A comment on this earlier AskLemmy post inspired me to ask this question. I think there’s lots of delicious British food/it really depends on how you cook it, as with any cuisine.
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Vindaloo.
Classic. Also a fun one to say to troll people who don’t know much about british food.
Phall. If you know, you know.
When I lived in the states for a while, I’d often crave a curry. Me and another Brit would head out to an Indian restaurant and usually order a Vindaloo. The waiter would say “Are you sure, it is quite spicy hot.” And we’d tell him we were British and he’d say “Oh, I understand.” and give us what we’d asked for without further comment.
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.
I watched a YouTube food historian Max Miller talk about shepherds pie and he mentioned that there is t really much of a correlation between what meat you use and whether it is “Shepard” or “Cottage” pie.
Shepherd’s pie is lamb, Cottage pie is beef.
I mean, my point is that it isn’t how it has always been historically, but whatever you want to do is fine.
Also, everyone (including me in my other post) is going savoury — how about sweet? Aero bar, in mint. Perfection. Bark candy mostly only comes in chocolate, or dark chocolate. Sometimes vanilla (white chocolate, which is not chocolate, it’s vanilla and vanilla should own it because “white chocolate” is awesome, though it should really be called “Vanilla candy bark,” but “bark candy” is really only known as… chocolate… hence “white chocolate”). Fun fact, I’ve had all kinds of bark candy. When I was a kid, I got it in orange and raspberry as well. Now it’s only chocolate and… what I mentioned. Oh and mint chocolate, like Andes mints, but also those pastel-coloured mints that sometimes have the little white balls of hard sugar on them (I think those are just straight up mint bark though).
Again why TF don’t we have bark candy in other flavours?
WTF is ‘bark’ candy?
Spotted Dick
I’ve been to London twice … and the best food I’ve ever eaten the whole time there was fish and chippy from a street vendor by tower hill.
Only the Brits would colonize half the world looking for spices and then refuse to use them in their food.
Only the Brits would colonize half the world looking for spices and then refuse to use them in their food.
Oh, do fuck off. It’s such a tired cliché and wrong. Our traditional dishes predate conquering almost the entire fucking world. So, no, they don’t tend to feature spices other than pepper and nutmeg because that was all we had 500 years ago.
But now our national dish is chicken tikka masala. We love our BIR curries, like Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti. These were invented here, in the UK, for UK palates. So you can fuck off and shove whatever cuisine your country has up your fucking arse while you’re at it. Cunt.
I love spicy food, and once tried to order vindaloo at a family-run Indian place in Cornwall, but the owner convinced me to have Madras instead. Lucky thing, because the Madras was right at the perfect edge of my heat tolerance. I wouldn’t have been able to eat the vindaloo lol.
“We stole other countries foods and made them ours.”
Pop them in a museum and you’d complete the picture.
TIL: I should have explored more when I was over there … I just went to “pubs” and what I thought were British places … never thought of venturing on that side of the culinary spectrum.
Sounds like I need another trip soon LOL
If you’re going to go to the pubs for British food don’t do it in London. Don’t do it in a city at all, to be honest, all the really good ones are out in tiny villages or the middle of a moor.
A good balti.
Yep, already dreaming of my next one right now
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
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 from the EU, but I love making shepherd’s pie. It’s pretty easy and when done correctly, it is an absolutely fantastic dish.
OMG IT’S A SPINOFF POST I LOVE YOU TOO
Yeah because boring old me was going to comment “well I’ve only been abroad once, but…” 😅
We’re reviving AskLemmy with these spinoff posts 🔥
I’ve literally never traveled more than a few states away and I hated every second…
fr though traveling is sooooo stressful to me but people worldwide fascinate me. So different but so similar at the same time. Instructions unclear I now want strippers at my funeral.
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.
I used to do a star bar tempura as a dessert.
I’ll never forget passing my local chippy when I lived in Edinburgh and seeing they’d handwritten “almost” on the “WE WILL DEEP FRY ANYTHING” sign.
Behind every sign there’s a story.
What, did you think that was the one bit of Americana that didn’t cross an ocean?
Nah, thought Scots like themselves enough to not eat like that.
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.
Honestly fish and chips in terms of a meal.
As part of a meal, Yorkshire pudding is unlike anything I’ve had in America, and nothing like what it evokes in the typical American.
More like popovers almost.
I guess I’m an uncultured savage but yorkshire puddings. By a county mile.
With jam and whipped cream!
I love em, but I would specify what I have them with: Roast Parsnips, Roast Lamb, Roast potatoes and mint sauce and gravy, + Steamed Carrots and Kale. That’s a full meal. Splendid.
