Our British Food Review! 

To hear that beans/tomatoes/mushrooms are an odd combination from an American, where they mix waffles, maple syrup and bacon together is, quite frankly, hilarious!

The whole myth about British food mainly stems from WW2. The UK is in the top league for Michelin stars and has an amazing diversity of global cuisine.

The thing you’ve missed are desserts. I’ve lived in Spain, Italy, France, Greece and the United States. All these places have NOTHING on British deserts! EDIT: list your favourite British desserts below!

Much of this "British food is poor quality" comes from the experience of US soldiers from about 1943-1944, and visitors during the early 1950s - when food rationing was in place.

Things tend to get cheaper once you get out of London, especially the centre of London which is the most expensive part of the UK.

That Sunday roast needed more gravy. The Yorkshires especially need lots of gravy, you don’t eat them dry.

Weird,when I was working in NY I yearned for a full English. Having pancakes with syrup etc for brekky was too weird.

Any question about food quality might be better addressed to Americans. I always feel ill after spending time in the States. It's mainly down to the additives put into American food, stuff which is banned in most European countries.

Its painful watching Americans try and use cutlery. 😂😂.

The Sunday lunch you had was with Pork, hence the apple sauce. Lamb - with mint sauce, Turkey - with cranberry sauce.

If you want true English food you need to get out of London…..fast!

A full English breakfast is a thing of beauty. Sets you up for the day. And no, we don't like our bacon cooked until its frazzled, it should be succulent.

Mixing of the baked beans and mushrooms with the rest of the fried breakfast is a usual/ normal English fried breakfast ... absolutely delicious 😋👌

There is nothing much wrong with British food if you choose where you eat with care. The choices go from roadside "chew & spew" vans, to restaurants with Michelin stars. You just need to select where you want to be on that scale.......

I moved because of lot of reasons but english food is very good compared with the us its got more flavor its real organic no sprays tomatoes especially so much more flavor plus the backerys cornish pasties meat pies and tarts

1) Yorkshire pudding isn’t bread but I have to say for a london pub it’s size was impressive 2) if you don’t want certain things on your breakfast you can ask for it to be omitted

So, i think there are two main reasons why americans, in particular, dislike british food. 1. The americans first started these claims while posted in Britain during the 1940's. Rationing was in place because of the war, so ingredients were sparse. Brits hated the rationing too, but it was their reality, they werent going to make exceptions for the americans. 2. British/european food standards are vastly different and many chemicals and additives that are perfectly acceptable in the US to make your food taste better is simply not allowed here. Food such as bread in the US has an average of 6g of sugar, whereas bread in the UK has an average of 1g. Another example is your fast food. Mcdonals fries in the US have over 20 separate ingredients to make them taste and look the way they do. The same mcdonalds fries in the UK have only 3 ingredients; potatoes, oil and salt. Now im not saying the british are saints when it comes to food, we have things in our food that probably shouldnt be there also. But when you compare the differences you realise that american food may very well taste better but its also laden with things that no human should be consumed. It doesn't take long to research these things. In conclusion, i think Britain gets a bad rap because our foods are different and the american taste buds aren't accustomed to food without all those nasties.

We don't normally have streaky Bacon. Back Bacon is the norm in the UK. It's got more meat on it 🙂 (also, don't forget the HP sauce for the sausage and bacon)

Yorkshire Pudding is basically pancake batter oven cooked, but...the batter Must be poured into an oiled screaming hot pan

As a British person, I have to say that I loved your review. Excellent photography of the Thames, by the way!

Did you try the apple sauce with the roast pork? It’s a game changer.

Yorkshire Pudding 'Is just bread'!!!?Hilarious.

Sorry my friends but that was not a proper " yorkshire pudding". A real yorkie taste nothing like bread.. It was always vastly over baked.

To be honest, I grew up in the 80’s and the food was pretty bad, but certainly over the last 20 years, it’s improved enormously. My Italian friend says Britains food has improved more than any other country.

In London we call it the full English, the word Brekky is used in other parts of the UK. The basic food was to set you up for a hard days manual work, but its now for anyone, and not every day. Sunday Roast, you can have Pork, Lamb, but traditionally its Beef. London is well over priced. Portsmouth is great, and if you have time the Isle of Wight.

Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was served as a "starter". When we had Sunday lunch at my Grandmothers (5 of us including my grandmother) the "yorkshire" was cooked in a big metal dish - maybe 12" x 16" and an inch deep. Into this was put a big lump of beef fat and it went into the very hot oven until the fat was smoking hot - then the thick yorkshire batter (milk, eggs, flour and salt) poured in and back into a very hot oven for about 20 minutes. Served fresh out of the over we each got a big slab - crispy on the outside with a quarter-inch thick, heavy, doughy base - liberally covered in thick beef gravy. It was absolutely delicious. Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was a cheap, nutritious and delicious "filler" for poor Yorkshire farmers. The main course would be roast beef, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, carrots and cabbage - light on the expensive meat and heavy on the cheap vegetables - again with delicious gravy made in the dish the beef and potatoes were roast in. Today Yorkshire Pudding has changed into tasteless, crispy bags of air - with absolutely no resemblance to "proper" Yorkshire Pudding. The way I still make it. And its still delicious.

The main point about London food is - you can find any type of food you want from all over the world. The national traditional British foods like those you tried are all over, but regional traditions vary much more. London has its own unique food traditions: Pie & Mash esp. and Mussels & Eels - shame you missed those. Fish and Chips is best enjoyed near the sea where you may have more fish options. In the north of England you'd certainly have had black pudding with your traditional breakfast.

…and black pudding, fried potatoes and the ultimate breakfast food, fried bread.

We don't cremate our bacon here, that's an American thing

thanks for taking me down memory lane; i am a brit living in france and everyone says french food is good, but there is no comparrison to our great british food; glad you enjoyed it xx

Because American food is so good that the governments in Europe ban most of it lol

I have never heard anyone call a yorkie bread 🤣😂🤣

Your minority American palette Terry. Big hit wth a lot of your compatriates. P.S How can you say odd? When you as a nation eat sweet potato topped with marshmallow and serve it with your main meal. Now that's odd.

Jesus, those bangers look Anaemic.

Good afternoon! You've got a great story! Thank you. It's always nice to watch such interesting videos! Have a good day! 😊 👍 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹

I live in France now and really miss British food. It's great. Some Classic French cuisine is similar to classic British meals, but things like Sunday Roast or Fish n Chips are hard to come by. Ditto the English Breakfast.

Nice video but not an accurate representation of British contemporary food. It's all touristy london pub dishes. Thank you though

A lot more tourists are now visiting the UKs 2nd biggest city, Birmingham ( Peaky Blinders, Cadburys Chocolate, Aston Villa Football Club, Shakespeare ) for its laid back, not so crowded, cheaper than London, amazing food scene vibe, definitely worth afew days in, same with Manchester to a slight lesser degree.. Both great places to visit as a break/alternative to London

British food is great -it got a bad reputation due to WWII, when years of austerity (that lasted into the 1970s) meant mean meals and basic ingredients. Since then it has of course taken its revival -same recipes but with much better sourced ingredients and the quality's back.

Beans eggs and mushroom is weird. Apparently some people have bacon with maple syrup 😂

The one problem with promoting British food is there are hardly any solely British restaurants with amazing chefs...plus the British love variety and eat a lot of Indian, chinese, Thai, Italian etc...the real tasty perfect British food is cooked at home .. Tgeres nothing better than roast potatoes cooked in goose fat, yorkshire golden puddings on a sunday roast...usually British food resides in pubs where its cooked fast and at volume ...you cant beat British home cooking ❤

Wow, so majestic to be standing in front of Buckingham Palace !! The lunch feast looks delicious 😋

A Yorkshire pudding isn't bread.....its more of a pancake that's been baked

Excellent ! We always enjoy looking forward to the videos of your next destination. Safe travels!

Those sausages (both on the bangers and mash and the breakfast) look like they were warmed up by a 40w 💡

Something I've noticed about a lot of Americans, is their tendency to eat items from their plate one at a time, rather than stacking different food items from the plate onto the fork like most British and Europeans.

