9 British Dishes Everyone Should Try - Anglophenia Ep 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- British food has a bad reputation, but Siobhan Thompson's here to set the record straight, offering nine tasty U.K. dishes that will quiet the naysayers.
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Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is heaven on a plate!
***** Oh, you are missing out!
***** Please do! They're heavenly with gravy!
***** No, but I have family in England, mostly in the North. It's kind of a second home for me.
Personally, I love a pork pie or any meat pie, for that matter. Beef Wellington is a real treat as well. A Victoria sponge makes a good dessert, but I'm told it's not easy to make.
+Kitty Grimm Victoria sponge is very easy to make. Cream the butter and sugar together, beat in the eggs, fold in the flour, and cook. See any any recipe book for quantities and cooking times. To make a Victoria Sponge sandwich, divide the mix into two cake dishes and cook. When cool, spread strawberry jam on the top of one half and put the other half on top of the jam. Delish!
***** Yorkshire pudding is just a simple flour, egg and milk batter mix. Very easy but totally delicious.
"What's the point of taking over half the world if you can't culturally appropriate their best food?" You are a gem, darling.
Cannot believe the Sunday roast got left out! Roast beef or lamb, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, 2 veggies and loads of gravy.
I LOVE ROAST DINNERS C and S, mash potatoes, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puds Turkey, British ground beef, SHED LOAD OF GRAVY DRAINING EVERYTHING PUTTING IT IN THE YOURKSHIRE PUDS AND DRINKING IT, broccoli and Pigs in blankets AHHHBBVGHDNCHEIDJDBE I NEED ONE
sarah glynn-My nieces are home from Uni & came over to visit me this past Sunday. I made a nice lamb roast, with roasted carrots & parsnips and mashed potatoes & gravy. When I was growing up, every Sunday we would go to my Gran's and have Sunday roast with my family & my cousins. I miss it, but people seem to be so much busier now. I don't cook regular meals for myself very often. I have gotten into the habit of preparing a few basic meals on Sunday afternoons that can be combined or reassembled into other different meals. It is less expensive than getting take away food all of the time.
benzman500sl-Me too, but I have Irish relatives and they are amazing cooks. A special shout out to my Croatian sister in law, if she lived closer, I would weigh one thousand pounds!
trifle! She forgot trifle! My absolute favourite dessert...
+Stephanie Heyens It's almost sacrilegious that she failed to mention the dessert this great nation holds most dear. I've not had a trifle for years but now I want one!
+Stephanie Heyens With or without the tinned fruit in the jelly?
I'm not that bothered about the type of fruit, but I'm very fond of strawberries and/or raspberries. And fresh whipped cream on top! And glace cherries in the cream, and . . .
I like trifle..
John Benton Now I REALLY want one :-(
Please tell us, what is a trifle?
beef stew with fluffy dumplings.
home made Yorkshire puddings with your Sunday roast, definatly NOT frozen shop bought ones.
steamed suet crust steak and kidney pudding.
jam roly poly with custard.
fish pie with a generous portion of cheese grated on top of the mash potato topping.
lamb shanks braised in red wine.
scotch broth, made with lamb shoulder.
and finally the eternal favorites shepherds pie or cottage pie.
+julie Nicholson Stop teasing me !
+julie Nicholson I'm a vegetarian AND I'm on a diet; that list is sweet torture to me. I've dribbled on my laptop :-/
+julie Nicholson
Parkin mmm.
In America we have chicken and dumplings which essentially is chicken with little bread dumplings-which are more like noodles in the northern states-covered in a light chicken gravy. You all might have this. I don't know
The REAL creme de la creme of Chicken and Dumplings at the little flour dumpling made by old ladies that resemble Spatchle. (at least in NC). Very time consuming. Absolutely brillient!!! Some folks cheat by throwing canned bisquit dough in boiling chicken broth. Still, Mattew, i would have to agree. Proper American chicken and dumplings are comfort food X10! British folk would go mad over it!
Interesting fact: what we Americans call 'cookies' and Britons call "biscuits' has much to do with the languages from which we loaned these words. The American variant comes from the Dutch word 'koekje' or 'little cake,' whilst the British word has an old French origin in the word 'besquite.'
We also use the word cookie though it just refers to one specific type.
As an Aussie, I used to think that we had the best meat pies in the world. After a four-week-long trip to the UK in late January through to late February of 2017, I have discovered that as a nation, Australia is now, in my opinion, a distant second to the UK in terms of meat pies. Seriously, a beef pie with mashed potatoes and peas was a culinary highlight of the trip, and I can't wait to go back to the UK next year!
