Everyone told us British Food Sucks 👎 Canadians Feast in London 🤤
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People often say that British food is the worst food in the world, so today we're putting it to the test in London, England. We're spending the day eating only British/English food and see if it's actually as bad as people say. We try everything from a bacon butty to fish and chips to chicken tikka masala.
Everything we eat in the video (and where):
Bacon Butty (bacon sandwich): Astro Cafe & Brunch
Cornish Vegetable Pasty: Poppies Fish and Chips
Fish and Chips: Wicked Fish Spitalfields
Bread and Butter pudding: St John Bread and Wine
Chicken Tikka Masala: Tifinbox - Indian Street Food
0:00 Canadians Try British Food
0:51 Bacon Butty
3:31 Cornish Vegetable Pasty
4:44 Squarespace Ad
5:44 Fish and Chips
9:46 Bread and Butter Pudding
12:08 Chicken Tikka Masala
15:05 Where to Next?
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Bacon butty is simply a bacon roll. You eat a bacon sandwich
Glad you had a great experience in London.
I live in uk. I have at least one wish and it’s to visit Bleekers Bar,for their stunning bleekers burger.
I recommend you try outside London too.if you really do want to of course- so expensive £9.50 for bread and butter pudding? Wow,shocking.
2 foodie channels worth your research before coming again.
Eating with Tod
Gary eats
Both London based people and most of their content is and has been made around the London places to eat . I’m finding it helpful with these channels. I’m just a foodie. Awesome guys 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@AntonyDyer1970Spot on! If they are asking for a bacon buddy....they will be getting strange looks ...for me it's always been bacon on toast.
@@AntonyDyer1970The British Victorian upper class ( pompous bells) were addicted not only to Gin but also curries 😮 honest! I saw it on the TV so it must be true...although if it was on the BBC probably not.
Surprises me how the English food rumour began, could be the French 😂 our food is Great just don't tell everyone 🤫🤫
The reason Britain got a reputation for bad food was from WW2. American troops based here took back tales of bad food, because the UK had been on rationing for several years by the time the US entered the war so of course the food wasn’t as good as it would be in a country without rationing, like the US. The UK farming industry for instance didn’t recover until the late 50’s. Also, a lot of food from other countries originated in the UK. The Americans didn’t invent apple pie for instance, nor did they create a lot of food they think they did, many of them they came from the UK. Unfortunately the reputation has been hard to shake, despite the reality being completely different.
It’s hilarious because the food in the US is just SO bad (I lived there ) I am glad Canadians are more open minded.
Britain imported 70% of its food alot from the US in WW2, so when the American troops said British food was bad, they where mostly saying that US food is bad, which still today american food is bad, full of additives and other ingredients that are banned in the UK.
Yet the Americans who were stationed in GB brought there racism here to our shores . They can talk about no one they state of them ,
You know it's actually possible to say something nice about one country and not tear another down. I'm an American who grew up in England. Both countries have amazing cuisine and they also have their crap. To say any country has terrible food is ridiculous unless you've tried every dish from every restaurant in each of the respective countries.
I can only remember Spam or corned beef being sold in our corner shop, (1946) when rationing was still ongoing..@@stue2298
It's not entirely wrong though, our food isn't exactly great most of the time...
TBH, the only place that believes the urban myth of British food being bad is 99% from the U.S. And the best fish and chips is found by the sea, Whitby in England and Oban in Scotland are renowned for it.
I'd challenge you to try fish & chips in the Maritimes (Canada) 🤤 It's def not just the USA though. Canada and Aus (in general) think the same. It's silly though because it's obviously not true - Trevor
@@DelightfulTravellers one day I will get to travel
@@DelightfulTravellers...not so much Australia as a lot living out there are ex pats and travel to the UK a lot, however the Australians have one of the best Food in the world...
@@DelightfulTravellers I think back in the 1980's there was some pretty dodgy food about, even though there would have been plenty of nice places too. I 🤔 standards have improved and the choice of international restaurants have increased.
I should imagine the American Soldiers who were stationed in Britain during WW2 and had to eat the kind of rationed food the entire nation had to eat went back to the US and spoke about how bad the food in the UK was…. That’s fair enough. Sadly that ‘truth’ was carried down the generations. Just a guess.
Recently returned from a Caribbean cruise out from fort Lauderdale so there were plenty of Americans and Canadians on board as well as lots of Brits. The thing that made me laugh was at meal times, as on cruises there were English sections as well American and continental sections, the queue’s at the English breakfast bar was always the longest as well as lunchtimes when roast beef and Yorkshire pud was served, and the fish and chips bar always ran out as it was always so popular… I always enjoyed saying to the Americans in the queues ‘I thought you Americans hate English food’… 😂😂
That sounds as English as Apple Pie.
and what did they reply 😂 but that says it all. Bad food my arse
@@nealgrimes4382Erm... apple pie IS English. We've been eating apple pie since the 1300s.
Try again.
That was their point.
What makes me laugh is people pay a lot of money to go on a Caribbean cruise, only to eat food from their own countries!
On the bread and butter pudding, that looks like clotted cream. Clotted cream is a big favourite in the South West of England, such as Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. A lot of our puddings go well with it, such as cream teas (scones), etc.
Chicken Tikka Masala is entry level spice wise. It's the Indian Happy Meal.
It's classed as a low/medium heat level. Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys, in the UK.
