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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 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@Knight_was_ereThe 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.
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 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)
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 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 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.
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’… 😂😂
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...
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!
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.
I have no idea why Chicken Tikka Masala is considered the British National Dish because it just isn't. Fish and Chips is the national dish and anybody who says otherwise is WRONG
@@ThieflyChap Sorry mate, anybody who thinks the Full English is the bees knees, the nuts or whatever has never had an Ulster Fry. Heart attack guaranteed every time!!!,.
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.
Traditional cooking, throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (and Ireland) is wholesome, hearty and very good for you and delicious. Given the choice over eating at Gordon Ramsey's or another famous chef, to a homemade roast, steak & kidney pudding, fish and chips etc, I'll always choose the latter. If you have been brought up cooking, as I was, from a mother and father who were both good cooks, themselves taught from their parents, then you're going to be cooking good food.
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 :)
@@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.
British Food like British teeth being the worst in the world is a myth stemmed from Americans coming over in WW2 when we had rationing...when in reality today British Food and Teeth are one of the best in the world...
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
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 😂
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)
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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”.
@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.
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.
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.
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.
Personally as a Brit I would say that if you want English food you'll probably get it better and cheaper in the North of England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are similar but with their own favourites as well.
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.
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.
Chicken Tikka Masala is not traditional British dish, its an adaptation of Bengali cuisine that is a popular dish. The traditional dish is 'roast dinner' and a 'full cooked breakfast.'
@@nospamgaming6682 Note that I have said that it is a British dish adapted from Bengali cuisine, it is a 'popular british' dish, but is not a 'traditional' british dish. It's not unreasonable or a slight in any way to acknowledge the culinary style and roots of Tikka Masala...it would seem very rude not to do so!
@@shelleyphilcox4743Almost all British cuisine has its roots in the cuisine of other countries - and I suspect this is the same for every country and every cuisine in the world if you go back far enough. People have been travelling and sharing food with others that they meet since before humans were humans. That said, you’re 100% correct. Where we know the roots of dishes, we should celebrate that, and keep the knowledge attached to the dish because it is disrespectful to do this tribal thing of claiming it solely for one people ignoring the other. British Indian food is wonderful, when I first moved here, I hated the idea of it because it felt like a betrayal of the food of my childhood but it’s not. People like me moved to Britain in a time when they were treated as second class citizens and they not only built a life for their families, they invented a distinct and vibrant cuisine that is now loved all around the world.
If you think that agricultural workers in the 18th century enjoyed a 'traditional' diet as you describe, then I have to disillusion you. CTM is universal, for fifty years or so, so why isn't that 'traditional'.
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
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 😋)
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.
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
@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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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 :)
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. 😋
Why do Americans always try out "British" food in London. London does not represent England and "British" can represent anywhere in the World today. If you want to experience traditional English food you will have to get out of that City and go to the English Shires, visit their Pubs and Cafes where you'll get hearty food that reflects what we eat at home not the Americanised fast food stuff they eat in the Cities.
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.
£12 for fish and chips!! HolyCow. Thank goodness I live by the sea half the price and twice the size fish, with enough chips ( only skinny chips are fries) to last a week!
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.
Guys the reason you had difficulty finding a 'Bacon Butty' in London is because 'Butties' are a northern thing. In London it would be a 'Bacon Sarnie.' 😉😊
Beef Bourguignon aka Beef Stew, Chicken Chasseur aka Chciken Stew, Coq au Vin aka Chciken Stew with wine all French classics made in the UK but called Stew. Dont forget that we make over 700 cheeses as opposed to France's 400 odd and the fact that Champagne was invented in the UK (Kent) all goes to show that the reputation is neither deserved nor accurate.
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!
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 .
Who on earth toasts a bacon sandwich?!!!! It should be white bread, *untoasted* with proper butter, and decent back bacon, with proper tomato sauce (ketchup). Toasted is just wrong.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...)
13:45 Specifically, that's chicken massala. The tikka element comes from marinating cubes of meat overnight in lemon, spices, and yoghurt, and barbecuing them on skewers, before making the curry. No cubes, no holes = no tikka.
