What’s the one single dish/snack you would recommend to your foreign friend?

Posted by SouthernRain_147@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 37 comments

My friend is staying in London overnight for flight transfer, I wonder what’s the best food option to present to him. Like fish and chips, shepherds pie, bangers and mash, roast dinner or something?

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justanothergin@reddit

Fish & chips with mushy peas and curry sauce. Or if for breakfast a fry up with black pudding, or if that's too big just a roll with black pudding, potato scone and brown sauce 🤤

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vetaly87@reddit

Black pudding as the first introduction to British food is brave. That’s either how you make a lifelong fan or end the friendship before the flight home

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justanothergin@reddit

Has to be Stornoway black pudding though.

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Dimac99@reddit

I have never before met a fellow roll and black pudding with potato scone and brown sauce fan! There's two of us!

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mad_saffer@reddit

Chips with curry sauce. I did NOT realise how nom these were, but it ticks all the comfort food boxes

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kelvifoxx@reddit

And cheese on top, curry sauce first, then cheese.

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Morazma@reddit

This is really not a dish that needs cheese on top 😂

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shanloulie@reddit

brother necessity is not the goal here

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kelvifoxx@reddit

Everything (savoury) is better with cheese on top!! 😂

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mad_saffer@reddit

Never tried with cheese.... Which cheese is best?!?

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gxb20@reddit

A snack i would recommend a scotch egg

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the01li3@reddit

Depends where they are from. I would say full english (i know US bakes beans are odd, so that could work), fish and chips/pub lunch with a pint for a heavy lunch. Or get smashed and get a doner.

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Bazahazano@reddit

Chicken tikka masala with a garlic nann bread. Will bina great choice.

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AssortedShortbread@reddit

Get him absolutely hammered, and take him to the lowest rated pizza shop you can find at 4am.

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vetaly87@reddit

That’s not dinner, that’s the full UK cultural exchange programme )

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If they’re only in London overnight, I’d go fish and chips from somewhere decent rather than a random pub roast. It’s simple, very British, and harder to explain than it looks — crispy batter, proper chips, mushy peas, vinegar, the full experience.

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MzHmmz@reddit

I'd say take them to a really good pub that does food, they're usually the best place to get authentic British food, especially in London, plus the pub is obviously a very "British" experience! Most "British restaurants" in London are rubbish aimed at tourists, apart from the high-end places serving "modern British" cuisine, so a pub is the safest bet.

Although if it's somewhere you haven't eaten in yourself make sure you check the menu beforehand to make sure it's actually serving classic British food, some pubs try to get "creative", and some serve other cuisines like Indian or Thai.

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Morazma@reddit

Beans on toast
Tomato soup with bread
Seaside chips

All feel very nostalgic and comforting to me!

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Don't forget to give them some picked onion monster munch's and space raiders crisps and a cold irn brew to wash it down with or some dandelion and burdock.

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