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- American Couple Reacts: Iconic British Foods You MUST Try Before You Die! FIRST TIME REACTION! All countries are known for certain foods. So what foods is the United Kingdom known for? Hint, NOT just Fish & Chips, although we love them. There's a a lot of different British foods and we're curious if this list has your favorite on it. We recently tried one on this list and fell in love! Can you guess which? From Toad in the Hole to Bangers and Mash, a full English breakfast and so much more! There are some foods on here that did give us nightmares and left us perplexed. Run & make a Chip Butty and grab a cuppa, let's see these Iconic British Foods! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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All countries are known for certain foods. So what foods is the United Kingdom known for? Hint, NOT just Fish & Chips, although we love them. There's a a lot of different British foods and we're curious if this list has your favorite on it. We recently tried one on this list and fell in love! Can you guess which? From Toad in the Hole to Bangers and Mash, a full English breakfast and so much more! There are some foods on here that did give us nightmares and left us perplexed. Run & make a Chip Butty and grab a cuppa, let's see these Iconic British Foods! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Hope that your package arrived safely. Especially the delicious forbidden substance. Greetings ladies from Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 🇬🇧.
I eat all weekly, yum yum 🙂
Ugh, I see black pudding there, as a very small kiddy I had that included on my plate & I disliked the taste of the herbs...now however there's not a chance I'd eat anything with those chunks of pork fat in them , yuk !
Not in the same yuk league but I don't like hash browns on a breakfast plate , no potatoes before lunchtime thanks 😉
@@kathchandler4919. The only thing missing in the picture is an 'Ulster Fry'.
Thanks for replying. Gratefully appreciated, young lady.
Yeah NAT and Deb, please come over to the UK, you'll be very pleased at what we've got to offer you over here.!!
Cottage pie is made with beef shepherds pie is made with lamb. 🙂
Also don't forget the 'close relative's' to Shepherd's & Cottage Pies: The regional 'Cumberland Pie' - but using chunky beef (rather than ground), often with cheese and topped with mashed potato plus a coating of breadcrumbs! And for those who prefer pork (as the minced/ground meat) - I have seen this option served under different names in Welsh, Scots and English 'pubs' as: Sty Pie, Pig Pie and Swineherd's Pie. (There was one other name, but at the moment of writing this I just can't remember - and it wasn't just 'PORK PIE' (which for any NON-Brits, is a separate. traditional pie here in the UK - especially the famous Melton Mowbray Pork Pie!). 😎😃
...and ocean pie with fish...
Live in the US hate how they call cottage pie Sheppard pie. All fake British pubs do. It here
I died a little inside when she said, ‘also known as Shepard’s pie: Cottage pie’ 😭
You can get pickled cockles at Jungle Jim's allways a buy for me. Like small clams
Jam Roly Poly is NOT a Swiss Roll. Swiss Roll is a thin, rolled, jam-filled cake, served cold. Jam Roly Poly is a Suet Pudding rolled in a similar way. It tastes entirely different and is served hot with custard.
It’s also steamed in a water bath.
And was a gift from the school dinner lady gods
Off to the shop
This fat lad need some now
I love jam roll poly . I used to go to my nanas every schoolday for lunch & my favourite winter meal was mince and dumpling with buttery mashed potatoes with carrots and peas followed by roly poly and I NEVER put an ounce of fat on , those were the days 😉
@@dee2251a Bang Mary as they say Ireland.😅
And spotted dick ,treacle pud, syrup sponge pud with lashings of hot custard. Yum.❤️
@The Natasha & Debbie Show Please note we do NOT eat jellied eel’s or Star gazing pie apart from a very small minority mostly found around the extreme old school fishing boat crews. We do eat pretty much everything else, some to a greater degree than others.
Kippers are not pickled. The herring is split and cleaned before having salt rubbed into the flesh. It is then cold smoked. They're lovely. 😊❤😊
For 16 to 18 hours, on par with Texas barbecue if you ask me.
lovely but a lot of bones
@martinowton7210 Soft and edible bones, unlike most fish species. It's only the back bone which is too big.
Inferior to Arbroath smokies...
@@scotmark I like both after a trip to Fife. I've never seen Arbroath Smokies for sale in my part of Yorkshire.
I would say that 90% of the UK population have never tried either jellied eels or stargazey pie! They often appear on these type of lists, mainly for the shock factor
Ditto cockles! I'm kind of surprised they left off chit'lins too!
This said, they are arguably iconic regional dishes, even if they aren't even commonly eaten there anymore.
@@iggle6448 Cockles were more of a seaside treat when I was growing up, but I do still indulge every now and then, and they can be bought in Tesco's.
Yep, maybe in the early 1900’s but not anymore.
Both are delicious if you like fish. Personally I am mildly allergic to fish but it doesn't stop me eating it.
In Britain we often cook with herbs, but never with "urbs" 😂.
😂😂👍
funnily enough, in Yorkshire people cook with Erbs... 🙂
@@johnforrester7961😋👍😁
@@johnforrester7961and Mary Poppins cockneys.
@johnforrester7961
Ey up chuck am looking for erbs n sparses
Sandwiches without butter, WHAT? The butter protects the bread from moisture in the sandwich ingredients. It also helps hold everything together, and tastes great. When you make 'gravy and biscuits' do you butter the biscuits because a light spread of butter enhances gravy so well. Do you butter toast before the spread?
Not if you use spread!
As several people have pointed out. Swiss roll and Jam Roly Poly are totally different. Swiss roll is a sponge cake and Roly Poly has a Suet pastry base with jam and served with fresh custard . Yum .
We in Australia also always spread butter on our bread for sandwiches...no matter what spread or filling.
I think Americans use a copious amount of sauces and relishes, especially ketchup and mayo. Can you imagine an egg sarnie without butter? Nooo
Same here in UK (obvs!).
You just can't have a butty without butter on it in england😊
I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.
It's because the US doesn't know what butter is. They use some other concoctions.@@jonathanfinan722
Knickerbocker glory has been around for decades and to my knowledge has NEVER been sold from an ice cream van. They are made up in a tall glass and consist of fresh or tinned mixed fruit layered with ice cream, fruit syrup, more fruit, fresh cream, more sauce, more ice cream and topped with cream and a cherry. The height of its popularity was in the 60s and 70, but was also very population in the 50s after rationing finished and was seen as a treat of decadent excess after years of wartime austerity.
