British food stereotype?

[AlexanderAstartes]

Yorkshire Puddings, scones, crumpets.

 

[Helimocopter]

in response to the apple pie and hamburger crack:
no.
nothing against the guy above me, but his naming of the foods sound like something you'd find in Fable 2

When he says toad in a hole there are not toads in it, its just a name for yorkshire pudding and sausage.

not necessarily what i meant

 

[IceStar100]

I always thought the British food stereotype was Sandwiches, Fish and Chips, Curry and enough Tea to sink a battleship. Not forgetting black pudding while we're at it, to be fair our food isn't exactly fantastic compared to what Italy, Greece and Germany seem to manage without much effort, but it's still better than France and America's 'food'.

I have no idea where the Eel pie came from, never even heard of it (maybe they meant Jellied Eels?).

Amrican food is everyone else food. That whole melting pot thing I guess. We just you know fatten it up and remove all nutrision.

 

[Private Custard]

...hamburger crack...

I am now imagining a burger in the form of a builders cleavage.

I was actually thinking of a way for MacDonalds to create a captive market by using 'additives'!

 

[electric discordian]

For those who criticise Black Pudding may I speak in its defence. It's delicious especially with strong English mustard, it's not a sack filled with gelatinated blood you know it actually has body and taste.

Oh and can I just ask what in Odin's name is a chitlin? I have heard about them in films with Grits and I believe Hogmoss. I have no idea how to spell any of this so you can correct me on that too! Grits I know from my cousin Vinnie!

 

[Private Custard]

Oh and can I just ask what in Odin's name is a chitlin?

Pigs intestines! Not just British though, the Spanish also partake in some.

 

[imp_spittle]

For those who criticise Black Pudding may I speak in its defence. It's delicious especially with strong English mustard, it's not a sack filled with gelatinated blood you know it actually has body and taste.

Oh and can I just ask what in Odin's name is a chitlin? I have heard about them in films with Grits and I believe Hogmoss. I have no idea how to spell any of this so you can correct me on that too! Grits I know from my cousin Vinnie!

Apparently, "chitlin" is a derivation of "chitterling."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitterling

I didn't know what they were either until I looked it up. I believe you also mean "hog maws." Don't ask me about grits; that's a Southern thing.

EDIT: Ninja'd for the first time.

 

[TyrantGanado]

Haggis, neeps and tatties up here (neeps and tatties = turnip and potato). Fried breakfasts are awesome two, Scottish and English variants. And yes, this is me pointing out what I like.

The one British food stereotype I see the most is probably tea and scones when talking about British or English or haggis when talking about Scots. Beer and potatoes when it comes to Ireland too, and Wales doesn't seem to have a stereotype regarding food.

Haggis is definitely a Scottish dish. The brits may have raped that recipe from them, but it derived in Scotland. Nothing I associate with Britian myself.

Scotland takes up 1/3rd of the island of Great Britain...surely by definition of location that makes haggis British, as it was from the British isles just as much as anything born of English recipe is also British? Or are Britain and England now interchangeable by definition?

Oh...wait, yeah.

 

[malestrithe]

Spotted Dick.

Anything Americans say about how weird British food is hereby once again validated.

 

[Nickolai77]

I always thought the British food stereotype was Sandwiches, Fish and Chips, Curry and enough Tea to sink a battleship. Not forgetting black pudding while we're at it, to be fair our food isn't exactly fantastic compared to what Italy, Greece and Germany seem to manage without much effort, but it's still better than France and America's 'food'.

I have no idea where the Eel pie came from, never even heard of it (maybe they meant Jellied Eels?).

Eels where commonly eaten in the Middle Ages, mostly by the English peasants since they lived in the river beds and where easy to catch. In the 18th-19th century, as people began to flock to the city's, eels fell out of the diet of the new industrial workers, you carnt exactly catch eels in the Thames, nothing, not even coackroaches, could have lived in the Thames in 19th century London. In the countyside, i think the eels where eventually over-fished, became endangered and they fell off the list of animals that the English consumed.

I'm surprised that the eel eating sterotype is still alive in America, considering its so old... Then again, it's like the posh English gentlemen sterotype, them type of people died out after WW1, but continued to live on.



Now.. English food... we don't really specialise like our European cousins, the Germans do cakes and sausages, the French do cheese, the Italians do Pizza's, Wine and Icecream... English food is a bit of everything, and i think people on this thread have listed quite comprihensivly all the famous English food.

I would just add
1) Yorkshire pudding (not my cup of tea personally)
2) Chocolate.

Cadbury's chocolate anybody? The Belgians do posh, upper class chocolate, whereass we do the chocolate for the masses. And the thing is, it is damn nice chocolate. You can never beat a Dairy Milk or a Galaxy chocolate bar.

 

[VGStrife]

in response to the apple pie and hamburger crack:
no.
nothing against the guy above me, but his naming of the foods sound like something you'd find in Fable 2

The Fable World is based on Ye Olde England.....so yeah, it may sound like Fable, or more Fable sounds like it.

 

[Sulu]

Haggis, neeps and tatties up here (neeps and tatties = turnip and potato). Fried breakfasts are awesome two, Scottish and English variants. And yes, this is me pointing out what I like.

The one British food stereotype I see the most is probably tea and scones when talking about British or English or haggis when talking about Scots. Beer and potatoes when it comes to Ireland too, and Wales doesn't seem to have a stereotype regarding food.

Haggis is definitely a Scottish dish. The brits may have raped that recipe from them, but it derived in Scotland. Nothing I associate with Britian myself.

Scotland takes up 1/3rd of the island of Great Britain...surely by definition of location that makes haggis British, as it was from the British isles just as much as anything born of English recipe is also British? Or are Britain and England now interchangeable by definition?

Oh...wait, yeah.

lol yeah a typical Scot doesn't realise he/she is British as well as being from Scotland!

Heres a fun fact, Haggis is English not Scottish.
"Catherine Brown has discovered references to the dish in a recipe book dated 1615, The English Hus-wife by Gervase Markham.

This was published at least 171 years before Robert Burns penned his poem Address to a Haggis, which made the delicacy famous.

The first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747, indicating that the dish originated south of the Border and was later copied from English books."
Source from the Telegraph.

EDIT 2: I apologise I thought that Mornelithe was from Scotland. Turns out he is American. That would explain him not realising that Britain isn't only England! lol

 

[Outlaw Torn]

A country that has aerosol cheese and overly carcinogenic bread doesn't really have much of a great argument for saying another country has bad food.

 

[kannibus]

Eh, fried green tomatoes and spotted dick? Those exist, right?

Also from having watched the cooking show "Two Fat Ladies" when I was a wee lad, I've drawn the conclusion that every single English recipe must need a stick of butter. Unsurprisingly the cooking show was soon renamed "One Fat Lady".

 

[chumpzilla_69]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Buttered_crumpet2.jpg
OOH THATS TASTY

 

[Amnestic]

Spotted Dick.

Anything Americans say about how weird British food is hereby once again validated.

Aerosol-based Cheese.

Besides, spotted dick itself is quite tasty, it's just the name that puts people off. Buncha pansies never gobbled on any cock [http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z143/rda_bluez/cockarel_sweaterXMarionRoss1.jpg] before.