Everyone told us British Food Sucks 👎 Canadians Feast in London 🤤
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People often say that British food is the worst food in the world, so today we're putting it to the test in London, England. We're spending the day eating only British/English food and see if it's actually as bad as people say. We try everything from a bacon butty to fish and chips to chicken tikka masala.
Everything we eat in the video (and where):
Bacon Butty (bacon sandwich): Astro Cafe & Brunch
Cornish Vegetable Pasty: Poppies Fish and Chips
Fish and Chips: Wicked Fish Spitalfields
Bread and Butter pudding: St John Bread and Wine
Chicken Tikka Masala: Tifinbox - Indian Street Food
0:00 Canadians Try British Food
0:51 Bacon Butty
3:31 Cornish Vegetable Pasty
4:44 Squarespace Ad
5:44 Fish and Chips
9:46 Bread and Butter Pudding
12:08 Chicken Tikka Masala
15:05 Where to Next?
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Bacon butty is simply a bacon roll. You eat a bacon sandwich
Glad you had a great experience in London.
I live in uk. I have at least one wish and it’s to visit Bleekers Bar,for their stunning bleekers burger.
I recommend you try outside London too.if you really do want to of course- so expensive £9.50 for bread and butter pudding? Wow,shocking.
2 foodie channels worth your research before coming again.
Eating with Tod
Gary eats
Both London based people and most of their content is and has been made around the London places to eat . I’m finding it helpful with these channels. I’m just a foodie. Awesome guys 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@A_D1970Spot on! If they are asking for a bacon buddy....they will be getting strange looks ...for me it's always been bacon on toast.
@@A_D1970The British Victorian upper class ( pompous bells) were addicted not only to Gin but also curries 😮 honest! I saw it on the TV so it must be true...although if it was on the BBC probably not.
Surprises me how the English food rumour began, could be the French 😂 our food is Great just don't tell everyone 🤫🤫
The reason Britain got a reputation for bad food was from WW2. American troops based here took back tales of bad food, because the UK had been on rationing for several years by the time the US entered the war so of course the food wasn’t as good as it would be in a country without rationing, like the US. The UK farming industry for instance didn’t recover until the late 50’s. Also, a lot of food from other countries originated in the UK. The Americans didn’t invent apple pie for instance, nor did they create a lot of food they think they did, many of them they came from the UK. Unfortunately the reputation has been hard to shake, despite the reality being completely different.
It’s hilarious because the food in the US is just SO bad (I lived there ) I am glad Canadians are more open minded.
Britain imported 70% of its food alot from the US in WW2, so when the American troops said British food was bad, they where mostly saying that US food is bad, which still today american food is bad, full of additives and other ingredients that are banned in the UK.
Yet the Americans who were stationed in GB brought there racism here to our shores . They can talk about no one they state of them ,
You know it's actually possible to say something nice about one country and not tear another down. I'm an American who grew up in England. Both countries have amazing cuisine and they also have their crap. To say any country has terrible food is ridiculous unless you've tried every dish from every restaurant in each of the respective countries.
I can only remember Spam or corned beef being sold in our corner shop, (1946) when rationing was still ongoing..@@stue2298
It's not entirely wrong though, our food isn't exactly great most of the time...
TBH, the only place that believes the urban myth of British food being bad is 99% from the U.S. And the best fish and chips is found by the sea, Whitby in England and Oban in Scotland are renowned for it.
I'd challenge you to try fish & chips in the Maritimes (Canada) 🤤 It's def not just the USA though. Canada and Aus (in general) think the same. It's silly though because it's obviously not true - Trevor
@@DelightfulTravellers one day I will get to travel
@@DelightfulTravellers...not so much Australia as a lot living out there are ex pats and travel to the UK a lot, however the Australians have one of the best Food in the world...
@@DelightfulTravellers I think back in the 1980's there was some pretty dodgy food about, even though there would have been plenty of nice places too. I 🤔 standards have improved and the choice of international restaurants have increased.
I should imagine the American Soldiers who were stationed in Britain during WW2 and had to eat the kind of rationed food the entire nation had to eat went back to the US and spoke about how bad the food in the UK was…. That’s fair enough. Sadly that ‘truth’ was carried down the generations. Just a guess.
Recently returned from a Caribbean cruise out from fort Lauderdale so there were plenty of Americans and Canadians on board as well as lots of Brits. The thing that made me laugh was at meal times, as on cruises there were English sections as well American and continental sections, the queue’s at the English breakfast bar was always the longest as well as lunchtimes when roast beef and Yorkshire pud was served, and the fish and chips bar always ran out as it was always so popular… I always enjoyed saying to the Americans in the queues ‘I thought you Americans hate English food’… 😂😂
That sounds as English as Apple Pie.
and what did they reply 😂 but that says it all. Bad food my arse
@@nealgrimes4382Erm... apple pie IS English. We've been eating apple pie since the 1300s.
Try again.
That was their point.
What makes me laugh is people pay a lot of money to go on a Caribbean cruise, only to eat food from their own countries!
On the bread and butter pudding, that looks like clotted cream. Clotted cream is a big favourite in the South West of England, such as Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. A lot of our puddings go well with it, such as cream teas (scones), etc.
Chicken Tikka Masala is entry level spice wise. It's the Indian Happy Meal.
It's classed as a low/medium heat level. Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys, in the UK.
A tikka masala is only slightly above a korma, never found tikka masala spicy, i always get a jalfrezi which is quite spicy (at least from my local curry house it is)
A windy poo is a standard level of spice
@@user-pk4rl8pw2n contested
Spot on. Tikka Masala is mild, below even a Bhuna. Most Brits would be happy with a Madras at least spice wise...
