Nothing beats a proper English breakfast
Also, beef wellington is pretty great if done right.
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Nothing beats a proper English breakfast
English Breakfast is a brilliantly balanced meal and it helped me get comfortable with eating a wider range of things (mushrooms, ratatouille, tomatoes) when I was younger. Love it.
Also, beef wellington is pretty great if done right.
I've never actually had one - always been told it is more effort than it's worth. Looks good though - one day I'll have my prize
ratatouille
What madness is this?
I've never actually had one - always been told it is more effort than it's worth.
Beef Wellington isn’t even English, it started as a French dish and was refined and popularized in the US. And yes it’s way too much work to cook.
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Fish n chips hands down 100% final answer lock it in.
To anyone whos been to both places can you get "proper" fish n chips the world over? I've asked a few americans on xbox a few times and they tell me that its "fish and steak fries" and its basically the same thing, but it doesnt sound like it will be the same.
Chippy chips are a very specific thing and its incredibly difficult to explain that to someone who hasn't experienced it and just understands.
In America, the best approximation we can get to chippy chips are our steak fries. It's the cut of potato that's most similar, but there is a whole spectrum of doneness that one is rolling the dice on when ordering steak fries.
And you're right. There ain't nothing like chippy chips. I'm over here chasing a dragon when I should just be buying a plane ticket.
Got to have mushy peas with it to complete a proper fish n chips.
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Fish and Chips
Is shepherd's pie British? Or is that Scottish/Irish? 🤔 I like that, too.
Scotland is British, just not English.
Fun fact: 'fish and chips' was introduced to England by a Jewish migrant, same as pastrami for the USA. And shepherd's pie is British, but it's unclear whether it was northern England or Scotland.
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Let's start with:
Fish and chips
Chip butty
Yorkshire fishcake butty
Whitebait
Scottish smoked salmon
Cromer crabs
Potted shrimp
Scallops and Black Pudding
Sunday Roast (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, vegetarian)
Beef Wellington
Full English
Full Scottish
Full Welsh
Ultster Fry
Deviled kidneys
Mixed grill
Gammon, egg and chips
Steak and Ale pie
Steak and oyster pie
Meat and potato pie
Pork pie
Chicken and Mushroom pie
Scotch pie
Game pie
Fish pie
Shepherd's pie
Cottage pie
Steak and kidney pudding
Lancashire hotpot
Irish stew
Cornish pasty
Scotch egg
Sausage roll
Ploughman's lunch
Haggis
Afternooon / Cream / High Tea
And of course the full range of BIR curries: Chicken Tikka Masala; Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti
And a bunch of puddings and sweet things, sticky toffee pudding, apple pie, mince pie, hot cross buns, etc., but I don’t have a sweet tooth
Depending on where you get said foodstuffs it can be everywhere from grim inedible sadness to glorious sublime perfection.
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Visited Scotland
Walked into a little mom-n-pop fast restaurant
Wondered wtf is a "deep fried pizza", ordered one.
Dude took a "frozen" pizza out of the fridge
Dude folded it in half and stuck it in an oil deep fry.
OMFG never tasted such sweet sin... crispy flakey crust on the outside, melty cheesy inside
Totally worth the 10 million calories and arterial hardening
I'm flabbergasted that I've never seen that dish in the US. Well done rando Scot!
Oh, this isn't 'rando'. Chippies in Scotland will deep fry any fucking thing. Pizza? Standard. Mars bar? Of course! In some chippies you can even take something you've bought somewhere else and ask if they'll batter and fry the fucker for you and they'll say yes.
Whenever I get home to Scotland, my personal supper of choice is the haggis supper - a sausage of haggis meat, battered and deep fried, and served with beautifully fried chips, of course. The second night I'm home (especially if the wife isn't with me) is a haddock supper. Fuckin' grand.
I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I'm told by those who do that the deep fried Bounty is just the wrong side of the acceptable line of deep fried sweet shit.
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Lived in the uk for just over 10 years from 2000 to 2011. there were some great pub meals in both the north (around Yorkshire and Durham) and in the south west (Swindon / Bath).
