doctor scrumpy

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 ?

Lion in Winter

One word. Marmite.

Manc

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.

NC Penguin

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

Celtic_Angel

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

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

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

tinaflorida

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.

Celtic_Angel

ewwwwww 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!

callé

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.

Yosser

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

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.

rincewind

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

doctor scrumpy

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

Yosser

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

FlyergirlUK

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)!!!

I'll bring the Bisto...

I'm bloody starving now!!

VFRpilot

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.

warksgirl

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?