🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Unappreciation Thread

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This tread has inspired me to put on my apron and make some British grub. The dish elegantly named; Toad in the hole.
Served with mash and a Swedish export beer. It got the missus approval, so all is good.
 
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This tread has inspired me to put on my apron and make some British grub. The dish elegantly named; Toad in the hole.
Served with mash and a Swedish export beer. It got the missus approval, so all is good.
Just needs half a pint of onion gravy on the side, hen!
 
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Just needs half a pint of onion gravy on the side, hen!
I read that in some recepies and not in others so I opted for fryed onions in the dish itself together with the sausages. To keep the challenge to my skills.
 
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I read that in some recepies and not in others so I opted for fryed onions in the dish itself together with the sausages. To keep the challenge to my skills.
….both??🤣
 
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I prefer my fruit scones with butter and (sometimes) jam
 
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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’t know who invented fish but it was likely not the English either.
Err what !!. 1660 first mention of "chips" in a English cook book and even Charles Dickens mentions them in a tale of two cities published in 1859..
Bubble and squeak - never had it.
Bangers and mash - maybe eat it once a year.
Beans on toast - maybe once a year.
Toad in the hole - maybe once every few years
Spotted dick - never had it.
Bubble and squeak - never had it.

at least once a week!!! but it has too be right 90% of places it tasteless

bangers and mash: only if the sausage is nice and not some processed supermarket rubbish and no lumps in the mash ( twice through ricer!!!)
Beans on toast : Omg you sure your English its almost a Staple Meal
Spotted dick. brings back horrible memories of stodgy school meals , im sure it lovely but its a no from me

Beans on toast - maybe once a year.
Toad in the hole - maybe once every few years
Spotted dick - never had it.
 
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Returning to food - last night I very much enjoyed bread & butter pudding with custard 😋

For those of you who can’t imagine this, think of hot, sliced Stollen with Crème Anglais 😋
you cannot beat bread and butter pudding
 
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Real butter is always correct in any cuisine.
 
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totally agree but which brand?
I do not know British brands of butter, but they seem to all be superior to butters found in US dairy cases. Yet, we suffer on.
 
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In England, at pretty much any time of the day, if you need to eat, but don’t want to cook and you feel that you’ll need carbs and protein to sustain you - beans on toast is the perfect 'go to'👌
 
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Beans on toast : Omg you sure your English its almost a Staple Meal

How could you survive with out beans on toast!

I bought 150 cans about 18 months ago, slowly getting thru them. Photo is one location, couldn't fit them all in that cupboard, more elsewhere 😂

 
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How could you survive with out beans on toast!

I bought 150 cans about 18 months ago, slowly getting thru them. Photo is one location, couldn't fit them all in that cupboard, more elsewhere 😂

But but but they aint Heinz baked beans😬
 
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But but but they aint Heinz baked beans😬

Yep these are a colonial crop, here in NZ you can get Heinz but Watties is the preferred brand for taste being a locally produced product however I decided to widen the net and went for SPC an Australian product and was surprised to find that it was the equal of either Watties or Heinz and in fact I liked it more than either. I have since been buying SPC tinned products based on my favourable results regarding their beans!
 
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Yep these are a colonial crop, here in NZ you can get Heinz but Watties is the preferred brand for taste being a locally produced product however I decided to widen the net and went for SPC an Australian product and was surprised to find that it was the equal of either Watties or Heinz and in fact I liked it more than either. I have since been buying SPC tinned products based on my favourable results regarding their beans!
Did not realise you are in NZ. Its a quote from an old ( very) heinz advert
 
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Did not realise you are in NZ. Its a quote from an old ( very) heinz advert

Yep I remember that advert lol
 
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So, beans on toast?

You just open up a can of beans, apply heat, then dump it on a piece of toast?

Interesting...

Is there a preferred type of beans or toast?
 
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Here we prefer Clark beans, founded in Montreal and Quebec owned today…



My favourite is the standard beans in tomato sauce. I don’t put then on my toast (no soggy toast for me thanks) but I eat them with toast certainly.