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16746582 No.16746582 [Reply] [Original]

What makes the British such great bakers?

They have such a rich history of baking and it seems like nobody can compete with the historical breads and rolls and pastries that they have created over the years. They basically gave the world modern baking but I don't understand how or why?

>> No.16746652
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16746652

>>16746582
>great bri'ish bake off
and not a stargazy on the table. can they really even call it a bri'ish bakeoff?

>> No.16746666
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>>16746582
Is that the dude from the Mighty Boosh?

>> No.16746671

>>16746666
checked and yes it is

>> No.16746677

>>16746652
OI YA BLOODY WANKAH WHA' 'AVE YOU GO' THERE? YOU GO' A LOICENSE TO BE COOKIN' ALL THIS 'ERE FISH? YOU BEH'AH HEAD OVER T' THE PROIME MIN'STER'S FISHING AND LOICENSING OFFACE 'FORE I YELL FOR TH' CONSTABLE!

>> No.16746703

>>16746582
They have nothing better to do in dreary old bedlam.

>> No.16746710

>>16746677
You got a loicence for them caps?

>> No.16746731

>>16746677
>YOU GO' A LOICENSE
oi govna, Get some sense, bin the loicense!

>> No.16746799

>>16746582
Do the British really have that reputation? I don't have anything against British baked goods (never really thought about them) but I've never heard anyone say that the British particularly excelled at baking.

>> No.16746836

>>16746582
Why because there's a very popular TV show? If that was the metric, Americans would be the best at surviving in the wilderness and finding ghosts lol.

>> No.16746913

>>16746836
I gots a loicence for benny the hill

>> No.16746921
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>>16746836
don't forget bigfoots but then you have your lochness monsters and spooky old castles, but like standard brits your hypocrites to the core

>> No.16746950
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16746950

Everything you brits and euros do is retard level and time and time again you blame your own shit on the USA. How about piss the fuck off?

>> No.16747031

>>16746950
Why are you why are you Fucking doing this!?

>> No.16747048

>>16746582
I liked that show better when there was the loud lesbian instead of that fucking cringy tranny

>> No.16747382
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>That one episode where they had to make brownies and absolutely everyone fucked it up
>That episode where they had to make "American-style" pies and everyone bitched about how sweet they were because they made them based on fake recipes no American would ever follow
British people essentially have their tradition of baking from what they THINK the French make, without asking an actual French person ever

>> No.16747517

>>16746582
America is way better at baking if it wasn't for the industrialized mass market food culture, we would be better than europeans

>> No.16747521

>>16747382
Why the fuck would I ever want to speak to a French person?

>> No.16747524

>>16747517
>If we weren't worse we would be better
Great observation.

>> No.16747526
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>>16746582
who does he think he's fooling?

>> No.16747552

>>16747524
I mean the actual cakes, pies, pasteries baked in our households. Not the shit found in stores.

>> No.16747781

>>16746582
No one on this planet thinks that the British are good bakers

>> No.16747814

>>16747048
I stopped watching when that unfunny bald faggot who is so annoying his boyfriend committed suicide turned up last season.

>> No.16747836

>>16747526
>he

>> No.16747855

>>16746582
>What makes the British such great bakers?
Nothing, they aren't.

>They have such a rich history of baking
No they don't.

>it seems like nobody can compete
Most western european nations are way better at baking than the UK, just think of France or Germany

>> No.16747862

>>16747855
The pretzel pretty much btfo’s anything the british have.

>> No.16748007

>>16747526

Noel Fielding is not trans. He just has long hair.

>> No.16748018
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>>16746731
>>16746710
>>16746677
Kek, the British accent is truly disgusting. Is there a lower creature on earth than the A*glo?

>> No.16748041

>>16748007
Neither of those but a total fag you UK cunt, have you learned to bathe yet? Only the stinking french are worse in that small area.

>> No.16748045

>>16748007
What kind of hippy bitch parents name their kid noel? They destined to make the poor lad a card carrying homo.

>> No.16748046

>>16747526
>>16747836
noel fielding is a fucking ladies man of the 00s era and probably fucked more women under 20 than everyone on ck combined. do you even know who he is?

>> No.16748052

>>16748046
Never heard of him and never cared, why should I?

>> No.16748057

>>16748046
*** crickets ***

>> No.16748059

>>16748052
he wrote and starred in the mighty boosh which for my money is one of the best british comedy shows of all time. it seems a bit of its time now but it turned him into a god to alternative kids up and down the country in 00s, especially girls who loved his effeminateness which was in style at the time

>> No.16748065

>>16748059
Maybe I'm an old timer, I go for Benny Hill and the Hinns Angels, friends and I used to watch that while doing homework. Your bbc politically correct fags wouldn't allow that these days.

>> No.16748071

>>16748045
it's not pronounced the way you probably think it is

>> No.16748076

>>16748065
boosh had some edge, and as a very surreal comedy it simply didn't involve the markedly lighter pc problems of the time. although it has actually recently been pulled up for using blackface... makes sense it passed you by if you're older i suppose

>> No.16748080

>>16748071
Like Worchstershire or Leicester?

>> No.16748095

>>16748076
He was certainly no Sam Kinison or Rodney Dangerfield, or the diceman Andrew "Dice" Clay.

>> No.16748105

>>16748076
He's just a copycat brit aka eurotrash type. Have some diceman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Htf_F6Nmtg

>> No.16748155

>>16747517
>buy pie crust
>buy can of fruit
>buy """""""cream"""""""
>combine
"baking"

>> No.16748346

>>16748155
I like adding my heafty loads of semen to give it a personal and healthy binding touch.