Its was also invented in New Youk in the Hotel "Knickerbocker" in the 1920s
A version of them used to be sold by ice cream vans. They were ready made in plastic containers with a gob stopper in the bottom.
Yeah, I flinched at that too - the mere thought of it coming from an ice cream van! 😮
I’m 58 and have never had a knickerbocker glory from an ice cream van. It was always a summer seaside café holiday treat 🙂
Only get them in ice cream stores or restaurants. I preferred a banana split myself.
Don’t put butter on bread? Nooo! My goodness? And a chip butty has to have proper butter and loads of it along with salt and vinegar 😉 enjoy girls😊
With chips fresh from the fryer so they melt the butter!
I grew up right near where Stargazy Pie originated. You will only find it in a small fishing village called Mousehole, the other side of Penzance. Tradition has it the boats could find no fish for a long time and the town was starving with nothing to eat or sell. In desperation the men put to sea just before Xmas and miraculously caught different types of fish. A Thanksgiving pie was made for Xmas with the heads of the fish pointing heavenwards in thanks to God. This tradition is maintained every Dec 23 in the pub in Mousehole and only there.
No sausage rolls, Lancashire hot pots, crumpets, bubble and squeak, bread pudding or sticky toffee pudding ?? 🤨 I have never heard of stargazy pie it must be some old 1700's recipe ? and i don't think anyone outside of the East End of London has jellied eels 😉
Not putting butter on your chip or bacon butty would mean missing out on the best part. The butter melting into the bread combined with the tomato sauce just makes it so good.
Americans not putting butter on their sandwiches is just weird, butter stops the bread being dry and goes with everything.
I'm with the Americans on this one,, and I use butter all of the time. American cows are corn fed, not grass or hay fed. Their bread is also not proper bread, so it can last for up to a year, whereas proper bread can last a couple of days. So, you need to buy some Irish Kerrygold butter and bake your own bread (as finding some proper bread in the US will take twenty times longer). Then, you can butter the bread and have a proper butty.
@@martinbobfrank The item literally gets its name from the butter if you aren't putting butter on it then it isn't a butty.
@@24magiccarrot But the butter gets its taste from the grass, and that's why Irish butter is so good. I'm from England, Britain. We have some good butter, but Irish have some really good grass for the cows. Now, Kerrygold Irish butter is sold in the US, so that's what I'd be buying. American butter is more like lard.
Where did you get the idea that Americans don't put butter on bread.
you need to try savoury scones. I prefer them to sweet ones (unless it’s got clotted cream and fresh jam with fresh fruit). Cheese scones are amazing. Scones with cheese baked in them are fantastic. Especially when they’re fresh out of the oven and warm.
Cheese scones with marmalade is lovely
What the hell is clotted cream?
@@jacqui9026only if you like marmalade!
@@garycamara9955
Cream that’s clotted lol.
“Clotted cream is a thick cream made by heating full-cream cow's milk using steam or a water bath and then leaving it in shallow pans to cool slowly. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms "clots" or "clouts", hence the name. Clotted cream is an essential ingredient for cream tea.”
Natasha and Debbie, just want to say how much I've enjoyed your videos. Especially the love and respect you've shown our late Queen.
Hi Ladies, here in Australia we also butter our bread when making a sandwich and a Shepherds pie is made with lamb mince,( hence the word Shepherd) where a cottage pie is usually made with beef mince! Scones with jam and cream served with tea is called a "Devonshire tea"!
thank you ..that statement in the video triggered me
Scones with jam and cream are called Cornish cream tea!
@@Jamieclark192 Not in Australia! it's called a Devonshire tea here!
In England, Cottage Pie should be made with real cottages, And from scratch, preferrably free range organic scratch.
@@chrissaltmarsh6777 Hi Chris, I have no idea what a "cottage" is other than a small house ,lol also have no idea what scratch is!?
Jam roly poly isn't baked, it's steamed and it's always made with suet (or vegetarian equivalent). The thing on the plate in the video IS a Swiss Roll, that's why it looks like one!
I'm afraid the lady commentating doesn't really know what she is talking about. I suspect she's never eaten most of the foods.
@@possumyx Well, the "lady" commenting is an AI voice... And I'm starting to wonder if the script-writer is an AI too, with some of those goofs! =:o/
@@therealpbristowI doubt it's actually an AI voice, videos like this one have been around for a while and they almost always just hire someone from Fiverr or a similar site
@@dizzypro4974 I'm listening to the delivery on words like "cum-ber-land sausage", the rigidity of timing, and thinking, "that's an AI defaulting to 'sound out one syllable at a time' mode". Of course, a human might use the same trick with an unfamiliar, but they don't usually end up sounding quite so robotic when they do.
And yeah, I know you can hire a reader dirt cheap, but if you're churning out multiple videos the AI readers just need a one-time payment to get the software, and then they're (potentially) free (unless the provider opts for a subscription model).
@@therealpbristow I can see it being an AI voice too but computer generated voices usually have _more_ knowledge of English place name pronunciation than a random American that's not being paid enough to bother looking up how it's supposed to be pronounced.
crisp butty is decent too !! but chip butty is BANGING especially with salt and vinegar on the chips before putting it on the sarnie 😋😋
cheese and onion walkers in a sarnie!! winner
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@@garycamara9955 what?
If you haven't tried it, another big favourite among the traditional desserts is sticky toffee pudding (don't be put off by dates being an ingredient if you don't like them, I avoided it for years for that reason but in a good sticky toffee pudding, you don't taste them, they make it what they are, but the toffee taste drowns them out/they contribute to it.)
No, most people in Britain or even England have never eaten Jellied Eels, they were basically only popular in the Eastend of London. Now eels are very rare and few shops sell them..
I'm a southerner. Those slimy little suckers are GROSS! It's virtually disappeared now, only sold to dumb don't know better sucker tourists in London.
Japanese style BBQ eel is amazing as is cured smoked eel. Jellied eels are an abomination lol.
