18 unusual foods that the English love English food is unusual to many people
who are not from England Britons may mock Americans for their super-sized
portions but that's all tough talk coming from a country with food names
like chip buddy where the five pence increase in the price of a frog themed
chocolate bar had the nation rioting and a jello is somehow acceptable to pair
with ice cream long story short British food can be
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unusual British foods that are just plain old weird number 18 stargaze eat I
the corniche pie recipe features eggs and potatoes but the most distinctive
part of the dish is the sardine heads peering skyway through the crust they're
placed upright to allow the oils from the cooking to lead back down into the
pie the most baffling part of the dish is why the British food trust insists on
describing it as fun as well as amusing to children number 17 ice cream and
jelly okay I understand dishes like jelly
fluff a combo of evaporated milk and jello came out of World War 2 era
rationing and poverty but there's no such excuse for serving ice cream and
jell-o jell-o is literally the worst thing to become popular during the
American 1950s including McCarthyism and the threat of nuclear war and it's
distressing to see it flourishing across the world number 16 mince pies
mince pies are filled with mince meat which doesn't always involve meat while
the traditional mince pies often had meat and suet animal fat in them
today's mince pies are just as likely to be vegetarian containing only dried
fruit and spices again tasty concept utterly confusing name number 15
pudding is pudding but that doesn't mean it's pudding
there is no standardized meaning for what pudding actually is so you can have
the typical pudding which is baked steamed or boiled dessert generally
involving flour or eggs then you've got your york shire pudding which is a
savory bread ii confection and then you've got your black pudding which is
definitely not a dessert and is in fact made of blood more on that later number
fourteen chips with gravy in Britain this dish is called chips with gravy in
Canada this dish with the addition of fresh cheese curds is called poutine and
emerged from the 1950s kibbeh quoi culinary tradition in every
other part of the world this dish is known as a mistake or
perhaps a coronary can you guess what type of sandwich
English people eat that is most unusual of all well stick around until the end
and find out number thirteen time for tea what's a day in England without a
cup of tea afternoon tea also known as just tea is a light special occasion
meal like North American brunch taken between 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon
but high tea also known as just tea is what you can call the meal eaten between
five and seven in the north of England Wales
and working-class areas of Ireland number 12 deep-fried Mars bars believed
to have originated from Scotland's Haven ship bar the deep-fried Mars bar is a
mars bar frozen wrapped in frying batter and then fried the dubious delicacy has
gained worldwide notoriety since its introduction in 1994 including a
hilarious condemnation from Mars Inc who said that deep-frying one of our
products would go against our commitment to promoting healthy active lifestyles
number 11 spotted dick this delightful treat is a pudding British speak for
dessert made with suet and dried fruit the spotted part of the name naturally
comes from the fact that it's studded with raisins and currants the other part
of the name well we just don't know and we prefer to keep it that way
number 10 TV pick up this UK phenom happens when enough Britons are watching
the same show that them dashing off during a commercial break to make tea
actually creates a strain on the National Electric System
I can't think of anything more quintessentially English than causing an
enormous national inconvenience by making tea number nine Scotch eggs these
Scotch eggs aren't exactly what you think they are like many British Foods
in England this popular pub fare is not what it seems or not what it's named it
neither involves Scotch in their cooking nor originates from Scotland
instead Scotch eggs are eggs wrapped in sausage coated in breadcrumbs and fried
until golden like a matryoshka doll of cholesterol number 8 black pudding
this definitely not a desert sausage made out of beef suet pork blood and
oatmeal was named a superfood last year for its high concentrations of potassium
calcium and magnesium even though it's one of the best elements of English
cooking it's often called disgusting or strange by North Americans too weak to
Google what actually goes into a hot dog it's good you cowards
number seven variety is the spice of life or not Britain's reputation for
bland dishes is tied to a whole bunch of different factors but perhaps the
funniest one is taste elitism when europeans started colonizing india and
the americas spice got a whole lot cheaper for the average european this
aristocracy was not thrilled that blebs were now eating the same food as them
and decided the unseasoned food was the way to go
gotta love England's logic number six chips and curry
despite 200 years of competition the invention of chips and curry is somehow
still among the least understood spins that Britons have taken on Indian
culture number five haggis making fun of Hagi's is too easy to bother with almost
as easy as hunting the mythical wild Hagi's itself the creature is native to
the Scottish Highlands and it has mismatched leg lengths making it easy to
hunt on flat ground just kidding Aggies is actually made of sheeps
innards mixed with onions and oatmeal inside the sheep's stomach but the
funniest thing about Hagi's is how many Scots have fooled unsuspecting tourists
with the aforementioned story and by the way the dish itself is delicious
number four mushy peas Britten's claim up and down that this
dish is delicious which makes me wonder whether number one they somehow evolved
culinary Stockholm Syndrome or number two as I always suspected Britain is an
elaborate piece of performance art aimed at making non Britons cry number three
fish finger sandwiches British cuisine prostrates itself at the altar of
carbohydrates so perhaps it's unsurprising that the humbled battered
fish finger has found itself a home within two slices of bread this regional
delicacy has sparked a debate about whether it's cheating to use fish
fancier than budget fish fingers oh well I suppose it's still better than fish
fingers and custard number two toad-in-the-hole strange name
right well it's a set of sausages nestled in Yorkshire pudding which isn't
really pudding yeah it's complicated apparently the name comes from the fact
that sausages look like they're little toads poking their noses out of the
holes in the ground which is understandable if you've ever seen a
toad now here's a British sandwich that tops our list of unique British foods
number one chip Cobb also known as chip sandwich a chip a batch a chip roll a
chip muffin piece and chips a chip piece or chips Arnie the famous British dish
is a sandwich featuring french fries on a buttered
white bun in North America it's known as the sandwich kids make at family
potlucks when their parents aren't paying enough attention to stop them
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