Why don't UK people cook meals like this? Yum!

[JulyCompost]

I am natively from Brazil living in London now, and I make hubby eggs in morning etc. We add what Uk people call "chip sticks" to our meals, makes it more exciting and delicious! He loves it but says he has never seen it before.

Any other Brazillians on here who can share similar?

British people don’t cook like this because we can think of FAR more interesting and delicious things to cook for a “luxurious high end meal” than crisps on eggs.

We don't really go in for adding junk food as a garnish on a home cooked meal.

Generally its not seen as a positive to add processed food to your cooking.

JFC no need to sneer 🙄

I fell down a potato stick rabbit hole. You can get a special little tool to make them at home.

www.tiktok.com/@patriciocarvalho21/video/7336311113576942853?lang=en

It's not cooking though, is it? So it's not that British people 'don't cook like this'. I think it sounds nice, not on eggs because I'm vegan, but who doesn't love a bit of salty, fatty, crunch added to food? But I still think it's a wind up post 😂

You did say at the beginning of the thread that "it's healthy because it's basically potatoes"

Potatoes are healthy as long as you are not doing a keto or atkins diet, lots of irish peopl;e have them in stews with other vegetables, it's oil which can make a potato bad and the other things people add to them, we grow them at our allotment often

It's a hard pass from me.

Haven't done it for ages but used to love crunched up crisps and melted cheese as a topping on some oven-baked dishes (err... back in the 90s!)

I don't understand the replies, so snippy. If I could eat eggs, I think I'd try it. I imagine the differences in texture would be really nice.

You can say you don't think it's a good idea without being so rude!!

Its not the potato that's the problem. It's the insane amount of oil and salt they've added. A bag of crisps is not the same as a boiled potato in a stew in terms of nutrition. This can't possibly be news to you.

😂 Wotsits? Wotsthat?
Wotsits that's wot?

Come off it. How many cafes/pubs will serve a sandwich with a few crisps on the side??

I'll tell you - LOADS

Looks delish @JulyCompost - I'd give it a go

How do you prepare and cook them ?
Or are they simply something you buy premade. a bit like crisps ?

Potatoes aren't particularly healthy, especially if deep fried and with salt added

Sorry op, it doesn’t look yum to me. You should have posted a photo of better looking food if you wanted to tell a whole group of people their food is inferior to yours. I am from India with international palate, so know a bit about food myself too but not sure I would tell any group of people how much better we eat. UK people I know eat a large variety of good food.

I don't think that Brits have a great grasp of nutrition, to be fair.

I think its more fat than actual potato

Exactly, OP, it's the oil - the thinner the potato, the more oil they soak up in the cooking process. Processed chips all have an oil coating on them, so even if you cook them in the oven, they'll still be less healthy than boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, or even home made wedges.

And a load of UPF chemical crap.

M&S potato sticks literally have three ingredients: Potatoes, oil, and salt. Which of those is "UPF chemical crap"? https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/00762403/ready-salted-potato-sticks-marks-spencer

I understand that they aren't necessarily the cornerstone of a healthy diet, but it doesn't mean that there is anything in them that will kill you on its own.

Also, despite the fact that the salt is the taste that you notice, crisps (etc) tend to have less salt than many other processed foods. The entire 150g bag (which not many people eat at one sitting) has 789 kcal, which is 40% of an adult woman's RDA, but only 1.17g of salt (20% of the RDA). Kellogg's Corn Flakes have 1.65g of salt in 150g.

Some foods people love because they are culturally normal and they’ve been brought up with them and they have a comforting nostalgia - British people and beans on toast for example, but they don’t get adopted by other cultures because they are a bit weird and not that nice if you aren’t brought up to it. I would put crisp topping on scrambled eggs in that category.

Oh my God. Lots of Irish people have them. That’s hilarious🤣

Crisps for breakfast? This is the dream!

it does seem like an usual combination OP but if you and you partner like it, carry on enjoying it!

But chip sticks in those packets have been around in the UK for a long time, I had them as a child as a snack or as party crisps in bowls. They are salty crisps. I can kind of understand making homemade potato chips and having as a side for meals, but are you seriously saying people in Brazil take a packet of these salted crisps and sprinkle them on their meals?

I think the replies are because the OP is taking the piss/having some fun, however you want to see it.

If she'd have said oh this is a common thing in Brazil, what do you think/does anyone else do this? then she would have got less flack. I think, I could of course be wrong!

It's the 'why don't British people cook like this', 'it's healthy/I never said it was healthy', and 'potatoes are healthy because Irish people eat them' weirdness.