As a Brit I can assure you probably less than 1% of the population would even consider eating jellied eels. I’ve never ever seen anyone not on tv eat one in my life.🤢
As a Londoner growing up it was normal for pubs to have a fish stall outside or a fish man walk round with a basket of fishy wares, cockles, wrinkles, prawns, roll mops and of course jellied eels. I guess younger generations will never know about this.
@@AirWindFire I live in West London now but my family are from South so I grew up hearing of tales of proper pie , mash and liquor also jellied eels. A few places in London still sell it but it's definitely dying out.
Don't think I've met anyone who has but it's being made so someone must be eating it. Ok googled and it's common in many northern Europe countries, but in the Uk it was preworld war 2 in London. And I know we've been corrupted by American fast food but they needed to try HP brown sauce on the chip butty and scrape the 1cm thick butter off.
why do these shows always make people eat jellied eels like its a normal thing that people eat. its pretty much only eaten in the east end and basically only by old people. i dont think ive ever met anyone that has eaten these
Breakfast: Looked good, no complaints. Chip Butty: Bread was too thick, too much butter. Bangers and Mash: The mushy peas should've been garden peas. Jellied Eels: No one eats this. Toad in the hole: The Yorkshire pudding did not rise, and so had the wrong texture. Eton Mess: Looked good. Spotted Dick: No complaints.
I love Sharon's face when she looked HORRIFIED that he didn't know what SharWare was! Hasn't he been a producer on the REACT/PEOPLE VS. FOOD channel for a while now? We love when Sharon brings out her SharWare to take it home to share it with her loving wife.
as a fellow brit that was NOT toad in the hole more like Turd in the bin,,if that is what people think a proper toad in the hole is omg stop the planet i wanna get off!
They've overloaded it the same way Americans overload Vegemite on toast. A thin layer of butter in a chip butty the same as you would with Vegemite on toast.
This needs to happen again featuring Cornish pasty, fish and chips, beef wellington, chicken tikka, Welsh rarebit, haggis, Cumberland ring, and bubble & squeak.
never heard of adding mushy peas to bangers and mash? I am from Yorkshire and I can assure you this is not a thing, Fresh garden peas or boiled carrotts ect yes, but 'mushy peas' are for fish and chips only
If you guys ever do a part two, please include: Cottage pie How chicken tikka masala was invented in the UK and is classed as a national dish Bubble and Squeak Sunday roast with yorkshire pudding (with all the meats)
Mushy peas has nothing to do with Bangers and mash! It's bangers and mash and gravy, That's it, that's the dish. Mushy peas belong with Fish and chips. Here endeth the lesson.
When making a chip butty there are several things you'd do differently to the dainty sandwich presented here! Firstly, it wouldn't use sliced bread, or if it did it would be a single slice folded over, but a proper cup butty comes on a buttered roll/bap/bun/barm, split or cut, but not all the way through, so that it opens but stays in a single piece. Secondly, there wouldn't be that much butter, and what there is would be melting because the chips would be hot, so that the butter soaks into the bread and runs along the chips and, perhaps just a little, over your fingers too! Also, there wouldn't be just a single layer of neatly placed chips - they'd be crammed randomly into the sandwich so that it has to be crushed closed to eat it. Finally, although ketchup is an acceptable topping, these are usually found at fish and chip shops, so the condiment of choice should be salt and lots of vinegar! Acceptable alternatives are to top it with curry sauce, gravy, or even mushy peas! If I were making one at home I'd have HP brown sauce on it in preference to ketchup, but that's a me thing. There you have it - the bread was wrong, the chips were wrong, the temperature was wrong and the condiment was wrong. Other than that, it looked like a great chip butty!
Sharon is a force all her own. Abhi had no idea what he was getting into. He asked what Shareware was and asking her to be patient. It's Sharon! That's not how she works!
Aside from the jellied eels (which we don’t actually eat), this was actually a good representation of English food. It’s actually kinda nice to see Americans try proper English food instead of just hearing about it and judging it without knowing. We also have a ton of great desserts that originated here.
