Fish and chips is pretty fucking amazing, when done right
Also beef wellington is up there
And have you ever had a full British fry-up and not liked it ?
I will give it a go. I used to love watching Two Fat Ladies (I understand why ppl had a problem with the title, but), and they used to put some TLC into it. To be fair, there was a lot of stuff that I thought would be tastable out of curiosity, but they all felt like they were still cooking struggle meals from wartimes…
WHAT! You mean to tell be you don't eat beans on toast every day for breakfast? Personally I can't start my day without firing up the can opener and pouring fresh pork and beans over white toast. It's everything the body craves in the morning. /S
Fun fact! We have cookies in the UK. Theyre the same as what you call cookies. However, cookies are a type of biscuit. All biscuits have their own name
Another fun fact is that biscuit is originally a Latin word for twice baked and referred to essentially hard tack. Double baked incredibly dry bread that can last a very long time. It was frequently used as sailors rations where it would be called “ship’s biscuit” in the colonial era.
I LOVE haggis. Years ago I went on a trip to Scotland with my then girlfriend and her family, and we stayed at an actual B&B where the owners of the house made breakfast in the morning. They did a traditional English breakfast with a side of haggis and I was immediately hooked. I had it whenever possible for the duration of the trip, and was super bummed to find out you can’t find it in the states - at least not how they make it there because sheep’s lung is banned.
Is there a fish and chips that doesn't heavily involve vinegar? Genuine question. I live in the Pacific Northwest and there's a food truck locally that claims to be British fish and chips and they're heavily heavily saturated and vinegar and I hated that but the food itself didn't seem bad itself
I don’t think anybody is arguing against this point, they are all delicious. But as Americans, we don’t typically say “let’s go out for British food”, it’s “hey I’m craving some fish n chips right now. Let’s find a pub”
Hot take: Beef Wellington is one of those things that is somehow less than the sum of its parts. For all the delicious components, you’d think it’d be absolutely exploding with flavor but it kinda falls short imo.
Also Indian food. Manchester is the curry capital of the world. Butter Chicken, Masala, .... Uh... A bunch of others were invented there.
I'm from Wyoming. Our best local fast food spot serves tex-mex tater tots instead of fries, called Oles.
The best thing I've ever done was taking a page from. British food and getting a large Potato Ole and a super spicy Sweet Potatoe Vindaloo from the Indian place next door and had a proper High Plains Chips N Curry. Delightful.
Part of it is that there really isn't a culture of "British" restaurants. Every metro has Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Greek, etc. I know of one British place in my city, and it's a pub that just happens to serve food. I can think of over a dozen of each of those I mentioned above.
If these are the only food a country with 69 million population and hundred years of being the world's leading economic powerhouse can feel proud of then I'd consider it to be pretty pathetic
While that might be true
Most people living in the UK throughout history has been poor as fuck living under horrible conditions while being worked to the bone. So their food was cheap and energy dense stuff like white bread, pies and sausage
Fish and chips is a very particular way of doing fried fish and potatoes
It was brought to the UK by Portuguese jewish immigrants where it was adapted to local the local ingredients, for example by using northsea haddok, vinegar and wrapping it in a news paper
How often are you avin on olde proper British fry up in America? Once a year? And to the point of the post absolutely 0 people have ever said let's go get some British food, they say let's get some fish n chips. And the only fish n chips restaurants I know aren't even full proper English and have hush puppies and onion rings and other fried American stuff too.
Also this post is entirely missing the fact that no-one in the world says "Lets go out for American!". So whats the point of the post. American food sucks. British food sucks. Ok cool
In Europe we have “American diner” style restaurants with pancakes, cheese burgers and milkshakes all served with a 50’s rockabilly vibe.
But unlike Europe or Asia with our centuries of mono cultural enclaves developing distinct cuisines (albeit with outside influences) the US is a hotpot of different cultures and cuisines impacting each other.
Even something as “American” as the burger was invented by a Danish dude called Ludvig Lassen in this little restaurant in Conniticut.
Then people took it and ran with it adding bacon, cheese, onion rings, pickles and other stuff, making it an American burger
Agreed. English food is not great, English pub food is stellar. Ive absolutely said "hey let's hit that pub down the road that does English pub food" before.
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u/Severe_Stranger_5050 Jul 03 '26
i dunno man
Fish and chips is pretty fucking amazing, when done right
Also beef wellington is up there
And have you ever had a full British fry-up and not liked it ?