

Agree.

I think people’s ability to effectively Google varies though. There are people who will write full questions in, or fail to iteratively improve their search terms based on the results, and ignoring the fact that bard is actually pretty good if they start using that, googling is much more effective if you stick to relevant keywords and search using operators.

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Americans use PEMDAS, in the UK we use BODMAS, and I assume other English speaking countries use one or the other, but there is no difference between them in terms of order of operations, because it’s:

1. brackets (parenthesis)

2. orders (exponentials)

3. division & multiplication (multiplication & division), performed left to right

4. addition & subtraction, performed left to right

People who choose to divide or multiply first because of the acronym have just forgotten that they go together left to right.

Because it’s easier, and is more likely to “just work” using only the GUI. That makes it more accessible to people new to it, and as it is perfectly capable once you’re no longer new to it there isn’t much incentive to move away.

Same reason many people choose iPhones, they can just turn it on and use it without thinking or needing to configure it. Meanwhile those with more knowledge who might actively be looking for customisation may prefer another option.

Most people?

The problem with the twitch model is as soon as you are watching more than one person regularly, Twitch Turbo is cheaper to get rid of ads from everyone.

Plus if you just want to add extra support for someone, YouTube does already have the members feature which generally adds more value than twitch subscriptions

Spotify Premium Family is £18pm. YouTube Premium Family is £20pm.

So I view it as £2pm to remove YouTube ads for the whole family as well as enabling YT offline and background play.

I think that’s a good deal, particularly given as a family we watch more YT than any other TV service, however if you’re not willing to pay for a music service I can see how you might feel differently about that

Same

I’ve driven around the Western side of Germany a few times and there really weren’t many sections that were unrestricted, and those that were unrestricted were not that long, and often very busy. Anecdotally, I did ask about it the first time I went and the advice I got was that while it is technically unrestricted you should be going at a similar speed to the traffic around you. If there are people in the middle lane and you blast past them at double their speed, that could be seen as unsafe by police and get you in trouble.

I just learnt so much that information that will never be of use to me personally, but also that I will never forget

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Yep, that’s the real issue here

The hard part isn’t cooking at home, assuming you can cook and the household eats the same - it’s eating out, eating with friends, visiting others. It always adds that extra layer of complexity to simple things, and regularly invites the same old conversations.

Not saying it’s impossible of course, but without some conviction to stick to it and be strong enough not to bow to peer pressure (which is really hard for most people), it’s difficult.