It breaks my heart that apparently most of the British public have never had good black pudding.
And haggis.
Someone once convinced me to eat haggis in exchange for a free meal of haggis.
It was delicious!
I mean, that picture of removeds doesnt look too bad either.
They've probably never had unicorn meat either. Because neither of those things exist.
Tongue firmly in cheek here...
It's basically like the Spanish blood sausage but using oats instead of rice right? I think that's a downgrade but from a 10 to a 9 so I still love it.
Yorkshire puddings are entirely all right but they're not top tier. That's like saying bread is top tier, it depends entirely on what you can buy it with. No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate that's not a meal.
Welsh rarebit though is. That should be at the top of the list, if I ever go to a cafe and they have that on the menu I will 100% definitely have it every single time.
Yeah, why is Yorkshire Pudding at the top but Toad-in-the-hole is halfway down, when they are the same thing, except one is a proper meal and the other isn't?
This is madness. A full English (top tier) should have black pudding (apparently so-called bottom tier) on it. Madness, I tell you. And clearly a steak and kidney pudding is superior to a steak and kidney pie. It's all to cock!
I find it utterly hilarious that a bacon sandwich is for one classified as a classic british food, but also tops the chart above some real originals like tika masala or the scotch egg.
I see your full English and raise you a full Scottish. Just like a full English but with haggis, fruit pudding, tattie scone, and guaranteed black pudding (English seems to only sometimes come with black pudding).
IMO English should always come with black pudding and a cup of tea, if it doesn't have it, you're just eating a fry up
God tier - I agree
Top tier - All low tier
Mid tier - Chicken Tikka Massala & Welsh Rarebit should be Top Tier (I had Welsh rarebit for the first time in the summer, regret not having it earlier)
Low Tier - Pork Pie & Steak & Kideny Pie belong in crap tier (replace kidney with ale and it becomes God Tier)
Crap Tier - black pudding should be top tier. Haggis mid tier.
Edit - Where's beans on toast??
It never occured to my stupid Canadian brain that Chicken Tikka was actually British. But it makes sense in the same way that a lot of foods are "Canadian" because they were invented by immigrants adapting a dish to their new home.
Chicken Tikka is Indian. Chicken Tikka Masala is from Glasgow.
There is ongoing dispute around its origins.
British sources have a belief and can't objectively prove it was first made there:
“One story purports that it was invented in the 1970s by Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑Scottish chef in Glasgow, who, to please a customer, added a mild tomato‑cream sauce to his chicken tikka" - Brittanica
“Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑immigrant chef in Glasgow, claimed he invented chicken tikka masala in the early 1970s using canned tomato soup and spices.” - NPR
Punjabi sources claim it had already been done at least a decade prior, also can't be proven.
“A recipe for ‘Shahi Chicken Masala’ appears in this 1961 Indian cookbook, predating the Glasgow claim by a decade.” - Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery (1961)
“My grandfather was serving chicken tikka masala to Indian heads of state as early as 1947.” - as reported by NPR from an interview with Monish Gurjal chairman of Moti Mahal (one of the first restaurants to introduce Punjabi and North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world)
TIL all my favorite foods are universally despised lmao
Offal is delicious, get on my level 🫀🫁🫘
I know this was made to get a rise out of the Brits, but putting the amazing Scotch Egg and Pork Pie in Low Tier is a hate crime
Thing is, while real pork pies and scotch eggs are great, lots of people might have only experienced the sad, dry, disappointments that are sold en masse in supermarkets. So in that context I can see why they rank so low.
faggots
I said eat my ass, not my whole body!
The top tier - consisting only of steak and ale pie - was sadly cropped out.
Also, would vouch for a separate entries for "cold Scotch egg fully cooked" and "fresh Scotch egg with runny middle".
I'll start saying I'm Brazilian and have never gone to the British islands, but I feel like this is wrong just by beef Wellington being so low. I've had a homemade one and it was the best thing ever, and even before having it, it just sounds so delicious!!! Anyway besides that everything above the lowest tier are def on my list of things I'd love to try at least once, while some of the lowest tier just make me not want to try because of the idea of what bit of meat I'd be eating, I would give it a try since I do enjoy a bit of liver every know and then, and chicken hearts are really good (at least in the Brazilian BBQ style) so I could like boss sausages and other things
No corned beef hash??
After years hearing about how awful haggis is, I've been very pleasantly surprised when I finally got to taste it earlier this year. It tastes like mutton, which I love, and the oats give it a very pleasant texture. Definitely in my top tier of British food
The taste is entirely dependent on how well haggis season goes.
With the rewilding efforts of the Scottish government there's been a recent uptick in haggis numbers though! The downside with that however is the little buggers have been breaking into industrial oat stores and gobbling up as much as they can, so the price of oats has increased.
Last I heard, the oat industry were discussing moving their storage locations to flatter ground so the haggis struggle to get to it with their mismatched legs.
English foods .. or more commonly known as "Beige"
Only the UK would classify something "fish and chips" as the pinnacle of their cuisine.
Cornish pasty and welsh rarebit are god tier. Ploughman's lunch and Lancashire hotpot are top tier. Yorkshire pudding is top tier. Haggis done right is a LOT better than you think (caveat, I was very very drunk when I tried it.)
Cottage pie and shepherd's pie have no business being that high and what the hell is black pudding doing down there?!
I don't know where to begin, it's all wrong. You could reverse it and it would be better.
Shepard's pie pic is just Cottage pie pic mirrored lul.
If this was the only food accessible to me I would also conquer the world. Desperately.
idk why people say that about British food, this all looks warm and filling, it's basically comfort food. The worst thing about it is there are very few fruits and vegetables but presumably those are side dishes.
I don't know where to start...
Steak and kidney pie is low tier but 'Pie and mash' is mid tier?
Kippers, Steak and kidney pudding, Black pudding; all crap?
Bump the Cottage and Shepherd's pies down and stick the hotpot, kippers, and snake and pygmy in top tier where they belong.
Haggis is boss. S+k pudding and black pudding also don’t belong on the bottom tier - particularly as black pudding is a component of full English in the top tier!
I’d also swap Toad In The Hole with one the mince based pies above - the world needs to know about Toad In The Hole!
Haggis with neeps and tatties and a little gravy is amazing. So peppery and satisfying. I know it sounds shite, but genuinely one of my favourite meals. Would take it over a Sunday roast any day. A lamb roast is excellent, mind you.
People feel pretty strongly about faggots and peas
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