IS BRITISH FOOD ****?! | THE BACON BADGER?? 

My favourite book

Glad to see another person of taste in this comment section.

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Great book 👍

This is surely the best comment ever! I could imagine this Baked Badger being made in Ankh Morpork (Disc World - Terry Pratchett)

And you would be wrong lol.

All of the most culturally important food usually begins as working class and civilian dishes, peasant dishes were more common, and now they're national dishes

It's more that it's cold and depressing in the UK with very few options for fruit and veg that grows in the climate. Fatty, meaty, poatatoy food is what we can produce and it makes you a lot happier in cold weather. Historically, and I'm talking hundreds of years here, this is the kind of food all British people ate. Poor folk would have it maybe a little simpler, the rich and nobility would fill it with christmas spices and saffron

Mind you, you can grow an awful lot more in both quantity and variety in the UK's zone 6-9 than you can where I now live in zone 2-3.

Don't forget about swedes/turnips/rutabagas! They seem to be in every Cornish pasty.

Future headline circa 2030 or so "Just in! Prime minister Ebbers eager go to war. Quoted as saying "Think of all the great food!""

​@@drakologx5085 "The RAF have started conducting airstrikes and the Royal Marines are about to begin their landings supported by the Royal Navy and Parachute Regiment"

To be fair to ben even in his first statement he said bring back wartime FARE, as in, the food of that time, not bring back wartime lmao

@@drakologx5085Ebbers eager for English engagement

@@Zorayah I was going to say this too.. he definitely said the food not the war itself 😆

Exactly. Besides, it's not his fault Biden's about to launch WWIII to cover up the UKR money laundering.

"Bring back wartime because the food is good" - Honest Mike

Yeah, wanting more warfare or more wartime fare are very different. Blame the English language, I speak it, and I do.

He's promoting Tory austerity. This channel must have some links to Murdoch, what with the recent mega-embarrassing Prince William episode. These bougie twats are funded from on high, I bet you

Ben is HUNGRY for WAR

Or a Mock Apricot Tart and turn that into a real dish (the WI WW2 recipe filled my head with images of it being very tiny).

i second both of these ideas

Would love to see that

We made Woolton Pie in school when studying WW2

Or, representing the Welshies here, perhaps some Glamorgan sausages, which also became popular during WW2?

Cauliflower cheese? Cheese made with cauliflower, cauliflower shape or is this a British naming thing like the badger?

This is so lovely! Food memories are so powerful.... they can transport your back to the best times!

​@@furranteeimagine a baked Mac and cheese but instead of macaroni it's cauliflower

@@i_am_mr_me that sounds good, never thought of changing pasta to veg. I'll have to look it up, I'm guessing the cheese mix is different than American mac and cheese.

@@furrantee For Cauliflower cheese, think Macaroni & Cheese, but you replace the pasta with florets of cauliflower, then bake it in an oven. It's a great main or side dish, especially in the winter months & a cheap way to feed a family. Also a good way to get kids to eat cauliflower as many don't think they like it.

He is so correct, and it is sad that it has come to this for Britons! That being said, you have all survived much worse and will survive this crisis as well.

Absolutely! Meals created in this time use minimal butter and oil, and other expensive ingredients. I think that with all of that filling, they could make two more. That is very economically sound.

Badger Badge Jamie 🤣

​@@SortedFood😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@SortedFoodJamie needs to remake that badger badger badger video from ages ago

But this is a cooking channel, so to earn that should he prepare and cook a badger?

@@ishtara9470 and this is what this video is all about, he prepared and cooked a badger, a bacon one. om nom nom

Someone else who's never heard of the Midlands ;)

Jamie was having none of it, and too right

​@@FurbleFawksMilton Keynes is southern

😂

Being from the East Midlands, we call everywhere else "foreign" 😁

I feel old because I remember it 😂

Wisdom of the ages

That make more sense - thank you!

Hey! Some of my best friends are simple, squat and oblong!

@@helenswan705 I resemble that remark..... lol

That doesn't make sense for a pass it on because they would all know what the end dish is supposed to be

My mother made war cake all the time. Similar to clootie dumpling but easier to make. Very tasty fried in bacon fat with bacon and eggs for breakfast.

If you're interested in these types of recipes, I recommend checking out Glen and friends cooking (I think is the name)! He's also a Canadian and makes tons of recipes from old cookbooks.

My grandmother did the exact same thing for my father for Christmas each year in Nova Scotia!