I stayed with family in the Netherlands. 1 tea time we had patate fritz(chips) . I took so long everyone else had left the table . I got up grabbed some bread put some chips in took a bite, only to notice the whole family stood staring at me with a look of disgust " you are eating a potatoe sandwich ". It just works
@Sierlea possibly, but I have lived across Wales and the South of the UK and never encountered it. I certainly wouldn't have had it as an 'Iconic British' food, particularly when there are more iconic dishes such as fish and chips, roast dinner etc
Black pudding is a thing in the former British colony of Trinidad and Tobago, where it's called black pudding. It's usually sold as bar food, or street food. It's iconically served as "pudding and hops" as a sandwich in a dinner roll style bun with chili sauce and condiments. The T&T version is heavily seasoned and usually spicy hottt. Baked beans are popular too, usually served as part of Sunday or holiday big meals
I'm British but I have never come across jellied eels. Didn't even know it was considered a british dish. A sunday roast dinner should've been in this video.
It’s an east London thing, it’s definitely not a national dish even when people did eat it. Tripe and hodge is more national and something chippys would sell
@@LooselyGrope I like Japanese eel. But yeah I don’t necessary expect to liked jellied eels. They do look gross. I just want to try it out of curiosity.
Good episode but i wish they'd pointed out that Jellied eels is specifically a London food. The rest of the country doesn't eat it. Jellied eels grew into popularity because eels where one of the few things that could survive in the thames, and therefore was a cheap source of protein for poorer people. In the rest of the UK they historically never had local eels or had better sources of protein so the food never really became common. It's specifically London cuisine over general british cuisine
I was shocked to learn americans dont put butter in their sandwiches!! I can tell you in the UK there is no sandwich we ever make that does not contain butter.
No minced beef and onions in a suet pastry roll...or Beef Wellinton...bread and butter.. with marmalde and a good dollop of rum in the custard ....homemade rice pud with a dllop of jam !! All so easy to make . Have to say you lovely folk across the pond serves portions of food that puts me... too much !! BUT still love you !!
the thing ive noticed in america is that most, not all, dont know how to use a knife and fork. they cut, then drop the knife, switch the fork to the other hand, and then eat. hence, they dont understand why we mix everything together. you should have sausage, mash, and peas on the fork.
Im 79 and can assure you jellied eels were a staple as a boy and very popular especially in the pie and eel shop at the end of the Goldhawk Road at the entrance to the market in Shepherds Bush London
I wish I could say the same sadly my family has a thing for them. My first experience trying them was on a boat watching a race on the Thames, let's say I never saw any of the race as I spent the whole time speaking to the big white telephone 🤮
I’ve never ever heard of anyone in England eating jellied eels for the last 100 years! FYI I am English, and they forgot the hash browns with the Full English.
Hash browns are NOT part of an English breakfast. Serve me an English with hash browns and the plate goes back to the kitchen with a stop fckuing my breakfast up!
@01:46. Laughed my head off at the guy saying "this is so much food". Coming from a citizen of the country were a restaurant starter can feed an entire family!.....😂. When Brits eat a Full English, it is a treat and the person then usually doesn't eat again until evening time.
@@CragScrambler We do too sometimes in winter, as a naughty treat. Then it's our main meal of the day. I just think this American is being rather dramatic when the US is known for its gigantic portions. 😄
Bangers and mash with garden peas not mushy. I'm British and to me jellied eels are disgusting. Any steamed pudding with custard is right up my street.
So glad to see fellow brits in the comments like, wrong, wrong, wrong.. why was the gravey so thick and lumpy, jellied eels wtf, and never seen mushey peas with bangers and mash 🤷🏻♀️😂
Lava bread is absolutely delicious. It is boiled seaweed, which is then cooked again, made into little patties, rolled in oats or flour and fried. You can also get it tinned. The best place to get it used to be Fishguard market in Pembrokeshire, and you bought scoops ladled out of a bucket. I am aware that reading this you might not believe me. But it is true.
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 Yes indeed. Spelling does vary, as it does in the Welsh language. The weed used to be collected off the beach and rocks and sent up to London on the first train for breakfast that day in the smartest hotels.
Jellied eels were eaten by working class East Londoners in a very tiny bit of London in the early 19 century not so much now. Now it's just a weird niche thing that 99% of Brits would not touch with a barge pole.
I'm a Yorkshireman, and I can confirm that NOBODY has ever called mushy peas 'Yorkshire Caviar' (unless it's one of those 'orrible b@stards from Lancashire...) ;D
Jellied eels aren't British food, they're London food. As far as the rest of the UK is concerned, London is a foreign country, with it's own culture, tastes and rules, that just happens to be our capital. The rest of us look at it with almost as much bewilderment as Yanks do...
@@rootchiller No, it's more a regional thing. All the towns around here (Manchester area) have pretty much the same culture and accent, but you only have to go 40 miles west (Liverpool) or 80 miles south (Birmingham) to be somewhere significantly different. London is basically a "region" that's very concentrated but very important. Every region likes to poke fun at every other region, and with London being so important (and so self-important) that sets them up for a double helping.