>> No.16748354

>>16748155
Hickory Dickery Dock
Some Bitch was sucking my cock
I baked a pie
She got a cream pie
Now she's down on the block

>> No.16748373

>>16748059
>is one of the best british comedy shows of all time.

holy shit what awful taste and discrimination you have. The first season was pretty good and worth re-watching. The second was awful and the third was slightly better but wouldn't have been missed if it was never made. His stand-up is pretty shit too.

>> No.16748389

>>16748373
season 1 and 2 are far and away the best while 3 is very mediocre. i know the show isn't everybody's cup of tea but i watched it when it was first on telly and i still reference it today as do many brits and some yanks i know who have seen it. i don't know, perhaps we are of a certain age but it was very formative for me and i think echoes of its humour can be seen down the line

>> No.16748442

What's next, flying saucers and lizard people?
Benny Hill, classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2cr1bUHIBM

>> No.16748444

>>16748045
>>16748080
It's pronounced like knoll.

>> No.16748451

>>16748444
worchestershireknoll, that'll get me straight beaten up by hooligans.

>> No.16748468

>>16748444
I wouldn't send a brit tourist to the south bronx. I go into a British pub, have a seat, say give a a knoll on tap. That wont work out too well.

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>>16746582
>what makes the people who literally rounded up slaves to grow sugar cane so great at baking

>> No.16748515

>>16748018
That's an Irishman

>> No.16748593

>>16746799
Yes, we do. No, I don't know why either. But it's true, we really have that reputation, at least in East Asia. I used to live a minute away from a cake shop called the Chinese British Connection or something when I was in shanghai, and I know the Nips have the same stereotype. For what it's worth, the French also have a similar reputation there.
>>16747048
He's ridiculously camp and does seem like he's trans or something but he's got a wife and kids lol.

>> No.16748609

>>16748018
That accent is called Cockney and it doesn't really exist any more.

>> No.16748628

>>16746652
I want to try stargazy pie so bad.

>> No.16748740

>>16748046
He looks kind of like the Unix Admin that was locked in the server room in The IT Crowd.

>> No.16748748

>>16746652
That's not really British, that's Cornish.

>> No.16748771

>>16748748
Cornwall is in Britain you idiot.

>> No.16748792

>>16748740
Lol yeah same guy.

>> No.16748796

>>16746582
>no Mary Berry
all further opinions disregarded

>> No.16748806

>>16748771
Allegedly. I don't really consider them British.

>> No.16748807

>>16748796
damn berry would be a great side host for this show. imagine him sticking his finger in someones batter and being like "ooooh now THATS more like it"

>> No.16748831

>>16748771
this nigger clearly doesn’t know anything about the history of that island….bet he thinks the Welsh and Irish are “British” too

>> No.16748943

>>16746582
I would rate it
1. French
2. Vietnamese (which is just French with a twist)
3. American

>> No.16748957

>I baked a sausage into a pastry to cope with the unattractivness of my native women and my diminished importance in the world stage

>> No.16748960

>>16748831
They're part of the island of Great Britain, so yeah.

>> No.16748961

>>16747526
isn't this the emo guy from the IT crowd?

>> No.16749003

>>16748740
>>16748961
see>>16748792

>> No.16749037

>>16748960
Are they though?

>> No.16749038

>>16747526
American here. Only know of him through task master. Funny guy. Fooling who how?

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>>16749037
Map confirms.

>> No.16749101

>>16749037
im welsh you are talking shit

>> No.16749128

>>16747814
same, wtf were they thinking he is so awful to look at and unfunny on top of that.

>> No.16749140

>>16748018
>posts a paddy
I sometimes think we need flags on /ck/, but I know you're a yank by how utterly stupid you are.

>> No.16749464
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16749464

Where are all my Kim Joy chads at?

>> No.16749684

>malt loaf
Even the bong contestants were disgusted

>> No.16749696

>>16749464
Loses to Rahul

>> No.16749698

>>16749696
Rahul was based as hell

>> No.16749710

>>16749698
“British”

>> No.16749713

>>16749710
who gives a shit. that's the kind of immigrant you want, hardworking and talented

>> No.16749777

>>16746582
I don't understand the premise of the thread. I've never heard anyone equate Britain with superior baking skills.

>> No.16749806

>>16746582
We needed the carbs for tough days down t'mine. It's the same reason we've always been ale drinkers historically, we needed the calories for hard graft. We have a massive problem with obesity (no pun intended) now because hardly anybody is working that hard but we're still eating a lot of the same food.

>> No.16750184

It's getting cringier to pander to Americans, sadly. They're finding people that are bad at baking and having more stupid jokes vs showing skill. The guy that got kicked off first this week didn't even try.

>> No.16750194

>>16749777
We bake a lot here. Providing cake and bread to family is just pretty traditional.

>> No.16750568

>>16749777
How have you not heard that!? The British have been baking for almost 6000 years!

>> No.16750682

>>16748495
We didn't round them up, the other blacks did that for us. We just made it financially viable.

>> No.16751266

>>16749128
he's Jewish

>> No.16751275

>that once time someone won the entire competition with a basic bitch Lemon drizzle cake pelt because they were a paki
it's not a competition, it's a reality show

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>>16746582
they aren't, and they didn't.
everything ever that the british have that's good comes from southwestern Europe. France or Spain mostly.
Both baking and cheese culture.

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16751393

>Daddy Hollywood will never dick you down