A tikka masala is only slightly above a korma, never found tikka masala spicy, i always get a jalfrezi which is quite spicy (at least from my local curry house it is)
A windy poo is a standard level of spice
@@user-pk4rl8pw2n contested
Spot on. Tikka Masala is mild, below even a Bhuna. Most Brits would be happy with a Madras at least spice wise...
That isn't a bacon butty that is a bacon toastie❤
i don't mind Bacon on Toast for a bit of a change.
Agree a bacon butty is either bacon on buttered white bread or a muffin
And please DONT start the the muffin bap roll debate
@@susansmiles2242 wait you mean english muffin or bread roll?
Were I come from a bacon butty was two slices of white bread, plenty of real butter followed by at least two slices of bacon and red sauce. If you used sausages you used HP sauce, the bread seems to change depending on were you come from.
@@tyjuwr4395 no an oven bottom.
I've travelled all over, I'm from the UK, I honestly believe that British food is the best as you can taste it, most countries have their distinct spice flavour, or its too heavily seasoned. With British food we keep it simple, and traditional, believe it or not, food tastes nice without being overly spiced and seasoned. We love a bit of salt and pepper and condiments, but we like to taste what we eat. we are also one of the less obese countries because it's not all laden with salt sugar and butter. also, fish and chips are only good in the uk. Fresh by the sea. .. ps now I want a proper cornish pasty ..so good ! ❤ I love the video by the way
Absolutely! Some people pay for an expensive piece of fish or steak then plaster it wirh some sort of sauce.......I just don't get it!
I agree with what you say except the "we are also one of the less obese countries" I don't think we are😂
@markpotter8280 ok.. in Europe, it's high.. but the world, we aren't too bad 😅
Holy moly, you found some seriously expensive examples! Glad you enjoyed though.
that's a good point - im from London and these are staple London prices, but if people travel outside of major cities you could eat all this exact same food for basically 60% cheaper if not more the more north you go
A proper Cornish pasty is meant to be an entire meal! It was originally made for miners and it is believed that the thick crust was designed to be held while eating the pasty then thrown away so their meal wasn’t contaminated with the harmful residuals on their hands.
The "crimping" along the top was designed as a useful carrying method, as the original "Cornish Pasty" was over 2 feet long and weighed 8 pounds.
That clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding
that's absolutely correct and a lot of pasties taken by the tin miners was half and half.. one end was savory and one sweet..
@@harryhill-es5jk I've never seen bread and butter pudding made or served like that before. Not sure about it TBH.
They also filled half with fruit or jam x
The idea that British food is bland is the biggest myth about it, and probably came from the 2nd world war, when everything was rationed here. Britain has been trading in spices since as far back as the Tudor times, and you've only got to look at a lot of our puddings and cakes to know we've always used spices in our cookng and baking. I found it funny that you thought the tikka masala was really spicy - it's well known for being one of the mildest dishes you could choose, and is often eaten by 'novices' as the 'gateway curry,' enabling you to work your way up to the more savage ones like vindaloo!
^^ This.. Well said.
Or Naga, my favourite.
@@johnwoodgate8125 She's so good with Charlie Stait too.
@Maerahn Vindaloo may be another bogus Indian dish. The original vindaloo was a Portuguese dish that included huge amounts of garlic cloves in it. Later on a hot potato dish may have picked up the name as allo in Hindi means potato.
@@johnwoodgate8125generally it's a teaspoon or two of Mr Naga pickle mixed into something like a madras. Local Asian supermarkets sell it (frequently sold out, the staff will know what it is). It's also great with cheese in a sandwich. No need to pay the extra £3 that my local curry house charges as it's a "house special" when you can buy a whole jar for that.
Re: Cornish pasty - the crust on the outside was for miners to hold and eat whilst down the mines in Cornwall ;)
You won't find "bacon butty" on a menu, as "butty" is simply a slang term for sandwich. Those were, in fact, toasted bacon butties (which is perfectly acceptable 😋)
butty is a gay English word for a piece
I'm going to argue the one food we Brits truly excel at is winter comfort food: The stodgy, ever-so-slightly unhealthy but hella filling kind of food that just leaves you full up and sighing in happiness as the cold weather closes in.
Traditional cooking, throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (and Ireland) is wholesome, hearty and very good for you and delicious. Given the choice over eating at Gordon Ramsey's or another famous chef, to a homemade roast, steak & kidney pudding, fish and chips etc, I'll always choose the latter. If you have been brought up cooking, as I was, from a mother and father who were both good cooks, themselves taught from their parents, then you're going to be cooking good food.
I love 4 ingredient puddings. Rice pudding, roly poly, crumble, custard etc.
Yup the 'sticks to your ribs' comfort food cannot be rivalled.
Regardless of the various foods I've tried whilst travelling, and I like to try most things, it's the comfort food of home that always hits just right.
You excel at those types of food because they're age old staples and you've perfected them over the centuries. Come to Melbourne Australia and experience centuries old recipes from around the world. Just as good :)
A typical bacon butty is usually not in toasted bread and the custard was in fact Clotted Cream which is one of my personal favourites, glad you enjoyed the food and there is plenty more out there still to try!
Not sure I’ve seen clotted cream in other countries, maybe a version in France.
No idea what you are talking about, clotted cream? Wtf…..nonsense.
I’m like you about the fishy taste, ask in the chip shop which fish has no skin. They usually have one with no skin, if not another shop will😊
@@andreww864 Cod is usually served without its skin and haddock with.