It’s great to see you all enjoying some proper British dishes, the jellied eels are a bit esoteric (very much specific to East London around the old London docks), but none the less very glad you like the rest of it 😊
Mushy peas goes with cod and chips not bangers and mash. Also pretty sure it’s only people from the east end of London that eat jellied eels. Was good to see they all like the toad in the hole.
Agreed. If it was just petit pois or garden peas I would have understood. Mushy peas are more of a northern thing with Fish and Chips. Also I like English mustard with my bangers and mash
@@Lapinporokoiraexactly. Fish chips and mushy peas is a classic but bangers and mash is typically with peas and sometimes carrots. I don’t know anyone who has mash and mushy peas. That’s too much mushy on one plate in the UK 😂
50 year old Welsh woman, never seen anyone eating laverbread and cockles on their breakfast, never seen it available in any pub, restaurant, cafe and it sounds gross. We just have the full English.
Same for me but I guess your prob not a Londoner like me. I would say it’s not anywhere near as popular nowadays but back during and after war times is was a staple being very cheap and very common in the London Thames
@@lukewalton5749 I’m from Bristol so back in them times it was prob much more common to eat things like rabbit or squirrels boiled in a pot with all the leftovers from during the week
Yeah same. Eels is one thing like sushi but not jellied although I used to be freaked out by the jelly in pork pies but as I've gotten older and cooked more I realise that the collagen in meat broth is super healthy and delicious so I'm cool with some gelatine if it's part of the cooking process.
@@godrules3596 but it used to be especially if you were a cockney working class they fished it out of the Thames in Victorian times or earlier as a way not to starve to death
I'd definitely have garden peas over mushy peas with the bangers and mash. Also as a Lancastrian... it needed to be a large bread roll (barm) with 80% less butter 🤣🤣
Bread was too thick and too much butter in the chip butty: personally, I prefer it without ketchup. Get a conventional thick (or failing that, medium sliced) loaf, some good quality salted butter (I love Lurpak, which also contains vegetable oil). And plenty of "chips".…NOT skinny french fries! And don't forget the salt...and vinegar/pepper if you like! 😁
So many amazing dishes that they missed out on: fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, shepherd's pie, cornish pasty, beans on toast, sticky toffee pudding, apple crumble, I could go on
@@rachelking394Chicken TIKKA isn’t British, but tikka MASALA was invented in Britain mid 1900s - we’re used to slopping gravy on everything and couldn’t cope without a sauce. A restaurateur made a sauce by request and boom - tikka masala.
So heres a fact. Mushypeas do not go with bangers and mash. Bangers and Mash consist of: sausages, mashed potatoes, regular peas, Yorkshire puddings, and home made gravy.
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You guys need to do one with just trying Scottish food & drinks🏴🏴
AWE EVERYONE IS ALWAYS SO CUTE AND BEAUTIFUL. AND I MEAN EVERYONE !❤❤❤
Please make Abhi host some Try Not Eats! He needs the full PVF experience with Sharon.
Do Portuguese food!!
as soon and she said hi i got jumpscared
As a Brit I can assure you probably less than 1% of the population would even consider eating jellied eels. I’ve never ever seen anyone not on tv eat one in my life.🤢
As a Londoner growing up it was normal for pubs to have a fish stall outside or a fish man walk round with a basket of fishy wares, cockles, wrinkles, prawns, roll mops and of course jellied eels. I guess younger generations will never know about this.
@@AirWindFire I live in West London now but my family are from South so I grew up hearing of tales of proper pie , mash and liquor also jellied eels. A few places in London still sell it but it's definitely dying out.
I never knew jellied eels existed 😂
Never tried in 43yrs of life
It's a London thing never been a Thing in the north
Mushy peas with sausage and mash? WRONG! it should be garden peas. Mushy peas go with fish n chips.
@@uk_stoned_gamer8835 bangers, mash, beans and some grated cheese 🤤
Sausage, mash mushy peas and gravy 😋😋😋
@@uk_stoned_gamer8835what a name 😂 love it
And curry sauce. If having a steak pudding with chips and mushy peas it’s gravy.