Plus you'd have to be very drunk
@@feiryfellaboth are rank!😂 Bottom feeders (and beetroot) just taste like mud to me 😊
Smoked eel is delicious. It's very fatty so I find a little is enough
I'm from Birmingham England and my uncle who lives in Australia loves jellied eel. So the last time I went over to visit him I decided to take some over. I went to the fish market to purchase the jellied eels and bought 3 large tubs, they packed the tubs in a polystyrene box which they packed full of crushed ice and sealed the container. 27 hours later I arrived in Sydney met by my aunt and uncle. I gave him the box of eels which still contained half the ice. He devoured the 3 tubs in minutes, I've never seen anyone so happy. He hadn't had any for 42 years since he left for Australia
That must of been nice of you to see his reaction
@@TomGodson95 what was funny was that, he said ermmmm I'll just eat one and save the other 2 until I get home. OMG they're so nice i need to eat another tub. Then I better eat the last one because it might go off by the time we get back. He only lives an hour from the airport. I also brought him a big packet of grey peas ( black country food) we literally walked through the door and he started to soak them in bicarbs in preparation to cook them the next day. He was like a kid at Christmas
🤭 I guess u got the "Nephew" of the yr 🏆. I can't stand them myself 🥴 . G'day mate 👍🍻🇬🇧
Do you not watch border control Australia makes a fortune confiscating food in suitcases
@@srleo36😂😂😂 only if you don't submit it or try to conceal it. I actually carried the box separately to my luggage
No no no no no no! Cottage pie is not also known as Shepherds pie. Cottage pie is made with minced beef and usually has cheese in with the mash while Shepherds pie is made from Lamb. Cockells are a kind of seafood off the coast of Wales. Black pudding is real nice and filling mainlyfrom the midlands where im from, you can also have bubble and squeak which is cabbage potatoes and onions fried. ❤
cockles are small shellfish, you simply boil them until the shells open and theyre cooked
Black Pudding originates from Lancashire
Cockles are also a staple across the south coast, I’m from Hampshire and around the shallow harbour areas like Southsea and Langstone they are regularly served in pubs. As for Cottage pie cheese in or grated on top of the potato is a must. Shepherd’s pie is harder to find but well worth a search because if is so distinctive, when it is available it appears to be more carefully prepared; it has a much more subtle flavour and should be buttery and minted to bring out the flavour of the lamb. When I was a kid, 60/70 years ago we had a mincer permanently screwed to the kitchen counter, so we always did our own mincing (and knew exactly what went into it!), and it was often a task relegated to us kids!
@@tbeau6663 I have seen black pudding made in Austria when they had slaughtered a cow and used the fresh blood and tiny pieces of fat. Sorry, cannot even look at it.
Butter has a defined purpose in a Sandwich, it should be spread evenly COMPLETELY covering the bread right up to the edges. It is there stop water from the filling making the bread soggy. :)
Water, in a sandwich? WTF!
One of the things missed ---- Sticky Toffee Pudding served with cream or ice cream , a must try.
I was waiting to hear that but it very sadly it wasn't on the list!
We were surprised too! Have heard so much about it
Best with clotted cream
Theres also treacle sponge made with golden syrup or a varient includes maple.syrup.
@@avalonm8541 Even better if it's suet pudding and golden syrup.
I'm 48 and British born and bred and I've never heard of Stargazy Pie in my life!!
Neither have I ever eaten eel, and I never would! 😂
Its a very nice Cornish dish Debbie.
It featured on Blue Peter in the early 1980s when Sarah Greene visited Mousehole in Cornwall. IIRC they showed you how to make it on the programme.
Defiantly a Cornish dish.
Spouse is a good one pot dish slow cooked with different meats, beef lamb pork vegetables slowly cooked for 4 hours plus, kinda get what’s left in the cupboard and put together with this and that kinda thing.
I’m 50, live in Plymouth which is next to Cornwall & Stargazy pie is legendary down here. I love fish but not with pastry, not even salmon in pastry!
Chip butties are SO GOOD, especially with chip-shop chips, rather than oven chips.
So good. Omnomnomnom.
Stargazy pie is a Cornish fisherman's dish. You don't have to eat the heads, they are just decoration! The pie itself is absolutely delicious, honestly.
I'm with you on the jellied eels though, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.
I think you are the only person in this comment section who's actually eaten stargazey pie!
I'm a fairly new subscriber and I just find your content so wholesome and charming. Here's to another 20 years for you :)
Thank you so much ♥️♥️
For any UK sandwich you need real butter and non sweet bread, hot chips on melted butter in a sandwich is very good, as is a bacon sandwich, i usually have them with hp sauce. Never heard of a Stargazy pie before, can't say it looked very appealing, but each to their own. Never had eels either, my grandfather when he was alive lived near London and used to eat them occasionally, so more of an older generation thing i believe. I love a roast and toad in the hole with mash potato and onion gravy.
Some missing from the list are:
Treacle tart, apple pie or crumble, banoffee pie, sticky toffee pud, millionaires shortbread, bread and butter pudding, Bakewell tart, lemon drizzle cake, Christmas pud, hot cross buns, sausage rolls, mince and dumplings, crumpets, hotpots, steak & ale pie, pie mash & liquor, bubble & squeak, & coronation chicken. Happy Anniversary!
Is Banoffee pie English? I thought it was Canadian?
@@almostyummymummy Yes, its from the region East Sussex
@@amylee349 well. You learn something new every day.
In this day and age it really does not have to be butter. There are many different spreads available and lots if people are mire than happy to have their chosen spread instead of butter.
@@almostyummymummyBanoffie pie was invented in the Hungry Monk restaurant in the small village of Jevington in East Sussex in 1972. I used to live there and even worked in the restaurant for a short while. It's no longer a restaurant but the building retains the name and a blue plaque (unofficial) to commemorate the pie.
Im British 62 years old ive never seen anyone eating Star Gazey pie .or even seen on a Menu.
You are more likely to see it down the South West, around Devon and Cornwall...
YES I've just been told .23rd of December apparently. I only went to Devon and Cornwall during summer so that's probably why I was unaware of it .Thanks .
@@maxmoore9955
As you had a 'date' associated with it, curiosity got the better of me and I had to Google 'Stargazy Pie', to find a whole Wikipedia page dedicated to it's history... I didn't realise it originates in Mousehole, which I visited on holiday in Cornwall many years ago (although I DO know you pronounce it MAUZEL, not 'mouse hole' - LOL!).
@stewedfishproductions7959 I've always pronounced Mousehole as well .But they have own Language don't they .alot of place names I'd say Locals definitely wouldn't pronounc same.
