What is your favourite British food?

[Frosty66612]

Got into a heated debate with someone at work this morning who isn’t from the UK and he was saying how revolting all the food is.

Some of my favourites:

Really good fish & chips
Scones with clotted cream & Jam
Sticky toffee pudding

We also have some of the best seafood

British food, when done well, is wonderful.
For me it would be a roast beef dinner.

Crumpets slathered in butter.

Food of kings

Toad in the hole with lashings of gravy and cauliflower cheese

Stodgy carbs and animal fat, mmmm...

Nothing. It is very bad!

Chicken tikka

Sunday dinner you can't beat it.

Trifle with loads of booze.

Definitely a roast dinner with all the trimmings.

Obviously proper fish and chips.
A good, rich stew.
Beef roast, yorkshire puddings.

Our cheese is excellent.
Our puddings are excellent.

If you're not a fan of rich, stodgy, winter-warming food then you're not really experiencing British food at its finest imo.

Hunters Chicken

I really want cauliflower cheese now 😋

I’m now a vegetarian but I fondly remember
Roast dinners with roasted spuds cooked in lard or goose fat
Steak & kidney pudding
Shepherds pie.
Beef Wellington
Melt in your mouth beef & ale pie
Succulent beef stew with fluffy dumplings.
Fish pie with mash potato topping.
Ploughman’s lunch with lovely farmhouse cheese.
Eaton mess
Apple pie and home made custard
Spotted dick (a proper suet one, not a sponge one)
Afternoon tea served on a proper cake stand is quintessential and lovely too
Your colleague sounds like a dick.

Afternoon tea.

Smoked salmon and seafood, Cromer crab is hard to beat, our oysters are excellent.

Puddings & cakes such as syrup sponge, apple crumble, Victoria sponge.

Oh and hot custard of course!

Mince pies?

I'm fine with most British foods, but struggling to think of anything traditional I'd love, unless it's particularly well made.

Christmas pudding!

@ada ooh yes, Cromer crab is divine!

Homemade cottage pie in a winter. Best thing ever. I love British food when it's properly cooked and I am foreign 😁
Oh and English breakfast minus the black pudding.
Most of the traditional food is kind of a comfort food and that's right down my alley.

Nobody makes cheddar cheese like we do!

Fish and chips, properly done pies and pasties and sausage rolls, roast dinners, shepherd's pie and cottage pie. Full English breakfast. Lots of lovely cakes, scones, proper ice cream. We have so many great regional cheeses you can have as a ploughman's or a cheese board.

You have some of the best sea food????

That's the one thing I miss the most here - good fish and good sea food! It's such a limited variety, extortionate prices and far feim fresh....

And at pubs is always coated in batter and lacking seasoning , you only taste the fatty stodge...

And don't get me started on fish and chips! How can you ruin a good piece of fish by not seasoning and then coating it in batter?? I wonder if people had to eat it without mayo, ketchup, tartare sauce if it would be as popular...

For a proper meal it would have to be chicken tikka masala or a roast dinner (proper one with all the trimmings like cauliflower cheese/homemade Yorkshire's and roasted seasoned veggies and potatoes, home made gravy and really thick creamy mash)

For a junk meal it would have to be chips cheese and gravy (I'm not too keen on fish) or a full English (without black pudding sorry not sorry )

Victoria sponge cake

Baked beans

Roast dinner with all the trimmings
Fish and chips
Shepherds/cottage pie
Toad in the hole with onion gravy
Crumpets and real butter
Cheddar cheese on toast
Cheese and potatoes pie with cheddar and beans and sausage
Beef stew