@@micropopo Yes, I already subscribe top Glen’s channel, lol. He’s got some great recipes.

@@carmenwarner9258 Nice! Fond memories, eh? :-)

Me and I'm a woman and I know he's gay really fancy him though

@@gaynorprior9864had no idea he’s gay. when did he say that?

They're all adorable in their own ways. Great mix, actually.

Huh

I'm not sure Ben's ever come out? Chill if so, might have missed it, but I'm not sure his (or any of the boys until married off) sexuality has really been mentioned?

I _hated_ Bodger and Badger and I'm honestly not sure why. Maybe it was kind of dated for when I was a kid?

Yes, as well as Gordon the gopher, Orville the duck and Basil brush. They were proper iconic.

A work of comedy genius

I grew up in Hertfordshire, and then moved to Berkshire where I lived most of my adult life. Both border Buckinghamshire and I've never heard of this.

i don't think anyone in Britain besides a small few people has heard of this

I've never heard of this, but if you want to be introduced to another British regional classic you've likely never heard off - look at Staffordshire oatcake where the classic serving is with cheese and bacon/sausage

@@michael90cr86 I was born in Staffordshire (but only lived there for a few months here and there as a child) so when I moved to Shropshire 8 years ago they were suddenly in shops as I’m close to the Staffordshire/ Cheshire border but had no idea what they were. Only properly learnt a few years ago but never had one. They’re popular at my mums school but don’t appeal to me

@@michael90cr86 The Staffordshire oatcake, when stuffed with cheese and bacon, is the greatest hangover cure known to humanity. In my long-gone early twenties I lived in Kidsgrove, and there was a tiny oatcake takeaway a couple of minutes down the road that came to my rescue on many early mornings.

When my great-grandmother died we discovered she had a giant chest into which she had been just chucking photographs for her entire life. In there we also found her and my grandmother's WWII ration stamp booklets from the end of the war.

Yes! And not just in the US or the UK. The whole commonwealth experienced rationing, and this just after the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl (which hit Canada too, my grandparents had STORIES). It would be neat to see the boys investigate “wartime fare” from other counties :)

Glen & Friends on RU-vid has an old cookbook series that covers war rationing & hard times

Emmy Made and Tasting History have also done recipes.

I've seen some war time and after war time recepies my grandmother in the Netherlands had (food rationing continued well after the war). They were not great. Most of it was to the effect of "instead of x amount of milk, substitute half of it by water", using less eggs and less butter. And using a hay box as a way of slow cooker. By the end of WWII there was such a shortage of food that people would literally eat anything. My grandmother had a big fuss with the maid for throwing out water in which beans had been soaking. So yeah, I'm not so sure about the war food.

Comedian Sue Perkins with Giles Coren did a special on food in certain decades one of which was post-war rationing. Also find Ruth Goodman's series on wartime farms. These and a couple of reenactment/reality shows should all be on RU-vid.

A pass it on with wartime rations.

huh, I'd guessed it meant something like "self contained culturally"

As someone who is not British, everything about this video was new information, so thank you for clarifying this. In India, regional would mean something very different, so this helps.

I didn't know there was a film... I only read the book ages ago and really liked. Must look into the film then :)

@@steffiw1282 I've read it and watched the movie. both very good

A lot of the scenes from that film were filmed in my home town, my cousin was an extra in it 😁

It did take a bit of a knock during the war as there just wasn't a lot available to cook. unfortunately we never really got around to rationalising our cuisine into a cohesive thing with culinary schools like Escoffier. But I see a lot of similarities between French & British cuisine, especially in a lot of what were once considered peasant dishes that have been elevated to magnificence. Plus as you say we're known for our roasts, sausages & pies which we excel at. Thankfully after rationing ended we've started to claw back some of the niche varieties of things that were stopped in the times of shortage. Like cheese, we now make something like 1000 varieties which is even more that your esteemed industry which sits at around 550 types? I love the cross pollination of French & UK food, integration & immigration makes all cultures more robust & interesting.

​@@Getpojkethere's deffo loads of French influence in our food. We were under French rule for ages, there's bound to be crossover

British food has a reputation for being not very colorful and less flavorful (number and intensity of flavors). It's a fairly accurate assessment. The joke is that this makes it bad by comparison, which it's not. Beige and mild it is, it is also very tasty.