Stay in UK, my guess you are a Pom anyway....
Not sure if you get this in America.. But sticky toffee pudding is the best!
I really want to try sticky toffee pudding it looks amazing!
Apollyon766 When you come here, just go to any good pub for a Sunday lunch (it’s honestly hard NOT to find).
Once you have tasted that soft, sugary goodness my friend... THEN you have lived
Kirsty Hulme oMG YES STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING IS AMAZING
@@jamiedodger2361 worst advice ever. There are so few good pubs anymore, they are all chains. You need a family run traditional pub which are few and far between. Better off making your own and embrassing British tradition properly.
Personally, i love a good cheeky Nandos with the lads.
TruuMUUU Arch Bishop of Banterbury.
heresjonny666 Just talking about it is making me want a cheeky Nandos
TruuMUUU Nandos is originally from Africa, so really your comment is pretty bloody stupid
Jo Farrant But i still enjoy a good Nandos wif the lads
Jo Farrant And the Hamburger wasnt made in the USA, yet America is stereotyped with them.
as a British person, we really do serve chips and peas with everything.
Not exactly the best choices for proving that British food isn't uninspired and boring - "bacon sandwich", "sausages and mashed potato", "thick bacon".
A good bacon butty with HP sauce and a cup of coffee is one of the best quick breakfasts
WizardJim "flaky bread," "chewy bread," "spongy syrupy bread," "bread with meat in it"
I have to agree, I've always found HP to be awfully sour and a little bitter. They used to have HP "Fruity" that I always thought was vastly superior, wonder if it's still around..
Yes it is - and I agree, its much nicer than 'Original HP'.
what are you talking about sausage surprise is the best dish in the world like if i went to the fanciest restaurant in the world that is what i would ask for
If you want to see good British food watch the great British bake off
Ugh... Cakes, sweet pastries and more damn cakes!
+Caroline Trevis The make lots of food from abroad though so it's not exactly British.
Great show , but not everything is British!
Crumpets are the answer to the pancakes Vs waffles debate
Mmmmmm. You've no idea how much I miss toasted crumpets, dripping in butter. There's a perfection to certain things and that is a perfect combination.
Yeah but how hard is it to find an American pancake in the UK- very! Gimme an American pancake any day of the week
Lucile totally agree, best of both worlds. used to love them as a kid (and I'm American from a Central American family :D
Lucile I love crumpets, smothered in butter. The only place I have found them here in the U.S. is at Traders Joe's. I make my own sones though as the one ones in the stores usually contain blueberries, which I loathe.
Really? Scones are usually plain or have cherries or raisins/currents (?) in them in the UK.
Crumpets are really good and I hate English muffins and they don't actually make them that much.
How could you miss out the Full English Breakfast?
+LewisHamiltonMSPR I know rite!
It probably has to do with that...
+LewisHamiltonMSPR bacon, sausages already covered and more popular with tourists than natives
I'm an Anglo Canadian and I love crumpets and so do my siblings and their kids. Funny. Thanks Gran.
I live in the US and there happens to be a real British shop in town. I am lucky enough to have tried most of these. A British scone with clotted cream and jam (with tea) and the Cornish Pasty are two of the best things I have ever eaten.
Back in the 70's, British food was pretty bad, but now it's up there with the best in the world. We sell our food all over the world, including to countries like France. The best chefs in the world open restaurants here because we appreciate good food. British sparkling wine (Champagne) even beats the French in international competitions. If you've never tried British food, stop sticking the stereotypes and say nothing!
I had it in the last 3 years. Lived almost all my life in Poland and during that time, I was travelling a lot to Italy, Spain, China, Germany, Czech Republic and many other places, which most of English people don't even know that they do exist (hey come on... I work with youth of this country and recently I have discovered that some of you believe that Paris is "an another country" (not a city), Eifel Tower might be located in New York and that China is actually a continent... anyway.. Going back to the world of food and kitchen styles.. I have to just stop you there with your "best kitchen in the world". There is million places better then UK to have a better kitchen.. And I am sadly honest with you. British kitchen is just boring.... (however I do like some of your specialities... but they can't cover the overall feeling)
There's no such thing as British champagne. Champagne is only made from grapes from the region of Champagne which is in France
Caitlin Patrick.
thats why it said sparkling wine first
Lee Doughty he actually put champagne in brackets which is parenthesis. Parenthesis is used to add extra information about a certain thing, not to give alternatives to what someone is really speaking about. Therefore, he was suggesting that champagne was one of the sparkling wines he was referring to. Sorry for the essay but it's true.