That isn't a bacon butty that is a bacon toastie❤
i don't mind Bacon on Toast for a bit of a change.
Agree a bacon butty is either bacon on buttered white bread or a muffin
And please DONT start the the muffin bap roll debate
@@susansmiles2242 wait you mean english muffin or bread roll?
Were I come from a bacon butty was two slices of white bread, plenty of real butter followed by at least two slices of bacon and red sauce. If you used sausages you used HP sauce, the bread seems to change depending on were you come from.
@@tyjuwr4395 no an oven bottom.
Re: Cornish pasty - the crust on the outside was for miners to hold and eat whilst down the mines in Cornwall ;)
A guide at an old mine in Cornwall once told me some laborers' wives would put a savory filling at one end and a sweet one at the other. A whole meal in a sturdy pastry. I don't know if she was having me on but I thought that was pretty nifty.
Originally the rolled crust on the edge was not eaten. The miners in Cornwall were mining for tin and one of the other minerals that often occurs near tin is arsenic and traces of arsenic would get on the miners hands, As arsenic is toxic and washing facilities were none existent underground eating with your hands was dangerous. So the pasty had the rolled crust which was in effect the handle to eat the pasty with. When you had eaten the main party of the pasty you threw away the handle that may or may not have had arsenic traces.
@@yummyirl Its true 🙂
I've travelled all over, I'm from the UK, I honestly believe that British food is the best as you can taste it, most countries have their distinct spice flavour, or its too heavily seasoned. With British food we keep it simple, and traditional, believe it or not, food tastes nice without being overly spiced and seasoned. We love a bit of salt and pepper and condiments, but we like to taste what we eat. we are also one of the less obese countries because it's not all laden with salt sugar and butter. also, fish and chips are only good in the uk. Fresh by the sea. .. ps now I want a proper cornish pasty ..so good ! ❤ I love the video by the way
Absolutely! Some people pay for an expensive piece of fish or steak then plaster it wirh some sort of sauce.......I just don't get it!
I agree with what you say except the "we are also one of the less obese countries" I don't think we are😂
@markpotter8280 ok.. in Europe, it's high.. but the world, we aren't too bad 😅
A proper Cornish pasty is meant to be an entire meal! It was originally made for miners and it is believed that the thick crust was designed to be held while eating the pasty then thrown away so their meal wasn’t contaminated with the harmful residuals on their hands.
The "crimping" along the top was designed as a useful carrying method, as the original "Cornish Pasty" was over 2 feet long and weighed 8 pounds.
That clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding
that's absolutely correct and a lot of pasties taken by the tin miners was half and half.. one end was savory and one sweet..
@@harryhill-es5jk I've never seen bread and butter pudding made or served like that before. Not sure about it TBH.
They also filled half with fruit or jam x
The idea that British food is bland is the biggest myth about it, and probably came from the 2nd world war, when everything was rationed here. Britain has been trading in spices since as far back as the Tudor times, and you've only got to look at a lot of our puddings and cakes to know we've always used spices in our cookng and baking. I found it funny that you thought the tikka masala was really spicy - it's well known for being one of the mildest dishes you could choose, and is often eaten by 'novices' as the 'gateway curry,' enabling you to work your way up to the more savage ones like vindaloo!
^^ This.. Well said.
Or Naga, my favourite.
@@johnwoodgate8125 She's so good with Charlie Stait too.
@Maerahn Vindaloo may be another bogus Indian dish. The original vindaloo was a Portuguese dish that included huge amounts of garlic cloves in it. Later on a hot potato dish may have picked up the name as allo in Hindi means potato.
@@johnwoodgate8125generally it's a teaspoon or two of Mr Naga pickle mixed into something like a madras. Local Asian supermarkets sell it (frequently sold out, the staff will know what it is). It's also great with cheese in a sandwich. No need to pay the extra £3 that my local curry house charges as it's a "house special" when you can buy a whole jar for that.
As a Londoner let me help you guys out. Firstly, the reason why you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie is because you were south of Birmingham. A buttie is a slang term for a sandwich used mainly up north, like Yorkshire. Secondly, and the most accurate reason you found it so hard to find a bacon buttie, its because you were in bethnal green - a prodominantly Muslim area. Kudos though on making sure to take it to weavers field to let the locals enjoy watching you eat.
As a Geordie I have ito gently correct you Londoner..
Yorkshire is virtually the midlands, up north is a lot closer to the Scottish border 😁
@@MKR5210 listen, anything north of the M25 is north to me mate!
@@MKR5210I think you need a map lass if you think Yorkshire is midlands 😂
Not really buttie is used all over the uk there is more to the uk than London and the north
@@NeverWokeNotASoiBoy Anything north of Bristol is the North to me
Holy moly, you found some seriously expensive examples! Glad you enjoyed though.
that's a good point - im from London and these are staple London prices, but if people travel outside of major cities you could eat all this exact same food for basically 60% cheaper if not more the more north you go
A typical bacon butty is usually not in toasted bread and the custard was in fact Clotted Cream which is one of my personal favourites, glad you enjoyed the food and there is plenty more out there still to try!
Not sure I’ve seen clotted cream in other countries, maybe a version in France.
No idea what you are talking about, clotted cream? Wtf…..nonsense.
I’m like you about the fishy taste, ask in the chip shop which fish has no skin. They usually have one with no skin, if not another shop will😊
@@andreww864 Cod is usually served without its skin and haddock with.
