American Couple Reacts: Iconic British Foods You MUST Try Before You Die! FIRST TIME REACTION! 

All countries are known for certain foods. So what foods is the United Kingdom known for? Hint, NOT just Fish & Chips, although we love them. There's a a lot of different British foods and we're curious if this list has your favorite on it. We recently tried one on this list and fell in love! Can you guess which? From Toad in the Hole to Bangers and Mash, a full English breakfast and so much more! There are some foods on here that did give us nightmares and left us perplexed. Run & make a Chip Butty and grab a cuppa, let's see these Iconic British Foods! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

Cottage pie is made with beef shepherds pie is made with lamb. 🙂

Jam Roly Poly is NOT a Swiss Roll. Swiss Roll is a thin, rolled, jam-filled cake, served cold. Jam Roly Poly is a Suet Pudding rolled in a similar way. It tastes entirely different and is served hot with custard.

@The Natasha & Debbie Show Please note we do NOT eat jellied eel’s or Star gazing pie apart from a very small minority mostly found around the extreme old school fishing boat crews. We do eat pretty much everything else, some to a greater degree than others.

Kippers are not pickled. The herring is split and cleaned before having salt rubbed into the flesh. It is then cold smoked. They're lovely. 😊❤😊

I would say that 90% of the UK population have never tried either jellied eels or stargazey pie! They often appear on these type of lists, mainly for the shock factor

In Britain we often cook with herbs, but never with "urbs" 😂.

As several people have pointed out. Swiss roll and Jam Roly Poly are totally different. Swiss roll is a sponge cake and Roly Poly has a Suet pastry base with jam and served with fresh custard . Yum .

I grew up right near where Stargazy Pie originated. You will only find it in a small fishing village called Mousehole, the other side of Penzance. Tradition has it the boats could find no fish for a long time and the town was starving with nothing to eat or sell. In desperation the men put to sea just before Xmas and miraculously caught different types of fish. A Thanksgiving pie was made for Xmas with the heads of the fish pointing heavenwards in thanks to God. This tradition is maintained every Dec 23 in the pub in Mousehole and only there.

We in Australia also always spread butter on our bread for sandwiches...no matter what spread or filling.

Not putting butter on your chip or bacon butty would mean missing out on the best part. The butter melting into the bread combined with the tomato sauce just makes it so good. Americans not putting butter on their sandwiches is just weird, butter stops the bread being dry and goes with everything.

Butter has a defined purpose in a Sandwich, it should be spread evenly COMPLETELY covering the bread right up to the edges. It is there stop water from the filling making the bread soggy. :)

Sandwiches without butter, WHAT? The butter protects the bread from moisture in the sandwich ingredients. It also helps hold everything together, and tastes great. When you make 'gravy and biscuits' do you butter the biscuits because a light spread of butter enhances gravy so well. Do you butter toast before the spread?

Hi Ladies, here in Australia we also butter our bread when making a sandwich and a Shepherds pie is made with lamb mince,( hence the word Shepherd) where a cottage pie is usually made with beef mince! Scones with jam and cream served with tea is called a "Devonshire tea"!

Knickerbocker glory has been around for decades and to my knowledge has NEVER been sold from an ice cream van. They are made up in a tall glass and consist of fresh or tinned mixed fruit layered with ice cream, fruit syrup, more fruit, fresh cream, more sauce, more ice cream and topped with cream and a cherry. The height of its popularity was in the 60s and 70, but was also very population in the 50s after rationing finished and was seen as a treat of decadent excess after years of wartime austerity.

Don’t put butter on bread? Nooo! My goodness? And a chip butty has to have proper butter and loads of it along with salt and vinegar 😉 enjoy girls😊

If you haven't tried it, another big favourite among the traditional desserts is sticky toffee pudding (don't be put off by dates being an ingredient if you don't like them, I avoided it for years for that reason but in a good sticky toffee pudding, you don't taste them, they make it what they are, but the toffee taste drowns them out/they contribute to it.)

One of the things missed ---- Sticky Toffee Pudding served with cream or ice cream , a must try.

