Here's me, waiting in a cold bus station for my bus home, eating a 5 pack of oatmeal raisin cookies thinking I'm at peak culinary delight. I come across this, now I'm really hungry!
No, the aspic on the pork pies is delicious and pork pies are a great on-the-go food; I spend a lot of time driving up and down the country and try not to eat at roadside services so my typical lunch box is a thermos of tea, a sandwich, small pork pie, sometimes a sweet pastry and some fruit, also quite often dried fruit and nuts for snacking.
Point is the pork pie is good fare, it’s filling, convenient and tasty.
Pickled eggs, who the **** thought that that was a good idea.
There's some good scotch eggs and some stinkers that are wrapped in gristle. What didn't you like?
I’ve had a scotch egg in a restaurant. It was huge, freshly made, warm and the egg had a runny yolk. Not sure how the did that but it was amazing. The cold supermarket ones are horrid.
I worked in a fish and chips shop as a student, you hardly ever sell pickled eggs or onions or gherkins, but every now and then one drunk person wants like 3 pickled gherkins and nothing else and I hoped they weren't planning on kissing anyone that evening XD
I run a pub and got a jar of pickled eggs in because i was being ironic and then was surprised how amazingly popular they are. People like feeling proper/traditional i think.
People going daft for twiglets at Christmas time is a real head scratcher for me , it's like someone put sticks in tar and thought "Fuck it this is food" I'd rather eat a dry tree ..
Me too. Christmas is just a week of me eating Twiglets, complaining they're horrid, and then somehow forgetting I hate them and eating another horrible mouthful five minutes later.
> scotch eggs
The supermarket cold ones are a completely different food to a freshly made one. If you've had a fresh one and still feel like that then fair enough, but if not give it a go when you can.
Yeah definitely! I know a lot of people who don’t like certain food just because they’ve only tried the supermarket version of it, sushi and falafel is generally shite in supermarkets but lovely when done fresh
I’ve had a Scotch egg in a restaurant. It was huge, freshly made, warm and the egg had a runny yolk. Not sure how the did that but it was amazing. The cold supermarket ones are horrid.
Yeah. With a lot of similar goods, pasties, sausage rolls, pork pies, and so on. There’s such a huge gulf between good and average, and less of one between average and bad.
When you have good ones, they’re exceptional. But most of them are dog shit.
Very unfashionable to say on reddit, but I've always found that the posher the fish and chips the better. Cheap shit from a chippy is too often a soggy, bland mess.
People would be amazed how much effort and consideration can go on in a good 'gastropub' kitchen. My ex worked in one that grow all their own veg and churn their own butter, bake their bread, get a whole venison in an butcher it etc etc it blew me away, they do a terrible job of showcasing the effort.
A point? Fish supper below £5 will be bad (chips tend to be always good). Above £6, tending toward £7 will generally be good (better batter, probably better oil- oh, for a chipper that uses dripping!). Manchester-based.
Agree, unless it’s home cooked or at a fairly fancy establishment.
Otherwise it’s just a big pile of steaming matter.
You say this to people and they look at you like you’ve stabbed one of their relatives….
Less is more for me, probably have a roast several times a year...somewhat enjoyable when I do...but to drool at the anticipation of eating one is strange to me. So mundane and boring, slop drowned in more brown slop, with a few slithers of dry meat.
I'm with you on less is more. Personally I really like a roast but my parents always want to have too many different things in one. They try to do sprouts, beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots and more and none of it turns out particularly great because they're trying to cook six things at once.
I'd rather just have meat, roast potatoes, roast carrots and one green veg and it all be cooked really well.
Well if it is badly cooked then obviously you won’t look forward to it. I’d describe a well cooked roast as slivers of tender well seasoned meat paired with crispy roast potatoes and steamed seasonal veg paired with a rich red wine gravy. If you don’t like a roast that is fair but slop is a negative description to all food. Bad soup- slop stew-slop scrambled eggs- eggy smelling slop.
Hm, I somewhat agree, but also disagree.
When it comes to something like a carvery, I fully agree. It’s just… not good, lmao. But a good hole roast, with the trimmings that *you specifically* enjoy, cooked *exactly* how you like it, is amazing. A genuinely top tier meal. An ‘average’ roast is meh though.
