That looks fucking disgusting.
It tastes amazing. I wouldn’t have mushy peas like, but never mind.
I gobble the thing still though.
I want to make a joke about “shitpost”, but my beloved chili is right there with it. I suspect this might be mouthwatering to the intended audience.
British food gets a bad rap but I don’t really get it. Fried fish, potatoes, roasted meat, cured meat, meat pies, lots of puddings and sweets, not to mention the Indian food. What’s not to like? I’m going to the UK in October and I’m pumped for the food.
Best place to have fish and chips is near or on a beach in overcast weather. It’s a vibe. Pasties are definitely worth trying if you like pies and things. Greggs is worth a look. I think a lot of the bad press on our food is because so much of it doesn’t go for any kind of presentation, it just happens.
Greggs is my biggest cultural shock ever. I couldn’t find anything remotely edible there but locals keep praising it.
I’ve heard it’s because they invaded every country on the planet for their spices and decided to use none of them
The taste of British food and the looks of British women made the Britains the best sailors in the world!
We didn’t just steal the spices, we stole cooks too. Eg, our first curry house was 1810, run by a Bengali chap. So we didn’t piss about with traditonal English dishes to get our spice fix, we just went out for a ruby instead.
I was going to defend us by pointing to how some of the most popular places to eat here are focused on spicy foods (curry houses) but when I thought about it more… you’re right :(
The most popular dishes there are usually the less spicy ones (but they taste really nice and would probably taste even better if they were more spicy)
No, you’re thinking of our grammar.
If you’re bringing cash, bring it in 20s and below. 50s aren’t used much at all as they arouse suspicion - many smaller places will flat out not accept them.
Hope you enjoy the trip :)
I remember people used to say £50 notes were easier to forge compared to the others. Not sure if that was because of something about the note itself or because people saw them less and weren’t as used to them. Either way people became wary of accepting them. Plus it can be a pain to make change, especially when a lot of people pay with card now.
Are you from the UK? How are you using lemmy.zip?
Also, I never pay with cash so this might be why but I have never heard about the 50p thing, Is that true or are you saying it to mess with tourists?
Nope, it’s true. When I went for the first time a couple of years ago, my bank decided I needed more £50 notes than anything, and I got several “Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these,” comments when I used them.
Also, fwiw, depending on where you’re heading in the UK, cashless payments can be way more prevalent than they are in many places. I’ve been to multiple bars in and around Manchester that just didn’t accept cash, and would bring out a card terminal to tap for every £2-3 beer I ordered.
On the other hand, bring a coin purse or something with you, because when you do use cash, you’ll get a ton of coins back, and it becomes a pain to have rattling about in your pocket real quick.
I think it’s more the £50 notes. Much like using a USD100 note in the States, it’s a bit big for most daily purchases.
I ended up dumping most of mine on a couple expensive souvenirs in shops expensive enough that they’d deal with it or breaking them in banks.
I am such an idiot for thinking pence and not pounds…
Was about to say, £s not pence :) 50s will also out you as a tourist, if nothing else does. Whereabouts are you planning to visit? Just London for the touristy stuff or going for more of an explore?
As mentioned above, electronic payments are now the norm here and have been for ages. Shouldn’t have any problems using a phone or contactless card to pay in most places. Chip/PIN covers most everything else & when you get prompted to insert the card as a security check after trying contactless.
Swipe & sign is possible last time I checked, but pretty much defunct with chip/PIN being readily available. Cash only places are rare and usually associated with food or drugs.
.zip isn’t blocking UK access via apps/api, but it is for browsers. I like VPNs and supporting my home instance, so here I am :)
I’m already in the uk, but with a question as silly as mine it makes sense why you thought I would be another tourist
Nah - I just can’t address a question to the right user, you’re all good haha
Lots of it I love but there’s definitely outliers. See jellied eels
I’ve eaten Surströmming and liked it, been eating it once a year ever since. I’ve eaten Beuschl, Narezushi, mite cheese, eel soup, fried insects (pupa, crickets, spiders, scorpions…), snails, brain, testicles… heck I’ve even made the fish finger pie that one British YouTube cooking show lady made (same ingredients but different preparation). You can’t scare me with eels in azpik!
Yea, jellied eels are only really eaten on a small section of the south coast. The rest of the country wouldn’t go for that.
looks like it’d be delicious, for all of 20 seconds before all the fries got soggy.
I’m always so worried about food with gravy. It can either be delicious, or foul. There’s no middle.
They should allow gravy samples like they do ice cream 😤
Can someone more familiar help me with what this is?
Bottom to top:
fries/crisps Baked beans (more sauce than I’m used to). Peas Polish sausage/kielbasa/hot dog?
Please forgive my ignorance. I’d expect this to be glorious or horrible with no option between.
Bottom to top: Chips/fries Gravy Peas Sausage, but not like any of the ones you mentioned. They are very common here in uk fish and chip shops.
If i was stumbling home drunk at 3am this would be heavenly. I would not eat it at any other time.
Bangers and chips with gravy and garden peas.
That seems overpriced.
Depends where in the UK, close to London? best deal you will ever see. Anywhere else? It’s still an alright price.
Does all British food look like literal diarrhea or only the British food that gets photographed?
The cameras lie to you. It looks way less disgusting when you are about to eat it!
but yes, it doesit just not feeling cute right now 🥹
She never is 😅
It turns like that right before being photographed
I can’t lie that looks genuinely amazing. Yes I am British, how can you tell?
As an American, I’d try it. I just don’t understand it.
It’s pork, chips, gravy and peas. Had it had less gravy, it’d look less messy.
If you mashed the sausage into a loaf shape and covered it in ketchup it would literally be an American meal.
I’d eat that, especially at that price. Not even British
Those peas look like they came from can in a silent film and were colorized for this photo.
As a Brit… yeah, that looks disgusting.
I bet it tastes great. But I do hate any other kind of soggy fries.
Holy shit … 4 pounds for the worst diarrhea and wet bean farts of your lifetime. What a steal.
What even is that? I see fries, gravy, canned peas and a hot dog? Is that right? Because £4 is overpaying. Currently that’s $5.31 in Freedom Funnbux. Definitely overpaid for that.
Chips. Fries are thin pieces of fuck all yet full of calories.
With a jumbo sausage. Self explanatory.
Mushy peas. Peas that are mushy.
And gravy. A sauce made from veggies and/or meats.I’m so old I can when a pea mix (chips and peas together) went up from 16 pence to 22 pence. I can’t remember why it went up so much though, I was very young at that time.
That mate is a jumbo sausage.
*chips :3 big chunky chippy chips like that cannot be called fries. Also our wages are dogshit and our cost of living is sky high isnt that £4 isnt as much as it seems weirdly when a big Mac costs £5 by itself quite often.
I like that we all knew exactly the country
The £ is a bit of a giveaway.
I think the r/casualUK is a bigger giveaway
True, but it already felt like a cheap shot. The highland cows are another one.
The photo have it away, the word chippy confirmed it.
I’m trusting you that it is from r/casual UK lol
Luv me mushy peas, simple as
i think it would still be overpriced at 4₱ or 4¥
