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Winter_Stretch_3778@reddit

Let me ask you all something.

Do people here in the UK eat pumpkin flowers? I’m craving some right now. What will my neighbor say if I ask them to let me have the flowers in the pumpkin patch they grow?

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Sausages. Not unique but ones that need cooking (IE not cured ones) you can't go wrong with Lincolnshire, Cumberlands, saveloy!

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BadahBingBadahBoom@reddit

Can't beat a beautiful herby Lincolnshire in a bap.

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

A nap?! You mean bun......ha ha not getting into the small round bread shaped name debate

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spikewilliams2@reddit

Not heard cop before, only cob. Lived in Leicester and everything was on the cob. Rick Sanchez would not have stayed that long.

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It took me moving overseas to realise how superior our sausages are. I tried so many shit ones before I found a company called the British Sausage and Meat Co. I’m rarely without Cumberland sausages in my fridge.

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Don't get me wrong I enjoy things like brats, frankfurters, kielbasa etc but you can't beat a proper meaty British sausage (fnar fnar)

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

Hopefully you mean traditional Cumberland and not just Cumberland

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

Also sausages made by smaller outfits, not just the classic Cumberland and Lancashire

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

You mean traditional Cumberland. Classic can be made by anyone. Traditional Cumberland are the spiral ones that have to be made in Cumbria

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madame_ray_@reddit

Bewleys > Woodalls

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CasfromBri@reddit

You learn something new everyday!

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_sausage

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thickwhiteduck@reddit

I misread as “spinal”

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thickwhiteduck@reddit

S/he cumberlands

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Drwynyllo@reddit

Pork pies.

Haggis.

Welsh salt marsh lamb.

Christmas pudding.

Chicken tikka masala.

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

I feel desserts like sticky toffee pudding

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pajamakitten@reddit

I was reading an article that other day about how they are dying out because younger people are not eating them often at home: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/aug/14/british-pudding-faces-extinction-english-heritage-boiled-steamed-desserts-pies-crumbles

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Ok_Aioli3897@reddit

It's because they are too expensive and small for what you get

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TheBikerMidwife@reddit

Buying them is relatively new - we always made them. I think it’s more the fact that no one has time to make puddings anymore. If I make a pie I’ve got time to make a dessert while it’s cooking, but these days most homes need two incomes to survive and being able to decide at 2pm that it’s time to “get the dinner on” is one heck of a luxury these days.

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

And steamed puddings in general

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SkipMapudding@reddit

My mum used to make us steamed leek puddings. Was delicious.

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sookietea@reddit

Have always said this. Our desserts are excellent! Banoffee pie, Apple pie (all pies), sticky toffee pudding, bakewell tart (all tarts), eton mess. Sorry for making everyone hungry!

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Love_Land90@reddit

The quality and variety of cheese in the UK far surpasses that of any other country.

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NoFewSatan@reddit

That is just completely untrue.

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Love_Land90@reddit

It really isn't. Explore a bit more - Courtyard Dairy will do you an immense selection of British Cheese that runs the full gamut of whatever you like.

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NoFewSatan@reddit

Like, it just is untrue. Italy has over 2,500 varieties.

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FletchLives99@reddit

Cornish pasties
Scones
Some breads
Pork pies
High-end sausages
Black pudding
Fish & Chips

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_______someone@reddit

Respectfully, the day you try Puerto Rican black pudding (they call it morcilla), you will understand why English black pudding has no place on your list.

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Fine-State8014@reddit

Is it the same as Spanish morcilla? Black pudding is still amazing though.

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_______someone@reddit

It's similar style, yet more flavour.

I don't think English black pudding is bad. It's good. I just think there are other much better examples of foods Britain does exceptionally. It's just an opinion.

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theonetrueteaboi@reddit

I agree, though the English are capable of many things a truely examplary black pudding is not among them, the Scottish black pudding will always reign supreme.

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AccidentAccomplished@reddit

A scone without clotted cream is a scone wasted!

AND ITS PRONOUNCED SCOWN

Until you eaten it all, then its SGONE ;-)

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Dr-Dolittle-@reddit

And black pudding to the list. I know it's there already but it deserves to be there twice.

