#and the uk version of the poll listed shepherds pie

[tristiloquent]

it's something that gets lost in translation, really. biscuits in the UK are much much different than biscuits in the US. in the UK the word exclusively refers to a type of cookie (kind of like shortbread, to paint with a very broad brush, or a graham cracker), and country gravy really doesn't exist there. onion gravy, however....

like, yeah, I love biscuits and gravy, but you have to admit that if you had no frame of reference for what the food is, and given what you already are familiar with, it would sound absolutely appalling.

it's quite literally no different than how usamericans (including op) disparage UK food because you don't understand it.

usamericans eat squeeze cheese, anyway, so, like, calm down.

Idk maybe it’s not my place to say this, but I’m still not over that salty British person trying to come up with “gross sounding” American foods to put on their poll and choosing almost exclusively southern foods like biscuits and gravy, grits, and boiled peanuts. Like America has food abominations, no one would’ve had an issue if they just filled the poll with stuff like deep fried butter or the gelatin abominations made by us white people in the 50s, but no they go after soul food of the American south????