Ten Extremely Misunderstood British Foods

[Locutus]

The Brit List: Ten Extremely Misunderstood British Foods | Anglophenia | BBC America

 

[SLM]

This parts my favourite:

Deep Fried Mars Bars

Stereotypes are evil things. Once the Scots realized that as far as the rest of Europe was concerned their idea of a varied diet was two different colors on the plate, they kind of defiantly ran with it. Suddenly chip shops, which had been happily battering and frying haggis and black pudding (and sausages, mushy pea fritters, spam, fish, fishcakes) for years, were doing likewise with anything at all. The first and most notorious was the deep fried Mars bar, but it was soon followed by ice-cream, pizza, shoe leather, books, whisky, shortbread, the concept of fear and beards.

 

[JLM]

#11- Head cheese!

 

[Cannuck]

#11- Head cheese!

That's made all over the world. I'm not sure that it's British.

 

[The Old Medic]

Head Cheese is delicious! I had it in the States as a kid, in Germany (fresh made on farms, and in restaurants), in Holland, in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. I never saw it in Great Britain though.

 

[JLM]

Head Cheese is delicious! I had it in the States as a kid, in Germany (fresh made on farms, and in restaurants), in Holland, in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. I never saw it in Great Britain though.

Apparently in Great Britain it goes by the name of "Brawn".

 

[Liberalman]

This would be a good business opportunity for Canada

"Baby Gaga Ice Cream
This is one even I haven’t tried, so I’m prepared to be proven wrong about this. But when a London ice-cream parlor began selling human breast milk ice cream (from a carefully-screened source) last year, it provoked outrage among…well…who, exactly? People who would prefer their milk to come from another species entirely? People who weren’t breast-fed themselves? People who just think the idea of milking a woman for food to be a less than gender-empowered message? Actually that last one is probably fair enough. My tuppence-worth is this: if it’s good enough for a newborn baby, there’s no risk to human health, and it tastes good (and it’s not outright sexist), then why not? We’re not talking about using human milk for coffee creamer here, this is a treat food, and it’s perfectly natural. Now, if they start making ice-cream out of baby formula, I’ll join you on the barricades."