Since we're talking about food...
If you had to choose only 1 among each category, which one will it be?
I would love to try an English version of Fish and Chips to compare to the California West Coast version! Also a Full English breakfast for the sake of it being a recognizably English thing.
Steak and Ale pie for me.
Dessert I'm with you all the way man. Sticky Toffee Pudding.
What you need to understand before I answer this
@ZFire, is that I am a
philistine where food is concerned.
That is to say, if I could eat nothing but chocolate, cake, hamburgers and pizza, all the time, without dying of malnutrition and heart failure, I would.
In any case, there are
three dishes from the
savoury list I would deliberate on, but with variations:
-
The Full English Breakfast in it's traditional form (as described correctly by
@Michael Leigh here) is something I have never liked. Instead, much like the stripped back version of
Christmas Dinner I now enjoy each year (
sans: Turkey/Goose/Chicken
and Sprouts
), my
English Breakfast tends to look something like
this (as some of you have already seen).
-
Fish and Chips, as in
Battered Cod with
Deep Fried Chips, I've actually only ever had at Michelin Star restaurants (because it's the only thing "uncultured" enough for me, on the menus at them), and every time I've received it, the
Battered Cod has been
riddled with bones . I think it was
First Dates or something, but I remember agreeing with a guy saying he didn't feel like eating
something he couldn't just bite into and enjoy, without worrying it was going to choke him to death.
Instead, growing up on a road with
two Fish and Chip shops "wen' I were a lad", I would always have
Saveloy and Chips.
Which offers
0% bones and
100% deliciousness . So give me
that anytime.
But
my choice would have to be:
-
Shepherd's Pie. Not much to say about this really; requires no variation or editing. You just can't go wrong with a piping hot, traditional
Shepherds Pie. I've never had a bad one. And it's great both with, and without,
baked beans.
Hell,
even Keith Richards knew you couldn't perform a full concert without having had a Shepherd's Pie!
As far as the
sweet list goes, not particularly enamoured by any of them.
I'd settle on the
Jam Roly-Poly as the best of a bad bunch; but I'd demand it be
filled with cream! so that it may resemble a
Swiss Roll instead.
But seriously, give me a delicious
Cherry Bakewell or
French Fancy made by
Great Uncle Kipling, and I would make no more demands.