Nobody in the world looks to the English for good food.
It’s as much bacon as US bacon is. They have bacon made from pork bellies too, which is the aforementioned “streaky bacon” but thick cut; same thing.
One of my favorites from “The White Trash Cookbook” was bacon sandwiches. The difference is you fry the bacon, put it between slices of white bread (no butter or ketchup) and then fry the bread in the bacon grease.
After eating, use a knife or whatever is laying around to scrape your arteries clean.
“Nobody in the world looks to the English for good food”
Nonsense! They have good Indian food! Oh, and their fish and chips are unbeatable. I can’t seem to get a decent fish n chips in Reno.
The only good food that I had when I was in London that I would classify as “good” was a steak I had at a steakhouse. Their beef is good. I also didn’t mind English breakfast, other than the weirdness of it including baked beans. Other than that, though, you have to go for non-British food, like the Indian food that is everywhere, to get something palatable.
I’ve heard comedians over the years joke about how bad English food is, but I found out they were right. Even in London, it was incredible how terrible the food was and how very few choices there are (other than steaks and Indian food, as I said).
The old joke on that goes like this:
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it’s all organised by the Italians.
True words
Agree.
My daughter has traveled in Europe and England. She told me that the food in England is terribly expensive and horrible food.
Worst food in the region.
Good old Southern and Southwest US cooking is very hard to beat.
Obviously, you’ve never had Spotted Dick.
Here in the states we call English bacon Canadian bacon.
UGH American bacon is the only type served in this house.
lots of wild boars in the state make chops and bacon
plentiful for pork lovers/eaters.
There’s that joke about how the Brits spent centuries conquering nations and stealing their spices…only to never use any of them. ;)
Is Scotch Ham the same as Canadian Bacon. When I was a little girl, I would walk to the market in the village and buy Scotch Ham for my Father’s Birthday dinner. His Mother came from England, so I grew up on English food: sausage and mashed potatoes, Shepherd’s pie, bubble and squeak, (sliced potatoes, onions, and cabbage), fish and chips, steak and mushroom pies, and sausage rolls. Desserts for Christmas use to be mince pies and fruit cake soaked in bourbon.
Or women.
“Nobody in the world looks to the English for good food.”
hmmm... as a person who lived in the south of England from 2001 to 2005 I somewhat disagree - there are great English dishes:
1. Fish and chips - scrumptious.
2. Shepherd’s pie
3. Sausage butty
4. Cornish pasties
5. Bangers and mash
6. Chicken Tikka masala
7. Beef wellington
8. a proper cornwall or devon cream tea
There are no great English or Irish chefs. I’m an Italian trapped in an Irish body.