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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!
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I noticed it was a Yougov poll and then it made sense. I’ve lost all hope of the general population being able to make any reasonable decision. This might be the worst (best?) example yet.
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
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.
Beef Wellington low tier? Who was asked for this poll?
Erin Patterson’s husband.
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.)
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)
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
And Lorne sausage!
Oh aye! How could I forget. And if you’re hanging a wee tinny of Bru to wash it down
And my axe!
You’re not wrong, it is definitely an improvement. Fruit pudding is such a weird juxtaposition, like a cinnamon tart, super sweet eaten alongside all of the salty.
Since I moved to the south east I have never seen a full english with black pudding and it saddens me. But I would rather make my own anyway as I can do it properly.
According to the logic of this incorrect chart, the two added “crap tier” items would pull the whole thing down to the middle.
After visiting Scotland for the first time, I have to agree. The tatie scone is a stroke of genius!
I prefer welsh breakfast, with the cockles. My cafe stopped doing it though.
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??
TIL all my favorite foods are universally despised lmao
Offal is delicious, get on my level 🫀🫁🫘
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!
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”.
Steak and ale pie is so underrated.
Have you tried the W2Kitchen version? It’s impossibly roasty and full of caramel flavour, browning on top of browning… If I talk more I’ll have to go make it.
No corned beef hash??
Haggis in the crap tier and Yorkshire pudding in the top tier? Yeah, right 🤦
English foods … or more commonly known as “Beige”