Bangers and mash has to have gravy or else you’re doing it wrong
On behalf of all British people we DO NOT EAT JELLIED EELS
I second this statement I gagged seeing he vid XD
36 year old brit here never tried never will 😂
46 and English. Not ever gonna happen
literally i’ve never tried it
Don't think I've met anyone who has but it's being made so someone must be eating it. Ok googled and it's common in many northern Europe countries, but in the Uk it was preworld war 2 in London. And I know we've been corrupted by American fast food but they needed to try HP brown sauce on the chip butty and scrape the 1cm thick butter off.
Nobody in the UK outside London would touch jellied eels with a ten foot pole.
I’m in Essex and just the look at it makes my stomach churn.
I'm 46 and have lived in the UK all my life and I've never had Jellied Eels so please don't think we are eating that on a regular...or at all
There just a London thing
@@petesmart1983theyre absolutely not a london thing lmao
@@petesmart1983maybe 90 years ago 😂
@@petesmart1983 specifically East London and even then not so much.
I've never had them ,either. Just don't fancy the thought 🤢🤮 Nor have I had pie, mash and liquor. Definitely without the liquor. I love pies !
Request: Try not to eat Tom and Jerry food
Yeh
Omg heck yeah❤
Or Wren & Stimpy
I'm watching Tom amd Jerry rn at boomerang lol
all I recall from Tom a Jerry is bowls of milk and cheese wedges lol 😅
Wait a second.....WHO EVER MADE THAT CHIP BUTTY NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!! who the Eff put that much butter on that!!!
I know right
It didn’t even melt!!
FR! And I've always used one slice of bread and folded it over the chips!
@JPA65 I KNOW! BRUH! IT DIDNT MELT! That is a crime against Britain! BAN THEM!
@@BeetleNugget see....this guy gets it! Legend!
Im British, i never have and never would try jellied eels and i love seafood. Wouldn't have said it was a "British staple food"
It was in war times, these days I wouldn't trust anything fished from the dirty Thames!
why do these shows always make people eat jellied eels like its a normal thing that people eat. its pretty much only eaten in the east end and basically only by old people. i dont think ive ever met anyone that has eaten these
Where’s the classic roast dinnerrrr and fish & chips
Are you serious so you wanted them to perpetuate cultural stereotypes? Get lost !
@@michelleflood5843we’re watching a video on stereotypical British foods lol
The way Sharon roasted the producer for not knowing what sharware is 😂😂
As she should. He needs to be educated 😂
@@migwigpee0796 and him blatantly lying that he watches pvf 🤣🤣
The look of disbelief 😮got me. I'm pretty sure I had the same look on my face 😂
Her shirt literally says “sharware… food left behind”😂😂
Breakfast: Looked good, no complaints.
Chip Butty: Bread was too thick, too much butter.
Bangers and Mash: The mushy peas should've been garden peas.
Jellied Eels: No one eats this.
Toad in the hole: The Yorkshire pudding did not rise, and so had the wrong texture.
Eton Mess: Looked good.
Spotted Dick: No complaints.
I love Sharon's face when she looked HORRIFIED that he didn't know what SharWare was! Hasn't he been a producer on the REACT/PEOPLE VS. FOOD channel for a while now? We love when Sharon brings out her SharWare to take it home to share it with her loving wife.
As a Brit… that toad in the hole looked awful 😅
as a fellow brit that was NOT toad in the hole more like Turd in the bin,,if that is what people think a proper toad in the hole is omg stop the planet i wanna get off!
Or as Gino calls it "sausage in the hole"
I thought it was mayo in the chip butty, I've never seen so much butter in a sandwich.
They've overloaded it the same way Americans overload Vegemite on toast. A thin layer of butter in a chip butty the same as you would with Vegemite on toast.
Never ever have i used that much butter. A thin layer. For me, enough to just melt
This needs to happen again featuring Cornish pasty, fish and chips, beef wellington, chicken tikka, Welsh rarebit, haggis, Cumberland ring, and bubble & squeak.
I agreee
@@GingeDSI Pasties are LIFE!!
never heard of adding mushy peas to bangers and mash? I am from Yorkshire and I can assure you this is not a thing, Fresh garden peas or boiled carrotts ect yes, but 'mushy peas' are for fish and chips only
Yes I agree
I just said exactly the same
It's not unheard of! I've seen it up around East Midlands- though mostly peas, there were mashed peas options.
You have to be really strict with your rules when you're trying to create a food culture in a country that only has 4 foods. Fish, Peas, Bread, Potato
I’m Jamaican born British and their food is good especially with a lil twist of your own it’s hot it’s hearty and wholesome
Oh, I love, love, love jerk chicken mmh
Jamie will eat anything, girl isn’t picky lol 😂
9:47 how many times. WE DO NOT EAT JELLIED EELS 😂 no wonder people call our food bland, because they get given this shite 😂
I was shocked to learn recently that Americans don't put butter on their sandwiches like normal people do.
