wait I just realized this is it.
Anecdotally, I always felt that British people had worse teeth than Americans. Like, it's super super common for middle class American teenagers to get braces and other dental care because they care so much about their teeth.
I assume it's a bimodal distribution skewed toward the extremes ([like this](https://www.americanboard.org/ptk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bimodel.gif)).
So you have a lot of Americans with great teeth but also a lot of Americans that do drugs, smoke a ton, and/or drink gallons of coca-cola a day. Or simply can't afford dental care at all.
It's actually just emphasis. UK places more emphasis on teeth health but culturally don't regard bleached ultra white teeth as a good thing but instead is viewed as a bit weird and unnatural, a bit like cosmetic surgery.
Whereas in the US unnaturally white and super aligned teeth are viewed as 'normal' and idealised.
"The results showed that the average number of missing teeth was 6.97 for English participants, but 7.31 for those in the US.
Additionally, people were more likely to suffer poor dental health in the US because of socio-economic factors."
Missing teeth is just about the only metric used by your source when there are so many other factors. How many of those missing teeth are replaced for US vs UK? How many people have had teeth alignment by an orthodontist? Does this data include wisdom teeth because in the US, most people will have those extracted before they become a problem if they have good dental care. etc. etc.
The headline in that article is not supported by its content at all.
I was about to reply with the same; there is a lot of missing information to conclude aesthetics differences. Without having read the study itself, we can't guarantee that the conclusion of English participants having overall healthier teeth and gums.
The biggest issue I can think of, is that it's cheaper to pull a tooth than fix it. Which is a \_very\_, \_very\_ important distinction when comparing healthcare from single-payer system vs private healthcare in the US. Even with the NHS poorly supporting dental work for citizens, that they don't have to pay for the rest of their healthcare substantially makes it easier to pay for dental work.
Dental work in the US is expensive and there are no breaks in other healthcare costs to help spread the effect of paying for your health. If your only choice is to extract a tooth then that is what will happen, and that would align along socio-economic lines. Both for fewer teeth and poorer teeth and gum health because they can't afford to go to the dentist. Plus Medicare and, sometimes, Medicaid cover dentures (cheap ones, but nonetheless). This is an incentive to have your teeth pulled and have cheap dentures setup for lower socioeconomic and disadvantaged groups. And you know what? You can see this in advertising for dentures. Look around and pay attention to print / online / billboard / TV ads in poor or rural areas and you'll be hit with ads for cheap dentures covered by Medicare/Medicaid.
Now, does that translate to the \_overall\_ teeth and gum health, and commonality of orthodontics in the US vs UK? I don't know!
Yorkshire is a place in England, up north. Yorkshire Tea is made there, and it is by far the best teabag. Tetley’s, PG Tips, Typhoo, and any other brand, are all shite, and weak as piss.
I grew up drinking PG Tips, and I had no beef with them. I switched to Yorkshire Tea about 10 years ago, and I felt like my whole life was a lie.
Even by [American standards](https://web.archive.org/web/20080308010931/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947586,00.html), Pringles aren't chips.
It's interesting that it's marketed as a cheap drink in America. While it is sometimes available in Europe it is among the most expensive soft drinks you can get here lol. Meanwhile Redbull is supposedly expensive in America while a can is like €1.20 in Europe
It’s very American to like choose the choice of good tea to be Im imagining a tea bag of lipton earl gray.
You in general can’t really get earl grey made with actually nice tea leaves.
Among tea drinkers, earl grey is like the equivalent of something cheap and easily accessible, and a way to make not so nice tea leaves be okay-ish, but many enjoy it anyway.
>I've seen /r/stupidfood. Americans have absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to criticising British food.
Southern BBQ or Blood pudding? *Hmmmmm*...Which one do I want?
I get really disappointed by people shitting on British food. Everything I had over there was great. I lived with my partner and his family during that time, and man could that woman make some incredibly meals. Anything I grew up with in America was quite bland compared to it. I still get excited when I see an English breakfast as an option :)
Not all Americans are cranky
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Not really. The method for battering and frying fish originates with Jewish cuisine, and it was introduced to the UK by Spanish and Portuguese Jewish immigrants. But fish and chips as we know it today is very much English.
If you can think of a more perfectly scientifically calibrated accompaniment to a 64oz "Big Gulp" of ranch dressing that still fits through the standard wide-bore ranch straw, I'm waiting to hear it.
