A comment on this earlier AskLemmy post inspired me to ask this question. I think there’s lots of delicious British food/it really depends on how you cook it, as with any cuisine.
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Visited Scotland
Walked into a little mom-n-pop fast restaurant
Wondered wtf is a “deep fried pizza”, ordered one.
Dude took a “frozen” pizza out of the fridge
Dude folded it in half and stuck it in an oil deep fry.
OMFG never tasted such sweet sin… crispy flakey crust on the outside, melty cheesy inside
Totally worth the 10 million calories and arterial hardening
I’m from the EU, but I love making shepherd’s pie. It’s pretty easy and when done correctly, it is an absolutely fantastic dish.
huel
Vindaloo.
I’m a Brit, and personally, I think a lot of the staples we are weirdly defensive of are not that exciting. A Sunday roast? Sure, it’s probably associated with family and comfort or whatever, but give me Thai, Mexican, Italian, Japanese food, etc., over it any day.
That said, the two I will defend to the grave are a decent fish and chip supper and an English/Scottish breakfast.
Honestly fish and chips in terms of a meal.
As part of a meal, Yorkshire pudding is unlike anything I’ve had in America, and nothing like what it evokes in the typical American.
More like popovers almost.
My grandmother was British, and she’d cook the most amazing roast potatoes I’ve ever had. Its just a shame she made them by sacrificing the roast beef…
Fish n chips hands down 100% final answer lock it in.
To anyone whos been to both places can you get “proper” fish n chips the world over? I’ve asked a few americans on xbox a few times and they tell me that its “fish and steak fries” and its basically the same thing, but it doesnt sound like it will be the same.
Chippy chips are a very specific thing and its incredibly difficult to explain that to someone who hasn’t experienced it and just understands.
Midwest fish fry at a supper club?
In America, the best approximation we can get to chippy chips are our steak fries. It’s the cut of potato that’s most similar, but there is a whole spectrum of doneness that one is rolling the dice on when ordering steak fries.
And you’re right. There ain’t nothing like chippy chips. I’m over here chasing a dragon when I should just be buying a plane ticket.
Oddly enough, the fast food Greek place here (not a chain) gets the closest to what I had in England.
OMG IT’S A SPINOFF POST I LOVE YOU TOO
Yeah because boring old me was going to comment “well I’ve only been abroad once, but…” 😅
We’re reviving AskLemmy with these spinoff posts 🔥
I’ve literally never traveled more than a few states away and I hated every second…
fr though traveling is sooooo stressful to me but people worldwide fascinate me. So different but so similar at the same time. Instructions unclear I now want strippers at my funeral.
Bubble and squeak
Shepherd’s Pie, though I confess I’ve never made it with mutton. If you use ground beef, it’s called Cottage Pie.
I use hot Italian sausage. I don’t think there’s a name for doing that. At that point you’re mixing up Cottage Pie with bangers and mash (mashed potatoes and sausage). And I’m okay with that. All those dishes are good. Mixing things up is what I do.
I watched a YouTube food historian Max Miller talk about shepherds pie and he mentioned that there is t really much of a correlation between what meat you use and whether it is “Shepard” or “Cottage” pie.
Altoids
Scones
Spotted Dick
Also, everyone (including me in my other post) is going savoury — how about sweet? Aero bar, in mint. Perfection. Bark candy mostly only comes in chocolate, or dark chocolate. Sometimes vanilla (white chocolate, which is not chocolate, it’s vanilla and vanilla should own it because “white chocolate” is awesome, though it should really be called “Vanilla candy bark,” but “bark candy” is really only known as… chocolate… hence “white chocolate”). Fun fact, I’ve had all kinds of bark candy. When I was a kid, I got it in orange and raspberry as well. Now it’s only chocolate and… what I mentioned. Oh and mint chocolate, like Andes mints, but also those pastel-coloured mints that sometimes have the little white balls of hard sugar on them (I think those are just straight up mint bark though).
Again why TF don’t we have bark candy in other flavours?
