[Andy B]

So then, Sunny So-Cal has a "British Food Store" near her and after much cajolling in the chat room we've convinced her to try Brown Sauce on bacon butties which got me thinking...

What other quintessential British foods are there that you would recommend to foreigners (ones you like)?

I'd start with treacle pudding, bread sauce, dumplings and black pudding!

[Sunny So Cal]

Can't do bacon unless it is VEGETARIAN. And, have been over to Britain LOTS of times so isn't as if I've never tried some of these foods or been w/someone who was eating them. Plus my best friend is English and he's told me all about them. HOWEVER, I do like cheese and sweets so go ahead and recommend those!!

[foot-loose]

Ahh, another one with a NERVOUS tick I see.

[Sunny So Cal]

Tic.
A "NERVOUS tick" would be an agitated insect
And, what's the excuse Viv used? EMPHASIZING

[Andy B]

Ooo and Yorkshire pudding as well, that's great too. And apparently Fruit Gums are hard to get outside the UK.

[Sunny So Cal]

Do you get Crunchies over there? They're my chocolate of the moment.

Yes and they're very good. I am rather partial to Flakes or Galaxy bars. My youngest likes Aero bars in the orange flavor. I also like the original Polo mints but managed one time to find some little ones that were orange flavored and they were delicious.

Have tried Yorkshire pudding before. Couldn't do saveloy but I'm sure there's places over here that would serve it. Probably some places in the south east would make something like that. They seem to batter fry everything on that end of the United States. Speaking of which -- Twinkies and Snickers bars, deep fried. How nauseating.

[Sunny So Cal]

Some of the ones I saw in the fish & chip shops looked like they were fried. They were that really bright red sausage, yeah? Maybe they just looked funky on the outside so I assumed they were battered & fried?

[nade]

Shortbread biscuits!

[Camouflage]

So then, Sunny So-Cal has a "British Food Store" near her and after much cajolling in the chat room we've convinced her to try Brown Sauce on bacon butties which got me thinking...

What other quintessential British foods are there that you would recommend to foreigners (ones you like)?

I'd start with treacle pudding, bread sauce, dumplings and black pudding!

I bet you're a right fat bastard

[kendra k]

I just bought a jar of Patak's curry sauce. I'm so excited that it's come to America. Now I can add green beans to it, without Topher or Gaspode acting like they will die.

[Sunny So Cal]

Lottie, had marmite this summer when I was in the UK for 3 weeks. Ugh. Think that will be the only time I have marmite. It's disgusting. My son who will eat anything even turned his nose up after one small nibble. He loved the venison sausage in Scotland though and the Mallaig steamed mussels.

Nade, we have Walkers shortbread biscuits, of course. Very good. I have to say I was quite fond of the champagne truffles in Fortnum & Mason in Piccaddilly and also their rose & violet chocolates. I still have them. They're my treat. Also the whisky fudge in Scotland was great. And the Edinburgh rock candy.

[MK Chris]

Everyone says Marmite, except the people who hate it although I hate Marmite and I've just said it. Also I assume if you can't get Marmite, you can't get Twiglets. Oh Cheeselets! You can only get them here at Christmas but I love them! Also what about McCoys crisps? I love them. Something to do with crinkly crisps seem to taste better in my opinion.
Vienetta, another great thing.

I like Marmite. I don't love it, but then I may be the exception that proves the rule. Or Unilever's brand team for Marmite could be talking bollocks. It wouldn't be the first time someone from Unilever has talked bollocks.

McCoys are brilliant, I like the Flame Grilled Steak and also Cheddar and Onion (because they're a lot stronger than most cheese and onion crisps).

Vienetta reminds me of my grandad's second wife (I don't mean to get morbid here, but so you all don't think my grandad married and divorced lots of times, both my Granny and Nuala, his second wife, died of cancer.)

As far as I know you don't have these things over there, but then I've never been to America, as far west I've gone from Kent is Wales.

Have you never been abroad?

I just bought a jar of Patak's curry sauce. I'm so excited that it's come to America. Now I can add green beans to it, without Topher or Gaspode acting like they will die.

Haha, I didn't mind the green beans.. the curry was a bit spicy for me though. Last weekend I went to the ice hockey with Mrs Topher and her dad. Her dad went to get the hotdogs at the end of the second period and he put chilli sauce on instead of ketchup. I struggled.

Lottie, had marmite this summer when I was in the UK for 3 weeks. Ugh. Think that will be the only time I have marmite. It's disgusting. My son who will eat anything even turned his nose up after one small nibble.

I think if you've never had anything at all similar then you're more likely to dislike it. Obviously Marmite has been around for years over here and I've had it since a very young age (as far as I can remember).

[nade]

...have Walkers shortbread biscuits, of course. Very good....

Just wondering if you've ever tried Tablet? If you don't have a sweet tooth, stay away. My dear old mum normally will makes lots just before Haloween.

Here is a description of it: http://www.aspoonfulofsugar.net/blog/20 ... ablet.html

And got a recipe here: http://scruss.com/tablet.html

[Yudster]

Tablet is that Scottish crispy fudge thing isn't it? I've never had it, but it sounds fab. Footy, can you send me some? If I was cooking for an American friend and trying to create a favourable impression of British food I would do roast beef, yorkshire pudding, two veg and roast potatos with proper gravy. If it's cooked well (and when I make it it is!) nothing beats it. I might also do a roast ham, because whenever I have been to the states my friends have always done roast ham as a special traditional American treat, and I am always horrified at how they do it. Very polite about the results though. I have manners.

[Bonanzoid]

Tablet is THE bollocks. Way better than fudge. If you haven't tried it, you haven't lived.

[MK Chris]

Yeah, roast beef is fantastic. My mum is brilliant at roast dinners (actually, she and her other half are extremely good cooks in general) and her yorkshires are second to none. The oil the roast was cooked in has to make up the gravy too.

[foot-loose]

PM me your address and I'll get you tabletted oot yer nut.

My mates dad makes fantastic tablet.

[Blackie]

I only moved from N.Ireland to R.O.Ireland about 12 years ago but although I'm only about 140 miles from my mams house you can't get potatoe pasties or beef cutlets in the chip shops. Not to sure if you guys get them in the UK either but they are bleedin' deadly. Every time I go to visit my mam, which isn't often enough, she goes to the local chippy and gets me half a dozen of each and sticks them in the freezer for me so they will last me for a while. I normally go home again and pig out by scoffing the lot!!! Covered in good old HP Brown Sauce. mmmmm

[Yudster]

HP Sauce in the Republic? Whatever next!

[Blackie]

HP Sauce in the Republic? Whatever next!

I deed...and might I add that I buy it from the whole salers in 2litre bottles.

[Blackie]

They tried to turn me to their own local brand "YR" but I stood my ground and said "NO WAY PADDY! Frank Bruno would never forgive me!"

[claradooblue]

Don't buy it! Think of those poor Birmingham workers who HP sacked to re-locate to "preferable in some way";Holland.
(Leftist rant over for the day!)

[kendra k]

HP sauce made in the netherlands? terrible.

and topher- ketchup on a hotdog is offensive. i hope you asked for mustard.

ps- my curry was damn tasty. just like gaspode used to make.

[MK Chris]

I don't do mustard, I usually have mayonnaise on it, but since the only mayonnaise they have at the ice hockey is garlic mayonnaise, I have ketchup instead.

[Yudster]

Ketchup for hot dogs.