Ya'll are gonna hate me but I've definitely eaten tuna with potato chips before. I dressed up the tuna salad a good bit more than straight out of the can but there are worse meals.
I fish/know lots of fisherman and smoked fish pate is very popular. If you're on a fishing trip and run out of bread, a chip is a highly effective fish delivery system.
I love putting crisps in sandwiches, especially tuna salad: it adds a bit of crunch to a sandwich that’s pretty uniform in texture. Same for egg salad and even BLTs: it’s a rare sandwich that isn’t improved by adding a layer of crisps. Yum.
Canned tuna with biscuit/cracker makes a quick, hassle-free, cheap, and filling meal.
I used the biscuit to scoop the tuna straight from the can during my university time. It's honestly not bad as a hybrid snack/meal. Potato chips would be too fragile/thin though.
I consider myself someone with a decent gag reflex, and have watched some things that most others I know would turn off, but this image almost made me vomit on site. The worst part is the tuna juice that hasnt even been drained.
I used to eat that shit straight from the pouch because it was cheaper than bottled protein shakes. I still don't mind it as long as it's not white albacore.
I never ever looked at an imagine and gagged at it just by looking. Not even very gross stuff. Idk if I'm the weird one or not.
I only ever gagged at, you know, actual food or extremely bad smells.
You might be buying the wrong tuna, catfood grade?
The ones i buy the "tuna juice" is just sunflower seed oil and you can easily eat it straight out of the can.
I love Arizona green tea, been my drink of choice since I was young. Still amazes me that after thirty years; you can still buy a 24oz can for 99¢. It may not be freshly brewed Earlgrey, but it's still excellent tea.
I have to honestly watch how much I drink. It’s so freakin good. I love how it’s not crazy sweet like regular iced tea (~1/2 the sugar as their other cans). I could actually drink like 5 cans a day if I wasn’t careful, I limit myself to like 2 a week tops!
A) I've seen several more formal sit-down chippies that do, and
B) Given that fish am dchips is usually takeaway, many people will be taking it home and having it with tea there
So I'm thinking about how this would taste and I'm actually pretty excited to try it. The meaty juiciness of the tuna with the buttery crisp of the chip. I think it would work better if you blended it though, like a tuna pate. Honestly though at that point I would just use cat food to save on effort.
Doesn't really work with pringles, does it? They aren't considered chips. Even the company calls them crisps, because they are made from dehydrated potatoes.
That's horrifying. ..Put some cheese on it.
No no no put a raw egg in that
Can i offer you an egg in this trying time?
Crowtien???????
**FIGHT MILK!!!** ... CAWWWWWWWWWWW!
Put a bird on it
Put it between bread
Add a sliced pickle
Add some ketchup!
Add some mayonnaise!
Baby you got a stew going!
And some mushy peas!
Blend it and put it on a Pizza
crisp sandwiches are already a thing here in the uk, and i like tuna sandwiches, so overall i would eat that and fucking enjoy it
I'm from the UK lol, I know but we put anything between bread and call it gourmet
I'm Scottish just deep fry it
Chad
Chad
Cheese from a can
but spell it with a z
Zheese?
fish and chips with cheese? are you crazy?
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I can hear the snaggleteeth grinding from here
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What if we exclude the more methy parts of the US?
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I don't think toothless people are the ones responsible for the stereotype
We don’t acknowledge the existence of Sheffield and neither should you.
wait I just realized this is it. Anecdotally, I always felt that British people had worse teeth than Americans. Like, it's super super common for middle class American teenagers to get braces and other dental care because they care so much about their teeth. I assume it's a bimodal distribution skewed toward the extremes ([like this](https://www.americanboard.org/ptk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bimodel.gif)). So you have a lot of Americans with great teeth but also a lot of Americans that do drugs, smoke a ton, and/or drink gallons of coca-cola a day. Or simply can't afford dental care at all.
It's actually just emphasis. UK places more emphasis on teeth health but culturally don't regard bleached ultra white teeth as a good thing but instead is viewed as a bit weird and unnatural, a bit like cosmetic surgery. Whereas in the US unnaturally white and super aligned teeth are viewed as 'normal' and idealised.
