Australians Try BRITISH Food in ENGLAND! (Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Tea & Dinner)
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- Traditional British Food! We start the morning with an English fry-up at an independent cafe in the heart of Birmingham called Cherry Reds. For lunch, we were in the small English seaside town of Clevedon where we had the BEST fish and chips we have ever had (also trying a pickled egg and mushy peas for the first time). Afternoon tea was in the Cotswolds in the picturesque town of Stow-on-the-Wold, at a garden cafe called Davenford Cotswold Gardens. We couldnt possibly come all the way to the UK and not have a Sunday roast! This meal at Sams Chophouse in Manchester, was the best we had in all our travels throughout the UK. Absolutely incredible!
We hope you enjoy the vlog!
Kristy & Steve
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Are you sure you people aren't Yanks you act just like them kinda Brainless
Next time you have a roast try some jam on a yorky pud
@@lyndadavies5451 Yeah it’s lovely but get two one on a different plate because you don’t want gravy on as that’ll make it soggy.
Very good video . Hash browns is a new thing , originally was never for breakfast , it's an American thing , but well done for eating the breakfast as it should be done ( like all foods ) and that's by putting more than one type of food on the forks to enhance the flavours ( americans for some reason can only eat one type of food at a time 😂 ) .
When having the scones, with raisins , I always butter them first then the jam followed by lots and lots of clotted cream , usually next to the milk/ cream in supermarkets .
Was there a potato famine in Manchester because there wasn't any roasted potatoes on the plate ??
you need to try black puddings (blood sausage) around europe. In the UK it is mixed with oats, hence the oatmeal cooky texture... in France they make it with wine and in other countries it has paprika and other spices which give it a nice aroma... the best way to enjoy a full English breakfast is after a heavy night out, when you are slightly hanged over and your body needs a bit of greasy food with lots of breakfast tea or earl grey tea...
Sitting in a car 'near' the beach in the pouring rain eating fish and chips, is a common stable of the British home holiday experience when your a kid.
Glad we got to experience a true English fish and chips then! ☺️ Thank you for watching
so true best days
Hi guys,I am from England,and with regards to the Yorkshire pudding,there is absolutely no right or wrong way to eat it,you simply find your own way, really appreciate how possitive you both were about English food,you really need to try sticky toffee pudding and custard!❤
Thanks so much John! Appreciate you watching and your kind words 🤗
@@KristyandSteve you're very welcome,and don't forget to try "Sticky toffee pudding and custard",it will change your lives!!,it has mine, I'm now very,very fat!LOL 😅
When my dad went to Australia to see his brother ,,,,,, the next day they want for breakfast and my dad ordered an Aussie breakfast and what they gave him was steak and eggs
Thats an interesting breakfast and cant say we've had that before!
@@tomhirons7475 more fool them then Tom,ps one of the biggest selling puddings still Tom,what do y know?, don't normally write negative comments/replies,but you called me silly,not acceptable,in response I will call you a thouraghly nice guy!!
Any Brit sees that full English and hears you say "it is far too big for 1 person to eat!", scoffs and says "No it isn't! I could eat that for breakfast!"
Haha we realised early on that I clearly had no idea what I was talking about and definitely should have ordered one each 🤣
I could eat it but eat it as my main meal
@@aw_1890that’s a war crime 😂
Full English, two eggs, three bacon, baked beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, fried bread, Lincolnshire sausages ( twice the size you had ), toast & butter, black pudding is optional.Hash browns is optional as full English never included this item, HP brown sauce. I liked the way you mopped up all the residue off your plate leaving nothing, that makes you an honorary Englishman.
Haha cheers John! We sure did enjoy our full English - so tasty 😋
Agreed- hash browns are more American but bubble and squeak is worth a shout
Cumberland sausage you mean.....!!!!!!
Where in Lincolnshire u from mate cus Is2g everywhere else uses Cumberland
@@makenziestancer146 Hi, I’m from the nearby county of Leicestershire, we don’t get them as much down here but when I head north Cumberland sausages with mash and onion gravy ( heaven )👍
thanks for the positive english food reviews guys , most folks slag it off , enjoy your time here
Thanks Kevin! We really enjoyed the food in the UK, reminds us a lot of home ❤️
I'm American and have always wanted to try beans and toast. What kind of beans do British people use on beans and toast?
@@staceyveazey491 The beans used are Navy/Haricot beans. The baked beans in the UK are more savoury and less sweet than the ones found in America.
@@staceyveazey491 You'll have to find British import ones if you can. Apparently you can usually find them in international food aisles in big supermarkets all over the US.
They are the same beans as Americans use, or very close, but the sauce is a slightly sweet tomato sauce, but nothing on the molassas filled, BBQ style beans in the US.
Heat them up properly, lowish heat on the hob in a pan, stirring occasionally until it starts to bubble. You want to let some steam out the beans and have the sauce thicken a bit. Once there, lower the heat then make and prep your buttered toast. If you microwave them, it's too runny.
We all have to admit if we was not English we would slag it off to
Yorkshire pudding is basically a pancake batter that’s cooked in hot fat in the oven on a high temperature so that it rises and the best way to eat it is to smother it in gravy. As a Yorkshire lass we used to make seasoned pudding at Christmas which was a large Yorkshire cooked in a roasting tin with herbs and onion and served in slices with Christmas dinner.
Thank you so much! 🥰
Always better cooked on a big tin in my opinion.
i met a Aussie couple in the pub and they really wanted a Yorkshire pudding. i took them into York and went to a shop that did "made while you wait" Yorkie wraps with lots of different meats,fillings,apple sauce,stuffing,gravy etc.......they liked it so much they went back another day before they went back to Australia!!
Ohhh yum! Apple sauce with pork in a yorkshire pudding would be SO GOOD! Thats nice of you to take them to try it , they will always remember that.
Cheers David! ☺️
australians seem like nice and are relax people
Wow, and what about the Palestinian Children.
I think Brits seem to forget that Aussies eats a roast and full English in Australia, it's the conection between both Countries.