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widdrjb@reddit

Once for Bury, once for Stornoway.

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BadahBingBadahBoom@reddit

Yeah the French may win on sweet pastries but the best savoury pastry snacks are British.

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Ochib@reddit

Whiskey

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miemcc@reddit

Haggis, full on, or as a supper (battered haggis & chips for heathens).

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60sstuff@reddit

Cask Ale

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GabrielXS@reddit

Spotted Dick

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KeysUK@reddit

Jaffa cakes

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tartanthing@reddit

Lidl's own brand is the king of Jaffas. Edge to edge coverage of orangy stuff. Not dry like the trademarked version.

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AvoriazInSummer@reddit

And Eccles cakes, though maybe other countries do something similar.

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DarthScabies@reddit

And Jammie Dodgers.

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tartanthing@reddit

Haggis

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Maisy20207@reddit

Chutneys.

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StardustOasis@reddit

Arguably India does them better.

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tradegreek@reddit

I can’t possibly say as I don’t actually like chutneys but Indian (proper) food is obviously very different to Indian (British) food that doesn’t make one better than the other. Most people who are not used to the spice level of Indian (proper) will far more enjoy an Indian (British). There is a reason that the most popular curries in the “west” are Indian (British) and that is because we aren’t brought up with the level of spice an Indian person is used to - it seems crazy to suggest one form is better than the other when there is clearly a massive scale in preference.

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PiotrGreenholz01@reddit

I've eaten home cooked food in Gujarat, & in many Indian restaurants in the UK. There wasn't much difference. Both perfectly good.

I took a Pakistani friend to a local cheap restaurant & she was impressed by how authentic the food was compared to what she ate at home & in Lahore.

Brits are very used to spicy Indian food.

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tradegreek@reddit

Yes but the most popular dishes are chicken tika masala and korma lol some Brits love spice myself included but there’s a reason the most popular British curries have mostly been invented in Britain for the British pallet

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sookietea@reddit

India is massive and not all curry is created equally. Spice, or rather heat, will vary widely from state to state.

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jimmywhereareya@reddit

I visited India some years ago, when ordering a curry, I commented about the different curries at home being determined by how hot they were. For example a korma is mild and a vindaloo is very hot. The waiter told me that in India you can have whichever curry you prefer and have it as mild or hot as you choose. This is just an observation.

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Maus_Sveti@reddit

Interestingly, I made a chutney for my Indian (from India) sister-in-law - she was very polite about it (I think genuinely), but said it was very diffeeent from what she was used to. Later, she brought me a chutney from India that her mum had made, it was much more like a paste, almost a wax-like consistency. Definitely quite different from the loose jam-style I made.

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Necessary-Trash-8828@reddit

Yorkshire Puddings.

I’m pretty sure you could have exactly the same ingredients in any other country.. and they wouldn’t be the same.

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P_knowles@reddit

In any other county, even!

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Stevebwrw@reddit

Bakewell Tart!

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JimJams999@reddit

Red Grouse

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Jeggasyn@reddit

Lilley's Bee Sting cider blows your tits off and tastes amazing.

Aspalls Dry Cyder too.

Yonder's Twister lolly beer, yum

Old English sausages from the butcher

Blacksticks Blue cheese

Traditional Cornish Pasty omg I really want one now!

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AccidentAccomplished@reddit

I would be interested to see these results in a ven diagram, including other nearby countries - to isolate the similarities and the differences.

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AccidentAccomplished@reddit

Clotted Cream (especially with scones and jam)

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r1Rqc1vPeF@reddit

Kippers British seafood/shellfish is second to none (unfortunately I can’t eat it as I’m allergic) Not unique I guess but (thanks to climate change) British sparkling wines beat champagne in blind taste tests.

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froggit0@reddit

Champagne producers were rumoured to be investing in English (not British- British wine is stuff like blended fortified wine) vinyards to hedge against climate change- but also, English terroir mirrors Champagne region (chalk soils).

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-You_Cant_Stop_Me-@reddit

Can confirm I work on an English vineyard owned by a large champagne house, I'm in Champagne right now helping their harvest.

