types of British foods

[easthome]

Originally Posted by TabulaRasa

Yeah, I don't know where this person is getting tea. I use a whistling kettle to heat my water. Same as my SIL in the UK.

One thing I HAVE noticed with my UK relatives/inlaws and their friends when they've visited is that if we have a tea, and I put on anything other than a pot of plain black tea (with the possible exception of Earl Grey), they look at me like I'm insane. Don't know if it's just them, or more universal, but using otherwise-flavored tea for tea is NOT OKAY.

I had friends over after our wedding, and made a pot of a spiced tea with cinnamon and orange, and I seriously thought this one girl's head was going to explode. She covered well enough, but I was like, "Sorry, you were expecting plain black tea, weren't you?" I hadn't realized.

A tea in the UK nearly always means (black) tea, or what I believe is sometimes called Breakfast Tea, that herbal stuff that the rest of the world drinks is 'meh'. In European supermarkets the 'tea isle' consists of 95% herbal teas with just one section for what they call 'English Breakfast Tea' but in the UK its 95% tea (English Breakfast) and one section for all the herbal stuff.

[Brave New World]

An interesting history of British cooking with some myths dispelled.

Five Myths About British Food | Anglophenia | BBC America

The History of British Food - Historic UK

A few good recipes

British Recipes - Great British Chefs

BBC Good Food - British Recipes Collection

The 15 most British foods ever - Telegraph

[Star10101]

Here’s my extensive list of Welsh foods, in case anyone (no-one) is interested:

Welsh Rarebit (Basically cheese on toast)

Cawl (Stew made of cute little Welsh lambs, that were previously skipping around on the mountains)

Bara Brith (Fruit cake)

Lava Bread (Not even bread! It’s mushed up seaweed)

Welsh Cakes (My Nan used to make hundreds of these, but I never liked them)

******* & Peas (City-Data won’t even let me write “F aggots”, which are like meat balls, not gay men!)

Caerphilthy Cheese (Not even made in Caerphilthy anymore)

Glamorgan Sausages (Veggie sausages made from the above Caerphilthy Cheese)

Peter’s Pies (Even worse than Gregg’s! There was once a rumour going around town that the workers would spit in each pie, as they made them. )

Leeks (Self-explanatory)

Enjoy.

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by easthome

This is quite an unusual list :-)...

It's a list of what we ate in London (on Portobello road).