So true! Very common to have everything we ate in this video, at home in Oz. There are slights differences - the clotted cream with scones, mushy peas & pickled egg with the fish & chips, yorkshire pudding with the roast and the infamous black pudding with the fry-up. I think the UK do these dishes much better 👌🏽
Thanks for watching!
@@KristyandSteve Yes agreed, some different variations, but Aussies tend to eat the same food.
I can’t believe you’ve never had black pudding though? Did that not travel across?
What I love about the full English is just the amount of combinations you can do for each mouthful. You can have a little bit of everything in one bite, or just a couple things, so every bite is different!
Sounds like the perfect way to eat an English breakfast 👌🏽
Same with a Sunday roast 😊
Ever made a full English in a Staffordshire oatcake? Oh my days.👌😘
Having to eat your fish & chips in the car because it’s absolutely pissing down outside is a quintessential British experience, so well done for that! 😂
So glad we got the full English fish and chip experience! haha 😂
Hello from Yorkshire! A yorky pud can be eaten with a full roast, bangers & mash, beef stew & they’re delicious cold with jam on 😊 they’re a vessel for a lot of foods, you need your tins with smoking hot fat in to get the best rise & don’t open oven door till they’re done! 😂
Hello over there in Yorkshire 👋 We would love to try a Yorkshire pudding with jam (and cream!) so versatile! Thanks for the tips 🤗
I only like it in a big tin not those tiny dried out things😊
When I was a kid my mum would give us left over Yorkshire puds with lemon and sugar
@@KristyandSteve we had ours with condensed milk! Yum
I use the giant ones to serve cottage pie inside, that's insanely good! 😊
Traditionally, Yorkshire Pudding was used to fill people up, when the amount of meat they had access to was limited. Originally, Yorkshire pudding was served first, with gravy, in order to fill people up before the main 'meat & veg' course. In many households, Yorkshire pudding was also served as a dessert with hot fruit jam! Ther'es a food outlet in York that sells larger, flatter Yorkshire puddings as 'wraps', with the other parts of a Sunday Roast inside, so you can enjoy your roast as you walk, so it's fair to say that nobody is going to judge how you eat it.
Thanks for sharing this information, Dave! Appreciate it ☺️
I have to agree with Dave. We have Yorkshire pudding as a starter here, with gravy (usually onion gravy) and many a time we make them in bun tins, that way we have spares after that taste great cold with jam on!
@@TribalMatriarch My husband loves them with treacle
@@user-xd6gi4wn1ywe used to get them with treacle & warm milk. xXx
To see someone love mushy peas as much as me makes me so happy 😂
We loved them haha! Thanks for watching 🥰
Mushy peas are also great with some mint sauce. Large cartons of mushy peas with mint sauce on them, are frequently eaten, with spoons, at country fetes during the summer months 😊 ♥ ☀ .
Baked beans were included in a breakfast first in “transport cafes”about 50 years ago. They were a way of filling a plate with a cheap ingredient rather than the more expensive ingredients like bacon and sausage.Also if the sausages and bacon were poor quality the beans ketchup and/or brown sauce hid the flavour.
Oohhh ok, thank you for letting us know! We did try brown sauce a few times to come to think of it, not sure what it was made of? tasted like a mixture of gravy and vinegar
@@KristyandSteve HP sauce (Houses of Parliament, named after where it was first served in their dining room) is the
quintessential "brown" sauce in the UK, although there are others such as Yorkshire Relish or Daddie's (brand name).
HP sauce itself is a blend of tomato sauce (another popular UK condiment), various types of vinegar, sugars (including molasses, hence the colour), dates, cornflour, rye flour, salt, spices, and tamarind.
Good to know, thank you so much! Appreciate the info 😀
Vinegar is one of the main ingredients of brown sauce which is why I never touch the stuff,personal taste I just hate vinegar. I think molasses is the other main ingredient.
The car care products factory where I worked was next door to the Bury Black Pudding Company.There’s an American reaction video by Mcjibben to how they make black pudding. They use dried blood for hygiene and consistency reasons the white bits are basically the fat which is imported from Denmark because British pork is too lean.
Love the research you've done on the food, drinks and places and a thumbs up to those who gave you some great advice on where to try the best fish and chips! I sigh each time I see people try our historic foods from less than ideal places... Glad you had a great experience 👍👍
Thanks Mark! Yes we are very lucky to have some amazing people following along our journey, to give us local tips and share their knowledge. Thanks for your lovely words, appreciate it 😀
Yorkshire pudding: my favourite way to eat it is to make sure it’s covered in gravy and let it ‘soak’ while I eat everything else, and save the yorkie for last 😊
Yummmmm! Sounds perfect! Cheers Louise ❤️
Not for me, I like a bit of crunch.
@@KristyandStevefill your yorkie with mash and gravy! Onion sauce is a nice addition too 😋
No you have to eat it with gravy when it’s crunchy otherwise you are eating toad in the hole a completely different dish
That 'full english' made me really hungry .... fair play to you guys for trying it.
Thanks Barry! It was really tasty 😋
@@KristyandSteve , you like your sausage 😂 but haven't named your favorite ie Cumberland or Lincolnshire
If you cut the food up into slightly smaller pieces you can fit more different foods on to the fork thus enhances the taste , bonus being you will never look like Americans 😂😂😂😂
Such a lovely, enthusiastic and optimistic couple. Really enjoyed watching your travels - thank you! p.s. yes - you can never share a full English breakfast!
Thats very kind of you, thanks so much - appreciate it 🥰
Old skool breakfast wouldn't have hash browns but would have bubble n squeak, which isn't served by many cafes these days. Probably because they actually have to make it in house! . . . that's my regular fish n chips order, just add some of that tartare sauce and its spot on!! You done it right getting it from a chippy in a seaside town, big kudos for that!!
