Fish and real English Chips with malt vinegar and salt and ketchup. Cornish pie, and steak and kidney pie. A real English breakfast, without the blood pudding.
Yorkshire pudding, or popovers as we call them in the US. My whole family could eat them till they come out of our ears! 👂🏻 My father came from Yorkshire and he also liked kippers with his breakfast. We all passed on those!
Most people that make fun of British food have either never tried it or saw someone on RU-vid try beans on toast and thought that's the only thing British people eat.
Be aware that if you travel 50 miles in the UK, Bread rolls have changed name, travel 100 miles, sandwiches have another name as well. Shepards pie = lamb, Cottage Pie = beef
sounds delicious! can I have an order of each preferably on different weeks? I don't care about the vegetables too much, but a meat pie..... sorry, my appetite is welling.
@@nolanolivier6791 Do you want a scrap, mr Olivier ? Joking, r kid. Each region has their own interpretation on, not just what they're called, but also how they taste. As a tyke, we call'em teacakes....whooh, should add, a West Yorkshire tyke. Go 20 miles, one way or t'other, and they'll call 'em summat different. ..Nowt queerer than folk... I do'nt want to sound like you. long may it continue !!
@@just_passing_through it’s just what the voiceover says in the video 😂 In Britain, “most pubs” do not serve food. Yes, some pubs do and also do serve cottage/shepherds pie, but only some.
@@lucarobertson3294 Very true. But times have changed. Revenue from meals has become a major source of income for most pubs over the last couple of decades.
@@Aspartame69 my point was you’d use fresh beef fillet for a beef Wellington, not beef fillet that is the leftovers of a Sunday dinner as you would overcook it once you’ve put it in pastry to and cooked it again to turn it into beef Wellington.
@@hongkongfueynz3071 I'm not from the south west but I'd put the cream on first as it feels a bit more like butter which I put on first on a sandwich and then jam on top.
@@clocked2810no no no I sat at the table every monday for 5 hours sulking refusing to eat untill i got grandads egg sandwich. I miss somerfields and woolworths.
The classic Sunday Roast is by far my most favourite meal in the world (specifically roast beef) It doesn't require hardly any skill to make it although to master it, it will. It just needs time, patients and above all, love, lots of love 😁
I had the classic Sunday roast beef dinner during a long trip to the UK I took years ago. I ate at the Dog and Gun Pub in Keswick one rainy Sunday evening. It was glorious. A huge roaring fire greeted patrons as they walked in from a chilly rain. Long wooden tables were filled with regulars and visitors, so you wherever you could find a spot. Food was so fresh, tasty, hearty, and filling. Great atmosphere all around!
My family was stationed over in Britain and we lived in a town called Brampton. I can honestly say the best fish I've ever had to this day came from this guy who had a small stand that served fish & chips and it was wrapped in newspaper.
I remember the days of fish and chips wrapped in news paper, then we joined the EU who banned using news paper. Fish and chips have never tasted the same since 😞.
Joseph , this mash channel is just smug bullshit . Full English breakfast , I'd kill to try a Full on English Breakfast !! And this girl taking about it as it's just a friggin Egg McMuffin P.S. , I'm in El Paso Texas , and have looked all over within a hours drive just to have something close . What Mash's take on a proper English breakfast is disrespectful , and i believe never actually looked at the meal !!!
One of the best brekkies I've ever had was in a little hotel in Scotland, a pair of smoked Loch Fyne kippers. I opted for haggis on the side which came with an exquisite cracked pepper cream sauce. Heavenly.
Shepherd's pie isn't the same thing as a cottage pie although they are similar. The main difference is that a shepherd's pie is always made with lamb. The clue is in the name.
@Carl Bowles It might be delicious but if it's made with beef it's not Shepherds Pie, it's always Cottage pie regardless of where it's made & who makes it.
Bangers and mash, very nice, as long as they are decent bangers and not rubbish ones, so meaty ones, not full of breadcrumbs. Onion gravy is normally used for bangers and mash, but I do not like onion gravy, so normal beef gravy or Tomato ketchup for me.
British savoury meals are some of World’s the most blandest, thus ATROCIOUS at best. Apparently the most popular British savoury meal is Fish & Chips, how can this be considering that straight out of the deep-fryer Fish & Chips taste of nothing but cooking oil?. It is utterly shocking how utterly CRAP British savoury meals taste, considering that the British had the privilege of having spent 200 years in India. Even the most basic Indian meal tastes infinitely superior to anything British. Lastly even dogs raised by Indians have a superior taste in food than vast majority of white people.
