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It breaks my heart that apparently most of the British public have never had good black pudding.
They’ve probably never had unicorn meat either. Because neither of those things exist.
Tongue firmly in cheek here…
It’s basically like the Spanish blood sausage but using oats instead of rice right? I think that’s a downgrade but from a 10 to a 9 so I still love it.
And haggis.
Someone once convinced me to eat haggis in exchange for a free meal of haggis.
It was delicious!
I mean, that picture of removeds doesnt look too bad either.
Not even that hard to find. Had a great black pudding in Dublin not too long ago as well in a fry up.
Stornoway black pudding is the best.
Yorkshire puddings are entirely all right but they’re not top tier. That’s like saying bread is top tier, it depends entirely on what you can buy it with. No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate that’s not a meal.
Welsh rarebit though is. That should be at the top of the list, if I ever go to a cafe and they have that on the menu I will 100% definitely have it every single time.
No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate
They were traditionally served as a starter. I’d have mine with a bit of jam when I was young.
Yeah, why is Yorkshire Pudding at the top but Toad-in-the-hole is halfway down, when they are the same thing, except one is a proper meal and the other isn’t?
I’ve never had a good Yorkshire pudding. They are always disappointing. It’s irrelevant how much of the rest of your sunday roast you eat with it, it always makes the rest of the roast taste worse than it would had you not wasted your time with the Yorkshire pudding.
Wow thems fighting words. But i’m thinking you’ve perhaps been eating the wrong ones? I’ve had some truly dire ones, its not like its a recipie impossible to mess up, but most of them i’ve had are really amazing. Crispy sides, slightly soft bottom is the ideal imo, but you also can’t make up for bad ones just by the cooking, it’s also what they’re made of
I’ve had a few Sunday roasts (in the UK) in my time, and been to good pubs and bad across a variety of English locales to have them, they are always shit. Have even tried homemade ones by someone who everyone says makes great Yorkshire puddings. Disappoint always ensued. It’s always the same, a mostly tasteless piece of batter that takes more from a meal than it adds.
Or if you’re super lazy like me:
https://www.auntbessies.co.uk/ranges/yorkshire-puddings/12-bake-at-home-yorkshires
For if you don’t like rock hard yorkshires.
This is madness. A full English (top tier) should have black pudding (apparently so-called bottom tier) on it. Madness, I tell you. And clearly a steak and kidney pudding is superior to a steak and kidney pie. It’s all to cock!
Only the UK would classify something “fish and chips” as the pinnacle of their cuisine.
Actually the Irish are super into it too. And Australia, though they fuck up the condiments by having aioli instead of salt and vinegar.
Portugal has a similar thing that is deep fried squid and chips. I was told I absolutely had to try it and it was bloody chewy.
Fried fish is a big thing in Portugal and Galiza, in fact that’s were the brits got the idea, but almost no one would rate it god tier among the local cuisine.
If the calamari is chewy it’s overcooked. It should not be chewy
That explains why we had to wait 30 minutes for our food then!
I find it utterly hilarious that a bacon sandwich is for one classified as a classic british food, but also tops the chart above some real originals like tika masala or the scotch egg.
No lettuce? No tomato? Just bacon between two slices of bread? If that makes it so high up I’d like to see them try an actual BLT.
The glory and purity of the bacon sandwich is ruined by this multicoloured, wet, squishy foodstuff.
Also, a bacon sandwich is a hot sandwich. BLT is a cold sandwich.
A great BLT has warm bacon and cold vegetables.
You would ruin a bacon sandwich with lettuce and tomato; BLT is completely different.
A BLT is a good, but entirely different thing to a bacon sandwich.
Bacon sarnies are served hot on a buttered roll or toast with red or brown sauce.
Sort of like the American grilled cheese, it ceases to be what it is as soon as you mess with any aspect of the formula.
I see your full English and raise you a full Scottish. Just like a full English but with haggis, fruit pudding, tattie scone, and guaranteed black pudding (English seems to only sometimes come with black pudding).
IMO English should always come with black pudding and a cup of tea, if it doesn’t have it, you’re just eating a fry up
And Lorne sausage!
Oh aye! How could I forget. And if you’re hanging a wee tinny of Bru to wash it down
And my axe!
According to the logic of this incorrect chart, the two added “crap tier” items would pull the whole thing down to the middle.
After visiting Scotland for the first time, I have to agree. The tatie scone is a stroke of genius!
Since I moved to the south east I have never seen a full english with black pudding and it saddens me. But I would rather make my own anyway as I can do it properly.
I prefer welsh breakfast, with the cockles. My cafe stopped doing it though.
You’re not wrong, it is definitely an improvement. Fruit pudding is such a weird juxtaposition, like a cinnamon tart, super sweet eaten alongside all of the salty.
No corned beef hash??
Beef Wellington low tier? Who was asked for this poll?
Erin Patterson’s husband.
The percentages all seem low, I would usually assume that everything except the bottom tier is 95%+ liked. I suppose there’s not many vegetarian options here which must be a factor.
Personally I’d say yes to all the others but I don’t think I’ve ever tried jellied eels. Anyone know if they’re they any good?
Cottage pie and shepherd’s pie have no business being that high and what the hell is black pudding doing down there?!
Also cottage pie and shepherds pie are the same image but flipped
Haggis belongs in top tier.
I don’t know where to begin, it’s all wrong. You could reverse it and it would be better.
Its still arse about face though. Things are together that really shouldnt be.
Of course, not saying it would be right if it were reversed, just better.
Fish and chips are so overrated.
I agree, I never buy them. There’s far better dirty food available
Literally saved for every day inspiration. I need more British cuisine in my life.
It never occured to my stupid Canadian brain that Chicken Tikka was actually British. But it makes sense in the same way that a lot of foods are “Canadian” because they were invented by immigrants adapting a dish to their new home.
Chicken Tikka is Indian. Chicken Tikka Masala is from Glasgow.
There is ongoing dispute around its origins.
British sources have a belief and can’t objectively prove it was first made there:
“One story purports that it was invented in the 1970s by Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑Scottish chef in Glasgow, who, to please a customer, added a mild tomato‑cream sauce to his chicken tikka" - Brittanica
“Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑immigrant chef in Glasgow, claimed he invented chicken tikka masala in the early 1970s using canned tomato soup and spices.” - NPR
Punjabi sources claim it had already been done at least a decade prior, also can’t be proven.
“A recipe for ‘Shahi Chicken Masala’ appears in this 1961 Indian cookbook, predating the Glasgow claim by a decade.” - Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery (1961)
“My grandfather was serving chicken tikka masala to Indian heads of state as early as 1947.” - as reported by NPR from an interview with Monish Gurjal chairman of Moti Mahal (one of the first restaurants to introduce Punjabi and North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world)