Cheers Aaron! 😀
Spot on about the bubble n squeak. Hash browns only turned up after McDonalds opened in the UK. Bubble n Squeak was fried up patties of mashed pots and whatever veg you had leftover from Sunday lunch, usually cabbage. The fried bread (rather than toast) was fried in the pan after the breakfast was cooked to soak up all the flavours from the brekkie - very rare these days x
That's proper English is bubble n squeak - there are a bunch of other potato things you get in other parts of the UK instead, like tattie scones in Scotland or potato pancakes in an Ulster Fry. Most of those seem to have survived the hash brown invasion better than bubble n squeak.
A terrific summary of the classics of British food. Well done.
I used to have my Yorkshires (3) with onion gravy before my meat and veg(with another Yorkshire).
Thank you kindly John!
You definitely had it right having 3 yorkshire puddings! Why not, they're delicious 😋
Sticky toffee pudding is so much better with custard! 🤤
Have to agree with you Natalie 💯
The full English is sometimes known as an all day breakfast because, as you said, it can be eaten for any meal at any time of the day.
Absolutely! Pairs perfectly with beer to apparently 🍻
The all day breakfast usually has chips or chipped potatoes instead of toast. Only difference really
This video is all over the Uk, you did mention you had your Full English/British breakfast in Birmingham, a wonderful cosmopolitan foodie city… Should of stayed there for lunch and dinner, amazing pub/bar scene there also…
Hey James! 👋
You are so right, Birmingham has a fantastic foodie scene. We were only in town for 2 nights though unfortunately. There’s another cafe we went to called “Kanteen” over near the Custard Factory area - amazing coffee and great bars! 👌
Should have tried a phaal in the Balti triangle! Well, you can always go back. Nice video, thanks.@@KristyandSteve
@@markbannister2469 Raja Monkey in Hall Green hands down the best curry in Brum 😋
That is a one person portion for a full English, the hash brown in an interloper, as long as it is cooked properly (no oil) the full English is one of the healthiest breakfasts. Grilling, poaching and not using fat to cook bacon sausages and black pudding but a lower heat to let the natural oils leak out. Grilled sausages are far better than fried. I cook my eggs in the pan that I slow cooked my bacon in so they don't stick. Air fryers are making the English breakfast even healthier.
Yeah, you're right we should have got one each! We'll try with the fried bread next time and ditch the hash browns (even though they are delicious 😋)
Thanks for watching
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My mum used to make these miniature Yorkshire puddings where we’d fill them up with whatever we like and eat them as finger food! A Yorkshire pudding is delicious no matter how you like to eat it :)
Yum mini ones sounds so good! 😋
Hi I just found your video, I’m in Melbourne Australia and would love to go to England one day. The good looks so good and scenery is pretty. You got a new subscriber 😊
Hello! 👋 Thanks so much! hopefully you can make it over to England one day, it’s a great place to visit ❤️
I'm a manc (Manchester born ) the humble Yorkie can be eaten as you both said filled or unfilled. Salford is pronounced Solford where I live , there's so much history here and the Bee is our stamp so to speak.
Oohhh ok, thank you for the information. We did hear over the tram it was pronounced Sol-ford (oops). Love Manchester, fantastic city! 👌🏽
Lovely to see you two enjoying your food and being so complimentary.
Thank you John, we really enjoyed the food in the UK (reminded us a lot of home ❤️)
Black pudding is really nice dipped in the egg yolk, or with HP sauce, its a perfect weekend treat
Yum! Sounds delicious 😋
I love it crispy
Great video by the way, tried a good selection of British food 😀🇬🇧
Thanks so much, appreciate it ☺️
i loved the video - i'm really happy you said scone correctly!!
So nice of you, thank you 🥹❤️
Mushy Peas are made from a particular type of pea, called
Marrowfat.
These are not the same as Garden or Petit Pois.
Pickled eggs are, well, you take eggs, boil them, shell them, cool them and then put them in strong seasoned vinegar for several months to preserve them.
We do the same with Onions and Gherkins (tiny cucumbers) except you don't cook them, you speak then overnight in brine.
I had Polish and Ukrainian grandparents so we also go for fermented pickles where you use salt brine instead of our as well as vinegar, vinegar is the British method.
Being a beer and cider country instead of a wine country we use malt and cider vinegars instead of wine vinegars
Thanks very much for sharing this information! Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment 🙏☺️
I can't even begin to imagine how vile mushy peas made from garden peas would be!
Hi, you can eat Yorkshire pudding anyway you like including picking it up with your fingers and dip it in gravy.
We did end up doing this - best way to eat it (and ensure you've had all the gravy!) 😋
Yeah, Yorkshire pudding ingredients are milk, eggs, flour, but if you try making them yourself at home the important bit (I don't know if you call it an "ingredient" or not) is the fat you cook it in. Traditionally it would be lard or bacon dripping, but any oil you choose is okay so long as it can cope with high temperatures. And you have to heat the fat in the tray in the oven before you add the batter, it needs to be smoking! That's the key difference between lovely, big, fluffy yorkies and sad, hard pebbles!
If you cook them at home DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN DOOR UNTIL THEY’RE COOKED otherwise they’ll deflate and look sad
Sounds like there's an art to making these yorkshire puddings! Might give it a go when we're back home - thanks for the info ☺️
@@KristyandSteve Also add a pinch of salt, and make sure you use full fat milk, and the mixture hits the fat when its spitting hot.
@@v8cool231They don’t need to be made with full fat milk, we use semi skimmed but we do add one more egg than the recipe states.. we also tip in a bit of fizzy water at the end before we pour it into the pans.. ( we eyeball the liquid amounts ) our yorkshires meet us out the oven door. 😂 ( from County Durham )
Great videos, really enjoying your content, keep up the good work!
Thanks very much! 😀
Great video guys! You had me laughing calling it a chippery 😂
Thanks so much! 🤗
Basically a Yorkshire pudding is a receptacle for gravy.
Ahhh good to know, thanks Stuart!
Hi Guys, only discovered your channel today. Really happy that you are enjoying British food. Your choices have been great, a really well chosen selection of the best we have to offer, especially the fish and chips and the breakfast. I am from Scotland. We have some great food too, similar but with some interesting subtle differences. Glad that you are enjoying your trip and am looking forward to watching more of your content. It is fab!!. Happy travels.