I'm 50, same. I live in SE London so have tried eels, not too bad but not great
Hiya! My name is Dianne Greenshields and I'm from Glasgow, Scotland. Your unwillingness to TRY a traditionally prepared SCOTTISH Haggis dish is completely normal and understandable...considering what it is made from. BUT, if you go and look for these type of videos on You Tube, you wont find many people who have tasted it and disliked it. In fact, the majority of tasters have loved it! I wont lie, I DO love the dish because of all of the wonderful spices and flavours (YES...including the amazing taste of the main ingredients), but I also need to occasionally get out of my OWN head before eating it. That's a "ME problem" due to an almost debilitating, lifelong (44years!) affliction of "Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)" which for me, has always been more about the textures of different foods making me gag (Cooked vegetables that had ANY crunch, gristle in mince, bits of fat left on my meat, etc...) I've managed to get to a point where taste is more important and have LEARNED to love the taste, rather than texture of food. Because of that, I've expanded my palate and opened myself up to all kinds of wonderful new flavours!. But please, give this a chance...it's a taste sensation. I LOVE your wee channel. HOWEVER, my only grievance would be...and it's a pet hate...for (NATASHA MOSTLY LOL...sorry) to STOP TALKING during your reaction videos!! You speak throughout the videos which makes the videos that you're reacting to, very hard to hear! I understand that they're "Reaction videos" but if you could please find a way for your fantastic sense of humour and your funny reactions to not interfere with the information that you're trying to share with us...that would be great! I know this is only ONE of your followers opinions and I understand that in the grand scheme of things, I don't count for much...but I thought that I'd comment. I'm NOT a hater...so PLEASE don't think this is malicious!! Love from Dee (My nickname). Also, a traditional Chip Butty from a Chippy, IS NOT slices of bread with chips! THAT is the homemade version (which is also tasty). If you come to a Chippy in the UK, you get a Roll (Bap, Bun or whatever people wanna call it) and chips. When I watch videos of people tasting this for the first time, I wanna scream " NOT BREAD!" Lol. Rolls are slightly denser and IMO...so much tastier!! The best way to taste this for the first time is..."Buttered roll (NOT the McDonalds, kinda sickly, sweet Baps, but a freshly baked Roll...from a Bakery), a stack of "fluffy in the middle but crispy on the outside" chunky chips, add a good amount of salt and vinegar (Some people also like some ground black pepper on top...which I DO like sometimes, not all the time), HP Brown Sauce (Again, some people prefer Heinz Tomato Ketchup...which I also love but prefer HP Brown Sauce on my Chip Buttys), and enjoy! I'm sorry that I've only gotten around to watching your video but I just want to say "Happy Belated Anniversary!!" You make a great couple, which shines through your videos. Here's to another 20 years together..."CHEERS" Sorry for the biography lol.
As soon as you mentioned bacon sandwich I started drooling
I live in Yorkshire and it's quite popular to have curry sauce with fish and chips, it's delicious.
Btw jellied eel is more a London delicacy, I personally wouldn't touch them with a barge pole 😂
Apparently eels became a thing from the Dutch engineers when Norfolk was drained for farmland. Then the eels were taken from the Thames estuary hence the popularity in London
A really long barge pole. Mind you Frog Legs and Snails don't sound very nice to me.
Yep, I reckon you have to be born to eat the stuff. It’s Marmite on steroids; multiplied by ten, and then some! 😂
Fried bread is better than toast with a full English………in my humble opinion
No one eats Jellied Eels - Well, maybe a few handful of older generations in Essex/East London..
One of my Favourites is Liver and onions with Mash potato. Probably an older dishes now so might be dying out like me .
A few big golden raisins in with the onions is very tasty. 👌
Another older dish not listed is steak and kidney pudding...
Lambs liver, smoked bacon & onion with buttery mash.....one of my all-time favourites during the freezing winters.
Anyone remember eating 'frogspawn' pudding at school? (Sago!) Looked exactly like frogspawn and didn't taste very good either.😮
yes, it came with a dollop of jam or something similar i think, i was a fan
I loved it 😂
Yep was awful
Tapioca
Yuck I hated Tapioca but loved sago pudding.
Cockles and Lava-bread fried is absolute heaven.
Kedgeree is missing from this list. It’s something I ate as a child and it’s delicious. Smoked fish and rice, it’s a good breakfast meal.
A regular in our house. 😋😋
So tasty! It's too much faff to make for breakfast but I'll happily have it for lunch or dinner.
@@gennytun Usually evening for us but it is traditionally a breakfast. .
Love it, and so easy to make.
I love it when it's curried!
Whaaat? "Scouse" is a reference to the traditional, Norwegian, hearty stew we call lapskaus!? I thought our influence on the English language petered out with the Viking age, but apparently not completely. I LOVE learning random trivia like this!
I fell in love with all things British at the ripe old age of 10, after my very first English lesson, and I just never fell out of love again. I had already discovered the Beatles years ago then There's a tape of me at five-six years old, singing full throat: "We oh lee vinna a yella summary, yella summary, yella summary..." 🤦😂
😃🤣👍👍👍
Norwegian/Viking influence is probably the most dominant of all historical cultures in the North West of England. Pretty much all of our towns have Anglicised Norse names. My old town is called Thingwall, but it was originally a settlement called Pingvollr. We have old viking burial sites as well as artifacts and also a massive rock in the forest called Thor's rock which was rumoured to be a place of worship. My uncle in his retirement decided to become a local historian and at this moment he is researching the Battle of Brunanburh which occured in the region between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. He is also excavating an old viking boat that was discovered under a pub. Hell, every August for a few weekends we also have a viking festival. 😂😂
I am from East Yorkshire we have names of places ending in by and wick . A gift from the Vikings who came and stayed . Eg.
Appletreewick
Ellerby . Thanks to Primary school history I remember this 50 years later .
Oh yes it's true - and if a place name in England ends with by its of Norse origin,and if it ends in ham or ton it's Anglo Saxon
Sometimes called lobscouse too. Blind scouse is scouse with no meat. Have to say the scouse featured looks nothing like any scouse I've had.
shepheards pie is made with ground LAMB, cottage pie is beef ,Ladees
Congrats on your anniversary ladies! 🎉💐💐🎉🥂🥂
Cockles are small cooked shellfish that are usually served with salt, pepper & vinegar. You can get them from supermarkets in jars or from stalls selling seafood at the seaside, but I've never seen them in a full English & I've had breakfasts all over the British isles.