No sausage rolls, Lancashire hot pots, crumpets, bubble and squeak, bread pudding or sticky toffee pudding ?? 🤨 I have never heard of stargazy pie it must be some old 1700's recipe ? and i don't think anyone outside of the East End of London has jellied eels 😉

Natasha and Debbie, just want to say how much I've enjoyed your videos. Especially the love and respect you've shown our late Queen.

crisp butty is decent too !! but chip butty is BANGING especially with salt and vinegar on the chips before putting it on the sarnie 😋😋

I'm from Birmingham England and my uncle who lives in Australia loves jellied eel. So the last time I went over to visit him I decided to take some over. I went to the fish market to purchase the jellied eels and bought 3 large tubs, they packed the tubs in a polystyrene box which they packed full of crushed ice and sealed the container. 27 hours later I arrived in Sydney met by my aunt and uncle. I gave him the box of eels which still contained half the ice. He devoured the 3 tubs in minutes, I've never seen anyone so happy. He hadn't had any for 42 years since he left for Australia

No, most people in Britain or even England have never eaten Jellied Eels, they were basically only popular in the Eastend of London. Now eels are very rare and few shops sell them..

Hiya! My name is Dianne Greenshields and I'm from Glasgow, Scotland. Your unwillingness to TRY a traditionally prepared SCOTTISH Haggis dish is completely normal and understandable...considering what it is made from. BUT, if you go and look for these type of videos on You Tube, you wont find many people who have tasted it and disliked it. In fact, the majority of tasters have loved it! I wont lie, I DO love the dish because of all of the wonderful spices and flavours (YES...including the amazing taste of the main ingredients), but I also need to occasionally get out of my OWN head before eating it. That's a "ME problem" due to an almost debilitating, lifelong (44years!) affliction of "Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)" which for me, has always been more about the textures of different foods making me gag (Cooked vegetables that had ANY crunch, gristle in mince, bits of fat left on my meat, etc...) I've managed to get to a point where taste is more important and have LEARNED to love the taste, rather than texture of food. Because of that, I've expanded my palate and opened myself up to all kinds of wonderful new flavours!. But please, give this a chance...it's a taste sensation. I LOVE your wee channel. HOWEVER, my only grievance would be...and it's a pet hate...for (NATASHA MOSTLY LOL...sorry) to STOP TALKING during your reaction videos!! You speak throughout the videos which makes the videos that you're reacting to, very hard to hear! I understand that they're "Reaction videos" but if you could please find a way for your fantastic sense of humour and your funny reactions to not interfere with the information that you're trying to share with us...that would be great! I know this is only ONE of your followers opinions and I understand that in the grand scheme of things, I don't count for much...but I thought that I'd comment. I'm NOT a hater...so PLEASE don't think this is malicious!! Love from Dee (My nickname). Also, a traditional Chip Butty from a Chippy, IS NOT slices of bread with chips! THAT is the homemade version (which is also tasty). If you come to a Chippy in the UK, you get a Roll (Bap, Bun or whatever people wanna call it) and chips. When I watch videos of people tasting this for the first time, I wanna scream " NOT BREAD!" Lol. Rolls are slightly denser and IMO...so much tastier!! The best way to taste this for the first time is..."Buttered roll (NOT the McDonalds, kinda sickly, sweet Baps, but a freshly baked Roll...from a Bakery), a stack of "fluffy in the middle but crispy on the outside" chunky chips, add a good amount of salt and vinegar (Some people also like some ground black pepper on top...which I DO like sometimes, not all the time), HP Brown Sauce (Again, some people prefer Heinz Tomato Ketchup...which I also love but prefer HP Brown Sauce on my Chip Buttys), and enjoy! I'm sorry that I've only gotten around to watching your video but I just want to say "Happy Belated Anniversary!!" You make a great couple, which shines through your videos. Here's to another 20 years together..."CHEERS" Sorry for the biography lol.

you need to try savoury scones. I prefer them to sweet ones (unless it’s got clotted cream and fresh jam with fresh fruit). Cheese scones are amazing. Scones with cheese baked in them are fantastic. Especially when they’re fresh out of the oven and warm.

Jam roly poly isn't baked, it's steamed and it's always made with suet (or vegetarian equivalent). The thing on the plate in the video IS a Swiss Roll, that's why it looks like one!

I'm 48 and British born and bred and I've never heard of Stargazy Pie in my life!! Neither have I ever eaten eel, and I never would! 😂

Cockles and Lava-bread fried is absolute heaven.