Curry is definitely the national dish. Probably more curry houses than any other cuisine. We have a high Indian/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan population too which is partly the cause of why curry is so popular.
It's ingrained in the culture of the UK as an accepting nation of other cultures.
Adam Zapple Actually Chicken Tikka Masala was created in Birmingham so that curry is technically an English dish
+Wibhad Strenchvorkel Sort of like America's national dish--pizza! The Italian version is just so boring and plain.
+Gabriel Anderson Erm. No. That's not true at all. The British were not hated in India, and certainly arroved on quite gppd terms, but leaving that aside, "curry" as a concept is a simplified British understanding of Indian food, which is actually a very complex cuisine. Indians have long spiced their food and without the Indian knowledge of spices, the British would not have used them.
The concept of "curry" was born out of Indians in the employ of the British who adapted their recipes to suit the British tastes (we love a good gravy). As time went by the British became more adventurous with Indian food but the concept of curry stuck and came to be applied to many authentic Indian dishes and some homegrown that are available in shops and takeaways all over the uk.
+Gabriel Anderson *arrived on quite good terms...Please forgive my appalling use of a keyboard. I'm on my phone.
The bad reputation British Cuisine has comes entirely from the French, a people who eat Frogs, Snails and Horses! Americans love Bacon! We love Bacon! The French love Snails! Who are you gonna trust?
The bad reputation British food (those oversimplistic and terribly unhealthy things are not "cuisine") has comes from whoever watches this video. You really need to rise your standards before you have a heart attack at 25.
I'm 46. no heart attack yet.
True but Americans over cook bacon. Bacon should NEVER be crunchy. It should be soft and just fractionally starting to brown off at points of contact to the frying pan
I am from Spain and I don't think eating frogs, snails and/or horses is a strange thing to do. Is it strange? I personally don't eat neither of those because I find snails and frogs repulsive, and I don't like the taste of horse, but I am shocked you are shocked. Maybe there is something funny from your country I find strange?
eating frogs, snails and horses is soooo weird like why wood you eat them that's my opinion
Give me some Rhubarb Crumble with some custard and I'm all set! Yummy.
Love Rhubarb crumble!!! (though not made wi meat suet nowadays)
WankersCramp69 I love Rhubarb Crumble but hot with ice cream
I would have hoped to see more regional specialities, something often missed by tourists who only visit London and eat rubbish like jellied eels and fish and chips (which only taste any good at the seaside I'm afraid).
How about ECCLES CAKE, BAKEWELL PUDDING, ARBROATH SMOKIES, BARA BRITH, YORKSHIRE PUDDING, LANCASHIRE HOTPOT, STARGAZY PIE etc. And you alude to the British cheese tradition by dismissing American cheese, but it is varied and delicious, second only to France. They eat plastic rubbish across most of Europe as well.
Lets face it, British cheese is far superior to French. The most popular cheeses sold world wide are Cheddar and Mozzarella. So French isn't even second... Italy is.
You can pretty much guarantee in any house in Britain you have some form of Cheddar and either Parmesan or Pecorino (usually the powdered sort thrown over spag bol). You will hardly ever find any of the french rubbish.
Even the plastic the Americans eat is based on (and often classed as) Cheddar...
NewName I agree with you, but the tradition of cheese in France is a great and ancient one with many different varieties (similar to UK). Italy produces relatively few cheese varieties, although they are made with love.
NewName
i believe it's the most sold worldwide because it is the cheapest
Your regional list could do with a gypsy tart. They're pretty special.
British cheese! Cornish Yarg, ripe Stilton, tart Wensleydale, crumbly cheddar, double Gloucester... No lie, I love French and Spanish cheeses, but I think when it comes to cheese that packs a punch we do a pretty good job.
Also, yes Yorkshire pud! Hotpot! Also, oxtail stew, black pudding, mince pies, haggis (I know it gets a bad rep, but there's worse in a hotdog and it's a delicious dish), liver bacon and onions with mash, Southend pie mash and licquor, beef wellington, faggots (it's a kind of soft meatball served with gravy, not the slur), toad in the hole...
I can't believe you talked about the jam/cream debate without even touching on the skone/skon debate. If there's going to be a scone war fought, it'll be over that. (PS you pronounce it wrong.)
PS she dosen't
No it's pronounced scon. (Not spelled correctly) also jam first
Urm . scone. That's how it's spelt. Its pronounced "scon" in my accent though. "Scone" pronunciation is posh.
Let's face it, we all have food that shouldn't be classified as food. I am an American and love food from around the world!
