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

A posh French man told me he liked Stilton. If a French person compliments it it must be good!

Mince Pies and brandy cream
Scones, Jam and clotted cream
Victoria Sponge
Beef Wellington
Roast beef dinner with all the trimmings
Cornish Pasties
Beer battered cod and chunky chips with lashings of malt vinegar and mushy peas.
Shepherds pie
Lancashire hot pot
Bara Brith
Welshcakes
Cawl
Simnel cake
Hot cross buns
Dover Sole
Welsh salt marsh lamb and mint jelly served with British asparagus and Jersey Royal potatoes.
Cauliflower cheese
Bangers, mash and onion gravy
Faggots and peas

I could go on, but I'm feeling hungry and homesick. 😅

We should probably have kept ourselves to ourselves and not taken over the Indian subcontinent but...

...their influence certainly pepped things up a bit.

Yorkshire Tea with toast, butter and a good raspberry jam 😍

Cream tea
Cornish pasty
Crumpets with real butter
Egg and cress sandwiches
Beans on toast with lots of cheese and pepper
Roast dinner
Fish and chips
Apple pie and custard
Fresh seafood (I live opposite a beach and our local seafood restaurant serves the nicest fish I've ever tasted)
Jacket potato with real butter and mature cheddar.

Yum

Agree with Cheddar.

I thought Guinness was Irish, not UK ?

Yorkshire pud is a filler, designed to reduce consumption of meat.
Only just bearable if cooked in meat fat.

Crumpets are tasteless stodge - only conceivable use is transferring butter to the mouth.

I'd go for Cheddar, Scotch Beef & Welsh Lamb.

Beef Wellington, sticky toffee pudding, freshly baked scones with clotted cream and jam. Proper bacon sandwiches.

There is more than one decent wine bar in Paris which has an English cheese platter on its menu.

It's nice to read about all the foods British people love but I'm really sorry, a lot of these are either acquired tastes (steamed puddings!) or not what people would think of as particularly British. Lots of places have lovely seafood and fruit/veg for example.

Apple crumble is amazing though! And I love that you can easily get foods from all over the world.

I think there's really not that many global cuisines it's OK to not be one of them

Fish and chips (in English) is on the menu everywhere you bloody look in France, but they're crap at making it. And then French people criticise it because it's our "national dish".

Firstly, no, it's not our "national dish", we eat lots of different things. And secondly, yeah, it is crap the way French people do it!

Crumpets
Oven bottom muffins
Hot cross buns
Real porridge
All the northern Irish breads
Our eggs
Plain pork sausage from the butchers
Cumberland sausage
Our classic salads... round lettuce, vine tomatoes, cucumbers
Sliced cucumber and onion in malt vinegar
Chutneys
All the cheeses
Jams
Traybakes
Scones
Clotted cream
Real butter
Ciders
Hotpot
Roast beef
Yorkshire pudding
All the hot puddings
Rhubarb, raspberries, gooseberries
Gin
Beers
Whisky
Really good English Breakfast Tea
White sliced bread
Spiced cooked ham
All the pies

" e.g. you got fried breaded cod in many seaside places in Europe in the 1980s, so I really don't think this is a particularly British dish. "

It's usually in breadcrumbs rather than batter though isn't it?

Bakewell tart's Ok, but a bit dry. I've never tried gypsy tart and UPF tinned baked beans in a sugary tomato sauce isn't really something to brag about even though they've got some iron and protein.

Interesting. People I know outside the UK consider Dairy Milk to be overly sugary not proper chocolate. I love it, but I grew up with it.

Yes, I could never eat Dairy Milk when I lived in the UK and I absolutely love chocolate, or maybe rather because I love chocolate. I tried it once and it was so sickly.

Tea bread with salted butter

Yorkshire pud is a filler, designed to reduce consumption of meat.
Only just bearable if cooked in meat fat.

Whereas pizza and pasta are what? Lots of countries have classic comfort foods that fill you with cheap carbs.

It's nice to read about all the foods British people love but I'm really sorry, a lot of these are either acquired tastes (steamed puddings!) or not what people would think of as particularly British. Lots of places have lovely seafood and fruit/veg for example.

Lots of delicacies around the world are acquired tastes. Even something as simple to us as cheese, is challenging for lots of people in some parts of the world.

And the point about our seafood and fruit is that the things that are best here are specific because of our geography. And that is true for most countries but we are fortunate to have a temperate climate so can grow a larger variety of species than many places. It's why our gardens are good as well.

I was just about to make a post saying why is it that Brits think the rest of the world doesn't have its own fruits, vegetables, salmon and lamb, chocolate, pies etc. and what makes them think theirs are so superior?

Also, apparently Britain has THE BEST climate for growing anything

I’d say a good proportion of the food you get in a standard French cafe / bistro is mediocre at best. And the Menu is identical everywhere you go…French onion soup, croque monsieur/madame, steak haché, zzz the same, everywhere.

Clearly that's not true, but it's really no different to people from other countries believing that we eat nothing but soggy shepherd's pie.

We do have some fantastic varieties of apple though. I've never eaten a really good apple in France.

News flash: there is a whole world outside France 😅

Yeah but we just happened to be talking about France in this part of the thread didn’t we?

We’ve talked about many countries throughout the thread.

😅🙄

Who was talking about France? You responded to my post, I never mentioned France.

You're not the only person talking in this thread, that's kind of how discussion boards work.