Pork pies are really good with Branston pickle, yum.
Stargazy pie is from the SW of England, I lived there for four years & never saw it on any restaurant menu, would I eat it? Not a chance!
I'm from Yorkshire & we have Yorkshire puds with all roasts meats, we also have them with meat or vegetarian stew.
Most Brits wouldn't touch jellied eels with a barge pole. Not that many eat black pudding either 🌸
The best cockles are from the fish stall in Cardiff Market.
I'm from Bury and our town is famous for its black puddings! It claims to be a world famous market tho most of us from here side-eye that claim. But we certainly get coachloads of ppl coming to shop there from around the UK! But yeah, people make a lot of fuss about black pudding bc of the ick factor but once ppl actually give it a try most don't mind it.
In Denmark we also use butter on our bread almost every time, rye, sandwich, buns, smørrebrød etc. 5 on the bacon btw even though i don't eat pork, but enjoy a good turkey bacon (less fatty too). You gotta try beef wellington, that is sooooo good. I need to try that Battenberg cake, looks so delicious.. Love kippers, herring & smoked eel, not sure about that jelly eel though, but willing to give it a go, same for the stargazy pie... Thx for making me hungry ))
Yes,Lurpak butter on all bread, toast or sandwiches without fail! 👍
I can do without eel.
Best way to have a roast dinner is to make each person a Yorkshire Pudding the size of a dinner plate ( I use 7 inch cake tins) and serve the rest of the meal inside the pudding and smothered in lashings of gravy made from the meat juices.
No no no, only in the North
@@lindastaines8288couldn’t be much more south and I’ve done this!
@@MarkkkyPants you may have done it but it is largely a northern practise
Not for me, I don't like Yorkshire pudding!
I do like black pudding though! (Scouser, born and bred!)
I’m born & bred in East London & YES people really do eat jellied eels. Usually covered in vinegar and black pepper. And have done for hundreds of years.
Although I don’t like them myself, it is dying out very quickly.
Bear in mind people in olden times ate many things that were cheap & easily available due to not having any money!
We are spoilt nowadays.
People also used to save the fat they cooked their roast dinners in, allow it to go cold and spread it on bread and eat it 😫
That is called dripping and the brown gooey tasty stuff at the bottom is the gubbins. It is fantastic on toast
i think the reason it is dyeing out is because true Londoners are becoming the minority
Absolutely love bread & Dripping also is you cook your sausages in the oven you also get fabulous Dripping.
Dripping on toast slathered in salt is the dogs!
@@iallyl3877 Becoming? The English have been a minority in London for over a decade.
When I was a kid in the fifties,any leftover Yorkshire pudding was spread with jam and had for supper with a cup of coco, Also we always and still do have salt and vinegar on fish and chips
I sometimes do that (or have them with sugar and lemon like a pancake) when I'm at my parents' house
Yeah, so glad Im not the only person that uses Yorkshire puddings as a dessert. Most people that know me thing I have lost the plot when I say Yorkshire Puddings are great for making desserts.
In my 48 years of being alive in the uk, I’ve never eaten stargazey pie, or jellied eels 🤣🤣 I’m going to Southport for New Year’s Eve and my friend is going to make me some scouse, very excited about it ❤
only ever saw Stargazey Pie in the British Film "Ladies in Lavender" With Maggie Smith. Jellied eels tended to be eaten in Londons East End.
Same I’m 48 and never seen it before too!! This is the first time I’ve heard about it. Not sure if that pie is a southern thing.. Also never tried jellied ells either.
@@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130 Stargazey is a dish from Cornwall. Jellied Eels is all but non existent now - You will have some older generations of Essex or East London eat it but very few!
You may end up with Lancashire hotpot.
@@AM-dz2sh ... Jellied eels are still served in many pie and mash shops in East London and parts of South East London like Greenwich, and in some places in Essex. They are still supplied fresh from Billingsgate fish market in London E14.
I was borne in Liverpool and can reiterate, scouse is a very flavoursome meal, it might not look pretty, but tastes fantastic, its similar to an Irish stew. Blind scouse has no meat, just vegetables.
Contractual on your 20th
I hate to tell you what is the difference between Black pudding and Haggis they are both made from wastes
Here we use Cyprus cheese and sausage which are home made
The cheese is fryed ,,,,the sausage are made with pork in redwine and hung in a dry house
We also make a fish pie the fish is cook in milk with ether mash or sliced potatoes also parsley
One of my scouser friends hates it.
It's always just looked like a stew to me and looks like pretty much any other form of stew. I imagine it taste fine.
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@@hikariyouk Well aren’t you a ray of sunshine. 😂
Come visit Hamburg and eat Labskaus, purported to be related
For the Victoria sponge, I recommend the Mary Berry recipe! You can find it online. Also, it's the same amount of each ingredient (apart from the banking powder), so if you want to make it very precisely, you can weight the eggs and then add the other ingredients by weighing each to the same amount as the eggs. I also personally think using butter (instead of margarine) to bake a Victoria sponge makes a much bigger difference than using butter for other baking, although it's still lovely with marg. As a child these are the most boring cakes (no icing/frosting) but as an adult these are one of my favourites! I make it with raspberry jam but no cream mostly, and it's nice both ways.
Not sure why a couple of the foods was on this list and described as 'iconic' when they don't seem very popular but more of a dying out regional dish! like the jellied eels is an old London thing or stargazy pie from Cornwall, never had either of them and never will lol.
They should have replaced them with the sausage roll or crumpets and the sticky toffee pudding which are much more popular and definitely more iconic imo, i'm surprised they didn't make the list. Yes i have yorkshire puddings with every roast dinner it doesn't matter what meat i have with it.
Yes, a good sausage roll is sublime, good crumpets are fabulous - and why did they leave Christmas Pudding off the list?!
I suppose they are arguably historically iconic... Most people wouldn't build houses now as they did in Tudor times, but those buildings are still iconic... But if we're talking relevant to the present, maybe you'd be right about those alternatives.
@@iggle6448 Exactly, they have missed some good ones from this list, not sure why.
