To hear that beans/tomatoes/mushrooms are an odd combination from an American, where they mix waffles, maple syrup and bacon together is, quite frankly, hilarious!
@@claireherbert4350 that's the weirdest one. Even as a kid I used to be repulsed by the idea of peanut butter and jam that the Americans on TV would eat!
The whole myth about British food mainly stems from WW2. The UK is in the top league for Michelin stars and has an amazing diversity of global cuisine.
It's astonishing, and mildly culturally offensive, that the nonsense about all UK food perpetuates in the US (particularly given the highs and lows of food across the pond, as in many countries!). And what is that intro music? Fully American, not British in style!
English food isn't that great though In the grand scheme of things is it? I'd wager a majority of the Michelin star restaurants are doing French and Italian inspired cuisine. We don't really have much of a food culture. I'd say the same for US to and quite a few European countries.
@@buoyanProjectswell, no - we have some of the best meat and dairy in the world, as a result of our climate. But the same climate is not really conducive to growing a wide variety of fresh produce (too much rain & not enough hours of sunlight.) So we didn’t have the variety of tastes and flavours and the versatility available to some other countries and instead, our food has developed to accommodate that. It’s all a bit “stick-to-your-ribs-to-fill-you-up-and-keep-you-warm” rather than cooking for the pleasure of eating. Yet our excellent dairy has led to some of the world’s best known puddings, and our roast dinners and protein-filled breakfasts are legendary. We do have a cuisine, but it has developed to fulfil a particular function rather than being solely a source of enjoyment.
@@buoyanProjectsfrench invented modern cuisine so of course there is a french structure to dining In almost all western countries. However if you go to a Michelin star (or just listed) restaurant they may have atiny element of frenchness but the ingredients will likely be British. So will the chefs etc. High end British cuisine has many similarities with French cooking. Similar ingredients. I'm about to go to high end restaurant in Chelsea and it's listed as European/french. Most of the dishes on the menu are super British however. The term Ros bif comes from french appreciating just how good British beef was. I'm also going to Paris this weekend and going to a super french restaurant that specialises in steak and chips. Is that french or British? Exactly.
The thing you’ve missed are desserts. I’ve lived in Spain, Italy, France, Greece and the United States. All these places have NOTHING on British deserts! EDIT: list your favourite British desserts below!
Have to agree. Apple crumble and custard, spotted dick, chocolate pudding...yummy, but they never seem to be available in restaurants any more its the usual banoffee pie (apologies for spelling) and other italian "cake desserts".
Any question about food quality might be better addressed to Americans. I always feel ill after spending time in the States. It's mainly down to the additives put into American food, stuff which is banned in most European countries.
Much of this "British food is poor quality" comes from the experience of US soldiers from about 1943-1944, and visitors during the early 1950s - when food rationing was in place.
Britannica: The first widespread public attention to unsafe practices by the meat industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co. had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. army in Cuba during the Spanish - American War. The meat had been packed in tins with a visible line of boric acid which was thought to act as a preservative and mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died. Roosevelt who served in Cuba as a colonel, testified in 1899 that he would have eaten his old hat as soon eat what he called "embalmed beef."
Why do people say all foods are better in London, it’s a tourist place.😊 you are paying tourist prices unless you know where to go, it’s why people get an extra pay working in London.
@@barryeva8862 As you say, local knowledge can lead you to some great less expensive places to eat but you're gonna need some help. The greatest thing about London is it's sheer size and the number of options it brings in the way of places to eat, the downside is it's cost of living.
I like the pancakes but occasionally. Never really thought about how sweet an American breakfast is. I think it’s odd but it works. I could do pancakes bacon and maple syrup but not with the rest of the breakfast stuff.. it’s too much
@@nealgrimes4382 It really was. I ordered a stack of pancakes. The waiter asked 'meat?' And was quite taken aback when I said 'no meat'. I still don't think that bacon goes with sweet pancakes.
A full English breakfast is a thing of beauty. Sets you up for the day. And no, we don't like our bacon cooked until its frazzled, it should be succulent.
I moved because of lot of reasons but english food is very good compared with the us its got more flavor its real organic no sprays tomatoes especially so much more flavor plus the backerys cornish pasties meat pies and tarts
My concern is when the beans are served near an egg - most places these days put the beans in a small ramikin-style pot to prevent the all-important mixing of matter and anti-matter. Back in the day it used to take skill to place a decent sausage between the two - as Never the Twain Shall Meet ! @marycarver1542
@marycarver1542 Baked Beans have been on British cooked breakfasts (Fry ups) for more than a century (since 1927), so they definitely are 'traditional' across the UK.
There is nothing much wrong with British food if you choose where you eat with care. The choices go from roadside "chew & spew" vans, to restaurants with Michelin stars. You just need to select where you want to be on that scale.......
Pub grub is not always good. Seriously people, I’m as patriotic as the next Brit…..but let’s face it. Some of our food and eating establishments leave a lot to be desired. I travel around this fair island of our quite a bit and I can assure you, our food ( IMHO) is average at best. You really need to choose wisely.
@@monk3yboy69 If you travel to the right places and choose wisely there is some FANTASTIC food available in UK - and I don't mean fancy, expensive restaurants. But I really mean world-class cuisine. I've travelled the world extensively, eaten where the locals recommend and had some absolutely delicious meals - and the UK competes well on the world food stage.
@marycarver1542 It's been a while, but I was once served pub grub in a Cornish pub, that I would have been reluctant to give my dog. That said, they can't normally afford to serve poor quality food. I have no idea what went wrong on the evening I turned up. I ought to have given it some thought as to why the place was empty when I walked in.....
1) Yorkshire pudding isn’t bread but I have to say for a london pub it’s size was impressive 2) if you don’t want certain things on your breakfast you can ask for it to be omitted
@marycarver1542 living in Yorkshire I do know how they are made and you will find that most places round here turn out Yorkies of quite large dimensions I agree that it did look a bit overdone however they do need to be crisp around the top and a bit softer at the bottom But the main purpose is as a vessel for gravy 😂😂
@@seanscanlon9067 Why do US Americans use cutlery in the way that they do? ChatGPT "US Americans typically use cutlery in the "zigzag" style-switching the fork from left to right after cutting-due to cultural preferences for efficiency and convenience, as well as historical influences from early European settlers who adapted their dining practices over time."
We don't normally have streaky Bacon. Back Bacon is the norm in the UK. It's got more meat on it 🙂 (also, don't forget the HP sauce for the sausage and bacon)
Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was served as a "starter". When we had Sunday lunch at my Grandmothers (5 of us including my grandmother) the "yorkshire" was cooked in a big metal dish - maybe 12" x 16" and an inch deep. Into this was put a big lump of beef fat and it went into the very hot oven until the fat was smoking hot - then the thick yorkshire batter (milk, eggs, flour and salt) poured in and back into a very hot oven for about 20 minutes. Served fresh out of the over we each got a big slab - crispy on the outside with a quarter-inch thick, heavy, doughy base - liberally covered in thick beef gravy. It was absolutely delicious. Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was a cheap, nutritious and delicious "filler" for poor Yorkshire farmers. The main course would be roast beef, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, carrots and cabbage - light on the expensive meat and heavy on the cheap vegetables - again with delicious gravy made in the dish the beef and potatoes were roast in. Today Yorkshire Pudding has changed into tasteless, crispy bags of air - with absolutely no resemblance to "proper" Yorkshire Pudding. The way I still make it. And its still delicious.