Correct about the grubby greasy spoons My Aunt owned one didn't look like somewhere you'd wanna eat but was by popular reviews one of the best breakfasts around for "a fiver" and she retired happily from owning it for 34 years
Been travelling south America for 3 years and damn I miss British food, chocolate, baked beans, full English, bangers and mash and Yorkshire tea like mad.
If you want really good black pudding, come to Austria! And Marzipan is great. Marzipan covered with chocolate is a staple around Christmas in Austria. Also it is part of the famous Mozart-balls, whichever you try.
@earlymusicus Oh No, No, No! Way too fishy for me! give me the good B&S any day! hahahaha. my mum loved kippers and kedgeree, or a sort of welsh version anyway! interestingly isn't it yet another dish from India originally?
The Brits hands down have the best breakfasts on the planet. Germany is a close second with lots of jams…cheeses…breads…cold cuts and musceli cereal with yogurt. Yummy!
God bless ya ---- but I'll take a big ol mega yank breakfast any day. Toast / jam -- pancake n maple syrup breakfast sausage n bacon hash browns or diced fried potatoes with pepper n onion eggs of course - either an omelet ( cheese, peppers, shrooms, onion, tomato ), over easy on the pancakes or scrambled fruit / melon juice, water, coffee Sorry -- baked beans, sliced tomato, blood pudding and those very strange appearing sausages just don't make a breakfast appealing. baked beans are for cook outs n hot dogs - I'd prefer sliced peaches over tomato myself - blood pudding sounds gaggable. Wow it's nice to disagree with someone in a silly way and not be called Ra --- ace --- its.
@@bubblebreak4160 Almost forgot. You’re right about France. Their breads alone have no equal. Not so sure about Japan. I don’t recall any discernible difference between their breakfast and lunch. Enjoyable but nothing like the others.
Missed out items: Steak and Kidney Pie/Pudding, Lancashire Hot Pot, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Bakewell Tart, Ham, Egg and Chips, Spotted Dick, Apple Pie, Rhubarb Crumble, Manchester Tart, Queen of Puddings, Beef Stew and Dumplings, Bubble and Squeak, Welsh Rarebit, The Sandwich was invented in England, Cheddar Cheese was invented in England, Stilton Cheese was invented in England, infact England is the cheese capital of the world with over 700 different cheeses. Worcestershire Sauce is English. Christmas Pudding, Lobby, Sausage Roll, Syrup Sponge, Flapjack, Kedgeree, Beans on Toast
Steak & kidney pie is amazing. Luckily lamb kidneys are one of the few offal meats I can find where I live so I make it as often as I can. I make up enough filling to make one large family sized pie & 3 to 4 smaller individual ones & instead of beef steak I use kangaroo & I make them all using buttery, flaky puff pastry. So delicious. I can't believe more people don't eat offal meats, they're delicious & incredibly nutritious & not using everything possible is wasteful & disrespectful to the animal.
@@Lucifurion You should try making a traditional "Pudding" rather than a pie. I'm sure you can get hold of beef suet. It sounds like you're in Oz so I'm sure they sell it. A "Pudding" is on another level from a shortcrust or puff pastry pie. It has to be steamed though but it can be speeded up by making the filling first and steaming it with the cooked filling. A traditional "Steak and Kidney Pudding" would have all the ingredients uncooked ie the meat, kidneys, onions etc and steamed for a longer time. There's nothing like the taste and flavour of a "Pudding"!!! You can also use sweet ingredients to make "Spotted Dick" or "Syrup Pudding" or "Jam Roly Poly" all which are Traditional English puddings and use beef suet pastry as their main ingredient and steamed in the same way. It's delicious!!!
I’m Brazilian ( came foody state of Minas Gerais) living in England, and the only thing I didn’t like was the eels, I love everything, I don’t know why people say Uk doesn’t have good food?
I love food in Brazil. I ate like 5 times in one day just to eat as much as I could from different places. I especially like the way you often have restaurants that allow you to fill your plate and then weigh it on a scale to pay :)
Sorry all parts of the UK have there own regional recipe for Sausage and Black Scotland is quite renowned for its black pudding and Lorne sausage it makes an outstanding sandwich. In Scotland they eat potato scones with their breakfast also haggis. Also jam roly-poly has never been made with a sponge cake mix that would make it a Swiss roll. The best kipper you can get in my opinion are from the north of England Craster kippers from Northumberland are world-renowned. Yorkshire puddings extremely easy to make. It is equal quantities of milk, egg, pinch of salt and plain flour. You have got to have extremely hot fat beef dripping or goose fat is outstanding and a hot oven. Once the Yorkshire puddings are in the oven please dont open the oven door they will sink faster than your hopes and dreams.