I was very disappointed with Indian when I moved back to New Zealand so I guess that was good as well.
We cant get good Jamaican/Caribbean in small town NZ, and that was a good go to down south.
I guess I'm an uncultured savage but yorkshire puddings. By a county mile.
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Fish and chips, if done well, can be an absolute gournet experience 🙂
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the british food being shit discussion is never dormant for long. maybe it is shit but for me, of all the dinners i've ever had, nothing beats good bangers and mash
Yes - If it's "slop," then fine, I like eating slop!
Bangers and mash isn't one of my favourites, just because it's very basic - but I do always enjoy eating it and the fact it has only a few components is one of it's strengths. Every cuisine needs some simpler fishers like that.
Toad in the hole is basically bangers & mash 2.0
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Bubble and squeak
I'm from the EU, but I love making shepherd's pie. It's pretty easy and when done correctly, it is an absolutely fantastic dish.
Grilled salmon from the Lune river served with roasted potatoes, honey glazed parsnips and grilled green beans.
Shepherd's Pie, though I confess I've never made it with mutton. If you use ground beef, it's called Cottage Pie.
I use hot Italian sausage. I don't think there's a name for doing that. At that point you're mixing up Cottage Pie with bangers and mash (mashed potatoes and sausage). And I'm okay with that. All those dishes are good. Mixing things up is what I do.
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There's something about a sunday dinner on a rainy day...the day after a night out.
Two things definitely stand out for me:
- The fish and chips are Awesome - fillets are delicious, and 3x the size of what I get in the States. The fish and chips are hot, crispy outside, tender inside.
- Baked goods. Pies, cakes, napoleons, etc are universally fantastic, especially anything made with puff pastry. I got sausage rolls for a pound sixty from under the heat lamps at Tesco that were as good as entrees I've had in US restaurants.
My grandmother was British, and she'd cook the most amazing roast potatoes I've ever had. Its just a shame she made them by sacrificing the roast beef...
I'm a Brit, and personally, I think a lot of the staples we are weirdly defensive of are not that exciting. A Sunday roast? Sure, it's probably associated with family and comfort or whatever, but give me Thai, Mexican, Italian, Japanese food, etc., over it any day.
That said, the two I will defend to the grave are a decent fish and chip supper and an English/Scottish breakfast.
Got to be either a full English breakfast or a Cornish pasty.
I've had a lot of good food in Scotland, but one of the most memorable meals was in the Crinan Hotel's seafood bar - a big plate of langoustines that had been caught that morning, served with perfect chips and aoli. On the menu they were called Loch Crinan jumbo prawns.
That image is playing major perspective tricks on me, lol. They look giant
Fish and Chips with vinegar in a newspaper, it's surprisingly good. I had it somewhere in a suburb of London in some traditional shop and the grandma who was in front of me put so much vinegar on hers that the whole counter and floor was soaked in it.
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Since other people are posting haggis, then the fucking BANGER haggis pizza I had when I visited the U.K. More of a Scottish thing though, no?
More strictly then I suppose Fish'n Chips or a Cottage Pie. I has those too over there. Can't say it's noticeably different from the local Atlantic Canada themed joints all around me in a landlocked province 😅.
Haggis is totally a Scottish thing, but it depends on who you ask whether Scottish counts as British or not. Some people get surprisingly militant about it
Almost like many in Scotland want to be a sovereign country, and that is fair.
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Had a really good steak and ale pie in a pub somewhere. Also, fish and chips is wildly overrated.
Toasted crumpets slathered in butter and marmite, or jam.
Marmalade on sourdough toast.
Ploughmans sandwiches with good bread. (This one is not as good since going vegan though, as vegan butter is almost identical but the cheeses not so much.)
Sticky toffee pudding
Christmas pudding
Roast potatoes
Elderflower cordial
Gin
Before going vegan I quite liked smoked makrel and various tinned fish on toast. Kedgeree was good too, but that's a Scottish take on an Indian dish.
Idk I don't really eat much 'British' food despite being born here, both my parents are immigrants from different countries.
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