Who doesn't toast the bread for a bacon butty. That is weird to me.
As a Londoner let me help you guys out. Firstly, the reason why you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie is because you were south of Birmingham. A buttie is a slang term for a sandwich used mainly up north, like Yorkshire. Secondly, and the most accurate reason you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie, its because you were in bethnal green - a prodominantly Muslim area. Kudos though on making sure to take it to weavers field to let the locals enjoy watching you eat.
As a Geordie I have ito gently correct you Londoner..
Yorkshire is virtually the midlands, up north is a lot closer to the Scottish border 😁
@@MKR5210 listen, anything north of the M25 is north to me mate!
@@MKR5210I think you need a map lass if you think Yorkshire is midlands 😂
Not really buttie is used all over the uk there is more to the uk than London and the north
@@NeverWokeNotASoiBoy Anything north of Bristol is the North to me
1. Bacon sandwiches. Usually in a bread cake
2. Vegetable pasty. It is what it is(vegetarian)
3. Fish and chips. Mushy peas is a must, also I’ve never had a battered fish with its skin on
4. Never had it myself
5. All curries are great 🤤
A true Cornish Pasty can only truly be called ‘Cornish’ if it’s made in Cornwall under protected status and contains only skirt beef, Swede, potato and onion.
LOL I had a Cornish pasty a couple of weeks ago here in Australia, it definitely wasn't made in Cornwall but it was still delicious!
Well it wasn’t a Cornish pasty then..😂👍
@@vtbn53that was a pasty, not a Cornish pasty 😉
@@karenpenny3973 Nope it clearly said Cornish Pasty, now clearly wasn't made in Cornwall but we don't give a tinker's cuss about that here in Australia.
Don't think that protection exists anymore, since we left the EU ...
The word butty, originally referring to a buttered slice of bread, is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich," particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty. Sarnie is a similar colloquialism. (Wikipedia)
Don’t forget the sugar butty!
It’s used in the South of England too
We say it in Manchester, and a lot of us pronounce it bu'ih (without the t's) 😅
@@DrawContent Was just about to post exactly the same thing. Anyone who pronounces the t's is worse than Stalin
The quality of fish and chips can vary drastically. You'll normally get the best if you're somewhere by the sea, especially if it's somewhere with fishermen actively coming and going from there. That being said, it's definitely possible to get great fish and chips all over the UK but, like pretty much any type of food, there'll also be some places that really let the side down.
I've had fish'n'chips all over britain. That one you had looks pretty good. Harry Ramsden's are very good, there's a place in Colne called Banny's and that's excellent. The award winning chip shop in Whitby was fantastic. My favourite is Bizzie Lizzie's in Skipton, it's the benchmark as far as I am concerned.
Never seen a bread & butter pudding remotely looking anything like a slab of, well I don’t know what…they should be prosecuted under the trade description act 🤪.
Took my mother in-law, who's Polish to my local farmshop cafe for dinner. She was absolutely amazed by the quality and we went back 3 times
A Cornish pasty was originally made for miners, in fact half was meat/veg and the other half was fruit for pudding...
And thy were actually "invented" in Devon, according to historical research.
www.google.com/search?q=cornish+pasty+invented+in+devon&rlz=1C1YTUH_en-GBAU1080AU1080&oq=cornish+pastie+invented&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgCEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCQgBEAAYDRiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAcQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAgQABiABBiiBDIKCAkQABiABBiiBNIBCjIyMDczajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
In 2006, a researcher in Devon discovered a list of ingredients for a pasty tucked inside an audit book and dated 1510, calculating the cost of making a venison pasty. This replaced the previous oldest recipe, dated 1746, held by the Cornwall Records Office in Truro.
Nice vid guys. First, butty is a slang term for any kind of sandwich and it would be unusual to see the word butty on a menu. Also I believe Butty comes from Welsh! We also use the word Sarnie as another slang word for sandwhich. Toast is good, but equally we enjoy our bacon on heavily butter thick cut untasted bread. The meld slightly melted butter and hot bacon is just deeeeeelisoius.
Chicken Tikka is considered mild, its the one you give your kids for their first curry!
Made me chuckle that it tasted spicy…they should try a vindaloo, naga or Phaal lol
I was surprised too, I was under the impression us brits love spicy food, I mean isn’t that why Nando’s has more locations in the uk despite being a South African company? Not to mention our love of curry 😂
£5.50 for a bacon sarny!!!! Definitely London. You could buy a loaf some bacon and a bottle of sauce for less!
And toasted. No!☹ The idea is the grease and butter soak into the bread which doesn't happen when it's toasted.
It’s much cheaper in a proper greasy spoon in London. That place looked like a sandwich shop.
@@speleokeir personal choice mate, each to there own. Like smokey bacon. Personally, no, but it's your choice.
@@speleokeirtoasted always, shit loads of butter and a drizzle of ketchup. Plain bread is boring until it is toasted.
A lot cheaper up north , London very expensive
Bacon Butty is a Northern description.
It's normally on a freshly made Bun, not on sandwich bread and not toasted, but frankly a bacon toastie (which is what you had) is a perfectly acceptable alternative. I have mine with a fruity sauce.
If it's a vegetable pasty - it's not a Cornish pasty. - A Cornish Pasty, has rough cut steak meat (Skirt), potatos, onions, Swede and seasoning.
Imo Sticky Toffee Pudding beats bread pudding every day of the week.