Thanks very much Dougie, appreciate your kind words! We we're certainly pleased with the dishes we tried in this vlog. We did visit Scotland (Edinburgh and we did a week in a campervan in the Highlands) - those videos will be coming out in the upcoming weeks, let us know what you think 🤗
Really happy that you had time to vist Scotland. I look forward to seein the vids.
Gonna see some tatties and neeps my guy😆
Great video glad you guys enjoyed it
Thank you! 😀
Aww, love you guys, thank you for being so positive about the food over here! I'm going to Australia later on in the year and am looking forward to trying the food over there :)
Thank you, Kate! We appreciate that. Have a great time in Australia 🇦🇺🥰
HP sauce was originally made in Birmingham.
The factory moved to the Netherlands around 10 years ago 😊
Oh really? Thats a cool fact! Thanks for letting us know - Steves a big fan of the HP sauce! 😀
@@KristyandSteve There is actually still a HP factory in birmingham. While the sauce production was moved over seas, they make way more than just brown sauce, so the factory is still there making other products
HP sauce was invented and first produced in his Radford shop by Frederick Gibson Garton a grocer from Nottingham in the late 1800s , he promoted it to his customers saying "it's the sauce they serve in the Houses of Parliament" hence the name, a complete falsehood but as it's still being made today it must have worked! Nice video.
Yes HP sauce was made at Aston Cross Birmingham, I used to live close to there , you would be able to tell that you were approaching, because you could smell the sauce.
Also Ansells brewery was just around the corner, the manufacturing of the beer was transferred to Burton upon Trent, but it ultimately failed, because it just didn’t taste the same.
Ansells had its own well that they sourced the water for the brewing of the beer.
If you like Yorkshire pudding try Toad in the hole which is Yorkshire pudding with sausages and onions cooked in it a absolute delight
Sounds awesome, thanks Mark!
@KristyandSteve I wouldn't have onion in it, but I would serve it with onion gravy. Bangers and mash are great with onion gravy as well.
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And peas!
@@MostlyPennyCatFive days ago I had it with nicely cooked Savoy cabbage
The one thing you were missing there was a pickled onion or two. The vinegar is something that many North American 'reactors' avoid even though it is, to me, essential for proper chips.
First video I’ve seen of you guys and I’ve subscribed. Really enjoyed watching it and your reactions to our food here in the uk 👍🏼
Thats really nice of you, appreciate it Allen! Cheers for watching 😀
Well done you two. Love your reviews. If you come to Scotland make sure you have a Scottish breakfast. Square sausage and potato scones are included. Haggis isn’t wildly different to the black pudding but it is tasty. Have fun
Thank you so much James! Our next video coming out this Sunday is all about Edinburgh (and we tried haggis for the first time).
Appreciate your kind words ❤️
Hi guy's I've been a butcher now for 28 years year's in the UK and black pudding is one of my favorites we don't actually make it from our shop but it's simple to make and you should get a tiny taste of cinnamon and the white bits our just fat, my first time watching you and I've subscribed 😊
Hi Sean! Glad to hear you're also a fan of black pudding, we were nervous trying it - absolutely delicious! Bet you've enjoyed some great food over your time working as a butcher. You probably know how to cook the meat perfectly to 👌🏽
Thank you for watching & subscribing! 🤗
@@KristyandSteve hi yes i do like to cook especially Asian cuisine and obviously the roast dinner 😊, I really found this vlog very entertaining and looking forward to watching more, welcome to the UK and god bless you both 🙏
You are so kind, thank you very much Sean, glad to have you following along our journey 🤗
Black pudding is probably one of the oldest foodstuffs on your plate. It dates from medieval times (possibly even earlier), when pigs had to be slaughtered in autumn, as there was no food to keep feeding them through the winter. The meat would have been salted or smoked to preserve it (bacon, ham, etc.) and blood pudding was also made. @@KristyandSteve
Thank you for this information, Graham! Appreciate it ☺️
Hi kristy and Steve, lets get onto fish and chips. I was amanager of a wholesale fish market in london, this will be long, but read through it, you did the right thing from your subscribers, by using a traditional fish and chip shop, some seaside will do fresh fish, it will usually be catch of the day from the day boats that go out, But in general, there are two type of fish and chips, the traditional fish and chip shop and the pizza kebab places that do fish and chips, the pizza and kekab shops, use a pre battered portions, like some small chain pubs, no so good, you can buy just as good from the supermarket to be honest, but they have there place, nursing homes hotels and where fish is not a big seller, they can get portions out individual.
In the main the tradition fish and chip shops, actually use frozen cod or haddock, these come in around 7kg or 10kg slabs, shatter proof boxes, the reason for this is that, the ships that go out into the cold waters for cod, are factory ships, go out for weeks at a time, the fish is caught, sorted filleted and frozen at sea, the quality is second to none, as its caught frozen on the day of catch, what sets the traditional chippy apart, is the cooking of the chips, and the batter, which has been perfected for quality crunch and taste and passed down through the generations, thats why you had great batter, right flavour, crispy, cooked at the right temp down to the second, fish fresh flacky, melt in the mouth, i have wonderful chiipy next to me, i often just buy the fresh fish off him, un touched, un cooked for a home recipe, because of the quality, the traditional fish shops are dying out, due to price, and the younger generation would rather have the KFC lol, kebab, pizza, or chinese or indian, its great food, cheaper, and cant forget mcdonalds
You are a wonderful wealth of knowledge Sean, we truly appreciate you sharing this information with us (and also very helpful for others reading the comments). Do you prefer cod or haddock? We tried both during our time in the UK and couldn't really tell much of a difference (kind of like flake in Australia) 😀
@@KristyandSteve I prefer the cod, haddock is also a great fish, i think and i could be wrong, but i think haddock is more sold in scotland, im not scotish, its still sold in england, pollock, which is a more substainable fish is being sold alot, part of the cod family, not the same quality, but is helping the fish stocks get back to be where they should with over fishing, if you go to a store, feezer shop, you will find fish fillet in batter, these thend to be cheaper, just as healthy, but using the substainable fish, granted the taste is not the same as cod and pollock. but funny enough, i will leave you a comment next, not to make this to long, how there is more fish sold in london, i was manager of a fishmongers, i sold 6 pieces of cod a week, british fish, i will blow your mind, about the londo fish industry, because london is so diverse
Haddock is dominant in Scotland and lots of chippies only do haddock. English chippies used to do cod, haddock, skate, lemon sole, rock salmon...but because of how expensive the other fish is now, most seem to stick to just cod and haddock. Haddock always seems dryer and less creamy, but they are quite similar. I prefer cod...with lashings of tartare sauce!