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.
As a Brit living in North America for 20 years, I can 100%, hands down, absolutely tell you that n most cases, British food is better quality and tasting than here. Whether it's cheese, bread, baking, chocolate, desserts, roasts or grills, fish and chips, indian food it's all better. But burgers and pizza in North America are better. Sorry, but that's about it......
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.
Bear in mind that the stereotype of bad British food comes mostly from the USA, where they consider coating everything in cheese to be the height of culinary art, where the bread has so much sugar in it that it might as well be cake, and where most of their food isn't allowed to be exported to other countries because it doesn't meet the minimum health and sanitation standards.
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.
My Father-in-Law used to say he hated British food - after all he was there during WWII and the food was terrible!! London currently has one of the most diverse cuisines - you can get pretty much any type of food, and so much of it is world class. I hope you were able to taste other Indian food other than Tikka Masala. A bacon butty is not toasted - but HP is right (it has tamarind in it - so it tastes almost Indian). Yes - usually a Cornish Pasty has meat in it - it was an all in one meal for a miner (meat & Veg in a crust). Not all fish & chip shops serve the fish with the skin. Poppies of Fiscotheque are good for fish & Chips, but usually a local chippy is the best. Not custard - clotted cream - delish! There are so many awesome Indian/Pakistani restaurants in London, some high end with much spicier food than Tikka (which is very mild).
@@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 UA-camrs in London are BS. London tourist traps cater for non-UK palates or try to be hipster with good, honest grub.
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.
@@Enfield.Sicilian Thanks for the insight. London is a big place mate - you're talking about Central London, tourist traps. Cost of living in the South East of England is higher than elsewhere in the country, but in the suburbs of London, reasonably-priced food is available. Go to any huge city like Paris, Rome etc. you'll find prices are high, nothing unusual about London in that sense. Maybe stick to the Bronx or Italy or wherever you're from if you don't like it, but not worth it? When a man is tired of London, he's tired of life.
a bacon butty is usually not toasted the fish and chips in any city is usually passable but to get the best you have to go to the coast Whitby is my favourite
You won’t find Bacon butty on a London menu- it will always be a bacon sandwich and you can ask for the bread to be toasted - a toasted bacon sandwich.
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.
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 🦞
No, bacon butties are made with white bread, untoasted. You're allowed red or brown sauce. What you have is a bacon toastie, not the same thing, at all.
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.
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.
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.
What people don't realise is that England has food from all over the world. Manchester probably has one of the most variety of food in the world all 20 mins or less away.
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.
The custard in the bread and butter pudding is already cooked inside. The creamy stuff on top was clotted cream. Brilliant video, though, guys. Hope to see more of you.
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.
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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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@@Knight_was_ereSpot on! If they are asking for a bacon buddy....they will be getting strange looks ...for me it's always been bacon on toast.
@@Knight_was_ereThe 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
@@DelightfulTravellers one day I will get to travel
@@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.
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 😂😂😂
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)
@@user-pk4rl8pw2n contested
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
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
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
@@tyjuwr4395 no an oven bottom.
I have no idea why Chicken Tikka Masala is considered the British National Dish because it just isn't. Fish and Chips is the national dish and anybody who says otherwise is WRONG
Absolutely but it's done to rub the Brits nose in diversity and inclusion. You can't even have your own dish.
Tied, in my opinion, with a roast beef dinner and a full English fry-up!
Cor!
@@richardk5246 it was created in glasgow tho so it is ours?
@@ThieflyChap Sorry mate, anybody who thinks the Full English is the bees knees, the nuts or whatever has never had an Ulster Fry. Heart attack guaranteed every time!!!,.
because it was voted as so
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
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.
Traditional cooking, throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (and Ireland) is wholesome, hearty and very good for you and delicious. Given the choice over eating at Gordon Ramsey's or another famous chef, to a homemade roast, steak & kidney pudding, fish and chips etc, I'll always choose the latter. If you have been brought up cooking, as I was, from a mother and father who were both good cooks, themselves taught from their parents, then you're going to be cooking good food.
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
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.