You look like you put butter on your sandwiches
Depends on the type of sandwich.
I bet you don't use spices in your food like normal people do.
@@savagen7gamer807Britain is the curry capital of Europe, move along.
@@jescollo I do, all Australians do.
If you guys ever do a part two, please include:
Cottage pie
How chicken tikka masala was invented in the UK and is classed as a national dish
Bubble and Squeak
Sunday roast with yorkshire pudding (with all the meats)
So nice to finally see an accurate british food video!! Next you need to try a proper Sunday roast
totes babes 😍
Accurate???? You must be smoking crack… or being sarcastic😂
Welsh guy here 🏴🏴❤️❤️ erm NO SUCH THING AS A FULL WELSH!... Invented tradition for gullible tourists and vloggers....😂❤
@@annieg1812 what???
Mushy peas has nothing to do with Bangers and mash!
It's bangers and mash and gravy, That's it, that's the dish.
Mushy peas belong with Fish and chips.
Here endeth the lesson.
mushy peas are normally served with fish and chips, NOT with bangers and mash you have garden peas with that dish.
Not Even Abhi can stop Sharon from eating before explaining the food. 😂😂😂😂😂
My dad's English. He did not eat jellied eels. But I had an uncle that did.
Full English breakfast is amazing.
Cockles are great. As are welks.
When making a chip butty there are several things you'd do differently to the dainty sandwich presented here! Firstly, it wouldn't use sliced bread, or if it did it would be a single slice folded over, but a proper cup butty comes on a buttered roll/bap/bun/barm, split or cut, but not all the way through, so that it opens but stays in a single piece.
Secondly, there wouldn't be that much butter, and what there is would be melting because the chips would be hot, so that the butter soaks into the bread and runs along the chips and, perhaps just a little, over your fingers too! Also, there wouldn't be just a single layer of neatly placed chips - they'd be crammed randomly into the sandwich so that it has to be crushed closed to eat it.
Finally, although ketchup is an acceptable topping, these are usually found at fish and chip shops, so the condiment of choice should be salt and lots of vinegar! Acceptable alternatives are to top it with curry sauce, gravy, or even mushy peas! If I were making one at home I'd have HP brown sauce on it in preference to ketchup, but that's a me thing.
There you have it - the bread was wrong, the chips were wrong, the temperature was wrong and the condiment was wrong. Other than that, it looked like a great chip butty!
Sharon is a force all her own. Abhi had no idea what he was getting into. He asked what Shareware was and asking her to be patient. It's Sharon! That's not how she works!
Nobody eats Jellied eels what the hell? I'm British and hell no!
I'm from the UK and I must say that you put too much butter in the chip butty LOL...too much butter takes away the glory of it.
Aside from the jellied eels (which we don’t actually eat), this was actually a good representation of English food.
It’s actually kinda nice to see Americans try proper English food instead of just hearing about it and judging it without knowing.
We also have a ton of great desserts that originated here.
I stayed with family in the Netherlands. 1 tea time we had patate fritz(chips) . I took so long everyone else had left the table . I got up grabbed some bread put some chips in took a bite, only to notice the whole family stood staring at me with a look of disgust " you are eating a potatoe sandwich ". It just works
It's weird seeing Alexander not starting off showcasing his baked goods
I’m 23 from the uk, I have never gone near a jellied eel and plan to keep it that way
Jellied eels is NOT a traditional British meal. I was born and raised here and NEVER eaten it, nor seen it on ANY menu.
Maybe it's from a different region?
@Sierlea possibly, but I have lived across Wales and the South of the UK and never encountered it. I certainly wouldn't have had it as an 'Iconic British' food, particularly when there are more iconic dishes such as fish and chips, roast dinner etc
Jellied eels would have been one of THE cheap foods to buy about 100 plus years ago. But not so common in the last 50 years.
What do you expect when they don't have an English man presenting? He's never had black pudding ffs.
Scones, roast dinner, beans on toast/jacket potatoes with beans, fish and chips and sticky toffee pudding of course!! Go again
Dang. I think I need to move.
You lost me at jellied eels. No-one in the UK eats it. Just another cliche. Also nobody calls it blood pudding, it's simply known as black pudding.