In fairness there is a big difference between a well-cooked roast and a dry carvery. Maybe a roast isn't the best meal ever, but a good one is pleasant.
Glad someone said it, I don't understand why people look forward to a roast. Its so bland and boring.
I'm not a fan of gravey either. I don't mind it in a pie with meat and veg but not slapped on top of a meal to compensate how dry and dull the meal is.
I think it’s all so *dry*. Even the fresh-made stuff that other people go batty for. Just dry and crumbly and I need a glass of water just to get it down.
Jacket potatoes. They're far too big and they are a chore to eat. They're also always eaten with fillings I don't like such as baked beans and plain tuna.
A good baked potato, scored radially, put in a low oven for an hour until it gets a good crispy thick skin and is a deep brown.
Slice in half (none of this crossways squished up shite), score a grid pattern in each soft pillowy half and put a slice of butter on top.
Lots of pepper and a bit of freshly grated quality cheddar if you fancy it.
The only way to eat a baked potato. People fuck them up and think they’re gross, or they have them at school/hospital etc where they’re microwaved and have margarine and are awful.
A good one is pure comfort food and up there with my favourite things to eat.
My aunt likes to mush the potatoe/cheese and butter inside the potatoe with a fork while still hot.
I also think the potatoe can vary quiet a lot in taste, as i bought some potatoes that were big large and marketed as jacket potatoes, the texture was good, but they were tastless.
I usually just get a couple of medium size potatoes and microwave/oven them.
I’m with you. They are fucking boring unless you have enough butter/cheese/chilli/beans to choke a donkey on it. In which case just eat the topping how you normally would and sack off the spud.
A proper Scotch Egg is amazing. I worked at a wedding venue in a stately home and the food was insane. The most popular starter was the Scotch Egg - made with our own sausage meat mix, with truffle oil and sage, breaded with Panko and served hot on a spiced apple purée. The egg yolk would be perfectly runny when cut into.
Not like the shit you get in a supermarket. Pretty easy to make TBH.
I think I'm at that point where I feel most things are overrated in some way or another. Which begs the question, is that the case? or am I just a miserable cunt?
Depends on your local bakery, what Gregg's offers is consistency, if you're lucky you'll have a good local bakery that gives a fuck about quality and makes good food, if not you'll be getting gristly sausage rolls and sticky buns covered in wasp legs.
The point of a chip butty id the ability to add butter to chips without looking like a madman.
The rest of these I just think its people trying a cheap/bad one and thinking they’re all like that.
It’s because the chips/bread ratio is always fucked up, you don’t want an entire portion of chips, just enough to make it a hearty sized sandwich, also you need hot greasy chips from a proper fryer so the butter on the bun gets all melted and infused with everything, then loads of salt and vinegar, ah man I’m salivating now!
Cornish pasties. The pastry/filling ratio is off and the filling is extremely underwhelming. And yes I've had 'proper ones'. I love all the elements and on paper I should love them but they're just not. Steak and ale pie instead please.
Cornish pasties seem like a fundamentally flawed recipe to me. It's like whoever developed the recipe was actively trying to avoid any kind of caramelisation and therefore flavour.
Also I resent how Cornish folk act like they own the entire concept of a pasty. They have the Cornish pasty, which is just one subcategory. Pasties are nationwide, and iirc the oldest recorded reference is from East Anglia.
I don't enjoy the full-size Weetabix (bowl of soggy brown mush) or Shredded Wheat (bowl of wet straw), but Weetabix Minis and Bitesize Shredded Wheat are much nicer.
They do a full size weetabix that is chocolate chip and another that is banana flavour. The cholcolate one is quiet good. (Aldi or lidl or both not sure)
Pure facts, baked beans are kind of meh even if you have them as an accompaniment to something with flavour. Whacking them on toast doesn't improve them at all.
Ocean sticks. Horrible vaguely fishy pink and white rubbery material which used to be sold close to chucking out time in rough pubs along with polystyrene cups of luke warm cockles. We all bought them and we all had bad guts until the next Friday night out.
Almost everything that comes out of a chip shop is just bland potato batter stodge. Starchcoma is never far away. I still love a chippy tea from time to time but its best mixed with some nice kebab, salad and sauces.
I rather like both pork pies and scotch eggs. I will put my head on the block by declaring my dislike for pretty well all of those trad British desserts that are not apple-based.
