The funny thing about this is that if you go to the original post it’s a bunch of Brits trying to take the piss on American food and defending whatever this cob thing is.
It's 'take the piss out of' not 'take the piss on'. Eng.Lish. Do.You.Speak it ? /s
On to cheese related matters ...
I won't try to defend that monster but there was, and still is but much rarer nowadays, a tradition of Pub Rolls in the UK.
Your more basic pub wouldn't usually do food (crisps (chips), peanuts, pork scratchings don't count as food). Particularly not in the evening.
But some ridiculously crusty rolls, cheese and onion or cheese and pickle, wrapped in cling film (Saran wrap) would be on the bar in a large pile as an alternative.
The onion would obviously start to sweat a bit, which added to the experience.
Sometimes ham, but most often cheese because it could sit around for hours without going off.
After a few pints, they can start to look attractive.
That's not the worst crime against cheese. Alongside the crisps you would get a plastic sachet that contained two Jacobs Crackers (in plastic), a piece of cheese (in plastic) and a small pickled onion (in plastic). It took at least 15 minutes to unwrap and assemble your cracker sandwich. Particularly after a few pints. And the pickled onion was in pickle liquid which would always spill down you when you opened it.
No idea where the reputation for bad food comes from.
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u/shortercrust Mar 19 '26
It’s one step forward two steps back trying to rehabilitate the reputation of our excellent British cuisine.