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Glad you had a great experience in London. I live in uk. I have at least one wish and it’s to visit Bleekers Bar,for their stunning bleekers burger. I recommend you try outside London too.if you really do want to of course- so expensive £9.50 for bread and butter pudding? Wow,shocking. 2 foodie channels worth your research before coming again. Eating with Tod Gary eats Both London based people and most of their content is and has been made around the London places to eat . I’m finding it helpful with these channels. I’m just a foodie. Awesome guys 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@Ant_Toe_Knee_DThe British Victorian upper class ( pompous bells) were addicted not only to Gin but also curries 😮 honest! I saw it on the TV so it must be true...although if it was on the BBC probably not.
The reason Britain got a reputation for bad food was from WW2. American troops based here took back tales of bad food, because the UK had been on rationing for several years by the time the US entered the war so of course the food wasn’t as good as it would be in a country without rationing, like the US. The UK farming industry for instance didn’t recover until the late 50’s. Also, a lot of food from other countries originated in the UK. The Americans didn’t invent apple pie for instance, nor did they create a lot of food they think they did, many of them they came from the UK. Unfortunately the reputation has been hard to shake, despite the reality being completely different. It’s hilarious because the food in the US is just SO bad (I lived there ) I am glad Canadians are more open minded.
Britain imported 70% of its food alot from the US in WW2, so when the American troops said British food was bad, they where mostly saying that US food is bad, which still today american food is bad, full of additives and other ingredients that are banned in the UK.
You know it's actually possible to say something nice about one country and not tear another down. I'm an American who grew up in England. Both countries have amazing cuisine and they also have their crap. To say any country has terrible food is ridiculous unless you've tried every dish from every restaurant in each of the respective countries.
TBH, the only place that believes the urban myth of British food being bad is 99% from the U.S. And the best fish and chips is found by the sea, Whitby in England and Oban in Scotland are renowned for it.
I'd challenge you to try fish & chips in the Maritimes (Canada) 🤤 It's def not just the USA though. Canada and Aus (in general) think the same. It's silly though because it's obviously not true - Trevor
@@DelightfulTravellers...not so much Australia as a lot living out there are ex pats and travel to the UK a lot, however the Australians have one of the best Food in the world...
@@DelightfulTravellers I think back in the 1980's there was some pretty dodgy food about, even though there would have been plenty of nice places too. I 🤔 standards have improved and the choice of international restaurants have increased.
I should imagine the American Soldiers who were stationed in Britain during WW2 and had to eat the kind of rationed food the entire nation had to eat went back to the US and spoke about how bad the food in the UK was…. That’s fair enough. Sadly that ‘truth’ was carried down the generations. Just a guess.
You couldn't find a 'butty' because you're too far south, it's a northern term. It's just slang for a sandwich (though notherners would baulk at you having a bacon butty toasted...)
Southerners would baulk at it too, this is just an menu choice for non English people visiting London. No one living or working in London is having a Bacon Sandwich Toasted, it's just wrong.
Bread cake, roll or bap for the butty and you do need to be up North for one. Buttered I toasted bread and loads of bacon. I’d have brown sauce if I was putting an egg on there otherwise I’d just enjoy the flavour of the bacon. When buying fried fish a lot of places will remove the fish skin if it’s not your bag. Remember to ask. Where I live cod tends to be skinned whilst haddock has its skin intact but I guess that will vary from place to place. Tikka masala isn’t spicy to most of us. I believe it was invented for us, but it’s weak curry-wise. We know that the theory comes from WW2 and food like woolton pie and the national loaf. It is nice to see people realise that this bad reputation isn’t a true picture of our cuisine.
A proper Cornish pasty is meant to be an entire meal! It was originally made for miners and it is believed that the thick crust was designed to be held while eating the pasty then thrown away so their meal wasn’t contaminated with the harmful residuals on their hands.
A tikka masala is only slightly above a korma, never found tikka masala spicy, i always get a jalfrezi which is quite spicy (at least from my local curry house it is)
Anyone that tells you Britain has the worst food in the world is just objectively wrong. 180+ Michelin star restaurants, countless internationally famous chefs, and a huge culture of both modern and traditional food.
Hard to find decent ingredients in Canada to cook with. Their cheeses are all inferior to ours, and most of their meat is pumped full of antibiotics, making it unuseable. Fish is very,very expensive, and hard to find, they've destroyed most of their fisheries, from cod to salmon.
I think that phrase is about the cooking now done in people's homes. When you compare a French or Italian home cook with a British one they have a far bigger tradition of what they eat. But I do agree well done british cuisine is excellent and compares well with anyone
A typical bacon butty is usually not in toasted bread and the custard was in fact Clotted Cream which is one of my personal favourites, glad you enjoyed the food and there is plenty more out there still to try!
Recently returned from a Caribbean cruise out from fort Lauderdale so there were plenty of Americans and Canadians on board as well as lots of Brits. The thing that made me laugh was at meal times, as on cruises there were English sections as well American and continental sections, the queue’s at the English breakfast bar was always the longest as well as lunchtimes when roast beef and Yorkshire pud was served, and the fish and chips bar always ran out as it was always so popular… I always enjoyed saying to the Americans in the queues ‘I thought you Americans hate English food’… 😂😂
The custard on the bread and butter pudding is actually clotted cream. As a Cornishman its only a cornish pasty if made in Cornwall so you really need to come to Cornwall and try a proper one (they made of had the pasty shipped up from Cornwall) also really needs to be steak with shortcrust pastry. Bacon Butty looked fabulous but i would of had a runny egg with it and ketchup :)
The word butty, originally referring to a buttered slice of bread, is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich," particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty. Sarnie is a similar colloquialism. (Wikipedia)
The idea that British food is bland is the biggest myth about it, and probably came from the 2nd world war, when everything was rationed here. Britain has been trading in spices since as far back as the Tudor times, and you've only got to look at a lot of our puddings and cakes to know we've always used spices in our cookng and baking. I found it funny that you thought the tikka masala was really spicy - it's well known for being one of the mildest dishes you could choose, and is often eaten by 'novices' as the 'gateway curry,' enabling you to work your way up to the more savage ones like vindaloo!
@Maerahn Vindaloo may be another bogus Indian dish. The original vindaloo was a Portuguese dish that included huge amounts of garlic cloves in it. Later on a hot potato dish may have picked up the name as allo in Hindi means potato.
@@johnwoodgate8125generally it's a teaspoon or two of Mr Naga pickle mixed into something like a madras. Local Asian supermarkets sell it (frequently sold out, the staff will know what it is). It's also great with cheese in a sandwich. No need to pay the extra £3 that my local curry house charges as it's a "house special" when you can buy a whole jar for that.
@@barlow2976Yes they really did throw it away because the mines they worked down were also high in arsenic, which is a poison and the filling was the most expensive and nutritious part so the crust was purposely made thicker and curved round one side so they could hold it with dirty hands and eat the rest without getting poisoned soooo yea… 😅
@@parasnipermore So they're down a soaking wet tin mine , covered in dirt which contains arsenic salts that are as easily absorbed through the skin as internally? That puts tin miners' life expectancy at months. You're just repeating the drivel the tourist centres come up with, and have no real evidence. Maybe using cutlery would have been a life saving move? Jackanory, jackanory.....
@@Vino_Veritas Just because you heard the story doesn't mean it is true. There are no facts, whatsoever, to substatiate this. I am a historian, not a reader of fairy tales. You are just repeating a fallacy, mindlessly. If you studied social history you would comprehend the level of poverty in SW England in the 18/19c, and understand that even a few extra ounces of flour a week were precious. Arsenic processing took place on the surface, and caused many cases of poisining through exposure to steam used. Miners were exposed to much lower concentrations in natural solution, but exposure through the skin was unavoidable, and built up over time. Ingesting arsenic was easily avoidable (not by throwing away a substantial portion of your lunch) by using a napkin to hold your pasty. If you throw food away down a mine you get rats, and this was alawys forbidden down coal mines, for good reason. Before you repeat something mindlessly, think and read. Bruv.
Yes definitely clotted cream on top NOT custard! One of the most popular desserts is Sticky Toffee Pudding with ice-cream or custard. I had some after my pub roast two days ago and was delicious!
No clotted cream on top custard all way with bread butter pud my great great great nan pasted recipe down centuries in a home made recipe book, you're supposed to cut bread layer in pan with sugar n raisin between each layer soak in milk egg mixture then bake slice like cake pour custard on londonderry fancy things up 😂
Were I come from a bacon butty was two slices of white bread, plenty of real butter followed by at least two slices of bacon and red sauce. If you used sausages you used HP sauce, the bread seems to change depending on were you come from.
Agreed, for one thing you wont get lemon or tartare sauce just good old salt & vinegar plus add curry, mushy peas or both. You usually wouldnt get the fish with the skin on either, thats just lazy who likes the taste of soggy fish skin?
@@bepto4877 You won't get poncy tartare sauce in London either. Nor will you get gravy or curry sauce on your chips. Utter gobshite behaviour. I have to admit, though, mushy peas are the North of England's gift to the world.
Never seen a bread & butter pudding remotely looking anything like a slab of, well I don’t know what…they should be prosecuted under the trade description act 🤪.
My mum would turn over in her grave if she had that “ slab” put in front of her as bread and butter pudding! Not the real thing I,m afraid. Buttered bread, bit of sugar, possibly with raisins, soaked in egg custard IN A DISH then baked in the oven till golden brown. It was a poor persons economy pudding. Clotted cream!!!😮 Also similar was Bread Pudding, another economy “dessert”.
Hey guys, thanks for creating this video and highlighting some of the food we have! Just an fyi; A bacon butty is slang so you typically won’t find it being sold as a butty in food places. Plus to my knowledge a butty is a ‘roll’ or more accurately a ‘bap’.
And thy were actually "invented" in Devon, according to historical research. www.google.com/search?q=cornish+pasty+invented+in+devon&rlz=1C1YTUH_en-GBAU1080AU1080&oq=cornish+pastie+invented&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgCEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCQgBEAAYDRiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAcQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAgQABiABBiiBDIKCAkQABiABBiiBNIBCjIyMDczajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 In 2006, a researcher in Devon discovered a list of ingredients for a pasty tucked inside an audit book and dated 1510, calculating the cost of making a venison pasty. This replaced the previous oldest recipe, dated 1746, held by the Cornwall Records Office in Truro.
I'm going to argue the one food we Brits truly excel at is winter comfort food: The stodgy, ever-so-slightly unhealthy but hella filling kind of food that just leaves you full up and sighing in happiness as the cold weather closes in.
Yup the 'sticks to your ribs' comfort food cannot be rivalled. Regardless of the various foods I've tried whilst travelling, and I like to try most things, it's the comfort food of home that always hits just right.