Who doesn't toast the bread for a bacon butty. That is weird to me.
Chicken Tikka is considered mild, its the one you give your kids for their first curry!
Made me chuckle that it tasted spicy…they should try a vindaloo, naga or Phaal lol
I was surprised too, I was under the impression us brits love spicy food, I mean isn’t that why Nando’s has more locations in the uk despite being a South African company? Not to mention our love of curry 😂
Anyone that tells you Britain has the worst food in the world is just objectively wrong. 180+ Michelin star restaurants, countless internationally famous chefs, and a huge culture of both modern and traditional food.
A Cornish pasty was originally made for miners, in fact half was meat/veg and the other half was fruit for pudding...
And thy were actually "invented" in Devon, according to historical research.
www.google.com/search?q=cornish+pasty+invented+in+devon&rlz=1C1YTUH_en-GBAU1080AU1080&oq=cornish+pastie+invented&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgCEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCQgBEAAYDRiABDIICAIQABgWGB4yCAgDEAAYFhgeMggIBBAAGBYYHjINCAUQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAcQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAgQABiABBiiBDIKCAkQABiABBiiBNIBCjIyMDczajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
In 2006, a researcher in Devon discovered a list of ingredients for a pasty tucked inside an audit book and dated 1510, calculating the cost of making a venison pasty. This replaced the previous oldest recipe, dated 1746, held by the Cornwall Records Office in Truro.
I'm going to argue the one food we Brits truly excel at is winter comfort food: The stodgy, ever-so-slightly unhealthy but hella filling kind of food that just leaves you full up and sighing in happiness as the cold weather closes in.
Traditional cooking, throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (and Ireland) is wholesome, hearty and very good for you and delicious. Given the choice over eating at Gordon Ramsey's or another famous chef, to a homemade roast, steak & kidney pudding, fish and chips etc, I'll always choose the latter. If you have been brought up cooking, as I was, from a mother and father who were both good cooks, themselves taught from their parents, then you're going to be cooking good food.
I love 4 ingredient puddings. Rice pudding, roly poly, crumble, custard etc.
Yup the 'sticks to your ribs' comfort food cannot be rivalled.
Regardless of the various foods I've tried whilst travelling, and I like to try most things, it's the comfort food of home that always hits just right.
You excel at those types of food because they're age old staples and you've perfected them over the centuries. Come to Melbourne Australia and experience centuries old recipes from around the world. Just as good :)
Nothing I'd better than eating a good shepards pie infrint kf a fireplace in a really cold winter
Took my mother in-law, who's Polish to my local farmshop cafe for dinner. She was absolutely amazed by the quality and we went back 3 times
I've had fish'n'chips all over britain. That one you had looks pretty good. Harry Ramsden's are very good, there's a place in Colne called Banny's and that's excellent. The award winning chip shop in Whitby was fantastic. My favourite is Bizzie Lizzie's in Skipton, it's the benchmark as far as I am concerned.
Personally as a Brit I would say that if you want English food you'll probably get it better and cheaper in the North of England. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are similar but with their own favourites as well.
Why will you?
The word butty, originally referring to a buttered slice of bread, is common in some northern parts of England as a slang synonym for "sandwich," particularly to refer to certain kinds of sandwiches including the chip butty, bacon butty, or sausage butty. Sarnie is a similar colloquialism. (Wikipedia)
Don’t forget the sugar butty!
It’s used in the South of England too
We say it in Manchester, and a lot of us pronounce it bu'ih (without the t's) 😅
@@DrawContent Was just about to post exactly the same thing. Anyone who pronounces the t's is worse than Stalin
We really don't regard tikka masala as very spicy. It's the safe option for those who don't like too much heat.
This was very spicy - Anna
I disagree they do make them really spicy if you ask them but they won't ruin it with stupid ridiculous hot spices.
I disagree chicken korma is the not spicy of the Currys
@spikeandrews1 I would go along with that korma very mild I up graded to tikka masala after that but madras &vindaloo to hot for me.then there's a pharl that's meant to be even hotter,these meals were designed to be spicy because it covered up the rancid meats.
@@smeghead1 Korma and Pasanda are the mildest currys.
In the UK we usually have 4 types of bacon to choose from - unsmoked back bacon, unsmoked streaky bacon and then smoked back or smoked streaky bacon. Back bacon tends to be leaner than streaky and it has the 'eye' (that big meaty section that's missing from streaky bacon). Your typical British bacon butty/sandwich is made with untoasted bread and many people prefer tomato ketchup to brown (HP) sauce (although I like either).
Nice vid guys. First, butty is a slang term for any kind of sandwich and it would be unusual to see the word butty on a menu. Also I believe Butty comes from Welsh! We also use the word Sarnie as another slang word for sandwhich. Toast is good, but equally we enjoy our bacon on heavily butter thick cut untasted bread. The meld slightly melted butter and hot bacon is just deeeeeelisoius.
The bad food stereotype was born in ww2 by returning America forces, totally missing out on the fact it was heavily rationed, and was until the 50s
It was still shitty in the UK in the 60's .
@@duncancallum I assume the kids who grew up with ration8ng didn't know any better when they grew up in the 60s or something
Never seen a bread & butter pudding remotely looking anything like a slab of, well I don’t know what…they should be prosecuted under the trade description act 🤪.