No no no no no no! Cottage pie is not also known as Shepherds pie. Cottage pie is made with minced beef and usually has cheese in with the mash while Shepherds pie is made from Lamb. Cockells are a kind of seafood off the coast of Wales. Black pudding is real nice and filling mainlyfrom the midlands where im from, you can also have bubble and squeak which is cabbage potatoes and onions fried. ❤

sorry anyone who says "erbs" should be jailed for life and no parole

For any UK sandwich you need real butter and non sweet bread, hot chips on melted butter in a sandwich is very good, as is a bacon sandwich, i usually have them with hp sauce. Never heard of a Stargazy pie before, can't say it looked very appealing, but each to their own. Never had eels either, my grandfather when he was alive lived near London and used to eat them occasionally, so more of an older generation thing i believe. I love a roast and toad in the hole with mash potato and onion gravy. Some missing from the list are: Treacle tart, apple pie or crumble, banoffee pie, sticky toffee pud, millionaires shortbread, bread and butter pudding, Bakewell tart, lemon drizzle cake, Christmas pud, hot cross buns, sausage rolls, mince and dumplings, crumpets, hotpots, steak & ale pie, pie mash & liquor, bubble & squeak, & coronation chicken. Happy Anniversary!

The original cornish pastie was split into two halves..One half was the savoury part and the other the desert..Traditionally, pasties were made with different fillings at each end. One end containing meat and vegetables, and one end with a sweet filling. The sweet end would be marked with an initial so the miners knew what side to eat first.

I'm a fairly new subscriber and I just find your content so wholesome and charming. Here's to another 20 years for you :)

Im British 62 years old ive never seen anyone eating Star Gazey pie .or even seen on a Menu.

I live in Yorkshire and it's quite popular to have curry sauce with fish and chips, it's delicious. Btw jellied eel is more a London delicacy, I personally wouldn't touch them with a barge pole 😂

Chip butties are SO GOOD, especially with chip-shop chips, rather than oven chips. So good. Omnomnomnom. Stargazy pie is a Cornish fisherman's dish. You don't have to eat the heads, they are just decoration! The pie itself is absolutely delicious, honestly. I'm with you on the jellied eels though, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.

I’m born & bred in East London & YES people really do eat jellied eels. Usually covered in vinegar and black pepper. And have done for hundreds of years. Although I don’t like them myself, it is dying out very quickly. Bear in mind people in olden times ate many things that were cheap & easily available due to not having any money! We are spoilt nowadays. People also used to save the fat they cooked their roast dinners in, allow it to go cold and spread it on bread and eat it 😫

One of my Favourites is Liver and onions with Mash potato. Probably an older dishes now so might be dying out like me .

In Denmark we also use butter on our bread almost every time, rye, sandwich, buns, smørrebrød etc. 5 on the bacon btw even though i don't eat pork, but enjoy a good turkey bacon (less fatty too). You gotta try beef wellington, that is sooooo good. I need to try that Battenberg cake, looks so delicious.. Love kippers, herring & smoked eel, not sure about that jelly eel though, but willing to give it a go, same for the stargazy pie... Thx for making me hungry ))

Congrats on your anniversary ladies! 🎉💐💐🎉🥂🥂 Cockles are small cooked shellfish that are usually served with salt, pepper & vinegar. You can get them from supermarkets in jars or from stalls selling seafood at the seaside, but I've never seen them in a full English & I've had breakfasts all over the British isles. Pork pies are really good with Branston pickle, yum. Stargazy pie is from the SW of England, I lived there for four years & never saw it on any restaurant menu, would I eat it? Not a chance! I'm from Yorkshire & we have Yorkshire puds with all roasts meats, we also have them with meat or vegetarian stew. Most Brits wouldn't touch jellied eels with a barge pole. Not that many eat black pudding either 🌸

As for Minced Pies. Sainsbury and Tesco sell millions every year, still! As for, 'Ploughman's Lunch' they were an invention as a snack lunch to sell in pubs, promoted by the Cheese Marketing Board in the 1960s!

Whaaat? "Scouse" is a reference to the traditional, Norwegian, hearty stew we call lapskaus!? I thought our influence on the English language petered out with the Viking age, but apparently not completely. I LOVE learning random trivia like this! I fell in love with all things British at the ripe old age of 10, after my very first English lesson, and I just never fell out of love again. I had already discovered the Beatles years ago then There's a tape of me at five-six years old, singing full throat: "We oh lee vinna a yella summary, yella summary, yella summary..." 🤦😂

Kedgeree is missing from this list. It’s something I ate as a child and it’s delicious. Smoked fish and rice, it’s a good breakfast meal.