You excel at those types of food because they're age old staples and you've perfected them over the centuries. Come to Melbourne Australia and experience centuries old recipes from around the world. Just as good :)
A bacon butty is usually NOT toasted. Its usually white bread or a roll Sauce is your choice, tomato or brown/hp sauce. Mustard is an option. Basically its back (or other) bacon in a sandwich or roll with some condiment if you want.
that's a good point - im from London and these are staple London prices, but if people travel outside of major cities you could eat all this exact same food for basically 60% cheaper if not more the more north you go
As a Londoner let me help you guys out. Firstly, the reason why you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie is because you were south of Birmingham. A buttie is a slang term for a sandwich used mainly up north, like Yorkshire. Secondly, and the most accurate reason you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie, its because you were in bethnal green - a prodominantly Muslim area. Kudos though on making sure to take it to weavers field to let the locals enjoy watching you eat.
I think there may be a confusion with the dessert. That looked to me like "Bread Pudding" not "Bread and Butter" pudding. Bread pudding is more like a dense fruit cake made with dried fruit, mixed spices, bread soaked in milk, and dark brown sugar. Bread and butter pudding is slices of buttered bread layered on edge with dried fruit (sultanas, raisins, currants) then a custard mix is poured over and it is sprinkled with sugar and baked.
No way was that bread pudding, definitely bread and butter pudding. my late mum made loads over the years all dark brown full of mixed fruit and peel and covered in sugaloody smashing, oh how I miss her and that pudding, .
@@mepeterb5456my mum made bread pudding. Bread had to be going stale tho,. I loved the crispy burnt bits around the outside. She'd make a big tray but it never lasted more than 2 days,I used to eat a bit every time I went near it.rip mum.❤❤❤❤
Bread and Butter Pudding is made by spreading butter on slices of (usually white) bread, layered in a dish, optionally with raisins scattered between the layers. This is then soaked with a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and sugar (similar to French Toast/Eggy Bread/Poor Knights of Windsor, but made in a layered dish rather than fried in individual slices), sometimes topped with an extra sprinkle of sugar (and optional Cinnamon) to create an extra crispy topping, and gently baked so that the custard cooks to a soft set consistency. It was traditionally made as a way to use up stale bread in the days before bread was stuffed with preservatives. Butterscotch sauce isn't a traditional topping for it, but I can imagine it working well, and yours looked to be topped with Clotted Cream. Clotted Cream is made by gently heating cream so that the fats become more concentrated and float above the watery whey before being chilled and scooped away. It's somewhere between cream and butter and is served with various puddings, as well as the eponymous Cream Tea with scones and jam.
Surprised you didn't try a traditional British Sunday roast. Arguably our 'real' national dish. Chinese is probably the most popular 'takeaway'.. you'll have to do a re-review 😊
We’re not in the UK any longer. As full time travellers it’s way too expensive to spend more than a couple of weeks! But next time I’m sure we’ll do another food video. Also we did a Sunday Roast in a previous video as well as a few other dishes. Be sure to go back and watch them. - Anna
A guide at an old mine in Cornwall once told me some laborers' wives would put a savory filling at one end and a sweet one at the other. A whole meal in a sturdy pastry. I don't know if she was having me on but I thought that was pretty nifty.
Originally the rolled crust on the edge was not eaten. The miners in Cornwall were mining for tin and one of the other minerals that often occurs near tin is arsenic and traces of arsenic would get on the miners hands, As arsenic is toxic and washing facilities were none existent underground eating with your hands was dangerous. So the pasty had the rolled crust which was in effect the handle to eat the pasty with. When you had eaten the main party of the pasty you threw away the handle that may or may not have had arsenic traces.
@stephenhodgson3506 plus they would give some to the pit ponies and an offering to the ghosts of the mines. They were for good reason quite superstitious as it was a very dirty and dangerous job.
British food the worst in the world?? Maybe 30-40 years ago, but now Britain is one of the culinary centres of the globe - particularly in London, although there are fantastic eateries all over the country. Spicy food? You better believe it! 🙂Great to see you both enjoying the amazing food that we have in this country.
british food 30 or 40 year,s ago was much better than it is today, back then, apart from maccaroni cheese, we had never heard of pasta, or pizza, rice was only ever heard of as a rice pudding, which was lovely, esp the brown part off the top, & near me the only take-aways that was available was a fish'& chip shop, or a pie from the butcher,s or the local bakers. i will only eat british food like we ate 30 or 40 year,s ago, cos i dont like anything else, i def can,t eat pasta, i don,t like pizza or anything too spicy, also when i was at school. in the 1970s, The school dinner,s back then were out of this world, propper meals & a pudding of some discription served everyday, but also back then, people were much better cooks, these days a lot of people think they are cooking, when all they can produce is a load of slop & crap.
They are talking about British food not fusion cooking or British cooking foreign dishes. All the foods they tried have been around for over 100 years.
@@henrycooper4213, British food IS largely fusion food - that doesn’t make it non British, but merely reflects Britain’s role as the largest Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. All cultures develop their cuisine through trade, assimilation and movement of populations, Britain included
@@geemo4284 that’s such an ignorant statement. You could say that about every country in the world. As every country has been invaded, occupied, and foods as ingredients in every country changed in every 100 years or so. Give your head a wobble.
@@henrycooper4213, exactly my point. If it’s relevant to every other country in the world, why is not applicable to Britain. Imagine what North Indian cuisine would be like if the Mughal empire hadn’t invaded - completely different, yet we regard it as Indian food.
@spikeandrews1 I would go along with that korma very mild I up graded to tikka masala after that but madras &vindaloo to hot for me.then there's a pharl that's meant to be even hotter,these meals were designed to be spicy because it covered up the rancid meats.
I was surprised too, I was under the impression us brits love spicy food, I mean isn’t that why Nando’s has more locations in the uk despite being a South African company? Not to mention our love of curry 😂
Yes but the West isn’t bought up on same spicy food as India is, a lot of food you think is mild we think is spicy. It’s different cultural tastes, for example India likes sugar in its tea, 70% of Brits do not
Well not all fish and chips are awful u do know it ain’t hard to get fresh fish to London u know some upper class ones can easily get fresh fish delivered early morning so we have fresh fish cause even at a seaside it’s not like they go fishing and catch the fish they get it delivered before they open
Not in my experience! I live in London and have several really good fish n chip shops quite close by. Worst ever fish n chips I’ve had (by far) was in Mundersley, literally right on the Norfolk coast. Also have family who live within spitting distance of Plymouth Sound and who much prefer the fish n chips they get when they visit us in London.
You can't get good fish and chips in London. Always watery cod, not haddock. No beef fat for the batter and the chips. Also look out for the tell-tale curled battered fish.. Over-fried and ruined. Also plenty of slap dash Chicken/Fish Shops. The combo means you don't even know what your eating after its been in the frying bin. #StepneyGreen memories...
I've travelled all over, I'm from the UK, I honestly believe that British food is the best as you can taste it, most countries have their distinct spice flavour, or its too heavily seasoned. With British food we keep it simple, and traditional, believe it or not, food tastes nice without being overly spiced and seasoned. We love a bit of salt and pepper and condiments, but we like to taste what we eat. we are also one of the less obese countries because it's not all laden with salt sugar and butter. also, fish and chips are only good in the uk. Fresh by the sea. .. ps now I want a proper cornish pasty ..so good ! ❤ I love the video by the way
Had an American ask me why British food has a lack of spice (which is rubbish anyway as we can take a lot of spice in our dishes) and mocking our 'bland' food, but I told her that we didn't need spices to 'pep' up our food because its usually good quality and we don't need to hide the taste under a layer of spices. That put her gas at a peep :)
So, we have 2 national dishes, Fish and Chips and Chicken Tikka Masala. Also, there is another curry that is starting to become popular, South Indian Garlic Chicken. So good.
this was fun to watch! i'm an immigrant to the uk, and it sounds stupid, but i worried a bit about the food. NO NEED!! there's some bloody great food here, and i'm not even in london. love your video!!
I don't know where you came from, but you came here because we were better than your own country, whatever your views on the food. Please stop insulting your hosts culture.
@markyboyno1114 Thanks for the clarification. I believe that the sauce originated in the UK and had assumed that marsala, a sweet fortified wine, was used to flavour it. However, I should have spotted the different spelling.
The quality of fish and chips can vary drastically. You'll normally get the best if you're somewhere by the sea, especially if it's somewhere with fishermen actively coming and going from there. That being said, it's definitely possible to get great fish and chips all over the UK but, like pretty much any type of food, there'll also be some places that really let the side down.
I'm not a fan of tikka masala. Find it a bit cloying and bland like butter chicken. Prefer madras, rogan josh, balti, jalfrezi or occasionally vindaloo.
Stop that! If they thought Tikka Masala was hot Vindaloo will finish them off. Guys you are in London so that was not Cilantro on top of your current it was Coriander 😊
@@artemisfowl66 We've had way hotter dishes than this one 🔥 Trust us.. this was spicy and we know Tikka Masala quite well. Coriander does not exist to us 😉hehe
Pasties can't be called cornish unless they were made in Cornwall. It is a whole meal. It was for tin miners, its supposed to have an S and an F on it for start and finish. One enf is meat and potatoe and veg the othe is apple and fruit. The thick pastry edge gets binned. That's just there to hold while eating so you dont get dirt on your food.
Cornish Pasties we’re originally in two parts, with a savoury in one side and a sweet in the Other. They were made for miners to take to work. They could hold the crimped crust with their dirty hands, and throw it away afterwards. You need to get fish and chips at the coast where the fish is fresh. Whitby in Yorkshire is famous for them. As someone has already said, the bad food reputation came from American soldiers who were posted here in WWII. They had rationing in the rest of Europe during the war, but the lads didn’t experience that, because when they were there people were shooting at them.
Most fish and chip shops use fillets frozen at sea. I'm fine with that as its blast-frozen within an hour of capture. Unless your fish has come off a day boat (unlikely) it has been in the hold of the trawler, on ice, for 3-5 days before spending a day at market, and a few more at a fish mongers, if you're buying it to cook yourself. I know, I was a fish trader. I've never believed the two part pasty thing either, just seems to be something folk repeat, with no evidence. I can't imagine people throwing away food either, we're not talking coal mines so I imagine a miner would simply wipe his hands clean. I've been down a tin mine and although it was wet the rocks were hard granite, and clean.
1. Bacon sandwiches. Usually in a bread cake 2. Vegetable pasty. It is what it is(vegetarian) 3. Fish and chips. Mushy peas is a must, also I’ve never had a battered fish with its skin on 4. Never had it myself 5. All curries are great 🤤
@@seanscanlon9067 No it doesn't!!! I'm sixty and have never, never had a fillet that wasn't skinned, and I've lived all over the U.K. Good fish and chips is my favourite meal, eat it at least once a week, so I think I'd know.