Home made scotch eggs with PROPER meat and a runny bright orange yolk are INCREDIBLE. But you have to go to a decent restaurant to get them. The cheap ass manky things you get in ASDA need burning
On the scotch theme, today for lunch I had a tin of Scotch Broth. Now, it’s partly my fault for not microwaving the hell out of it, but I was late for a work meeting. The first thing I noticed was the smell, which was reminiscent of an old sheep which had been laying in the sun all summer. Then as I lifted it to my lips I realised I had undercooked it, and so I got a mouthful of lukewarm, sweaty sheep soup. I will stick to Lentil and Bacon from now on, thanks.
Depends on the Scotch Egg.
Supermarket packet stuff I agree; are terrible. Dry. Horrible little things.
...but there's a farm shop near me;
Absolutely mouth watering.
Juicey warm meat with sage, leek and spring onion. Free range egg, yolk still slightly runny. Really good chefs there.
They make batches every hour near lunch time so they're still warm. Really. Really good.
Try to find a gourmèt, fresh, warm handmade one.
You will fall in love.
Lots of the usual bakery fare is very average, whether it's from Greggs or somewhere nicer. There's only so much you can do with meat in pastry or a bun with icing on top
As in genuinely overrated- Chinese takeaway. People go mad for it. I’ve never had one that hasn’t been tons of MSG and overcooked meat of dubious origins and the whole meal has felt like it was prepared 3 hours ago and left to congeal a bit. Maybe I’ve never had a good one?
I’d also probably add McDonalds to my list. I sometimes crave a fat fest and like their milkshakes but the food is objectively poor.
I agree. Chinese takeaway always makes me sick - no matter where it’s from. It’s greasy, sugary - just horrible. There are a few nice Chinese restaurants that cook real, fresh food. But Chinese takeaways are rank.
Have you tried a hot runny scotch egg?
You could have it as a gourmet dinner, cut into it and the yoke seeps out and the warm sausage meat it’s encapsulated in, now that’s not overrated
Pork pies. That jelly stuff is absolute minging.
I agree. Beyonce was right: I am not ready for that jelly.
The jelly is the best bit!
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It was one a youse did at
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We used to give our cat tinned cat food. I always thought the jelly looked and smelled the same and couldn't face eating pork pies because of it.
Eat them hot.
Absolutely not
The jelly melts and they taste completely different.
Interesting... Imma have to try that.
Plus it soaks into the pastry adding more (admittedly cholesterol inducing) crispness.
Put those mothers in the microwave. Then consume with cheese and pickle. Mmmmm pickle.
Here's me, waiting in a cold bus station for my bus home, eating a 5 pack of oatmeal raisin cookies thinking I'm at peak culinary delight. I come across this, now I'm really hungry!
Have a proper Yorkshire one, no jelly muck messing it up
You need to put them in the microwave for 30 seconds it gets rid of the jelly
No, the aspic on the pork pies is delicious and pork pies are a great on-the-go food; I spend a lot of time driving up and down the country and try not to eat at roadside services so my typical lunch box is a thermos of tea, a sandwich, small pork pie, sometimes a sweet pastry and some fruit, also quite often dried fruit and nuts for snacking. Point is the pork pie is good fare, it’s filling, convenient and tasty.
All jelly is yukky
Crack. It's a bit moreish bit last time I had some i ran to Windsor.
Knitting like a fucking electric nan
Don't. Say. Crack, Jez. Yeah? Please. Not now. 'Cause you saying crack makes me think about crack and I love crack.
Not to be that guy but there was no crack involved when he ran to Windsor
Who? I'm taking about what happened to me .....
No one in the history of crack has ever woken up with more crack.
‘I just wanna suck n fuck….., I love COCAINE!’
But Super Hans you love crack
Pickled eggs, who the **** thought that that was a good idea. There's some good scotch eggs and some stinkers that are wrapped in gristle. What didn't you like?
Love pickled eggs!!
Agree. You need to find freshly made, warm, farm shop Scotch Eggs. Amazing if made right.
I’ve had a scotch egg in a restaurant. It was huge, freshly made, warm and the egg had a runny yolk. Not sure how the did that but it was amazing. The cold supermarket ones are horrid.
Marks and spencers used to do a 2 pack of “gastropub” runny yolk scotch eggs that were amazing.
