To think traditional English food is overrated?

[ThatJoyousCyanReader]

I’ve always heard people say English food is bland or uncreative, and to be honest, I kind of see their point. Apart from a good roast dinner or fish and chips, what actually stands out? AIBU to think that other cuisines just do it better?

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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!)

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

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

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

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..

I think we do stodgy desserts 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.

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.

The rest of the world agrees with you OP

Henry VIII never ate a potato.

I think we sort of forgot how to cook during WWII due to rationing and shortages.

Shepherd's / cottage pie used to be made with left over meat from the previous day's meal, not mince.

Start with good ingredients and then you can cook something better.

We have fabulous cheeses, dry cured meats, fish both sea and river. If you go to a butcher you will get much better meat. Proper sausages are a thing of beauty.

No one makes pickles and chutneys as well as we do.

If you are buying cheap sausages and mince then your food will be bland.

Lisa Faulkner's cauliflower cheese. Simply sublime.

Food is all about good ingredients and how it's cooked.

It's stodgy because it was created to fill hungry people doing hard manual work in shitty damp, cold weather. It can be done badly and blandly and also very tastily and well.

Do you piss all over other countries traditions and culture in such a xenophobic way or is it only the English who are fair game?

I find British food delicious! And over taking the French these days, particularly in London. Expand your culinary experience op!

Is English food overrated or do some people have no imagination?

If it isn’t cooked well, it is bad. That is the same for all cuisines in the world.

You're cooking it badly.

I think English food is underrated.

I still remember that 20 or so years ago my friend came to the UK for the first time to visit me and she was so excited to try the famous fish and chips.
She was so disappointed and underwhelmed, bless her, when in turned out to be just some giant fish finger and potatoes. I don’t know what she thought it’s gonna be tho, but I think she was just excited about the fact to finally try the famous and well heard about British food.

I’m not from the uk (Irish) but I actually think the opposite. I think it’s under rated. You can’t really beat a roast dinner or fish and chips. And cheddar cheese is undoubtedly the best cheese ever in my opinion. I actually think French cuisine is a bit over rated. Portugal has some of the best food in Europe and it is under rated too in my opinion.

English food is bland and boring. I much prefer other cuisines.

Omg! Have we fallen back into the 70s where everyone is knocking 'British food' because we're bored?
But yes, tete de veau, andouilette, quenelle de brouchet, are very tempting areen't they....