@@barlow2976 Yes it does, I do not just imagine or make up these things. I am 58 and have lived in London my whole life and it has always been that way here and in other areas in the south east of England, but it might be different elsewhere in the country. Some people here will eat only the top batter part of their fish and the fish white itself and then leave the bottom batter part with the silver skin attached, on their plate.
the fish having skin on is how some shops know what type of fish it is for example i live in the midlands cod tends to be skinned whereas haddock tends to have its skin on because when they are battered its the only way to tell which is which
The white dollop on top of your dessert was cream not custard, lol! Fish & Chips for the win! It looked amazing and a good price too. You'll find a bacon butty in Northern cafes, usually it's not toasted though, just bread and butter. 😋
There is a very specific cuisine called British Indian Restaurant or BIR. A lot of the dishes on Indian restaurant menus in the UK are unique to the UK and not found in India.
@@chriskirk2765 Most are Bangladeshi, some are Pakistani, often the staff are from Mirpur, in Pakistan, sometimes known as little England, because there are so many British products and many businesses accept GBP.
Hey London is one of the best if not the best food city in the world if you want variety. It may not have the amount of Michelin star restaurants that say Paris has but the world foods on offer is second to none.
British food has been turbo charged in the last 30 yrs. it has changed beyond compare to my childhood. I love curry and anything full of spice. Yet fish and chips holds a place in my heart as a kid my grandads chip shop was heaven
Ironically, as a Yank that has travelled to the UK I found it disappointing and frustrating that it is not as easy to find trad British food there. I love me a Steak and Kidney pud but you have to know where to go. The days of going into any pub and getting it are gone. And having Sticky Toffee Pudding for dessert is criminal!
The food in Britain is superb. Yes! There was a time when it was beige after the war. But Our food is astounding. Real fish and chips are cooked in beef dripping etc. Thanks for the vids guys.
@@neilpickup237 It seems to be mainly plant based oils down here in the south, better for our health apparently. As a child born and bred in London, I used to eat beef dripping spread on toast.
The word butty means butter & bread it's a Northern saying and it's a filler food for the working class. It won't be called butty in London unless you have a Northerner owning the place . You need to go to the places these foods come from ti have the best , especially the Cornish pasty, abd fish and chips always get them ftim a seaside chippy. Pluse they will cost a fraction of the price .
You won't find "bacon butty" on a menu, as "butty" is simply a slang term for sandwich. Those were, in fact, toasted bacon butties (which is perfectly acceptable 😋)
for the best bread and butter pudding, you need to use the stale bread that's left at the end of a loaf shortly before it start to go off, when it's in that state it gives the best texture to the pudding, it's just not something most people tend to do anymore sadly so when you buy it pre-made like it is here, it's likely not the 'best' version it could be due to being made 'fresh' if that makes sense, but I have no doubt it will still taste delicious.
Likely the reason you couldn't find a bacon butty is most cafes would have it on their menu as either a roll or sandwich with your choice of breakfast item where you will typically have the choice of sausage, bacon, black pudding, scrambled egg or fried egg. Anywhere that serves a ful breakfast would be able to make it for you. Most people likely don't have the bread toasted, there's no need for the bread to provide crunch if the bacon is sufficiently crispy
We never go toasted with our bacon butties, and we're likely to go with a bread bun rather than slices bread. But I'm glad you enjoyed it, back bacon is king!
It obviously depends on where you eat, but anyone saying U.K. food is bad is repeating a stereotype that might have been true 30 years ago. I regularly watch ‘Masterchef the Professionals’, where talented chefs working here compete for a very prestigious title over a period of weeks. Many have deliberately chosen to come and work here from abroad, because of the vibrant and innovative food scene, which includes street and market meals. The country has over 200 Michelin starred restaurants, 9 of which have 3 stars, landing us in the top 10 world ranking table. For many of us these establishments are prohibitively expensive, but even local pubs now serve excellent food at reasonable prices. I’m glad that you enjoyed your culinary journey here.
A true Cornish Pasty can only truly be called ‘Cornish’ if it’s made in Cornwall under protected status and contains only skirt beef, Swede, potato and onion.
@@karenpenny3973 Nope it clearly said Cornish Pasty, now clearly wasn't made in Cornwall but we don't give a tinker's cuss about that here in Australia.
Who would have thought that battered fish would taste fishy? Very strange. Seriously, it is great that you are proving that our food is not bad, as generally thought. In most towns you can get every conceivable food within a short distance, cooked by people from that country.
With your fish and chips, you should have asked for mushy peas. You can also get minted mushy peas in some places. If you're going to have red sauce on your chips, it needs to be Heinz Ketchup. You think that Chicken Tikka is spicy? Try a Vindaloo - that's a very popular, hot dish in the UK. With reference to the bread pudding, there are two versions. Bread pudding is a very solid dish, made of bread, raisins/dried fruit and without custard or any liquid in it. Bread and butter pudding, however, is made using the same ingredients but with milk, cream or custard in the mix. The bread is buttered on both sides, and layered in a bowl, with the fruit 'sandwiched' in between. The the liquid is poured in. In the UK, bread pudding is often served cold. Both puddings are best served with a freshly made egg custard, although cream and ice cream are suitable alternatives. The Pasty is actually called a Cornish Pasty, as it originates from that area of England. They were originally made so that farm workers could take a full lunch to work and the pastry was to protect it from getting dirty. A proper pasty will include meat and vegetables. I'm so glad you enjoyed our food; I go to Newfoundland often and it's one of the only places in the world (apart from Barbados) where I at fish.
Almost 💯 % of our battered fish is skinless, if it weren't I'd never eat the skin anyway. You must visit Newcastle, my city & take a 20 min metro ride while you're here to Tynemouth, head down Front St as far as you can go (that'll be the Castle & Priory) , look for the pub, The Gibraltar Rock & take the stairs down to the beach where you'll see Riley's Fish Shack , you can order whatever the catch was at North Shields fish quay that day, often Monkfish wrap or sometimes Lobster wrap 🦞
A sarnie is a sandwich using bread and a butty is usually a roll. So you can get a bacon sarnie or a bacon butty. A roll is also variously known as bap, barm, cob in different regions. Sarnie and butty are slang so you won't see it on menus but if you ask for it at the counter they'll know what you mean.
Anna, you hit the nail on the head when you said the pasty is like a dinner. That is were the origin of the pasty came from. The tin miners of Cornwall used to work very long and hard hours and it was some distance to get from the surface down to where the tin in the mines was extracted so they created the pasty so that they could take it underground with them and have their dinner down in the mine. The reason for the pinched curved end of the pasty is that they were extracting tin out of the ground which meant they came into contact with poisons in the tine so they would hold the pasty by the curved pinched ends, eat the pasty and its contents and just throw the pinch curved part of the pasty away so they did not ingest the poisons on their fingers.
The worst food myth comes from when there were overseas (US) military guys stationed over here in the 50s/60s and rationing from WWII was still in place. It took a while for the UK to recover and as a Londoner, you can find amazing food over here (I grew up in the US, so do have perspective). A lot of it is also where you go as London can have horrifying food for tourists (we don't eat there). For desserts - try sticky toffee pudding. Definitely my fav! Also, we do call French fries, French fries - chips are thick and fries are thinner (think McDonalds fries). I'd suggest plaice for your fish & chips - try out Poppies for it or Sea Fresh in Victoria.
That is not proper bread and butter pudding. Should be old bread slices either thickly butter or layered with butter plus raisins some mixed spice and saoked in milk. he baked. Nice crispy on top gooey underneath. Not a single slice of bread covered in butterscotch
You are right the Pastie is a a full meal, Cornish miners took them down the mines and ate them for lunch. The reason for the think semi circular crust is that the part you hold to eat the pastie using it as a handle, since the miner hands where dirty they didn't eats the crust. Fish and Chips if you don't like the fishy taste go for Cod, my favourite is Rock Salmon (Dog Fish), a particular favourite fish and chip for Londoners.
Cod & chips at the seaside, plenty of salt and vinegar. Sitting on the sea wall or bench eating this on a nice sunny day, you can't get better than that
Nah mate, Fish and Chips done properly is school shark and chips. Not the pelagic monster sharks that prowl the seas, but the smaller coastal sharks that swim in small schools. Spent many a summer day over the Christmas holidays at the end of the pier doing that.
And here is where London prices need to be taken into account. A £5 bacon butty would get you a full English breakfast further North. Also, unless it was made in Cornwall it's actually illegal to call anything a Cornish Pasty. As well as the CTM is, the Balti is the epitome of naan dipping fun, but that would be Birmingham.
We have "Peshwari Naan" with our Tikka Masala which is a coconut bread. We also mix it with chefs special biriani. You'll defo want a decent (hard) cider to wash it down with though.
Cornish pasties were usually taken down the tin mines by the miners and were usually half savoury and half sweet. The crust allows the miners to hold the pasty while eating!
I've had fish'n'chips all over britain. That one you had looks pretty good. Harry Ramsden's are very good, there's a place in Colne called Banny's and that's excellent. The award winning chip shop in Whitby was fantastic. My favourite is Bizzie Lizzie's in Skipton, it's the benchmark as far as I am concerned.
For me it used to be Jack's Fisheries in Crossflatts, but changed hands a year or 2 ago, so not as good now. Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley used to be the best but they sold out. Will have to try Bizzie Lizzie's, thanks for the tip
Nice vid guys. First, butty is a slang term for any kind of sandwich and it would be unusual to see the word butty on a menu. Also I believe Butty comes from Welsh! We also use the word Sarnie as another slang word for sandwhich. Toast is good, but equally we enjoy our bacon on heavily butter thick cut untasted bread. The meld slightly melted butter and hot bacon is just deeeeeelisoius.
Not sure if it has been mentioned to you since the release of this "butty" is just slang for a bread roll (theres countless irritations of words for it and butty is mainly the north west of England's choice but you have other varieties such as cob, barm, bap, roll and the list goes on) and no toasted isn't the "correct" way to have it,you just have it on a roll/butty usually with butter and the condiment of your choosing, i tend to just keep mine without butter but love some brown sauce with bacon. Although with toast isn't too bad either. Another thing Cornish pasties are not technically Cornish pasties unless they are from Cornwall, they're a dish miners used to take with them to work, one half would be filled with veg and meat, the other half custard or jam so it was a full meal for one You tend to have the best fish and chips in seaside towns and they're fantastic when you cover the chips in salt and vinegar
Considering my mouth was watering throughout the video, I would say that you blew the ‘worst food’ theory right out of the water 😅! See you in the DR ☀️ 😃.
Shame you didn’t go to Dishoom. Their black Dahl is legendary. Of course we love Indian food, it was brought back when we still had the British Empire.
