Cheapest meal in the UK

[Herr-Berbunch]

Every Friday evening when I was about 16 I used to buy a deep-fried jam sarnie from the local chippy (not a carpenter). It was something like £1.10, it was delicious, it was very hot in the middle.

[nikimcbee]

A chip buttie is never complete unless it is accompanied with lashings of Heinz Salad Cream

Does that have anything to do with spotted dick?

[nikimcbee]

If you're looking for cheap food...

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by joea

Another reason not to trust British cooking.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Does that have anything to do with spotted dick?

It does if you combine it with a crate of lager and a woman of dubious reputation. Fosters anyone?

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by TarJak

It does if you combine it with a crate of lager and a woman of dubious reputation. Fosters anyone?

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeece!!!

[Osmium Steele]

Originally Posted by August

Reminds me of a Wish Sandwich.

A wish sandwich is where you have two pieces of bread and wish you had some meat.

Bow bow bow...

Gimme a ricochet biscuit anyday.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

...A chip buttie is never complete unless it is accompanied with lashings of Heinz Salad Cream

The Wife loves chip butties and had a friend in Newfoundland mail her bottles of Heinz Salad Cream for years until she found a local supplier. I tried one once with a side of defibrillator.

[vienna]

Odd, I always thought this was the British National thrift foodstuff:








By a strange coincidence, on a local Los Angeles radio morning show, one of the guests was a PBS travel show host named Rick Steves. His show is quite popular and he gives a lot of inside information about inexpensive travel. One of the radio hosts, who has travelled extensively throughout Europe, asked Steves why British food is so awful. Steves tried to not be critical of the food and offered that it is getting better do to a rise in the British public's acceptance of foods from its former colonies. This caused me to think of two questions:

1. Is there really an indigenous cuisine in Britain?

2. If Britain is turning to the quisine of its former colonies, will the Brits take over our uniquely American fare such as chow main, spaghetti and meatballs, chimichagas, and swiss steak (among others)?

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1552891.html

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22145/...-foreign-foods

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Randomizer

The Wife loves chip butties and had a friend in Newfoundland mail her bottles of Heinz Salad Cream for years until she found a local supplier. I tried one once with a side of defibrillator.

Not good if your a calory counter mind....I can't eat the 'light' variants

[Cohaagen]

There's nothing wrong with British food, but Americans like to cling to these tropes regardless. Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...

[Sailor Steve]

You're absolutely right. On the other hand we don't complain that British food is bad. Quite the opposite. We just complain (along with the rest of the world, including some British members here) that it's boring.

That said, the article that started this thread is British, and seems to be true, which means that our complaint is also true.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

Like when the OECD found that British schoolkids have the healthiest teeth in the world, I lost count of the amount of people in the US who either said it was faked, flawed, or just outright refused to believe it.

The schoolchildren may have the healthiest teeth in the world, it's the adults that don't!

[August]

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Bow bow bow...

Gimme a ricochet biscuit anyday.

Is that the kind of a biscuit that's supposed to bounce back off the wall into your mouth. if it don't bounce back... heeheehee,... you go hungry!

Bow bow bow...

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Cohaagen

Of all people, Americans should be last to criticise any country's cuisine. I mean, without even going into the ruthless exporting of crap like McDonalds and KFC, who gave the world grits, chitterlings, processed cheese, hot dogs, Cheez Whizz, squirrel brains, chocolate that smells and tastes like sick, Spam, refried beans, meat-free strips of fat dubiously known as "bacon", corn syrup in everything, chipped beef, macaroni & cheese, I could go on...

Seriously? Grits are awesome.

And mac and cheese is hardly an American invention, at least according to Wikipedia...

Macaroni is mentioned in various medieval Italian sources, though it is not always clear whether it is a pasta shape or a prepared dish. However, pasta and cheese casseroles have been recorded in cookbooks as early as the Liber de Coquina, one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. A cheese and pasta casserole known as Makerouns was recorded in an English cookbook in the 14th century. It was made with fresh hand-cut pasta which was sandwiched between a mixture of melted butter and cheese. It was considered an upperclass dish even in Italy until around the 18th century.

Also "chitterlings" were apparently found in English cookbooks as far back as the mid 1700s and can be found in some form in most if not all pork-eating cultures throughout history. And (also according to Wikipedia) processed cheese was invented in Switzerland.