My mum would turn over in her grave if she had that “ slab” put in front of her as bread and butter pudding! Not the real thing I,m afraid. Buttered bread, bit of sugar, possibly with raisins, soaked in egg custard IN A DISH then baked in the oven till golden brown. It was a poor persons economy pudding. Clotted cream!!!😮 Also similar was Bread Pudding, another economy “dessert”.
As a Londoner myself, I am really surprised reading through the comments that the prices were not the first thing that people mentioned!
Hey guys, thanks for creating this video and highlighting some of the food we have!
Just an fyi; A bacon butty is slang so you typically won’t find it being sold as a butty in food places.
Plus to my knowledge a butty is a ‘roll’ or more accurately a ‘bap’.
A true Cornish Pasty can only truly be called ‘Cornish’ if it’s made in Cornwall under protected status and contains only skirt beef, Swede, potato and onion.
LOL I had a Cornish pasty a couple of weeks ago here in Australia, it definitely wasn't made in Cornwall but it was still delicious!
Well it wasn’t a Cornish pasty then..😂👍
@@vtbn53that was a pasty, not a Cornish pasty 😉
@@karenpenny3973 Nope it clearly said Cornish Pasty, now clearly wasn't made in Cornwall but we don't give a tinker's cuss about that here in Australia.
Don't think that protection exists anymore, since we left the EU ...
British food the worst in the world?? Maybe 30-40 years ago, but now Britain is one of the culinary centres of the globe - particularly in London, although there are fantastic eateries all over the country. Spicy food? You better believe it! 🙂Great to see you both enjoying the amazing food that we have in this country.
british food 30 or 40 year,s ago was much better than it is today, back then, apart from maccaroni cheese, we had never heard of pasta, or pizza, rice was only ever heard of as a rice pudding, which was lovely, esp the brown part off the top, & near me the only take-aways that was available was a fish'& chip shop, or a pie from the butcher,s or the local bakers. i will only eat british food like we ate 30 or 40 year,s ago, cos i dont like anything else, i def can,t eat pasta, i don,t like pizza or anything too spicy, also when i was at school. in the 1970s, The school dinner,s back then were out of this world, propper meals & a pudding of some discription served everyday, but also back then, people were much better cooks, these days a lot of people think they are cooking, when all they can produce is a load of slop & crap.
They are talking about British food not fusion cooking or British cooking foreign dishes. All the foods they tried have been around for over 100 years.
Leaving the skin on the fish fillet in Fish and Chips seems to be a London (or possibly Southern) thing and would not generally happen in The North. Things like Chicken Tikka Masala are technically BIR (British Indian Restaurant) dishes - which is basically Indian inspired dishes aimed at the UK pallet (similar to TexMex in the US) but which people in India will not necessarily have heard of.
It’s definitely more of a London thing, I’m from south and all the fish I’ve ever had never have the skin on. Not all of London leaves the skin on either but every other city down south I have visited I’ve never experience the skin I don’t think I would like it with the skin on.
Bread and butter pudding and bread pudding was usually made to use up left over bread. Stuff bought out is normally not as good as homemade!
Yes definitely clotted cream on top NOT custard! One of the most popular desserts is Sticky Toffee Pudding with ice-cream or custard. I had some after my pub roast two days ago and was delicious!
No clotted cream on top custard all way with bread butter pud my great great great nan pasted recipe down centuries in a home made recipe book, you're supposed to cut bread layer in pan with sugar n raisin between each layer soak in milk egg mixture then bake slice like cake pour custard on londonderry fancy things up 😂
never had it and dont want to I hate sticky toffee anything and also custard.
@@helensmith8007that was definitely a dollop of clotted cream in the video.
Guys, "the word "Butty" in reference to a sandwich is commonly used in the UK, but it's slang/colloquial, so you wouldn't often find termed like that on a menu.
Beef Bourguignon aka Beef Stew, Chicken Chasseur aka Chciken Stew, Coq au Vin aka Chciken Stew with wine all French classics made in the UK but called Stew. Dont forget that we make over 700 cheeses as opposed to France's 400 odd and the fact that Champagne was invented in the UK (Kent) all goes to show that the reputation is neither deserved nor accurate.
£5.50 for a bacon sarny!!!! Definitely London. You could buy a loaf some bacon and a bottle of sauce for less!
And toasted. No!☹ The idea is the grease and butter soak into the bread which doesn't happen when it's toasted.
It’s much cheaper in a proper greasy spoon in London. That place looked like a sandwich shop.
@@speleokeir personal choice mate, each to there own. Like smokey bacon. Personally, no, but it's your choice.
@@speleokeirtoasted always, shit loads of butter and a drizzle of ketchup. Plain bread is boring until it is toasted.
A lot cheaper up north , London very expensive
British Food like British teeth being the worst in the world is a myth stemmed from Americans coming over in WW2 when we had rationing...when in reality today British Food and Teeth are one of the best in the world...
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Up here in Yorkshire ( Leeds, Wakefield and surrounding areas) practically all our fish and chip shops do the fish without the skin on.
Same in the Midlands. I couldn't stand it if it had the skin on.
It was clotted cream on the bread and butter pudding. It's the best way to eat it. Great video guys
We love our spicy food, tikka masala is considered mild in the UK, England was a major spice trading nation centuries ago.
We just mean being a 'National Dish' we were legit shocked at the spice level (of our dish) 😀 - Trevor
It's not our national dish. That claim was made by some website years ago.
I'm not a fan of tikka masala. Find it a bit cloying and bland like butter chicken. Prefer madras, rogan josh, balti, jalfrezi or occasionally vindaloo.
Stop that! If they thought Tikka Masala was hot Vindaloo will finish them off.