@@shelleyphilcox4743 your right, 100 percent, as most fishing goses out of scotland up to the cold waters and catch the good stuff and you can get that better cheaper, im a cod man, for fish and chips, i was manager of a wholsale fishmarket in london, but because of the area, and diversity, we did better with other fish, and in some cultures its a staple, talipia with the nigerians, snappers red bream with people from the carabean. travali, indians like, good fish for the curry, does not break up, cheap fish, saltfish popular, also christmas time carp for the polish, thats there UK turkey for xmas dinner, the ladies would keep a scale, in ther purse, for good luck and wealth, the we had people from other corners of the globe, for functions, tuna and all that for sushi next to harrow school, we ctared for all, seabass in ealing, pubs, we sold 128 lines of fish and seafood
@@seanmc1351 Sadly pollock which used to be the best value fish in the cod family and less eaten as it is a bit dry, had taken a real hammering from the big commercial boats, to the extent that it is becoming an endangered species. The Government is about to impose severe limits on how much can be caught, both for commercial fishermen and sea anglers. Alaskan pollock, which we call Coalfish or Coley or Saithe in Scotland, is still available in good quantities.
Loved this video guys! Hope you enjoyed British food and Birmingham (very near Laurie’s hometown 👍😁)
Thanks guys!!! ❤️ We absolutely LOVED the UK, Birmingham was a cool city, really great food and coffee ☺️
Lovely, positive video. So pleased you enjoyed the grub.
Loved it! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment, we appreciate it 😀
Lovely video. My yorkie preference is fill the middle with peas and gravy. I also add a little mustard to the batter when I make them. Also horseradish is a must have with roast beef.
Yum sounds good 👌🏽 Thanks so much for watching! ❤️
Agree re horseradish
40K views in one week?! That's amazing! Congrats, guys!
We just got back from London a week ago, where we also filmed a UK food video.
You guys were smart and seemed to film it here and there while you were in the UK.. We only had 3 days in London to film ours, and given how MASSIVE London is, it was a bit of a nightmare. 😂
We already miss all of the amazing markets. So many great food spots. 😊
Thank you guys! Looking forward to seeing your London vlog. Just watched your Budapest ones as we are heading there shortly - loved them! 😀
Nice to see some Aussies enjoying a bit of tucker. Goood vid guys well done. Subbed.
Thanks very much! ☺️
You are doing it exactly right, on a fork and into your gob. Loved the video.
Thanks so much, we really appreciate it (and that you have taken the time to comment) 🙏❤️
What a pleasure to watch you guys so enjoying some of our traditional English dishes. English food has had a pretty bad rap over the decades, sometimes with justice but, as you've discovered it can be excellent. I lived and worked for a few years in Sydney and also love the food there. I think you definitely had the upper hand when it comes to service and the food was excellent too. I have fond memories of fish and but my memory may be letting me down. I remember too Doyles chippies in various parts of Sydney and loving the experience. I remember particularly the one in Watson's Bay for it's great position overlooking the harbour.
Returning to English food I think the best part about Yorkshire is that it tastes great when mixed with any other part of the meal, usually including some gravy. As for the great debate about scones; in Devon they put the jam on first then the cream, in Cornwall it's the other way round. I agree with you though Steve; it's much more practical to spread the jam on first then the cream can be heaped on top but it's not so practical the try to put the jam on top of the cream. Thanks for a fun video.
Hi Tony! Thank you very much for your kind words and taking the time to comment, we really appreciate it and glad you liked the video 🤗
That will be jam on first in Cornwall.
I always fill the yorkshire pudding with gravy and meat and its so messy but fantastic. They're also really good on their own with aromat which is a (swiss I believe) herby seasoned salt and its incredible!
Yum sounds perfect! 👌🏽
i do that to so nice @@KristyandSteve
Also traditional Yorkshire puddings were often eaten as a sweet treat with jam😊
Just found you guys from searching food in uk, really loved you guys and the production/edit I think I’m gonna binge watch your UK tour ❤
Thanks so much! 🙏❤️
@@KristyandSteve just seen how well this video is doing! It’s smashing it! Btw drench the roast and Yorkshire pud with beef and onion gravy and go mental 😎
Hi kirsty and steve. i have a couple nice comments i will do it 2 parts.
the yorkshire pudding, as you said in your vlog it is only flour milk eggs and salt, 3 things to it, but one of the hardest things to get right, reciepes how to cook are passed down through the generations, I have great puddings now, had many failures, but through my wife who is a chef, gave me a great reciepe, cooking method, i have never had a failure since, by useing the same jug so i have the right amount of flour, 2 eggs and milk till nice creamy to look like single cream, muffind tins in the oven bit of oil smoking hot, just before i ad misxture to tins, one more egg which in, pour in the tins, i put tins on the hob to keep the heat, when puddings rise, to good height i turn the temp from max to about 220c for 10mins the 200c for the rest of the time, never opening the oven door, this allows the sides to become crisp without burning, so they hold the structure, Others will have there own ways, as i said passed down through generations for 3 ingredients lol
Hi Sean! 👋
Sounds delicious, thank you so much for passing on this recipe - we will be sure to try it when we have the opportunity to. We will let you know how it goes! Appreciate you taking the time to write such a lovely, detailed comment 🥰
Great video guys, for me hash browns are a new addition to a fry-up because I'm an old git (53) 🤣, hash browns just didn't exist when I was a kid, we'd always have fried bread instead and even today I can't have a fry-up without fried bread aka a fried slice, it's soooooooo delicious, I'd definitely advice you get fried bread next time and ditch the hash browns! Mushy peas are made from a specific type of pea called Marrowfat peas and they have their own unique flavour. I love a scone, they're so simple but the best ones are light and almost melt in the mouth, if making them at home the trick is to work the dough as little as possible, the more it's worked the drier and denser they turn out, and traditionally it's said you should never cut a scone with a knife, you prise them open with a fork, a good scone will split easily, you just insert a fork and twist it gently. You can't really eat Yorkshires wrong, but I like to have a little bit of Yorkshire pudding and beef in every mouthful.
