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The very best classic British foods ranked (sweet & savoury)
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I mean, all that looks pretty plain, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd get my mother fucking grub on if presented with all that food.
That's a hot-take and a half. Try a proper tikka masala, no way "most sausages" have more flavour.
What about beans on toast? Basically an easy to do and functional "meal". Nothing else. Uninspired.
Chip butties? Not great in principle, but if you find a good place... It may change your opinion of that carb and fat fueled dish.
Definitely higher tier: Homemade pies at the Notty House in Broomhill, Sheffield. Amazing with chips and all that gravy.
Chip butties? Not great in principle, but if you find a good place... It may change your opinion of that carb and fat fueled dish.
Definitely higher tier: Homemade pies at the Notty House in Broomhill, Sheffield. Amazing with chips and all that gravy.
Battenburg and Hagis deserved better. Black pudding is grim and it should immediately be removed from all breakfasts.
I've lived to see Brexit, Trump, and 10 years of Tory rule but black pudding being in Crap Tier is a vote that has managed to deeply shock me.
It's not god-tier (and it's rarely made with toast) but it's a damn good breakfast when you want something filling but not too time-consuming. That we have decent bacon and bread here tends to help a lot; doubt I'd want a bacon buttie with the streaky bacon and sugar-bread that seems to be common in America.
It's not god-tier (and it's rarely made with toast) but it's a damn good breakfast when you want something filling but not too time-consuming. That we have decent bacon and bread here tends to help a lot; doubt I'd want a bacon buttie with the streaky bacon and sugar-bread that seems to be common in America.
Me and the wife are visiting London later this year and aside from just looking and entering historical buildings, we plan on eating a shitload of food. Any suggestions aside from the ones listed in the OP? Preferably with locations.
At the bottom of the savory list, I see something called 'faggots'. Is this where the slur for gay people came from? I also know that 'fags' is (or was) used as slang for cigarettes, but not sure if that's where the slur came from.
They shouldn't have included kidney in there, how often do you honestly even see that any more? And pork pie is filth, deserves to be bottom tier
Short answer is no- the slur contains common linguistic roots with the food and cigarettes, but one doesn't come from the other.
Just did a cursory look at Wikipedia and it seems that the food-stuff has nothing to do with the etymology of the slur. Makes sense seeing as it's very much American-made.
My mum once made Steak and Kidney pie and I honestly thought that the kidney pieces were just horribly over-done mushrooms (I was quite young at the time) so I put them to the side. The family looked at me as if I were a complete idiot when I said "great meal but shame about the mushrooms!" afterwards.
not a bad ranking. I'd put bakewell tart up a level but its high already. And not a massive fan of victoria sponge so they can swap over.
Savoury is spot-on. Although I love black pudding I can understand people perhaps not liking it as much - you know, with it being boiled blood with fat chunks
Savoury is spot-on. Although I love black pudding I can understand people perhaps not liking it as much - you know, with it being boiled blood with fat chunks
What's "edible" to you? Are you one of those people who need ten gallons of hot sauce before they can even consider eating something, or someone who looks down on anything that "the dirty working class," might eat?
Though seeing as you think Bacon Butties aren't "remotely British" I don't think you have much expertise in the field.
Yorkshire Puddings are great (only when home-made; the frozen stuff is just mediocre) but they're not really a seperate 'food' so I'm not sure why exactly they're on the list. I've never had them separately nor have I ever seen them advertised separately.
Dirty working class? Maybe rethink that approach, I'm my disabled wifes carer so they're a class above me. And yeah I'm struggling to see how pig meat in bread is something we can claim as ours.
The food, other than Eton mess, suffers from basically the same issue. Here's a sponge or pastry with an ingredient, usually a meat. Now it's a meal enjoy. I'll take anything Italian, French, Moroccan, Mexican ect over our shit since it's the blandest lack of flavour.
Okay, that weirded me out a little, because I work not too far away from there. I'm not usually a pie guy, but are they that good?
