Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is heaven on a plate!

"What's the point of taking over half the world if you can't culturally appropriate their best food?" You are a gem, darling.

Cannot believe the Sunday roast got left out! Roast beef or lamb, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, 2 veggies and loads of gravy.

As an Aussie, I used to think that we had the best meat pies in the world. After a four-week-long trip to the UK in late January through to late February of 2017, I have discovered that as a nation, Australia is now, in my opinion, a distant second to the UK in terms of meat pies. Seriously, a beef pie with mashed potatoes and peas was a culinary highlight of the trip, and I can't wait to go back to the UK next year!

Interesting fact: what we Americans call 'cookies' and Britons call "biscuits' has much to do with the languages from which we loaned these words. The American variant comes from the Dutch word 'koekje' or 'little cake,' whilst the British word has an old French origin in the word 'besquite.'

Back in the 70's, British food was pretty bad, but now it's up there with the best in the world. We sell our food all over the world, including to countries like France. The best chefs in the world open restaurants here because we appreciate good food. British sparkling wine (Champagne) even beats the French in international competitions. If you've never tried British food, stop sticking the stereotypes and say nothing!

beef stew with fluffy dumplings. home made Yorkshire puddings with your Sunday roast, definatly NOT frozen shop bought ones. steamed suet crust steak and kidney pudding. jam roly poly with custard. fish pie with a generous portion of cheese grated on top of the mash potato topping. lamb shanks braised in red wine. scotch broth, made with lamb shoulder. and finally the eternal favorites shepherds pie or cottage pie.

trifle! She forgot trifle! My absolute favourite dessert...

as a British person, we really do serve chips and peas with everything.

Personally, i love a good cheeky Nandos with the lads.

Not sure if you get this in America.. But sticky toffee pudding is the best!

I live in the US and there happens to be a real British shop in town. I am lucky enough to have tried most of these. A British scone with clotted cream and jam (with tea) and the Cornish Pasty are two of the best things I have ever eaten.

Curry is definitely the national dish. Probably more curry houses than any other cuisine. We have a high Indian/Bangladeshi/Sri Lankan population too which is partly the cause of why curry is so popular.

Crumpets are the answer to the pancakes Vs waffles debate

I'm an Anglo Canadian and I love crumpets and so do my siblings and their kids. Funny. Thanks Gran.

Not exactly the best choices for proving that British food isn't uninspired and boring - "bacon sandwich", "sausages and mashed potato", "thick bacon".

I would have hoped to see more regional specialities, something often missed by tourists who only visit London and eat rubbish like jellied eels and fish and chips (which only taste any good at the seaside I'm afraid). How about ECCLES CAKE, BAKEWELL PUDDING, ARBROATH SMOKIES, BARA BRITH, YORKSHIRE PUDDING, LANCASHIRE HOTPOT, STARGAZY PIE etc. And you alude to the British cheese tradition by dismissing American cheese, but it is varied and delicious, second only to France. They eat plastic rubbish across most of Europe as well.

How could you miss out the Full English Breakfast?

If you want to see good British food watch the great British bake off

Give me some Rhubarb Crumble with some custard and I'm all set! Yummy.

I was working for a multinational company and we were starting a meal with people from many countries and the French guy said "bon apetit". Then the guys from different countries were asked what was the customary thing to say in their country before starting a meal. Someone asked the English man what did they say in England before starting to eat and he replied "God 'elp us!"

I can't believe you talked about the jam/cream debate without even touching on the skone/skon debate. If there's going to be a scone war fought, it'll be over that. (PS you pronounce it wrong.)

Let's face it, we all have food that shouldn't be classified as food. I am an American and love food from around the world!

The bad reputation British Cuisine has comes entirely from the French, a people who eat Frogs, Snails and Horses! Americans love Bacon! We love Bacon! The French love Snails! Who are you gonna trust?

Curry definitely belongs on there, since the ones we get from a take-away aren't genuine curry dishes. They're British versions; just like Chinese food served in this country.

This is a fantastic channel and I'm glad I found it. The videos are consistent, well paced and actually quite humorous in a way only us Brits would understand. Subscribed !

Well...to be fair, the only thing I eat American cheese with, is a cheeseburger or a grilled cheese sandwich.....

Has to be fish and chips and, of course, treacle tart.

I just stumbled across this channel and I am so happy I did. You are so funny and make all these facts and culture references very entertaining. :) keep 'em comin'!

Don't forget that classic dish cooked by all British students: spag bol.

As a Middle Eastern, I actually feel that British food is underrated. Surely it's not as good as Italian, Indian and Mediterranean food but it has its own unique taste. Shepherd's Pie, Fish and Chips, Cornish Pasty and others are pretty good

Scotch eggs are also a great bar food! Handheld, easy to eat, salty, and will help absorb some adult beverages you've enjoyed!