Actually I will add, I like to pour just a little gravy in my Yorkshires, then you get the crispy top and the bottom goes a bit soggy which is lovely too! When making them the trick is to heat up the tray in a very hot oven, then add the fat and heat that up until it's smoking hot before adding the batter, then don't open the oven door as they're cooking, then they puff up nice and big, open the door while they cooking and they shrink and go tiny!
Thats good to know about the scones, thanks Mark. We'd never heard of that type of pea before - very interesting (and delicious!).
We were actually quite annoyed we didnt get the traditional fried bread either - will have to give it a go making it ourselves when we get back home to Oz.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to share this information with us - we really do appreciate it 😀
Traditional fried bread is made with the leftover bacon fat that you save, it’s heart attack on a plate, but there is nothing that comes close to it in terms of flavour and texture, it’s not something you’d want to eat every day, but it’s a must try.
Yes always in bacon fat, I have about 4 fry-ups a year so don't worry about how unhealthy it is, and thoroughly enjoy it!
The beauty of the Yorkshire pudding is you can do literally anything with it. Personally, I like to cut up sone meat, full it up with mashed potatoes and sit it in the gravy. Turn upside down after 5 mins and eat 5 mins later. I’ve seen people use them to mop up the mixed up delicious gravy at the end.
Sounds delicious! We even had a few comments suggesting the yorkshire pudding is nice with jam & cream for a dessert to - we will take it all! Its a very versatile food isnt it 😊
The recipe for Yorkshire pudding is the same as batter for fish and pancakes so many people recognise the taste and texture from them .
@@KristyandSteve they are really good with syrup or maple syrup as a dessert. My son now lives in New Zealand but as a Yorkshireman he still can't do without his Yorkshire puddings.
Now you mention it, the yorkshire pudding definitely reminded us of pancake batter! we must try with jam and cream or a syrup next time
@stephenhodgson3506 sounds delicious Stephen!
Being born in Yorkshire we always had some form of Sunday Roast with Yorkshire Puddings. Typically you fill them with gravy then add then eat with savory items from the plate. But as its essentially a pancake mix we even used to eat them as deserts covered with lemon curd or treacle.
Sounds fantastic!👌🏽
I am from Manchester, England and I love my Yorkshire puddings on my Sunday roast, filled with homemade Gravy, a slice of roast beef and some mustard! Xxxx
Manchester is AWESOME! You're lucky to live in such a cool city, we loved it there 🥰
If you love sausage you should head down to Brighton they love it 😉
Oh ill be sure to tell Steve! 🤣 next minute *books ticket to Brighton - oh dear haha😅
Bad man...
@@KristyandSteve Ken was having a little joke about our gay friends on the South Coast. Brighton is a fun place to visit for anyone.
Baked beans are an unwanted interloper in the English / Scottish / Irish Fry up. Hash browns work but are a recent American input. Bacon and sausage quality varies a lot. Proper Cumberland sausage and Dry cure smoked bacon or Nitrate free bacon is what you want. Yes it is perfect after drinking. It will keep you going all day without lunch, maybe a snack instead.
Definitely an "anytime" meal hey! Thanks for watching 😀
Baked beans are evil. So I like the Almost Full English breakfast.
Hi you two,glad to have found your little vlog. You seemed to have loved everything you tried. You look like you are having a great time in England. Looking forward to seeing how you get on in Scotland. I am English btw xx
Hello Chris! 👋
Thanks very much, thats very kind of you. We really did enjoy everything we ate whilst in the UK (already planning our next trip back!) 🇬🇧 ❤️
Hash Browns are a relatively new thing in a cooked brekkie. They're American in origin. When I was a kid it was either fried bread, tattie scone (Scotland) or soda scone (Ireland).
We were so disappointed we missed out on trying the fried bread! The tattie or soda scones sound interesting though ☺️
Yes fried bread! Although to be honest, most people probably just have toast...
Potato waffles are a "more British" alternative to hash browns although traditionally there's no potato element in a Full English.
Oh, and I heard that hash browns are Irish in origin...
I like to fill my Yorkshire with gravy, delicious.
Yessssss, such a delicious pair 👌
Thanks guys. I get so annoyed when people say British food is shite.
Top tips for the perfect Yorkshire;
Use full cream milk, 1 more egg than it says in the recipe, self raising flour. The batter should be thick but still runny. Chill the batter in the fridge for half an hour. Use beef dripping in the tin, if it ain't smoking it ain't ready, get it to 220C then pour in the batter, it should sizzle immediately. Middle or top oven shelf, remove when golden and slightly charred on the edges. You're welcome.
I know right! I have also heard that so many times… British food reminds us of good old home cooking and we LOVE this. We ate so much in the UK and only scratched the surface of what the UK has to offer, we cant wait to be back there in the future. Thanks for the recipe, we are looking forward to trying these out when we are home over Christmas.
Sheila ! A roast in an Ozzie Summer?! Brave.@@KristyandSteve
Always! Love a good roast for Xmas (and a bbq of course) 😅
Great video glad ya liked our food. Im a yorkshireman but i dont eat yorkshire pudding with my dinner, i eat it either before dinner or after with jam. It was originally made to fill you up in the old days so you didnt need as much dinner. All the best and enjoy rest of your trip.
Yum! We need to try with jam (or golden syrup) we have been told 😀 Thanks so much Mark!