@@KitsyX I understand your point, but i don't think many had even heard of the stargazy pie judging from some of these comments maybe only in Cornwall?
I thought eels were almost extinct 😮
I love Victoria Sponge, yes it’s not common in restaurants but is an absolute staple in tea rooms and often forms part of afternoon tea.
Yes, delicious and easy to make. Yum
It's not on menus because it's not really a pudding - it's a cake - we don't usually have cake for pudding - it's for eating with a cup of tea, so you'll see it in cafes and teashop, but not restaurants.
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I love sponge cake and custard, hardly ever have it but it's delicious.
@@nigelheath7048, when my 4 kids were young, I regularly used to warm a Swiss roll up in the microwave and give them thick slices/chunks of that with custard on for pudding.
Regarding scones, the pronunciation is a constant argument all over England. However, what is not an argument is whether one has jam or cream first. The latter depends on style. Jam first is the Cornish way and cream first is the Devon way. Note that I prefer jam first, not only because I live in Cornwall (the most beautiful county in England) but also because jam spreads much easier than clotted cream, so it's easier to cover the scone, while the cream can be a simple dollop on top.
What the hell is clotted cream. Why is it clotted.
If you make scouse used lamb neck or mutton. It gives it so much more flavour. I also put white cabbage and serve it with pickled beetroot. Just like my nan taught me. ❤
We make a version of scouse called souse with pigs trotter and pork and onions,
Banoffee pie is really tasty dessert (pudding). Get cooking Debbie!
Cooking?
That's a stretch.
Banoffee pie = Zero cooking involved.............
Having seen US reaction on other channels, the issue with the US tries at butties, seems to be the difference in the US bread and US butter before you even get to streaky v back bacon…. So unless you get the foundations right it’s not gonna work😢
this is true, bread in the usa is much sweeter than our bread, they used frozen French fries in the vid i watched, and they used sauces like honey mustard on there bread, they where very underwhelmed and im not surprised, i died a little inside watching them bastardise our amazing chip buttie
As for Minced Pies. Sainsbury and Tesco sell millions every year, still!
As for, 'Ploughman's Lunch' they were an invention as a snack lunch to sell in pubs, promoted by the Cheese Marketing Board in the 1960s!
Surely it's mince pies not minced?
We do put butter on our sandwiches in the US. Where is this loon from?
years ago yorkshire pudding was only served with roast beef but because yorkshire puddings are so nice now we have them with a roast dinner regardless of which meats .. star gazing pie is not popular in the uk many brits would not eat it it was more of a tudor or victorian dish
sorry anyone who says "erbs" should be jailed for life and no parole
Of course fish have hands; where do you think fish fingers come from....🤭
We don't call them that. In America they are fish sticks
To Natasha and Debbie;
Fish Sticks...really? I know there are regional pronunciation differences but say fish sticks quickly and listen😮😮😮😮😮
@@nicholaslawlor8623 I heard Kanye likes them.
Jellied eels are totally wonderful! My wife and I are both cockneys, we grew up on jellied eels and since we moved away from London we rarely get them. We ordered a full bowl, 16 servings! delivered. For our special birthdays, I was 70, My wife 65. We sat and ate the lot over three days. Pease, don't mock, they are truly delicious!
Always have yorkshire puds with a roast regardless of what meat is served. I also make giant plate sized yorkshire puddings and serve filled with stew and dumplings.
I find Yorkshire pudding unpalatable.
Jellied eels were very popular in east London years (decades!) ago, but not any more. You'll probably find pie and mash shops there that still do them, but nobody under 50 would look twice at them.
Every seafood stall sells them in Essex and East London and they are still popular.
My son loves them and he"s 23.
Stargazey pie isn't really a commonly eaten dish here in the UK, I think they originated in Cornwall and may still be eaten there but up here in Yorkshire i've only ever seen them on television or on videos like the one you just watched.
Thank the Lord!!!
Never seen it in my 75 years in London.
I'm 52 and I've never seen one of them in real life only on videos like this. They don't look the most appetising that's for sure, even the ingredients for the inside sound like a bizarre mish mash
First time I saw it was on Great British Menu, where they made it wuth crayfish and rabbit. Fortunately only used crayfish heads for the top.
@@AzimovTubeoh my lord that sounds grim 🤢 not a fan of rabbit at all
The Cornish pasty was created for the tin miners of Cornwall. The thick outer crust on the curve was not meant to be eaten (because the miners would be dirty, so it was just to hold it, and then thrown away). It also consisted of meat and vegetables on one half, and fruit or something sweet on the other, to give the miners a 'two course meal' of main and dessert.
The reason for the miners not eating the crust was because of the toxicity of the tin deposits on their hands, avoiding the prospect of the miners inadvertently poisoning themselves
Congratulations on 20 years that's a long time 🎉🥳🎊 brilliant video I'm British so I would be biased in saying I love British food especially a tradional roast dinner cant go wrong with fish and chips either 😂
Shepard’s pie and cottage pie are often used interchangeably but technically Shepard’s pie has lamb mince and cottage pie has beef mince.
No such thing as shepard's pie.
@@billythedog-309 Wonder why we've been eating it for the last 70 years then.
@@malcolmhouston7932 No shepards in it, Cottage pie is made with real cottages. 😉🤪
Cottage Pie is topped with Mashed Potato. Shepherds Pie (Or meat and Potato Pie) Has a Pastry Top over meat onions etc. and Boiled potatoes. Decades ago these were two dishes made up from the remains of the Sunday Roast as they were quick and easy to produce by the hard pressed Housewife with children- Monday usually the Laundry day.- an alternative was "Hash" ( not Drugs) Meat, onions and leftover cabbage fried up .As a point of interest, the RF also used up the leftovers as the Queen was brought up not to waste food and was often seen turning off the lights in rooms not being used.
@@billythedog-309 Shepherd's pie originated in the 1700s in Ireland. During this time, money was tight for families. Housewives were left trying to make use of every bit of food they had.
Never buy cheap pork pies, always go for quality, and although it’s almost always eaten cold or room temperature, it’s wonderful warmed up!
Agreed, a good pork pie is one of the few things I’m happy to pay more for. A cheap pork pie is always going to taste bad. A fresh butchers or bakers is best call 💪
Melton Mowbray recipe pork pies are the best 🇬🇧
We get them fresh from the butcher's oven with the jelly all runny. Messy magnificence. If you've got the time have them in a bowl of mushy peas with a decent dose of mint sauce on top.