And I would easily put American as one of my favourite cuisines. Creole food, anyone?
+Mi Ga or Souhern Cooking, the worlds best comfort food!
Well...to be fair, the only thing I eat American cheese with, is a cheeseburger or a grilled cheese sandwich.....
Omg same !!!!! Don’t get me wrong I love cheddar and all types of real cheeses but I feel like American cheese has a place in my heart as well and I only use it for those two things also it’s just such a great comfort food and I feel like essentially when it’s cooked and hot over a cheeseburger or grilled cheese it almost turns into a cheesy sauce and that’s what makes it so delicious!!!
I was working for a multinational company and we were starting a meal with people from many countries and the French guy said "bon apetit". Then the guys from different countries were asked what was the customary thing to say in their country before starting a meal. Someone asked the English man what did they say in England before starting to eat and he replied "God 'elp us!"
This is a fantastic channel and I'm glad I found it. The videos are consistent, well paced and actually quite humorous in a way only us Brits would understand. Subscribed !
I'm from Malaysia and a lot of my friends here love the video series..It does help that most of us like to speak in British accents..hooray colonialism! (I'm jk btw)
Lmao I can't get enough of this channel!!! I've had a lot of these dishes and that's because my family is has strong Scottish and Irish roots but we have a different name for a few of the dishes 😊
Has to be fish and chips and, of course, treacle tart.
Curry definitely belongs on there, since the ones we get from a take-away aren't genuine curry dishes. They're British versions; just like Chinese food served in this country.
Balta was invented in Birmingham. Chicken Tikka Masala supposedly came about after a Glaswegian asked for gravy with his chicken tikka, and the chef improvised a sauce (which the customer loved). Anglo-Indian cuisine is a rich tradition in its own right that dates back generations.
You people are such a theif
No none of the curry is British
Its indian dish you theif
I just stumbled across this channel and I am so happy I did. You are so funny and make all these facts and culture references very entertaining. :) keep 'em comin'!
butter first, then jam.
Phillip Carr sorry I don't like crumpets
Yes
You know what...I like it xD Plus I've had most of these dishes once upon a time and loved em to bits :)
I'm Cornish and the other day I saw some guy put the cream on his scone first and I just stared at him like he was a freak then he saw me so I told that he did I wrong and the next thing I know I'm in Bodmin hospital turned out he had anger management Issues and was from Devon
What would happen if one put the cream and the jam side by side on the scone? Just wondering. -Yank here
Jo Childress you would have an abomination
Jo Childress
Don’t. Just don’t.
If you want to play it safe, do one of each. My grandfather did it for years to keep the peace in our family (my grandmother, my dad and my uncle practice the Cornish method while my mum and my sister go the Devon route)
After watching this, I wish to issue an apology to all the people of Cornwall. When visiting there years ago, my buddies (mates) and I stopped for a Cream Tea, and, being hapless Yanks ignorant of custom, put the clotted cream on first, topped with the strawberry preserves. NOTE: We have a Devon here in the US near me outside Philadelphia, but I am not rich and snobby, so I do not count myself as one of them.
How does it affect the flavor?
How dare someone put the jam on first then the cream
merp merpo The jam makes it a little more difficult to properly spread the the cream on, so putting the cream on first just seems to make sense. Always how we did it anyway.
Emmet
marzipanthequeen No, the cream makes it difficult to spread the jam! I'm Northern so I don't have a hand in the debate, it's all about practicality. I'd say butter than jam, or jam then cream - thickest on first.
Andrew Bulman no no no, you're thinking about it all wrong. you spread the cream on, then add DOLLOPS of jam, screw spreading it.
That's the real way to do it. #ByeFelicia
Miss these videos
Yorkshire pudding! Yum. Made it once for Christmas dinner and loved it. Only problem is that you have to make it with the scalding hot drippings from a marbly $200 usd roast beef or not even bother. Totally agree that what we in the US call scones is usually a disgrace. Occasionally, you'll come across someone who knows how to do it right, but it's rare. Sorry, but I'll give bangers and mash a miss. However, I could live on fish & chips and brown ale. But probably not for long.
Maybe I'm ignorant but I've made Yorkshire pudding from the drippings of many a cheap roast and found them to be fine. I've even seen recipes for vegetarian ones that look fine.
I'm sure it's possible to use (the drippings from) less expensive meat but since I've only made them for Christmas dinner I've only have ever used top-grade roast.
benzman500sl I see what you are saying. I guess I was referring to what passes for scones in America today - which is more like a cake of varying degrees of dryness. Yes a real scone is more like our non-flaky- layered biscuits. But the key to a great tasting scone/biscuit is it's freshness (minutes out of the oven). If it sits around all day long, no matter which type it is or what's it called, it'll be no good (see Starbucks).
