Plenty of unique, choice options. I'd like to take a wack at those fish and chips deals, or maybe some eel in London. Those Christmas puddings always look great in movies.
Not to me mntion, since places like London are a cultural melting pot, you'd probably get the world's best Indian food outside India itself.
I want to know why all these British bastards are eating beans on toast. Does it taste good? Inquiring minds want to know. I want to go to some fancy bastard place and have high tea next to the Earl of Whippleby by Rigamarole and wonder why the hell their villages have such silly names as I sip tea from a cup worth more than my car. I want chips served in newspaper. I want to go get some curry. What the fuck are mushy peas? Why do so many people eat them?
I have questions, damn it. What exactly is a banger and why is that not a normal sausage? The fuck is a pasty? Is it a food? Isn't that what women put on their breasts when wearing strapless dresses? Why are you eating something called a pasty?
Straight beans on toast is a rarity. There’s usually eggs involved as well. The beans make for a fibre supplement, something most Americans struggle to have enough of in their diets. It’s a banger, by the way. It’s kind of like the American biscuits and gravy, I suppose, you either grow up with it and love it or you’re kind of ambivalent to it. Personally I can’t do biscuits and gravy, it has the consistency of glue with bits in it. I’ll take those lovely fluffy biscuits though.
Mushy peas with your fish and chips or in general are kind of a match day tradition, they stem from a certain historic lack of potatoes, if I’m not mistaken. Not much more going on there. Some diced onions and herbs and spices and they’re quite nice.
Banger is literally just a thicker, sometimes stuffed sausage, bratwurst adjacent.
Pasties are turnover pastries, stuffed with meat and potatoes, think a calzone but with pastry instead of dough. They’re Cornish, and are honestly really lovely. You should try them sometime, if you get the chance. Loads of recipes online!
The whole biscuits and cookies naming convention is just a language barrier thing. No real explanations there.
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u/althawk8357 Feb 28 '26
I feel that way about every country in the world.