Black pudding is a thing in the former British colony of Trinidad and Tobago, where it's called black pudding. It's usually sold as bar food, or street food. It's iconically served as "pudding and hops" as a sandwich in a dinner roll style bun with chili sauce and condiments. The T&T version is heavily seasoned and usually spicy hottt.
Baked beans are popular too, usually served as part of Sunday or holiday big meals
As a British person, I'm very disappointed in the state of that 'Yorkshire pudding' 😂😂😂 absolutely no rise
I'm British but I have never come across jellied eels. Didn't even know it was considered a british dish. A sunday roast dinner should've been in this video.
I assume you’re too young to know about jellied eels, it’s a dying traditional dish.
It’s an east London thing, it’s definitely not a national dish even when people did eat it. Tripe and hodge is more national and something chippys would sell
It used to be a very popular dish but you can basically only get it in a few places in east London these days. I’ve never tried it but I want to!
@redbirddeerjazz Don't, they're gross. Eels taste really muddy and they're full of bones. The jelly is also grim.
@@LooselyGrope I like Japanese eel. But yeah I don’t necessary expect to liked jellied eels. They do look gross. I just want to try it out of curiosity.
It’s crazy seeing them so surprised at foods we in the UK eat daily! I love it.
Good episode but i wish they'd pointed out that Jellied eels is specifically a London food. The rest of the country doesn't eat it. Jellied eels grew into popularity because eels where one of the few things that could survive in the thames, and therefore was a cheap source of protein for poorer people. In the rest of the UK they historically never had local eels or had better sources of protein so the food never really became common.
It's specifically London cuisine over general british cuisine
99% of British people would not like eel with jelly…..
Black pudding is GORGEOUS! Food of the Gods 🏴
I was shocked to learn americans dont put butter in their sandwiches!! I can tell you in the UK there is no sandwich we ever make that does not contain butter.
The only sandwich we put butter in is a grilled cheese.
Swedes are alot like the brits, butter belongs on sandwiches.
the way they joke about the calories of butter do they think mayo is zero calories
Erm never have I had Mushy Peas with Bangers & Mash ever! 😮 normally petit poi’s or UK baked beans at home x
To be honest, most British people wouldn't eat jellied eels! Just like every country, some of our food is pretty rank, but some of it is outstanding!
No shepherd's or cottage pie? No scotch eggs or pork pies? No sticky toffee pudding? No British bacon sandwiches with uk butter?
No minced beef and onions in a suet pastry roll...or Beef Wellinton...bread and butter.. with marmalde and a good dollop of rum in the custard ....homemade rice pud with a dllop of jam !! All so easy to make . Have to say you lovely folk across the pond serves portions of food that puts me... too much !! BUT still love you !!
the thing ive noticed in america is that most, not all, dont know how to use a knife and fork. they cut, then drop the knife, switch the fork to the other hand, and then eat. hence, they dont understand why we mix everything together. you should have sausage, mash, and peas on the fork.
Yeah I've noticed they seem to eat everything separately most of the time when there's supposed to be a bit of everything in one bite
It’s from olden days when the fork was brought over and to do with colonisation! Apparently 😂
I'm from England and I'm 52.. I've never met anyone who's ever eaten jellied eels, basically East End of London only
Im 79 and can assure you jellied eels were a staple as a boy and very popular especially in the pie and eel shop at the end of the Goldhawk Road at the entrance to the market in Shepherds Bush London
Hardly anyone in the UK eats jellied eels. I am 68 and British. Never met anyone who has tried them.
I wish I could say the same sadly my family has a thing for them.
My first experience trying them was on a boat watching a race on the Thames, let's say I never saw any of the race as I spent the whole time speaking to the big white telephone 🤮
I have tried them. They're crap.
Mushy peas is eaten with fish and chips and not bangers and mash
I’ve never ever heard of anyone in England eating jellied eels for the last 100 years! FYI I am English, and they forgot the hash browns with the Full English.
like what the hell r jelly eels
Still get them in pie and mash shops around London, bit of an East End thing
Even the thought of them turns my stomach 🤢
Hash browns have no place on a full English. That's just an Americanised version.
Hash browns are NOT part of an English breakfast. Serve me an English with hash browns and the plate goes back to the kitchen with a stop fckuing my breakfast up!
The dude just gave them sausages in 5 different ways. British food has so much more.
i think 99% of british people have not had jellied eels.
Sorry 😂 AMERICANS!! TALKING ABOUT PORTION SIZES!!!
what a joke.😂
I’m British and I wouldn’t eat jellied eels 🤢
Shame on whomever made that toad in the hole hole.
I hope the chip buttie had butter on it.