+MARK SHARP, scones aren't hard to make.
That's unfortunate.
What about Yorkshire Pudding!??
Don't forget that classic dish cooked by all British students: spag bol.
Scotch eggs are also a great bar food! Handheld, easy to eat, salty, and will help absorb some adult beverages you've enjoyed!
Thanks for the videos! I love mushy peas with my cottage pie!
On my brief visit to York I got addicted to pasties. I tried every variety of pasty and pie I could get my hands on. Then again, I tried just about any food people pointed to.
Honestly I expected most of the comments to be Americans getting defensive about the remarks about American food, but instead it's just a bunch of non-Americans taking shots at Americans lol. And Americans have the reputation for being rude and xenophobic? smh
Chris Jenkins This. And honestly it's the rare person I run across that isn't interested in trying tasty new foods regardless of where they come from.
Chris Jenkins well, after her comment I'm surprised no Pole has yet replied to her comment towards the Americans with 'look who's talking'.
Wilkouak .Hardly, the British government gave Hitler an ultimatum before he invaded Poland. There was no treaty or reason they should have done that, any more than any other country. The fact Britain was in no position to do anything to help defend Poland is another matter.
Chris Jenkins Britain is full to the brim with different cultures and races. It has to be one of the least xenophobic countries there is. But there is a tension between us and the US, Ill grant you that. I think its because were so similar, but clearly different. Kind of like the competition between siblings.
Apple crumble, cottage pie and beans on toast! Really good choices, some of my all time favorites! :)
Lots of favorite dishes in your video. Can't argue with anything there. I'd add your entire, magnificent cheese culture -- dates back to the time of the ancient Romans. Some of the world's best cheeses. And wonderful things are done with the cheeses, from a simply ploughman's lunch to the Stilton soup at Rules in London. But just visiting Neal's Yard or Paxton and Whitfield is almost worth the price of the plane ticket. As noted below, the roast beef is worth mentioning -- and is even admired by the French. Fish and chips are not the only fish option -- few things lovelier than grilled plaice or a bit of Dover sole. Whenever I visit England, the food is one of the things I really look forward to. Just a splendid place to eat.
An American biscuit and a scone just aren't the same. I'll leave it to the culinarily educated to explain the difference, but they're not the same. They're both good, but they're not the same.
Absolutely right. I would like to emphasize one point though; they are both very nice. Differentiating them does not make one bad and the other, good.
You would not have sausage on a scone, rather, you'd have butter or clotted cream and jam (preferably strawberry or blackcurrant), but with American biscuits, you would more likely put the same things you'd put on (English) muffins, such as sausage, egg, bacon etc. Sausage gravy with (American) biscuits is great too. If you're lucky, you can have old fashioned American gravy (made with real, roast chicken juices) on biscuits and that is amazing.
Antony Booth
And you don't have flaky scones or buttermilk scones.
Zagg777 Correct. You do have a lot of variety in scones though. Often you can get them plain, with currants or with cherries. europeandigitalkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/download-2.jpg
Some are similar to rock cakes, like the famous fat rascal from Yorkshire. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_rascal
Zagg777 A scone is closer to a lightly sweetened pastry. A southern buttermilk biscuit is more savory and more often eaten with butter like a dinner roll.
Adam Hoffman But then you have cheese scones (though some people (who deserve to be slapped, because it's just wrong) make with the same sweetened dough).
I'm from Sweden and I love Yorkshire puddings and vinegar chrisps and the fact that you serve peas with everything!
Also out scones-which we pronounce as scōn/-are like sweet little biscuits (our biscuits) that are served with homemade jam in different flavor that aren't as common usually at tea houses and at fancy tea parties like boysenberry, apricot, tangerine, grapefruit, and pineapple - and - flax jams and jellies.
Thanks to your video I was able to learn about the ever-unheard of in Brazil CRUMPETS and SPONGE PUDDINGS. I've tried to make the former so far but they didn't quite look very spongy. You could hardly spot any holes in them. I'll be giving them another try though.
Birds eye custard, haggis, bangers and mash, meat pies.
I need to travel to the UK and explore the food. And see the Dr.Who store.
My favourite food is blackberry and apple (or just blackberry it's still just as good either way) crumble! Not only does it taste AMAZING but there's also the nostalgic feeling you get when you go blackberry picking in early autumn. ^^
Why does this channel not make videos anymore? Im an American obsessed with all things British, history culture royal fam etc.