For the best Fish & Chips, have to try seaside Chippy. Soggy Chips r the best, also you'll find most fish up north is Haddock and doesn't have skin. In the South of England we tend to leave Skin on, which sucks. Cod mainly in the South. Haddock shouldn't remotely taste fishy. Tikka Masala isn't a spicy dish, creamy
I saw a survey recently about whether people have their Bacon Butties with Brown Sauce (HP) or Tomato Ketchup. It turns out that it is a variation with a rather strong regional bias. It's a bit like whether your bacon should be smoked or unsmoked (called green bacon in some places). As for me, my preference is not for sauce, but for fried tomatoes, which are so overripe that all you can do is fry them. Add fried mushrooms to the mix, and I will be really happy. But I am not sure that qualifies.
I have to say, that is a fairly wretched looking Cornish Pasty. As someone who lived in Cornwall for a long time, the variation you get across the country in the interpretation of the pasty is huge.
Great video! A popular english activity in Spring and Summer is going on a pub walk! Thisinvolves do a rambling countryside walk of between 4 to 12 miles and ending at the pub for drinks and a meal- any day of the week. There are many books available with set walking routes -across interesting landscapes, woods, rivers, castles, farmlands , hills and monuments finally ending back at the designated pub for much needed refreshments.
We used to go walking every Sunday between8 to 13 miles. ( till I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia ) and we had to take a packed lunch…always felt jealous of those who went for a drink and food …🥴😂🏴
Leaving the skin on the fish fillet in Fish and Chips seems to be a London (or possibly Southern) thing and would not generally happen in The North. Things like Chicken Tikka Masala are technically BIR (British Indian Restaurant) dishes - which is basically Indian inspired dishes aimed at the UK pallet (similar to TexMex in the US) but which people in India will not necessarily have heard of.
It’s definitely more of a London thing, I’m from south and all the fish I’ve ever had never have the skin on. Not all of London leaves the skin on either but every other city down south I have visited I’ve never experience the skin I don’t think I would like it with the skin on.
In East Yorkshire very rarely have skin on fish. Also, must have F&Cs with malt vinegar 😂. Bacon buttie, the is bacon in a breadcake and best with tomatoes or ketchup in my opinion 😋
Thoughts from a Yorkshire man. Never seen a toasted butty. You aren't supposed to eat the big pastry rolled edge of the pasty. Try curry sauce w/fishnchips next time (and ask for scraps/bits). That wasn't a proper chippy. Great review, looking forward to seeing more.
Gotta disagree with you there, bud. Coming from plymouth on the devon/cornwall border, pasty crusts are 100% supposed to be eaten if they are bland or dry, that's cause it's a shit pasty. All the best pasties come from plymouth these days. 90% of the bakeries in Cornwall are aimed at emmets cause cornwall is a ghost town out of season.
Bacon butty for me is in a breadcake, roll, baby cob and many more depending on part of country you are. When in bread like you chose it's a bacon sandwich and they're pretty much the same .
@@DelightfulTravellersthought the idea was to try British food ! You got them all wrong bar they fish and chips and even that was a bad choice of location.
This is why trying "traditional"British foods in tourist gaffs in London is unrepresentative. Almost every single "we tried traditional English food" videos that are made by RUclipsrs in London are BS. London tourist traps cater for non-UK palates or try to be hipster with good, honest grub.
I've never seen a bread and butter pudding look like that! and as others have said, that wasn't custard, almost certainly clotted cream, looked very yummy tho'! As for Brits not liking spicy food, that may have been the case up until roughly the early 1970's......Now it's the go to food, especially after a night on the lash, and the hotter the better! The morning after eating a curry, it's customary to play Johnny Cash's song....."Burning ring of fire" (whilst sitting on the throne)..🥵
Other reference I take is the way the Turkish / Greek takeaway in the Uk have actually hot chilli sauce for the English. Go to Germany and there is almost nothing spicy hot (though the rest is very fresh and good) in the sauce as Germans don’t like spice. Red pepper and salt are basically the spice of choice on most of their menus.
@@TristanBailey They do have curry wurst. That originated from a German lady selling hot sausage sandwiches to the British troops stationed there. They supplied her with curry powder.
Brits have always liked spices. We sailed round the world for them for centuries. As Al Murray says why we as a nation never went to the moon, no hot and spicy food to bring back nor Olympic quality athletes haha
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Bacon butty is simply a bacon roll. You eat a bacon sandwich
Glad you had a great experience in London.
I live in uk. I have at least one wish and it’s to visit Bleekers Bar,for their stunning bleekers burger.
I recommend you try outside London too.if you really do want to of course- so expensive £9.50 for bread and butter pudding? Wow,shocking.
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@@Ant_Toe_Knee_DSpot on! If they are asking for a bacon buddy....they will be getting strange looks ...for me it's always been bacon on toast.
@@Ant_Toe_Knee_DThe British Victorian upper class ( pompous bells) were addicted not only to Gin but also curries 😮 honest! I saw it on the TV so it must be true...although if it was on the BBC probably not.
Surprises me how the English food rumour began, could be the French 😂 our food is Great just don't tell everyone 🤫🤫
The reason Britain got a reputation for bad food was from WW2. American troops based here took back tales of bad food, because the UK had been on rationing for several years by the time the US entered the war so of course the food wasn’t as good as it would be in a country without rationing, like the US. The UK farming industry for instance didn’t recover until the late 50’s. Also, a lot of food from other countries originated in the UK. The Americans didn’t invent apple pie for instance, nor did they create a lot of food they think they did, many of them they came from the UK. Unfortunately the reputation has been hard to shake, despite the reality being completely different.
It’s hilarious because the food in the US is just SO bad (I lived there ) I am glad Canadians are more open minded.
Britain imported 70% of its food alot from the US in WW2, so when the American troops said British food was bad, they where mostly saying that US food is bad, which still today american food is bad, full of additives and other ingredients that are banned in the UK.
Yet the Americans who were stationed in GB brought there racism here to our shores . They can talk about no one they state of them ,
You know it's actually possible to say something nice about one country and not tear another down. I'm an American who grew up in England. Both countries have amazing cuisine and they also have their crap. To say any country has terrible food is ridiculous unless you've tried every dish from every restaurant in each of the respective countries.
I can only remember Spam or corned beef being sold in our corner shop, (1946) when rationing was still ongoing..@@stue2298
It's not entirely wrong though, our food isn't exactly great most of the time...
TBH, the only place that believes the urban myth of British food being bad is 99% from the U.S. And the best fish and chips is found by the sea, Whitby in England and Oban in Scotland are renowned for it.
I'd challenge you to try fish & chips in the Maritimes (Canada) 🤤 It's def not just the USA though. Canada and Aus (in general) think the same. It's silly though because it's obviously not true - Trevor
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@@DelightfulTravellers...not so much Australia as a lot living out there are ex pats and travel to the UK a lot, however the Australians have one of the best Food in the world...
@@DelightfulTravellers I think back in the 1980's there was some pretty dodgy food about, even though there would have been plenty of nice places too. I 🤔 standards have improved and the choice of international restaurants have increased.
I should imagine the American Soldiers who were stationed in Britain during WW2 and had to eat the kind of rationed food the entire nation had to eat went back to the US and spoke about how bad the food in the UK was…. That’s fair enough. Sadly that ‘truth’ was carried down the generations. Just a guess.
You couldn't find a 'butty' because you're too far south, it's a northern term. It's just slang for a sandwich (though notherners would baulk at you having a bacon butty toasted...)
Northerner here... baulking away like crazy - bacon butty should be in well buttered stodgy white bread. Or in a bread roll at a pinch.
I wouldn't have bacon on toast. Sausage and egg on toast with brown sauce is the one.
Haha I'm from Manchester and I always have bacon on toast with brown sauce 😂😂
Southerners would baulk at it too, this is just an menu choice for non English people visiting London. No one living or working in London is having a Bacon Sandwich Toasted, it's just wrong.
Bread cake, roll or bap for the butty and you do need to be up North for one. Buttered I toasted bread and loads of bacon. I’d have brown sauce if I was putting an egg on there otherwise I’d just enjoy the flavour of the bacon.
When buying fried fish a lot of places will remove the fish skin if it’s not your bag. Remember to ask. Where I live cod tends to be skinned whilst haddock has its skin intact but I guess that will vary from place to place.
Tikka masala isn’t spicy to most of us. I believe it was invented for us, but it’s weak curry-wise.
We know that the theory comes from WW2 and food like woolton pie and the national loaf. It is nice to see people realise that this bad reputation isn’t a true picture of our cuisine.
A proper Cornish pasty is meant to be an entire meal! It was originally made for miners and it is believed that the thick crust was designed to be held while eating the pasty then thrown away so their meal wasn’t contaminated with the harmful residuals on their hands.
The "crimping" along the top was designed as a useful carrying method, as the original "Cornish Pasty" was over 2 feet long and weighed 8 pounds.
That clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding
that's absolutely correct and a lot of pasties taken by the tin miners was half and half.. one end was savory and one sweet..
@@harryhill-es5jk I've never seen bread and butter pudding made or served like that before. Not sure about it TBH.
They also filled half with fruit or jam x
Chicken Tikka Masala is entry level spice wise. It's the Indian Happy Meal.
It's classed as a low/medium heat level. Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys, in the UK.
A tikka masala is only slightly above a korma, never found tikka masala spicy, i always get a jalfrezi which is quite spicy (at least from my local curry house it is)
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Spot on. Tikka Masala is mild, below even a Bhuna. Most Brits would be happy with a Madras at least spice wise...
And it tastes amazing
Anyone that tells you Britain has the worst food in the world is just objectively wrong. 180+ Michelin star restaurants, countless internationally famous chefs, and a huge culture of both modern and traditional food.
Exactly and on our tiny island we have all that 👏
Hard to find decent ingredients in Canada to cook with. Their cheeses are all inferior to ours, and most of their meat is pumped full of antibiotics, making it unuseable. Fish is very,very expensive, and hard to find, they've destroyed most of their fisheries, from cod to salmon.
I think that phrase is about the cooking now done in people's homes. When you compare a French or Italian home cook with a British one they have a far bigger tradition of what they eat. But I do agree well done british cuisine is excellent and compares well with anyone
£5.50 for toast and bacon, sorry but they seen you coming 😐
No wonder you can't find a bacon sandwhich, it's not bacon Buddy, it's actually bacon butty 😂😂😂
A typical bacon butty is usually not in toasted bread and the custard was in fact Clotted Cream which is one of my personal favourites, glad you enjoyed the food and there is plenty more out there still to try!
Not sure I’ve seen clotted cream in other countries, maybe a version in France.
No idea what you are talking about, clotted cream? Wtf…..nonsense.
I’m like you about the fishy taste, ask in the chip shop which fish has no skin. They usually have one with no skin, if not another shop will😊
@@andreww864 Cod is usually served without its skin and haddock with.
Who doesn't toast the bread for a bacon butty. That is weird to me.
