Sounds like you have had some shit roast dinners. A good roast dinner is amazing. I love all the foreign foods we have access to now as well, but our traditional cooking gets a lot of shit when really it's just bad cooks. Although we do also have stuff like jellied eels and mushy peas, so I'm not saying it's all good...

I went eating at an Italian restaurant in, I don't know, somewhere in the Highlands, and I haven't been aware that it was run by Scottish people, including the kitchen. Our trip had many highlights and was really cool all in all, but that food has to be the deepest trench we had to pass through.

Careful! Facts will damage the worn-out, out-dated stereotype!

Yes but those are restaurants, im assuming grandma is still serving up run over peas and boiled potatoes

don't know if we can call that british food lol. That's African, Chinese, etc foods

Thanks to successive waves of immigration in the 20th century from India, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, Africa, China and others we actually have a pretty diverse and vibrant food culture.

OK, but the idea is that it's the indigenous food that represents the place in question. The Indian (subcontinent), Caribbean, African, Chinese, etc cuisines count as the food culture of those places, not british food culture.

Don't be like germans who are stupidly deluded enough to say "The döner was invented in germany" , when , no, it wasn't invented in germany, it was invented in the ottoman empire. Also, Hans isn't out back in the kebab shop busting his ass making that gigantic log of meat, it's Ahmet. If you want to argue that derived foods that are based on local ingredients are part of the food culture of that place, that's a more interesting debate that isn't cut and dry; no one is selling kapsolon made with gouda cheese in İstanbul, nor are they making Tacos al Pastor with pork and pineapples.

British food is good. Kinda simple, but good. Just not legendary. It's like a more mid version of itallian food; relies too much on fat and carbs and meat to feel delicious and satisfying, instead of advanced techniques or "just right" spice blends.

(trivia: a Shepard's pie with beef is technically called a "cottage" pie!)

If you like Yorkshire pudding, try toad in the hole.

I had a homemade vegan shepard's pie at a coworker's house (she lived in the US, but from the UK) and it was one of the best dinners I've had in a long time.

Gyros like kebabs right? That's where I normally prefer lamb too tbh.

Rationing in the UK went on until 1954, nine years after the war ended.

To me, another be part of it is that the British seem to have an awful penchant for giving delicious things names that sound like Victorian euphemisms for something awful. Spotted dick and toad in the hole sound like they would be ways for Victorians to talk about their STIs, and I'm unsure what exactly Gentleman's Relish would mean, but it strikes me as some sort of medieval form of punishment on the peasants.

That's how traditions are born.

folks had to keep eating like the Luftwaffe was still blitzing London

To be more precise, they had to keep eating like the Kriegsmarine's U-bootwaffe was still sinking the ships with the food.

I'm not a Brit (not even a native speaker), but it bothers me too.

I genuinely believe these are actual names of actual british foods.

I had a hot cup of Singeshammy Longerjohns in Tabbernickywammelty sauce once.

Never again! I prefer mine cold.

Go back far enough, and you uncover dishes with wonderful names like Farts of Portingale.

Ever tried some bubble and squeak?

We'd hope y'all could come up with something better than deep-fried butter tho

Have you smoked a spotted dick?

Ewww.

Tastes vary. But gimme a toad in the hole, or many other Brit dishes and I'm there.

Some other great British dishes:

• Tikka Masala
• Shepherd's/Cottage Pie
• Sticky Toffee Pudding
• Cornish Pasty
• Crumpets
• CUSTARD

Those sound good to have now and then, but not every day

My mom dated a Englishman when I was a kid and he made us "Yorkshire Pudding" that shit was excellent.

The best 'Fish and Chips" are made at this little seaside rstaurant in Oregon and made with Salmon. They must have ran out of chips because I got French Fries instead. Was still excellent though.

Ba dum tiss!

Just so none of us have to do a web search. What is spotted dick and why is it called that?

Still? Greggs is a rip off now and there are far too many of them. 16 in the damn centre of Manchester.