Egg,Chips & beans
 

Just a thought from dinner last night. I was cooking myself some fried eggs & oven chips when the wife looked aghast at the combination of eggs, chips & beans with 2 slices of bread & a cuppa. She has also stared at beans on toast too.

Has anyone else had any traditional UK food that has caused aghast looks over here ?

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One word. Marmite.

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oh yes.

I once made a chip butty.
The wife and kids all looked at me like I'd just shat on the floor of the living room.

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At an office potluck I brought in my homemade sausage rolls. My coworkers were curious about them and insisted on eating them hot (even though they still taste good room temperature).

I would love to get my hands on a haggis (lamb please. No beef) but I can't imagine what Americans would make of it. However, I introduced my American spouse to haggis whilst we lived in the UK and he likes it a lot.





NC Penguin

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you cook your own dinner?? Wanna come on over to my place? :D

I've actually gotten out of the habit i can't remember the last time i made egg an' chips or beans on toast..but a chip sarnie now...i love those! ...even if i do have to listen to a chorus of "urgh!" from the kids :o

It seems American's don't like marg. on their sandwich bread either :confused:

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Marmite
Salt and vinegar on my chips (or fries)
Salad cream
Cheese and onion crisps (Or most British flavours, for that matter)
Bacon sarnies to us would always include butter, but Americans would actually call them "bacon and butter sandwiches" (They have no idea what sarnies are, either.)
The fact that I hate peanut butter and pickles, yet I love pickled onions


Damn, I could murder a good fry-up now.

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ewwwwww :eek: I always hated marmite and salad cream!!!

I've actually grown to like both peanut butter and pickles ..just the hamburger slices though.................can never find pickled onions "yearn"
my mom always made her own!! wow they were the BEST!!

shit now i'm hungry for them! :(

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Yes... Ive even brought my american born children up on Chip butties, vinegar on lots of things, beans on toast, sardines or kippers on toast with butter, pasties, and cannot live withut my cuppa. :)

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Yep, still have sasauge,chips and beans with lashings of malt vinegar (they sell Ye old malt vinegar at Target :D ).

I always make sure I have half a slab of white bread with butter to mop up all the ketchup, beans and vinegar juices when I'm done.........ah heaven :)

still have Marmite on toast in the mornings with a cuppa, frosted shreddies, Weetabix or Porridge with Lyons golden syrup.

Usually when I get in from work, I'll have a few slabs of strawberry jam or lemon curd sarnies.

There are some habits that just won't go away, I guess.

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I make Toad In The Hole every so often. I got the blank expression when I first made it but when my wife and her familiy tried it, they loved it.

I just need a good recipe for sausage rolls and I'm set :)

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Just as an update, I am informed that this Thanksgiving we will be having a Turkey Phal and other exotic Indian dishes for the family dinner. Ah well nice to see I have had some influence on them.

Although I believe my very English pooch has now been seduced by the redneck roadkill lifestyle. We caught him trying to bring a dead squirrel into the house yesterday. YUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk

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I got my wife loving sunday roasts :) every sunday proper roast spuds, beef, swede,carrots, cauli, yorkshire puds all topped of with proper Bisto gravey!

usually we'll just sit down after that to watch extreme house makeover and nibble on some dairy milk or carmello bar ;)

I BLOODY LOVE FOOD :D

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I'm formally inviting myself to yours for dinner now me mother's gone back and I can neither be arsed or that forward thinking to get a roast on the table every Sunday - me 'n' Hubby miss my mum('s cooking)!!! :D

I'll bring the Bisto...

I'm bloody starving now!!

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We recently had an international dinner party where my wife made Pie and mash. The only people to eat it was us!!! I think that it was the liccor that turrned them off. The only thing missing for me was the Jellied eels. Now I am sure that would have gone down a real treat.

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Ribena caught a friend off-guard.

Not realising it was a concentrate, she poured a glassful of it. She took a big drink of it and, coughing and choking, managed to say "S**t! That's strong!"

I guess they don't do high juices, etc. here?

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My wife refuses to acknowledge that egg and chips is a meal. Flat out refuses to cook them. :mad:

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What about the gammon?