Never a hash brown....egg,bacon,sausage,beans ,tomato, black pudding,mushrooms & a fried slice. Nobody puts potato on a fry up traditionally ( maybe the Irish).
Yes we've been told multiple times that hash browns are not part of the traditional English breakfast! Noted for next time - it did add an extra (delicious) element that we really liked. Apparently its an American "twist" - who knows!
Thanks for watching 😀
@@KristyandSteve The basic full English is eggs fried or scrambled, beans or (tinned) tomatoes, fried mushrooms or fried tomatoes, fried bread or toast plus bacon and sausages with either a tea or (filter) coffee to wash it down. With the optional extras of hash browns (American), black pudding (southern England), white pudding (northern England and Ireland), haggis (Scotland) and fried halloumi (Greek Cypriots) or both of the above alternatives.
Bubble and squeak,etc. You're forgetting that most of the foods on a full English weren't actually there to start with. It's constantly being updated. Only the bacon, sausage,egg and black pudding would be original
Add some mint sauce to your mushy peas next time. Yummy.
That does sound good! Will keep in mind for next time - thanks for the tip! ☺️
@@KristyandSteve Don't it ruins them! Mushy peas work so well with fish and chips because its earthy taste contrasts nicely with the oily chips and fish. Lots of places also serve curry sauce which is nice to dip your chips in.
Brilliant! Thank you for being so kind about our food.
We loved the all the food we had throughout the month we spent in the UK Simon, so good! thank you for watching and taking the time to comment, appreciate it 🤙
I lived in WA for 10 years and was always disappointed that you guys never had clotted cream to serve with your scones and had to make do with sweet whipped cream instead…A yorkie is always best eaten in a big forkful of everything else on the plate and covered in gravy😋
We had no idea what clotted cream was until we tried this "cream tea" - we thought they made it wrong and forgot to add the sweetener 🤣 It does taste a lot better without the sugar though, as the jam is sweet enough.
Thanks for watching! ☺️
Clotted cream top is golden and a little crispy delicious.
I was so happy when you got everything on your fork and ate it all in one. I could eat a fry up for my dinner❤
You should do a fry up for dinner & enjoy it! 😍 Thanks for watching!
hi guys, im from the north east of england, the pubs and workmans clubs used to put black pudding on the bar, with cheese and crackers, free nibbles, but the black puding was not fried it was straight from the packet and cubed, i still get it today from my local butchers and just it as is, on a evening with some cheese crackers piclkled onions and a can of beer,
That sounds lovely Sean! We really enjoyed the black pudding. Does it taste similar straight from the packet, as if it were fried? Would pair perfectly with cheese Id imagine - yum! Thanks for watching our video 😊
@@KristyandSteve The taste is different, from straight from the pack, as to fried, its really a north east of england thing to be honest, thats where i live, but have lived all over the country, where we buy black pudding from butchers, deli's and the likes, you cant get it down london or the south of england, smalll roll's in supermarkets, which is not the same, as it has more preserves in it,
I have lived, if you ever want info, oxfordshire, sunderland durham, isle of whight, poole and bouremouth in the south and 7 years in London harrow, next to the famous harrow school, i now live in the north east, rent and housing is very cheap. compared to the south, i live in 3 bedroom house in a old mining village, and i only pay 390 a month, i was paying a 1000 a month for one bed flat london
Thank you so much Sean! We will definitely return to the UK at some point (we'd actually like to "live" or stay for an extended period of time, VISA's permitting). So much more we have to see, do and eat! 😀
Great reviews for our British food, thank you for that.
Loved it! thank you for watching 🥰
Enjoying your video I'm from England and eating it with gravy and a roast is right with the Yorkshire pudding also you can make a large one in a tin instead of individual also you can serve them cold or warm with jam as a dessert also some people serve it warm with maple syrup and cream X enjoy hope to see more of your adventures 💖😊
Oohhh yum a yorkshire pudding with maple syrup and cream sounds SO GOOD! Thanks very much Michelle ❤️
Wow, I didn’t know that about the baked beans 😮
Well done, for finding “Sam’s Chop House” in Manchester - it’s one of my favourite places to eat in the city.
Its a great restaurant isnt it! Great atmosphere, lovely food and the staff are wonderful 🥰
Nice review. Two good deserts.
Agree! The desserts were delicious 🤤 Great way to finish off a meal
Good on you guys for trying the black pudding 👍.I love it myself. With my fry up
Thanks! - we really liked it! ☺️
@@KristyandSteve Good morning or afternoon if you are home.I would ask you this....Do you think that the opinion of many people outside of the UK about British food being bland,dull tasteless etc is still deserved?.(please reply honestly) Thanks 💯
That Full English looked masterfull. Exactly how it should be.
I loved this video! You two are so nice and I'm so glad you enjoyed the food here :) It really isn't as bad as people think haha Also, the editing and pacing is top quality!! Big props for that! Easy new subscriber
Thanks very much, appreciate your kind words 🤗
I’m really glad you picked good places to try all those dishes, you can go wrong really easily but it looked like you guys had fun and that’s awesome.
Oh and if you do make Yorkshire puddings at home and want to try them my favourite way it’s with like a half teaspoon of apple sauce and roast pork 😁
Thanks Andrew! ☺️
As an Englishman i love Aussies lol, Enjoy. Traditional to have a donner kebab after a few beers lol
Haha we love the English, we share a lot of similarities (humour mostly). Steve settled for a zinger burger combo from KFC on the way home. Was too early for a kebab 🤣
@@KristyandSteve lol. Kebab next time then lol
Absolutely 💯
19:35 Yes you fill up the Yorkshire
And yes, you cut it up and eat it bite by bite and Yes you use it to mop up the gravy afterwards.
All three are the correct way to eat Yorkshires, which is why you need at least 4 on every plate
Haha wish we got 4! 😋
Yorkshire Pudding is easy to make at home. In the US, we make something similar called pop-overs, it's basically Yorkshire Pudding but upside down. Best eaten with a nice amount of gravy inside.
How do you get the gravy in if it's upside down?
