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Haha, yeah, good joke.

I love a bunch of things listed but I'm into low effort. My friend did a jacket potato with baked beans, cheese, coleslaw and it was awesome

Bake the potato, butter it after cutting an X, add cheese then cover with warmed baked beans (if you're American, find ones not baked with molasses or brown sugar. You want savory not sweet.) top with coleslaw and enjoy a meal in a dish

Super easy, delicious, the flavors and textures mixed well. Like baked potatoes you can add whatever you want but this was a new combination to me

People are stunned when I tell them our Christmas dinner is a British recipe. Although it is no classical British household recipe, but comes from Jamie Oliver.

Two things definitely stand out for me:

1. The fish and chips are Awesome - fillets are delicious, and 3x the size of what I get in the States. The fish and chips are hot, crispy outside, tender inside.
2. Baked goods. Pies, cakes, napoleons, etc are universally fantastic, especially anything made with puff pastry. I got sausage rolls for a pound sixty from under the heat lamps at Tesco that were as good as entrees I've had in US restaurants.

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.

Nothing beats a proper English breakfast

Also, beef wellington is pretty great if done right.

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

Let's start with:

Fish and chips
Chip butty
Yorkshire fishcake butty
Whitebait
Scottish smoked salmon
Cromer crabs
Potted shrimp
Scallops and Black Pudding
Sunday Roast (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, vegetarian)
Beef Wellington
Full English
Full Scottish
Full Welsh
Ultster Fry
Deviled kidneys
Mixed grill
Gammon, egg and chips
Steak and Ale pie
Steak and oyster pie
Meat and potato pie
Pork pie
Chicken and Mushroom pie
Scotch pie
Game pie
Fish pie
Shepherd's pie
Cottage pie
Steak and kidney pudding
Lancashire hotpot
Irish stew
Cornish pasty
Scotch egg
Sausage roll
Ploughman's lunch
Haggis
Afternooon / Cream / High Tea
And of course the full range of BIR curries: Chicken Tikka Masala; Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti
And a bunch of puddings and sweet things, sticky toffee pudding, apple pie, mince pie, hot cross buns, etc., but I don’t have a sweet tooth

Depending on where you get said foodstuffs it can be everywhere from grim inedible sadness to glorious sublime perfection.

Indan takeout

My grandma's Yorkshire Puddings

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.

Vindaloo.

Fish and Chips

Is shepherd's pie British? Or is that Scottish/Irish? 🤔 I like that, too.

I've had a lot of good food in Scotland, but one of the most memorable meals was in the Crinan Hotel's seafood bar - a big plate of langoustines that had been caught that morning, served with perfect chips and aoli. On the menu they were called Loch Crinan jumbo prawns.

Haggis and cock a leekie soup. Mince and tatties are a close second.

I guess I'm an uncultured savage but yorkshire puddings. By a county mile.

Lived in the uk for just over 10 years from 2000 to 2011. there were some great pub meals in both the north (around Yorkshire and Durham) and in the south west (Swindon / Bath).

I was very disappointed with Indian when I moved back to New Zealand so I guess that was good as well.

We cant get good Jamaican/Caribbean in small town NZ, and that was a good go to down south.

Bubble and squeak

Scones

Steak and ale pie is delish!

Fish and chips, if done well, can be an absolute gournet experience 🙂

the british food being shit discussion is never dormant for long. maybe it is shit but for me, of all the dinners i've ever had, nothing beats good bangers and mash

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.

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 had a crack at assembling a pie barm after learning what it was. It was way better than it should have been.

What is it? A meat pie served on a bread roll (barm is a specific type I believe) with optional brown sauce (HP for example).

The roll is great for handling reasons and for when the arse falls out of the pie.