Posted on 12/17/2024 10:37:46 AM PST by DallasBiff
He enjoys trying different foods from different countries - but a clear favourite is the UK. The content creator often travels to try some of our nation's favourite treats.
He has tried Toby Carvery and Greggs, as well as drank Yorkshire Tea, tucked into some fish and chips, a Costa Coffee toastie, and recently he tried our version of a christmas-dinner>Christmas dinner.
For his Full English breakfast taste test he tried a traditional café in Swindon, Blues Cafe in Havelock Street. The eatery, which has now gone viral thanks to Kalani, has had praise for its "nice and quick" service and "fabulous breakfast" on Trip Advisor. Kalani went viral and raked in over 93,000 likes after sharing his verdict
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I love good curry dishes. Thanks to my Dad who was in India during WW II.
Where we used to live there was a British restaurant where we would go for Sunday Brunch and the occasional festive dinner.
Delicious.
None in our current area through. Gives me a sad.
Full American breakfast (available across the street from me):
Three eggs any style, hash browns or American fries, sausage, bacon AND ham, toast, biscuit and gravy.
Probably some good Indian which for the most part I could enjoy along with some Fish and Chips and Pub grub like Sheppard's Pie.
But what the hell is going on in the UK with Jellied Eels!
I have it on good authority from a kind of B-girl in Honduras that it is TWO WEEKS. There is a story behind this.
WE have Mexican, Chinese, Italian, Thai, Indian, and Korean restaurants, and even an Irish one.
Why are there no British restaurants?..............
ALSO German food. Delish if done right.
For some reason, the Brits have no idea how to prepare good food.
Fried toast...?
I’ll skip the black pudding but I was surprised to see the full English breakfast on the buffet on the Norwegian cruise ship Prima sailing out of Galveston Texas.
“For some reason, the Brits have no idea how to prepare good food”
Well we will put our spin on English food come Christmas day. Bone in Prime Rib (can only afford Choice grade beef, LOL) Yorkshire pudding, and a Cheese and leek stuffed Japanese Winter Squash with a walnut and bread crumb toasted topping. The last two recipes courtesy of Jamie Oliver whom has a decent reputation as a English Chef. I’m cooking everything but the Mashed Potato’s so the pressure is on.
I’d prefer a hot dog weiner to a banger myself.
“...mundane...”
“...indeed...”
I was just about to say pretty much the same.
The best thing about English breakfast is kippers and those are a bad version of a buckling or smoked chub and those arent even here.
They do have a very unusual method of making the densest dry rubbery eggs for their breakfast buffets but I dont think thats something anyone ever looked forward to or called “good”.
I can honestly say that bangers are the best sausage that smell like they were made from wet dog hair that Ive ever had.
My company sent me to Hull in the UK to our parent company’s home office for a meeting. I flew out of BWI on a Saturday night, landed in Manchester Sunday AM and took two trains and a bus and a hired car to finally get to my hotel on Sunday night. I was exhausted and just crashed.
My meeting wasn’t until Wednesday, and I was working remotely but on Monday morning at the hotel’s restaurant, probably because I was famished, I ordered a Full English (or a fry up as they call it) and it was amazing. I loved everything including the black pudding and not toast but traditional fried bread.
And FWIW, I didn’t order tea but coffee and the coffee was amazingly good too, although I partook of an afternoon tea one afternoon, not a full formal tea, although the hotel offered that and would have loved that, but a cuppa (tea) and some biscuits (cookies).
I had fish and chips with minted mushy peas for dinner one night and another night had sliced hoisin duck with Chinese pancakes – both were very good. I was disappointed I didn’t get out for good Indian food though.
I sometimes like making breakfast for dinner and one of these days, if I can find the English style back bacon and some bangers, I’d like to try to replicate a Full English Breakfast for Dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-WNLRsLlvE
Of course, I wasnt there with you but I do know from my visits that the nasty places tended to have cold oil.
I dont know why because it wasnt any of the reasons Im familiar with like too soon after opening, short frying due too many orders, too much crowding, or last orders of the night. It was like they were trying to save money by just not turning up the heat enough.
Fish in soggy life vests of greasy pale batter clinging to half flaccid slightly firm potato planks as though they were holding out for RMS Carpathia to save them.
I once made a traditional English Sunday Roast with Yorkshire pudding, and it took a lot of effort and work and not everyone in my family liked it, but I really need to make that again as it was delicious. My mom used to make a twice baked stuffed acorn squash that had bacon and spinach in it, and I need to see if I can find that recipe.
LOL!!!
I wouldn't eat a kipper if I was starving...and the same goes for baked beans.
For the most part it takes effort to find bad food in Europe. Of my travels #1 for bad food was always England, #2 was Belgium, #3 of likelihood of getting bad food was somewhat surprisingly France.
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