Also, liver and onions is actually pretty tasty, but for the love of God, don't let anyone prepare them and bake a chocolate cake at the same time. It's one of the most disgusting smells from my childhood, and I grew up in a town with a paper mill.
Faggots and black pudding in the crap tier makes this list null and void.
But I can't argue that our food looks disgusting and I hate most of whats shown in the savoury section(Including 3 of the God Tier)
You have to remember most of this is traditional food, half of our shit comes from the 1800s.
But I can't argue that our food looks disgusting and I hate most of whats shown in the savoury section(Including 3 of the God Tier)
You have to remember most of this is traditional food, half of our shit comes from the 1800s.
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Don't think I can finish a full British breakfast but I want to try anyway.
Are they yay or nay?
Are they yay or nay?
That was just one of two "approaches," and was primarily meant as a joke. You're in a horrible situation, I won't deny that, but I don't really appreciate you using it to try and guilt-trip me over such a petty topic, especially since you knew I wouldn't have known that.
But, anyway, if you're going to be so needlessly reductionist about everything then of course it's shit. There's so much more to 'good' British cooking than you let on; it's much more than just putting some meat in the oven and boiling some vegetables.
"Here's a hard shell with some meat and veg in it. Enjoy!"
"Here's a piece of dough with some tomato and cheese on top. Enjoy!"
"Here's some cous-cous with a bit of lamb and yoghurt. Enjoy!"
British food offers a culinary experience that you simply can't get from elsewhere. It's not something I'd eat 100% of the time but to call it "shit," and write it off completely just makes you seem really picky.
100% yay
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The Tandoori chicken it was based on obviously already existed but the sauce was a Bitish creation
exactly, a good black black pudding is god tier, same goes with proper made haggis.
My Granny would be spinning in her grave if her Homemade Christmas pudding was marked that low.
I didn't mean it to be as a guilt trip tbh, I'm probably still a bit on edge from the Brexit situation worsening and the news about the medical shortages etc. But it wasnt meant to come out as harshly, more a light sarcasm but I missed that mark.
Though in all honesty British food has never really interested me, especially when it comes to making it. The flavours might just be subtle, but that's always resulted in a bland taste compared to other cuisine from our European neighbours. To be honest I've always suspected we generally have a lower standard in food off the back off WW2. Like many of our parents used to eat the left over cooking fat out of a pan in sandwiches and stuff like milk sop because it was one of few options.
No harm done :)
As for the rest, that's probably correct, but there's so much more you can do with British food nowadays that I think writing it off as 'shit' is a bit misguided. I've been incredibly privileged to have grown up with an amazing cook for a Mum and I must admit that, whenever I have tried other people's cooking, it does end up coming off as really bland. Stuff like making a roast dinner with frozen Yorkshires, barely-seasoned meat, and gravy that comes straight out of the packet, or doing Sausage & Mash with basics sausages and crappy un-buttered Mash. Of course it doesn't help that most 'British food' restaurants are crap-tier 'gastro-pub' chains or cafes that don't know how to cook a slice of bacon properly. Similarly I've had food from many other countries that haven't exactly had much flavour, and none of the breakfasts I've tried in the European countries I've been to could ever compete with a full english or bacon buttie to me, so there's good and bad everywhere.
British food isn't something I'd have every day but it fills a 'heart-warming and filling' niche that simply no other cuisines can fill for me. It's the very definition of comfort food imo. American food is perhaps the most similar but even then that's always a bit 'too' much in terms of sweetness.
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No. If memory serves it relates to the original definition which was basically another word for kindling and then somehow derived from that to a word that was used when referring to heretics. Presumable because they often ended up on the wrong end of a bonfire!
No, it comes from the 60's/70's in the UK when British people didn't like the idea of something like a 'normal' chicken tikka and wanted something with a sauce.
Okay.
It looks and tastes like butter chicken to me though. I thought it was just another name.
All the best Scottish foods being low tier is bullshit. Scottish Breakfast >>> English breakfast every day of the week.