National dish

[Jimbuna]

UK

Fish and chips.
Curry (of all descriptions)
Roast dinner with all the trimmings
Bangers and mash
Shepherd's/Cottage/Cumberland pie
Steaks
Hamburgers
Steak and kidney/mince/pork pie
Full English breakfast

The list could go on and on...

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

UK

Fish and chips.

Should we ever take up raiding again, your fish&chips are coming with us I tell you. With malt vinegar that is food of the gods.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Von Due

Should we ever take up raiding again, your fish&chips are coming with us I tell you. With malt vinegar that is food of the gods.

Reminds me of the time I was living in Holland and working as an Instrumentation Engineer (VAF Instruments BV Dordrecht)

Friday was the fish lunch day in the factory canteen and my second week there I asked one of the canteen cooks if I could have my fish fried because I wasn't impressed with the raw pickled herring my Dutch colleagues were eating.

One of my colleagues who was ex-Dutch Navy and had been to the UK sat beside me and said "You Brits are weird, eating fish and chips out of a newspaper" and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

today being Superbowl Sunday, I'm "noshing" on garlic bagel, onion, capers, fresh dill, with smoked salmon" for lockdown lunch; <me at favorite restaurant after day's sail with 'build your own nosh' and my bride has informed me: I'll B BBQing halibut with sliced marinated red & yellow bellpeppers on the Weber tonight!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

"You Brits are weird, eating fish and chips out of a newspaper" and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

Tell me more about your English roast dinner, in you family, how is that prepared? We have a pot roast here, with a pork shoulder, carrots, onions, potatoes, and celery slow cooked. Is that similar?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Tell me more about your English roast dinner, in you family, how is that prepared? We have a pot roast here, with a pork shoulder, carrots, onions, potatoes, and celery slow cooked. Is that similar?

The roast dinners are usually made for a Sunday meal but not always, any day is fine depending on what you fancy.

The meat which can be chicken, beef, pork or lamb etc. is cooked slowly in the oven (don't know for how long because Ann does that).

Next you have your mashed potato (boiled in a pan of water prior to draining then adding milk and butter before mashing) accompanied by roast potatoes which are boiled prior to being coated in vegetable oil then baked in an oven until the outer is nice and crispy.

Next the veg usually consisting of tinned marrowfat peas, mashed turnip, cauliflower, broccli, cabbage and carrots.

Ann makes her own yorkshire puddings and the gravy is made from the juices from the roast meat and some gravy granules.

Hope that is understandable because my forte is making Indian and Chinese curries.

Oh, forgot to mention if we have chicken, we usually have stuffing with it but that comes out of a packet, Ann adding the sausage meat and onions herself.

[les green01]

reginal here be bbq but honest i can't turn any food down growing up in the winter time dad couldnt work cause of the weather so me and him hunted a lot
foods i liked
Texas chilli
Pecan pie which i can't have anymore
Southern fry chicken
crawdads
frog legs

[Rhodes]

Portuguese "Stew" is the translation, but every thing is boiled.

Grilled Sardines

and of course, Cod! One of my favourites, grilled cod with punch potatoes (funny translation of the dish name)

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

UK

Fish and chips.
Curry (of all descriptions)
Roast dinner with all the trimmings
Bangers and mash
Shepherd's/Cottage/Cumberland pie
Steaks
Hamburgers
Steak and kidney/mince/pork pie
Full English breakfast

The list could go on and on...

After reading this, I realized that Shepard's pie with beef is Cottage pie. It's a good substitute since lamb isn't as widely available as it may be in the U.K. I made a pork roast last week and have enough left over to make a roast pork pie. All of the things you mentioned sound great.


The malt vinegar with the beer batter marinated fish is is so great as to be beyond description. The fish is great either breaded or broiled with some lemon and butter.