I'm a retired American here in England. ❤❤❤chip butty❤❤❤ o & everything else 2, even the jellied eels!😊
@01:46. Laughed my head off at the guy saying "this is so much food". Coming from a citizen of the country were a restaurant starter can feed an entire family!.....😂. When Brits eat a Full English, it is a treat and the person then usually doesn't eat again until evening time.
We often have it for tea tbh.
@@CragScramblerI only have it for breakfast at a hotel
@@CragScrambler We do too sometimes in winter, as a naughty treat. Then it's our main meal of the day. I just think this American is being rather dramatic when the US is known for its gigantic portions. 😄
Bangers and mash with garden peas not mushy. I'm British and to me jellied eels are disgusting. Any steamed pudding with custard is right up my street.
So glad to see fellow brits in the comments like, wrong, wrong, wrong.. why was the gravey so thick and lumpy, jellied eels wtf, and never seen mushey peas with bangers and mash 🤷🏻♀️😂
It was onion gravey
As a brit Mushy peas belong with sausage and mash
It's a godsend
Lava bread is absolutely delicious. It is boiled seaweed, which is then cooked again, made into little patties, rolled in oats or flour and fried. You can also get it tinned. The best place to get it used to be Fishguard market in Pembrokeshire, and you bought scoops ladled out of a bucket. I am aware that reading this you might not believe me. But it is true.
I think it's spelled laver. Isn't the seaweed laverwrack?
@@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 Yes indeed. Spelling does vary, as it does in the Welsh language. The weed used to be collected off the beach and rocks and sent up to London on the first train for breakfast that day in the smartest hotels.
I have never seen anyone use that much butter on a sandwich before.
Looked like Mayo to me, not butter. Or is that just what US butter looks like? 🤢
I’m British and never had a jellied eels in my life. All the rest is amazing though 🥰
I think its a southerner not seen any up north ( Yorkshire )
@@josephgittos3787it is definitely not a southerner thing either, at least not in norfolk anyway.
It's black pudding, not 'blood pudding'. There is also, in the interests of fairness, white pudding, albeit rarer.
It is the blood that makes it black.
Jellied eels were eaten by working class East Londoners in a very tiny bit of London in the early 19 century not so much now. Now it's just a weird niche thing that 99% of Brits would not touch with a barge pole.
I'm a Yorkshireman, and I can confirm that NOBODY has ever called mushy peas 'Yorkshire Caviar' (unless it's one of those 'orrible b@stards from Lancashire...) ;D
I'm from Lancashire and I've never heard them called Yorkshire caviar. Also Yorkshire wouldn't have a clue what caviar was in the first place 😂
Lovin the roses rivalry guys, 😂
Brought up in the Uk and I’ve never had mushy peas with bangers and mash.. normal peas yes but not mushy the fudge 😅
Legit 😅😂
Mashed potatoes and peas just go together, you mix them up and then don't have to chase rolling peas around your plate.
Jellied eels aren't British food, they're London food. As far as the rest of the UK is concerned, London is a foreign country, with it's own culture, tastes and rules, that just happens to be our capital. The rest of us look at it with almost as much bewilderment as Yanks do...
So every town and city in the UK is foreign to each other then.
@@rootchiller No, it's more a regional thing. All the towns around here (Manchester area) have pretty much the same culture and accent, but you only have to go 40 miles west (Liverpool) or 80 miles south (Birmingham) to be somewhere significantly different. London is basically a "region" that's very concentrated but very important. Every region likes to poke fun at every other region, and with London being so important (and so self-important) that sets them up for a double helping.
It’s great to see you all enjoying some proper British dishes, the jellied eels are a bit esoteric (very much specific to East London around the old London docks), but none the less very glad you like the rest of it 😊
Mushy peas goes with cod and chips not bangers and mash. Also pretty sure it’s only people from the east end of London that eat jellied eels.
Was good to see they all like the toad in the hole.
Ok as an English girl I have never seen bangers and mash with mushy peas 😂 that was crazy to me.
Agreed. If it was just petit pois or garden peas I would have understood. Mushy peas are more of a northern thing with Fish and Chips.
Also I like English mustard with my bangers and mash
@@Lapinporokoiraexactly. Fish chips and mushy peas is a classic but bangers and mash is typically with peas and sometimes carrots. I don’t know anyone who has mash and mushy peas. That’s too much mushy on one plate in the UK 😂
Mushy peas with sausage and mash?!! Noooooooooooooo
Mushy peas with fish and chips..