@@mikecollins8936 I've never had Yorkshire Puddings as anything apart from a part of a Sunday Roast. I've seen them in restaurants filled with other ingredients (these were big Yorkshires - as big as your plate). What I've never seen is them being served as a starter.
@@terrystewart1973 Same here. Served with roast (baked) beef on Sunday. Not served if the roast was lamb, pork or chicken. Perfect for mopping up gravy.
My nan used to cook fried bread in lard. Full on fat, "gives the men energy to work. Can't have em going hungry and stopping at the pub" she used to say. I wouldn't do it to my arteries, but god bless her she did a fine breakfast. Sadly fried bread seems to be dying out these days. I understand why hotels don't do it - it would dry out on the buffet but sad you can't get it in the cafe's so much anymore.
In London we call it the full English, the word Brekky is used in other parts of the UK. The basic food was to set you up for a hard days manual work, but its now for anyone, and not every day. Sunday Roast, you can have Pork, Lamb, but traditionally its Beef. London is well over priced. Portsmouth is great, and if you have time the Isle of Wight.
A lot more tourists are now visiting the UKs 2nd biggest city, Birmingham ( Peaky Blinders, Cadburys Chocolate, Aston Villa Football Club, Shakespeare ) for its laid back, not so crowded, cheaper than London, amazing food scene vibe, definitely worth afew days in, same with Manchester to a slight lesser degree.. Both great places to visit as a break/alternative to London
I lived in Brum for three years and I agree with most of what you say, but Shakespeare was not a Brummie, and you will find few traces of him in Brum, which in Shakespeare's era, was a relatively small market town. It is highly unlikely that Shakespeare visited Birmingham.
Use the Yorkshire pudding to mop up the sauce and plate, it's not supposed to be a food by itself... it's like a Naan bread and curry. You use "the bread" to clean the plate.
Yorkshire pudding is “Just Bread” it’s basically a crepe or pancake cooked in hopefully deer dripping. Also where was the black pudding, bubble and squeak in the breakfast. Hash browns is a bit dubious inclusion. And Americanised product.
thanks for taking me down memory lane; i am a brit living in france and everyone says french food is good, but there is no comparrison to our great british food; glad you enjoyed it xx
Sorry, on the side of the French in that one but I do love English food. I’d love to see a suet pudding revival myself - ham, chicken and leek is the daddy for me
I am a Brit living in France and I agree. Most cafe menus in France are dull and unimaginative, same old same old. I yearn for a good tea shop where I can get a filled baked potato or some soup and a roll or an allday breakfast. And don't get me started on how pathetic French puds are. It will be freezing cold and they will serve up 'Floating Islands' aka a blob of barely cooked meringue perched on a pool of anaemic custard. When what I really want is a sticky toffee pudding. French food is definitely not as good as it was...its hard to get a decent meal out now unless you are prepared to pay quite a lot. I miss a good pub lunch....affordable and lots of it. Last time we went back we had a lovely lunch of brisket, gravy, yorkshire pud and vegetables including cauliflower cheese. In France it is rare to get adecent portion of vegatables with a main course. The veg are little more than a garnish.....and i miss it.
To be honest, I grew up in the 80’s and the food was pretty bad, but certainly over the last 20 years, it’s improved enormously. My Italian friend says Britains food has improved more than any other country.
Something I've noticed about a lot of Americans, is their tendency to eat items from their plate one at a time, rather than stacking different food items from the plate onto the fork like most British and Europeans.
The main point about London food is - you can find any type of food you want from all over the world. The national traditional British foods like those you tried are all over, but regional traditions vary much more. London has its own unique food traditions: Pie & Mash esp. and Mussels & Eels - shame you missed those. Fish and Chips is best enjoyed near the sea where you may have more fish options. In the north of England you'd certainly have had black pudding with your traditional breakfast.
@@Azog150Because it is. I didn't say meat pies - I said "Pie & Mash," it IS a historically London thing - which is I suppose why you don't know about it. Find it in dedicated Pie & Mash shops - served with Green Liquor - go look it up.
@@jonathanbowen3640I said nothing of the sort! I said more fish options. In simple chippies Haddock & Cod will be frozen - other local options in restaurants may not. You "know it all" - but you didn't even comprehend what I said!
I live in France now and really miss British food. It's great. Some Classic French cuisine is similar to classic British meals, but things like Sunday Roast or Fish n Chips are hard to come by. Ditto the English Breakfast.
Yeah - a decent Beef Bourguignon or good Moules Frites or even a decent baguette or a croissant are VERY hard to find in UK. Vive la difference !! Oh - and yeah - I do love a good "Full English" and good Fish 'n Chips are few and far between these days - with ultra-fresh fish, good potatoes and all deep-fried in beef dripping. The fish perfectly steamed inside a crispy batter shell and the chips slightly crispy on the outside and slightly soft inside. Beef dripping is essential for the deliciousness - VERY hard to find in UK these days.
You should travel more in France and having spent almost 48 years as an international trucker I can assure you France is a fantastic country for good food..As a trucker I would use Les Routier restaurants but most towns and villages have a decent place to eat at a fair price, I never once had a bad meal in France but the UK 🙈..Luckily I was mostly transmitting the UK either on route to the continent via Fishguard Pembroke Holyhead or Liverpool so didn’t have to eat more than one meal , I k ew a few places just off the motorways that you could get an edible meal but that’s as good as I’d rate it…Start exploring more in France , I love good quality food and I often got that in France but seldom in the UK where beans and chips seem to be the staples🥴
If you want a good view of London go to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath Then take the DLR to Island Gardens, walk through the tunnel to Greenwich and up through the park to the Prime Meridian. Stopping for pie and mash along the way.
British food is great -it got a bad reputation due to WWII, when years of austerity (that lasted into the 1970s) meant mean meals and basic ingredients. Since then it has of course taken its revival -same recipes but with much better sourced ingredients and the quality's back.
It’s still bad . You need to know where to go. The chance of walking about and just finding a top rated eatery on every corner just does not exist. The opposite is true . There are plenty of average places to eat all over London. Truly exceptional are very rare.
@@monk3yboy69no different from anywhere else. But no need to talk about restaurants.?I’ve been all over the world and enjoyed some great food but the real comfort comes from the simple stuff I do at home. Really only the negative whingers cling to that stereotype.
@@monk3yboy69So? That’s the case wherever you go. The original statement is correct. The food and quality has vastly improved on a macro level. It’s just Americans love to perpetuate stereotypes
So, i think there are two main reasons why americans, in particular, dislike british food. 1. The americans first started these claims while posted in Britain during the 1940's. Rationing was in place because of the war, so ingredients were sparse. Brits hated the rationing too, but it was their reality, they werent going to make exceptions for the americans. 2. British/european food standards are vastly different and many chemicals and additives that are perfectly acceptable in the US to make your food taste better is simply not allowed here. Food such as bread in the US has an average of 6g of sugar, whereas bread in the UK has an average of 1g. Another example is your fast food. Mcdonals fries in the US have over 20 separate ingredients to make them taste and look the way they do. The same mcdonalds fries in the UK have only 3 ingredients; potatoes, oil and salt. Now im not saying the british are saints when it comes to food, we have things in our food that probably shouldnt be there also. But when you compare the differences you realise that american food may very well taste better but its also laden with things that no human should be consumed. It doesn't take long to research these things. In conclusion, i think Britain gets a bad rap because our foods are different and the american taste buds aren't accustomed to food without all those nasties.
