What is the best British food you've had?

Nothing beats a proper English breakfast

Also, beef wellington is pretty great if done right.

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.

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.

Fish and Chips

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

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

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.

Steak and ale pie is delish!

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

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

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

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.

Scones

Bubble and squeak

Grilled salmon from the Lune river served with roasted potatoes, honey glazed parsnips and grilled green beans.

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.

Would you like a Jelly Baby?

Fish and Chips with vinegar in a newspaper, it's surprisingly good. I had it somewhere in a suburb of London in some traditional shop and the grandma who was in front of me put so much vinegar on hers that the whole counter and floor was soaked in it.

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.

There's something about a sunday dinner on a rainy day...the day after a night out.

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.

Got to be either a full English breakfast or a Cornish pasty.

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.

Indan takeout

My grandmother was British, and she'd cook the most amazing roast potatoes I've ever had. Its just a shame she made them by sacrificing the roast beef...

Had a really good steak and ale pie in a pub somewhere. Also, fish and chips is wildly overrated.

Full Fry-up Breakfast

Since other people are posting haggis, then the fucking BANGER haggis pizza I had when I visited the U.K. More of a Scottish thing though, no?

More strictly then I suppose Fish'n Chips or a Cottage Pie. I has those too over there. Can't say it's noticeably different from the local Atlantic Canada themed joints all around me in a landlocked province 😅.

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

Haha, yeah, good joke.

Toasted crumpets slathered in butter and marmite, or jam.

Marmalade on sourdough toast.

Ploughmans sandwiches with good bread. (This one is not as good since going vegan though, as vegan butter is almost identical but the cheeses not so much.)

Sticky toffee pudding

Christmas pudding

Roast potatoes

Elderflower cordial

Gin

Before going vegan I quite liked smoked makrel and various tinned fish on toast. Kedgeree was good too, but that's a Scottish take on an Indian dish.

Idk I don't really eat much 'British' food despite being born here, both my parents are immigrants from different countries.

Also, everyone (including me in my other post) is going savoury — how about sweet? Aero bar, in mint. Perfection. Bark candy mostly only comes in chocolate, or dark chocolate. Sometimes vanilla (white chocolate, which is not chocolate, it's vanilla and vanilla should own it because "white chocolate" is awesome, though it should really be called "Vanilla candy bark," but "bark candy" is really only known as... chocolate... hence "white chocolate"). Fun fact, I've had all kinds of bark candy. When I was a kid, I got it in orange and raspberry as well. Now it's only chocolate and... what I mentioned. Oh and mint chocolate, like Andes mints, but also those pastel-coloured mints that sometimes have the little white balls of hard sugar on them (I think those are just straight up mint bark though).

Again why TF don't we have bark candy in other flavours?

Liver and bacon with onion gravy, served with mash.

Dippy eggs with marmite on the soldiers

Honestly fish and chips in terms of a meal.

As part of a meal, Yorkshire pudding is unlike anything I’ve had in America, and nothing like what it evokes in the typical American.

More like popovers almost.

Jaffa cakes

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A good balti.

Spotted Dick

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.

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.

I had some very good sandwiches and salads during my visit to London; the rest was mixed (even the ethnic food, which I thought would be safe).

I don’t have much to add to the actual question asked, I’m generally pro British food done right. I do want to mention that recently I found a British restaurant near my house in the US, and I’ve been watching too much GBBO so I had to get the apple pie, and it was the saddest thing I’ve ever eaten.

The apple pie was essentially an orb of wonder bread with a few slices of limp apple in the middle, and the whole thing was smothered in custard until soggy. Not one bit of sugar or anything resembling flavor to be found anywhere in the three ingredients. The apples were extremely gritty for some reason, it definitely wasn’t cinnamon.

I wanted to go full Karen and call the chef out to apologize for this food crime, but I’m not confident enough in my understanding of British food to say that isn’t authentic. If someone had made that on GBBO I’m sure they would have sent them home without even trying the rest of the food. I can imagine Paul going “Why is it so gritty?!”

Altoids

Does a steamed pud from a container count? Those things actually do kind of slap.

huel

I've been to London twice .... and the best food I've ever eaten the whole time there was fish and chippy from a street vendor by tower hill.

Only the Brits would colonize half the world looking for spices and then refuse to use them in their food.