Garden peas with sausage and mash!!
50 year old Welsh woman, never seen anyone eating laverbread and cockles on their breakfast, never seen it available in any pub, restaurant, cafe and it sounds gross. We just have the full English.
Toad on the hole is not any piece of meat the toad is sausage
Toad in the hole, THAT was not a Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire Pudding should be light and crispy, not flat and doughy
I’m 25 from the uk and I’ve never seen anyone eat a jellied eel in my life 😂
I’m 60 and neither have I 🤮
Same for me but I guess your prob not a Londoner like me. I would say it’s not anywhere near as popular nowadays but back during and after war times is was a staple being very cheap and very common in the London Thames
@@perry714. yeah I’m from Birmingham so really not common here
@@lukewalton5749 I’m from Bristol so back in them times it was prob much more common to eat things like rabbit or squirrels boiled in a pot with all the leftovers from during the week
My gran loved jellied eels and would eat daily on her hols to the east coast tried it once and throw up never again 🤣
I absolutely love Jaime! She was so respectful about every dish!
As a brit i have never and never will try jellied eels
Yeah same. Eels is one thing like sushi but not jellied although I used to be freaked out by the jelly in pork pies but as I've gotten older and cooked more I realise that the collagen in meat broth is super healthy and delicious so I'm cool with some gelatine if it's part of the cooking process.
As an American , your food sucks that's probably why we left your English Empire.....🖕
@@heathen637you eat jello salads and deep fry anything you can find😂
Makes it look like we eat nothing besides sausage 😂 could have included fish and chips, cornish pasty, Shepherds pie, etc
I’m British and I’ve never had jellied eels. It’s very much a London thing.
No it's not I'm from South London NO ONE eats eels wtf?
@@godrules3596 but it used to be especially if you were a cockney working class they fished it out of the Thames in Victorian times or earlier as a way not to starve to death
@@MsKaz1000 bro this was over a century and half ago😂😂 lets leave that digusting "delicacy" back them
@@godrules3596 I think most have
3:33 Ramadan month and just woke up from a nap after doing Sahri and starting Roza.
In a few words, slightly hungry 😅.
I'd definitely have garden peas over mushy peas with the bangers and mash.
Also as a Lancastrian... it needed to be a large bread roll (barm) with 80% less butter 🤣🤣
As a Kendalian… I agree about the butter but mushy peas are fire though 😂
Bread was too thick and too much butter in the chip butty: personally, I prefer it without ketchup. Get a conventional thick (or failing that, medium sliced) loaf, some good quality salted butter (I love Lurpak, which also contains vegetable oil). And plenty of "chips".…NOT skinny french fries! And don't forget the salt...and vinegar/pepper if you like! 😁
Garden peas with bangers and mash not mushy peas.. mushy peas go with fish and chips.
Blood Pudding is Icelandic that's Black Pudding, while similar it's actually different.
So many amazing dishes that they missed out on: fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, shepherd's pie, cornish pasty, beans on toast, sticky toffee pudding, apple crumble, I could go on
Chicken tikka masala is most definitely not British 🤣
@@rachelking394 Why do you say that?
@@Alex-ng6hc it’s Indian 🤣🤣 google it. 🤣
Stew and dumpling are a fave in my house
@@rachelking394Chicken TIKKA isn’t British, but tikka MASALA was invented in Britain mid 1900s - we’re used to slopping gravy on everything and couldn’t cope without a sauce. A restaurateur made a sauce by request and boom - tikka masala.
no, no, no to the mushy peas...does NOT go with bangers and mash and gravy
I'm a British girl.... we don't eat jellied eels... put doooo love a chip butty 😜
As French. Couldn’t agree more. Fish and Chips. Beans and toast.
As French. Couldn’t agree more. Fish and Chips. Beans and toast.
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The irony of an american saying this is so much food. 🤣
Most people in the UK have never eaten jellied eels
Nobody in the UK really eats jellied eels anymore. Only old people and a few weirdos
So heres a fact. Mushypeas do not go with bangers and mash. Bangers and Mash consist of: sausages, mashed potatoes, regular peas, Yorkshire puddings, and home made gravy.
It's a traditional side, and has been going far back. But it is optional, people tend to be lazy so at home most wouldn't bother.
We DONT call it blood pudding its black pudding
classic americans, get a lovely chip butty and cover it in butter
as someone like myself from the UK, Jellied Eels isnt a british thing cause ive never seen em in my life
Its from East London
“Let the Brits take over this episode”
Well at least they’re being historically accurate