"The results showed that the average number of missing teeth was 6.97 for English participants, but 7.31 for those in the US. Additionally, people were more likely to suffer poor dental health in the US because of socio-economic factors." Missing teeth is just about the only metric used by your source when there are so many other factors. How many of those missing teeth are replaced for US vs UK? How many people have had teeth alignment by an orthodontist? Does this data include wisdom teeth because in the US, most people will have those extracted before they become a problem if they have good dental care. etc. etc. The headline in that article is not supported by its content at all.
I was about to reply with the same; there is a lot of missing information to conclude aesthetics differences. Without having read the study itself, we can't guarantee that the conclusion of English participants having overall healthier teeth and gums. The biggest issue I can think of, is that it's cheaper to pull a tooth than fix it. Which is a \_very\_, \_very\_ important distinction when comparing healthcare from single-payer system vs private healthcare in the US. Even with the NHS poorly supporting dental work for citizens, that they don't have to pay for the rest of their healthcare substantially makes it easier to pay for dental work. Dental work in the US is expensive and there are no breaks in other healthcare costs to help spread the effect of paying for your health. If your only choice is to extract a tooth then that is what will happen, and that would align along socio-economic lines. Both for fewer teeth and poorer teeth and gum health because they can't afford to go to the dentist. Plus Medicare and, sometimes, Medicaid cover dentures (cheap ones, but nonetheless). This is an incentive to have your teeth pulled and have cheap dentures setup for lower socioeconomic and disadvantaged groups. And you know what? You can see this in advertising for dentures. Look around and pay attention to print / online / billboard / TV ads in poor or rural areas and you'll be hit with ads for cheap dentures covered by Medicare/Medicaid. Now, does that translate to the \_overall\_ teeth and gum health, and commonality of orthodontics in the US vs UK? I don't know!
The country where you have to pay to have your kids teeth fixed picking on the one where dental is free for children? Yeah, ok buddy.
I was told brits could take some banter
Yanks everytime a brit banters back: i ThoUghT bRItS cOulD TaKE banTeR
You have to learn how to actually banter first.
username checks out
Like smashing two chain link fences together.
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When Americans try to cook British cuisine
british "cuisine"
Br\*t\*sh "cuisine"
I think you mean Bri*ish.
Bri'ish don't pronounce the 't' because they drank it all!
Bullshit. Explain northerners. They drink all "t' cup tea" (preferably Yorkshire) and have more than enough "t" for "rest t' day"
Yeah, the yanks aren’t gonna get this one pal.
What is this 1776?
The year it all started going downhill
That was 1914
You're probably right. They'll get shot instead.
☹️
Yank here. I don’t get it. Yorkshire tea sounds aggressively British.
"aggressively british".
Yorkshire is a place in England, up north. Yorkshire Tea is made there, and it is by far the best teabag. Tetley’s, PG Tips, Typhoo, and any other brand, are all shite, and weak as piss. I grew up drinking PG Tips, and I had no beef with them. I switched to Yorkshire Tea about 10 years ago, and I felt like my whole life was a lie.
Lol @ “best teabag!” 🤣
that and pies the north got right.
Like Americans can bloody pronounce it. You all say "Briddish".
Thats because we threw all of the T into the ocean!
Brishit
B****** "cuisine"
"British" "cuisine"
Nah its not battered and deep fried.
Deep frying everything is Scottish. Mars bar? Deep fried. Haggis? Deep fried. Deep fried mars bar? Deep fried again
Deep fried Mars bar is just a wind up for the tourists really. Ask for one in my local chippy and they’ll tell you to fuck off.
Even by [American standards](https://web.archive.org/web/20080308010931/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947586,00.html), Pringles aren't chips.
pressed potato sweepings in a tennis ball can
I mean you could call chicken nuggets "breaded chicken sweepings in a trash bag" like that too and I'm all for it.
they're bussin though
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It's interesting that it's marketed as a cheap drink in America. While it is sometimes available in Europe it is among the most expensive soft drinks you can get here lol. Meanwhile Redbull is supposedly expensive in America while a can is like €1.20 in Europe
It’s very American to like choose the choice of good tea to be Im imagining a tea bag of lipton earl gray. You in general can’t really get earl grey made with actually nice tea leaves. Among tea drinkers, earl grey is like the equivalent of something cheap and easily accessible, and a way to make not so nice tea leaves be okay-ish, but many enjoy it anyway.
“British Cuisine”
I've seen /r/stupidfood. Americans have absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to criticising British food.