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r1Rqc1vPeF@reddit

And let’s not forget it was British know how in glass bottle manufacturing that enabled champagne to be safely produced in the first place.

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-You_Cant_Stop_Me-@reddit

Yep, the strong glass was made for cider originally. I mentioned that a couple of days ago and the scandalised look on their faces was priceless.

Also originally champagne was very sweet, but with Madame Clicquot (of Veuve Clicquot fame) started selling to the English we preferred dry wine, England became the biggest export market (still is) and the dry style came to dominate.

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widdrjb@reddit

The chalk soils along the M11 would be perfect. South facing, well drained and steep to catch the sun.

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PlasticFannyTastic@reddit

It’s not a rumour. Taittinger own hundreds of acres of Kentish vineyards.

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ahx3000@reddit

Crisps. Unmatched.

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OPjasmine@reddit

I’m a Chinese person living in the UK, and I really like Alpro’s plant-based milk products. Although the brand itself isn’t British, their range is very complete in UK supermarkets, and it’s very friendly for people who are lactose intolerant. They also offer a wide variety of flavours (even though I’m not lactose intolerant myself).

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dazedan_confused@reddit

Spotted Dick.

Asked him if he or Dom new the answer to your question.

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NoMind5964@reddit

Shortbread

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Icy_Consideration409@reddit

Pickled onion Monster Munch

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Farewell-Farewell@reddit

Ale.

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_______someone@reddit

Strawberries.

Have you tried British strawberries this summer? They say it is the best harvest in decades.

Also apples, and whiskey..

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Familiar-Truth7616@reddit

A good sausage roll. Also I find our veg to have more flavour.

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SilentCatPaws@reddit

Eton mess

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Good_Witch_O@reddit

Clotted Cream 🤤

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Dexav@reddit

PEAS

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Dollypunch@reddit

Just give them a chance

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PlasticFannyTastic@reddit

Squeezy cheese peas?

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Visible-Management63@reddit

And now, new strawberry flavour!

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enzero1@reddit

Oh please just give peas a chance.

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

Do you mean the variety? Or what we do with them?

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Dexav@reddit

British garden peas are the best peas to ever pea.

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420and7beersago@reddit

Banoffee pie is a British I mention, and thank god for it

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LochNessMother@reddit

Chocolate. I was in the states last month and finding decent chocolate is really hard (and I was shopping in some expensive, foodie places.

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NoFewSatan@reddit

Chocolate is not it. By far.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

I don’t think so. We do chocolate better than the Americans but it’s not something we’re known for.

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MATE_AS_IN_SHIPMATE@reddit

Aldi doesn't produce anything. They're chocolate is produced by Storck.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

You know what I mean

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opopkl@reddit

Pies. Pork pies and steak pies.

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Liam_021996@reddit

English sparkling wine is regarded as some of the best in the world and when they did blind tasting in France 60% of people preferred English sparkling wine over French and Italian sparkling wine. English wine as a whole is thought of highly by the French too these days. Our chalk soil and climate is perfect for it in the south east (not too dissimilar to the climate in Bordeaux in an average year)

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Bad_Combination@reddit

Sauces, pickles and chutneys. Proper strong English Mustard, Worcestershire sauce, mushroom ketchup, sandwich pickle (eg Branstons), onion chutney, yum.

Piccalilli can get in the bin, though.

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TeaBoy24@reddit

Canned tomato beans.

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AlternativePrior9559@reddit

Biscuits

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richard0x4a@reddit

Smoked fish. I particularly like smoked haddock, but other sorts of smoked fish are good too.

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Ok-Pumpkin-6203@reddit

Cheddar.

Anyone calling a cheese Cheddar and the cheese isn't FROM Cheddar should see my new movie, The Fantasic Eight And A Bit.

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HawthorneUK@reddit

Beans and lentils - producers like Hodmedod.

Birch wine.

Sweet yeasted cakes - lardy cake, saffron buns, chelsea buns, etc

Haggis! Not the supermarket ones (I think it's the M&S one that has nothing sheepy in it at all) but a proper butcher's haggis. Black and white puddings, too.