Guys you are in London so that was not Cilantro on top of your current it was Coriander 😊
@@artemisfowl66 We've had way hotter dishes than this one 🔥 Trust us.. this was spicy and we know Tikka Masala quite well. Coriander does not exist to us 😉hehe
Bread and Butter Pudding is made by spreading butter on slices of (usually white) bread, layered in a dish, optionally with raisins scattered between the layers. This is then soaked with a mixture of beaten eggs, cream, and sugar (similar to French Toast/Eggy Bread/Poor Knights of Windsor, but made in a layered dish rather than fried in individual slices), sometimes topped with an extra sprinkle of sugar (and optional Cinnamon) to create an extra crispy topping, and gently baked so that the custard cooks to a soft set consistency.
It was traditionally made as a way to use up stale bread in the days before bread was stuffed with preservatives.
Butterscotch sauce isn't a traditional topping for it, but I can imagine it working well, and yours looked to be topped with Clotted Cream.
Clotted Cream is made by gently heating cream so that the fats become more concentrated and float above the watery whey before being chilled and scooped away. It's somewhere between cream and butter and is served with various puddings, as well as the eponymous Cream Tea with scones and jam.
Correct that's not real.
@@andrewmartin2103What's not real?
The bread and butter pudding on the show. Made with left over bread to save money.
Wow.
So that's how clotted cream is made.
Can you turn single cream into clotted cream.
@@andrewmartin2103
It's actually better.
Chicken Tikka Masala is not traditional British dish, its an adaptation of Bengali cuisine that is a popular dish. The traditional dish is 'roast dinner' and a 'full cooked breakfast.'
chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow, Scotland, which is part of the uk and is therefore british
@@nospamgaming6682 Note that I have said that it is a British dish adapted from Bengali cuisine, it is a 'popular british' dish, but is not a 'traditional' british dish. It's not unreasonable or a slight in any way to acknowledge the culinary style and roots of Tikka Masala...it would seem very rude not to do so!
@@shelleyphilcox4743Almost all British cuisine has its roots in the cuisine of other countries - and I suspect this is the same for every country and every cuisine in the world if you go back far enough. People have been travelling and sharing food with others that they meet since before humans were humans. That said, you’re 100% correct. Where we know the roots of dishes, we should celebrate that, and keep the knowledge attached to the dish because it is disrespectful to do this tribal thing of claiming it solely for one people ignoring the other.
British Indian food is wonderful, when I first moved here, I hated the idea of it because it felt like a betrayal of the food of my childhood but it’s not. People like me moved to Britain in a time when they were treated as second class citizens and they not only built a life for their families, they invented a distinct and vibrant cuisine that is now loved all around the world.
Seemingly the chef added hienz tomato soup and cream to make the sauce.
Almost 💯 % of our battered fish is skinless, if it weren't I'd never eat the skin anyway. You must visit Newcastle, my city & take a 20 min metro ride while you're here to Tynemouth, head down Front St as far as you can go (that'll be the Castle & Priory) , look for the pub, The Gibraltar Rock & take the stairs down to the beach where you'll see Riley's Fish Shack , you can order whatever the catch was at North Shields fish quay that day, often Monkfish wrap or sometimes Lobster wrap 🦞
You won't find "bacon butty" on a menu, as "butty" is simply a slang term for sandwich. Those were, in fact, toasted bacon butties (which is perfectly acceptable 😋)
butty is a gay English word for a piece
British food has been turbo charged in the last 30 yrs. it has changed beyond compare to my childhood. I love curry and anything full of spice. Yet fish and chips holds a place in my heart as a kid my grandads chip shop was heaven
Fish and chips was itself a 19th century import into Britain from Portugal.
Ironically, as a Yank that has travelled to the UK I found it disappointing and frustrating that it is not as easy to find trad British food there. I love me a Steak and Kidney pud but you have to know where to go. The days of going into any pub and getting it are gone. And having Sticky Toffee Pudding for dessert is criminal!
Chicken Tikka Masala originated in Scotland, after one of the clientele complained about the lack of sauce in his meal and the chef made a tomato/fruity based sauce for his meal and that is how Tikka Masala came about
Likely the reason you couldn't find a bacon butty is most cafes would have it on their menu as either a roll or sandwich with your choice of breakfast item where you will typically have the choice of sausage, bacon, black pudding, scrambled egg or fried egg.
Anywhere that serves a ful breakfast would be able to make it for you.
Most people likely don't have the bread toasted, there's no need for the bread to provide crunch if the bacon is sufficiently crispy
Surprised you didn't try a traditional British Sunday roast. Arguably our 'real' national dish. Chinese is probably the most popular 'takeaway'.. you'll have to do a re-review 😊
We’re not in the UK any longer. As full time travellers it’s way too expensive to spend more than a couple of weeks! But next time I’m sure we’ll do another food video. Also we did a Sunday Roast in a previous video as well as a few other dishes. Be sure to go back and watch them. - Anna
Had one today nom
Beef Wellington!
@@DelightfulTravellersThe UK is one massive rip off nowadays.
I thought Sheppards pie. Do you eat mince meat pie in England
You should have fish and chips with salt and vinegar!
Or a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce on the beer battered haddock or cod.
You can thank me later. You're welcome.
@@Turn1t0ff absolutely not salt and vinegar all the way.
@@Turn1t0ffSweet chilli sauce? You what? 😂
Take it to another level and add mushy peas. ?
