Let's make fun of England, I do say...shall we?

[underpants]

[BlackSkimmer]

1. Ah, first generation here.

Still love a good breakfast fry up.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep! K&R! n/t

[Pobeka]

2. In 2005 we flew to England on British Air. We selected our meals ahead of time.

Had a good tip the veggie-curry dishes were excellent, and they were.

But one selection was literally "Bland". OMG, what do the British consider so bland they call it out as "Bland".

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Bland for health reasons

IATA CODE: BLML

The BLML or Bland Meal should be ordered by those who suffer from stomach or intestinal problems. These special meals will normally contain foods that are easily digested, soft to eat and with limited spices.

https://www.inflightfeed.com/special-meals-blml-bland-meal/

[RKP5637]

3. Now I'm hungry and dinnertime is aways away.

[lisa58]

6. Sorry!

[Botany]

7. An English Breafast ... puts the Gawd back into god awful

And don't forget an English toast holder .... designed to make your toast ice cold ASAP

[underpants]

9. Don't the Brits boil their toast?

[Botany]

10. my brother and his wife were in England and she was served boiled burger meat.

.... she hid most of it in her purse.

They did have really good pastries ... brought in overnight from France, good produce, coffee,
and clotted cream is awesome.


Milk into tea

[underpants]

11. 😆

Grew up basically in Yorktown so...there’s history.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Scones, jam and clotted cream are very nice.

The rest of it, meh! The best food is the ethnic food, although they do have some pretty good upscale restaurants in London now.

[Botany]

38. It has been years but there was a French restaurant close to the theater/canterberry district ...

that made a lemon Dover sole that they served with scallop potatoes and a crusty bread that was
awesome.

[winstars]

31. Was taught to fry bacon and bangers, fry eggs, then fry the bread all in the same (greasy) pan.

And also fry up some fresh (well, they start out fresh) tomatoes and mushrooms...

A Right Good Fry Up!!!

Key word: FRY!!!

[ornotna]

12. Where are the kippers?

[kskiska]

42. 30 years or so ago while traveling in the U.K.

my daughter and I stayed at common little B&Bs. One morning at breakfast we were seated with several Brits. I took a piece of toast from one of those racks and the woman next to me gave me a horrified look. I hadn't realized there were individual toast racks, and I took one of her slices. It was embarrassing.

[abqtommy]

8. It can be a lot of fun trading insults with The Brits. But I'll always remember that when

I was almost six years old and in Southampton and London for a month I experienced
my first grapefruit with a cherry in the middle, my first boiled egg in an egg cup, my first
view of television, a visit to The British Museum, my first experience with a very clean
underground/subway (which I appreciated after being in New York later) and
my very first chocolate-covered cherry candies.

Those experiences absolve a lot of the Sins Of British Cuisine. And never forget that chutney was one of the Brit gifts to India. It all balances out.

[BlackSkimmer]

13. Bingo!

I spent a lot of my childhood in England and Wales.

I loved soft boiled eggs and “soldiers”.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I like to tell them

you know we won the revolutionary war because if we hadn't we'd all be speaking english.

[IcyPeas]

14. well, yeah, but, except....

[BlackSkimmer]

15. Yes!

And I’m not even a candy person lol!

And that wonderful ice cream with the chocolate thing stuck in it…always forget what it’s called!

[IcyPeas]

16. it's called a 99 and it has a Flake stuck in it.

[BlackSkimmer]

18. Flake,yes!

Yum!

Brings back days at Freshwater West, sigh.

[kskiska]

43. Cadbury Flake!

Loved those.

[underpants]

27. Oh Jesus, more Shakespeare crap

Do they have that in English?

[MLAA]

29. I drug home bags and bags of Malteasers from London airport over the years before I stopped

eating dairy.

[flamingdem]

35. What about Smarties?!

Yum

[DFW]

17. Bloody wankers

Sod it--after all what do you think the British colonized India for? Certainly not in order to be blessed by Shiva. No, it was so that England could have Indian restaurants to protect the UK from having to forever subsist on British food!

[BlackSkimmer]

19. Lol, my dad and mum loved curry.

I still can’t stand it.