Totally agree, cheap is nasty, same for Scotch Eggs ❤️
@@Thinksbobel12 I think quality is important for everything whether it be black pudding, sausage, beef, lamb etc.
Cockles are a mollusc, like mini oysters.
Cottage pie = beef.
Shepards pie = lamb.
Also, Indian, (Hong Kong) Chinese and (bad) Italian food has been added to the staple British diet.
Jellied eels are not widely eaten, its one of those gross out foods one restaurant in London sells for the novelty. "Stargazer pie" is something I've never seen, though regular fish pie is pretty common.
imo Yorkshire puddings can go with almost any dish not just roasts. 😋
Victoria sponge is well worth making but then I’d say that about most cakes. 😆
I’m really surprised Spotted Dick wasn’t on the video tbh. Iconic, simple, tasty and yes, a humorous name. 👍
As others have said, Shepherds Pie is made with lamb but that’s not the only difference, it’s topped with mashed potato to emulate the fluffy sheep fleece, whereas Cottage Pie (beef) is traditionally topped with sliced potatoes to emulate the roof tiles of a cottage.
A minced beef dish topped with sliced potatoes is not cottage pie it is beef hot pot.
@@williamdom3814 every day’s a school day 😄
Cumberland pie traditionally has sliced potato ontop.
, hotpot is chunks of meat in my neck of the woods - usually lamb!
@@gillianrimmer7733 Hotpot can be chicken, beef steak, or minced beef or lamb. Hotpot is always topped with sliced potato. Cottage pie is always topped with mash, just as Shepards pie is.
Natasha, next time you get fish and chips, make sure you have some bread and butter to make a chip butty, or see if the chip shop has a buttered bap/barm/teacake! Try it without mayo first, as the butter should start to melt from the heat of the chips but if you really need it, add the mayo after.
But always make sure they don't cut the bread Corner to corner but in a rectangle.
And don’t forget salt and vinegar.
Another fantastic Chippy staple.. is a Fritter sandwich/roll. Which is essentially potato fritters (normally 2 large ones, between the buttered bread..
Americans don't really use butter. I heard they ruined butter 😮
A Cockle is a small molusc, similar to a clam - and I think it's mostly the older generation that eats jellied eels, my nan was the only person that I knew who ate them. Most of us shrug our shoulders and shiver a little when we hear the phrase jellied eels - it's an acquired taste. Apparently you say scone as in 'gone' not scone as in 'cone' - elecution specialists have said that you are meant to say it like sgon, i've seen it on several programmes here - we like to grumble about this, as well as cream or jam first on a scone.
With the Bacon, I agree with Natasha how Bacon should be cooked. My mum on the other hand would rather have burnt Bacon which I seriously don’t understand.
Great Video as always keep up the phenomenal work.
Hated mince pirs as a kid. . .absolutely love them now and yes you can have yorkshire pudding with any meat. In some pubs you may just have to request it but usually it will come with it anyway
Warm mince pie, opened up. Splash of damson gin and a good blob of clotted cream. Top back on. Heaven!
I’m welsh and I’ve never heard of lavabread or cockles on a breakfast 🫣😂 and the Scottish breakfast you’re more likely to find a Lorne sausage (flat sausage meat patty) and a tattie scone (potato pancake) on your breakfast than haggis and oatcakes!!!
Im Welsh and I see laver bread and cockles served with breakfast all over south west Wales.
When I was a child in Pembrokeshire (SW Wales) my mother used to give us laver bread for breakfast, I don’t remember her adding cockles to it but we did collect them from local beaches and eat them on other occasions.
Quite agree. Don't know how they could have missed out the Lorne sausage.
you two are nice people. congratulations on your anniversary! here's to another 20 years!!
Omg I LOVE you guys! Discovered you today so I have a ton of content to binge ..... Yay! You're hilarious. Sad I missed your anniversary live on the 19th, I will watch the recording though! English bird here, love these reaction vids. We aren't as weird as you think! I hope...! 😅 Here's to the next 20 years girls! Cheers! 🥂
When my sister and I were children my father used to drive to a local pub and outside in the car park was a cockle shed. In fact it sold all types of shell fish but also jellied eels. My mother would always have whelks ( like see snails) and she would also have Jellied Eels too. My sister and I would have cockles with vinegar and white pepper and we would also have prawns washed down for us with a bottle of Coca Cola. To this day I still eat cockles and prawns. Every week up until my mum passed away mum had Jellied Eels twice a week she absolutely adored them. I would have to go to so many places to buy them for her. She died a month before her 91st birthday. I refused to try them as the jelly put me off. My father used to makes his own Jellied Eels. He would go out and catch the Eels and when I got up in the morning and went to the bathroom there were always loads of Eels swimming in our bath tub. I won’t explain how he cooked them but apparently very healthy for you. Rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, Vitamin B12, Vitamin A. Also the jelly is an excellent source of joint and skin friendly Collagen. However I would not eat them. This was the early 1950s where rationing was still around so Jellied Eels were a great way of improving people’s health. Still very popular in the East End of London. Star gazer pie would be a no for me too. All the puddings I could do without . However I do like a good baked Victoria Sandwich. I have tried over 40 years of making my own all different recipes even in different ovens but I have Never been able to make one, which make feel pretty useless. Anyway ladies great video once again.
Stop. You’re making me hungry and sentimental.🥲
There are no EastEnder in London. They went to Essex.
@@robertfarrow5853 not in the 1960s
That should say not in the early 1950s or even the early 1960s. They started to move to Essex late 1960s and early 1970s
Cottage pie is made with beef; shepherd's pie is made with lamb
Sorry, I was drunk when adding my own comment below 😂
Hi, cottage pie is made with beef mince and shepherds pie is made with lamb mince.
Jam roly poly with custard is life
I am born and bred in Hertfordshire, a county just north of London. We never had Black pudding - it's a northern thing, or Stargazy Pie - it's a Cornish thing and never had Jellied Eels - it's a East London thing, or Scouse - it's a Liverpool thing. I am 73 and my Mum used to make Shepherd's pie with Lamb mince and Cottage pie with Beef mince.
The video missed out Spotted Dick a popular dish at school.
Scone rhymes with stone, bone and cone.