Recently returned from a Caribbean cruise out from fort Lauderdale so there were plenty of Americans and Canadians on board as well as lots of Brits. The thing that made me laugh was at meal times, as on cruises there were English sections as well American and continental sections, the queue’s at the English breakfast bar was always the longest as well as lunchtimes when roast beef and Yorkshire pud was served, and the fish and chips bar always ran out as it was always so popular… I always enjoyed saying to the Americans in the queues ‘I thought you Americans hate English food’… 😂😂
That sounds as English as Apple Pie.
and what did they reply 😂 but that says it all. Bad food my arse
@@nealgrimes4382Erm... apple pie IS English. We've been eating apple pie since the 1300s.
Try again.
That was their point.
What makes me laugh is people pay a lot of money to go on a Caribbean cruise, only to eat food from their own countries!
The custard on the bread and butter pudding is actually clotted cream. As a Cornishman its only a cornish pasty if made in Cornwall so you really need to come to Cornwall and try a proper one (they made of had the pasty shipped up from Cornwall) also really needs to be steak with shortcrust pastry. Bacon Butty looked fabulous but i would of had a runny egg with it and ketchup :)
Maybe they've never seen clotted cream which is a creamy yellow colour. Mind you that says a lot about the custard they usually have.
The word butty, originally referring to a buttered slice of bread, is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich," particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty. Sarnie is a similar colloquialism. (Wikipedia)
Don’t forget the sugar butty!
It’s used in the South of England too
We say it in Manchester, and a lot of us pronounce it bu'ih (without the t's) 😅
@@DrawContent Was just about to post exactly the same thing. Anyone who pronounces the t's is worse than Stalin
The idea that British food is bland is the biggest myth about it, and probably came from the 2nd world war, when everything was rationed here. Britain has been trading in spices since as far back as the Tudor times, and you've only got to look at a lot of our puddings and cakes to know we've always used spices in our cookng and baking. I found it funny that you thought the tikka masala was really spicy - it's well known for being one of the mildest dishes you could choose, and is often eaten by 'novices' as the 'gateway curry,' enabling you to work your way up to the more savage ones like vindaloo!
^^ This.. Well said.
Or Naga, my favourite.
@@johnwoodgate8125 She's so good with Charlie Stait too.
@Maerahn Vindaloo may be another bogus Indian dish. The original vindaloo was a Portuguese dish that included huge amounts of garlic cloves in it. Later on a hot potato dish may have picked up the name as allo in Hindi means potato.
@@johnwoodgate8125generally it's a teaspoon or two of Mr Naga pickle mixed into something like a madras. Local Asian supermarkets sell it (frequently sold out, the staff will know what it is). It's also great with cheese in a sandwich. No need to pay the extra £3 that my local curry house charges as it's a "house special" when you can buy a whole jar for that.
Traditionally the rolled crust on a pasty was to hold it with dirty hands as these were eaten underground by miners, the rolled crust was thrown away
No it wasn't, they were hard times and you didn't throw food away.
@@barlow2976Yes they really did throw it away because the mines they worked down were also high in arsenic, which is a poison and the filling was the most expensive and nutritious part so the crust was purposely made thicker and curved round one side so they could hold it with dirty hands and eat the rest without getting poisoned soooo yea… 😅
@@parasnipermore So they're down a soaking wet tin mine , covered in dirt which contains arsenic salts that are as easily absorbed through the skin as internally? That puts tin miners' life expectancy at months.
You're just repeating the drivel the tourist centres come up with, and have no real evidence. Maybe using cutlery would have been a life saving move?
Jackanory, jackanory.....
@@barlow2976bruv they mined tin. It was toxic, the idea was you had safely ate your food then threw away the crimped crust
@@Vino_Veritas Just because you heard the story doesn't mean it is true. There are no facts, whatsoever, to substatiate this. I am a historian, not a reader of fairy tales. You are just repeating a fallacy, mindlessly. If you studied social history you would comprehend the level of poverty in SW England in the 18/19c, and understand that even a few extra ounces of flour a week were precious. Arsenic processing took place on the surface, and caused many cases of poisining through exposure to steam used. Miners were exposed to much lower concentrations in natural solution, but exposure through the skin was unavoidable, and built up over time.
Ingesting arsenic was easily avoidable (not by throwing away a substantial portion of your lunch) by using a napkin to hold your pasty. If you throw food away down a mine you get rats, and this was alawys forbidden down coal mines, for good reason.
Before you repeat something mindlessly, think and read. Bruv.
Yes definitely clotted cream on top NOT custard! One of the most popular desserts is Sticky Toffee Pudding with ice-cream or custard. I had some after my pub roast two days ago and was delicious!
No clotted cream on top custard all way with bread butter pud my great great great nan pasted recipe down centuries in a home made recipe book, you're supposed to cut bread layer in pan with sugar n raisin between each layer soak in milk egg mixture then bake slice like cake pour custard on londonderry fancy things up 😂
never had it and dont want to I hate sticky toffee anything and also custard.
@@helensmith8007that was definitely a dollop of clotted cream in the video.
That isn't a bacon butty that is a bacon toastie❤
i don't mind Bacon on Toast for a bit of a change.
Agree a bacon butty is either bacon on buttered white bread or a muffin
And please DONT start the the muffin bap roll debate
@@susansmiles2242 wait you mean english muffin or bread roll?
Were I come from a bacon butty was two slices of white bread, plenty of real butter followed by at least two slices of bacon and red sauce. If you used sausages you used HP sauce, the bread seems to change depending on were you come from.
@@tyjuwr no an oven bottom.
Fish and chips in London is not in the same league as in Yorkshire
For sure.
Agreed, for one thing you wont get lemon or tartare sauce just good old salt & vinegar plus add curry, mushy peas or both. You usually wouldnt get the fish with the skin on either, thats just lazy who likes the taste of soggy fish skin?
I would agree with you there London is curry land
@@bepto4877 You won't get poncy tartare sauce in London either. Nor will you get gravy or curry sauce on your chips. Utter gobshite behaviour.
I have to admit, though, mushy peas are the North of England's gift to the world.
@@timarmstrong3251 Just about every Fish & chip review I've seen in London comes with tartare sauce including this one!
Took my mother in-law, who's Polish to my local farmshop cafe for dinner. She was absolutely amazed by the quality and we went back 3 times
Never seen a bread & butter pudding remotely looking anything like a slab of, well I don’t know what…they should be prosecuted under the trade description act 🤪.
My mum would turn over in her grave if she had that “ slab” put in front of her as bread and butter pudding! Not the real thing I,m afraid. Buttered bread, bit of sugar, possibly with raisins, soaked in egg custard IN A DISH then baked in the oven till golden brown. It was a poor persons economy pudding. Clotted cream!!!😮 Also similar was Bread Pudding, another economy “dessert”.
Hey guys, thanks for creating this video and highlighting some of the food we have!
Just an fyi; A bacon butty is slang so you typically won’t find it being sold as a butty in food places.
Plus to my knowledge a butty is a ‘roll’ or more accurately a ‘bap’.
A Cornish pasty was originally made for miners, in fact half was meat/veg and the other half was fruit for pudding...
And thy were actually "invented" in Devon, according to historical research.
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In 2006, a researcher in Devon discovered a list of ingredients for a pasty tucked inside an audit book and dated 1510, calculating the cost of making a venison pasty. This replaced the previous oldest recipe, dated 1746, held by the Cornwall Records Office in Truro.
I'm going to argue the one food we Brits truly excel at is winter comfort food: The stodgy, ever-so-slightly unhealthy but hella filling kind of food that just leaves you full up and sighing in happiness as the cold weather closes in.
I love 4 ingredient puddings. Rice pudding, roly poly, crumble, custard etc.
Yup the 'sticks to your ribs' comfort food cannot be rivalled.
Regardless of the various foods I've tried whilst travelling, and I like to try most things, it's the comfort food of home that always hits just right.
You excel at those types of food because they're age old staples and you've perfected them over the centuries. Come to Melbourne Australia and experience centuries old recipes from around the world. Just as good :)
Nothing I'd better than eating a good shepards pie infrint kf a fireplace in a really cold winter
Winter comfort food, and summer desserts. Two things that you just can't do better than we do it here.
A bacon butty is usually NOT toasted.
Its usually white bread or a roll
Sauce is your choice, tomato or brown/hp sauce.
Mustard is an option.
Basically its back (or other) bacon in a sandwich or roll with some condiment if you want.
Holy moly, you found some seriously expensive examples! Glad you enjoyed though.
that's a good point - im from London and these are staple London prices, but if people travel outside of major cities you could eat all this exact same food for basically 60% cheaper if not more the more north you go
As a Londoner let me help you guys out. Firstly, the reason why you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie is because you were south of Birmingham. A buttie is a slang term for a sandwich used mainly up north, like Yorkshire. Secondly, and the most accurate reason you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie, its because you were in bethnal green - a prodominantly Muslim area. Kudos though on making sure to take it to weavers field to let the locals enjoy watching you eat.
As a Geordie I have ito gently correct you Londoner..
Yorkshire is virtually the midlands, up north is a lot closer to the Scottish border 😁
@@MKR5210 listen, anything north of the M25 is north to me mate!
@@MKR5210I think you need a map lass if you think Yorkshire is midlands 😂
Not really buttie is used all over the uk there is more to the uk than London and the north
@@NeverWokeNotASoiBoy Anything north of Bristol is the North to me
I think there may be a confusion with the dessert. That looked to me like "Bread Pudding" not "Bread and Butter" pudding. Bread pudding is more like a dense fruit cake made with dried fruit, mixed spices, bread soaked in milk, and dark brown sugar. Bread and butter pudding is slices of buttered bread layered on edge with dried fruit (sultanas, raisins, currants) then a custard mix is poured over and it is sprinkled with sugar and baked.
No way was that bread pudding, definitely bread and butter pudding. my late mum made loads over the years all dark brown full of mixed fruit and peel and covered in sugaloody smashing, oh how I miss her and that pudding,
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@@mepeterb5456my mum made bread pudding. Bread had to be going stale tho,. I loved the crispy burnt bits around the outside. She'd make a big tray but it never lasted more than 2 days,I used to eat a bit every time I went near it.rip mum.❤❤❤❤
Bread and Butter Pudding is made by spreading butter on slices of (usually white) bread, layered in a dish, optionally with raisins scattered between the layers. This is then soaked with a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and sugar (similar to French Toast/Eggy Bread/Poor Knights of Windsor, but made in a layered dish rather than fried in individual slices), sometimes topped with an extra sprinkle of sugar (and optional Cinnamon) to create an extra crispy topping, and gently baked so that the custard cooks to a soft set consistency.
It was traditionally made as a way to use up stale bread in the days before bread was stuffed with preservatives.
Butterscotch sauce isn't a traditional topping for it, but I can imagine it working well, and yours looked to be topped with Clotted Cream.
Clotted Cream is made by gently heating cream so that the fats become more concentrated and float above the watery whey before being chilled and scooped away. It's somewhere between cream and butter and is served with various puddings, as well as the eponymous Cream Tea with scones and jam.
