English Cuisine

[Lollis]

It's good old Lancashire cuisine :P

Not for me it ain't. Tripe is disgusting.

Lancashire hotpot (bacon) and chorley/eccles cakes are the best Lancashire foods.

Corned beef hash though. This thread is making me hungry.

When done as a more soupy dish, corned beef hash is lovely, get rid of some of the liquid and you can use the left overs for making pasties.

And speaking of pasties, Cornish ones (yes Cornwall people you are still English whether you like it or not) are the staple diet of people going shopping in town with their mum and grandma at 4 years old (that and gingerbread men of course).

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Rhubarb Crumble

Oh. Didn't know that's British food. I like to make it time to time. I've freezer full of rhubarb.

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I think citrus curd, in the form of pies or tarts, was also common in Britain. Not an American invention at all. Not even key limes, which originated in Asia.

Aye sure, I just picked key lime pie since it's one of those ones you think "classic American" of. It's not their invention, but it is something that is entrenched in their food culture as like an iconic American dessert.

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Stereotypically, hell on earth would be the English in charge of cooking but I hope to dispel a couple of thoughts. Lets try to rack our thoughts together and find something good from the British Isles! (Yes, this technically includes wales, scotland, and ireland)

Here, I'll start:



Shepard's pie with some leeks inside it. Quite literally the best "Holy crap, I have the munchies" dinner someone can have.

I'm scared!

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This thread has backfired big time, it was created by an American to try and find good British food and it ends up with us claiming all the best American ones, lol.

[Twix]

most of the food linked in the thread look disgusting.. wouldnt even feed it to a dog

[Conspicuous Cultist]

This thread has backfired big time, it was created by an American to try and find good British food and it ends up with us claiming all the best American ones, lol.

America hasn't been around since the dawn of time so I came to accept the fact that we've just stolen all the food from some other cultures.

[Lollis]

America hasn't been around since the dawn of time so I came to accept the fact that we've just stolen all the food from some other cultures.

That's pretty much what we have done too. An island based empire needs pies and pasties for the troops and stews for the ship builders, everything else we can just steal from the cultures that we conquer.

Steak and kidney pie with mashed potatoes and carrots covered with gravy, that's what I had for my tea today instead of a Sunday roast, I wouldn't have been a ship builder.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

most of the food linked in the thread look disgusting.. wouldnt even feed it to a dog

What would you eat then?

[Calaba]

Scouse.



Chips and cheese and gravy.

[Lollis]

Chips and cheese and gravy

I'd just like to mention, chips with any sort of sauce other than a splash of vinegar is an abomination. They are supposed to be at least semi crispy on the outside.

[Skayth]

This thread has backfired big time, it was created by an American to try and find good British food and it ends up with us claiming all the best American ones, lol.

meh,

America is a melting pot. Im of irish descent, and have irish cuisine in the house occasionally (ie, corned beef is expensive, otherwise, god would not stop me from having it weekly, just like how i would want turkey).

Is there good british food? yea, but alot of it is incorporated into American cuisine.

Damn... I hate this thread... I had a good dinner... and I am full... but this thread is making me hungry for foods I cant have... nor should eat... specially since I dont want to get fat =(

[Calaba]

I'd just like to mention, chips with any sort of sauce other than a splash of vinegar is an abomination. They are supposed to be at least semi crispy on the outside.

The cheese melts over the chips, and mostly leaves the crispyness intact.

[Lollis]

The cheese melts over the chips, and mostly leaves the crispyness intact.

Yeah, with cheese it's sort of okay. But with gravy, or worse, curry sauce... that is just potato assassination.

[Conspicuous Cultist]

meh,

America is a melting pot. Im of irish descent, and have irish cuisine in the house occasionally (ie, corned beef is expensive, otherwise, god would not stop me from having it weekly, just like how i would want turkey).

Is there good british food? yea, but alot of it is incorporated into American cuisine.

Damn... I hate this thread... I had a good dinner... and I am full... but this thread is making me hungry for foods I cant have... nor should eat... specially since I dont want to get fat =(

Yeah, I'm trying to count calories for my first day. This wasn't really a good idea to make a thread of this caliber.

[Raging Penguin]

ugh, sitting in the office, with my stomach growling and I had to browse through this thread xD

That pie looks delicious. Wonder how big it is.

[Lollis]

Yeah, I'm trying to count calories for my first day. This wasn't really a good idea to make a thread of this caliber.

Roast Pork, with carrots, crispy roast potatoes, mashed and or boiled new potatoes, broccoli mornay, crackling, and apple sauce, covered in gravy.

That's completely safe and will not get you fat.

[Conspicuous Cultist]

Roast Pork, with carrots, crispy roast potatoes, mashed and or boiled new potatoes, broccoli mornay, crackling, and apple sauce, covered in gravy.

That's completely safe and will not get you fat.

I'm having mostly that and I'm at the whims of whatever my father cooks who chain-smokes, drinks, and doesn't give any fucks about his health so I'm just simply cutting down the amount I eat.

I'm having a hard time doing rough measurements. Corn's calorie dense, but 1 cup of corn is a lot of corn and I have no idea what 3 ounces of roast beef looks like.

[belfpala]

...and I have no idea what 3 ounces of roast beef looks like.

About the size of his cigarette pack.

[Reeve]

Right, but that doesn't make Cajun cuisine American. That'd be like me saying Italian food is Welsh because South Wales had a lot of Italian immigrants who opened restaurants around here and influenced the local cuisine. I mean I'm not that clear, but didn't they come from the French-conquered bits of Canada anyway?

Oh give me a freaking break. By that standard, all food is African food, since all humans came out of Africa originally.

Cajun food was made by Acadienne immigrants (as all Americans are immigrants) and developed in situ in New Orleans. It's as American as Red Beans and Rice.