Couldn't agree more. Plus not everything needs to be pumped full of flavour, a really great beef stew (with good quality meat) only needs a few herbs to shine. It's like modern day American food has to use 47 different ingredients so when only 6 or 7 are used, it's 'bland'. It's not...that's what food is meant to taste like.
That full English breakfast actually looked quite good compared to most i've seen reviewed. I love sausage and mash ... goes great with a red wine ratatouille.
Bangers and mash, beans on toast, cheesy chips, pie and mash, roast dinner, full English breakfast, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce, fish and chips, mushy peas or curry sauce, Salt and Vinegar Walkers crisps, and a proper cuppa with milk ! ahhhh these are all the comforts of home I missed when I was away. Other places try, hardly anywhere does it the same. Makes me wonder how many of our attempts to do,other cultures cuisine are actually authentic compared to their country of origin. Mind you, having ventured a fair bit, I can safely say we get a lot right. Mostly because the restaurants offering that cuisine are people from that country/culture who have settled here and brought their fabulous flavour! We are truly lucky! I never take it forgranted!
You can ask, on ordering, for the items to be cooked to your taste. For the bacon to be cooked more, we usually ask for it to be "well done." The reason for the bad reputation was the war. We were mostly cut off from the rest of the world, so many of the foods brought in were the basic necessities, and exotic spices and fruits from the Empire were forgotten. Visiting armies would only experience the rationed foods that were available at the time.
Of all of the comments we’ve gotten regarding the Yorkshire Pudding, this is by far the best one! Made us both chuckle 😂 Thank you for watching and we hope to try a better version of YP on our next visit 😊
3:39 as an English gal, I was aghast that the gravy didn’t go on the chips and cabbage as well. Chips and gravy is a must! Cheesy chips are a must! Cheesy chips and gravy are even better! With lots of vinegar!
I'm glad you had fun, guys. I'm sorry you went to Portsmouth afterwards though haha. You may have wanted to head further north or if you were going to the south coast, some of the fishing towns in Cornwall.
In yorkshire the pudding is either round or as we have it square and before mainmeal ,my wife said she would be ashamed to put that what you had in front of somebody come to yorkshire for a proper dinner
I remember taking my grandmother for Sunday Dinner at a well-known, very nice hotel in the centre of Leeds. As the waiter served her with a "yorkshire pudding" she asked in a loud, accusatory voice "and what do you call that young man ?" The stammered replay was "a yorkshire pudding madam" to which my grandmother said "well go and tell the chef to make me a proper one". And he did. And 20 minutes just as we were finishing eating she was served with a yorkshire pudding, hardly any air and a doughy base which she slathered in gravy and ate with relish - while we all watched and wished we had done the same LoL At home she served yorkshire pudding straight out the oven - cooked in a square dish - cut into square slabs and served as a starter with gravy. Delicious. Oh - and washing the metal "yorkshire pudding tray" was cardinal sin.
Exactly. Living in America I was shocked about the meat quality, especially poultry. The chicken breasts are pumped up with hormones and double the size of European’s. Plus they taste disgusting and rubbery. And the cheese there is rank and just gloopy slop. You can see why so many American people are morbidly obese.
ahhh finally a food channel that doesnt annoy The F out of me , also they are not obsessed with asian foods only which seems to be thing on youtube at the moment where 99% of food reviewers are only doing asian foods and I have to search forever to find videos featuring foods from other places in the world, dont get me wrong I love asian food , but dont want to ONLY see asian foods ... I really enjoyed this video and love the couple , I am totally subscribing .-))
I would not say its Asian foods are all over your tube. Unfortunately, if you watch one of that type TH-cam will bombard you with them. You need to switch profiling off.
I'm always surprised how many Americans visit London, try the food, do reviews but never visit Rules restaurant. It opened in 1798, is still serving and most Americans go to pubs. And Berry Brothers and Rudd has been in business selling wine etc since 1698, older than America.
U INSULTED 1 OF THE MOST TASTIEST , TRADITIONAL ENGLISH ROAST DINNER ACCOMPANIEMENTS PAL / ITS MEANT 2 BE EATEN WITH BEEF GRAVY . I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY 1 2 BE SO UNDERWHELMED BY A YORKSHIRE PUDDING . I AM RATHER ANNOYED / & CERTAINLY CUDENT BE MOTIVATED 2 WATCH U YAKKIN ON WITH YER CACK COMMENTARY / U TUBE CAM UPLOADS . P.S I RECOMMEND A RATHER FINE RESTRAUNT IN BAHKMUT IN THE DONBASS OF EASTERN UKRAINE WHERE U YER WIFEEEE CAN SCOFF A ROAST THERMOBARIC MUNITION PIE AND WONT BE GOING ON ANYMORE WORLD FOOD TOURS AFTER THAT EVER AGAIN @@KristalandTerry
Yes it was different. Be sure to watch for our next vlog on Monday. We go down to Southsea England and rent a car to help get around. Driving one of those English cars was very different!!
tripe is like marmite... you either love it or hate it... like many other old delicacies in the UK, some fading out... when i was a kid we used to see hundreds of people at the beach side buying seafood from the venders, jellied eels, cockles muscles, shrimp, crab, razor fish, clams, winkles and other shell fish... now you dont see as many venders if at all...
First time I was in the UK 20 years ago, I thought the food was absolutely disgusting, but it has improved since and last time I was there it was actually quite good.
My point exactly. Even today you will find disgusting places to eat in London if you go in the wrong places. Each to their own and I suppose their budget. I do feel you need to know where to go for quality at a reasonable price. Because for me there is nothing worse than paying good money for bad food.
Gravy on the roast needs to be thicker and covering everything. Thats usually the problem you get at the more upmarket places. They aim for presentation above taste and texture
few immitation supermarket puddings available, but a real YP is not a side bit, its the main part, either smaller or plate sized, has to hold a sizeable roast beef part + accompanying gravy moat within, + any roast veg onions, leeks potatos too within the pudding. so what you see there is a modern manufactured interpritation of what is. as a starter , perhaps, have had it like so, but mainly with a far larger dinner later. and those are smaller by far, not the size of a main dinner pudding. i like a good 8-16oz size beef slab to float within the pudding with gravy, and some potatoes and onions cut into the giant dam in sections or slices, but what was served to you is not what i would expect as yorkshire puddings
comparison would be calling the best burger in the US, is a basic cheeseburger from McD? out of any burger available in US, calling that soggy patty the best , would be comparable. not trolling, just saying maybe you missed out on what real yorkshire puddings are and should be like. although i dont doubt 95% or more of the Uk population knows themselves. my grandmother was from Yorkshire, was a great cook and never since have seen what she was able to cook. find the real Ypuds,. not the store front themed pubs take on them for the tourists. if a foodie, you would appreciate tasting the real thing
Please try Yorkshire pudding again, properly made and sized. Get a Brit to show you how to "garnish" it (including a nice simple onion gravy) and you'll never ever never ever again mistake it for(or call it) bread. AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH. (An 80+ year old Geordie)
Having worked at the U.S. Naval offices in London a couple of times in the mid '90's, we used the canteen there in the mornings. So, When the lady says "crispy Bacon," she means "deep fried bacon!" it's like eating hot Frazzles! I never did get used to eating deep fried bacon sandwiches,
I can't stand beans in a fried breakfast. I also prefer the black pudding I had in Ireland (they also serve up white pudding, which was a new one on me & much nicer than I expected) as it seems to have more oats in it, which gives it a nicer texture IMO.