While people do eat all-day breakfasts, the traditional evening equivalent of a Full English Breakfast is called a "mixed grill", and is normally grilled (what Americans call "broiled") rather than fried. Ingredients usually would be sausage, bacon, either a small steak or a lamb/pork chop, mushrooms, tomatoes and egg, plus garden peas and chips. They vary a lot - some will add liver or kidney, some might have both a steak and a chop, some will drop the bacon or switch in gammon instead. But it has very much the same sort of mixture of flavours as a Full English.
Also, there are slight differences between the Full English, the Full Welsh, the Full Scottish, the Full Irish and the Ulster Fry, but they all have the same basic elements (bacon, sausage, egg, tomato, mushroom, toast, tea) - a Full Scottish will add Lorne (square) sausage (as well as the regular sausage), plus tattie scones, many commercial versions aimed at tourists replace the black pudding with haggis, but most Scots don't regard haggis as a breakfast food; the Full Irish and the Ulster Fry both add white pudding and soda farls and the Ulster Fry also adds potato pancakes. The Full Welsh adds cockles and laverbread. Hash browns are not traditional (the traditional English carb is bubble and squeak), and you do see them sometimes outside England, but the local traditional carb options have mostly survived better than bubble and squeak has in England.
Thanks very much for this information! We cant wait to try different variations of the fry up - so many great combinations 👌🏽
Appreciate you watching & taking the time to comment ☺️
you guys are so fun
Thanks! Glad you liked our video 😊
You guys have great palates, and the way you describe it -real connoisseurs
Thanks so much , appreciate that 🤗
Love this Video,,,have subscribed and one should always have English mustard with a beef roast,,,,
Thanks so much, really appreciate it! ☺️ -and yes completely agree with you, mustard pairs perfectly with roast beef 👌🏽
Thanks for your kind reply,,keep up your good work and Travel safe 🗺@@KristyandSteve
Thank you 🤗
I'm originally from Yorkshire and you'd traditionally make a very large pudding that was crispy on the outside and puddingy on the inside. You'd cut it up and serve as a starter with lots of caramelized onion gravy, though any other gravy is fine. If you were from two or three generations back you'd eat it stuffed with raisins (so sweet and savoury) or oddly mushy peas. Today they're smaller light puddings served on the same plate as the roast; and there's never enough gravy.
Sounds delicious, especially the addition of raisins - yum!!! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment 🤗
Yes!! Finally someone that knows what proper Yorkshire pudding is. My grandmother used to send back to the kitchen when given these current tasteless puff balls and although we have Cheshire lineage generations have maintained proper Yorkshire pudding over the generations. Coincidentally living in Clevedon for generations! The place in this vid lol. Good choice on chippy.
Like someone else said, you can eat a Yorkshire pudding however you like but gravy is always a good shout. If you make them yourselves, these are my 3 tips: 1 - use a Yorkshire pudding tin (or shallow muffin tin). 2 - use a non-fan oven. 3 - add oil to the tin and preheat it before adding the pudding mixture. Enjoy!
Thanks so much, appreciate the tips ☺️
Hope you guys enjoyed your stay , love from the UK.
Thats very kind of you Alistair, thank you so much! We absolutely loved the UK and will certainly be back 🇬🇧❤️
If you get the chance and you're still in England and you want to try _the very very best fish and chips_
Then you need to nip down to Hastings on the South Coast and go to:
*Maggie's Fish & Chips*
You will need to book, even though it look like a shack.
I've had fish and chips at all the best places in the UK, Maggie's tops them all and then some.
It's just incredible and it comes partially from still having a fishing fleet and the rest from their obsession with getting it perfected.
Other Best Places in the UK for Fish and Chips:
In England:
Herne Bay
Pevensey Bay
In Scotland:
Perth
Arbroath
Oh wow thank you SO much for this information! It also helps others who are reading the comments 👀
Unfortunately we are no longer in the UK, but have put this info in our notes for future visits. Really appreciate it, cheers! 🙏☺️
whenwe were children we always had a beef roast dinner every Sunday, with Yorkshire pudding. Mum used to make two Yorkshires, we would have one as a dessert with golden syrup - delicious!
Sounds like a perfect Sunday dinner Elizabeth! 😍
As a true Yorkshireman there is a proper Yorkshire way to eat Yorkshire Pudding. At the start of a meal you eat a large Yorkshire Pudding with gravy as a starter. Then you have your roast dinner with two or three small Yorkshire Puddings. You then finish off with a large Yorkshire pudding with jam.
Woahhh thats a lot of Yorkshire puddings haha! yum 😋
only recently discovered you but loving your UK content. That's debatable steve LOOOL 😀
Hahahaha youre the only one thats pointed that out, love it 🤣 Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed the video ☺️
english brekky is great cos u can combine all the items on the plate together and its good !! Mix it all up , same with the roast and fish n chips combine with gravy, curry sauce, ketchup, mayo, mush. peas its allll gooodd
Agree! So delicious 🤤
... hi K&S .. great vid and very fair assessment ... you might want to try a sausage roll from the high street outlet Greggs, a Ploughman's lunch in a pub or chicken tikka masala curry ... all very popular in the Uk ... i like my curries hot so i go for a jalfrezi or vindaloo or phall
Thanks very much Peter! We did have our fair share of Greggs sausage rolls over the month we spent in the UK. They taste so different to the ones we have back in Australia (in a good way!) - so so delicious. Thanks for the tip regarding the ploughmans lunch and curries 😀
Not gonna lie I know we’re closely related but I love Australians they are so laid back and open minded love watching your videos glad your enjoying your time here too .
Thank you Ben, appreciate that! ☺️
Subscribed. Great couple, friendly but not time wasting hyperbole or negativity in the excellent commentary. Couldn't help but be drawn in to the upload because I love British pub and general non "posh" foods that you can honestly get anywhere in the UK. Highly recommended channel and thanks again for such a sensible and balanced presentation. About the best "We try British Food" channel I have found. Thanks.
Thanks so much Aiden, really appreciate it ❤️