My mouth is watering. I love all of these. I'm British :D
Crumpets are my favourite
And gammon
I like a good traditional English Breakfast personally.
Tough crowd - for those that have eaten said food, we know it's yummy stuff. For those that haven't - this list is but a taster of the varied foods available to knock your socks off! Good episode!
I had the scones with clotted cream and jam at Bettys Cafe in York. How could I describe it? A food match made in heaven!!!
crumpets are made using a bread dough made with yeast BUT much like a thick batter, which is cooked in rings on a hotplate. The gas bubbles that rise up during cooking produce the characteristic vertical hollow tube-like texture within the crumpet and explains why the base is more highly cooked and flat without texture when compared to the top... it's easy to find the recipe and even videos on how to make them - home made ones are SO MUCH BETTER than store bought ones
Lancashire hot pot. I'm making one this Sunday, I can't wait! Tender lamb, soft, sweet carrot and fall-apart potatoes with a lovely crispy top.
BTW, too many arseholes in this thread. There is fantastic food available almost anywhere you go, you just have to avoid the mass produced crap that fills the food aisles and fast food chains; ask around.
First off, Sunday must've been fantastic! I'm across the ocean and a week late but that didn't stop my from drooling. I wish I could have some now :/
Secondly, AMEN! I completely agree with the second part of your comment. My thoughts exactly!
Okay, bye :)
If you put the jam on then the cream, and then put the other half of the scone on top if you flip it upside down you have
scone, cream, jam scone, instead of
scone, jam, cream, scone.
+Mathew Hanley Its not neat though, the jam will slide off or fall to the side. with jam at the bottom its like the jam is stuck to the scone then you can add the cream. Also, If theres too muh cream it doesn't taste nice, you can have a small layer of jam then have as much cream as you want on top.
+Mathew Hanley
I've seen people do scones a bit like toast where they put jam and cream on both sides and leave it open. Kinda nice tbh if you don't want as big a mouthful in one go =)
+Mathew Hanley Now you're being sensible again. You know where being sensible gets you?
+Mary JieZoe The secret of success is never to run out of all three ingredient. You can have jam left over, or cream, or scones! It just means you have to buy more of the missing ingredient to avoid waste! That's my excuse, anyway!
As an American who has visited London and Manchester two years ago, I can safely say that my favorite British dishes are savory pies, and crumpets.
Always butter first, then the jam. Also, where was fish n chips? I love authentic fish and chips - soooo good! Especially with malt vinegar :)
Jenny Q it's clotted cream. And also Jam first and then Clotted Cream
Ye forgit dee bleedin HAGGIS!!
She's trying to prove British food isn't disgusting: Showing people a sheep's heart, lungs and liver boiled in its stomach as an example of "good" food would be a bit counter productive...
LOVE Haggis. What a treasure. I've tried Curry Haggis this last year- tow of my favorite things together in one dish! Traditional Haggis is wonderful, though.
Haggis is Scottish, not British.
***** knowing is half the battle
sealaughin Haggis recipes were found in England long before Scotland, but whatever, it's still British.
I love British food! Especially the savory meat pies. My favorite I ever had was a curried lamb pie. Sooo good.
Yes. American chocolate tastes burnt. They make Cadburys under license (or used to, until they got bought out) and that tastes burnt too.
on my oh so short to your wonderful country i was introduced to cottage pie. Love love loved it. I waited 30-40 min for it come out of the oven at the Victoria and Albert Museum. it was so good that when I got back across the pond to the colonies, I think that was said correctly, I had to find a recipe.
Heather Weber Another dish that you might like then is Shepherds pie. It's basically the same dish as Cottage pie but with different meat. Shepherds pie has Lamb in it and Cottage pie has beef. The rest of the dish is exactly the same. It's easy to remember that a shepherds pie is the one with the Lamb as shepherds look after their lambs ;)
you forgot to mention my favorite traditional English dish.....roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. our family has been enjoying it for generations. Thanks for your video's...
How on earth did you miss mentioning rare roast beef with Yorkshire pudding?
you are right... wars 'have' been fought over less than how to construct a scone. For example: How to say scone. (protip: you said it wrong.)
Bought plum pudding online for something new to add to the family holiday meal. It never made it out my front door,can't remember what I brought instead. Good stuff.
As a Middle Eastern, I actually feel that British food is underrated. Surely it's not as good as Italian, Indian and Mediterranean food but it has its own unique taste.
