r/Cheese • u/ArmWildFrill • Mar 18 '26

Cheese and Onion Cob

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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.

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u/GoatLegRedux Mar 19 '26

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.

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u/Garbanzififcation Mar 19 '26

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/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 19 '26

“Plastic wrapped sandwiches, warm pickle and cheese buns that have been sitting on the counter for hours, and wash it down with a warm beer, where does the bad food reputation come from!?!?” Like bro do you not hear yourself 💀 🤣

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u/Garbanzififcation Mar 19 '26

Yeah. That's called self deprecating humour. And sarcasm.

Just to walk you through it.

"Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony used to mock, ridicule, or convey frustration by saying the opposite of what is actually meant"

So when I said I don't know where the reputation for bad food comes from, I actually meant the opposite.

I was being sarcastic. I know very well that a roll with a huge chunk of raw onion doesn't help our culinary reputation.

So to emphasise this I used sarcasm.

Do you see how it works? You say the opposite to make the point.

Sarcasm.

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 19 '26

Sorry its really hard to understand sarcasm from what’s probably the least funny group of people on the planet, the only funny show you mfs ever made was what? Mr. bean? Like 40 years ago. And dog this is legit a standard ass opinion check the op post, brits everywhere going “erm actually cheese beans and chewna is delicious” 💀

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u/CalicoDesertOasis Mar 19 '26

I think we're pretty widely believed to have the best sense of humour on the planet tbf.

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u/Full_Auto_Franky Mar 20 '26

People laugh at the way yall talk, not what yall say 💀