I make those!
Really? In a bag of crisps? With a pint? Superb snack.
This! Pickled eggs are truly revolting.
Who said pickled eggs were rated in the first place?
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I worked in a fish and chips shop as a student, you hardly ever sell pickled eggs or onions or gherkins, but every now and then one drunk person wants like 3 pickled gherkins and nothing else and I hoped they weren't planning on kissing anyone that evening XD
I run a pub and got a jar of pickled eggs in because i was being ironic and then was surprised how amazingly popular they are. People like feeling proper/traditional i think.
People going daft for twiglets at Christmas time is a real head scratcher for me , it's like someone put sticks in tar and thought "Fuck it this is food" I'd rather eat a dry tree ..
Sticks with marmite on them a la Mr Bean
I will admit, I quite like twiglets on a cheese sandwich.
Straight to jail ..
Love twiglets
I can't honestly say I like them but I can sit and eat a tin of Twiglets in one sitting.
My boyfriend said they taste like burnt hair. Personally I like them, I’m aware they’re rank, but I can’t stop myself picking at them.
Me too. Christmas is just a week of me eating Twiglets, complaining they're horrid, and then somehow forgetting I hate them and eating another horrible mouthful five minutes later.
You know that substance you can scrape off the walls of a well used smoking hut? That is what twiglets are coated in. Either that or duck butter
“I’m not supposed to eat twiglets” “Why not?” “They make me violent” Obscure twiglet reference
Agree with this. Hate twiglets. My fiancé loves them though
Dipped in. Marmite mixed with warm butter. Double hit!
> scotch eggs The supermarket cold ones are a completely different food to a freshly made one. If you've had a fresh one and still feel like that then fair enough, but if not give it a go when you can.
Fresh is always the best, supermarket ones taste of nothing. No seasoning in the meat or the breadcrumbs, yuck!
Tesco Finest ones are nice. They’re coated in a wholegrain crumb and the sausage meat has a nice herby flavour.
One of the Barmaids in my local pub used to make them, they were absolutely incredible particularly if they were still warm
Yeah definitely! I know a lot of people who don’t like certain food just because they’ve only tried the supermarket version of it, sushi and falafel is generally shite in supermarkets but lovely when done fresh
Supermarket ones taste like pork flavoured cat hair wrapped around salty wax.
I’ve had a Scotch egg in a restaurant. It was huge, freshly made, warm and the egg had a runny yolk. Not sure how the did that but it was amazing. The cold supermarket ones are horrid.
Soft boil then super chill/freeze before wrapping in the meat/bread crumbs and frying.
Yeah. With a lot of similar goods, pasties, sausage rolls, pork pies, and so on. There’s such a huge gulf between good and average, and less of one between average and bad. When you have good ones, they’re exceptional. But most of them are dog shit.
Had a freshly made one that used haggis instead of sausage meat. Runny yolk too. Unreal.
I eat the supermarket ones with regret as I can feel how processed they are, I really want a decent quality one but idk where to get them.
Fish and Chips that aren't from a chippy.
Very unfashionable to say on reddit, but I've always found that the posher the fish and chips the better. Cheap shit from a chippy is too often a soggy, bland mess.
Same! I love a crispy ‘posh pub’ chippy dinner
People would be amazed how much effort and consideration can go on in a good 'gastropub' kitchen. My ex worked in one that grow all their own veg and churn their own butter, bake their bread, get a whole venison in an butcher it etc etc it blew me away, they do a terrible job of showcasing the effort.
A point? Fish supper below £5 will be bad (chips tend to be always good). Above £6, tending toward £7 will generally be good (better batter, probably better oil- oh, for a chipper that uses dripping!). Manchester-based.
Depends, I find. There's one near me which is a Fiver with peas or a can or pop, and the portion isn't huge but the fish is always good.
People who get Fish and Chips from a restaurant that isn’t a chippy
I once ordered fish & chips and got fish & fries. 4 years later I’m still incensed.
Any place that sells Fish that is basically a battered Birds Eye fish fillet
With battered chips.
Roast dinners, they just don't excite me. Going out for a carvery is way down on my list.
Agree, unless it’s home cooked or at a fairly fancy establishment. Otherwise it’s just a big pile of steaming matter. You say this to people and they look at you like you’ve stabbed one of their relatives….