British Food like British teeth being the worst in the world is a myth stemmed from Americans coming over in WW2 when we had rationing...when in reality today British Food and Teeth are one of the best in the world...
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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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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’.
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
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”.
Fish and chips in London is not in the same league as in Yorkshire
For sure.
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.
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.
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.
£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 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 ...
Personally as a Brit I would say that if you want English food you'll probably get it better and cheaper in the North of England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are similar but with their own favourites as well.
Why will you?
Cheaper maybe.
Better depends on the place.
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.
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.
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.
Chicken Tikka Masala is not traditional British dish, its an adaptation of Bengali cuisine that is a popular dish. The traditional dish is 'roast dinner' and a 'full cooked breakfast.'
chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow, Scotland, which is part of the uk and is therefore british
@@nospamgaming6682 Note that I have said that it is a British dish adapted from Bengali cuisine, it is a 'popular british' dish, but is not a 'traditional' british dish. It's not unreasonable or a slight in any way to acknowledge the culinary style and roots of Tikka Masala...it would seem very rude not to do so!
@@shelleyphilcox4743Almost all British cuisine has its roots in the cuisine of other countries - and I suspect this is the same for every country and every cuisine in the world if you go back far enough. People have been travelling and sharing food with others that they meet since before humans were humans. That said, you’re 100% correct. Where we know the roots of dishes, we should celebrate that, and keep the knowledge attached to the dish because it is disrespectful to do this tribal thing of claiming it solely for one people ignoring the other.
British Indian food is wonderful, when I first moved here, I hated the idea of it because it felt like a betrayal of the food of my childhood but it’s not. People like me moved to Britain in a time when they were treated as second class citizens and they not only built a life for their families, they invented a distinct and vibrant cuisine that is now loved all around the world.
Seemingly the chef added hienz tomato soup and cream to make the sauce.
If you think that agricultural workers in the 18th century enjoyed a 'traditional' diet as you describe, then I have to disillusion you.
CTM is universal, for fifty years or so, so why isn't that 'traditional'.
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
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
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.
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
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.
It was clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding. It's the best way to eat it. Great video guys
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!
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
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.
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.
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
Britain ruled India for 200 years ! It is still a huge part of the British Commonwealth.
The taste for Indian food is an old one ¬
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.
@@Turn1t0ff absolutely not salt and vinegar all the way.
@@Turn1t0ffSweet chilli sauce? You what? 😂
Take it to another level and add mushy peas. ?
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
In the UK as far as spicey food is concerned, we have tons of Chinese, Indian, Thai outlets. And we have had for years.
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 :)
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.
Why do Americans always try out "British" food in London. London does not represent England and "British" can represent anywhere in the World today. If you want to experience traditional English food you will have to get out of that City and go to the English Shires, visit their Pubs and Cafes where you'll get hearty food that reflects what we eat at home not the Americanised fast food stuff they eat in the Cities.
Well... we are not Americans and we've been all over the UK ✌️ Check the title 🇨🇦 - Trevor
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.
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.
£12 for fish and chips!! HolyCow. Thank goodness I live by the sea half the price and twice the size fish, with enough chips ( only skinny chips are fries) to last a week!
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.
Guys the reason you had difficulty finding a 'Bacon Butty' in London is because 'Butties' are a northern thing. In London it would be a 'Bacon Sarnie.' 😉😊
Beef Bourguignon aka Beef Stew, Chicken Chasseur aka Chciken Stew, Coq au Vin aka Chciken Stew with wine all French classics made in the UK but called Stew. Dont forget that we make over 700 cheeses as opposed to France's 400 odd and the fact that Champagne was invented in the UK (Kent) all goes to show that the reputation is neither deserved nor accurate.
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!
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.
Who on earth toasts a bacon sandwich?!!!! It should be white bread, *untoasted* with proper butter, and decent back bacon, with proper tomato sauce (ketchup). Toasted is just wrong.
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..🙄🇬🇧
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.
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
I hope you get a chance to try a proper British Sunday pub roast!
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.
@@janice506Agreed, I live in Botswana out here in Africa and I purchase Scottish seafood.
Fresh fish should neither smell nor taste "fishy".