@@irishwristwatch2487 what French rule? Normans nabbed a bit of France then nabbed a bit of Britain as well. Enjoyed life for a bit then went hey we're a Kingdom in the Northern half, let's extend it's borders South. Ooh, that's a bit too tricky and this war's taking centuries, let's call it quits and use the big watery bit as a border. ... Hey, those guys to West don't have as much cavalry and they listen to the blokes with silly hats who don't like us anymore ...

​@@GetpojkeI hear this every time the 'British food horrible' thing comes up, but didn't France and Italy go through those exact same wars? Surely occupied France or vanquished Italy weren't bastions of abundance during those decades? So why does only British food get a bad rep!?

"like lifting a badger in a sack" is one of the most British phrases I've ever had the pleasure of reading

What's the method for steaming something long like this? My only experience steaming suet is puddings and dumplings.

How much experience do you have lifting badgers in sacks?????? O-O

@@skilletborne Have unfortunately had to remove dead ones from the road in the past.

@@ad3z10 A smallish one will fit in a large oval casserole dish or pot. Or you can gently curl one into a smaller pot being careful not to break the dough. When I've done large ones in the past I used my old copper poissonière (long fish kettle). You can get a stainless steel or aluminium one for about £20-30 if you look around.

Roast Grayling continues to be on my food bucket list, but I live almost on the opposite side of the world and I assume it’s a British river fish.

now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time

Brian Jaques was masterful at describing the food, and was very important in detail because it highlighted the wholesome and filled lives the good denizens of Mossflower and Redwall lived. That their kindness and warmth was expressed from the patience to listen to the moles speak the quirky shrews, to how they treated and heal guests and any that showed up in need. The food fair was as much a direct reflection of their good character as it was probably for the author to have enjoyed researching and writing :P

What's the story about? Always looking for a good series to get into!

@@sshishegar Each book in the Tales of Redwall series is a stand-alone story, though they do have a chronological order. They may reference some characters or events from the past, but knowledge of previous books is not strictly required to enjoy and understand the story. The books span a long period of time, so the cast of characters changes over fairly frequently. All the characters are animals (e.g. mice, hares, otters, badgers, hedgehogs), but the setting is medieval and the stories are adventures with some elements of fantasy. They were written as stories for children or young teens. I would say the audience is for 10 years and over, as the writing style is very rich and descriptive, and there is sometimes some gruesome violence and battles. I don't know if the series is in print anymore, since I first read the books at the library, and didn't see them in bookshops. I also have a few at home obtained from second-hand stores. Perhaps you could also find the books online somewhere.

It was featured on GBBO

All I can think of is the soup dragon

similar to traditional Cornish pasties

Haha! Let us know if you ever find one 👀

Bedfordshire Clangers are around. Basically the same.

Me neither!

This sounds really interesting, especially for someone not from the UK. All the jokes online are about UK not having their own cuisine, and that's clearly not true. Would love to see these recipes cuz they sound fascinating, and Ben getting a supergeek moment is just a bonus.

Came here to say this. Many don't understand that each state was supposed to function as a nation state, very similar to modern UK where Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England are technically different countries but function collectively as 1, under the name of United Kingdom. Actually, it was meant to be closer to the EU, where the federal government has extremely limited power over the states.

Thank you, well said. I was looking for this exact comment I just want to add that Britain is also about the size of one of our U.S. states. I think I've seen Indiana given as a reference before.🤷‍♂

Much like the difference between one region of Texas to which one Austin is in. Or one county in Florida from where Orlando is in. Oh geez, you could have distinction between East and West West Virginia, or North and South North Dakota.

We do have a California burrito😅

3,142 counties across the entire US, to be exact

I would love to see that and comparing Allied wartime staples ie an episode with 1 British 1 Canadien 1 Australian 1 American or something of the like

That makes it sound like we eat the casing, which was a sheeps stomach, as you use the sheeps pluck for filling 😂 its synthetic casing used now tho.

I haven’t made a lardy cake in ages. That’s now on the list for next weekend. The husband will be happy. I wonder if they are regional enough to get an episode on here?

My local market sells Lardy cake.

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@@SortedFood thank you!

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@@danielsantiagourtado3430 thank you!

Same same! Never heard of a bacon badger though 🤔

It's getting less & less with food becoming more global & convenience food more popular. I think a lot of Gen - X still remember & cook some of them as it was the food our parents were brought up on & rationing only finally stopped in the 1950s. I still cook a fair few, partly because I love food history, but they were also comfort food classics from my childhood (times were still tough in the 70s).