Take you hat off at the table! !! The full English should also include black pudding. It’s an acquired taste because it’s pigs blood sausage. I love it on my breakfast. Take off 1 sausage and put a slice of black pudding on instead.
As a Brit I thought you gave a fairly good review. I think sometimes a little history behind the food would be nice for your viewers… particularly why there is so much selection of food served for breakfast. And the history behind the Yorkshire pudding. I did giggle at your attempt of a English accent 😂 Cheers 🍻
The one problem with promoting British food is there are hardly any solely British restaurants with amazing chefs...plus the British love variety and eat a lot of Indian, chinese, Thai, Italian etc...the real tasty perfect British food is cooked at home .. Tgeres nothing better than roast potatoes cooked in goose fat, yorkshire golden puddings on a sunday roast...usually British food resides in pubs where its cooked fast and at volume ...you cant beat British home cooking ❤
Very true my sister was a host for students from all over the world up until Covid. Recently an old student from china visited and was really disappointed when she hadn’t made a full Sunday roast dinner.
To hear that beans/tomatoes/mushrooms are an odd combination from an American, where they mix waffles, maple syrup and bacon together is, quite frankly, hilarious!
And peanut butter and jam
Add grits to that list. 🤮🤮
@@claireherbert4350 that's the weirdest one. Even as a kid I used to be repulsed by the idea of peanut butter and jam that the Americans on TV would eat!
@@kashattack It just seems a weird combination to me but I guess some of the UK food seems weird too
Bacon and maple syrup is great.
The whole myth about British food mainly stems from WW2. The UK is in the top league for Michelin stars and has an amazing diversity of global cuisine.
It's astonishing, and mildly culturally offensive, that the nonsense about all UK food perpetuates in the US (particularly given the highs and lows of food across the pond, as in many countries!). And what is that intro music? Fully American, not British in style!
Exactly right. You're under no obligation while in England to be living on beans on toast.
English food isn't that great though In the grand scheme of things is it? I'd wager a majority of the Michelin star restaurants are doing French and Italian inspired cuisine. We don't really have much of a food culture. I'd say the same for US to and quite a few European countries.
@@buoyanProjectswell, no - we have some of the best meat and dairy in the world, as a result of our climate. But the same climate is not really conducive to growing a wide variety of fresh produce (too much rain & not enough hours of sunlight.) So we didn’t have the variety of tastes and flavours and the versatility available to some other countries and instead, our food has developed to accommodate that. It’s all a bit “stick-to-your-ribs-to-fill-you-up-and-keep-you-warm” rather than cooking for the pleasure of eating. Yet our excellent dairy has led to some of the world’s best known puddings, and our roast dinners and protein-filled breakfasts are legendary. We do have a cuisine, but it has developed to fulfil a particular function rather than being solely a source of enjoyment.
@@buoyanProjectsfrench invented modern cuisine so of course there is a french structure to dining In almost all western countries. However if you go to a Michelin star (or just listed) restaurant they may have atiny element of frenchness but the ingredients will likely be British. So will the chefs etc.
High end British cuisine has many similarities with French cooking. Similar ingredients. I'm about to go to high end restaurant in Chelsea and it's listed as European/french. Most of the dishes on the menu are super British however. The term Ros bif comes from french appreciating just how good British beef was.
I'm also going to Paris this weekend and going to a super french restaurant that specialises in steak and chips. Is that french or British? Exactly.
The thing you’ve missed are desserts. I’ve lived in Spain, Italy, France, Greece and the United States. All these places have NOTHING on British deserts!
EDIT: list your favourite British desserts below!
Have to agree. Apple crumble and custard, spotted dick, chocolate pudding...yummy, but they never seem to be available in restaurants any more its the usual banoffee pie (apologies for spelling) and other italian "cake desserts".
@@michael37570 agreed. They’re a rarity in tourist hotspots
you can do an entire video on British desserts but top of the list STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING nuff said?
@@philiprice7875 man, don’t get me started. I have a list as long as my arm! 🤣
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Any question about food quality might be better addressed to Americans. I always feel ill after spending time in the States. It's mainly down to the additives put into American food, stuff which is banned in most European countries.
lol some amercian food is banned never mind the krap the force into it
Food standards aren't as good in the usa as in the uk and europe !
USA is poor food. Cheese with everything. Huge portions. Sugar in bread. No wonder Yanks are obese.
Much of this "British food is poor quality" comes from the experience of US soldiers from about 1943-1944, and visitors during the early 1950s - when food rationing was in place.
Was.
Why let the truth get in the way of a false story
Britannica:
The first widespread public attention to unsafe practices by the meat industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co. had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. army in Cuba during the Spanish - American War. The meat had been packed in tins with a visible line of boric acid which was thought to act as a preservative and mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died. Roosevelt who served in Cuba as a colonel, testified in 1899 that he would have eaten his old hat as soon eat what he called "embalmed beef."
@@tonyburton5706?? Rationing did not end until 1954 in the UK.
Thank for saying exactly what I was about to type, London is a world class food destination now, it’s not the 1940’s
Things tend to get cheaper once you get out of London, especially the centre of London which is the most expensive part of the UK.
In Norfolk. Breakfast around £5.50. Sunday roast around £9.75. Bangars n mash Around £8.
Why do people say all foods are better in London, it’s a tourist place.😊 you are paying tourist prices unless you know where to go, it’s why people get an extra pay working in London.
@@barryeva8862 As you say, local knowledge can lead you to some great less expensive places to eat but you're gonna need some help. The greatest thing about London is it's sheer size and the number of options it brings in the way of places to eat, the downside is it's cost of living.
'The Raven' in Bath does the best pies in England!
Gotta have baked beans on an English breakfast. It’s not a breakfast without it!
That Sunday roast needed more gravy. The Yorkshires especially need lots of gravy, you don’t eat them dry.
That was exact what I thought when I saw it…. Please put gravy over the food, not under it!
That Yorkie was overcooked.
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle agreed I came to these just to see if anyone else thought so too, needs to be a nice golden brown not cremated
My thoughts exaclty. It's London though and they don't really 'do gravy' there. It used to annoy me when I lived there
@@overthewebbThere are no decent pork butchers either.
Weird,when I was working in NY I yearned for a full English. Having pancakes with syrup etc for brekky was too weird.
First time I saw someone top a stack of pancakes with stewed fruit and cream and Bacon! I was horrified.