Cottage Pie is made with beef - originally the beef left over from the Sunday Roast was minced and turned into Cottage Pie on the Monday. Shepherds Pie is similar, but made with Lamb (hence the name Shepherds Pie).
Again as you said store bought scones tend to be dry due to them being mass produced and loaded with preservatives in order for them to remain on the shelves for much longer, resulting in more staler scones, the best ones have to be either same day made at the very least or made the following day, but the best ones are when they’re fresh, light and fluffy, all the while sitting back in your chair, under te warm sun without a cloud in the sky, drinking a nice cup of camomile tea
In UK, indeed in Europe, we butter sandwich bread corner to corner as a barrier to stop ingredients like sliced tomato making the bread soggy.
The question isn't why we do it but why Yanks don't!
We often have a mid week roast as well sometimes make the big Yorkshire pudding and put everything in it the veg the potatoes and meat with gravy poured in
Regarding the pronunciation of scone, my dad used to quote me this rhyme when I pronounced it like “gone”.
I asked the maid, in dulcet tone
To order me a buttered scone.
The silly girl has been and gone
And ordered me a buttered scone!
My gramma insisted, with a smile, that when on the plate it was called a scoan, but after eating it, it was s'gone! 😅
Of course there is a place in Scotland called Scone which is pronounced Scoon and is where Scottish Kings were crowned.
@@grimreaper-qh2zn as in The Stone of Scone in the Throne of Westminster at one time then stolen back I believe?
@@robertfarrow5853 Correct
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The making of Victoria sponge cake is taught in schools, most boys and girls age 13 plus know how to make it. Jellied ells is southern. The Northerns prefer fish😊
I'm a 41 year old man who lived in Kent all my life and never heard anyone who eat it or talk about jellied ells definitely not a Southern thing 🤔
@@aaranross952 Jellied eels are a traditional English dish that originated in the 18th century, primarily in the East End of London. The dish consists of chopped eels boiled in a spiced stock that is allowed to cool and set, forming a jelly. It is usually served cold. Bradley's Jellied Eel Pots 200g £2.75 Sainsbury's
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Hi guys. Another great vlog. Most people, including me, will have not eaten jellied eels, and I have never even heard of stargazer pie. Jellied eels and mash was a traditional Cockney food eaten, I am guessing in 1920's to 1950's, although you can still probably get it today in London, if you know where it is sold.
I have never heard of Stargazy Pie, and I wouldnt want to eat it either. Congrats to you both for 20 years together yay
Also there is a huge difference between English butter and American butter.
True shepherd's pie is lamb mince with veg and mash (like a fleece) on top, cottage pie is beef and veg with sliced potato (like cottage roof slates) on top, both are usually topped with grated (shredded) cheese a few minutes before they are taken out of the oven... You could use any minced (ground) meat you wanted, with either potato topping xx
Jellied eels is a southern thing (maybe only London ! )you won’t find them up north. But black pudding is a northern thing, we wouldn’t put white pudding or haggis on with black pudding. Shepherds pie is always made with lamb, cottage pie is made with beef. You could try minced turkey if you’re watching you weight.
Black pudding is a fine, fine food.
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Delicious hot OR cold!
Morning ladies- can't beat black pudding( don't call it blood sausage) bacon especially with the rind on and kippers are to die for! When I nursed, a patient from the Isle of Man ,sent us 5 boxes of Manx kippers! Never seen the fridge empty so quickly! Me and my dog had kippers all week from our share- brought up on this type of food, Roast dinners, Yorkshire pud and beef, porridge on a winter's morning and bubble and squeak on a monday- have a peaceful day 🏴( ofcourse fish and chips with mushy peas and home made cottage pie- abd ofcourse being from Liverpool scouse and salt fish)
Black pudding is variable. If you try it and don't like it, try a different make. I like it, but sometimes are very disappointed. It dries out quickly, too, so some buffets breakfasts have dried out, and I'd avoid.
@@annemumby-qt9uothe best black puds are the Bury ones - the traditional type , lovely
I have vague recollections of being told at school that a cornish pasty was large with savoury one side desert the other, home made for the men out in the fields/mines with a thick crust that was for the purpose of holding it without contaminating the pasty, once eaten crust was discarded.
jellied eels are amazing , i would love sundays at my nan and grandads as for dinner we would have a roast, and for tea its was always a salad and loads of seafood such as prawns, cockles, jellied eels, winkles, sundays were amazing family time
7:18 Cockles are like small clams, and they're delicious. Laverbread (which tastes much better than it looks) is made of chopped, boiled seaweed. You can just warm it up in a microwave, but It's traditionally fried in the residue left in the pan after you've cooked the bacon. Fried cockles, bacon and laverbread is a combination made in Heaven :)
21:59 The "Ploughman's Lunch" was invented as a gimmick in the 1950s, to encourage people to eat more dairy products after wartime rationing officially ended.
Hate cockles. Yuk!
Cocles sound like Pippies....
Cockles and and fresh Laverbread is certainly a dish made in heaven, I miss going to Swansea or Cardiff market for the ingredients, buying the jarred ingredients in England is not the same
@@juliajoyce4535 When I was at London University (many moons ago), I was lucky enough to live in a hall of residence opposite Selfridges, where I could buy the real thing. They also sold "Sir Gâr" salted Welsh butter, which was an added bonus!
Laver bread sounds like Dock pudding . It's a local dish from the Hebden Bridge area its Dock leafs oat meal and other things. If you ask anyone who makes it they won't tell you exactly it's abit like the KFC recipe
Sheppard's pie and cottage pie are slightly different ones made with beef mince and the other is made with lamb mince x
Oooh, my favourite mince pies come from M&S, they melt in your mouth!
It's funny to see people being surprised by some of our classic dishes as for us, they are just everyday standard dishes.
If you want to make delicious English recipes then I recommend you search for Mary Berry, she is the queen of the kitchen here in the Uk!
The last thing I want from a mince pie is it 'melting' in the mouth. I want one with more substance than that.
@@CrankCase08 ok
Stargazy Pie: Its cooked once a year in a tiny festival in one small part of the country, its not national dish. Lots of people will tell you about jellied eels, but the real story is that they aren't really an everyday food and most people even in the UK haven't even tried them. Its a food item that really died out in the 70s but gets brought up in these types of videos as if we still eat them daily.