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ichirin-no-hana@reddit

Idk about unique but there's that random cake with white icing and sprinkles you could get in school

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Dr_Turb@reddit

I'd propose dairy products - you mentioned cheeses, but I'd add:

Full cream milk, Clotted cream, Cornish ice-cream, Butter.

To your wines, fruit wines and best of the lot, the ciders, I'd add:

Real ales, Gins. And of course Whiskies.

Pies, tarts and pasties.

Welsh lamb, Scotch beef.

Pickles and chutneys.

And top of my list,

Cheddar Valley Strawberries!

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Agreeable-Brick9187@reddit

Cheddar valley strawberries: ruination of all others, I have become so snobby since I tasted those little gems!

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Top_Clock_5554@reddit

Pies

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Puppy_in_bin@reddit

Immigrants

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ukbot-nicolabot@reddit

A top level comment (one that is not a reply) should be a good faith and genuine attempt to answer the question

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cowboysted@reddit

butter, along with Ireland and France it's the best you can get.

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SubstantialFly3316@reddit

Britain, France and Ireland have to be the holy trinity of proper good butter producers.

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Minute_Classic7852@reddit

Majority of the good ones are from the Midlands, a place that everyone hates 😃

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ErectioniSelectioni@reddit

Stottie. Proper dense yet fluffy, cooked in a steamy oven, floury and soft and delicious.

Our one pot meals too. Stews and hot pots. My grandparents version of a corned beef stew (with a tin of baked beans and diced carrot) and a fresh stottie is my idea of heaven in the winter

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tykeoldboy@reddit

Scrumpy

Melton Mowbray Pork Pies

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undoneyet@reddit

Montezuma chocolate.

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w1gglepvppy@reddit

Savoury pies & pastries, beers (cask ale is fairly unique compared to other serving methods), cider & perry, cheeses, apples (the UK is home to lots of indigenous varieties), forced rhubarb, whisky, sausages.

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WhiskyMatelot@reddit

With my username, there is only 1 answer - WHISKY!

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TheCookieMonsterYum@reddit

Prawn cocktail

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deadgoodundies@reddit

Black Pudding. A fry up isn't a fry up without it.

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Our_Peg@reddit

Butter pie 🥧

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Violet351@reddit

Desserts, cakes, Lincolnshire poacher and black bomber cheeses, butcher’s sausages, pasties, scones, pork pies, chutneys and pickles

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jimmywhereareya@reddit

Apparently we do an award winning sparkling wine that is better than some champagne, we just can't call it champagne

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ddmf@reddit

Yorkshire pork pie - cured pork and a beautiful pork broth, not forgetting a well seasoned hot water pastry.

Also Yorkshire fish cakes. A lovely portion of fish in-between two potato fritters / scallops. Coated in batter and fried until perfectly cooked. Bit of salt and pepper. Magic.

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NetRelative3930@reddit

Isle of mull cheddar

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

Isle of Arran cheese

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NetRelative3930@reddit

The caramelised onion variety Is very good

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jock_fae_leith@reddit

Haggis

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

Aye!

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springsomnia@reddit

Toad in the hole <3

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Timoth_Hutchinson@reddit

Unique as in nowhere else in the world does it? If so it’s a battered sausage.

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

I would argue battered foods in general. Yorkshires, fish, etc

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Ill-Breadfruit5356@reddit

Scotch eggs

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hanumanjizzfest@reddit

Squash man

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eekamouse4@reddit

Sandwiches

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TheoryBrief9375@reddit (OP)

When I go to local farmers markets and artisan fayres, there's an amazing array of fudges, sweets, pies, sap syrups, sap wines, pies in every size and flavour.

Foods made with hedgerow type ingredients like sloes, rosehips, wild nuts and flowers.

Jams in all types and combinations of flavours.

And locally produced salt, often produced in traditional ways.

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BoopingBurrito@reddit

Whisky, cheese, sausages (meat in general really). Those are definitely our strengths.

Also our baked goods, we've got a lot of traditional cakes, biscuits, and breads that are absolutely delicious.

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