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The very best classic British foods ranked (sweet & savoury)
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Shepherds Pie is one of, if not my most favorite meal out there. A full English Breakfast isn't bad either, but given how rarely I actually eat breakfast, I shepherds pie takes it every time.
When Yorkshire Pudding counts as a 'dish'...
When Crumpets counts as a 'dish'...
When you rank these 'dishes' above Welsh Rabbit, Beef Wellington, Chicken Tikka Masala, etc.
I mean, would you eat a Yorkshire Pudding plain, or a crumpet? No? Then how do they qualify as the highest tier?
My recommendations if u wanna try a good range of british classics:
Brekkie/brunch:
- Definitely go for a full english breakfast someday, a lot of hotels and cafes serve them up until 12.
- Classic "cream tea" usually a deal where you get a pot of tea and some scones with cream and jam
Dinners/lunches:
- Go for a curry. Any kind. Popular ones are tikka masala, jalfrezi, korma(sweet and mild), dhansak, balti, bhuna, rogan josh, vindaloo(hot)
- Fish and chips, with plenty of vinegar!
- Haggis with neeps and tatties, or tattie scones (potato scones/bread, NOT like cornish scones fyi) if you can find them, hard to find in the south though.
- Any kind of meat pie. Cottage/shepherds, beef&ale, chicken&veg, pork&cider, its all good.
- Go to a pub thats doing a carvery, you often have a choice of roast dinner or a meat pie or sausages or something. Often comes with yorkshire pudding.
- Just go for a burger, it's contemporary but brits love burgers and most pubs do their own specials with obnoxiously tall burgers served on stupid wooden boards. It's THE EXPERIENCE.
Desserts:
- Sticky toffee pudding or banoffee pie
- Eton mess or knickerbocker glory
Bakery:
- Get some kinda meat pastry slice or cornish pasty
- Bakewell, jam or treacle tart.
- Scottish shortbread
Grocery store:
- Get some crazy crisp flavours!
- Try some classic biscuit brands like custard creams or jaffa cakes, or get a selection box.
- Crumpets with honey or marmelade or marmite, whatever
- Cadbury's chocolate!
- Oldfashioned sweets like sherbet lemons, wine gums, licorice allsorts, humbug mints, whatever you like.
- Block of cheddar and some freshly baked bread. Especially if you're from outside of europe.
It's right in the name:
Sheperd's Pie is called that because it has lamb in, Cottage pie is the same thing but with any other meat. If someone serves you a Sheperd's Pie with beef instead, they're actually serving you Cottage Pie (and probably trying to take you for some money if it's a restaurant, since lamb is typically more expensive than beef). Beyond the meat, the specifics don't matter as much (re: mash vs. sliced potato, specific vegetables, etc.), the name comes from the meat.
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It was created in UK by some Scottish geezer at an Indian restaurant requesting a sauce on his chicken and telling the chef to use a soup with spices. It's argued if it was the customer or chef who created it, but it was created in the UK none the less.
British food is on the crap tier of foods by country. The only countries that have worse overall cuisine are the nordic countries, russia outside piroshki.
Nah, I go from Mary Berry's Complete Cookery book, she does mash for both and if I trust anyone on the subject of British food, it's Mary Berry.
Mostly agree with the list except Black Pudding should be higher. Also Fish and Chips is very dependent on the area. In London they were always frozen rubbery shite. Up in Yorkshire, especially on the coast they were God tier. Whitby has the best I've ever had. South coast was good for different variety's, West coast wasn't too bad, just not as fresh as the NE coast. Never tried coastal Scottish Fish n Chips but I imagine they're good. Beef Wellington is amazing but I guess not commonly eaten hence why it's so low.
Mostly agree with the savoury one, except switch the places of black pudding and crumpets around.
Couldn't give a shit about the sweet one.
Couldn't give a shit about the sweet one.
Beef wellington should be god-tier, but id be surprised if many people had tried it if they did a survey. Wellington is expensive to make and takes a while to cook, so restaurants don't usually serve it and people don't generally make it.
Bangers and mash are way overrated. Sausages and mash are great as sides but just those two together? Nah.
As a non-British person, I'm surprised to see Beef Wellington so low. It's a delicacy here in the Americas.
Nonsense. You'll eat your Staffordshire Blobbies and you'll love them.
It is here as well
I don't know why it's so low. Pain in the arse to make I suppose.
Haddock and Cod. I had Salmon fish and chips once, and it was terrible.
I had a steak and ale pie that was so good I got another one the next day.
Surprised bread pudding wasn't higher. I haven't had it at too many places but all the ones I have tried were amazing.