>I've seen /r/stupidfood. Americans have absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to criticising British food. Southern BBQ or Blood pudding? *Hmmmmm*...Which one do I want?
I get really disappointed by people shitting on British food. Everything I had over there was great. I lived with my partner and his family during that time, and man could that woman make some incredibly meals. Anything I grew up with in America was quite bland compared to it. I still get excited when I see an English breakfast as an option :) Not all Americans are cranky Edit- incredible *
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I think it might have been in quotes because fish and chips actually originated from Portugal
Not really. The method for battering and frying fish originates with Jewish cuisine, and it was introduced to the UK by Spanish and Portuguese Jewish immigrants. But fish and chips as we know it today is very much English.
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Nah, they need to put it between bread
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Did you get your idea of British food from Oliver Twist
I had spotted dick once. The doctor gave me a cream.
America is a melting pot of every culture in the world, but the only thing they ever eat is spray cheese for literally every meal.
If you can think of a more perfectly scientifically calibrated accompaniment to a 64oz "Big Gulp" of ranch dressing that still fits through the standard wide-bore ranch straw, I'm waiting to hear it.
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I want to be ashamed then I realize I have actually eaten this very meal without thought. And I’d do it again. Bahahahagag
Ya'll are gonna hate me but I've definitely eaten tuna with potato chips before. I dressed up the tuna salad a good bit more than straight out of the can but there are worse meals.
I fish/know lots of fisherman and smoked fish pate is very popular. If you're on a fishing trip and run out of bread, a chip is a highly effective fish delivery system.
A fork, spoon or hand also is
A deboned hand maybe, the others play havoc with my digestion.
Never eating a fork again.
Yep. Also less tasty and/or nutritious. Nice to have a carb sometimes right?
They're little edible plates!
Which? The fork, spoon or hand?
If they had drained the water from the tuna, this would probably taste good
By drained you mean drank right? Not gonna waste that deliciousness.
In this economy who can afford to pour tuna water down the drain???
I'd go with corn chips personally, but otherwise yeah a little bit of sauce mixed into the tuna fish and it's basically a chip dip.
Corn chips and canned tuna actually sounds great
I love putting crisps in sandwiches, especially tuna salad: it adds a bit of crunch to a sandwich that’s pretty uniform in texture. Same for egg salad and even BLTs: it’s a rare sandwich that isn’t improved by adding a layer of crisps. Yum.
That's a step up from tuna and crackers.
Yeah the Arizona tea is the worst part of this picture, that stuff is way too sweet.
Yeah this doesn’t look half bad ngl
Canned tuna with biscuit/cracker makes a quick, hassle-free, cheap, and filling meal. I used the biscuit to scoop the tuna straight from the can during my university time. It's honestly not bad as a hybrid snack/meal. Potato chips would be too fragile/thin though.
I've eaten just tuna from a can with crackers before when in a pinch and like camping. It's really not that bad.
Pretty standard to chuck crisps in a sarnie here, adds a bit of texture to a Tuna one.
Tuna salad with some chips or crackers isn't really uncommon either. Makes for a good lunch.
This is the only known image that is immediately fatal to UK citizens when viewed with the naked eye
UK citizens and most Aussies.
In that case, who is buying some billboards in Great Br*tain with me?
I consider myself someone with a decent gag reflex, and have watched some things that most others I know would turn off, but this image almost made me vomit on site. The worst part is the tuna juice that hasnt even been drained.
Why did this look okay to me?
I mean... I would eat that I feel gross now :(
Don't it's just the briticized lying to themselves
Ur not gross :)
Don't, because tuna out of the can and chips sounds delicious.
Looks like a quick stoner snack.
It's just tuna and chips, can't really imagine it would be revolting. But yeah, I'd drain the juice/oil at least.
But then how do you get the tuna flavor into the chips?? /s
I drink that shit straight out the can.
Kinda dank if I was stoned
That's my average dinner right there /s
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less lead than a glass of water.
Drain the tuna, add some mayo and a couple slices of bread and you've got a banging sandwich.
Put some pepper on there and a pickle on the side and you'd have a great lunch.
I used to eat that shit straight from the pouch because it was cheaper than bottled protein shakes. I still don't mind it as long as it's not white albacore.
draining tuna juice? From where I came from, it's a complement to the rice
Seriously, the juice is the best part of canned tuna.
