English Food

[Farley]

What are the classic English dishes? I know roast beef but that's the only thing that springs to mind.

Educate me.

And I don't mean chicken tikka either...

[Poppalarge]

Shepherds Pie

Fish Pie

Sausage and Mash

Beef Stew and Dumplings

Roast Pork and Apple Sauce

[Wickedkitten]

curry

[squidman]

When looking for English food, it's usually good to think (for main courses) of things that involve gravy

Anything from a range of Roast Meats, anything with Yorkshire Puddings, Hotpots and Casserole's, Shephers/Cottage/Fish Pie, Toad in the Hole and - of course - Fish and Chips is good.

Then there's your classic English Breakfast. And crumpets and scones (especially in Cream Teas)

Oh, and the mighty bread and butter pudding Hell, anything 'pudding' is ours.

[Twyford]

Mmmmm

[Jammy]

Steak & Kidney Pudding.

[thingymajig]

[Davros sock drawer]

Devils on Horseback.

Eggs Arnold Bennet.

Potted Shrimps.

[cubeadvance]

Have we got a national dish? I seem to remember it being voted as fish and chips, but surely we can come up with something grander than that?

[Dapple]

Beef Wellington. The perfect combination of beef and English military prowess.

[aleeta-1]

If you cross the border into my beloved Wales you can have Welsh rarebit and some cawl.

[Wickedkitten]

If you cross the border into my beloved Wales you can have Welsh rarebit and some cawl.

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what is cawl?

[aleeta-1]

Like a chicken and leek stew thingy.

[Wickedkitten]

sounds good to me

[Pemberton86]

Also cold dishes like game pie and spiced beef.

Milk puddings and jellies.

Porridge and oatcakes (as we've expanded into British food not just English)

There are dishes that use ingredients that you don't get in other places - things made with quinces and damsons for example.

Kedgeree is totallly British.

[Pink Oboe]

It arguably *is* chicken tikka masala, surely?

[Asura]

Have we got a national dish? I seem to remember it being voted as fish and chips, but surely we can come up with something grander than that?

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Technically as well, potato dishes are more irish than english in a lot of ways...

[Professor Rob]

Devils on Horseback.

Eggs Arnold Bennet.

Potted Shrimps.

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Good Lord! You missed Jugged Hare and Pigs' Trotters, my good man.

[JPickford (retired mod)]

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American.

[Poppalarge]

Good Lord! You missed Jugged Hare and Pigs' Trotters, my good man.

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french

[Jammy]

American.

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Which is ironic considering it's impossible to get conventional Baked Beans in the States. We had to go the the British Food Shop or up to Vancouver to get baked beans with standard tomato sauce.

[Dapple]

Which is ironic considering it's impossible to get conventional Baked Beans in the States. We had to go the the British Food Shop or up to Vancouver to get baked beans with standard tomato sauce.

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I think Heinz beans deserve honourary English citizenship. As does their tomato ketchup.

[Farley]

Good work so far, keep 'em coming.

I'm liking the idea of things with gravy...

I did have in mind traditional english food, and i think toad in the hole and fish and chips were on the list somewhere. Also strange food like rabbit and hare and stuff.

[Farley]

That's kind of what I was thinking. Rabbit is more unusual for my diet than strange - maybe I should try it!

Like the point about cheese.

I also realised maybe I should go and check out Gary Rhodes - I don't like him much but doesn't he always bang on about re-inventing shepherds pie and whatnot?

[Davros sock drawer]

Try some Montgomery's Cheddar if you ever get the chance. Marvellous stuff.

I still haven't tried rabbit.

[aleeta-1]

I had a rabbit, pear and black pudding salad in a restaurant not long ago and it was lovely.

You cant get much more english than that unless you cover it with gravy and battered cod.

[Poppalarge]

I had a rabbit, pear and black pudding salad in a restaurant not long ago and it was lovely.

You cant get much more english than that unless you cover it with gravy and battered cod.

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wow that sounds ace, i'm gonna make that this weekend

[Davros sock drawer]

Battered cod sums up everything that is bad about UK food.

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Not if done properly in a light beer batter and with some homemade tartare sauce.

But in general, it's a bag of shite, yes.

[aleeta-1]

wow that sounds ace, i'm gonna make that this weekend

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Yeah it was lush. You might want to leave off the gravy and battered cod though!

[Davros sock drawer]

Its about my least favourite fish  I'm afraid - I find it pretty tasteless.

Its OK smoked (we couldn't find any other fish the other weekend) but give me smoked mackerel anyday.

Actually - that's another UK dish isn't it really - Mackerel - fresh caught and cooked on the beach.

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A thick piece of cod will need thorough seasoning, true, but I wouldn't say it is tasteless.

I love Mackerel, but only when it's really fresh. I could quite happily eat a couple, grilled, just with some buttered brown toast.