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

What I remember from my childhood is the joy of food as it came into season:

New potatoes
Strawberries
Peaches
Apples
Plums
Tomatoes
Melons
Spring greens
Asparagus
Carrots
Runner beans
Broad beans
Peas

It was such a joy and those things out of season were insipid.

Add them to
Fruit pies and heaven begins

Then;
Pie: steak, chicken, game, pork, egg and bacon.
Cottage pie
Fruit and meat puddings
Suety things
Dumplings
Things with white sauces
Spring lamb
Orchardy pork
Carrots and psrsnips
Things with white sauce
Chops and roasts and braisrs
Soups
Oxtail braised
Liver and onions

That’s just it food was so much better when you had it. “In season”

Steak pie, smoked salmon, fish and chips (I live on the Scottish coast and you cannot beat a fish supper I also don’t have any sauce on it), Ayrshire potatoes, Scottish butter and cheese, wild berries, venison, steak...,.

Queen of puddings
Cheese and pickle sandwiches
Beef wellington
Christmas dinner

Oooh welsh lamb, with proper homemade mint sauce and some jersey royals smothered in butter

Treacle tart and custard, apple crumble and custard, sticky toffee pudding, also with custard, roast beef and roasties inside a giant Yorkshire pud, crumpets and butter, cottage pie, proper seaside fish and chips...

Indian.

Salt & pepper on the fish before battering.. such a massive difference.

Nothing, but nothing, is better than Whitstable oysters and pale ale. (Other than Galway Bay oysters and Guinness.)

Most countries generally cook and eat better than we do - and aren’t hung up on fads like veganism - but we and the Irish do have the best raw seafood. Fact.

Cant beat a Sunday Roast mmmm
or
bacon butties
Egg & chips
bangers & mash

Black pudding - absolutely delicious

Vegetables are eaten in season cooked simply, so don't need augmenting with sauces etc. But can like carrots in orange sauce or cauliflower cheese.

The sheer variety of cheeses

All the puddings and biscuits

Compared to other cultures it is often bland. Certainly not overly fond of chilli heat. But I think that's because historically we haven't needed to mask the flavour of food slightly gone over in the heat. Now food is kept fresh world wide those cultures used to spice get the best of both. And will find simply cooked fresh food incredibly bland

Full English breakfast
Proper cakes: Christmas cake; Victoria sponge
Raisin scones, clotted cream, strawberry 🍓 jam.
Trifle (no booze)
All sorts of chutneys and relishes

Kebabs!
A decent curry
Fish & chips ( proper soggy, fat ones)
( last 3 are what always crave when I come back to the uk as I live abroad)

I prefer the desserts to the traditional main meals because I'm not a huge meat eater.

Rhubarb crumble
Eve's pudding
British cheeses and biscuits

Fish and chips with salt and VINGAR. Vinegar on chips, makes all the difference.

Egg and chips.

Cheeses, including on fruit cake.
Fruit cake
Regional dishes like oat cakes, meat and potato pie and proper Cornish pasties.
Clotted cream.
Ice cream - the good stuff.
Roast dinner.
Roast potatoes.
Yorkshire pudding, with gravy as a starter, with the main and with golden syrup as a pud.
Cottage and shepherds pie.
Pears, particularly the ones from my garden.
Chutneys and pickles.
Full English Breakfast.
Things on toast - cheese, bacon, beans.
Sausages.
Boiled sweets.
Banofee pie.
Scotch eggs - proper home made ones.
Steamed puddings, both sweet and savory.
Afternoon Tea.
Sliced bread.
BLT and CLUB sandwiches.
Pims with fruit.
Barnsley Chops

OP

I think we should all get together and do a 'Jacob's Join' and you can invite your work colleague.

Fresh eccles cakes and corned beef hash with a suet crust. Lovely warming comfort food.

We are completely spoiled here. I'm not originally from the UK but I've lived here on and off for 29 years.
I adore the food. A roast it's the stuff of dreams.
Best biscuits and puddings. Too many lovely things to mention.
Also I can cook food from everywhere in the world as we can buy the ingredients.
We are very lucky here.

Huge variety of cheese? Where??in my country we have cos cheese sheep cheese goat cheese, hard, soft , spicy.....
Here u have cheddar. Or variations of it .
Seafood and fish Same, very very hard to find FRESH fish.
It s usually available in post areas for eye watering prices which suggests that it's not really part of common diet.
And curry is not British food
Sunday roast is ok, well is meat cooked in the oven with vegetables.
I do love Yorkshire pudding tho.

ItalianOne

Sorry to burst your bubble but the UK has over 700 varieties of cheese compared to the 450 here in italy

@ItalianOne I think you need to do some research before you make sweeping snobbishstatements actually.

Nobody is on here slating Italian food.

Hate to add more spoilers but fish and chips is courtesy of Jewish immigrants at the end of 19th /early 20th century. It's British like Chicken Tikka Masala is British.
Delicious, by the way.

bellinisurge
This will freak you out, fish and chips were brought to Ireland in 1880 by an Italian who had been heading to America and mistakening got of the boat in Ireland lol

The best choppers are still Italians imho

A good roast dinner, closely followed by fish and chips .

Even better. I have ancestors in both sides so it's all cool for me. One of them came from Russia escaping the pogroms and ran a chippy. I thought this was weird until I discovered that this was not unusual for this group of people.

Saying that all British cheese is the same as cheddar is like saying that all Italian pasta is the same, whereas we all know that there is a wide variety of both.

Try some Blue Stilton or some crumbly Caerphilly, they are very different from cheddar.

Your colleague is very rude, OP!

Too many already mentioned, don't know whether anyone's already said bread and butter pudding.
A dd once invited a load of friends - all sundry varieties of foreign! - round for an impromptu barbecue.
The only pud I could make last minute, no more than a quick nip to the corner shop, was a very big bread and butter pudding with vanilla ice cream.

Having told them what it was - needless to say new to all of them - I added that nobody must feel obliged to have any if they didn't fancy it.
There was not a scrap left.

Roast dinner
Fish and chips
Trifle
Full English breakfast
Shepherds Pie
Eton Mess
Cream tea