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![]() It’s generally not fancy food, that’s fair enough, but a lot of it is very tasty indeed. ![]() Tolkien was British, and Hobbits are the Middleearthern race most closely aligned with brits, which is why they generally prefer staying at home with a nice cup of tea or go to the pub to drink beer.Īs for what isn’t true claiming that British food (which I will, for the sake of this post interpret to include both English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish cooking – between which there is more than a little overlap) is bad is an out and out lie. Let’s start with what’s true about it, as well what it implies which is also true. I could leave it there, but that wouldn’t make anyone any the wiser, now would it? Right off the bat, let me just say that it’s bullshit. I’ve seen this meme – and far more offensive variants of it – floating around the internet for a few years, and I’ve got a thing or two to say about it: It also contains a very small kernel of truth. It deals with a common myth about food, is rooted in rank elitism, while still being largely inoffensive. I could pick any number of more or less controversial memes, but have chosen this one for a few reasons. ![]() Whatever the case, I generally find that memes are not a good way to get information, and that one should at the very least critically review a meme before accepting the claims made within it. Some are highly informative, some are entirely for fun, and far too many are entirely misinformation. As a denizen of the internet for a quarter of a century, I have seen more than a few memes. ![]()
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