Hey guys, thanks for creating this video and highlighting some of the food we have!
Just an fyi; A bacon butty is slang so you typically won’t find it being sold as a butty in food places.
Plus to my knowledge a butty is a ‘roll’ or more accurately a ‘bap’.
Yes definitely clotted cream on top NOT custard! One of the most popular desserts is Sticky Toffee Pudding with ice-cream or custard. I had some after my pub roast two days ago and was delicious!
No clotted cream on top custard all way with bread butter pud my great great great nan pasted recipe down centuries in a home made recipe book, you're supposed to cut bread layer in pan with sugar n raisin between each layer soak in milk egg mixture then bake slice like cake pour custard on londonderry fancy things up 😂
never had it and dont want to I hate sticky toffee anything and also custard.
@@helensmith8007that was definitely a dollop of clotted cream in the video.
I have never had a decent fish and chips in London. Best fish and chips are found in coastal towns. Best fish and chips in coastal towns are found on the Yorkshire coast. Best fish and chips on the Yorkshire coast are found in Whitby.
Traditionally in the UK, haddock has the skin left on and cod has the skin removed before cooking.
You're talking out of your hoop mate!
@@stevehaddon151 haha 😅
@@stevehaddon151
Very well explained and argued.
Chicken Tikka Masala is not traditional British dish, its an adaptation of Bengali cuisine that is a popular dish. The traditional dish is 'roast dinner' and a 'full cooked breakfast.'
chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow, Scotland, which is part of the uk and is therefore british
@@nospamgaming6682 Note that I have said that it is a British dish adapted from Bengali cuisine, it is a 'popular british' dish, but is not a 'traditional' british dish. It's not unreasonable or a slight in any way to acknowledge the culinary style and roots of Tikka Masala...it would seem very rude not to do so!
@@shelleyphilcox4743Almost all British cuisine has its roots in the cuisine of other countries - and I suspect this is the same for every country and every cuisine in the world if you go back far enough. People have been travelling and sharing food with others that they meet since before humans were humans. That said, you’re 100% correct. Where we know the roots of dishes, we should celebrate that, and keep the knowledge attached to the dish because it is disrespectful to do this tribal thing of claiming it solely for one people ignoring the other.
British Indian food is wonderful, when I first moved here, I hated the idea of it because it felt like a betrayal of the food of my childhood but it’s not. People like me moved to Britain in a time when they were treated as second class citizens and they not only built a life for their families, they invented a distinct and vibrant cuisine that is now loved all around the world.
Personally as a Brit I would say that if you want English food you'll probably get it better and cheaper in the North of England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are similar but with their own favourites as well.
The bad food stereotype was born in ww2 by returning America forces, totally missing out on the fact it was heavily rationed, and was until the 50s
It was still shitty in the UK in the 60's .
British food the worst in the world?? Maybe 30-40 years ago, but now Britain is one of the culinary centres of the globe - particularly in London, although there are fantastic eateries all over the country. Spicy food? You better believe it! 🙂Great to see you both enjoying the amazing food that we have in this country.
british food 30 or 40 year,s ago was much better than it is today, back then, apart from maccaroni cheese, we had never heard of pasta, or pizza, rice was only ever heard of as a rice pudding, which was lovely, esp the brown part off the top, & near me the only take-aways that was available was a fish'& chip shop, or a pie from the butcher,s or the local bakers. i will only eat british food like we ate 30 or 40 year,s ago, cos i dont like anything else, i def can,t eat pasta, i don,t like pizza or anything too spicy, also when i was at school. in the 1970s, The school dinner,s back then were out of this world, propper meals & a pudding of some discription served everyday, but also back then, people were much better cooks, these days a lot of people think they are cooking, when all they can produce is a load of slop & crap.
They are talking about British food not fusion cooking or British cooking foreign dishes. All the foods they tried have been around for over 100 years.
Up here in Yorkshire ( Leeds, Wakefield and surrounding areas) practically all our fish and chip shops do the fish without the skin on.
Same in the Midlands. I couldn't stand it if it had the skin on.
Anyone that tells you Britain has the worst food in the world is just objectively wrong. 180+ Michelin star restaurants, countless internationally famous chefs, and a huge culture of both modern and traditional food.
Cod & chips at the seaside, plenty of salt and vinegar. Sitting on the sea wall or bench eating this on a nice sunny day, you can't get better than that
Yes you can, Haddock & chips!
Haddock beats cod hands down. Bloody Sarfeners! 😉
Throw a nice pint into the equation and you’re good
Nah mate, Fish and Chips done properly is school shark and chips. Not the pelagic monster sharks that prowl the seas, but the smaller coastal sharks that swim in small schools. Spent many a summer day over the Christmas holidays at the end of the pier doing that.
Sounds interesting. I've heard the fish and chips in Oz are good@@AussieFossil
We really don't regard tikka masala as very spicy. It's the safe option for those who don't like too much heat.
This was very spicy - Anna
I disagree they do make them really spicy if you ask them but they won't ruin it with stupid ridiculous hot spices.
I disagree chicken korma is the not spicy of the Currys
@spikeandrews1 I would go along with that korma very mild I up graded to tikka masala after that but madras &vindaloo to hot for me.then there's a pharl that's meant to be even hotter,these meals were designed to be spicy because it covered up the rancid meats.
@@smeghead1 Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys.
Almost 5 quid for a pasty?! I know London is expensive but that is taking the Michael.
