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Black pudding and blood sausage are the exact same thing. They’re delicious! A few slices lightly fried in a pan and turned once, then added to your plate – eaten with eggs, baked beans (not the same taste as US beans), beef sausages, mashed potato, hot buttered toast, etc. Yummy!
Jelly and custard is yummy! In Australia, we make Trifle which consists of layers of chunks of sponge cake, custard, jelly (usually red but often multiple flavours), fresh fruit pieces, sponge cake, jelly, custard, fresh fruits, until the trifle bowl is full the topped with Chantilly cream and decorated with whatever you fancy – slide bananas, strawberries and grated chocolate, for example. There’s no set recipe for Trifle, it can be whatever you like or have left over.
British baked beans have just four ingredients: navy beans, tomato, salt, acidity regulator. The US version has a lot more including garlic and vinegar. Both are made by Heinz. Australia’s version is like the Brits with four ingredients.
You’ve eaten Aspic thousands of times, every time you’ve had soup or stew or anything made with stock! Jellied Eels are just cold fish pieces. Nothing yucky about it. If you don’t like the aspic, warm it up! (Although why cold fish bothers you so much, I don’t get.)
Branston beans are best
Nothing wrong with offal either, as ling as it’s cooked properly. You don’t like offal either? Then stop eating hotdogs.
Raw/rare stake doesn't have much if any blood in it, the light red liquid is myoglobin. I don't know if the Vikings were involved (after all Normans were basically Vikings) but he didn't mention Kippers – herring slow smoked over a wood fire, usually using oak – they are delicious! When we say treacle in this context, we mean Golden Syrup, which is so much better then what we call black treacle which is very similar to molasses, but slightly sweeter, golden syrup is the nectar of the gods! He also failed to mention the most important British food invention – custard powder. If you are offered custard with your dessert in the UK, unless you are some place very posh or it specifically says 'egg custard' then its made with custard powder and wouldn't have it any other way!
pasty
sounds like pastiche
3rd Generation Londoner. Both grandad's loved it, Mum and Dad hated it, I can't stand it, but my uncle loves em.
JJ now has to watch 'Going for an English' from Goodness Gracious Me to understand twits being rude and obnoxious to waiters in Indian restaurants 😅
Mead and ale era considered a nutritious substitute for pure water which was rarely available and often disease ridden and unhealthy
Jellyed Eels are lovely. Has a lovely herby, earthy flavour. Used to be a bloke who came round the pubs in Bristol selling cockels, muscles and, Jellyed Eels. Yummy.
JJLA, when you say America in regard to Potato's and Tomatoes, I think they came from South America not North America.
The "pie" was actually introduced by the Romans but back then the pie case was just a mechanism to carry the food inside. Once eaten the case was discarded. Roman soldiers were given pies when on a footmarch etc.
You keep saying where did it get bad, as if these dishes aren’t possible or made today?
sorry to say, but he's wrong about shepherd's pie… shepherd's pie is made of lamb, and cottage pie is made of beef…. Google and see for yourself…
I wanna keep slapping for calling it a Cornish "pay-stee" but I'll give it a thumbs up
Jelly and custard is delicious…. Would be better i still liked jelly lol (i hate the texture now)
As a British person I pride myself on trying everything British at least once. Never again to…. Jellied eels, Black pudding, Offal in general, Haslet, Corned Beef, Tapioca, Haggis, Liver and onions (Offal again) and Pork belly.
Bubble n squeak 🤤 grew up eating it here in Australia
Jelly/jello and vanilla custard yum, you should try it. Was a dessert staple growing up in Australia
"fresh" are picked not quite ripe, canned vegetables in most commonwealth countries are picked at prime ripeness when canned.
The yanks here late in WW2 took the idea bad British food home with them, after the UK had at least 15 years of food rationing.
FFS dude, just come over.. we may not be too fond of your stereotypical loud American tourist type.. but I can pretty much guarantee that you personally would be made more than welcome.. you seem to have a bit of a fascination for us on your channel,, so why not just come see for yourself?