Great British

[five bellies]

And why was it invariably served with a round biscuity thing (which we used to refer to as "hardtack")?

 

 

We were spared the Buiscut Thingy But It was the Norm to dribble Rose Hip syrup in it down here

 

Truley Awfull.

[Ian FG]

Thinking about the original question, which British dishes are good and which bad?

 

Good:

 

Roast beef Sunday lunch

Traditional full English breakfast

Christmas roast turkey dinner with stuffing

Fish and chips (got to be from a good chippie on the coast)

Mushy peas

Shepherds pie

British pork sausages

Bacon and eggs

Bacon sandwich on white bread with brown sauce or tomato ketchup

Steak and kidney pie

Chicken tikka masala, half rice, half chips, nan bread

Donner kebab,

(the last two are adopted dishes)

Sardines on toast

Melton Mowbray pork pies with English mustard

Pickled onions

A pickled egg in a bag of Walker's plain crisps

Kippers and scrambled eggs

Fresh crusty bloomer

Beans on toast

Liver and bacon with onion gravy

Quality Cornish pasties

Scotch pies

Lamb chops with mint sauce

Scottish square sausage

Oxtail soup

Scottish smoked salmon with dill sauce

Double egg and chips

Scottish bread rolls

Irish potato bread (not actually British)

Heinz spaghetti on toast

Devon cream teas

Cornish clotted cream

Spotted dick and custard

Sherry trifle

Welsh cakes

Victoria sponge

Strawberries and cream

Stilton cheese and crackers with port

Scotch whisky

Real ale

Tea

Ginger beer

 

Bad:

Black pudding (congealed pig's blood and fat}

Tripe (cow's stomach lining)

Chitlins (God knows, some part of a cow's intestines)

Kidneys

Haggis (barf)

Vegetables (especially cabbage) boiled to death

Brawn (boiled pig's head pieces in jelly)

Lumpy mashed potatoes, no cream or butter or salt and pepper added

Sweetbreads...don't even think about it

Steak and kidney pudding

British 'pizza'

Cockles, whelks and all those other nasty shellfish

Jellied eels

Cod roe

Tapioca pudding

Suet pudding

English 'mild' cheddar cheese

British 'coffee'

Edited October 24, 2007 by Ian FG

[five bellies]

Chitlins are pigs intestines choped up simmilar to calamari rings Had them as a nipper eaten like cockles with white pepper and vinigar.

 

Not a highlight of my life but edible

Edited October 24, 2007 by five bellies

[DavyR]

British 'coffee'

 

Do you mean that horrible "Camp" stuff with chicory in it?

 

http://www.sybertooth.com/camp/

[lureloser]

Mushy peas - with all respect for those that eat the stuff, I think it's disgusting.

[jedibond]

I brought this up In a different Post a minute ago and not wanting to High Jack the thread thought this matter warranted some further attention from the Great, Wise and good of Anglers Net

What Suppossed Great British Dellacacies do you find awfull and wonder how poeple Eat it ?

 

I will get the ball rolling.

 

Pease Pudding. truely dreadfull tastes earthy looks like its allready been eaten!

London Pie and Mash, Now I know that I am a Godless kentish heathen But what is it with you Guys?Lumpy Mashed spud, anaemic looking Pie of dubious content, And that flourecent green stuff Called Liqour someone told me its Parsley Sauce Well My parsley sauce is a velvety creamy coulor and consistancy with flecks of Green fresh parsley in it Yum! Not Toxic Green and dumped on top of something that would make 1960s School dinners look good ?

 

Can any one out there top the dreaded Pie & Mash

 

 

So what do you have to stew your eels in to make the juice that ungodly colour Plutonium ?Its not Natraul I tell you, not Natraul! :oOH God dont get me started on milk Puddings

 

Tis true, it's all here and it is parsley sauce and it's delicious

[jedibond]

You Philistine!

 

Well prepared Pie 'n Mash is truly the nectar of the gods, I'd eat it 5 days a week if the was a decent pie shop here in Southend

 

And the Liquor is parsley mixed with the water the Eels were stewed in, and needs to be mixed with salt pepper and chilli-vinigar to bring out the full flavour

 

My mouth is watering just writing this post

 

Mat - Ex London boy !