@@derekwordley1837 No, WHEN ROLLED UP WITH ONIONS, Pickled herrings are called Rollmops. When they're not - Guess what! They're called PICKLED HERRINGS!
Now I'm hungry! :D As an Austrian Anglophile I regularly make Cottage Pie and Leek & Bacon Pie. Proper pork pies are quite hard to make so I'd rather enjoy them in situ when I'm in the UK. Another staple I'd mention is Coronation Chicken - a very popular sandwich filling or served on its own with leafy salad.
Give a Bedfordshire clanger a go its like a sausage roll and a cornish pasty had a baby. Also apple turnover will send you to another dimension, pickled eggs in a salad can really elevate it or just sit with a jar and scran them all 😂
I don't like almonds because they're too dry. So I'm amazed that almonds can be converted into something so jam-packed with flavor. I order chocolate covered marzipan sweets from a local catalog for every Christmas.
Shepherds Pie is NOT also known as Cottage Pie , Shepherds deal with sheep so it’s minced LAMB with onion gravy and shouldn’t have vegetables in, Cottage pie is beef with veg added
Beef Wellington is not a great way to use up leftovers from a Sunday roast as you say....nothing in the recipe involves previously cooked food, poor research.
We produce the best food in the world, bar none, forget the French and Italians, the Chinese and Indians also, we took what we liked and reshaped it to our tastes, best cuisine, curry sauce over a baked potato with a side of pork sausages, yum yum.
OMG! I never knew why the bacon was so good when I was there. I was there quite a long time ago, but remember the bacon being very tasty on those sandwiches. I loved it. I didn’t realize that it had come from a different part of the pig. Wish we would do that in the states. Yum, Yum
Ex-pat now New Yorker, I often ask the natives to tell me their typical representative American food, 'hey what's classical American food?" ... for the most part they'd reveal a puzzled look and after a very pregnant pause mutter something about Burgers, Pizza or BBQ - LOL!
Why is this so weird to you? America is a country of immigrants. Whatever migrants that live here their food is incorporated into the food culture. Soul Food is strictly American if you need a start in American Cuisine.
The Knickerbocker Glory contained ice cream, thick cream, fruit and meringue. The layer are alternated in that order and is drizzled on top with a raspberry coulis - and Never contains Wafers!
I Miss all that food from my home, surprised they didn't mention sausage rolls. There's nothing like a bacon sarnie, if you ask for something that simple in the states, they just don't understand the concept.
07:43 “either way it doesn’t matter”!!! If it’s made of sponge then it’s a swiss-roll, made of suet dough, it’s a jam roly-poly. The roly-poly is usually served with custard as a desert, the swiss-roll as a cake with tea or coffee. It certainly does matter!!!
@ Federic R. Lovely comment - amused me greatly. Actually, once you find enough nerve to try some, you may find them good. On the other hand, the very best eel I ever tasted was served in a bright green sauce in a very ' low end ' bar/bistro in Ostend about 65 years ago.
Those who get grossed out by eating anything with blood in it, the white pudding is available as well and if spiced nicely, is one of the tastiest sausage on this planet. Whenever I get a full English or Irish breakfast in the states, I always ask for the same amount of pudding in white.
I'm of Cornish ancestry (5th generation!) and I love pasties! I've been to England/Ireland & Scotland - so I've grown to love cottage pie, full English (Irish or Scottish) breakfasts - including black pudding (yum yum 😋), bangers & mash, mushy peas, fish & chips, scones,.... I also cook many of these items at home!
I found the scottish square sausages most amusing, I tried to take the piss out of our scot bloke in work about it and he merely stated that the English were stupid for inventing round ones that roll about on the plate. Touchet Scotsman Touchet.
My thought too. When I lived there most pubs might have just crisps if they had food. The ones that did serve food usually had meat pies, sandwiches, or maybe a ploughman’s lunch. Of course everything would have a side of beans. American style bacon was available too, but was called streaky bacon. The English bacon was middle or back bacon depending on the cut you chose. I wish restaurants in the US would do an English roast dinner. Those giant Yorkshire puddings with roast potatos and a beef or lamb roast.