Correct that's not real.
@@andrewmartin2103What's not real?
The bread and butter pudding on the show. Made with left over bread to save money.
Wow.
So that's how clotted cream is made.
Can you turn single cream into clotted cream.
@@andrewmartin2103
It's actually better.
£5.50 for a bacon sarny!!!! Definitely London. You could buy a loaf some bacon and a bottle of sauce for less!
And toasted. No!☹ The idea is the grease and butter soak into the bread which doesn't happen when it's toasted.
It’s much cheaper in a proper greasy spoon in London. That place looked like a sandwich shop.
@@speleokeir personal choice mate, each to there own. Like smokey bacon. Personally, no, but it's your choice.
@@speleokeirtoasted always, shit loads of butter and a drizzle of ketchup. Plain bread is boring until it is toasted.
A lot cheaper up north , London very expensive
a bacon butty is a northern british thing. its a bap buttered with bacon and sauce a lot of people like runny fried egg in it too, never toasted.
The bad food stereotype was born in ww2 by returning America forces, totally missing out on the fact it was heavily rationed, and was until the 50s
It was still shitty in the UK in the 60's .
@@duncancallum I assume the kids who grew up with ration8ng didn't know any better when they grew up in the 60s or something
Rationing ended in 1954. It was actually worse after 1945!
Surprised you didn't try a traditional British Sunday roast. Arguably our 'real' national dish. Chinese is probably the most popular 'takeaway'.. you'll have to do a re-review 😊
We’re not in the UK any longer. As full time travellers it’s way too expensive to spend more than a couple of weeks! But next time I’m sure we’ll do another food video. Also we did a Sunday Roast in a previous video as well as a few other dishes. Be sure to go back and watch them. - Anna
Had one today nom
Beef Wellington!
@@DelightfulTravellersThe UK is one massive rip off nowadays.
I thought Sheppards pie. Do you eat mince meat pie in England
It was clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding. It's the best way to eat it. Great video guys
Re: Cornish pasty - the crust on the outside was for miners to hold and eat whilst down the mines in Cornwall ;)
A guide at an old mine in Cornwall once told me some laborers' wives would put a savory filling at one end and a sweet one at the other. A whole meal in a sturdy pastry. I don't know if she was having me on but I thought that was pretty nifty.
Originally the rolled crust on the edge was not eaten. The miners in Cornwall were mining for tin and one of the other minerals that often occurs near tin is arsenic and traces of arsenic would get on the miners hands, As arsenic is toxic and washing facilities were none existent underground eating with your hands was dangerous. So the pasty had the rolled crust which was in effect the handle to eat the pasty with. When you had eaten the main party of the pasty you threw away the handle that may or may not have had arsenic traces.
@@yummyirl Its true 🙂
@@yummyirlabsolutely correct!
@stephenhodgson3506 plus they would give some to the pit ponies and an offering to the ghosts of the mines. They were for good reason quite superstitious as it was a very dirty and dangerous job.
British food the worst in the world?? Maybe 30-40 years ago, but now Britain is one of the culinary centres of the globe - particularly in London, although there are fantastic eateries all over the country. Spicy food? You better believe it! 🙂Great to see you both enjoying the amazing food that we have in this country.
british food 30 or 40 year,s ago was much better than it is today, back then, apart from maccaroni cheese, we had never heard of pasta, or pizza, rice was only ever heard of as a rice pudding, which was lovely, esp the brown part off the top, & near me the only take-aways that was available was a fish'& chip shop, or a pie from the butcher,s or the local bakers. i will only eat british food like we ate 30 or 40 year,s ago, cos i dont like anything else, i def can,t eat pasta, i don,t like pizza or anything too spicy, also when i was at school. in the 1970s, The school dinner,s back then were out of this world, propper meals & a pudding of some discription served everyday, but also back then, people were much better cooks, these days a lot of people think they are cooking, when all they can produce is a load of slop & crap.
They are talking about British food not fusion cooking or British cooking foreign dishes. All the foods they tried have been around for over 100 years.
@@henrycooper4213, British food IS largely fusion food - that doesn’t make it non British, but merely reflects Britain’s role as the largest Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. All cultures develop their cuisine through trade, assimilation and movement of populations, Britain included
@@geemo4284 that’s such an ignorant statement. You could say that about every country in the world. As every country has been invaded, occupied, and foods as ingredients in every country changed in every 100 years or so. Give your head a wobble.
@@henrycooper4213, exactly my point. If it’s relevant to every other country in the world, why is not applicable to Britain. Imagine what North Indian cuisine would be like if the Mughal empire hadn’t invaded - completely different, yet we regard it as Indian food.
It looks like clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding?
We really don't regard tikka masala as very spicy. It's the safe option for those who don't like too much heat.
This was very spicy - Anna
I disagree they do make them really spicy if you ask them but they won't ruin it with stupid ridiculous hot spices.
I disagree chicken korma is the not spicy of the Currys
@spikeandrews1 I would go along with that korma very mild I up graded to tikka masala after that but madras &vindaloo to hot for me.then there's a pharl that's meant to be even hotter,these meals were designed to be spicy because it covered up the rancid meats.
@@smeghead1 Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys.
Chicken Tikka is considered mild, its the one you give your kids for their first curry!
Made me chuckle that it tasted spicy…they should try a vindaloo, naga or Phaal lol
I was surprised too, I was under the impression us brits love spicy food, I mean isn’t that why Nando’s has more locations in the uk despite being a South African company? Not to mention our love of curry 😂
Yes but the West isn’t bought up on same spicy food as India is, a lot of food you think is mild we think is spicy. It’s different cultural tastes, for example India likes sugar in its tea, 70% of Brits do not
Or Korma!
I thought korma was the mildest one
having fish and chips in London is wild, they're renowned for being awful compared to coastal towns
for me the better quality fish and chips are found up North, costal areas tend to be even better
Well not all fish and chips are awful u do know it ain’t hard to get fresh fish to London u know some upper class ones can easily get fresh fish delivered early morning so we have fresh fish cause even at a seaside it’s not like they go fishing and catch the fish they get it delivered before they open
Not in my experience! I live in London and have several really good fish n chip shops quite close by. Worst ever fish n chips I’ve had (by far) was in Mundersley, literally right on the Norfolk coast. Also have family who live within spitting distance of Plymouth Sound and who much prefer the fish n chips they get when they visit us in London.
You can't get good fish and chips in London. Always watery cod, not haddock. No beef fat for the batter and the chips. Also look out for the tell-tale curled battered fish.. Over-fried and ruined. Also plenty of slap dash Chicken/Fish Shops. The combo means you don't even know what your eating after its been in the frying bin. #StepneyGreen memories...
One of the best seafood markets in the country is in London.
I've travelled all over, I'm from the UK, I honestly believe that British food is the best as you can taste it, most countries have their distinct spice flavour, or its too heavily seasoned. With British food we keep it simple, and traditional, believe it or not, food tastes nice without being overly spiced and seasoned. We love a bit of salt and pepper and condiments, but we like to taste what we eat. we are also one of the less obese countries because it's not all laden with salt sugar and butter. also, fish and chips are only good in the uk. Fresh by the sea. .. ps now I want a proper cornish pasty ..so good ! ❤ I love the video by the way
Absolutely! Some people pay for an expensive piece of fish or steak then plaster it wirh some sort of sauce.......I just don't get it!
I agree with what you say except the "we are also one of the less obese countries" I don't think we are😂
@markpotter8280 ok.. in Europe, it's high.. but the world, we aren't too bad 😅
Had an American ask me why British food has a lack of spice (which is rubbish anyway as we can take a lot of spice in our dishes) and mocking our 'bland' food, but I told her that we didn't need spices to 'pep' up our food because its usually good quality and we don't need to hide the taste under a layer of spices. That put her gas at a peep :)
Bread and butter pudding and bread pudding was usually made to use up left over bread. Stuff bought out is normally not as good as homemade!
So, we have 2 national dishes, Fish and Chips and Chicken Tikka Masala. Also, there is another curry that is starting to become popular, South Indian Garlic Chicken. So good.
this was fun to watch! i'm an immigrant to the uk, and it sounds stupid, but i worried a bit about the food. NO NEED!! there's some bloody great food here, and i'm not even in london. love your video!!
I don't know where you came from, but you came here because we were better than your own country, whatever your views on the food. Please stop insulting your hosts culture.
@@JohnJones-wo1bcshe didn't insult anything?
@@JohnJones-wo1bcthey said they were wrong, chill out
@@JohnJones-wo1bc The chill pills are over there --->
@@JohnJones-wo1bcIf anything it was a compliment..🙄🇬🇧
Tikka marsala is considered a relatively mild sauce in the UK. If you want spicy try Madras or Vindaloo.
Or phal
@@ianfinney7820haha I was going to say Phal had it once Americans think food is spicy there this is the bees knees
Masala, not 'Marsala'..If you are English.....Marsala is a wine.
@markyboyno1114 Thanks for the clarification. I believe that the sauce originated in the UK and had assumed that marsala, a sweet fortified wine, was used to flavour it. However, I should have spotted the different spelling.
*masala
Those chips you got with your Fish and Chips didn't look home made to me
The quality of fish and chips can vary drastically. You'll normally get the best if you're somewhere by the sea, especially if it's somewhere with fishermen actively coming and going from there. That being said, it's definitely possible to get great fish and chips all over the UK but, like pretty much any type of food, there'll also be some places that really let the side down.
We love our spicy food, tikka masala is considered mild in the UK, England was a major spice trading nation centuries ago.
We just mean being a 'National Dish' we were legit shocked at the spice level (of our dish) 😀 - Trevor
It's not our national dish. That claim was made by some website years ago.
I'm not a fan of tikka masala. Find it a bit cloying and bland like butter chicken. Prefer madras, rogan josh, balti, jalfrezi or occasionally vindaloo.
Stop that! If they thought Tikka Masala was hot Vindaloo will finish them off.
Guys you are in London so that was not Cilantro on top of your current it was Coriander 😊
@@artemisfowl66 We've had way hotter dishes than this one 🔥 Trust us.. this was spicy and we know Tikka Masala quite well. Coriander does not exist to us 😉hehe
Pasties can't be called cornish unless they were made in Cornwall. It is a whole meal. It was for tin miners, its supposed to have an S and an F on it for start and finish. One enf is meat and potatoe and veg the othe is apple and fruit. The thick pastry edge gets binned. That's just there to hold while eating so you dont get dirt on your food.
I hope you get a chance to try a proper British Sunday pub roast!
Cornish Pasties we’re originally in two parts, with a savoury in one side and a sweet in the Other. They were made for miners to take to work. They could hold the crimped crust with their dirty hands, and throw it away afterwards. You need to get fish and chips at the coast where the fish is fresh. Whitby in Yorkshire is famous for them. As someone has already said, the bad food reputation came from American soldiers who were posted here in WWII. They had rationing in the rest of Europe during the war, but the lads didn’t experience that, because when they were there people were shooting at them.