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Gammon egg and chips - yes
egg chips & beans - no

But sloppy joes and chips are a meal. :scared:

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Another thing somebody thought was strange was when I asked for cream to pour over a piece of apple pie. Has that happened to anybody?

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No, no, no! Custard with apple pie is best. My American spouse doesn't understand my fondness for custard.

For Americans, it's ice cream with apple pie.

Custard with pie, custard with crumble, custard with plain sponge cake, custard and steamed pudding. Yummy! :) :)

I'm going to be drooling soon...

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I have a tin of Birds!!!!!!!!!!

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Brings to mind a time when I was just a small girl. We hadnt been here very long and had invited neighbours to dinner. We had some nice tins of cream sent over by my Grandma. Well our cats loved the cream as well so we started calling it cats milk. When mum brought out some rhubarb pie with the cream on it they were all curious as to what was all over the pie. We said 'cats milk!' LOL. We were teased about that for a long time after that.

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Birds custard. You have to add about 3 bags of sugar to it when preparing.
My wife said "jeez no wonder brits have bad teeth if that's what kids grow up on" :eek:
A sadly true statement though...

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Have never tried the stuff (and after reading the website as to how it is made I doubt I ever will); however I did just notice last night at the local Publix that they carried Marmite. I suppose that means that other Publix or other chains CAN get it if requested.

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Regarding Marmite:

I fall into the "I can't stand the stuff" camp.

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awful stuff.

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Oh please! what about them drinking Pop, like it is tap water!!!

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hmmm yosser do you mean you got your wife loving sunday roasts or you got your wife COOKING sunday roasts?? :p

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yeah when i first moved away i got a huge tin of Birds......It stayed in my cupboard about 5 yrs no actually longer i remember recently chucking it!!
The absolute best thing on a warm apple pie is some good vanilla ice cream.....the American's have got that right!!

Some of the British food i miss some of it now just sounds plain crap!!!
beans on toast yuck!!! Prob. would love it again if i made it but ewww just sounds weird :eek:
egg and chips ? really isn't a proper meal maybe a quick lunch?

If i had to decide between U.S or U.K food to eat on a daily basis I'm sorry folks I'm a traitor .I choose U.S! :p :D


p.s can you actually believe i never even heard of a taco ,burrito or Fajita I'd never had tortllia chips with salsa or cheese or even onion dip an'carrots/celery/chips

heck I'd never even tasted a Margarita until i lived down here...........God Bless America! :D

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no, no actually I'm getting quite a dab hand in the kitchen, I can still watch the cowboys play whilst I peel the spuds, chop the swede etc, it doesn't take me that long to be honest, then I just stick it in the oven and kick back for the rest of the game with a ice cold fosters! :)

There is one thing though, bloody washing up I seem to make quite a mess :p

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My American Girlfriend did the best thing in the world ... ever ... last christmas :)

It was my first xmas away from family, and she had managed to pull together the full recipe for a sunday roast ... yorkshire puds, roast potatoes, veggies, gravy (ahhh, bisto!).

It was the best christmas gift :)

Since then, I've introduced her to the joys of deep fat frying chips (she still won't use the fryer though), gravy on everything that stands still long enough and flavoured crisps :D

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Just goes to show that a way to a man's heart is through his stomach :D :D





NC Penguin

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branston pickle and cheese sarnies...lovely, yet they think it's weird...but nothing wrong with using a big slug of a pickle *l*

oh, and cheese toasties...hardly ever see a decent one, all fried...hmmm...they certainly lack the student meals over here don't they :)

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Hell yes!
:D

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You can find one here... just like grandma used to make.

www.be-ro.co.uk

Ash :)

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She is probably fine about having scambled eggs, bacon, saugage (well thats what they call it anyway) and beans all on the same plate along with pan cakes and maple syrup right... gotta say that one grosses me out big time.

Talking about english food... while I was over there a couple of weeks back I brought a bunch of Caramac chocolate back... I hadn't had that in years.

Ash :)

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Cool site. Thanks for the link.

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Woo hoo! Thanks :D

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I'll second that, I love me grub I do!

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Especially if you push the carving knife in real hard ? :D