​@@GetpojkeI'm from Indonesia although I now live in Germany/France (travel a lot between the countries for work & family), and I get along so well with older baby boomers because I like eating offal and other offcuts that my generation usually discard, but older people would have memory eating.

Carrot cake is still popular albeit made fancier now with nuts and fruits and sometimes alcohol

we're now even more sure you shouldn't eat paraffin!

Yup Milton Keynes is definitely South (Northernmost district of the South East England Region), Even further South than Hull; Love from Scotland, even more North than t'North. 😆😆

Super interesting comment, thanks so much for sharing! Please let us know what you think if you end up making this :)

I did going up north. You have your fudges and the Yoopers but that's near the Mackinac bridge how do I know this? You probably already know. I love a good pastie from up north and the best fudge in the Midwest

Those miners came to Arizona, as well. We have pasties in our family repertoire.

Cornish miners. That's how we got the pasties here.

Wow.. this is great. Thank you for sharing. It's always fascinating to read about how food travels and changes over time and culture.

It has to have pickled cabbage with it.

Same! 😂

They did make Sussex pond pudding when they were reviewing Instant Pots a while back.

South for you, North for us 😂

North starts at Watford Gap.

with you on that. I reckon the midlands is the dividing 'area' it's not a line is it. As someone from Sheffield and then Durham, I have difficulty even calling Liverpool Northern!

I had to look things up, and it was fun! More local British-isms, please! I enjoy seeing people so proud of their home.

Haha no worries! Well deserved 😅

As is typical of anything in Mk, they destroyed the tree when too many people used to gather around it to sell drugs, also in the process of destroying any greenery anywhere in this miserable excuse for a city, cutting down Linford woods too.

Nooooo, they cut the tree down?? I've been over there in some 15 years, so I had no idea. I had heard that it went down the shitter, but I hadn't heard about the trees. That's awful!

@@missdire They also destroyed that lovely fountain area in the middle of the shopping centre, two delightful rest area's just gone.

This is why we can't have nice things. People have to ruin everything, and this is why the world is falling to shit. That makes me so angry.

At least there's an upside down house, because that is useful

Can you not get suet from your local butcher? (I've even used reindeer suet in the past when it was available to me)

@@Getpojke haven't got one on my budget, unfortunately 😅 I'd have to go a bit further north where I live right now to get reindeer suet cheaper than the british cupboard variety. But I've heard the stuff is wonderful!

As we are perpetually confused, it is a given 🤪

@@giraffesinc.2193Nothing wrong about being confused as long as you end up learning something new. Confusion is a temporary state located between ignorance and knowledge.

It will confuse anyone that isn’t British.

I adore those and tried to make them once, it was a dismal failure.

Oh yeah a hot Forfar bridie from Saddlers bakery on East High Street. Used to be a Saturday treat for me. 😋

Can't beat a scottish bakery lol, so many things you can only really get here. Macaroni pie, scotch pie, burnt roll, steak and haggis pie, flea cemetary.. list goes on😂

@@jmillar71110 Oh yeah, a hot macaroni pie on a butter "Morton" roll is a triple carb classic. 😆Always preferred a soft Morton/breakfast roll, as the well fired ones cut the heck out of the roof of your mouth. The crowning glory of a Scottish bakery though has got to be an Aberdeen roll/Butteries/Rowies. They probably heavily contribute to our place in the European Heart Attack Index but its not for nothing that they're known as Scottish croissants. Our local bakery does excellent steak pies with a skirrlie topping! Magic. Plus if you have a Scottish accent you get the famous Scottish bakery joke: - Man walks into a bakery in Glasgow and asks, "Is that a cake or a meringue?" Baker replies, "No, you're quite right pal, that's a cake."😆

@@jmillar71110 You've got me thinking about fleas cemeterys now. Not had one in ages and they were always a favourite.

That sounds so good!

We always made that - my Dad was from Northumberland. Pinhead oatmeal, treacle, ginger . . .make it at least a month in advance, bake it slow, and wrap it up in a tin so it goes all soft and sticky!

They did when they were reviewing Instant Pot cookers. The Sussex pond pudding went down a treat.

Any suggestions? 👀

​@@SortedFoodEton mess!🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

@@SortedFood Queen of Puddings.

@@SortedFood apparently either haslet or plumbread are both Lincolnshire made as Lincolnshire sausage is basic!

How about pork faggots? Might confuse our American friends😂