Hello! We will be back in the England to visit my in-laws in October and my husband and I were just talking on the weekend what did we want to eat first. What are some of your favorites? Some things you can get here and also re-create here but its just not the same somehow...

This was what we came up with:

Double Cream, clotted cream with anything!
My mother in law's blackberry and applie pie with custard
Any savory pie, chicken and mushroom, steak and kidney, love them all.
All Indian food!
Fresh cream eclairs
Full english breakfast
English tomatoes although we might be too late for the best ones.
Real Coleman's prepared english mustard. We buy it here but its not the same, not as hot. That's why we always bring some back.
PG Tips Tea - which we can buy here but its not the same without english milk!
Sharp english cheddar
English white bread..so dense and yummy.
English butter
Good english bangers
English bacon - not streaky
Oh how could i forget the BEST EGGS! The yolks are like almost orange not like our pale insipid eggs here.
oooh I know I have forgotten loads...

My favorites:

The "Full English" breakfast (but eggs scrambled instead of fried)

Crumpets dripping with butter

Bangers and mash (with Cumbrian sausage)

Steak and ale pie; also chicken and mushroom pie

Sticky toffee pudding

Devon or Cornish cream tea (never quite understood the difference)

And of course, a great beer (lager)!

This topic is really making me hungry-- and thirsty!

Kathy

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Originally posted by kaydee:
My favorites:

The "Full English" breakfast (but eggs scrambled instead of fried)

Crumpets dripping with butter

Bangers and mash (with Cumbrian sausage)

Steak and ale pie; also chicken and mushroom pie

Sticky toffee pudding

Devon or Cornish cream tea (never quite understood the difference)

And of course, a great beer (lager)!

This topic is really making me hungry-- and thirsty!

Kathy

Kathy, I guess its just you and me who like the food in the UK!!

I am interested to see what Pauline likes to eat in the UK, since she is a vegetarian! I do know she enjoys afternoon tea.

Kathy

- A proper ploughman's lunch with good cheddar and Branston pickle

- Mature stilton on a cream cracker with a glass of vintage port

- Cadbury's fruit and nut bars (they're better in the UK)

- McVitie's dark chocolate digestive biscuits

This is just for starters...

Fancy

* a half pint of dry cider
* spotted dick
* good takeaway fish & chips (plaice, please, not cod) with malt vinegar
* everything on Fancy's list --
* lamb - roast or chops - with wonderful mint sauce -- not mint jelly!
* a good Sunday roast with crispy roasted potatoes
* Waitrose fruit yoghurts -- rhubarb, black currant especially
* old fashioned cooked breakfast with fried tomatoes, big black mushrooms and fried bread (but only once a trip, for the sake of my cholesterol)
*kippers
* whitebait

Oh - I have to stop...

Judy

Ahhh sunday roast dinner, yes, one of my favorites and my husbands. Although now he says my sunday roast surpasses mummy's! Hope she's not reading this!!! Still can't wait for her's though, something about somebody cooking it for you...

Can't believe I forgot the fish and chips!

But I also want to add: Walls ice cream

Kathy

OH yes, Kathy -- with a cadbury flake, of course!

Hola.

OK stop it!

I live in one of the most beautifull places on earth.

Its not its fault the food is crap!

I want a really big bacon sandwich with brown sauce, mighty white bread and fried onion rings!

Clive

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Originally posted by Clive and Sue:
Hola.

OK stop it!

I live in one of the most beautifull places on earth.

Its not its fault the food is crap!

I want a really big bacon sandwich with brown sauce, mighty white bread and fried onion rings!

Clive

Oh poor Clive, you said something about wanting a bacon sany last week didn't you??? Well when I get there I will let you know what it tastes like, thank god I like brown sauce...

my choice would be a Brie and Bacon sandwich, and that would be english bacon, please. When my husband flew on his route with airlines,i would have a list for him to bring back to cook the stuff i miss. Try to get treacle here! I love the food there, it has such a bad reputation but i wonder what people eat to say such things about it!! Hungry now for sure, i am off to lunch.
Susan K.

This is similar to the thread English foods an american should try.

On rare occasions you can get blue cheddar. It happens by chance rather than intentionally when cheddar is made. You would only find it at a deli, and many may not even have heard of it. I would buy a pound the instant I saw it.

And if anyone is interested in doing some British cooking on their own, here's an old thread on Steak and Ale pie recipes.

Kathy

I loved the lettuce, strawberries, beer and Earl Grey tea.

Ginger

My husband loves...

steak and kidney pie (he's still searching for a really great one)

the hare pie (at St. John's restaurant)

AND

I forgot about whole fried whitebait (thanks for the reminder, Motherjudy).

"wholemeal" bread - thick cut

The vegetarian weighs in. I eat more cheese when in the UK than I do at home. I bought two different local cheeses at a deli in Stow in May that were incredible. A double Gloucester I think and something else.

At the pubs:
- Cauliflower cheese
- Ploughman's lunch
- Jacket potato with cheese

Oops, will post more later - dinner time here!!

Boiled gammon.

After almost 40 years here I have found a British butcher who sells it - but like everything else it is better eaten in England at my sister's house!

Any store bought biscuits - but especially M & S.