mmm delicious
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British: takes over the spice trade
Also the British:
Overview
This meme plays on a widespread joke about British cuisine. The top text first references the historical fact that the British Empire seized control of global spice trade routes during the colonial era. It then cuts to a still of a woman holding a plain, unseasoned, pre-packaged ham over a kitchen sink area, creating a humorous contrast: despite having access to an enormous variety of spices through their colonial control of the spice trade, British food is commonly stereotyped as extremely bland and lacking in seasoning.
Origin notes
This meme was originally posted on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit with the given original title 'mmm delicious'. The still image used in the meme is taken from a viral short-form cooking video that first circulated on TikTok, showing a woman preparing plain pre-packaged ham, which has been repurposed for this joke about British culinary stereotypes.
![This meme uses the popular "Nobody: / [Group]:" format to make a sarcastic joke about British colonial history. The top text reads "Nobody-" and then "The British-", followed by a screenshot from the game Minecraft showing a tiny, remote, completely uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean that has nothing but a few stalks of sugar cane growing on it, which already has a Union Jack (British national flag) planted on it. The joke references the widespread historical stereotype that British colonizers would claim any random, even tiny and unproductive, piece of land they encountered across the world unprompted, with no one asking them to do so.](https://gagbase.com/i/c/memes/ca/aa/9e/54/caaa9e546af742f7ae20972eb672d3e4.png.webp)