 

Mat, I live in Walthamstow and have access to the delight that is known as Manzes, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Might be off down there on Saturday now I think of it

[Mat Hillman]

Mat, I live in Walthamstow and have access to the delight that is known as Manzes, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Might be off down there on Saturday now I think of it

 

 

Grrrrrr

 

Mat

[lureloser]

Reading this thread a little earlier caused me to think about some Great British Food. Possibly the dish, or are the ingredients more important, I leave that for you to judge.

 

Beef Olives.

Roast Beef with all the trimmings

Beef Wellington

Roast Pork apple sauce etc

Roast leg or shoulder of lamb - not this underage rubbish we're fed now, real lamb

Roast Chicken, corn fed from the yard.

Roast Goose - wild if possible but reared is almost as good.

Wild Duck - mallard, teal, widgeon

 

Salme of pheasant

Roast partridge (English of course)

Slow cooked partridge or pheasant

Roast or pot roast grouse - hung birds, not the stuff they shoot on the 12th

Apple stuffed roast duck, Granny Smiths won't work, has to be Bramley

Elizabethan goose

 

Anything cooked with smoked bacon, are we the only country in the world with smoked ?

The English Breakfast - eggs, bacon, kidney, sausage, fried bread, fried toms

Pork chops with apple sauce

Chicken and mushroom pie

Steak and kidney pie or pudding

Grilled steaks, sirloin, rump, fillet

Corned beef hash

 

Fresh run salmon

Smoked haddock

Arbroath smokies

soused herrings

grilled mackerel

stuffed plaice

grilled dover or lemon sole

monkfish

kippers

cod and parsley sauce - real sauce not the supermarket junk

pan fried fresh haddock

herring in oatmeal

 

scallops - doesn't matter how they're cooked, they're fantastic

brown crab

cromer crab

spider crab - fiddly but very tasty

cockles

lobster - simple salad - can't be beaten

mussels - as long as they're safe - delicious

whelks

 

 

So many vegetables I can't begin to list them all.

Mushrooms, fungus - as long as they're safe

 

Herbs, sage, thyme, rosemary, bay, parsley, mint, tarragon, watercress, lavender, lovage, angelica, anise, dill, fennel, chervil, chive, fenugreek

 

Britain has a huge amount to offer in the way of Great Food and Dishes.

[five bellies]

Reading this thread a little earlier caused me to think about some Great British Food. Possibly the dish, or are the ingredients more important, I leave that for you to judge.

 

Beef Olives.

Roast Beef with all the trimmings

Beef Wellington

Roast Pork apple sauce etc

Roast leg or shoulder of lamb - not this underage rubbish we're fed now, real lamb

Roast Chicken, corn fed from the yard.

Roast Goose - wild if possible but reared is almost as good.

Wild Duck - mallard, teal, widgeon

 

Salme of pheasant

Roast partridge (English of course)

Slow cooked partridge or pheasant

Roast or pot roast grouse - hung birds, not the stuff they shoot on the 12th

Apple stuffed roast duck, Granny Smiths won't work, has to be Bramley

Elizabethan goose

 

Anything cooked with smoked bacon, are we the only country in the world with smoked ?

The English Breakfast - eggs, bacon, kidney, sausage, fried bread, fried toms

Pork chops with apple sauce

Chicken and mushroom pie

Steak and kidney pie or pudding

Grilled steaks, sirloin, rump, fillet

Corned beef hash

 

Fresh run salmon

Smoked haddock

Arbroath smokies

soused herrings

grilled mackerel

stuffed plaice

grilled dover or lemon sole

monkfish

kippers

cod and parsley sauce - real sauce not the supermarket junk

pan fried fresh haddock

herring in oatmeal

 

scallops - doesn't matter how they're cooked, they're fantastic

brown crab

cromer crab

spider crab - fiddly but very tasty

cockles

lobster - simple salad - can't be beaten

mussels - as long as they're safe - delicious

whelks

So many vegetables I can't begin to list them all.

Mushrooms, fungus - as long as they're safe

 

Herbs, sage, thyme, rosemary, bay, parsley, mint, tarragon, watercress, lavender, lovage, angelica, anise, dill, fennel, chervil, chive, fenugreek

 

Britain has a huge amount to offer in the way of Great Food and Dishes.

 

 

 

I would agree with 99% of that l love this countrys cuisine you have only got to see my waist line to see that. But Not, Pie and mash espeacialy From Menzies which is where I was initialy exposed to the stuff, Pease pudding,Butter beans, and Milk Puddings.Youve got to be honest they are just plain nasty.