GREAT VIDEO clear can see all details clear as possible without being there ..... food was great

The foods better in Northern England,

So good to see Americans using cutlery the way it's intended to be used. Glad you approve of the food!

Perhaps if you drizzled syrup over your breakfast, it’d would suit more your American palate. :-)

Bangers and mash, beans on toast, cheesy chips, pie and mash, roast dinner, full English breakfast, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce, fish and chips, mushy peas or curry sauce, Salt and Vinegar Walkers crisps, and a proper cuppa with milk ! ahhhh these are all the comforts of home I missed when I was away. Other places try, hardly anywhere does it the same. Makes me wonder how many of our attempts to do,other cultures cuisine are actually authentic compared to their country of origin. Mind you, having ventured a fair bit, I can safely say we get a lot right. Mostly because the restaurants offering that cuisine are people from that country/culture who have settled here and brought their fabulous flavour! We are truly lucky! I never take it forgranted!

Please try Yorkshire pudding again, properly made and sized. Get a Brit to show you how to "garnish" it (including a nice simple onion gravy) and you'll never ever never ever again mistake it for(or call it) bread. AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH. (An 80+ year old Geordie)

I agree with every word you said about the London Eye, and why not? It was truthful.

Fantastic historical info. about the Texan embassy in London. Love it! I would never, ever have known that :)

It's not a Ferris wheel, it's an observation ride..it doesn't claim to be a ferris wheel

Those restaurants did not do those meals justice, portion sizes too small and lots of items missing, I would have felt cheated

London t isn’t England… Sunday roast looked ok but looked like to justify the price no doubt… go North… food is waaay tastier up here…. Yorkshire!! 🎉

If you want a good view of London go to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath Then take the DLR to Island Gardens, walk through the tunnel to Greenwich and up through the park to the Prime Meridian. Stopping for pie and mash along the way.

ahhh finally a food channel that doesnt annoy The F out of me , also they are not obsessed with asian foods only which seems to be thing on youtube at the moment where 99% of food reviewers are only doing asian foods and I have to search forever to find videos featuring foods from other places in the world, dont get me wrong I love asian food , but dont want to ONLY see asian foods ... I really enjoyed this video and love the couple , I am totally subscribing .-))

That Sunday Roast looks a bit dry a and the yorkshire puddings are better when they are smaller.

Describing our Yorkshire Puddings as "Just Bread" could've got you locked-up in the Tower of London 🙂

A Yorkshire Pudding is not bread ??!! It's the same ingredients as a pancake ...

Had to laugh at the title ‘how bad is it’ suggests your expectations were pretty low to begin with! 😂

Nice, respectful review, but I especially liked the little history tidbit about the Texan legate. I had no idea.

Use the Yorkshire pudding to mop up the sauce and plate, it's not supposed to be a food by itself... it's like a Naan bread and curry. You use "the bread" to clean the plate.

Should've gone to Pelliccis for breakfast. Best in London and sitting in glory. All Hail the Bethnal Green Road. 😋🤘

My take is that the sausages looked a little undercooked, full English brekky looked great but the roast pork looked very thickly cut.

Pork with apple. Beef with horseradish. Chicken with lemon. Duck with orange. Turkey with cranberry. Lamb with mint.

Also, the full English breakfast if high protein and fibre, designed to see you through a day working out on the farm/in the fields.

You certainly picked some good places to eat! But when it comes to brekky i like black pudding with mine along with a fried slice

Had a women from California stay in the hotel I workes, she said the food was amazing and much of it was better quality than in the US

I'm always surprised how many Americans visit London, try the food, do reviews but never visit Rules restaurant. It opened in 1798, is still serving and most Americans go to pubs. And Berry Brothers and Rudd has been in business selling wine etc since 1698, older than America.

As a Brit I thought you gave a fairly good review. I think sometimes a little history behind the food would be nice for your viewers… particularly why there is so much selection of food served for breakfast. And the history behind the Yorkshire pudding. I did giggle at your attempt of a English accent 😂 Cheers 🍻

Yorkshire pudding is “Just Bread” it’s basically a crepe or pancake cooked in hopefully deer dripping. Also where was the black pudding, bubble and squeak in the breakfast. Hash browns is a bit dubious inclusion. And Americanised product.