They liked marmite, kippers and fried tomatoes too. As did my sis.

I do like the bacon, eggs and chips though!

[Laffy Kat]

22. I can only eat a curry dish if it's mild.

And I still don't like the aroma.

[kskiska]

45. They might love curry wurst,

which was all the rage in Berlin, sold from street carts when I was there about 8 years ago.

[BlackSkimmer]

47. Probably they would have.

[LNM]

21. I thought it was an excuse to drink G & T

Gotta have that quinine!

[smirkymonkey]

23. The one traditional English food I really do like is fish and chips.

Good fish and chips. I don't even really like fried food that much, but I definite enjoy an authentic meal of fish and chips every now and then. With malt vinegar. Skip the mushy peas.

[edhopper]

24. Cornish pasties

And cream tea.
I'm good with it.
In recent decades, Britain has improved its food a great deal.

[flamingdem]

37. Pasties are sold all over England now

With all kinds of fillings. Was surprised to see it served like fast food at special Cornish Pasty restaurants.

[edhopper]

50. Yep

So is Devon cream on scones.

[Kaleva]

49. Just made 36 pasties last Sunday. My wife and I had 2 for dinner and I froze the rest.

Finns who emigrated here over a hundred years ago to work in the copper mines quickly adopted the pasty as their own.

TRADITIONAL FINNISH PASTIES

[flamingdem]

51. Who knew?

Finnish pasties!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. Their teeth is an easy target.

[Wingus Dingus]

28. They seem to know what good food is...

they just don't make any of it themselves. I really don't get the baked beans for breakfast thing. Ugh.

[underpants]

30. Filler.

Potatoes are Irish. My 2¢.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

33. An homage to Geoffrey Chaucer?

This Nicholas just then let fly a fart
As loud as it had been a thunder-clap,
And well-nigh blinded Absalom, poor chap.



Not good timing for beans, in my opinion.

[Wingus Dingus]

34. LOL, true, it's really starting your day off asking for trouble.

[winstars]

36. The American company Heinz introduced baked beans in a tin to Britain in the 1890's...

And it became a thing there. Not saying they didn't have baked beans there prior but it was Heinz who hooked them to baked beans; AFAIK.

Real Heinz baked beans from UK I believe are less sweet then USA type and don't have pork in them... I think.

[ARPad95]

40. Grandma Brown's update: Your baked bean prayers may have been answered

Updated: Jan. 19, 2022, 6:28 p.m. | Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 8:00 a.m.

Mexico, N.Y. -- Grandma Brown’s Baked Beans could soon return to store shelves, according to the granddaughter of the woman who first baked the Central New York favorite more than 80 years ago.

https://www.syracuse.com/business/2022/01/grandma-browns-update-your-baked-bean-prayers-may-have-been-answered.html

I've had them growing up because that's what was put in front of me at the dinner table. I can thankfully say I've never prayed for Grandma Brown's Baked Beans. [blech]

[iemanja]

46. You can buy veg. baked beans here

Bush sells some. They're good.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

48. Yep.

And Bush's baked beans taste excellent overall, to me.

[UTUSN]

32. Is the topic limited to food? Permissible to indulge in "Prince" Andrew recent news?

* ITEM: "Queen" had to intervene in a tantrum when he wouldn't vacate his toiletries from Charles's assigned loo.

* ITEM: He almost pushed Meat Loaf into a moat for attracting Fergie's attention, and when the Loaf made to get physical, said, "You can't touch me, I'm ------ *royal*!1

* ITEM: Throws tantrums if the servants don't arrange his collection of 72 teddy bears correctly on his bed.


Seems like he could almost singlehandedly convince Brit royalists to ditch the "royal" freeloader/grifting/deadbeat system!

[CanonRay]

39. I do love a good Sunday roast though

with Yorkshire Pudding and Sticky Toffee Pudding for desert

[BlackSkimmer]

41. Sunday roast is the best!

I always annoyed my relatives by not eating the meat. I loved everything else though!

[iemanja]

44. their food has changed a lot in recent decades

It's much better now. Look at all the Michelin starred restaurants they have.