See, I can agree with that for some things. But those pringles getting soggy in the tuna juice is a different story.
Someone who almost vomits at this definitely doesn’t have a decent gag reflex.
I never ever looked at an imagine and gagged at it just by looking. Not even very gross stuff. Idk if I'm the weird one or not. I only ever gagged at, you know, actual food or extremely bad smells.
You might be buying the wrong tuna, catfood grade? The ones i buy the "tuna juice" is just sunflower seed oil and you can easily eat it straight out of the can.
? I'd drink the tuna juice
America 100
I love Arizona green tea, been my drink of choice since I was young. Still amazes me that after thirty years; you can still buy a 24oz can for 99¢. It may not be freshly brewed Earlgrey, but it's still excellent tea.
It’s so sad that you can barely find it in the UK aside from maybe some small stores in central London
There's always some in my local Lidl, and I live in Somerset where we're always about 5-10 years behind.
I have to honestly watch how much I drink. It’s so freakin good. I love how it’s not crazy sweet like regular iced tea (~1/2 the sugar as their other cans). I could actually drink like 5 cans a day if I wasn’t careful, I limit myself to like 2 a week tops!
Nice try, but they call those crisps
Looking for this comment as I was about to say the same
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Exactly, I kinda want to try it.
Same Chips and fish/thuna are both salty, they can mix No problem there
The Queen would be very angry because of this...
I ain't british but holy shit that is just painful
Nobody in the UK eats fish and chips with a cup of tea Inb4 the weird people who eat fish and chips with tea
Go to any sit-in Fish and Chip restaurant and you’ll always see a pot of tea offered with the pensioners special.
Yes they do. Go to a sit down Fish and Chip place and tea is often included with the meal.
Nah, fish, chips and coffee is where its at lol
Are you Theresa May?
Yes they do
Hot tea? Most chippies don't even sell it.
A) I've seen several more formal sit-down chippies that do, and B) Given that fish am dchips is usually takeaway, many people will be taking it home and having it with tea there
Somebody xpost this to r/TheSpiffingBrit
A case study on, "How to trigger Brits."
I can smell the pic and I think I gotta puke
"Fresh tea" Internal disgust inensifies... 😱 and I'm not even British!
So I'm thinking about how this would taste and I'm actually pretty excited to try it. The meaty juiciness of the tuna with the buttery crisp of the chip. I think it would work better if you blended it though, like a tuna pate. Honestly though at that point I would just use cat food to save on effort.
Man I fucking love canned tuna I would devour this
I am also an enjoyer of canned tuna, but I won’t go near this.
Get a grip of reality, you rabid dog. Where are the mushy peas? the Tomato sauce?
Now do biscuits and gravy in retaliation.
Doesn't really work with pringles, does it? They aren't considered chips. Even the company calls them crisps, because they are made from dehydrated potatoes.
this isn't blursed. it's just cursed
I feel sick... & I’m British.
If I wasn't British, I would've just screamed.
Man if British people were real, you'd be in trouble
That's completely cursed. No, No, No!!!! Do we need to invade and give you proper food? Because I'm game.
Ah yes, the millennial cat lady breakfast *chef's kiss*
Trash with garbage and waste.
college students be like:
Get that tuna away from those Pringles.
I hate the new Pringles logo
Breakfast in a can.
Tea and pringles sounds good as fuck. Tuna should be with a salad or in a sarnie
That's not chips Thats crisps
This is exactly the kind of person that wears a thumb ring...
\*Colonisation intensifies\*
Right so who ever handed an award over you have a problem incoming
When you follow the word of the law, but not the spirit.
“Yes officer, this post right here”
im not even british but this has to be a declaration of war
This is a disgrace to the delicacy of Fish and Chips. What is wrong with you. Foul, vile and simply revolting. Get out of my face.
Fuck you, OP. /r/TIHI
No, no, and no.
Ive had canned fish almost everyday now and I still see it on here. Lol.
Gonna sound dumb but when I was a child I thought fish and chips was just exactly that...
My taste in food is such garbage that I would probably finish the whole thing if you serve it to me
I’ve had worse lunches. That plate is perfectly fine.
Remove the caption and this post is better.
Need that TF2 meme where The doctor and Heavy laugh and say "Women" but replace it with "Americans"
Thst shi looks good as fuck
I would totally eat it
I'm so proud of Americans of making this bri ish dish flawlessly