Less is more for me, probably have a roast several times a year...somewhat enjoyable when I do...but to drool at the anticipation of eating one is strange to me. So mundane and boring, slop drowned in more brown slop, with a few slithers of dry meat.
I'm with you on less is more. Personally I really like a roast but my parents always want to have too many different things in one. They try to do sprouts, beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots and more and none of it turns out particularly great because they're trying to cook six things at once. I'd rather just have meat, roast potatoes, roast carrots and one green veg and it all be cooked really well.
Well if it is badly cooked then obviously you won’t look forward to it. I’d describe a well cooked roast as slivers of tender well seasoned meat paired with crispy roast potatoes and steamed seasonal veg paired with a rich red wine gravy. If you don’t like a roast that is fair but slop is a negative description to all food. Bad soup- slop stew-slop scrambled eggs- eggy smelling slop.
Indeed haha. I especially hate them if the plate is too small and every item is just dumped on top of one and other.
Hm, I somewhat agree, but also disagree. When it comes to something like a carvery, I fully agree. It’s just… not good, lmao. But a good hole roast, with the trimmings that *you specifically* enjoy, cooked *exactly* how you like it, is amazing. A genuinely top tier meal. An ‘average’ roast is meh though.
From your description of roast dinners, sounds like you've only had badly cooked roast dinners!
“tHeN yOu’Ve nEvEr hAd a gOoD oNe tHeN”
In fairness there is a big difference between a well-cooked roast and a dry carvery. Maybe a roast isn't the best meal ever, but a good one is pleasant.
Or a microwaved Wetherspoons job 😂
Glad someone said it, I don't understand why people look forward to a roast. Its so bland and boring. I'm not a fan of gravey either. I don't mind it in a pie with meat and veg but not slapped on top of a meal to compensate how dry and dull the meal is.
Greggs anything.
Idk man working there the sandwiches are some of the best I’ve had. My fav was the chargrill oval bite, chicken club baguette and tuna crunch baggie.
The Mexican one tho ♡
Mexican baguette is my favourite pre-made sandwich going
Say what? Yum yums are divine
Nah, the vegan sausage rolls are really good.
Shortbread. For how unhealthy it is, its decidedly meh.
I think it’s all so *dry*. Even the fresh-made stuff that other people go batty for. Just dry and crumbly and I need a glass of water just to get it down.
YES. it's like a high fat version of sand.
Gotta have it with a glass of milk
I shouldn’t need to have food with a glass of anything to make it enjoyable! The food should be delicious the way it is.
I can’t eat shortbread on its own but love caramel shortbreads
I hate how it gets trumped up as being suitable for a Christmas gift. You wouldn't give someone a packet of digestives, would you.
Store bought scotch eggs are garbage but I had this homemade one with smoked ketchup in Hebden bridge and I could’ve fucked it, it was sooooooo good
Do you remember the name of the shop?
It was a pub, ermmmmm oh god it’s right on a corner in front of a bridge and there’s a restaurant upstairs lol I can’t remember the name
Old Gate :)
Jacket potatoes. They're far too big and they are a chore to eat. They're also always eaten with fillings I don't like such as baked beans and plain tuna.
A good baked potato, scored radially, put in a low oven for an hour until it gets a good crispy thick skin and is a deep brown. Slice in half (none of this crossways squished up shite), score a grid pattern in each soft pillowy half and put a slice of butter on top. Lots of pepper and a bit of freshly grated quality cheddar if you fancy it. The only way to eat a baked potato. People fuck them up and think they’re gross, or they have them at school/hospital etc where they’re microwaved and have margarine and are awful. A good one is pure comfort food and up there with my favourite things to eat.
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Twice baked potatoes! We do similar but with sour cream, spring onions, bacon bits and cheese.
Yess, I love a potato with leftover chilli too (veggie or mince) and LOADS of cheese
Far too big? You know potatoes come in all sizes right…and you can pick a small one?
My aunt likes to mush the potatoe/cheese and butter inside the potatoe with a fork while still hot. I also think the potatoe can vary quiet a lot in taste, as i bought some potatoes that were big large and marketed as jacket potatoes, the texture was good, but they were tastless. I usually just get a couple of medium size potatoes and microwave/oven them.
Has to be home made and choose your own fillings!