On my brief visit to York I got addicted to pasties. I tried every variety of pasty and pie I could get my hands on. Then again, I tried just about any food people pointed to.

Honestly I expected most of the comments to be Americans getting defensive about the remarks about American food, but instead it's just a bunch of non-Americans taking shots at Americans lol. And Americans have the reputation for being rude and xenophobic? smh

Yorkshire pudding! Yum. Made it once for Christmas dinner and loved it. Only problem is that you have to make it with the scalding hot drippings from a marbly $200 usd roast beef or not even bother. Totally agree that what we in the US call scones is usually a disgrace. Occasionally, you'll come across someone who knows how to do it right, but it's rare. Sorry, but I'll give bangers and mash a miss. However, I could live on fish & chips and brown ale. But probably not for long.

Lmao I can't get enough of this channel!!! I've had a lot of these dishes and that's because my family is has strong Scottish and Irish roots but we have a different name for a few of the dishes 😊

I'm Cornish and the other day I saw some guy put the cream on his scone first and I just stared at him like he was a freak then he saw me so I told that he did I wrong and the next thing I know I'm in Bodmin hospital turned out he had anger management Issues and was from Devon

What about Yorkshire Pudding!??

Love you Siobhan!

Miss these videos

I'm from Sweden and I love Yorkshire puddings and vinegar chrisps and the fact that you serve peas with everything!

Lancashire hot pot. I'm making one this Sunday, I can't wait! Tender lamb, soft, sweet carrot and fall-apart potatoes with a lovely crispy top. BTW, too many arseholes in this thread. There is fantastic food available almost anywhere you go, you just have to avoid the mass produced crap that fills the food aisles and fast food chains; ask around.

Always butter first, then the jam. Also, where was fish n chips? I love authentic fish and chips - soooo good! Especially with malt vinegar :)

Also out scones-which we pronounce as scōn/-are like sweet little biscuits (our biscuits) that are served with homemade jam in different flavor that aren't as common usually at tea houses and at fancy tea parties like boysenberry, apricot, tangerine, grapefruit, and pineapple - and - flax jams and jellies.

Birds eye custard, haggis, bangers and mash, meat pies. I need to travel to the UK and explore the food. And see the Dr.Who store.

My favourite food is blackberry and apple (or just blackberry it's still just as good either way) crumble! Not only does it taste AMAZING but there's also the nostalgic feeling you get when you go blackberry picking in early autumn. ^^

As an American who has visited London and Manchester two years ago, I can safely say that my favorite British dishes are savory pies, and crumpets.

Thanks for the videos! I love mushy peas with my cottage pie!

An American biscuit and a scone just aren't the same. I'll leave it to the culinarily educated to explain the difference, but they're not the same. They're both good, but they're not the same.

I very recently had a scone with strawberry jam and clotted cream at a British pub in Buffalo NY and it was AMAZING! I think every culture has good and bad when it comes to cuisine.

I had the scones with clotted cream and jam at Bettys Cafe in York. How could I describe it? A food match made in heaven!!!

butter first, then jam.

Tough crowd - for those that have eaten said food, we know it's yummy stuff. For those that haven't - this list is but a taster of the varied foods available to knock your socks off! Good episode!

I like a good traditional English Breakfast personally.

Thanks to your video I was able to learn about the ever-unheard of in Brazil CRUMPETS and SPONGE PUDDINGS. I've tried to make the former so far but they didn't quite look very spongy. You could hardly spot any holes in them. I'll be giving them another try though.

crumpets are made using a bread dough made with yeast BUT much like a thick batter, which is cooked in rings on a hotplate. The gas bubbles that rise up during cooking produce the characteristic vertical hollow tube-like texture within the crumpet and explains why the base is more highly cooked and flat without texture when compared to the top... it's easy to find the recipe and even videos on how to make them - home made ones are SO MUCH BETTER than store bought ones

How dare someone put the jam on first then the cream

I love British food! Especially the savory meat pies. My favorite I ever had was a curried lamb pie. Sooo good.

You know what...I like it xD Plus I've had most of these dishes once upon a time and loved em to bits :)

Lots of favorite dishes in your video. Can't argue with anything there. I'd add your entire, magnificent cheese culture -- dates back to the time of the ancient Romans. Some of the world's best cheeses. And wonderful things are done with the cheeses, from a simply ploughman's lunch to the Stilton soup at Rules in London. But just visiting Neal's Yard or Paxton and Whitfield is almost worth the price of the plane ticket. As noted below, the roast beef is worth mentioning -- and is even admired by the French. Fish and chips are not the only fish option -- few things lovelier than grilled plaice or a bit of Dover sole. Whenever I visit England, the food is one of the things I really look forward to. Just a splendid place to eat.