When I was a kid in the fifties,any leftover Yorkshire pudding was spread with jam and had for supper with a cup of coco, Also we always and still do have salt and vinegar on fish and chips

In my 48 years of being alive in the uk, I’ve never eaten stargazey pie, or jellied eels 🤣🤣 I’m going to Southport for New Year’s Eve and my friend is going to make me some scouse, very excited about it ❤

Not sure why a couple of the foods was on this list and described as 'iconic' when they don't seem very popular but more of a dying out regional dish! like the jellied eels is an old London thing or stargazy pie from Cornwall, never had either of them and never will lol. They should have replaced them with the sausage roll or crumpets and the sticky toffee pudding which are much more popular and definitely more iconic imo, i'm surprised they didn't make the list. Yes i have yorkshire puddings with every roast dinner it doesn't matter what meat i have with it.

My husband and I met in 1986, we got married in 1990s married 34 years and been together for 38 years , 2 boys later, eldest 33yrs and youngest 31yrs.... . .Congratulations chick's......love each other🫶🫶🫶🥰🥰🥰🥰

If you make scouse used lamb neck or mutton. It gives it so much more flavour. I also put white cabbage and serve it with pickled beetroot. Just like my nan taught me. ❤

I was borne in Liverpool and can reiterate, scouse is a very flavoursome meal, it might not look pretty, but tastes fantastic, its similar to an Irish stew. Blind scouse has no meat, just vegetables.

I love Victoria Sponge, yes it’s not common in restaurants but is an absolute staple in tea rooms and often forms part of afternoon tea.

For the Victoria sponge, I recommend the Mary Berry recipe! You can find it online. Also, it's the same amount of each ingredient (apart from the banking powder), so if you want to make it very precisely, you can weight the eggs and then add the other ingredients by weighing each to the same amount as the eggs. I also personally think using butter (instead of margarine) to bake a Victoria sponge makes a much bigger difference than using butter for other baking, although it's still lovely with marg. As a child these are the most boring cakes (no icing/frosting) but as an adult these are one of my favourites! I make it with raspberry jam but no cream mostly, and it's nice both ways.

Jellied eels are totally wonderful! My wife and I are both cockneys, we grew up on jellied eels and since we moved away from London we rarely get them. We ordered a full bowl, 16 servings! delivered. For our special birthdays, I was 70, My wife 65. We sat and ate the lot over three days. Pease, don't mock, they are truly delicious!

Best way to have a roast dinner is to make each person a Yorkshire Pudding the size of a dinner plate ( I use 7 inch cake tins) and serve the rest of the meal inside the pudding and smothered in lashings of gravy made from the meat juices.

Of course fish have hands; where do you think fish fingers come from....🤭

Congratulations on 20 years that's a long time 🎉🥳🎊 brilliant video I'm British so I would be biased in saying I love British food especially a tradional roast dinner cant go wrong with fish and chips either 😂

shepheards pie is made with ground LAMB, cottage pie is beef ,Ladees

Banoffee pie is really tasty dessert (pudding). Get cooking Debbie!

Having seen US reaction on other channels, the issue with the US tries at butties, seems to be the difference in the US bread and US butter before you even get to streaky v back bacon…. So unless you get the foundations right it’s not gonna work😢

years ago yorkshire pudding was only served with roast beef but because yorkshire puddings are so nice now we have them with a roast dinner regardless of which meats .. star gazing pie is not popular in the uk many brits would not eat it it was more of a tudor or victorian dish

Regarding scones, the pronunciation is a constant argument all over England. However, what is not an argument is whether one has jam or cream first. The latter depends on style. Jam first is the Cornish way and cream first is the Devon way. Note that I prefer jam first, not only because I live in Cornwall (the most beautiful county in England) but also because jam spreads much easier than clotted cream, so it's easier to cover the scone, while the cream can be a simple dollop on top.

Never buy cheap pork pies, always go for quality, and although it’s almost always eaten cold or room temperature, it’s wonderful warmed up!

Omg I LOVE you guys! Discovered you today so I have a ton of content to binge ..... Yay! You're hilarious. Sad I missed your anniversary live on the 19th, I will watch the recording though! English bird here, love these reaction vids. We aren't as weird as you think! I hope...! 😅 Here's to the next 20 years girls! Cheers! 🥂

Always have yorkshire puds with a roast regardless of what meat is served. I also make giant plate sized yorkshire puddings and serve filled with stew and dumplings.

As others have said, Shepherds Pie is made with lamb but that’s not the only difference, it’s topped with mashed potato to emulate the fluffy sheep fleece, whereas Cottage Pie (beef) is traditionally topped with sliced potatoes to emulate the roof tiles of a cottage.

Cottage Pie is made with beef - originally the beef left over from the Sunday Roast was minced and turned into Cottage Pie on the Monday. Shepherds Pie is similar, but made with Lamb (hence the name Shepherds Pie).

