I like most British Foods, well, mostly British Junk food. I like Shepard’s Pie, Fish and Chips, Bangers and Mash, Jelly Babies, Clotted Cream Fudge, and the occasional Cup of Tea. I also like normal stuff like Liquorice flavored Altoids-I really like the Liquorice flavored Altoids.
There are pretend British Pubs around Fort Worth/Dallas, but they are not really the same thing. You can cook your own British Food, or you can take the trip to London to eat it there. There’s really only one Brit Food that I hate, Salmon, but that just maybe because I had my appendix removed after I ate salmon once. Not likely to happen again, but memories are sometimes tricky things.
A good real British food is Cottage pie, a traditional English dish made with minced meat covered with mashed potato and often topped with cheese. While a variety of meats can be used, the dish is traditionally made from beef or lamb. The lamb version is often called shepherd’s pie but there is no hard-and-fast rule about either term.
Another great British item is clotted cream-a thick yellow cream made by heating unpasteurized cow’s milk and then leaving it in shallow pans for several hours. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms ‘clots’. Clotted Cream Fudge is great stuff.
Bangers and Mash may, even when cooked at home, be thought of as an example of pub grub – relatively quick and easy to make in large quantities as well as being tasty and satisfying. More up-market varieties, with exotic sausages, are sold in gastropubs, as well as less exotic alternatives being available in regular pubs.
A Ploughman’s Lunch-this is a very popular pub grub. It normally consists of a bread roll with a piece of cheese and a pickled onion. There are many very good pickles that you can buy at the supermarket for example “branston pickle”. Branston Pickle is the perfect companion to cheese. British cheeses are also very good. The most famous, of course, being Cheddar. Most of the cheeses are named after the region from where they come from eg. Red Leicester, Cheshire etc. A great British blue cheese is Stilton-but it can be a tad expensive.