The Forfar Bridie is also delicious & Callander does excellent ones also . I’ve never tried the Cornish pasties but they do look good .
and not actually cornish if not made there or to a certain recipe..
Most fish and chip shops use fillets frozen at sea. I'm fine with that as its blast-frozen within an hour of capture. Unless your fish has come off a day boat (unlikely) it has been in the hold of the trawler, on ice, for 3-5 days before spending a day at market, and a few more at a fish mongers, if you're buying it to cook yourself. I know, I was a fish trader.
I've never believed the two part pasty thing either, just seems to be something folk repeat, with no evidence. I can't imagine people throwing away food either, we're not talking coal mines so I imagine a miner would simply wipe his hands clean. I've been down a tin mine and although it was wet the rocks were hard granite, and clean.
1. Bacon sandwiches. Usually in a bread cake
2. Vegetable pasty. It is what it is(vegetarian)
3. Fish and chips. Mushy peas is a must, also I’ve never had a battered fish with its skin on
4. Never had it myself
5. All curries are great 🤤
Battered fish usually has its skin on but only on one side and usually at the bottom.
@@seanscanlon9067 No it doesn't!!! I'm sixty and have never, never had a fillet that wasn't skinned, and I've lived all over the U.K. Good fish and chips is my favourite meal, eat it at least once a week, so I think I'd know.
@@barlow2976 Yes it does, I do not just imagine or make up these things.
I am 58 and have lived in London my whole life and it has always been that way here and in other areas in the south east of England, but it might be different elsewhere in the country.
Some people here will eat only the top batter part of their fish and the fish white itself and then leave the bottom batter part with the silver skin attached, on their plate.
the fish having skin on is how some shops know what type of fish it is for example i live in the midlands cod tends to be skinned whereas haddock tends to have its skin on because when they are battered its the only way to tell which is which
The white dollop on top of your dessert was cream not custard, lol! Fish & Chips for the win! It looked amazing and a good price too. You'll find a bacon butty in Northern cafes, usually it's not toasted though, just bread and butter. 😋
Butty is not a term widely used in the south of England, which is probably why it was hard to find it on a menu in London.
@@childofthestones2820Bacon sandwhich/bacon roll, in every single cafe in the south.
There is a very specific cuisine called British Indian Restaurant or BIR. A lot of the dishes on Indian restaurant menus in the UK are unique to the UK and not found in India.
They were originally Bangladeshi, so not really Indian at all
Noted
@@chriskirk2765 Most are Bangladeshi, some are Pakistani, often the staff are from Mirpur, in Pakistan, sometimes known as little England, because there are so many British products and many businesses accept GBP.
Hey London is one of the best if not the best food city in the world if you want variety. It may not have the amount of Michelin star restaurants that say Paris has but the world foods on offer is second to none.
You should have fish and chips with salt and vinegar!
Or a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce on the beer battered haddock or cod.
You can thank me later. You're welcome.
@@AnOldEnglishBloke absolutely not salt and vinegar all the way.
@@AnOldEnglishBlokeSweet chilli sauce? You what? 😂
Take it to another level and add mushy peas. ?
British food has been turbo charged in the last 30 yrs. it has changed beyond compare to my childhood. I love curry and anything full of spice. Yet fish and chips holds a place in my heart as a kid my grandads chip shop was heaven
Fish and chips was itself a 19th century import into Britain from Portugal.
Ironically, as a Yank that has travelled to the UK I found it disappointing and frustrating that it is not as easy to find trad British food there. I love me a Steak and Kidney pud but you have to know where to go. The days of going into any pub and getting it are gone. And having Sticky Toffee Pudding for dessert is criminal!
Are you sure that's custard on the bread & butter pudding? It looks like clotted cream :)
Can confirm... was clotted cream - Trevor
The food in Britain is superb. Yes! There was a time when it was beige after the war. But Our food is astounding. Real fish and chips are cooked in beef dripping etc. Thanks for the vids guys.
Is beef dripping actually used in fish and chip shops anywhere today?
@GeeCeeWU Yes, it is. Certainly here in Leeds.
@@neilpickup237 It seems to be mainly plant based oils down here in the south, better for our health apparently. As a child born and bred in London, I used to eat beef dripping spread on toast.
@@GeeCeeWU yes in Lynemouth
@@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk Good to know Kimberly.
The word butty means butter & bread it's a Northern saying and it's a filler food for the working class. It won't be called butty in London unless you have a Northerner owning the place . You need to go to the places these foods come from ti have the best , especially the Cornish pasty, abd fish and chips always get them ftim a seaside chippy. Pluse they will cost a fraction of the price .
I'm from London and here a butty is specifically in a roll. It is a word down here, but you won't usually see them called butties on any menus.
Tbh masala is one of the mildest dishes more for ppl who dont like heat ...
You won't find "bacon butty" on a menu, as "butty" is simply a slang term for sandwich. Those were, in fact, toasted bacon butties (which is perfectly acceptable 😋)
butty is a gay English word for a piece
for the best bread and butter pudding, you need to use the stale bread that's left at the end of a loaf shortly before it start to go off, when it's in that state it gives the best texture to the pudding, it's just not something most people tend to do anymore sadly so when you buy it pre-made like it is here, it's likely not the 'best' version it could be due to being made 'fresh' if that makes sense, but I have no doubt it will still taste delicious.
I deliberately let fresh white sliced bread go stale for a couple of days before making bread and butter pudding.
Likely the reason you couldn't find a bacon butty is most cafes would have it on their menu as either a roll or sandwich with your choice of breakfast item where you will typically have the choice of sausage, bacon, black pudding, scrambled egg or fried egg.
Anywhere that serves a ful breakfast would be able to make it for you.
Most people likely don't have the bread toasted, there's no need for the bread to provide crunch if the bacon is sufficiently crispy
Butty is a more Northern English word for sandwich and the origins of the word stem from “bread and BUTTER” … shortened to Butty
Yes definitely not toasted
@@Lloyd-Franklin it’s still Northern we don’t ban you from saying our words
Used in Wales too.
We never go toasted with our bacon butties, and we're likely to go with a bread bun rather than slices bread. But I'm glad you enjoyed it, back bacon is king!
It obviously depends on where you eat, but anyone saying U.K. food is bad is repeating a stereotype that might have been true 30 years ago. I regularly watch ‘Masterchef the Professionals’, where talented chefs working here compete for a very prestigious title over a period of weeks. Many have deliberately chosen to come and work here from abroad, because of the vibrant and innovative food scene, which includes street and market meals. The country has over 200 Michelin starred restaurants, 9 of which have 3 stars, landing us in the top 10 world ranking table. For many of us these establishments are prohibitively expensive, but even local pubs now serve excellent food at reasonable prices. I’m glad that you enjoyed your culinary journey here.
A true Cornish Pasty can only truly be called ‘Cornish’ if it’s made in Cornwall under protected status and contains only skirt beef, Swede, potato and onion.
LOL I had a Cornish pasty a couple of weeks ago here in Australia, it definitely wasn't made in Cornwall but it was still delicious!
Well it wasn’t a Cornish pasty then..😂👍
@@vtbn53that was a pasty, not a Cornish pasty 😉
@@karenpenny3973 Nope it clearly said Cornish Pasty, now clearly wasn't made in Cornwall but we don't give a tinker's cuss about that here in Australia.
Don't think that protection exists anymore, since we left the EU ...
Who would have thought that battered fish would taste fishy? Very strange. Seriously, it is great that you are proving that our food is not bad, as generally thought. In most towns you can get every conceivable food within a short distance, cooked by people from that country.
Speaking only for Scotland our seafood is exported around the world it’s top nosh.
Too fishy old fish.
@@Parker_DouglasAgreed, I live in Botswana out here in Africa and I purchase Scottish seafood.
Fresh fish should neither smell nor taste "fishy".
With your fish and chips, you should have asked for mushy peas. You can also get minted mushy peas in some places. If you're going to have red sauce on your chips, it needs to be Heinz Ketchup. You think that Chicken Tikka is spicy? Try a Vindaloo - that's a very popular, hot dish in the UK. With reference to the bread pudding, there are two versions. Bread pudding is a very solid dish, made of bread, raisins/dried fruit and without custard or any liquid in it. Bread and butter pudding, however, is made using the same ingredients but with milk, cream or custard in the mix. The bread is buttered on both sides, and layered in a bowl, with the fruit 'sandwiched' in between. The the liquid is poured in. In the UK, bread pudding is often served cold. Both puddings are best served with a freshly made egg custard, although cream and ice cream are suitable alternatives. The Pasty is actually called a Cornish Pasty, as it originates from that area of England. They were originally made so that farm workers could take a full lunch to work and the pastry was to protect it from getting dirty. A proper pasty will include meat and vegetables. I'm so glad you enjoyed our food; I go to Newfoundland often and it's one of the only places in the world (apart from Barbados) where I at fish.
Almost 💯 % of our battered fish is skinless, if it weren't I'd never eat the skin anyway. You must visit Newcastle, my city & take a 20 min metro ride while you're here to Tynemouth, head down Front St as far as you can go (that'll be the Castle & Priory) , look for the pub, The Gibraltar Rock & take the stairs down to the beach where you'll see Riley's Fish Shack , you can order whatever the catch was at North Shields fish quay that day, often Monkfish wrap or sometimes Lobster wrap 🦞
A sarnie is a sandwich using bread and a butty is usually a roll. So you can get a bacon sarnie or a bacon butty. A roll is also variously known as bap, barm, cob in different regions.
Sarnie and butty are slang so you won't see it on menus but if you ask for it at the counter they'll know what you mean.
Butty is more a northern term and where i'm from it means any Sandwich.
In the UK as far as spicey food is concerned, we have tons of Chinese, Indian, Thai outlets. And we have had for years.
Tikka masala spice level is actually considered mild to we Brits and is one of the mildest curries you can get in the uk.
It always make me laugh when people say us british don't do spicy food when the phaal is also a British curry
You have only properly tried British fish and chips if you have lots of salt and vinegar on the chips. 😋
Not all fish and chip shops fry the fish with the skin on its better without the skin. Next time try a proper fish and chip shop 😋😋😋
Anna, you hit the nail on the head when you said the pasty is like a dinner. That is were the origin of the pasty came from. The tin miners of Cornwall used to work very long and hard hours and it was some distance to get from the surface down to where the tin in the mines was extracted so they created the pasty so that they could take it underground with them and have their dinner down in the mine. The reason for the pinched curved end of the pasty is that they were extracting tin out of the ground which meant they came into contact with poisons in the tine so they would hold the pasty by the curved pinched ends, eat the pasty and its contents and just throw the pinch curved part of the pasty away so they did not ingest the poisons on their fingers.
Or at least that' what everyone tirelessly repeats. Don't believe they could afford to waste food like that.