I am born and bred in Hertfordshire, a county just north of London. We never had Black pudding - it's a northern thing, or Stargazy Pie - it's a Cornish thing and never had Jellied Eels - it's a East London thing, or Scouse - it's a Liverpool thing. I am 73 and my Mum used to make Shepherd's pie with Lamb mince and Cottage pie with Beef mince. The video missed out Spotted Dick a popular dish at school. Scone rhymes with stone, bone and cone.

A Cockle is a small molusc, similar to a clam - and I think it's mostly the older generation that eats jellied eels, my nan was the only person that I knew who ate them. Most of us shrug our shoulders and shiver a little when we hear the phrase jellied eels - it's an acquired taste. Apparently you say scone as in 'gone' not scone as in 'cone' - elecution specialists have said that you are meant to say it like sgon, i've seen it on several programmes here - we like to grumble about this, as well as cream or jam first on a scone.

Jellied eels were very popular in east London years (decades!) ago, but not any more. You'll probably find pie and mash shops there that still do them, but nobody under 50 would look twice at them.

Shepard’s pie and cottage pie are often used interchangeably but technically Shepard’s pie has lamb mince and cottage pie has beef mince.

With the Bacon, I agree with Natasha how Bacon should be cooked. My mum on the other hand would rather have burnt Bacon which I seriously don’t understand. Great Video as always keep up the phenomenal work.

Cheese scones are delicious, too. Home-made are always better than . I'm from Liverpool, and during autumn and winter, I make scouse once a week.

I have never heard of Stargazy Pie, and I wouldnt want to eat it either. Congrats to you both for 20 years together yay

Hated mince pirs as a kid. . .absolutely love them now and yes you can have yorkshire pudding with any meat. In some pubs you may just have to request it but usually it will come with it anyway

The Cornish pasty was created for the tin miners of Cornwall. The thick outer crust on the curve was not meant to be eaten (because the miners would be dirty, so it was just to hold it, and then thrown away). It also consisted of meat and vegetables on one half, and fruit or something sweet on the other, to give the miners a 'two course meal' of main and dessert.

Hi, I'm British and have been watching your channel for some time, have decided to subscribe, absolutely love your content. Please keep doing what your doing.

When my sister and I were children my father used to drive to a local pub and outside in the car park was a cockle shed. In fact it sold all types of shell fish but also jellied eels. My mother would always have whelks ( like see snails) and she would also have Jellied Eels too. My sister and I would have cockles with vinegar and white pepper and we would also have prawns washed down for us with a bottle of Coca Cola. To this day I still eat cockles and prawns. Every week up until my mum passed away mum had Jellied Eels twice a week she absolutely adored them. I would have to go to so many places to buy them for her. She died a month before her 91st birthday. I refused to try them as the jelly put me off. My father used to makes his own Jellied Eels. He would go out and catch the Eels and when I got up in the morning and went to the bathroom there were always loads of Eels swimming in our bath tub. I won’t explain how he cooked them but apparently very healthy for you. Rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, Vitamin B12, Vitamin A. Also the jelly is an excellent source of joint and skin friendly Collagen. However I would not eat them. This was the early 1950s where rationing was still around so Jellied Eels were a great way of improving people’s health. Still very popular in the East End of London. Star gazer pie would be a no for me too. All the puddings I could do without . However I do like a good baked Victoria Sandwich. I have tried over 40 years of making my own all different recipes even in different ovens but I have Never been able to make one, which make feel pretty useless. Anyway ladies great video once again.

I’m welsh and I’ve never heard of lavabread or cockles on a breakfast 🫣😂 and the Scottish breakfast you’re more likely to find a Lorne sausage (flat sausage meat patty) and a tattie scone (potato pancake) on your breakfast than haggis and oatcakes!!!

imo Yorkshire puddings can go with almost any dish not just roasts. 😋 Victoria sponge is well worth making but then I’d say that about most cakes. 😆 I’m really surprised Spotted Dick wasn’t on the video tbh. Iconic, simple, tasty and yes, a humorous name. 👍

You're so right about the mushy peas, heaven! Northern towns do it best. Fully agree about the Yorkshire pudding too. Have it with whatever you want.

Cottage pie is made with beef; shepherd's pie is made with lamb

Also there is a huge difference between English butter and American butter.