A "buttie" is more of a northern term than a southern term, it's a soft buttered roll. You wouldn't find that on a menu really in London as its not a term we usually use. It's usually just called a bacon roll or a bacon bap. I haven't lived in London for about 15 years though so if things have changed then my apologies for the incorrect information
Almost 5 quid for a pasty?! I know London is expensive but that is taking the Michael.
Tikka marsala is considered a relatively mild sauce in the UK. If you want spicy try Madras or Vindaloo.
Or phal
@@ianfinney7820haha I was going to say Phal had it once Americans think food is spicy there this is the bees knees
Masala, not 'Marsala'..If you are English.....Marsala is a wine.
@markyboyno1114 Thanks for the clarification. I believe that the sauce originated in the UK and had assumed that marsala, a sweet fortified wine, was used to flavour it. However, I should have spotted the different spelling.
Butty is a more Northern English word for sandwich and the origins of the word stem from “bread and BUTTER” … shortened to Butty
Yes definitely not toasted
@@Lloyd-Franklin it’s still Northern we don’t ban you from saying our words
Used in Wales too.
That bacon butty you had was pretty much what we all eat here too, but everybody makes them at home really and only go to eat out if they are having a full English. Its just more cost effective. A lot of cafes will only charge you a couple of £ more for a full English, than they do for a bacon butty so you may as well make it at home and put twice as much bacon on and it will still be cheaper!
Love your video, next time in lLonon try a pint of London Pride beer and Scampi & Chips from a traditional pub...
Cod & chips at the seaside, plenty of salt and vinegar. Sitting on the sea wall or bench eating this on a nice sunny day, you can't get better than that
Yes you can, Haddock & chips!
Haddock beats cod hands down. Bloody Sarfeners! 😉
Throw a nice pint into the equation and you’re good
Nah mate, Fish and Chips done properly is school shark and chips. Not the pelagic monster sharks that prowl the seas, but the smaller coastal sharks that swim in small schools. Spent many a summer day over the Christmas holidays at the end of the pier doing that.
Sounds interesting. I've heard the fish and chips in Oz are good@@AussieFossil
Tikka masala spice level is actually considered mild to we Brits and is one of the mildest curries you can get in the uk.
It always make me laugh when people say us british don't do spicy food when the phaal is also a British curry
The crust around a pasty is supposed to be like a handle. Miners used to have dirty hand so the pasty was designed to be able to be eaten and then the crust can be thrown away.
Pasties have the crimped edges because the miners would hold them by that edge and then toss away the bit they’d been holding in their dirty hand. Also many would also have half of it with a sweet filling so they have the savoury then a pudding for after all in one pie.
The white dollop on top of your dessert was cream not custard, lol! Fish & Chips for the win! It looked amazing and a good price too. You'll find a bacon butty in Northern cafes, usually it's not toasted though, just bread and butter. 😋
Butty is not a term widely used in the south of England, which is probably why it was hard to find it on a menu in London.
@@childofthestones2820Bacon sandwhich/bacon roll, in every single cafe in the south.
I hope you get a chance to try a proper British Sunday pub roast!
Pasties, Cornwall, is thick pastry, MINERS used to eat it.Originally there was a pastry separator in the middle? one side was meat-gravy filled, the other side could be fruit? like apple? the crust got dirty with miner's hands. so they threw the crust away.
So something people misunderstand commonly: fries = thin cut chips which are generally cooked by frying them.
Chips = chunky cut chips, most commonly cooked in the oven (though when you eat them out they will often be fried) the important part is that a chip is thick cut.
Crisps = crisps because they are very thin slices of potato, baked into crispy snacks, hence the name; crisps :)
this was fun to watch! i'm an immigrant to the uk, and it sounds stupid, but i worried a bit about the food. NO NEED!! there's some bloody great food here, and i'm not even in london. love your video!!
I don't know where you came from, but you came here because we were better than your own country, whatever your views on the food. Please stop insulting your hosts culture.
@@JohnJones-wo1bcshe didn't insult anything?
@@JohnJones-wo1bcthey said they were wrong, chill out
@@JohnJones-wo1bc The chill pills are over there --->
@@JohnJones-wo1bcIf anything it was a compliment..🙄🇬🇧
Bread and butter pudding doesn't normally come with caramel sauce and clotted cream. That was a posh take on it 😂
You should try this version 👍- Anna
Maybe so, but it's not a traditional version. It's meant to have currents or raisins inbetween thin slices of bread.
@@DelightfulTravellersthought the idea was to try British food ! You got them all wrong bar they fish and chips and even that was a bad choice of location.
This is why trying "traditional"British foods in tourist gaffs in London is unrepresentative. Almost every single "we tried traditional English food" videos that are made by CZcamsrs in London are BS. London tourist traps cater for non-UK palates or try to be hipster with good, honest grub.
They don't hold back do they! Let's just have a Michelin starred dessert!
Traditionally the rolled crust on a pasty was to hold it with dirty hands as these were eaten underground by miners, the rolled crust was thrown away
Great vid, thank you.
Who would have thought that battered fish would taste fishy? Very strange. Seriously, it is great that you are proving that our food is not bad, as generally thought. In most towns you can get every conceivable food within a short distance, cooked by people from that country.
Speaking only for Scotland our seafood is exported around the world it’s top nosh.
Too fishy old fish.
@@janice506Agreed, I live in Botswana out here in Africa and I purchase Scottish seafood.
Fresh fish should neither smell nor taste "fishy".