The worst food myth comes from when there were overseas (US) military guys stationed over here in the 50s/60s and rationing from WWII was still in place. It took a while for the UK to recover and as a Londoner, you can find amazing food over here (I grew up in the US, so do have perspective). A lot of it is also where you go as London can have horrifying food for tourists (we don't eat there).
For desserts - try sticky toffee pudding. Definitely my fav!
Also, we do call French fries, French fries - chips are thick and fries are thinner (think McDonalds fries). I'd suggest plaice for your fish & chips - try out Poppies for it or Sea Fresh in Victoria.
That is not proper bread and butter pudding. Should be old bread slices either thickly butter or layered with butter plus raisins some mixed spice and saoked in milk. he baked. Nice crispy on top gooey underneath. Not a single slice of bread covered in butterscotch
You are right the Pastie is a a full meal, Cornish miners took them down the mines and ate them for lunch. The reason for the think semi circular crust is that the part you hold to eat the pastie using it as a handle, since the miner hands where dirty they didn't eats the crust.
Fish and Chips if you don't like the fishy taste go for Cod, my favourite is Rock Salmon (Dog Fish), a particular favourite fish and chip for Londoners.
Cod & chips at the seaside, plenty of salt and vinegar. Sitting on the sea wall or bench eating this on a nice sunny day, you can't get better than that
Yes you can, Haddock & chips!
Haddock beats cod hands down. Bloody Sarfeners! 😉
Throw a nice pint into the equation and you’re good
Nah mate, Fish and Chips done properly is school shark and chips. Not the pelagic monster sharks that prowl the seas, but the smaller coastal sharks that swim in small schools. Spent many a summer day over the Christmas holidays at the end of the pier doing that.
Sounds interesting. I've heard the fish and chips in Oz are good@@AussieFossil
And here is where London prices need to be taken into account. A £5 bacon butty would get you a full English breakfast further North. Also, unless it was made in Cornwall it's actually illegal to call anything a Cornish Pasty. As well as the CTM is, the Balti is the epitome of naan dipping fun, but that would be Birmingham.
I was surprised to see the skin still on the fish normally it’s always taken off 😮
Up north, yes. Often left on down south.
@@adriangoodrich4306 im down south in bristol and I've never seen fish and chips with the skin on
Cod no skin. Haddock with skin.
@@russellstanton7583 both with skin haddock skin is thicker than cod skin
@@mofirminhosadiosalahrobert4904..thanks . I didn't know that. A chip shop worker told me that..
We have "Peshwari Naan" with our Tikka Masala which is a coconut bread. We also mix it with chefs special biriani.
You'll defo want a decent (hard) cider to wash it down with though.
Good to know! - Anna
Cornish pasties were usually taken down the tin mines by the miners and were usually half savoury and half sweet. The crust allows the miners to hold the pasty while eating!
I've had fish'n'chips all over britain. That one you had looks pretty good. Harry Ramsden's are very good, there's a place in Colne called Banny's and that's excellent. The award winning chip shop in Whitby was fantastic. My favourite is Bizzie Lizzie's in Skipton, it's the benchmark as far as I am concerned.
For me it used to be Jack's Fisheries in Crossflatts, but changed hands a year or 2 ago, so not as good now. Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley used to be the best but they sold out. Will have to try Bizzie Lizzie's, thanks for the tip
It seems that the chippies in West Yorkshire have the best Fish n chips for me. No skin on the fish and traditionally cooked in beef dripping.
Nice vid guys. First, butty is a slang term for any kind of sandwich and it would be unusual to see the word butty on a menu. Also I believe Butty comes from Welsh! We also use the word Sarnie as another slang word for sandwhich. Toast is good, but equally we enjoy our bacon on heavily butter thick cut untasted bread. The meld slightly melted butter and hot bacon is just deeeeeelisoius.
Not sure if it has been mentioned to you since the release of this "butty" is just slang for a bread roll (theres countless irritations of words for it and butty is mainly the north west of England's choice but you have other varieties such as cob, barm, bap, roll and the list goes on) and no toasted isn't the "correct" way to have it,you just have it on a roll/butty usually with butter and the condiment of your choosing, i tend to just keep mine without butter but love some brown sauce with bacon. Although with toast isn't too bad either.
Another thing Cornish pasties are not technically Cornish pasties unless they are from Cornwall, they're a dish miners used to take with them to work, one half would be filled with veg and meat, the other half custard or jam so it was a full meal for one
You tend to have the best fish and chips in seaside towns and they're fantastic when you cover the chips in salt and vinegar
Considering my mouth was watering throughout the video, I would say that you blew the ‘worst food’ theory right out of the water 😅! See you in the DR ☀️ 😃.
Good stuff haha... and bring on the DR yay! - Anna
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Shame you didn’t go to Dishoom. Their black Dahl is legendary. Of course we love Indian food, it was brought back when we still had the British Empire.
It was way too busy! It was our first choice but the place we ate at was great tbh - Anna
But didn't become widely eaten in the UK until after the empire was gone. More associated with post-WWII diversification than the empire.
For the best Fish & Chips, have to try seaside Chippy. Soggy Chips r the best, also you'll find most fish up north is Haddock and doesn't have skin. In the South of England we tend to leave Skin on, which sucks. Cod mainly in the South. Haddock shouldn't remotely taste fishy. Tikka Masala isn't a spicy dish, creamy
Bread and butter pud is a way of using stale bread. Beautiful. But not usually with butterscotch sauce.
Traditional bacon sandwich is on white bread with tomato sauce and not toasted. Although, other variations to taste are acceptable😊
Absolutely
Wrong about the tomato sauce, traditionally brown sauce.
Girls version is with ketchup. Grown up big misters have it with brown sauce.😊
Almost, pure version is with brown sauce.
I saw a survey recently about whether people have their Bacon Butties with Brown Sauce (HP) or Tomato Ketchup.
It turns out that it is a variation with a rather strong regional bias.
It's a bit like whether your bacon should be smoked or unsmoked (called green bacon in some places).
As for me, my preference is not for sauce, but for fried tomatoes, which are so overripe that all you can do is fry them. Add fried mushrooms to the mix, and I will be really happy.
But I am not sure that qualifies.
I have to say, that is a fairly wretched looking Cornish Pasty. As someone who lived in Cornwall for a long time, the variation you get across the country in the interpretation of the pasty is huge.
Great video! A popular english activity in Spring and Summer is going on a pub walk! Thisinvolves do a rambling countryside walk of between 4 to 12 miles and ending at the pub for drinks and a meal- any day of the week. There are many books available with set walking routes -across interesting landscapes, woods, rivers, castles, farmlands , hills and monuments finally ending back at the designated pub for much needed refreshments.
Thanks so much!
We used to go walking every Sunday between8 to 13 miles. ( till I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia ) and we had to take a packed lunch…always felt jealous of those who went for a drink and food …🥴😂🏴
Leaving the skin on the fish fillet in Fish and Chips seems to be a London (or possibly Southern) thing and would not generally happen in The North. Things like Chicken Tikka Masala are technically BIR (British Indian Restaurant) dishes - which is basically Indian inspired dishes aimed at the UK pallet (similar to TexMex in the US) but which people in India will not necessarily have heard of.
It’s definitely more of a London thing, I’m from south and all the fish I’ve ever had never have the skin on. Not all of London leaves the skin on either but every other city down south I have visited I’ve never experience the skin I don’t think I would like it with the skin on.
@@lee8821cin my area skin on or off varies from shop to shop.
Sixty years old and have live up North, down South, Wales and Scotland. Never, ever, seen a fried fillet with the skin on, or even heard of it.
Up here in Yorkshire ( Leeds, Wakefield and surrounding areas) practically all our fish and chip shops do the fish without the skin on.
Same in the Midlands. I couldn't stand it if it had the skin on.
In East Yorkshire very rarely have skin on fish. Also, must have F&Cs with malt vinegar 😂. Bacon buttie, the is bacon in a breadcake and best with tomatoes or ketchup in my opinion 😋
I've lived all over the U.K, love fish and chips and have NEVER had a fillet of fish with the skin on- and I'm sixty plus.
Thoughts from a Yorkshire man. Never seen a toasted butty. You aren't supposed to eat the big pastry rolled edge of the pasty. Try curry sauce w/fishnchips next time (and ask for scraps/bits). That wasn't a proper chippy. Great review, looking forward to seeing more.
Gotta disagree with you there, bud. Coming from plymouth on the devon/cornwall border, pasty crusts are 100% supposed to be eaten if they are bland or dry, that's cause it's a shit pasty. All the best pasties come from plymouth these days. 90% of the bakeries in Cornwall are aimed at emmets cause cornwall is a ghost town out of season.
That was a large blob of clotted cream on top of your bread and butter pudding, definitely not custard 😊 looked delicious 😋
Bacon butty for me is in a breadcake, roll, baby cob and many more depending on part of country you are.
When in bread like you chose it's a bacon sandwich and they're pretty much the same .
Bread and butter pudding doesn't normally come with caramel sauce and clotted cream. That was a posh take on it 😂
You should try this version 👍- Anna
Maybe so, but it's not a traditional version. It's meant to have currents or raisins inbetween thin slices of bread.
@@DelightfulTravellersthought the idea was to try British food ! You got them all wrong bar they fish and chips and even that was a bad choice of location.
This is why trying "traditional"British foods in tourist gaffs in London is unrepresentative. Almost every single "we tried traditional English food" videos that are made by RUclipsrs in London are BS. London tourist traps cater for non-UK palates or try to be hipster with good, honest grub.
They don't hold back do they! Let's just have a Michelin starred dessert!
I've never seen a bread and butter pudding look like that! and as others have said, that wasn't custard, almost certainly clotted cream, looked very yummy tho'!
As for Brits not liking spicy food, that may have been the case up until roughly the early 1970's......Now it's the go to food, especially after a night on the lash, and the hotter the better! The morning after eating a curry, it's customary to play Johnny Cash's song....."Burning ring of fire" (whilst sitting on the throne)..🥵
That is what the food snobs call a deconstructed bread and butter pudding.
It's definitely not the traditional one.
Other reference I take is the way the Turkish / Greek takeaway in the Uk have actually hot chilli sauce for the English.
Go to Germany and there is almost nothing spicy hot (though the rest is very fresh and good) in the sauce as Germans don’t like spice. Red pepper and salt are basically the spice of choice on most of their menus.
It was a poncey bread and butter pudding, it was £9.50 😳. Syrup sponge or jam roly poly with custard can be had at most places for under a fiver.
@@TristanBailey They do have curry wurst. That originated from a German lady selling hot sausage sandwiches to the British troops stationed there. They supplied her with curry powder.
Brits have always liked spices. We sailed round the world for them for centuries. As Al Murray says why we as a nation never went to the moon, no hot and spicy food to bring back nor Olympic quality athletes haha
should have put vinegar not lemon on the chips