Yeah! It was a culture shock I soon got over though! I think I went through the entire Denny's breakfast menu by the time we left.
I like the pancakes but occasionally. Never really thought about how sweet an American breakfast is. I think it’s odd but it works. I could do pancakes bacon and maple syrup but not with the rest of the breakfast stuff.. it’s too much
@@davidmorgan6896 that sounds nasty
@@nealgrimes4382 It really was. I ordered a stack of pancakes. The waiter asked 'meat?' And was quite taken aback when I said 'no meat'. I still don't think that bacon goes with sweet pancakes.
A full English breakfast is a thing of beauty. Sets you up for the day. And no, we don't like our bacon cooked until its frazzled, it should be succulent.
Speak for yourself ;) i'm personally not a fan of places that really undercook their bacon or don't grill or fry properly so the fat is raw
And not streaky nonsense either
No I prefer it frazzled thanks. You don't speak for me. Nothing worse than blobby uncooked white bacon fat.
Nonsense, crispy American bacon is awesome.
Back bacon should be cooked under a grill, to ensure that the fat is crispy, whilst the meat remains succulent
The Sunday lunch you had was with Pork, hence the apple sauce. Lamb - with mint sauce, Turkey - with cranberry sauce.
and beef with horseradish 😋
@@jodybobblecan't have beef without the blow your hat off sauce
must also be English mustard somewhere.
@@theotherside8258 Mustard with Gammon or Ham Shank.
Mint sauce with any of those, yummy.
I moved because of lot of reasons but english food is very good compared with the us its got more flavor its real organic no sprays tomatoes especially so much more flavor plus the backerys cornish pasties meat pies and tarts
Mixing of the baked beans and mushrooms with the rest of the fried breakfast is a usual/ normal English fried breakfast ... absolutely delicious 😋👌
My concern is when the beans are served near an egg - most places these days put the beans in a small ramikin-style pot to prevent the all-important mixing of matter and anti-matter. Back in the day it used to take skill to place a decent sausage between the two - as Never the Twain Shall Meet ! @marycarver1542
@marycarver1542 Baked Beans have been on British cooked breakfasts (Fry ups) for more than a century (since 1927), so they definitely are 'traditional' across the UK.
@marycarver Are you even English?
The Scottish equivalent is the same but swap the hash browns for black pudding... goes lovely with the beans and sauce.
Black pudding properly done is truly a thing of wonder ! @@kevinwilson455
There is nothing much wrong with British food if you choose where you eat with care. The choices go from roadside "chew & spew" vans, to restaurants with Michelin stars. You just need to select where you want to be on that scale.......
Chew and spew! I have never heard that before and love the phrase, and also the vans!
Pub grub is not always good.
Seriously people, I’m as patriotic as the next Brit…..but let’s face it.
Some of our food and eating establishments leave a lot to be desired.
I travel around this fair island of our quite a bit and I can assure you, our food ( IMHO) is average at best.
You really need to choose wisely.
@@monk3yboy69 If you travel to the right places and choose wisely there is some FANTASTIC food available in UK - and I don't mean fancy, expensive restaurants. But I really mean world-class cuisine. I've travelled the world extensively, eaten where the locals recommend and had some absolutely delicious meals - and the UK competes well on the world food stage.
@marycarver1542 It's been a while, but I was once served pub grub in a Cornish pub, that I would have been reluctant to give my dog. That said, they can't normally afford to serve poor quality food. I have no idea what went wrong on the evening I turned up. I ought to have given it some thought as to why the place was empty when I walked in.....
1) Yorkshire pudding isn’t bread but I have to say for a london pub it’s size was impressive
2) if you don’t want certain things on your breakfast you can ask for it to be omitted
@marycarver1542 living in Yorkshire I do know how they are made and you will find that most places round here turn out Yorkies of quite large dimensions
I agree that it did look a bit overdone however they do need to be crisp around the top and a bit softer at the bottom
But the main purpose is as a vessel for gravy 😂😂
Heartburn city….a Yorkshire pud .
When I fancy a Rennies, I order a Yorkie
Its painful watching Americans try and use cutlery. 😂😂.
They adopted the original French style, when France was seen as the height of elegance.
Yeah why do they only pick up one thing at a time? Wtf is this? Lol
Yes, painful but also hilarious.
@@eadweard. I would suggest that it is far more likely a case of often eating food that you can eat via picking it up with your fingers.
@@seanscanlon9067 Why do US Americans use cutlery in the way that they do?
ChatGPT "US Americans typically use cutlery in the "zigzag" style-switching the fork from left to right after cutting-due to cultural preferences for efficiency and convenience, as well as historical influences from early European settlers who adapted their dining practices over time."
We don't normally have streaky Bacon. Back Bacon is the norm in the UK. It's got more meat on it 🙂 (also, don't forget the HP sauce for the sausage and bacon)
Did you try the apple sauce with the roast pork? It’s a game changer.
Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was served as a "starter". When we had Sunday lunch at my Grandmothers (5 of us including my grandmother) the "yorkshire" was cooked in a big metal dish - maybe 12" x 16" and an inch deep. Into this was put a big lump of beef fat and it went into the very hot oven until the fat was smoking hot - then the thick yorkshire batter (milk, eggs, flour and salt) poured in and back into a very hot oven for about 20 minutes. Served fresh out of the over we each got a big slab - crispy on the outside with a quarter-inch thick, heavy, doughy base - liberally covered in thick beef gravy. It was absolutely delicious. Traditionally Yorkshire Pudding was a cheap, nutritious and delicious "filler" for poor Yorkshire farmers. The main course would be roast beef, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, carrots and cabbage - light on the expensive meat and heavy on the cheap vegetables - again with delicious gravy made in the dish the beef and potatoes were roast in. Today Yorkshire Pudding has changed into tasteless, crispy bags of air - with absolutely no resemblance to "proper" Yorkshire Pudding. The way I still make it. And its still delicious.
My dad is from Barnsley and has told me the same thing! I'd love your recipy ❤
Yorkshire Pudding is basically pancake batter oven cooked, but...the batter Must be poured into an oiled screaming hot pan
It was served as a first course to fill your stomach with cheap ingredients.
@@mikecollins8936So… it doesn’t detract from it..🤷♀️
@@mikecollins8936 I've never had Yorkshire Puddings as anything apart from a part of a Sunday Roast. I've seen them in restaurants filled with other ingredients (these were big Yorkshires - as big as your plate). What I've never seen is them being served as a starter.
@@terrystewart1973 My Dad recalled fatty bread to me. His Grandma used to make it as a gut filler, in Yorkshire no less.
@@terrystewart1973 Same here. Served with roast (baked) beef on Sunday. Not served if the roast was lamb, pork or chicken. Perfect for mopping up gravy.
As a British person, I have to say that I loved your review. Excellent photography of the Thames, by the way!
Thank you so much!! We hope to be back one day to explore more of the country! 😃
Yorkshire Pudding 'Is just bread'!!!?Hilarious.
GREAT VIDEO clear can see all details clear as possible without being there ..... food was great
Thank you so much for watching!!
…and black pudding, fried potatoes and the ultimate breakfast food, fried bread.