Two things you won't find in the South of England: 1. A butty 2. Decent fish & chips because they..ie them in that London, fry in oil. Beef fat produces proper fish n chips and you find them in the North East of England. and France and Belgium but not the South and West of England.
Bread and Butter Pudding is made by spreading butter on slices of (usually white) bread, layered in a dish, optionally with raisins scattered between the layers. This is then soaked with a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and sugar (similar to French Toast/Eggy Bread/Poor Knights of Windsor, but made in a layered dish rather than fried in individual slices), sometimes topped with an extra sprinkle of sugar (and optional Cinnamon) to create an extra crispy topping, and gently baked so that the custard cooks to a soft set consistency.
It was traditionally made as a way to use up stale bread in the days before bread was stuffed with preservatives.
Butterscotch sauce isn't a traditional topping for it, but I can imagine it working well, and yours looked to be topped with Clotted Cream.
Clotted Cream is made by gently heating cream so that the fats become more concentrated and float above the watery whey before being chilled and scooped away. It's somewhere between cream and butter and is served with various puddings, as well as the eponymous Cream Tea with scones and jam.
Correct that's not real.
@@andrewmartin2103What's not real?
The bread and butter pudding on the show. Made with left over bread to save money.
Wow.
So that's how clotted cream is made.
Can you turn single cream into clotted cream.
@@andrewmartin2103
It's actually better.
British Food like British teeth being the worst in the world is a myth stemmed from Americans coming over in WW2 when we had rationing...when in reality today British Food and Teeth are one of the best in the world...
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You should have tried "steak & ale pie", the best dish in the world, and VERY British :)
Traditional bacon sandwich is on white bread with tomato sauce and not toasted. Although, other variations to taste are acceptable😊
Absolutely
Wrong about the tomato sauce, traditionally brown sauce.
Girls version is with ketchup. Grown up big misters have it with brown sauce.😊
Almost, pure version is with brown sauce.
I saw a survey recently about whether people have their Bacon Butties with Brown Sauce (HP) or Tomato Ketchup.
It turns out that it is a variation with a rather strong regional bias.
It's a bit like whether your bacon should be smoked or unsmoked (called green bacon in some places).
As for me, my preference is not for sauce, but for fried tomatoes, which are so overripe that all you can do is fry them. Add fried mushrooms to the mix, and I will be really happy.
But I am not sure that qualifies.
We love our spicy food, tikka masala is considered mild in the UK, England was a major spice trading nation centuries ago.
We just mean being a 'National Dish' we were legit shocked at the spice level (of our dish) 😀 - Trevor
It's not our national dish. That claim was made by some website years ago.
I'm not a fan of tikka masala. Find it a bit cloying and bland like butter chicken. Prefer madras, rogan josh, balti, jalfrezi or occasionally vindaloo.
Stop that! If they thought Tikka Masala was hot Vindaloo will finish them off.
Guys you are in London so that was not Cilantro on top of your current it was Coriander 😊
@@artemisfowl66 We've had way hotter dishes than this one 🔥 Trust us.. this was spicy and we know Tikka Masala quite well. Coriander does not exist to us 😉hehe
Fascinating to see what you think of our food. Love your enthusiasm for all the experiences you have
Thanks so much!
Love your video, next time in lLonon try a pint of London Pride beer and Scampi & Chips from a traditional pub...
It was clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding. It's the best way to eat it. Great video guys
British food has been turbo charged in the last 30 yrs. it has changed beyond compare to my childhood. I love curry and anything full of spice. Yet fish and chips holds a place in my heart as a kid my grandads chip shop was heaven
Fish and chips was itself a 19th century import into Britain from Portugal.
Ironically, as a Yank that has travelled to the UK I found it disappointing and frustrating that it is not as easy to find trad British food there. I love me a Steak and Kidney pud but you have to know where to go. The days of going into any pub and getting it are gone. And having Sticky Toffee Pudding for dessert is criminal!
Surprised you didn't try a traditional British Sunday roast. Arguably our 'real' national dish. Chinese is probably the most popular 'takeaway'.. you'll have to do a re-review 😊
We’re not in the UK any longer. As full time travellers it’s way too expensive to spend more than a couple of weeks! But next time I’m sure we’ll do another food video. Also we did a Sunday Roast in a previous video as well as a few other dishes. Be sure to go back and watch them. - Anna
Had one today nom
Beef Wellington!
@@DelightfulTravellersThe UK is one massive rip off nowadays.
I thought Sheppards pie. Do you eat mince meat pie in England
Leaving the skin on the fish fillet in Fish and Chips seems to be a London (or possibly Southern) thing and would not generally happen in The North. Things like Chicken Tikka Masala are technically BIR (British Indian Restaurant) dishes - which is basically Indian inspired dishes aimed at the UK pallet (similar to TexMex in the US) but which people in India will not necessarily have heard of.
It’s definitely more of a London thing, I’m from south and all the fish I’ve ever had never have the skin on. Not all of London leaves the skin on either but every other city down south I have visited I’ve never experience the skin I don’t think I would like it with the skin on.
Almost 💯 % of our battered fish is skinless, if it weren't I'd never eat the skin anyway. You must visit Newcastle, my city & take a 20 min metro ride while you're here to Tynemouth, head down Front St as far as you can go (that'll be the Castle & Priory) , look for the pub, The Gibraltar Rock & take the stairs down to the beach where you'll see Riley's Fish Shack , you can order whatever the catch was at North Shields fish quay that day, often Monkfish wrap or sometimes Lobster wrap 🦞
The white dollop on top of your dessert was cream not custard, lol! Fish & Chips for the win! It looked amazing and a good price too. You'll find a bacon butty in Northern cafes, usually it's not toasted though, just bread and butter. 😋
Butty is not a term widely used in the south of England, which is probably why it was hard to find it on a menu in London.
