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KeithP
路Not sure if Jam Roly-Poly pudding has had a mention yet? Finished a delicious one earlier today with custard (but was too busy eating it to take photo).
馃彺鬆仹鬆仮鬆仴鬆伄鬆仹鬆伩 England Unappreciation Thread
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ghce
路My childhood favourite, Grenadier salad, could eat that till I burst and then keep eating more!
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BAJJ
路Hard to beat a good steamed pudding, sticky toffee pudding and custard is to die for, and I鈥檓 Irish 馃榿
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Spruce
路路London sunburst dial fanMy childhood favourite, Grenadier salad, could eat that till I burst and then keep eating more!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Grenadier+sald&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari
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flw
路路history nerdI'm a big fan of Coronation chicken.
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ghce
路Posting as an Englishman, I鈥檝e never heard of it but I googled it and looks very nice although, sadly, unless I鈥檓 very much mistaken, I don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 an English dish - I didn鈥檛 eat an artichoke or most of the other ingredients until I was well into my adulthood and that鈥檚 with having a mother who liked food, cooked 'foreign' and took us abroad for holidays in Europe 馃槷
https://www.google.com/search?q=Grenadier+sald&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari
Consisting mostly of boiled and mashed potato's mixed with mashed cooked beetroot served with preserved cows tongue and a borcole ( Kale) salad, probably a few other things in there to but that's the essentials.
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noelekal
路路Home For Wayward WatchesCompletely off topic I know - but since I had a day out here I thought that I would post something that England can most certainly be proud of.
(and while there I did have a chicken, ham, rocket and pesto sandwich - which is decidedly un-English)
Castle Howard (north of York in the - sort of - north of England) - some may recognise it from both the TV series and film Brideshead Revisited.
Pretty much Vanburgh's first commission - because he met the client at a club in London.
English Baroque excess at its finest.
Ironically, a lot of the Roman artefacts most likely 'acquired' on the Grand Tour date from the first century AD (or CE if you prefer) when the Romans were occupying England.
We've been to Castle Howard,
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ghce
路Brideshead revisited is my favorite period drama of all time!
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Felix_La_PuBelle
路路Sometimes I鈥檓 wrong. Usually.Nothing beats the Pride and Prejudice mini series from the 90s. The one with Colin Firth.
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ghce
路Nothing beats the Pride and Prejudice mini series from the 90s. The one with Colin Firth.
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Felix_La_PuBelle
路路Sometimes I鈥檓 wrong. Usually.It was ok but it didn't suck me in in the same way as Brideshead with its darker themes and more meaty depictions of the human condition, sadness and muted pleasures as you'd expect from a culture immersed in this sort of stuff. Less of the vanilla and more of the emotional despair.
Fair enough. 90s P&P is pretty light fare. But I can watch it on repeat to relax.
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Davidt
路Exactly this. And the best ones are Sarah's in Looe. Cream tea is another, with the cream on top!
For a second I thought you meant cream on top of the tea!
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Subspecies
路For a second I thought you meant cream on top of the tea!
I'm Cornwall the jam is put on the scone first then topped with cream. Whereas in Devon the cream is put on then topped out with jam. It has been the subject of fierce debate that is still raging馃榾 Btw I'm in the Cornish camp.
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lillatroll
路Ok that I might have to try, it sounds interesting even as a vegetarian
There is a lot of stolen culinary valour in England, even fish and chips, technically chips were a US invention with French fries being French, I don鈥檛 know who invented fish but it was likely not the English either.
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Charlemagne1333
路I believe fish and chips were popularised in the UK
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p4ul
路You can if you wish馃槈
I'm Cornwall the jam is put on the scone first then topped with cream. Whereas in Devon the cream is put on then topped out with jam. It has been the subject of fierce debate that is still raging馃榾 Btw I'm in the Cornish camp.
Strawberry jam, clotted cream鈥ccept no substitutes.
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dsio
路路Ash @ 惟FI believe fish and chips were popularised in the UK, by jewish immigrants from Spain and Portugal. If I was going to recommend a dish, it would be lamb stew with dumplings. Simple but delicious if done correctly.
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TasMike
路Disappointingly the worst fish and chips I've ever eaten were bought on the Brighton (UK) foreshore. Fish was covered in a thick oily batter that fell off the flesh and the chips, thin and grossly overcooked. I think I was spoiled by growing up in Melbourne where fish and chip shops produced beautifully thinly battered flake and fat chips wrapped (salt or vinegar?) in butcher's paper and newspaper. I've never found fish and chips to match, anywhere in the world, particularly the UK.
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Archer
路Disappointingly the worst fish and chips I've ever eaten were bought on the Brighton (UK) foreshore. Fish was covered in a thick oily batter that fell off the flesh and the chips, thin and grossly overcooked. I think I was spoiled by growing up in Melbourne where fish and chip shops produced beautifully thinly battered flake and fat chips wrapped (salt or vinegar?) in butcher's paper and newspaper. I've never found fish and chips to match, anywhere in the world, particularly the UK.