My nan used to cook fried bread in lard. Full on fat, "gives the men energy to work. Can't have em going hungry and stopping at the pub" she used to say. I wouldn't do it to my arteries, but god bless her she did a fine breakfast. Sadly fried bread seems to be dying out these days. I understand why hotels don't do it - it would dry out on the buffet but sad you can't get it in the cafe's so much anymore.
In London we call it the full English, the word Brekky is used in other parts of the UK. The basic food was to set you up for a hard days manual work, but its now for anyone, and not every day. Sunday Roast, you can have Pork, Lamb, but traditionally its Beef. London is well over priced. Portsmouth is great, and if you have time the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight has phenomenal quality food as it happens to be freshly produced
Those sausages (both on the bangers and mash and the breakfast) look like they were warmed up by a 40w 💡
A lot more tourists are now visiting the UKs 2nd biggest city, Birmingham ( Peaky Blinders, Cadburys Chocolate, Aston Villa Football Club, Shakespeare ) for its laid back, not so crowded, cheaper than London, amazing food scene vibe, definitely worth afew days in, same with Manchester to a slight lesser degree.. Both great places to visit as a break/alternative to London
I lived in Brum for three years and I agree with most of what you say, but Shakespeare was not a Brummie, and you will find few traces of him in Brum, which in Shakespeare's era, was a relatively small market town. It is highly unlikely that Shakespeare visited Birmingham.
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Use the Yorkshire pudding to mop up the sauce and plate, it's not supposed to be a food by itself... it's like a Naan bread and curry. You use "the bread" to clean the plate.
Yorkshire pudding is “Just Bread” it’s
basically a crepe or pancake cooked in hopefully deer dripping. Also where was the black pudding, bubble and squeak in the breakfast. Hash browns is a bit dubious inclusion. And Americanised product.
thanks for taking me down memory lane; i am a brit living in france and everyone says french food is good, but there is no comparrison to our great british food; glad you enjoyed it xx
Sorry, on the side of the French in that one but I do love English food. I’d love to see a suet pudding revival myself - ham, chicken and leek is the daddy for me
I am a Brit living in France and I agree. Most cafe menus in France are dull and unimaginative, same old same old. I yearn for a good tea shop where I can get a filled baked potato or some soup and a roll or an allday breakfast. And don't get me started on how pathetic French puds are. It will be freezing cold and they will serve up 'Floating Islands' aka a blob of barely cooked meringue perched on a pool of anaemic custard. When what I really want is a sticky toffee pudding. French food is definitely not as good as it was...its hard to get a decent meal out now unless you are prepared to pay quite a lot. I miss a good pub lunch....affordable and lots of it. Last time we went back we had a lovely lunch of brisket, gravy, yorkshire pud and vegetables including cauliflower cheese. In France it is rare to get adecent portion of vegatables with a main course. The veg are little more than a garnish.....and i miss it.
To be honest, I grew up in the 80’s and the food was pretty bad, but certainly over the last 20 years, it’s improved enormously. My Italian friend says Britains food has improved more than any other country.
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Something I've noticed about a lot of Americans, is their tendency to eat items from their plate one at a time, rather than stacking different food items from the plate onto the fork like most British and Europeans.
The main point about London food is - you can find any type of food you want from all over the world. The national traditional British foods like those you tried are all over, but regional traditions vary much more. London has its own unique food traditions: Pie & Mash esp. and Mussels & Eels - shame you missed those. Fish and Chips is best enjoyed near the sea where you may have more fish options. In the north of England you'd certainly have had black pudding with your traditional breakfast.
What makes you think pie & mash is a London tradition? I've always associated meat pies with the North of England.
@@Azog150Because it is.
I didn't say meat pies - I said "Pie & Mash," it IS a historically London thing - which is I suppose why you don't know about it. Find it in dedicated Pie & Mash shops - served with Green Liquor - go look it up.
Yeah, pie and mash is a London thing, pie and peas is the northern tradition (usually with red czbbzge, picallili or chutneys).
Oh god not the whole fish is better from the coast myth.
You know the fish gets frozen on the boat right?
@@jonathanbowen3640I said nothing of the sort! I said more fish options. In simple chippies Haddock & Cod will be frozen - other local options in restaurants may not. You "know it all" - but you didn't even comprehend what I said!
I live in France now and really miss British food. It's great.
Some Classic French cuisine is similar to classic British meals, but things like Sunday Roast or Fish n Chips are hard to come by.
Ditto the English Breakfast.
Yeah - a decent Beef Bourguignon or good Moules Frites or even a decent baguette or a croissant are VERY hard to find in UK. Vive la difference !! Oh - and yeah - I do love a good "Full English" and good Fish 'n Chips are few and far between these days - with ultra-fresh fish, good potatoes and all deep-fried in beef dripping. The fish perfectly steamed inside a crispy batter shell and the chips slightly crispy on the outside and slightly soft inside. Beef dripping is essential for the deliciousness - VERY hard to find in UK these days.
You should travel more in France and having spent almost 48 years as an international trucker I can assure you France is a fantastic country for good food..As a trucker I would use Les Routier restaurants but most towns and villages have a decent place to eat at a fair price, I never once had a bad meal in France but the UK 🙈..Luckily I was mostly transmitting the UK either on route to the continent via Fishguard Pembroke Holyhead or Liverpool so didn’t have to eat more than one meal , I k ew a few places just off the motorways that you could get an edible meal but that’s as good as I’d rate it…Start exploring more in France , I love good quality food and I often got that in France but seldom in the UK where beans and chips seem to be the staples🥴
Excellent ! We always enjoy looking forward to the videos of your next destination. Safe travels!
Thank you!!
A pity you didn't have Black Pudding as part of your (not Full) English Breakfast. You must try it.
Beans eggs and mushroom is weird. Apparently some people have bacon with maple syrup 😂
Nice, respectful review, but I especially liked the little history tidbit about the Texan legate. I had no idea.
Fantastic historical info. about the Texan embassy in London. Love it! I would never, ever have known that :)
I agree with every word you said about the London Eye, and why not? It was truthful.
Glad to know you agree! Thank you for watching our video!
Wow, so majestic to be standing in front of Buckingham Palace !! The lunch feast looks delicious 😋
If you want a good view of London go to Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath Then take the DLR to Island Gardens, walk through the tunnel to Greenwich and up through the park to the Prime Meridian. Stopping for pie and mash along the way.
If you want true English food you need to get out of London…..fast!
And head East to Brick lane for a curry!
No you don't.
Such a tired and lazy cliché.
For the vast majority of tourists the main attraction of visiting England is to go to London..dont knock it as it brings in billions
So what are beans and mushrooms to be eaten with; string cheese and ice cream? (shudder). Good review; very enjoyable.
Sorry my friends but that was not a proper " yorkshire pudding". A real yorkie taste nothing like bread.. It was always vastly over baked.
Also, the full English breakfast if high protein and fibre, designed to see you through a day working out on the farm/in the fields.
British food is great -it got a bad reputation due to WWII, when years of austerity (that lasted into the 1970s) meant mean meals and basic ingredients. Since then it has of course taken its revival -same recipes but with much better sourced ingredients and the quality's back.
It’s still bad .
You need to know where to go.
The chance of walking about and just finding a top rated eatery on every corner just does not exist.