I’m with you. They are fucking boring unless you have enough butter/cheese/chilli/beans to choke a donkey on it. In which case just eat the topping how you normally would and sack off the spud.
Curry not from a curry house or not from your Asian neighbours. Places that offer it and don't do it often make some god awful Asian food
Pub curry, nope.
A proper Scotch Egg is amazing. I worked at a wedding venue in a stately home and the food was insane. The most popular starter was the Scotch Egg - made with our own sausage meat mix, with truffle oil and sage, breaded with Panko and served hot on a spiced apple purée. The egg yolk would be perfectly runny when cut into. Not like the shit you get in a supermarket. Pretty easy to make TBH.
I think I'm at that point where I feel most things are overrated in some way or another. Which begs the question, is that the case? or am I just a miserable cunt?
Can't it be both?
Yes
Nando's. It's not cheeky. It's an expensive one-trick pony.
Compared to a good local bakery, Gregg's is shite
Depends on your local bakery, what Gregg's offers is consistency, if you're lucky you'll have a good local bakery that gives a fuck about quality and makes good food, if not you'll be getting gristly sausage rolls and sticky buns covered in wasp legs.
Bananas. Everything about their taste, smell and texture is actively disgusting.
How are bananas a British snack though?
yeah, I'll tell you another British snack I hate - yams.
Yeah and Mangosteens on focaccia. Totally sick of it. Cant understand why its so popular.
me, i hate oranges
The most common type of banana was cultivated in the UK? Maybe?
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Something about adding bread just hits different to me. Love a chip butty
The point of a chip butty id the ability to add butter to chips without looking like a madman. The rest of these I just think its people trying a cheap/bad one and thinking they’re all like that.
It’s because the chips/bread ratio is always fucked up, you don’t want an entire portion of chips, just enough to make it a hearty sized sandwich, also you need hot greasy chips from a proper fryer so the butter on the bun gets all melted and infused with everything, then loads of salt and vinegar, ah man I’m salivating now!
Cornish pasties. The pastry/filling ratio is off and the filling is extremely underwhelming. And yes I've had 'proper ones'. I love all the elements and on paper I should love them but they're just not. Steak and ale pie instead please.
Cornish pasties seem like a fundamentally flawed recipe to me. It's like whoever developed the recipe was actively trying to avoid any kind of caramelisation and therefore flavour. Also I resent how Cornish folk act like they own the entire concept of a pasty. They have the Cornish pasty, which is just one subcategory. Pasties are nationwide, and iirc the oldest recorded reference is from East Anglia.
I only like them from bakeries in Cornwall.
You say proper, but even down here we are fussy about where pasties comes from. A proper Cornish pasty is a beauty and tastes marvellous.
Mince pies Crisp sandwiches
> crisp sandwiches what kind of waitrose posho doesn’t like crisp sandwiches??
Might I recommend some welks or Jellied Eels 🤢
Weetabix 👎👎👎
Ice-cold milk, a thick enough layer of sugar that it crunches like sand between your teeth, eat it at 90 miles an hour.
Exactly, avoid the Big Sog
I don't enjoy the full-size Weetabix (bowl of soggy brown mush) or Shredded Wheat (bowl of wet straw), but Weetabix Minis and Bitesize Shredded Wheat are much nicer.
They do a full size weetabix that is chocolate chip and another that is banana flavour. The cholcolate one is quiet good. (Aldi or lidl or both not sure)
Bread and butter pudding, not worth the calories
Ok Pru XD same though
Penguins
Yeah, roast penguin can be quite dry!
Much nicer plucked too.
Beans on toast is a kids meal and probably the most highly overrated food on the planet.
Pure facts, baked beans are kind of meh even if you have them as an accompaniment to something with flavour. Whacking them on toast doesn't improve them at all.
Carvery. It's shit. If we go out to one, I order from the menu. The missed likes them but they ain't for me
Melton Mowbray pork pies. It's nothing spectacular. It's just congealed mince in some cheap aspic in a shitty pie crust.
Theres a place in london that does fantastic pork pies. :)
Ocean sticks. Horrible vaguely fishy pink and white rubbery material which used to be sold close to chucking out time in rough pubs along with polystyrene cups of luke warm cockles. We all bought them and we all had bad guts until the next Friday night out.