@@childofthestones2820Bacon sandwhich/bacon roll, in every single cafe in the south.
You should have fish and chips with salt and vinegar!
Or a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce on the beer battered haddock or cod.
You can thank me later. You're welcome.
@@Turn1t0ff absolutely not salt and vinegar all the way.
@@Turn1t0ffSweet chilli sauce? You what? 😂
Take it to another level and add mushy peas. ?
Hello, just found you! Just to clear some things up, that wasn't a bacon butty you had there, 'butty' refers to untoasted bread, what you had was bacon on toast. Traditional fish and chips, at least up here in the north of England is cod, which should have no skin, no scales, no fishy taste and no bones. You don't often find bones in chippy fish, although sometimes you do, it depends where you go. Ah, Dom Rep, my wife and I have been there 5 maybe 6 times in our 25 years of being married, and just like you, we love it ❤
Great video guys. Glad the myth our food sucks is put to bed.
I hope you get a chance to try a proper British Sunday pub roast!
Tikka marsala is considered a relatively mild sauce in the UK. If you want spicy try Madras or Vindaloo.
Or phal
@@ianfinney7820haha I was going to say Phal had it once Americans think food is spicy there this is the bees knees
Masala, not 'Marsala'..If you are English.....Marsala is a wine.
@markyboyno1114 Thanks for the clarification. I believe that the sauce originated in the UK and had assumed that marsala, a sweet fortified wine, was used to flavour it. However, I should have spotted the different spelling.
Bread and butter pudding and bread pudding was usually made to use up left over bread. Stuff bought out is normally not as good as homemade!
Try rolling chip shop chips in buttered (real butter), white bread and dip it in Curry sauce (preferably Chinese curry sauce), absolutely delicious 😋
Butty is a more Northern English word for sandwich and the origins of the word stem from “bread and BUTTER” … shortened to Butty
Yes definitely not toasted
@@Lloyd-Franklin it’s still Northern we don’t ban you from saying our words
Used in Wales too.
this was fun to watch! i'm an immigrant to the uk, and it sounds stupid, but i worried a bit about the food. NO NEED!! there's some bloody great food here, and i'm not even in london. love your video!!
I don't know where you came from, but you came here because we were better than your own country, whatever your views on the food. Please stop insulting your hosts culture.
@@JohnJones-wo1bcshe didn't insult anything?
@@JohnJones-wo1bcthey said they were wrong, chill out
@@JohnJones-wo1bc The chill pills are over there --->
@@JohnJones-wo1bcIf anything it was a compliment..🙄🇬🇧
In the UK we usually have 4 types of bacon to choose from - unsmoked back bacon, unsmoked streaky bacon and then smoked back or smoked streaky bacon. Back bacon tends to be leaner than streaky and it has the 'eye' (that big meaty section that's missing from streaky bacon). Your typical British bacon butty/sandwich is made with untoasted bread and many people prefer tomato ketchup to brown (HP) sauce (although I like either).
Bacon butty for me is in a breadcake, roll, baby cob and many more depending on part of country you are.
When in bread like you chose it's a bacon sandwich and they're pretty much the same .
Who would have thought that battered fish would taste fishy? Very strange. Seriously, it is great that you are proving that our food is not bad, as generally thought. In most towns you can get every conceivable food within a short distance, cooked by people from that country.
Speaking only for Scotland our seafood is exported around the world it’s top nosh.
Too fishy old fish.
@@janice506Agreed, I live in Botswana out here in Africa and I purchase Scottish seafood.
Fresh fish should neither smell nor taste "fishy".
The food in Britain is superb. Yes! There was a time when it was beige after the war. But Our food is astounding. Real fish and chips are cooked in beef dripping etc. Thanks for the vids guys.
Is beef dripping actually used in fish and chip shops anywhere today?
@GeeCeeWU Yes, it is. Certainly here in Leeds.
@@neilpickup237 It seems to be mainly plant based oils down here in the south, better for our health apparently. As a child born and bred in London, I used to eat beef dripping spread on toast.
@@GeeCeeWU yes in Lynemouth
@@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk Good to know Kimberly.
The fish was "too fishy", somebody help me off the floor.😂
Best Tikka Masala is to be found in Glasgow at the creators restaurant the Ashoka.👌
Also originally from the maritimes(NB) and last summer tried Fish & chips at a small dock side restaurant in Petit Rocher (village on the Bay of Chaleur) I haven’t had better F & C in my whole life!! They make it fresh in front of you. 🤩🤩 On the subject of British food, I was in Canadian military and stationed in Germany for several years in the 80’s and 90’s and we often trained on British bases in Germany. We sometimes shared their kitchen and breakfast was similar to ours but everything was deep fried, eggs, bacon, ham and even toast. Everything just tossed into the deep fryer! 🥴
Anna, you hit the nail on the head when you said the pasty is like a dinner. That is were the origin of the pasty came from. The tin miners of Cornwall used to work very long and hard hours and it was some distance to get from the surface down to where the tin in the mines was extracted so they created the pasty so that they could take it underground with them and have their dinner down in the mine. The reason for the pinched curved end of the pasty is that they were extracting tin out of the ground which meant they came into contact with poisons in the tine so they would hold the pasty by the curved pinched ends, eat the pasty and its contents and just throw the pinch curved part of the pasty away so they did not ingest the poisons on their fingers.