Cornish Pasties we’re originally in two parts, with a savoury in one side and a sweet in the Other. They were made for miners to take to work. They could hold the crimped crust with their dirty hands, and throw it away afterwards. You need to get fish and chips at the coast where the fish is fresh. Whitby in Yorkshire is famous for them. As someone has already said, the bad food reputation came from American soldiers who were posted here in WWII. They had rationing in the rest of Europe during the war, but the lads didn’t experience that, because when they were there people were shooting at them.
The Forfar Bridie is also delicious & Callander does excellent ones also . I’ve never tried the Cornish pasties but they do look good .
and not actually cornish if not made there or to a certain recipe..
I have to say, that is a fairly wretched looking Cornish Pasty. As someone who lived in Cornwall for a long time, the variation you get across the country in the interpretation of the pasty is huge.
Bacon butty for me is in a breadcake, roll, baby cob and many more depending on part of country you are.
When in bread like you chose it's a bacon sandwich and they're pretty much the same .
The quality of fish and chips can vary drastically. You'll normally get the best if you're somewhere by the sea, especially if it's somewhere with fishermen actively coming and going from there. That being said, it's definitely possible to get great fish and chips all over the UK but, like pretty much any type of food, there'll also be some places that really let the side down.
for the best bread and butter pudding, you need to use the stale bread that's left at the end of a loaf shortly before it start to go off, when it's in that state it gives the best texture to the pudding, it's just not something most people tend to do anymore sadly so when you buy it pre-made like it is here, it's likely not the 'best' version it could be due to being made 'fresh' if that makes sense, but I have no doubt it will still taste delicious.
I deliberately let fresh white sliced bread go stale for a couple of days before making bread and butter pudding.
Re Chicken Tikka Mass. being spicy, ironically it is one of our mildest and often recommended to "curry virgins" as an entry-level dish. Most curries are hotter or spicier. If you want to understand the British palate, bear in mind the difference in heat between English mustard and that insipid US stuff, but also that Britain sat at the centre of a vast trading Empire which included most of the spicey places in the World. We were the ones that carried and sold them to everyone else. Also many Brits worked as administrators, businessmen and in the forces in all these places and brought fusion versions of what they found home. Also, in certain areas of the country where smuggling was rife (ie pretty much everywhere) spices expensive anywhere else in the World and available to few but the wealthiest, were to be found in some of the humblest homes (often as payments for ignoring those lines of porters carrying contraband through your village at night). Britain has been one of the most cosmopolitan places in the World for some centuries, and its cuisine reflected that. The experience of a few GIs of an island which had been under siege for 3 or 4 years is barely representative.
bacon butty is with bown or white bread , what you guys got by toadsting the bread is a bacon toastie! both versions are very nicely enhanced with a fired egg
Anna, you hit the nail on the head when you said the pasty is like a dinner. That is were the origin of the pasty came from. The tin miners of Cornwall used to work very long and hard hours and it was some distance to get from the surface down to where the tin in the mines was extracted so they created the pasty so that they could take it underground with them and have their dinner down in the mine. The reason for the pinched curved end of the pasty is that they were extracting tin out of the ground which meant they came into contact with poisons in the tine so they would hold the pasty by the curved pinched ends, eat the pasty and its contents and just throw the pinch curved part of the pasty away so they did not ingest the poisons on their fingers.
The word butty means butter & bread it's a Northern saying and it's a filler food for the working class. It won't be called butty in London unless you have a Northerner owning the place . You need to go to the places these foods come from ti have the best , especially the Cornish pasty, abd fish and chips always get them ftim a seaside chippy. Pluse they will cost a fraction of the price .
I'm from London and here a butty is specifically in a roll. It is a word down here, but you won't usually see them called butties on any menus.
Traditionally, England its more cod and Scotland its haddock. Our fish and chip shops used to sell a lot more variety of fish, including skate, plaice, rock salmon, halibut, lemon sole.. but it is very unusual now because it is so expensive, and chippies are often just haddock and/or cod and scampi.
In the uk french fries and chips are very different from each other.
We [The Uk chippy's] used to serve take away fish and chips etc; wrapped in newspaper. They used to be fried in beef dripping (the good old days when things were nicer lol) and you could also get "batter bits" if you wanted some and they were free, a very limited number of chippy's still give you batter bits if you ask, but not many nowadays. Most just throw them away without giving people the opportunity to get some. You could also buy a pickled onion or a pickled egg that were in a large glass jar again some chip shops still do them but the number of shops that do so has reduced. My favorite when I was a child was saveloy and chips and a pot of curry sauce to dip into. The saveloy used to have a crispy skin which I loved but now for some reason I don't understand most chippy's keep them in water which of course make them limp, not crispy and in my opinion not as nice.
We never go toasted with our bacon butties, and we're likely to go with a bread bun rather than slices bread. But I'm glad you enjoyed it, back bacon is king!
The food in Britain is superb. Yes! There was a time when it was beige after the war. But Our food is astounding. Real fish and chips are cooked in beef dripping etc. Thanks for the vids guys.
Is beef dripping actually used in fish and chip shops anywhere today?
@GeeCeeWU Yes, it is. Certainly here in Leeds.
@@neilpickup237 It seems to be mainly plant based oils down here in the south, better for our health apparently. As a child born and bred in London, I used to eat beef dripping spread on toast.
@@GeeCeeWU yes in Lynemouth
@@kimberleyelizabethbailes-ql9qk Good to know Kimberly.
The custard is usually soaked into the bread, I think you had either double or clotted cream on top!