Ye forgit dee bleedin HAGGIS!!

you are right... wars 'have' been fought over less than how to construct a scone. For example: How to say scone. (protip: you said it wrong.)

Yorkshire pudding -- a must with Sunday lunch. Victoria sponge and trifle -- two favorite desserts!

Oh my dear, you are soooo wrong. Our BREAD is made of plastic not our orange American cheese. How does cheese, enzymes and calcium chloride stirred constantly and heated then gradually cooled thus making American Cheese shelf stable and a beautifully smooth melting cheese equal orange plastic? How bloody dare you! Did I use that correctly? I hope so. ; ^ D

I finally went to England a few years ago. I was up in Bedford, in the Midlands. I was very surprised to find most of the food was really good. I love gamon. I got it in a pub on a mixed platter. It's really good, like of like having breakfast for dinner. Bangers and mash is also delicious. I did notice that Brits really like their peas. Good thing I like them too, they seemed to come with every meal. The bacon buttie was really good with ketchup, but I really wanted an egg on it too. The one thing that was horrible was the chicken. I had it twice in 2 different restaurants (so I can't blame it on one place's bad cooking) and both times it was drier than the Sahara. I don't think I'll ever order chicken if I go back. Baked beans for breakfast was odd and I really don't like the taste of the Heinz ones. They've got too much tomato flavor. Also I thought it was odd to put mayo on a salad. I got offered that once. Hot waffles with sticky toffee are great. Of course the tea is just fabulous. So I agree, it's mostly a lie that British food is bad. It's just the chicken.

If you put the jam on then the cream, and then put the other half of the scone on top if you flip it upside down you have scone, cream, jam scone, instead of scone, jam, cream, scone.

My mouth is watering. I love all of these. I'm British :D Crumpets are my favourite And gammon

I'm American and just starting to discover British food. One of my all time favorites is British roasted potatoes. Tried it and loved it, right off the bat.

It seems that the biggest difference is not in the foods themselves but the names we give them. We in America have so many people from other countries. We have ancestors from all over the world. So as a fairly young country we take all that and mash it up. And we LOVE to give slang terms to everything. It gets confusing but its really just good food. Taken in moderation of course. Wish I could get my kids to eat peas. With anything.

I refuse to rest till the day that it is recognized that JAM MUST GO ON TOP OF THE CREAM!!!

on my oh so short to your wonderful country i was introduced to cottage pie. Love love loved it. I waited 30-40 min for it come out of the oven at the Victoria and Albert Museum. it was so good that when I got back across the pond to the colonies, I think that was said correctly, I had to find a recipe.

I'm American but grew up on Yorkshire pudding, orange marmalade, strawberry shortcake (sweet biscuit, not Twinkie sponge) for summer dinner, mince pies and custards. The Brit heritage came through in the food in a mix with the PA Dutch inherent in PA. Let us remember that British and American cookery was HIGHLY rated by Brillat-Savarin (La Physiologie de Gout) but then food as penance took over.

How on earth did you miss mentioning rare roast beef with Yorkshire pudding?

Honestly, i prefer savory pies over the sweet ones.. waaay more tasty ! And yeah i agree with her, bacon and bun cannot go wrong, they're the best thing🙌

Roastbeef, Yorkshire puddings, sticky toffee pudding, treacle tart, the Xmas' sweets, lamb in mint sauce, toad in the hole... I LOVE THEM ALL (and I am Spanish!)

I am so going to try these when I visit Britain.

Now I'm offended and hungry! Thanks Britain

Those crazy Devonians. As any fule kno, you can't spread the jam properly on top of cream so you have to dollop it, which doesn't work at all well. The Cornish have it right - jam first.

I recently discovered Cadbury's digestive biscuits and I love them. And these Scottish short bread cookies. So buttery. There's a store near where I work called World Market and they sell a few imports from Britain, Germany, Japan... I tend to hang out more in with the British food. Got this jam that was far more amazing than most jams, jellies, and preserves I've had from America.... outside of a few. I have a huge weakness for blackberries and there's a blackberry preserves that comes from a local seller that I love more than anything.

I like all of these :D I'd like to point out that "bangers and mash" and gammon are two things very well known in German cuisine as well :) we serve sauerkraut with the sausages and the potato mash and call it "Bratwurst mit Sauerkraut". Gammon on the other hand is what we call "Kassler" here, after a town in Hesse (one of our federal states) and which we - true story - also tend to serve with sauerkraut and potato mash :'D

I missed shepherd's pie! It's like English lasagna, but with less layers, and my absolute favourite English dish :)

"... and an English muffin (which by the way we don't have in England.)" Of course we do. They sell them in Asda or Tesco.

Apple crumble, cottage pie and beans on toast! Really good choices, some of my all time favorites! :)

(English) muffins, rich baps, cooked on a hot plate instead of in to the cooker and flipped over halfway. They can also be baked and then the baking sheet is sprinkled with corn(maize) meal. The dough is cut out with a cookie cutter.

