A comment on this earlier AskLemmy post inspired me to ask this question. I think there’s lots of delicious British food/it really depends on how you cook it, as with any cuisine.

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    2 days ago

    Let’s start with:

    Fish and chips
    Chip butty
    Yorkshire fishcake butty
    Whitebait
    Scottish smoked salmon
    Cromer crabs
    Potted shrimp
    Scallops and Black Pudding
    Sunday Roast (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, vegetarian)
    Beef Wellington
    Full English
    Full Scottish
    Full Welsh
    Ultster Fry
    Deviled kidneys
    Mixed grill
    Gammon, egg and chips
    Steak and Ale pie
    Steak and oyster pie
    Meat and potato pie
    Pork pie
    Chicken and Mushroom pie
    Scotch pie
    Game pie
    Fish pie
    Shepherd’s pie
    Cottage pie
    Steak and kidney pudding
    Lancashire hotpot
    Irish stew
    Cornish pasty
    Scotch egg
    Sausage roll
    Ploughman’s lunch
    Haggis
    Afternooon / Cream / High Tea
    And of course the full range of BIR curries: Chicken Tikka Masala; Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti
    And a bunch of puddings and sweet things, sticky toffee pudding, apple pie, mince pie, hot cross buns, etc., but I don’t have a sweet tooth

    Depending on where you get said foodstuffs it can be everywhere from grim inedible sadness to glorious sublime perfection.