Also originally from the maritimes(NB) and last summer tried Fish & chips at a small dock side restaurant in Petit Rocher (village on the Bay of Chaleur) I haven’t had better F & C in my whole life!! They make it fresh in front of you. 🤩🤩 On the subject of British food, I was in Canadian military and stationed in Germany for several years in the 80’s and 90’s and we often trained on British bases in Germany. We sometimes shared their kitchen and breakfast was similar to ours but everything was deep fried, eggs, bacon, ham and even toast. Everything just tossed into the deep fryer! 🥴
Guys the reason you had difficulty finding a 'Bacon Butty' in London is because 'Butties' are a northern thing. In London it would be a 'Bacon Sarnie.' 😉😊
13:45 Specifically, that's chicken massala. The tikka element comes from marinating cubes of meat overnight in lemon, spices, and yoghurt, and barbecuing them on skewers, before making the curry. No cubes, no holes = no tikka.
Usually we don't leave the skin on, at least not in the North West where I'm from. The only time I've had battered fish with the skin oon was a "chippy" in Yorkshire but I do think it adds more flavour
A traditional Cornish pasty used to be meat and veg at one side of the pasty and cooked fruit at the other. These were known as tinner's pasties and would have the miners' initial carved in so that he was able to distinguish his from all the others.
I was surprised to see the skin still on the fish normally it’s always taken off 😮
Up north, yes. Often left on down south.
@@adriangoodrich4306 im down south in bristol and I've never seen fish and chips with the skin on
Cod no skin. Haddock with skin.
@@russellstanton7583 both with skin haddock skin is thicker than cod skin
@@mofirminhosadiosalahrobert4904..thanks . I didn't know that. A chip shop worker told me that..
You have only properly tried British fish and chips if you have lots of salt and vinegar on the chips. 😋
Two things you won't find in the South of England: 1. A butty 2. Decent fish & chips because they..ie them in that London, fry in oil. Beef fat produces proper fish n chips and you find them in the North East of England. and France and Belgium but not the South and West of England.
1. Bacon sandwiches. Usually in a bread cake
2. Vegetable pasty. It is what it is(vegetarian)
3. Fish and chips. Mushy peas is a must, also I’ve never had a battered fish with its skin on
4. Never had it myself
5. All curries are great 🤤
Battered fish usually has its skin on but only on one side and usually at the bottom.
The worst food myth comes from when there were overseas (US) military guys stationed over here in the 50s/60s and rationing from WWII was still in place. It took a while for the UK to recover and as a Londoner, you can find amazing food over here (I grew up in the US, so do have perspective). A lot of it is also where you go as London can have horrifying food for tourists (we don't eat there).
For desserts - try sticky toffee pudding. Definitely my fav!
Also, we do call French fries, French fries - chips are thick and fries are thinner (think McDonalds fries). I'd suggest plaice for your fish & chips - try out Poppies for it or Sea Fresh in Victoria.
There is a very specific cuisine called British Indian Restaurant or BIR. A lot of the dishes on Indian restaurant menus in the UK are unique to the UK and not found in India.
They were originally Bangladeshi, so not really Indian at all
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@@chriskirk2765 Most are Bangladeshi, some are Pakistani, often the staff are from Mirpur, in Pakistan, sometimes known as little England, because there are so many British products and many businesses accept GBP.
I think if you looked on a map you would see the entirety of Bangladesh is situated within the ancient Indian kingdom of Bengal, which is why they refer to themselves as Bengali@@chriskirk2765
Hi! As an Englishman I did a react to this! Just reaching out incase theres any issue etc, love the channel!
'Butty' is a nickname for a sandwich. You wont see it in a menu, but if you ask for a 'bacon butty' they will know what you mean and give you a bacon sandwich. Normally, a bacon sandwich (butty) is untoasted with either red or brown sauce, your choice.
A sarnie is a sandwich using bread and a butty is usually a roll. So you can get a bacon sarnie or a bacon butty. A roll is also variously known as bap, barm, cob in different regions.
Sarnie and butty are slang so you won't see it on menus but if you ask for it at the counter they'll know what you mean.
Butty is more a northern term and where i'm from it means any Sandwich.
You are right the Pastie is a a full meal, Cornish miners took them down the mines and ate them for lunch. The reason for the think semi circular crust is that the part you hold to eat the pastie using it as a handle, since the miner hands where dirty they didn't eats the crust.
Fish and Chips if you don't like the fishy taste go for Cod, my favourite is Rock Salmon (Dog Fish), a particular favourite fish and chip for Londoners.
The "custard" on the bread and butter pudding is clotted cream.
With your fish and chips, you should have asked for mushy peas. You can also get minted mushy peas in some places. If you're going to have red sauce on your chips, it needs to be Heinz Ketchup. You think that Chicken Tikka is spicy? Try a Vindaloo - that's a very popular, hot dish in the UK. With reference to the bread pudding, there are two versions. Bread pudding is a very solid dish, made of bread, raisins/dried fruit and without custard or any liquid in it. Bread and butter pudding, however, is made using the same ingredients but with milk, cream or custard in the mix. The bread is buttered on both sides, and layered in a bowl, with the fruit 'sandwiched' in between. The the liquid is poured in. In the UK, bread pudding is often served cold. Both puddings are best served with a freshly made egg custard, although cream and ice cream are suitable alternatives. The Pasty is actually called a Cornish Pasty, as it originates from that area of England. They were originally made so that farm workers could take a full lunch to work and the pastry was to protect it from getting dirty. A proper pasty will include meat and vegetables. I'm so glad you enjoyed our food; I go to Newfoundland often and it's one of the only places in the world (apart from Barbados) where I at fish.