My husband and I went to a Long John Silver's here in Denver, and their idea of Fish and Chips was fish, with a side of POTATO CHIPS. Both of us had to restrain ourselves from chewing out the manager.
Not mincemeat - that is quite different, a concoction of dried fruit, suet and brandy! Mince, or minced meat, is what is used in cottage pie and shepherd's pie.
I'm in Norfolk - I've had game pie, but never heard of scouse (the stew) Some of the dishes on this are universal across the UK, some of them are regional. (Stargazy pie is Cornwall/Devon)
British bacon sandwich is the bomb!!!! On brown bread please!!!! Bangers and mash is delicious! Cumberland sausage has a texture that takes a bit of getting used to but the flavor is very good! One of my faves is “bubble and squeak”. Cabbage and mashed potatoes.... so ridiculously comforting!!!
I don't think I've ever seen anyone eat salad with a pork pie. Stereotypically, the sort of person that eats pork pies isn't the sort of person that eats salad.
You're 100% right in general, but I think they're talking about the nice homemade pork pies that you get in fancier pubs and stuff. Same thing with the Scotch Eggs.
Gordon's favorite meal is alright with me in the Wellington, I'll take a Sheppard's Pie as well. We adopted Pasties in Northern Michigan, originally in the days of Copper Mining...they are the definition of hearty.
Not just Uppers adopted them... I'm from a mining town out West, and my mom made pasties weekly! Just had an Albies beef pasty yesterday. It's nice living in Michigan, where they're available in stores. I'm too lazy to make them myself. :-)
@@d.rodrickeamon6133 iirc cornish pasties were invented specifically for miners which is why you have the htick crust it was so miners could grab them eat and then throway the contaminated crust
Trifle: When I was a child, I remember my parents ALWAYS made a trifle for after tea on Christmas Day, (though it was so large it often lasted for days after that.) They would always top off the cream by sprinkling crushed up Cadbury Flake chocolate on it. I remember one year, when I was about 9 years old, they'd forgotten to buy a flake to top the trifle, so my Dad cajoled me into giving up the one I'd received that morning in my 'selection box'. I finally gave in to his pleading, and due to his promise to replace it: "I'll get you another one tomorrow when the shops are open".
Everyone knows the term 'cheese ploughman's' was invented in 1957 by the British Cheese Bureau to promote, er, cheese. I spent much of my childhood in the 1970s on a farm in Herefordshire helping out the farmer (ie: probably getting on his nerves). If his lunch had consisted of a bit of cheese, an apple and a slice of bread, he'd probably have wasted away within a month. Cheese ploughman's: nice pub lunch. Romantic history? I don't think so.
Love All of these. I love a chip butty. Love a fry up, a korma, a shepherds pie, a cottage pie, omg jam roll poly, can’t believe I forgot that. Similar to treacle sponge and custard. Can’t beat a ploughmans and a pork pie, oh and a scotch egg.. and my mums roast is the best. Bloody love my home. And even though I live in another country, all those meals are on my menus throughout the year.
@@Beedo_Sookcool But they are not the exact same thing, one is long and one is wide. One is made with a sausage and one is made with a beef patty. It’s not the same thing. Cottage and shepherds pies are the exact same thing but made with a different meat.
@@IslenoGutierrez You can make pies in any shape, too. My point still stands: you can't change the main ingredient and call it the same name, especially if there's already a dish by another name with those exact ingredients.
@@Beedo_Sookcool C’mon don’t be ignorant, both cottage and Shepard’s pies are the exact same shape. It’s literally the same dish both with a different meat.
Any recipes you have included in UK foods which contain flavourings, will be herbs , with an "h" and not "erbs" the way many US residents pronounce it.
@D Anemon In England & Australia it's an English word & pronounced "herb". If it's a French word & Americans pronounce it right why can't they pronounce "tourniquet" correctly?
Yay clap for British food 👏👏🏴👏👏🏴👏👏🏴👏👏🏴 thanks for not insulting us our food is great but it’s traditional to take the piss out of us but everyone loves our food ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
British savoury meals are some of World’s the most blandest, thus ATROCIOUS at best. Apparently the most popular British savoury meal is Fish & Chips, how can this be considering that straight out of the deep-fryer Fish & Chips taste of nothing but cooking oil?. It is utterly shocking how utterly CRAP British savoury meals taste, considering that the British had the privilege of having spent 200 years in India. Even the most basic Indian meal tastes infinitely superior to anything British. Lastly even dogs raised by Indians have a superior taste in food than vast majority of white people.