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.
13:45 Specifically, that's chicken massala. The tikka element comes from marinating cubes of meat overnight in lemon, spices, and yoghurt, and barbecuing them on skewers, before making the curry. No cubes, no holes = no tikka.
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.
As a Brit living in North America for 20 years, I can 100%, hands down, absolutely tell you that n most cases, British food is better quality and tasting than here. Whether it's cheese, bread, baking, chocolate, desserts, roasts or grills, fish and chips, indian food it's all better. But burgers and pizza in North America are better. Sorry, but that's about it......
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..
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.
Bear in mind that the stereotype of bad British food comes mostly from the USA, where they consider coating everything in cheese to be the height of culinary art, where the bread has so much sugar in it that it might as well be cake, and where most of their food isn't allowed to be exported to other countries because it doesn't meet the minimum health and sanitation standards.
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.
You have only properly tried British fish and chips if you have lots of salt and vinegar on the chips. 😋
My Father-in-Law used to say he hated British food - after all he was there during WWII and the food was terrible!! London currently has one of the most diverse cuisines - you can get pretty much any type of food, and so much of it is world class. I hope you were able to taste other Indian food other than Tikka Masala. A bacon butty is not toasted - but HP is right (it has tamarind in it - so it tastes almost Indian). Yes - usually a Cornish Pasty has meat in it - it was an all in one meal for a miner (meat & Veg in a crust). Not all fish & chip shops serve the fish with the skin. Poppies of Fiscotheque are good for fish & Chips, but usually a local chippy is the best. Not custard - clotted cream - delish! There are so many awesome Indian/Pakistani restaurants in London, some high end with much spicier food than Tikka (which is very mild).
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 UA-camrs 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!
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.
It's not custard on the bread and butter pudding it was fresh cream
Are you certain. My recipe is always custard.
Custard is over the bread, then cooked in the oven
.. that on top is clotted cream
Testing the 'British food is bad' stereotype in London is like testing the 'America's dangerous' stereotype in downtown LA
You can find any of this stuff throughout the country.
In my experience, London is the worst place to get traditional British food.
@Jamesswagdankwillrekurmumm9 most British food in London isn't authentic it is crap for tourists and ridiculously overpriced.
The usual anti-London nonsense in here, presumably from people from Yorkshire and the "know-all know-nothing" types.
@@Enfield.Sicilian Thanks for the insight. London is a big place mate - you're talking about Central London, tourist traps. Cost of living in the South East of England is higher than elsewhere in the country, but in the suburbs of London, reasonably-priced food is available. Go to any huge city like Paris, Rome etc. you'll find prices are high, nothing unusual about London in that sense. Maybe stick to the Bronx or Italy or wherever you're from if you don't like it, but not worth it? When a man is tired of London, he's tired of life.
a bacon butty is usually not toasted the fish and chips in any city is usually passable but to get the best you have to go to the coast Whitby is my favourite
You won’t find Bacon butty on a London menu- it will always be a bacon sandwich and you can ask for the bread to be toasted - a toasted bacon sandwich.
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.
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 🦞
No, bacon butties are made with white bread, untoasted. You're allowed red or brown sauce. What you have is a bacon toastie, not the same thing, at all.
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.
We love spice here in the UK. Chicken tikka masala is a mild curry, I'm surprised you found it spicy.
*medium curry
Chips are thickly cut, fries are thinly cut. That's the difference
So glad I found you both. Nice to meet you.
Congratulations on finding the most expensive food in UK!
Was thinking the same thing. 😂
Agreed, I was gobsmacked at some of those prices!
Bread and butter pud is a way of using stale bread. Beautiful. But not usually with butterscotch sauce.
£12 for fish and chips? Tell me you're in London, without telling me you're in London. Eat them by the sea.
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
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.
What people don't realise is that England has food from all over the world. Manchester probably has one of the most variety of food in the world all 20 mins or less away.
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.
The custard in the bread and butter pudding is already cooked inside. The creamy stuff on top was clotted cream. Brilliant video, though, guys. Hope to see more of you.
So glad you enjoyed the video! - Trevor
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.