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Haggis belongs in top tier.
Yorkshire puddings are entirely all right but they’re not top tier. That’s like saying bread is top tier, it depends entirely on what you can buy it with. No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate that’s not a meal.
Welsh rarebit though is. That should be at the top of the list, if I ever go to a cafe and they have that on the menu I will 100% definitely have it every single time.
No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate
They were traditionally served as a starter. I’d have mine with a bit of jam when I was young.
Yeah, why is Yorkshire Pudding at the top but Toad-in-the-hole is halfway down, when they are the same thing, except one is a proper meal and the other isn’t?
I’ve never had a good Yorkshire pudding. They are always disappointing. It’s irrelevant how much of the rest of your sunday roast you eat with it, it always makes the rest of the roast taste worse than it would had you not wasted your time with the Yorkshire pudding.
Wow thems fighting words. But i’m thinking you’ve perhaps been eating the wrong ones? I’ve had some truly dire ones, its not like its a recipie impossible to mess up, but most of them i’ve had are really amazing. Crispy sides, slightly soft bottom is the ideal imo, but you also can’t make up for bad ones just by the cooking, it’s also what they’re made of
I’ve had a few Sunday roasts (in the UK) in my time, and been to good pubs and bad across a variety of English locales to have them, they are always shit. Have even tried homemade ones by someone who everyone says makes great Yorkshire puddings. Disappoint always ensued. It’s always the same, a mostly tasteless piece of batter that takes more from a meal than it adds.
Only the UK would classify something “fish and chips” as the pinnacle of their cuisine.
Actually the Irish are super into it too. And Australia, though they fuck up the condiments by having aioli instead of salt and vinegar.
Portugal has a similar thing that is deep fried squid and chips. I was told I absolutely had to try it and it was bloody chewy.
If the calamari is chewy it’s overcooked. It should not be chewy
Fried fish is a big thing in Portugal and Galiza, in fact that’s were the brits got the idea, but almost no one would rate it god tier among the local cuisine.
I’ve gotta be honest, shepherd’s/cottage pie above basically that entire mid tier is a pretty controversial take to me. I don’t think I’d ever choose the pie when presented with it versus a chicken tikka or toad in the hole for example
Some of the low tier is being unfairly chastised, scotch eggs deserve better, especially the fancy warm runny ones you get in nice pubs. A good beef wellington can be a religious experience
Now finally, I have to take huge umbrage to black pudding, haggis & kippers being in crap tier. They are some of the regional breakfast highlights.
I will die on the hill that a fry up is incomplete without at least one piece of black pudding (ideally from Bury or Stornoway). Haggis is a bonus flavour bomb that’s also welcome
… And kippers with buttery scrambled eggs on toast just slaps
If this was the only food accessible to me I would also conquer the world. Desperately.
idk why people say that about British food, this all looks warm and filling, it’s basically comfort food. The worst thing about it is there are very few fruits and vegetables but presumably those are side dishes.
My issue with this is that about half the food is pies or otherwise pieish. The rest is just, boring or bland.
So many brown dishes and hardly a green vegetable in sight.
And they call the Americans fat and unhealthy…
This isn’t a diet plan for a British person, it’s just the top foods. If you look at USA top foods it would be burgers, BBQ, pizza, chowder, etc. I don’t think Americans are known for eating plates of vegetables but that doesn’t mean you don’t eat them.
Most of them would either be eaten with a vegetable side or have vegetables in them…
Yeah but there’s still way more bread in these dishes than I’m comfortable with. Why do you people wrap so many things in dough? Pastys, Beef Wellington, and Fish & Chips are all good, but any dough-wrapped dish beyond that is just plain excessive.
I think most cultures have dough-wrapped dishes. It’s not exclusively a British thing…
The top tier - consisting only of steak and ale pie - was sadly cropped out.
Also, would vouch for a separate entries for “cold Scotch egg fully cooked” and “fresh Scotch egg with runny middle”.
Steak and ale pie is so underrated.
Have you tried the W2Kitchen version? It’s impossibly roasty and full of caramel flavour, browning on top of browning… If I talk more I’ll have to go make it.
No corned beef hash??
I’d definitely shuffle a couple of these (like Toad in the whole is much better then that) but on the whole, this is a lot closer to my tastes than I was expecting.
I find it utterly hilarious that a bacon sandwich is for one classified as a classic british food, but also tops the chart above some real originals like tika masala or the scotch egg.
No lettuce? No tomato? Just bacon between two slices of bread? If that makes it so high up I’d like to see them try an actual BLT.
You would ruin a bacon sandwich with lettuce and tomato; BLT is completely different.
A BLT is a good, but entirely different thing to a bacon sandwich.
Bacon sarnies are served hot on a buttered roll or toast with red or brown sauce.
Sort of like the American grilled cheese, it ceases to be what it is as soon as you mess with any aspect of the formula.
The glory and purity of the bacon sandwich is ruined by this multicoloured, wet, squishy foodstuff.
Also, a bacon sandwich is a hot sandwich. BLT is a cold sandwich.
A great BLT has warm bacon and cold vegetables.
I don’t know where to begin, it’s all wrong. You could reverse it and it would be better.
Its still arse about face though. Things are together that really shouldnt be.
Of course, not saying it would be right if it were reversed, just better.
Look at the ingredients of those and you will find plenty of spices.
Black pepper does not grow in north-western Europe, you know - the fact that you forgot it’s a spice is testament to how well the spice trade worked.
Wait until this poor sod discovers Irish food…
The real tragedy of black pepper is that no one eats it as fresh berries. I was in a hot area suitable for growing it and had the berries before they get dried into pepper corns and they were amazing! Spicy and a bit sweet and nothing like the dried version.
If only they weren’t so hard to grow outside certain zones
Interesting!
Due to the influence of Tasting History (Max Miller), this year I bought long pepper for use in a few recipes (currently marinating some shawarma) - that’s an interesting flavour, also a bit sweeter (dried) than (dried) round pepper.
You don’t like liver and onions? Barbarians!
After years hearing about how awful haggis is, I’ve been very pleasantly surprised when I finally got to taste it earlier this year. It tastes like mutton, which I love, and the oats give it a very pleasant texture. Definitely in my top tier of British food
The taste is entirely dependent on how well haggis season goes.
With the rewilding efforts of the Scottish government there’s been a recent uptick in haggis numbers though! The downside with that however is the little buggers have been breaking into industrial oat stores and gobbling up as much as they can, so the price of oats has increased.
Last I heard, the oat industry were discussing moving their storage locations to flatter ground so the haggis struggle to get to it with their mismatched legs.
Haggis in the crap tier and Yorkshire pudding in the top tier? Yeah, right 🤦