I was surprised to see the skin still on the fish normally it’s always taken off 😮
Up north, yes. Often left on down south.
@@adriangoodrich4306 im down south in bristol and I've never seen fish and chips with the skin on
Cod no skin. Haddock with skin.
@@russellstanton7583 both with skin haddock skin is thicker than cod skin
@@mofirminhosadiosalahrobert4904..thanks . I didn't know that. A chip shop worker told me that..
One slice of bread is not a bread and butter pudding that's a London thing, find a proper Transport Cafe, ask a Trucker, Cabbie or Bus driver where they eat, find a non tourist pub in the sticks, get off the guide book trail and find them for yourself.
The good places don't care about a "guide rating", but serve good, solid food to repeat customers on the daily, tourists come and go, but the drivers are their bread and butter.
I always think it's hard to find good fish and chips inland. You're better off getting them along the coast, somewhere like Whitby, Scarborough, Brighton, etc.
for the best bread and butter pudding, you need to use the stale bread that's left at the end of a loaf shortly before it start to go off, when it's in that state it gives the best texture to the pudding, it's just not something most people tend to do anymore sadly so when you buy it pre-made like it is here, it's likely not the 'best' version it could be due to being made 'fresh' if that makes sense, but I have no doubt it will still taste delicious.
I deliberately let fresh white sliced bread go stale for a couple of days before making bread and butter pudding.
The worst food myth comes from when there were overseas (US) military guys stationed over here in the 50s/60s and rationing from WWII was still in place. It took a while for the UK to recover and as a Londoner, you can find amazing food over here (I grew up in the US, so do have perspective). A lot of it is also where you go as London can have horrifying food for tourists (we don't eat there).
For desserts - try sticky toffee pudding. Definitely my fav!
Also, we do call French fries, French fries - chips are thick and fries are thinner (think McDonalds fries). I'd suggest plaice for your fish & chips - try out Poppies for it or Sea Fresh in Victoria.
In the UK for fish and chips, you should try Plaice - it's a flat fish native to the European continental shelf, so you cannot get it fresh anywhere else.
Ah, now you're in my stomping grounds vs Halifax, NS. My son just returned from visiting his grandparents.
As a Brit living just outside Halifax, NS, I agree that our Maritime fish is comparable to the quality in the UK but the Brit chips beat the NS chips, hands down. LOL Sorry if that's controversial. Re: your bread and butter pudding - it's clotted cream on the top. Yes, A Bacon Butty is a bacon sandwich or roll so you got the right thing. If being particularly fussy about getting it right, then it should be a soft white bread and untoasted. but I've seen variants over the years. Yes, Brown sauce is HP sauce (can get it in Pete's in Bedford and the Great British Store that opened in Bayers Lake). Yes, Chicken tikka marsala is a UK dish - that surprises a lot of people.
Cornish Pasties were originally a working man's lunch. With the pinched edge meant to be held by their dirty hands and therefore discarded once the food eaten - they are usually/traditionally meat and veg in a gravy vs vegetarian.
Cilantro = Coriander in the UK. Same thing, different name.
Glad your having fun.
You have only properly tried British fish and chips if you have lots of salt and vinegar on the chips. 😋
Cornish Pasties we’re originally in two parts, with a savoury in one side and a sweet in the Other. They were made for miners to take to work. They could hold the crimped crust with their dirty hands, and throw it away afterwards. You need to get fish and chips at the coast where the fish is fresh. Whitby in Yorkshire is famous for them. As someone has already said, the bad food reputation came from American soldiers who were posted here in WWII. They had rationing in the rest of Europe during the war, but the lads didn’t experience that, because when they were there people were shooting at them.
The Forfar Bridie is also delicious & Callander does excellent ones also . I’ve never tried the Cornish pasties but they do look good .
and not actually cornish if not made there or to a certain recipe..
It might be that 'bacon butty' is a more Northern term and Londoners might call it a 'bacon roll' and it is often served in a bread roll, rather than between two pieces of bread. Bread or toast is fine too though, and yes, it's usually back bacon.
Cod is less 'fishy' (in my opinion) than hadock, and it is also probably the most popular fish for fish and chips.
You need to be in the north east of England for the best fish and chips, in Amble you can get an amazing seafood platter and at Riley's fish shack in Tynemouth their menu changes daily depending on the local morning catch. I lived in London for 2 years and never liked any fish and chips down there half as much as here up north ❤
Noted for next time... thanks 🤗
The word butty means butter & bread it's a Northern saying and it's a filler food for the working class. It won't be called butty in London unless you have a Northerner owning the place . You need to go to the places these foods come from ti have the best , especially the Cornish pasty, abd fish and chips always get them ftim a seaside chippy. Pluse they will cost a fraction of the price .
I'm from London and here a butty is specifically in a roll. It is a word down here, but you won't usually see them called butties on any menus.
We never go toasted with our bacon butties, and we're likely to go with a bread bun rather than slices bread. But I'm glad you enjoyed it, back bacon is king!
Usually we don't leave the skin on, at least not in the North West where I'm from. The only time I've had battered fish with the skin oon was a "chippy" in Yorkshire but I do think it adds more flavour
Enjoyed your video, just some info.
