What’s your favourite food?

Depends on my mood and what I've eaten that week. Cheese on toast will always be a top 5. Indian, thai, Chinese or fish and chips, but I married an Italian so typical northern Italian food (NOT mountain!) is win. But then a Sunday roast or summer BBQ..

Can I go with what I don't like? Much easier. Eggs, red meat, fish. Bacon can go fuck itself. Cake.

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JonathanBroxton@reddit

Full English breakfast, specifically as cooked by my grandmother. Back bacon, pork sausage, two fried eggs, Heinz baked beans, fried mushrooms, a couple of slices of good quality black pudding, Daddies brown sauce. The twist: a few slices of pickled beetroot, grown in our garden by my grandfather and pickled by my grandmother. The initial reaction is to recoil in horror at this, but it's actually fantastic, a tart acidic kick to cut through the grease. Hot buttered white toast on the side (enough to make a sandwich of the last few bites of fry-up), several mugs of tea to wash it all down.

Heaven.

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Nyx_Necrodragon101@reddit

Toad in the Hole with a red onion gravy

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minsandmolls@reddit

Beef stew and dumplings❤️

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murderouslady@reddit

Fish n Chips or Toad in the Hole

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TheArtfullTodger@reddit

What counts as traditional? Dish and chips was a creation of Jewish migrants who settled in the UK. Maybe chicken Tikka masala. That's pretty much nationally accepted as traditional British.

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Kaiyead@reddit

"Fish and chips was a creation of Jewish migrants who settled in the UK." Probably a popular myth. Potatoes were chipped and fried in the Andes aeons ago, and fish was fried in (corn) flour in S. America. Put together? Of course. When potatoes hit Europe were they mixed with oil-fried flour-dusted carp - probably? Despite initial suspicions, potatoes spread throughout the UK, and fishing was a developed activity. Frying in beef fat was everywhere. Do you think that frying fish and chips at the same time was a uniquely Jewish gift? Maybe a Jewish immigrant had the wit to put his/her name over a corner of a market place that he/she was placing his/her wood or coal-fired pans? Perhaps in the East End of London? That's how the legend maybe came about. In the North we have a deep history of frying fish with chips.

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thevoiceofalan@reddit

It's partly correct. Mossley, Lancashire was the fish place to bring fish and chips together. The London shop was just fish.

https://www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2023/05/01/mossleys-claim-to-oldest-chippy-backed-up-by-new-research/&ved=2ahUKEwj4xsu_z_6KAxX1UkEAHcsII4wQFnoECDMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3EhKyMmM9wTTcsvfoTbyv-

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Kaiyead@reddit

I had heard previously of the Mossley claim and perhaps the earlier part of that "evidence" might warrant closer scrutiny. As stated in my earlier post, the North really has a history of frying fish alongside potatoes. Just mentioning this - but way back in the 60's/70's a "first fish & chip shop" debate emerged. Nelson had a claim for one with a coal-fired range near where the Victory V factory was established. Never one to let Nelson get away with anything, Colne then made its own claim, Then somewhere in Yorkshire (Halifax?) chimed in. I don't recall any proper evidence to support any of these other claims, which were probably just anecdotal. What is true is that there was a rash of chippys opening up or around the time. Interestingly Nuttalls claim to be supplying and fitting frying ranges since 1865. That suggests the establishment of a foundry "technology" - perhaps in turn, that is something pointing back to an even earlier development process - maybe starting before the 1860 quoted in the Mossley article? I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers with these observations, but I think we can suggest that the history is not as cut and dried as some may think.

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