Shepherd's Pie, Fish and Chips, Cornish Pasty and others are pretty good
I very recently had a scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream at a British pub in Buffalo NY and it was AMAZING! I think every culture has good and bad when it comes to cuisine.
I'm from Buffalo. I'd love to try the pub. Do you remember what it's called?
Hi Erica the pub is in south buff it's called the British Chippy. It's a part of the English Pork Pie Company I don't know the exact address but if you search for British Chippy on Facebook it's pretty easy to find.
I finally went to England a few years ago. I was up in Bedford, in the Midlands. I was very surprised to find most of the food was really good. I love gamon. I got it in a pub on a mixed platter. It's really good, like of like having breakfast for dinner. Bangers and mash is also delicious. I did notice that Brits really like their peas. Good thing I like them too, they seemed to come with every meal. The bacon buttie was really good with ketchup, but I really wanted an egg on it too. The one thing that was horrible was the chicken. I had it twice in 2 different restaurants (so I can't blame it on one place's bad cooking) and both times it was drier than the Sahara. I don't think I'll ever order chicken if I go back. Baked beans for breakfast was odd and I really don't like the taste of the Heinz ones. They've got too much tomato flavor. Also I thought it was odd to put mayo on a salad. I got offered that once. Hot waffles with sticky toffee are great. Of course the tea is just fabulous. So I agree, it's mostly a lie that British food is bad. It's just the chicken.
they really love their peas, well spotted. Simple, traditional, well made english food, is pretty comforting and tasty. Not the most healthy though
Huh, I'm American, and can remember putting mayo on salad. We must have had a really heavy, British cultural influence passed down through the family.
We had hot tea, when we were sick. It fixes everything, you know.
But did you try the CRUMPITS?
We normally drown our chicken in gravy to make it less dry, but yeah our chicken is pretty crap
***** My favorite way to make chicken is to brine leg quarters overnight in a mix of water, kosher salt, and various spices. The next day,rinse and drain them, pat dry, brush with olive oil, then apply a "wet rub" spice blend, then put them in the smoker under low heat (225F) for about 4 hours with plenty of presoaked hickory for smoke generation. Tender, juicy, flavorful, yum!
Love you Siobhan!
I'm American and just starting to discover British food. One of my all time favorites is British roasted potatoes. Tried it and loved it, right off the bat.
I could go for some bangers and mash, it does sound good. I would love to visit England.
You just get cooked sausage like Polish ones and make Mash potatoes
Sad to say, no you don't. You arrive in England, travel halfway back to America to the Pandora Inn in Cornwall, and ask them for 3 well done Mylor Bridge sausages with mash & onion gravy. The reason why the rest of the world thinks us Brits are bonkers for loving sausages so much is that the rest of the world can't make them. Polish sausages contain more plastic than American cheese, and have Dunlop stamped on one side. South African's make a fantastic beef sausage called boerewors, which, with onions in a bread roll is pretty much a completely balanced diet lacking only beer, but, however, vastly different to proper sausages.
Brandon Piper Try it with ONION flavour gravy..Mmm.....
Oh my dear, you are soooo wrong. Our BREAD is made of plastic not our orange American cheese. How does cheese, enzymes and calcium chloride stirred constantly and heated then gradually cooled thus making American Cheese shelf stable and a beautifully smooth melting cheese equal orange plastic? How bloody dare you! Did I use that correctly? I hope so. ; ^ D
Yorkshire pudding -- a must with Sunday lunch. Victoria sponge and trifle -- two favorite desserts!
I am so going to try these when I visit Britain.
What? No black puddin' ?
+cqtaylor ...or Haggis, or venison, or roast beef & Yorkshire pudding, or Welsh Rarebit, or lamb & mint sauce, or porridge?
It's because no one really likes them
Isn't it fried pigs blood? that's probably why its not on the list, but I like it
You're a Scott aren't you?
No black pudding or haggis but she puts sponge, crumpets and scones in the list 😂. No wonder people think our food is boring
It seems that the biggest difference is not in the foods themselves but the names we give them. We in America have so many people from other countries. We have ancestors from all over the world. So as a fairly young country we take all that and mash it up. And we LOVE to give slang terms to everything. It gets confusing but its really just good food. Taken in moderation of course. Wish I could get my kids to eat peas. With anything.
Try using salad cream
+jack brearley Salad cream and a Hellman's Thousand Island creates one of the best salads for me...
I have never heard of salad cream? I will have to look that up and give it a go. Thanks guys.
Julia
Julia Com Try looking at Heinz since they're one of the main companies in the sauce department
(English) muffins, rich baps, cooked on a hot plate instead of in to the cooker and flipped over halfway. They can also be baked and then the baking sheet is sprinkled with corn(maize) meal. The dough is cut out with a cookie cutter.
