3 foods to change someone's opinion about British food

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I've heard it for years, and whenever I start to believe that actually it's a myth and we've got some really decent food in the UK, I find out about some comedian or other minor celebrity who's just visited and cried their hungry stomachs around our country.

Surely we have something that people would love? As title says, if you could choose 3 foods / meals that'd hope to change someones opinion about our food, what would it be?

Obviously I have to do my own list so I think....

1. Extra mature Cheddar
2. Beef and guiness stew in giant Yorkshire puds
3. Crumpets

Touché:D

S and K pudding is the food of the gods. Not so much as a pudding pudding though in my view.

I guess I'm a bit particular about my sandwiches. Thinly sliced cheese, thinly sliced, peeled cucumber, egg and cress all in dainty wafer thin bread- absolutely.

I read that the Americans don't use butter on their bread when making a sandwich which is weird to me.

And another incomprehensible horror is meatballs in a sandwich. It's called a dirty or sloppy something or other. We English have a lot of abominations but so do our transatlantic cousins.

Italian DP loves a good scotch egg

Have Portuguese friends who love treacle tart and Greggs sausage rolls

A good scotch egg is a thing of beauty. Especially in a restaurant when you cut in and the warm yolk oozes out.

I like a dainty sandwich too!

No butter, usually either mustard or mayo, I think it goes better with our most common sandwiches

A meatball sub can be amazing! It's not that different from a hamburger, just with marinara sauce and melted provolone

Americans are much more into subs I think and we have really nice sub rolls -- I can see how they don't sound as good if you're thinking about hot dog rolls and the like.

Sticky toffee pudding is amazing British food

English strawberries!
Roast beef and Yorkshire pud
Scones and clotted cream with jam

Since when were dates British ?

Oh so the British food can only have ingredients that are grown in uk

its not a British recipe

so sherry trifle doesn’t count either

So that discounts jam, and any puddings like treacle tart then?

as obviously we don’t grow sugar in uk either

Well they appear in recipes from the 1600s.

Lots of things we think of as European originally are not. Tomatoes were imported from the Americas, along with potatoes.

Tea is still imported but is there anything more British than a cup of tea?

Actually, we do. East Anglia is currently busy with lorries trundling muddily along lanes, on their way from the sugar beet fields to the sugar factories at Bury St Edmund's and Wissington.

But even so, it's daft to stipulate that the ingredients now have to be British too. The international trade in food goes back millennia.