Butties are a Northern thing. It will (more likely) be referred to as a sandwich down South. There is no one way to do bacon sandwiches. My mother-in-law takes a bap (white roll) and fries the inside of both halves in the bacon fat, she then spoons cooked tinned tomatoes (very reduced) over it - very good but you wont find many commercial places doing this.
Chicken tikka masala like this is very British. Ask for this in Southern India and what you will get is less sweet, less orange and a whole lot more spicy (like Jalfreezi levels of spice).
Vegetable pasty is not from Cornwall it is a sacrilege! You should have gone to Greggs for pasties ;-)
Fish and chips aren't fish n chips without vinegar. My wife is the same about fishy fish! But she does eat fish and chips.
You are right the Pastie is a a full meal, Cornish miners took them down the mines and ate them for lunch. The reason for the think semi circular crust is that the part you hold to eat the pastie using it as a handle, since the miner hands where dirty they didn't eats the crust.
Fish and Chips if you don't like the fishy taste go for Cod, my favourite is Rock Salmon (Dog Fish), a particular favourite fish and chip for Londoners.
As a Brit, I, of course, love classic Fish 'n Chips, however, when the mood takes me I've been known to crave a decent CTM.
Glad you are enjoying your time in the UK. 👏🏻👏🏻
Re Chicken Tikka Mass. being spicy, ironically it is one of our mildest and often recommended to "curry virgins" as an entry-level dish. Most curries are hotter or spicier. If you want to understand the British palate, bear in mind the difference in heat between English mustard and that insipid US stuff, but also that Britain sat at the centre of a vast trading Empire which included most of the spicey places in the World. We were the ones that carried and sold them to everyone else. Also many Brits worked as administrators, businessmen and in the forces in all these places and brought fusion versions of what they found home. Also, in certain areas of the country where smuggling was rife (ie pretty much everywhere) spices expensive anywhere else in the World and available to few but the wealthiest, were to be found in some of the humblest homes (often as payments for ignoring those lines of porters carrying contraband through your village at night). Britain has been one of the most cosmopolitan places in the World for some centuries, and its cuisine reflected that. The experience of a few GIs of an island which had been under siege for 3 or 4 years is barely representative.
A "buttie" is more of a northern term than a southern term, it's a soft buttered roll. You wouldn't find that on a menu really in London as its not a term we usually use. It's usually just called a bacon roll or a bacon bap. I haven't lived in London for about 15 years though so if things have changed then my apologies for the incorrect information
There is a very specific cuisine called British Indian Restaurant or BIR. A lot of the dishes on Indian restaurant menus in the UK are unique to the UK and not found in India.
They were originally Bangladeshi, so not really Indian at all
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@@chriskirk2765 Most are Bangladeshi, some are Pakistani, often the staff are from Mirpur, in Pakistan, sometimes known as little England, because there are so many British products and many businesses accept GBP.
I think if you looked on a map you would see the entirety of Bangladesh is situated within the ancient Indian kingdom of Bengal, which is why they refer to themselves as Bengali@@chriskirk2765
Great video! A popular english activity in Spring and Summer is going on a pub walk! Thisinvolves do a rambling countryside walk of between 4 to 12 miles and ending at the pub for drinks and a meal- any day of the week. There are many books available with set walking routes -across interesting landscapes, woods, rivers, castles, farmlands , hills and monuments finally ending back at the designated pub for much needed refreshments.
Thanks so much!
We used to go walking every Sunday between8 to 13 miles. ( till I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia ) and we had to take a packed lunch…always felt jealous of those who went for a drink and food …🥴😂🏴
A bacon sandwich 🥪 or butty (regional way to call it. ) you can toast the bread or not. And brown sauce is best for bacon. Cornish pasties are very nice. Usually made with meat and vegetables. Glad you like our traditional food.
A lot of times we go for a morning roll in crispy bacon and brown sauce excellent
A sarnie is a sandwich using bread and a butty is usually a roll. So you can get a bacon sarnie or a bacon butty. A roll is also variously known as bap, barm, cob in different regions.
Sarnie and butty are slang so you won't see it on menus but if you ask for it at the counter they'll know what you mean.
Butty is more a northern term and where i'm from it means any Sandwich.
Tikka masala spice level is actually considered mild to we Brits and is one of the mildest curries you can get in the uk.
It always make me laugh when people say us british don't do spicy food when the phaal is also a British curry
Traditionally, England its more cod and Scotland its haddock. Our fish and chip shops used to sell a lot more variety of fish, including skate, plaice, rock salmon, halibut, lemon sole.. but it is very unusual now because it is so expensive, and chippies are often just haddock and/or cod and scampi.
Bacon Butty is usually in a soft bread roll, with butter and brown sauce and the bacon rashers. A great way to eat "on the go"
Bread and butter pud is a way of using stale bread. Beautiful. But not usually with butterscotch sauce.
13:45 Specifically, that's chicken massala. The tikka element comes from marinating cubes of meat overnight in lemon, spices, and yoghurt, and barbecuing them on skewers, before making the curry. No cubes, no holes = no tikka.
For the best Fish & Chips, have to try seaside Chippy. Soggy Chips r the best, also you'll find most fish up north is Haddock and doesn't have skin. In the South of England we tend to leave Skin on, which sucks. Cod mainly in the South. Haddock shouldn't remotely taste fishy. Tikka Masala isn't a spicy dish, creamy