To think traditional English food is overrated?

Making me crave a warm Cornish pasty.

I’m currently in Asia I’ve eaten Asian food for weeks and I’d love a steak and ale pie with gravy right now as well.

English/British food done well is some of the best in the world.

If you find it overrated that says more about your skills/your taste in restaurants.

I think we do stodgy desserts well

I've lived in several countries, holidayed in many more, eaten many different cuisines, and the standout dishes of my life have been:

A wonderful roast dinner with tender rare beef, or pork with crispy crackling - Yorkshire puddings, good gravy, home-made stuffing and veg

A lamb hot-pot ( tender lamb, onions, crispy scalloped potatoes on top and soft, unctuous, potato slices under - no garlic, it doesn't need it, the flavours speak for themselves

Queen of Puddings (crisp meringue top, soft meringue beneath) a light egg-and- breadcrumbs sponge, jam)

Bakewell Pudding, almondy sponge, thin layer of jam, good thin short crust pastry and custard

Full English breakfast, with sausage, bacon, baked beans, crisp fried bread, fried eggs, mushrooms )

I have eaten and enjoyed other cuisines, Greek, Portuguese, especially a good Chinese takeaway, but it's very trendy and mumsnetty to despise our own traditional English foods and yet the dishes listed above will be my own Last Dinner after a lifetime of good and varied eating..

Nigel Slater, The Hairy Bikers, Mary Berry and many other food writers and chefs have fabulous recipes highlighting English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish dishes and baking. We have some great restaurants in Wales using local ingredients Try Y Polyn if you are ever in Carmarthenshire

On a windy autumnal evening, no one can resist a good old English piping hot faggot broth, with a hint of mint.

….. I also love a baked potato with tuna mayonnaise, beans on toast and a yummy blt.

British food is UNDER rated! I love stews, casseroles, pies, roast dinners, especially love Yorkshire puddings, sponge cakes, trifle, sausage and mash, toad in the hole with apple sauce and a full English breakfast (..with black pudding!)

As much as i love a good curry i wouldnt want to eat it for every meal just as i wouldnt want to eat a tradtional british dish for every meal
I also like cottage ,pie ,a full english breakfast ,sunday roast ,a nice pizza ,kebabs ,fagitas etc
You can enjoy foods from loads of different cultures .

Which just goes to show how different we all are. I'm not particularly keen on spicy food, I prefer to taste the actual food as it is.

Why not order a roast with chicken, lamb or pork when you go out with him then? They’re common here too. I’m not sure that I’ve ever been to a restaurant that didn’t offer two meat options for a roast dinner.

I love a beef stew, cooked low & slow.
Other stewed & roast meats too. I like game in a stew or pie.
Partial to smoked eel.
Salmon.
Homity pie.
Trifle.
Apple turnovers.
Proper Cornish pasties.
Pork pie, not too much jelly.

Loads really.

When you pick dishes from other countries that you like, you are picking the highlights and the well-cooked. You are forgetting that there will be boring, poorly cooked food in every country, as well as the nice things.

I think really good quality butcher’s ham with English lettuce, tomato and spring onion straight out of the garden takes some beating.

We barely ever eat anything off that list, tbh. We have the occasional roast and rarely shepherd's pie or a casserole. We do like them and I think I cook them well but we eat mainly fresh, simple vegetarian food.

I love cold roast chicken, hot jersey royals with butter and a crisp salad with salad cream in the summer. Would the critics of English food find that bland?

I love cantonese and indian food.
My fave is a mixed veg pathia with pazia rice.

I had a crab sandwich on holiday last year, and it was very expensive amazing! It was probably my favourite meal of the week!

Apparently I do an amazing roast dinner according to friends and family
Love a slow roast lamb, beef, or pulled pork
In our world it’s about the fresh ingredients and flavourings - I cook very good stews, pies and tray bakes - using good quality local meat and other ingredients

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I think if you’re saying English cuisine is bland, you’re either a crap cook, or you eat in crappy restaurants. English cuisine,when done well, is delicious…

I love a roast dinner, I can't think that it could be described as bland.
We have a roast dinner most Sundays unless it's boiling hot.
I'm not sure why a whole region/area food has to be described as great, or crap, surely all cuisines have some dishes that are nicer than others?
I went to France for a week once and felt desperate to eat vegetables when I got home because they didn't seem to have many at any of the places we went to (it was an organised trip with set places to eat) But I wouldn't base my opinion of all French food, on that one week!

Yorkshire Curd Tart - you are wrong for that alone

A yorkshire pudding is a conveyor of flavour like pasta or potatoes or rice or pancakes. So if you have bad gravy - which you usually do at carveries or most pubs - your yorkies are going to struggle to shine.

Also - Balti is a British dish. Not at all bland.

I love a good pie, and fish and chips, but yes, other places have far nicer food. I love a lot of Asian food personally.

Yes! Literally cooked batter yet people act like it’s a culinary marvel.

When we go to the UK to visit DH’s family they will insist on taking us out for ‘a proper roast dinner’ and the poor kids try their best to be polite over the Yorkshire pudding. We do roasts in Australia too but lamb, pork and chicken are preferred over beef which is so often tough and tasteless.

The potato obsession is a bit much for me. I grew up eating meat and potatoes every night but I prefer to cook a range of cuisines so we probably eat potatoes once or twice a month. My kids hate boiled potatoes or mash, unless it’s sweet potato mash. And many famous dishes are just variations on a theme. Stew served with mash or slightly different stew with mashed potatoes cooked on top.