The opposite is true .
There are plenty of average places to eat all over London.
Truly exceptional are very rare.
@@monk3yboy69no different from anywhere else. But no need to talk about restaurants.?I’ve been all over the world and enjoyed some great food but the real comfort comes from the simple stuff I do at home.
Really only the negative whingers cling to that stereotype.
@@monk3yboy69So? That’s the case wherever you go. The original statement is correct. The food and quality has vastly improved on a macro level. It’s just Americans love to perpetuate stereotypes
So, i think there are two main reasons why americans, in particular, dislike british food. 1. The americans first started these claims while posted in Britain during the 1940's. Rationing was in place because of the war, so ingredients were sparse. Brits hated the rationing too, but it was their reality, they werent going to make exceptions for the americans.
2. British/european food standards are vastly different and many chemicals and additives that are perfectly acceptable in the US to make your food taste better is simply not allowed here. Food such as bread in the US has an average of 6g of sugar, whereas bread in the UK has an average of 1g. Another example is your fast food. Mcdonals fries in the US have over 20 separate ingredients to make them taste and look the way they do. The same mcdonalds fries in the UK have only 3 ingredients; potatoes, oil and salt. Now im not saying the british are saints when it comes to food, we have things in our food that probably shouldnt be there also. But when you compare the differences you realise that american food may very well taste better but its also laden with things that no human should be consumed. It doesn't take long to research these things. In conclusion, i think Britain gets a bad rap because our foods are different and the american taste buds aren't accustomed to food without all those nasties.
Couldn't agree more. Plus not everything needs to be pumped full of flavour, a really great beef stew (with good quality meat) only needs a few herbs to shine. It's like modern day American food has to use 47 different ingredients so when only 6 or 7 are used, it's 'bland'. It's not...that's what food is meant to taste like.
Majority of Americans who claim British food is rubbish, have never tried British food. I agree with the points you made, too.
Most of them are pretty stupid, when I went to the states, A lot of them were fat with bad teeth, which they always say we have.@@titchs9098
Listen to Emily. She's talkin sense.
That full English breakfast actually looked quite good compared to most i've seen reviewed. I love sausage and mash ... goes great with a red wine ratatouille.
Bangers and mash, beans on toast, cheesy chips, pie and mash, roast dinner, full English breakfast, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cheese on toast with Worcestershire sauce, fish and chips, mushy peas or curry sauce, Salt and Vinegar Walkers crisps, and a proper cuppa with milk ! ahhhh these are all the comforts of home I missed when I was away. Other places try, hardly anywhere does it the same. Makes me wonder how many of our attempts to do,other cultures cuisine are actually authentic compared to their country of origin. Mind you, having ventured a fair bit, I can safely say we get a lot right. Mostly because the restaurants offering that cuisine are people from that country/culture who have settled here and brought their fabulous flavour! We are truly lucky! I never take it forgranted!
Next time look up sky garden with this there are about another 3-4 other free viewing platforms on the top of buildings but always book and go early
UK Deserts imho are globally the best from Sticky toffee to Trifles to Eton mess.
Even doughnuts are recorded as coming from the UK 300 years ago
We don't cremate our bacon here, that's an American thing
London is such a beautiful and classy city. One of my favourite places to visit in the world
As a Londoner i can also say the food gets better the further north you go, in terms of British tradition food.
Come back in the summer, June is normally a reliable month and the countryside looks great then as well. See you then.
A Yorkshire pudding isn't bread.....its more of a pancake that's been baked
A panbake
It's batter pudding
You can ask, on ordering, for the items to be cooked to your taste. For the bacon to be cooked more, we usually ask for it to be "well done." The reason for the bad reputation was the war. We were mostly cut off from the rest of the world, so many of the foods brought in were the basic necessities, and exotic spices and fruits from the Empire were forgotten. Visiting armies would only experience the rationed foods that were available at the time.
Describing our Yorkshire Puddings as "Just Bread" could've got you locked-up in the Tower of London 🙂
Of all of the comments we’ve gotten regarding the Yorkshire Pudding, this is by far the best one! Made us both chuckle 😂 Thank you for watching and we hope to try a better version of YP on our next visit 😊
The way you guys hold and use your cutlery is Crazy!! That would be considered rude in some parts of the UK😮
Did you know that butch Cassidy's mom came from a town up north of England called Newcastle
My take is that the sausages looked a little undercooked, full English brekky looked great but the roast pork looked very thickly cut.
That breakfast looked amazing. What restaurant was that (Terry)?
Honestly the breakfast we had was at our hotel. It was a Hilton Hotel a few miles due north of the Tower Bridge.
3:39 as an English gal, I was aghast that the gravy didn’t go on the chips and cabbage as well. Chips and gravy is a must! Cheesy chips are a must! Cheesy chips and gravy are even better! With lots of vinegar!
Perhaps if you drizzled syrup over your breakfast, it’d would suit more your American palate. :-)
I'm glad you had fun, guys. I'm sorry you went to Portsmouth afterwards though haha. You may have wanted to head further north or if you were going to the south coast, some of the fishing towns in Cornwall.
So good to see Americans using cutlery the way it's intended to be used. Glad you approve of the food!
In yorkshire the pudding is either round or as we have it square and before mainmeal ,my wife said she would be ashamed to put that what you had in front of somebody come to yorkshire for a proper dinner
I remember taking my grandmother for Sunday Dinner at a well-known, very nice hotel in the centre of Leeds. As the waiter served her with a "yorkshire pudding" she asked in a loud, accusatory voice "and what do you call that young man ?" The stammered replay was "a yorkshire pudding madam" to which my grandmother said "well go and tell the chef to make me a proper one". And he did. And 20 minutes just as we were finishing eating she was served with a yorkshire pudding, hardly any air and a doughy base which she slathered in gravy and ate with relish - while we all watched and wished we had done the same LoL At home she served yorkshire pudding straight out the oven - cooked in a square dish - cut into square slabs and served as a starter with gravy. Delicious. Oh - and washing the metal "yorkshire pudding tray" was cardinal sin.
Because American food is so good that the governments in Europe ban most of it lol
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You clearly don't eat food
Exactly. Living in America I was shocked about the meat quality, especially poultry. The chicken breasts are pumped up with hormones and double the size of European’s. Plus they taste disgusting and rubbery. And the cheese there is rank and just gloopy slop. You can see why so many American people are morbidly obese.
@@CassidyJones-un3rm American food isn't food. It's all just plastic, petroleum based products and corn.
You have to have gravy on yorkshires I like mine soggy but others like them crisp
ahhh finally a food channel that doesnt annoy The F out of me , also they are not obsessed with asian foods only which seems to be thing on youtube at the moment where 99% of food reviewers are only doing asian foods and I have to search forever to find videos featuring foods from other places in the world, dont get me wrong I love asian food , but dont want to ONLY see asian foods ... I really enjoyed this video and love the couple , I am totally subscribing .-))
I would not say its Asian foods are all over your tube. Unfortunately, if you watch one of that type TH-cam will bombard you with them. You need to switch profiling off.
Have you seen the magic geekdom? They’ve got some nice foodie vids 👌
I'm always surprised how many Americans visit London, try the food, do reviews but never visit Rules restaurant. It opened in 1798, is still serving and most Americans go to pubs. And Berry Brothers and Rudd has been in business selling wine etc since 1698, older than America.