I hear no mention of toad-in-the-hole or cottage pie???

Kippers, fried eggs and toast with lashings of budda. ✌🏻🇬🇧👍🏻

you forgot to mention my favorite traditional English dish.....roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. our family has been enjoying it for generations. Thanks for your video's...

You made me so hungry I love all those foods. I don't care which way the cream and jam go its just nice. My fav dinner as a child was bangers and mash and my fav breakfast was crumpets soaked in mounds of melted butter.YUM

Right, i can see if i was an international person why we the UK deserve our title as bland and boring, especially because of the war and the lack of variety in our ingredients since then. However it's a lot like the stereotype that all american's eat doughnuts. Or that all indian's eat only curry, or that Australian's only ever eat straight off the barby. The point is we are now one of the most foodie countries in the world and have helped increase the spread of international food more than any other recently. Look which city in the world is second best to eat, London. Look at the past decade and where a lot of the worlds top restaurants are. Look at internationally famous TV chefs, where are most of them from? I toured the whole of the US ten years ago and saw some surprises, but generally, a lack of organic (and natural) and foreign food stuffs. But when i went last year i saw them catching up ,or ahead on the west coast, to where we are now. And i noticed the spread of particularly the food that the UK has been consuming and loving for 20 years. One example is chicken tikka curry, which is in fact a Scottish invention made by Scottish indians for the locals. There are many many other stories like that about British food, it's not all bad now. So in summary i think to think that we are moving forward more than any other country at the moment with new tastes and adopting new ingredients. This is after decades of post war sparseness and convenience that has decimated our image, and it was a generally fair one. Even still the biggest problem is the best British dishes are relatively unknown, and are even not mentioned in this video. Dishes that stand the test of time and are in their own right world class and that could grace any table anywhere. Though they are mostly rich and meaty but that's what comfort food is, and British cuisine is mostly all comfort food. Things like lamb hotpot, a good pheasant and leek pie with shortcrust pastry and roast beef with the original roast potatoes in duck fat and Yorkshire puddings. I love food, and i love to cook and i can say subjectively these are dishes when done with finesse and care are appealing to most palettes. But we have lighter foods that are old school too. Things that can fly in the face of this idea of stodgy and rich stuff. Things like the Scottish raspberries, wild garlic, onion marmalade, elderflower, table water biscuits, smoked kippers, Welsh leeks, cheddar cheese, English pea's, north-sea cod and Irish cider. That's just a small list of 100% British ingredients. That kinda stuff has been used in really old food and really modern street food now deemed fashionable. Ultimately, like any country the food can be blamed on the available flora and fauna, and the weather. If you don't like the food, it isn't the people to blame, but my advice would be to try it in somewhere expensive that does it properly. And if you don't like comfort food, potatoes and meat you probably won't like the older British food. You will however will probably be blown away by modern English food in particular, with influences and the best bits from all the world. Hope that this has informed people a little more. :) Thanks if you read this. Peace.

I could go for some bangers and mash, it does sound good. I would love to visit England.

My first trip in the UK was to Telford and I stayed in Iron Bridge. The dinner I ate was memorable only because neither the steak, the potatoes or the vegetables had any taste at all. Had I not seen what I had on the fork, I couldn't have distinguished any of the foods by taste. Near Duxford, there's a pub which serves the most delicious meals I've ever enjoyed; absolutely fabulous. In general, meals in the UK are far tastier than their reputation.

Love everything listed! Definitely a fan of fish&chips WITH curry sauce and batter bits. Most Americans don't realize what they're missing out on by not having F&C done with proper curry.

What? No black puddin' ?

The people who think british food is boring obviously haven't heard about Gordon Ramsay.

Delicious! I really love a Sunday roast beef with potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and gravy. I also can not get enough banofee pie.

I love a roast dinner with all the veg and Yorkshire puds, and I also love a good fry up. Yum

How about British Style Fish and Chips? The place we go to in my home town, that makes this TOTALLY FUCKING ROCKS, By The Way...

I am American and do not see this as making fun of us...I see it as pointing out the not so good things in America, which Britain has also.....American cheese (or sliced cheese as some of us call it) is not good for you...Neither is margarine...Margarine is made of plastics...Yes, plastics...If you can afford it you use real butter..... I would love to try all British foods, like scotch eggs, crumpets, and mostly Bangers and Mash...That sounds so delectable.....Yum....I think Americans and the British could learn alot from each other, and get along dandy.....

Bought plum pudding online for something new to add to the family holiday meal. It never made it out my front door,can't remember what I brought instead. Good stuff.

Mince pie! Yum! And sausage rolls! Fave lunch/dessert combo from my local Brit bakery.