British food is a lot better than it used to be but there seems to be lots of people around who have no idea about basic nutrition or how to cook

UK Deserts imho are globally the best from Sticky toffee to Trifles to Eton mess. Even doughnuts are recorded as coming from the UK 300 years ago

In yorkshire the pudding is either round or as we have it square and before mainmeal ,my wife said she would be ashamed to put that what you had in front of somebody come to yorkshire for a proper dinner

The way you guys hold and use your cutlery is Crazy!! That would be considered rude in some parts of the UK😮

British food…. The best in the world!

Guys, no disrespect but to truly experience English/London food, you need to avoid the upmarket places and go off the beaten track. Have a little walk around the side streets and food markets and you will be thrilled with what you find. You may have enjoyed the food at these expensive places but the food elsewhere will blow your mind 😊

3:39 as an English gal, I was aghast that the gravy didn’t go on the chips and cabbage as well. Chips and gravy is a must! Cheesy chips are a must! Cheesy chips and gravy are even better! With lots of vinegar!

British food is miles better than American food which is mainly chemically saturated.

British food is some of the best in the world....... You are better off in side streets and other parts of London than Whitehall though

Next time look up sky garden with this there are about another 3-4 other free viewing platforms on the top of buildings but always book and go early

IMO one of the other reasons that England has a false reputation for bad food is because we eat a lot of cheap poor quality food in certain situations. School dinners constrained by budget. Our love of cheap fast food. Busy or lazy parents who serve their kids chicken nuggets. If you pay a reasonable amount in a restaurant then you'll usually get good quality food.

I don’t know where people who’ve never tried it get the idea that British food is crap - the UK is multicultural so whoever says British food is crap are actually slating other nations. Lots of tourists come to the UK and love British food from the full English breakfast to Chinese takeaway to Thai restaurants to Indian curries 👍

That full English breakfast actually looked quite good compared to most i've seen reviewed. I love sausage and mash ... goes great with a red wine ratatouille.

You needed to get out of London to get the real taste of British food. Why do so many Americans think London is England? It really isn't. Yes, London may have many Michelin rated restaurants but, to get a real taste of TRADITIONAL English food, visit ENGLAND. Not londanistan.

So what are beans and mushrooms to be eaten with; string cheese and ice cream? (shudder). Good review; very enjoyable.

Yorkshire Pudding is not Bread, its an Flour Egg and Milk Batter mix. And it's Sunday Roast not Roasted.

Next time you's visit the UK and want proper food/portions then you need to travel North. Lancashire and Yorkshire is where you'll find the best Roast dinners/Pies/Fish & Chips ect ect. Southerners just can't cook proper hearty/rustic grub like Northerners 🤷🏻‍♂️

For a different perspective, you should have headed North! England's South coast is basically London-on-sea, with all the South of England 'usuals', like sky-high prices, & lots of crowds. If you head North, away from the Capital, you get a much more relaxed perspective, as well as more laid back locals, & waaaay more friendly welcomes! City folk don't have time to stop & pass the time of day with each other, while country folk look forward to that very thing!!

First time I was in the UK 20 years ago, I thought the food was absolutely disgusting, but it has improved since and last time I was there it was actually quite good.

Americans saying that it’s a weird combination when they combine marshmallow and sweet potatoes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm glad you had fun, guys. I'm sorry you went to Portsmouth afterwards though haha. You may have wanted to head further north or if you were going to the south coast, some of the fishing towns in Cornwall.

Thanks for coming and loving our food. Our food is misunderstood, we just are a relatively cold country so we like hearty foods and good quality foods, it tends to be not as fancy as other cuisines but once you get warm and tuck in you can't complain.

Being a Brit, I'm a bit bias, but our food is delicious. Your breakfast was missing black pudding, chips , HP sauce and fried bread! It is the best breakfast in the world, and will give you the energy for many hours of graft!!!

London is such a beautiful and classy city. One of my favourite places to visit in the world

The Sherlock Holmes is my office's local!

Americans think everything made with flour is bread. Yorkshire pudding is not even close to bread. That Yorkshire, however, is badly overcooked.