You certainly picked some good places to eat! But when it comes to brekky i like black pudding with mine along with a fried slice
Got to have a fried slice 👍
@@origamipigwhy do people call it fried slice only ever been fried bread. Never in my life heard of fried slice? Is it a new southern word?
Too right
I have never heard anyone call a yorkie bread 🤣😂🤣
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U INSULTED 1 OF THE MOST TASTIEST , TRADITIONAL ENGLISH ROAST DINNER ACCOMPANIEMENTS PAL / ITS MEANT 2 BE EATEN WITH BEEF GRAVY . I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANY 1 2 BE SO UNDERWHELMED BY A YORKSHIRE PUDDING .
I AM RATHER ANNOYED / & CERTAINLY CUDENT BE MOTIVATED 2 WATCH U YAKKIN ON WITH YER CACK COMMENTARY / U TUBE CAM UPLOADS .
P.S I RECOMMEND A RATHER FINE RESTRAUNT IN BAHKMUT IN THE DONBASS OF EASTERN UKRAINE WHERE U YER WIFEEEE CAN SCOFF A ROAST THERMOBARIC MUNITION PIE AND WONT BE GOING ON ANYMORE WORLD FOOD TOURS AFTER THAT EVER AGAIN
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Americans also call some sort of a bread a biscuit so in conclusion they're an odd country.
Yorkshire Pudding is very close (if not identical) to what Americans call Popovers.
@@GenXpatPaul and??
Had a women from California stay in the hotel I workes, she said the food was amazing and much of it was better quality than in the US
Nice.. I noticed walking up stairs ect the travel direction was keeping to the left.. was that a different experience?
Yes it was different. Be sure to watch for our next vlog on Monday. We go down to Southsea England and rent a car to help get around. Driving one of those English cars was very different!!
Roast dinner looked sub-par!
tripe is like marmite... you either love it or hate it... like many other old delicacies in the UK, some fading out... when i was a kid we used to see hundreds of people at the beach side buying seafood from the venders, jellied eels, cockles muscles, shrimp, crab, razor fish, clams, winkles and other shell fish... now you dont see as many venders if at all...
Jesus, those bangers look Anaemic.
You forgot to have brown sauce
First time I was in the UK 20 years ago, I thought the food was absolutely disgusting, but it has improved since and last time I was there it was actually quite good.
Well you obviously ate at the wrong places…and that’s down to you.. there’s bad and disgusting food anywhere you go in the world …🙄🇬🇧
My point exactly.
Even today you will find disgusting places to eat in London if you go in the wrong places.
Each to their own and I suppose their budget.
I do feel you need to know where to go for quality at a reasonable price.
Because for me there is nothing worse than paying good money for bad food.
Pork with apple. Beef with horseradish. Chicken with lemon. Duck with orange. Turkey with cranberry. Lamb with mint.
Great job saying "Portsmouth"... bang on
My favourites are bangers and mash, fry up and a good Sunday roast followed by golden syrup sponge pudding and custard 😋
Those sausages on his bangers n mash could certainly have done with another 15 minutes cooking time. Definitely looked undercooked in my opinion. 🤢
Remember Sherlock Holmes it was our local when I worked in London at the MOD . Just off Whitehall. You made me hungry.
Gravy on the roast needs to be thicker and covering everything. Thats usually the problem you get at the more upmarket places. They aim for presentation above taste and texture
few immitation supermarket puddings available, but a real YP is not a side bit, its the main part, either smaller or plate sized, has to hold a sizeable roast beef part + accompanying gravy moat within, + any roast veg onions, leeks potatos too within the pudding.
so what you see there is a modern manufactured interpritation of what is.
as a starter , perhaps, have had it like so, but mainly with a far larger dinner later. and those are smaller by far, not the size of a main dinner pudding.
i like a good 8-16oz size beef slab to float within the pudding with gravy, and some potatoes and onions
cut into the giant dam in sections or slices, but what was served to you is not what i would expect as yorkshire puddings
comparison would be calling the best burger in the US, is a basic cheeseburger from McD?
out of any burger available in US, calling that soggy patty the best , would be comparable.
not trolling, just saying maybe you missed out on what real yorkshire puddings are and should be like. although i dont doubt 95% or more of the Uk population knows themselves.
my grandmother was from Yorkshire, was a great cook and never since have seen what she was able to cook.
find the real Ypuds,. not the store front themed pubs take on them for the tourists.
if a foodie, you would appreciate tasting the real thing
It's not a Ferris wheel, it's an observation ride..it doesn't claim to be a ferris wheel
Please try Yorkshire pudding again, properly made and sized. Get a Brit to show you how to "garnish" it (including a nice simple onion gravy) and you'll never ever never ever again mistake it for(or call it) bread. AAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH. (An 80+ year old Geordie)
Having worked at the U.S. Naval offices in London a couple of times in the mid '90's, we used the canteen there in the mornings. So, When the lady says "crispy Bacon," she means "deep fried bacon!" it's like eating hot Frazzles! I never did get used to eating deep fried bacon sandwiches,
Should've gone to Pelliccis for breakfast. Best in London and sitting in glory. All Hail the Bethnal Green Road. 😋🤘
Where was the black pudding on the brekky
A full English brekky should be consumed with a large mug of tea. Coffee just doesn't cut it (and I'm a coffee fan, grind my own beans etc).
I can't stand beans in a fried breakfast. I also prefer the black pudding I had in Ireland (they also serve up white pudding, which was a new one on me & much nicer than I expected) as it seems to have more oats in it, which gives it a nicer texture IMO.
Those yorkshire puddings are similar to popovers.
Those restaurants did not do those meals justice, portion sizes too small and lots of items missing, I would have felt cheated
resaurants work on 4s 4oz meat 4 oz veg 4oz spuds
Take you hat off at the table! !!
The full English should also include black pudding. It’s an acquired taste because it’s pigs blood sausage. I love it on my breakfast. Take off 1 sausage and put a slice of black pudding on instead.
As a Brit I thought you gave a fairly good review. I think sometimes a little history behind the food would be nice for your viewers… particularly why there is so much selection of food served for breakfast. And the history behind the Yorkshire pudding. I did giggle at your attempt of a English accent 😂
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Next time your in London try the full english at Hawksmoor. It looks amazing I want to go to London just to try it lol.
The one problem with promoting British food is there are hardly any solely British restaurants with amazing chefs...plus the British love variety and eat a lot of Indian, chinese, Thai, Italian etc...the real tasty perfect British food is cooked at home ..
Tgeres nothing better than roast potatoes cooked in goose fat, yorkshire golden puddings on a sunday roast...usually British food resides in pubs where its cooked fast and at volume ...you cant beat British home cooking ❤
Very true my sister was a host for students from all over the world up until Covid. Recently an old student from china visited and was really disappointed when she hadn’t made a full Sunday roast dinner.
@liamjohnhawkins4212 ...always have a Sunday Roast...once you get the hang of it there so easy to cook and just make a Sunday special...
There are no French restaurants in France, they are just restaurants. Same in the UK, and most pub grub pubs serve traditional food.
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