I like all of these :D
I'd like to point out that "bangers and mash" and gammon are two things very well known in German cuisine as well :) we serve sauerkraut with the sausages and the potato mash and call it "Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut". Gammon on the other hand is what we call "Kassler" here, after a town in Hesse (one of our federal states) and which we - true story - also tend to serve with sauerkraut and potato mash :'D
I refuse to rest till the day that it is recognized that JAM MUST GO ON TOP OF THE CREAM!!!
Yes
Doing it the other way is just wrong
+Sama Alnassiry You HEATHEN! It is always, I repeat ALWAYS, JAM AND THEN CREAM!
+NotMostGirls Now girls, we all know what's best. It's the way we've always done it!
always thought jam was a spread and cream was a topping. hence spread the jam and top it with cream. no?
I missed shepherd's pie! It's like English lasagna, but with less layers, and my absolute favourite English dish :)
I wouldn't know, I'm Dutch ;)
But we don't have it in the Netherlands, so that's a shame. Thankfully there's such a thing as recipes, now I can make it at home :)
Shepherd's pie is Irish
Jorgen Hartogs It is? I never knew :o
Thanks for sharing!
dont remind us..
Apparently you have never experienced American bacon. That is all one needs to have a happy life. Altho, if you eat enough, your happy life will be short.
I love pastry and scone with cream and jam. My favorite.
Mince pie! Yum! And sausage rolls! Fave lunch/dessert combo from my local Brit bakery.
"... and an English muffin (which by the way we don't have in England.)"
Of course we do. They sell them in Asda or Tesco.
Honestly, i prefer savory pies over the sweet ones.. waaay more tasty ! And yeah i agree with her, bacon and bun cannot go wrong, they're the best thing🙌
Is Devon cream really a clotted cream? I can see why the folks in Devon want to use it first. Do they make preserves in Cornwall?
Jim Stanga the Cornish make clotted cream too, and every county makes preserves.
Lissy Lis well, there goes that theory....alright, smarty-pants....why do they do it differently? :)
Funny you should say that! I was just in Cornwall and the radio was playing and it said "remember, the jam goes on before the cream. You are in Cornwall after all." My dad is from Devon though, so he insists that the cream goes on first😂
Now I'm offended and hungry! Thanks Britain
Kippers, fried eggs and toast with lashings of budda. ✌🏻🇬🇧👍🏻
scones have caused many fights. cream then jam or jam then cream? and how do you say it? Sgone or scone?
I am curious at to the term American in these videos is it only referring to the US or are they including Canada as well, since the term North American is not used or actually South America? Also, I have noticed that as a Canadian we seem to use both US American terms but also British terminology for many things as well. I am really enjoying these videos and would love to visit all of the UK sometime in the near future and these videos will really help with that, thanks.
I'm from Wales. Our national dish is basically cheese on toast.
Is it Welsh Rarebit? As a teen I would thumb through my mother's recipe book and would pick one at random to make. Welsh Rarebit was one. It was good.
I thought the national dish of Wales is cawl. Rarebit is more like an appetizer.
Try spreading Marmite on the other slice!!!
I hear no mention of toad-in-the-hole or cottage pie???
Delicious! I really love a Sunday roast beef with potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. I also can not get enough banofee pie.
It's cream then Jam. There's been research on it and everything. It was covered on the One show a couple years back
The people who think british food is boring obviously haven't heard about Gordon Ramsay.
oh I LOVE bangers and mash!! I make this at home occasionally and I'm 'mercan :)
In my house it was Polish Sausage with Mash Potatoes... nom
Tara B no matter what it's called, sausages and taters is a winner isn't it!! :)
but you can't find British style bangers outside very big cities in the States. We do love our makeshift variety (American breakfast sausages are the closest in flavor but the texture is completely different), but I've been craving the real thing ever since discovering the wonder our week in London over 7 years ago. (that and sticky toffee pudding, I've tried to make it myself but it just doesn't come out right.)
lindaleriel maybe so, but we do with what we have :)
I'm American but grew up on Yorkshire pudding, orange marmalade, strawberry shortcake (sweet biscuit, not Twinkie sponge) for summer dinner, mince pies and custards. The Brit heritage came through in the food in a mix with the PA Dutch inherent in PA. Let us remember that British and American cookery was HIGHLY rated by Brillat-Savarin (La Physiologie de Gout) but then food as penance took over.
There's a Cornish Pasty restaurant near me - so good!!!