Cockles are a mollusc, like mini oysters. Cottage pie = beef. Shepards pie = lamb. Also, Indian, (Hong Kong) Chinese and (bad) Italian food has been added to the staple British diet. Jellied eels are not widely eaten, its one of those gross out foods one restaurant in London sells for the novelty. "Stargazer pie" is something I've never seen, though regular fish pie is pretty common.

I have vague recollections of being told at school that a cornish pasty was large with savoury one side desert the other, home made for the men out in the fields/mines with a thick crust that was for the purpose of holding it without contaminating the pasty, once eaten crust was discarded.

Stargazey pie isn't really a commonly eaten dish here in the UK, I think they originated in Cornwall and may still be eaten there but up here in Yorkshire i've only ever seen them on television or on videos like the one you just watched.

As soon as you mentioned bacon sandwich I started drooling

Another lovely, heartwarming, uplifting, and amusing video. I love the jaw drop moments 🤣🥰

Hi, cottage pie is made with beef mince and shepherds pie is made with lamb mince. Jam roly poly with custard is life

The making of Victoria sponge cake is taught in schools, most boys and girls age 13 plus know how to make it. Jellied ells is southern. The Northerns prefer fish😊

Again as you said store bought scones tend to be dry due to them being mass produced and loaded with preservatives in order for them to remain on the shelves for much longer, resulting in more staler scones, the best ones have to be either same day made at the very least or made the following day, but the best ones are when they’re fresh, light and fluffy, all the while sitting back in your chair, under te warm sun without a cloud in the sky, drinking a nice cup of camomile tea

you two are nice people. congratulations on your anniversary! here's to another 20 years!!

I am from Yorkshire. My Gran used to make a large Yorkshire pudding in a square tin, rather than individual portions, then cut it up to be served with the Sunday roast. Any left over ,she would cover in jam or golden syrup and serve with cream. It is after all just a pancake mix.

Natasha, next time you get fish and chips, make sure you have some bread and butter to make a chip butty, or see if the chip shop has a buttered bap/barm/teacake! Try it without mayo first, as the butter should start to melt from the heat of the chips but if you really need it, add the mayo after.

We always have a buffet/ploughman's on nye in my house with different cheeses, chutney, onions, thick cut ham, scotch eggs, caramelised onion pork pies, mini sausage rolls, breadsticks and dips. On another note what the .. is a stargazy pie? 😆 something from a horror movie! never seen it. Hope you have a lovely anniversary.

You can definitely make cottage/ shepherds pie with minced turkey if you’d prefer. The difference between shepherds and cottage is shepherds uses minced lamb and cottage is beef generally speaking. It’s also one of those that everyone has their own recipe for it. My mum taught me how to make it using any minced meat and oxo cubes along with gravy granules to thicken it up. Perfect winter food or something to make in a big batch and freeze into individual portions. Same with lasagna.

Cockles are small shellfish that bury themselves in sand, when the sand is wet, they come up and people pick them.

Regarding the pronunciation of scone, my dad used to quote me this rhyme when I pronounced it like “gone”. I asked the maid, in dulcet tone To order me a buttered scone. The silly girl has been and gone And ordered me a buttered scone!

7:18 Cockles are like small clams, and they're delicious. Laverbread (which tastes much better than it looks) is made of chopped, boiled seaweed. You can just warm it up in a microwave, but It's traditionally fried in the residue left in the pan after you've cooked the bacon. Fried cockles, bacon and laverbread is a combination made in Heaven :) 21:59 The "Ploughman's Lunch" was invented as a gimmick in the 1950s, to encourage people to eat more dairy products after wartime rationing officially ended.

Hi guys. Another great vlog. Most people, including me, will have not eaten jellied eels, and I have never even heard of stargazer pie. Jellied eels and mash was a traditional Cockney food eaten, I am guessing in 1920's to 1950's, although you can still probably get it today in London, if you know where it is sold.

True shepherd's pie is lamb mince with veg and mash (like a fleece) on top, cottage pie is beef and veg with sliced potato (like cottage roof slates) on top, both are usually topped with grated (shredded) cheese a few minutes before they are taken out of the oven... You could use any minced (ground) meat you wanted, with either potato topping xx

Stargazy Pie traditionally originates from the village of Mousehole in Cornwall and is traditionally eaten during the festival of Tom Bawcock's Eve to celebrate his heroic catch during a very stormy winter. According to the modern festival, which is combined with the Mousehole village illuminations, the entire catch was baked into a huge stargazy pie, encompassing seven types of fish and saving the village from starvation. The story of Bawcock was popularised by Antonia Barber's children's book The Mousehole Cat, which featured the stargazy pie.