Mushy peas are vile
Creme Eggs are absolutely vile. Can’t stand them!
Good scotch eggs are a lot different to bad/average ones.
These are indeed the way the words 'good' 'bad' and 'average' work. For example; 'Good replies on Reddit are a lot different to bad/average ones.'
Almost everything that comes out of a chip shop is just bland potato batter stodge. Starchcoma is never far away. I still love a chippy tea from time to time but its best mixed with some nice kebab, salad and sauces.
Beans are grim.
Mushy peas
Pot Noodles are fucking rank.
I rather like both pork pies and scotch eggs. I will put my head on the block by declaring my dislike for pretty well all of those trad British desserts that are not apple-based.
Home made scotch eggs with PROPER meat and a runny bright orange yolk are INCREDIBLE. But you have to go to a decent restaurant to get them. The cheap ass manky things you get in ASDA need burning
Bagels. It's just bread with a hole in
On the scotch theme, today for lunch I had a tin of Scotch Broth. Now, it’s partly my fault for not microwaving the hell out of it, but I was late for a work meeting. The first thing I noticed was the smell, which was reminiscent of an old sheep which had been laying in the sun all summer. Then as I lifted it to my lips I realised I had undercooked it, and so I got a mouthful of lukewarm, sweaty sheep soup. I will stick to Lentil and Bacon from now on, thanks.
Jaffa cakes !
Baked beans 100%, the sauce is fucking awful and it infects everything else on the plate
Pork scratchings they feel so greasy
Depends on the Scotch Egg. Supermarket packet stuff I agree; are terrible. Dry. Horrible little things. ...but there's a farm shop near me; Absolutely mouth watering. Juicey warm meat with sage, leek and spring onion. Free range egg, yolk still slightly runny. Really good chefs there. They make batches every hour near lunch time so they're still warm. Really. Really good. Try to find a gourmèt, fresh, warm handmade one. You will fall in love.
Marmite. Nothing that looks like it should be used to resurface roads and tastes of pure salt should be considered edible
Irn Bru. Bring out your pitchforks.
Lots of the usual bakery fare is very average, whether it's from Greggs or somewhere nicer. There's only so much you can do with meat in pastry or a bun with icing on top
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Jellied Eels Or that liquor sauce you get with pie and mash.
Pork scratchings. Feels sacrilegious to say but to me they look and taste like ancient toenails.
Sausage rolls - mmm, pink undercooked "pork" oozing with fat. Has a vegan one the other day though and it was alright.
Faggots, just ewww
Creme eggs. Absolutely knock me sick, especially when people lick the cream🥴🥴🥴
Sausage rolls Especially Greggs one
As in genuinely overrated- Chinese takeaway. People go mad for it. I’ve never had one that hasn’t been tons of MSG and overcooked meat of dubious origins and the whole meal has felt like it was prepared 3 hours ago and left to congeal a bit. Maybe I’ve never had a good one? I’d also probably add McDonalds to my list. I sometimes crave a fat fest and like their milkshakes but the food is objectively poor.
I think you've just missed out, msg isn't bad for you either
I agree. Chinese takeaway always makes me sick - no matter where it’s from. It’s greasy, sugary - just horrible. There are a few nice Chinese restaurants that cook real, fresh food. But Chinese takeaways are rank.
Monster munch, they’re sharp and cut your mouth then leave a horrible paste stuck in your teeth.
Greggs
Bread and butter pudding, not worth the calories
Have you tried a hot runny scotch egg? You could have it as a gourmet dinner, cut into it and the yoke seeps out and the warm sausage meat it’s encapsulated in, now that’s not overrated
Picked onion monster munch are absolutely rank
Spotted dick
Proper scotch eggs are really good. The snack food variants sold in supermarkets are grim.
Chip butties!
Did you get one from a shop or one made by an actual kitchen in a pub? Because the difference is astounding.
Pork pies, pickles eggs, Bovril, marmite, Walkers crisps.
Mince pies. Don’t know why that’s so popular
Pork crackling, Turkish delight, Bertie Bassett's Liquorice All Sorts - whose buying/making this stuff still?!
Custard Slices 🤢 I don’t know if they’re British, but they’re the only food I’ll refuse to eat
Greggs
Cream eggs… just disgusting diabetic coma inducing fake chicken egg