r/ShitAmericansSay • u/TeacupUmbrella G'day, eh? 🍁🦘 • 7d ago

Food Americans invented apple pie, and also saved it from being bad British food

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Context: a post about how the earliest apple pie recipe we have from England had no sugar in it (since it's from the 1300s) and so they sweetened it with other fruits and such.

Yep, America invented apple pie like 400 years before America even existed, and also save it from being bad British food.

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u/SuspiciouslyCamel 7d ago

Oh for sure, my favourite potatoes are english roasted with salt and a bit of rosemary in the fat if I'm feeling extravagant.

Steaks are still pretty much universally seasoned just with salt for the same reason you stated.

I honestly think a lot of Americans confuse seasoning with salt/sugar levels. I was once watching one of those youtube food review channels, this guy but into an actual orange bit of chicken and complained it had no seasoning.... It had at bare minimum a truckload of cumin and paprika to get the colour it had, and I think the guy was just complaining it didn't have enough salt/sugar but didn't know how to express it, because he isn't aware of how much of those two spices he eats on a daily basis.

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u/Ok-Blackberry-3534 7d ago

They probably mean chilli rather than seasoning.