A proper scotch egg is hard boiled the soft boiled scotch egg is very nice but it is something that has only come about popularity in the last decade or 2
I’m a Brit living in Texas and this makes me homesick. When I go back to visit family I ensure I get Melton Mobray pork pies with pickle, and anything else I can get on this list. I can now buy excellent Aussie or Kiwi lamb here now so roast lamb and mint sauce is easily made. I need to get the Yorkshire pudding down so I can make toad in the hole. A local large grocery store has what is called an Irish sausage which is a very good stand in for a regular banger. I have studied making real Cornish Pasties so that is on my hit list. I did not know that about Tikka Masala. We can now get minced lamb here at Aldi so Shepherds Pie should be a breeze. Onward!
There's nothing nicer than a beautiful piece of Australian lamb roasted medium rare with all of the roast veggies & gravy topped off with a few dashes of mint sauce. I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it. It's good that you can find some ingredients near you so that your tastebuds don't get too homesick. Do the Melton Mobray pork pies come with the aspic in them? Some versions I've seen of pork pies are just the meat with none of the aspic inside. You've got to have the aspic or it's just not right.
The eel goes way beyond nasty. The English breakfasts are great and very filling. Down side is you become very vocal at the wrong end after you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this. British food is definitely not all bad! Try making toad in the hole at home.... its delicious and super easy, you just to have decent sausages.
I'm a Londoner living in the USA and it is nigh on impossible to find ANYTHING even remotely resembling British pork sausages. I so dearly miss Lincolnshire sausages.
@@michaelmullin3585 Those are delicious -- in fact, I haven't had any Cajun food that HASN'T been delicoius -- but it's just not the same. It's like if you're hungry for your grand-mère's boudin, but you get offered tasso. The tasso's still really good, but it's not the comfort food you were craving from your childhood, ya know?
@@jlmljames But at one time fish and chips were often wrapped in newspaper. In my home we were posh and took a bowl or pan for our purchase; and saved the newspaper ( cut into squares, strung and hung on the lavatory door ) for the obvious reason. I still have the legend " News of the World " marked on my rear end.
Foie gras is now illegal to import into the UK on the basis of animal cruelty laws. French producers not happy, but that fact alone makes me very happy.
A few years ago, I was able to vacation in the UK. I thought that the food was good. Things that I definitely enjoyed were cottage pie, scotch eggs, Welsh rarebit and devonshire cream.
A pretty good effort, and you've covered most of the popular foods, although I'm surprised you didn't include sausage rolls. I live quite close to Liverpool, and have never heard of the scouse dish, nor have I heard of Stargazy pie. If you're going to include some of the more local specialities, then perhaps you should have included Bakewell Pudding or Tart (far more common than Eton Mess), Eccles Cakes and Lancashire Hotpot, all of which are pretty common throughout Britain.
Scouse is very regional I would say, I’m from the wirral but from a scouse family and we have it regularly, as do most scouse families. Travel just outside the city and they have pretty much the same dish but called different names, like “Lobby” If you go to Norway it’s called “Lobscouse”
I believe that Stargazey Pie was originally dreamed up by a chef in a pub in the small fishing village of Mousehole, Cornwall. It is now served in a few local pubs/restaurants, but is unknown outside that area.
Great video, about time British food not given such a bad rap. The late great chef Gary Rhodes championed it, as does genius Marco Pierre White and many other chefs. All good.
Northern European food in general gets a bad rep. Which is a pity, because the Dutch, Danish, Germans and Scandinavians as well as the British all have some delicious stuff on the menu if you know what to look for.
I've always looked at British Cuisine as comfort food. Nothing fancy just practical, simple and tasty. Also, you didn't mention Tripe. Although not as common anymore, If cooked right it is absolutely delicious. But if not cooked right it can be awful.
One of the interesting things I found is that if you go to a proper Mexican restaurant here in the USA, you can get tripe tacos, and they're very nice.
An interesting thing about the "Ploughman's Lunch" is it was unheard of before the sixties, when the Milk Marketing Board promoted the idea as an initiative to sell more cheese in pubs, due to a surplus.
Love how the American lady was coming out with British sayings like greasy spoon and fiver and they call it a bacon butty up north well researched on your lingo 😉
