Not all of these are strictly British, but they are foods that are either traditional, popular, adopted or adapted. Pavlova is either from New Zealand or Australia (there seems to be no consensus), but it is a popular dish in Britain. Baked beans are also popular in the United States but the British variety is very different and in Britain it is more common to eat them as a meal (e.g. beans on toast) rather than as an accompaniment to a meal. Some of the items listed are food products and others are dishes. This is obviously a work in progress and I hope to add explanations and links. Please feel free to make suggestions.
Arctic Roll
Baked beans
Bakewell Tart
Bangers and Mash
Banoffee pie
Bara Brith
Bath Bun
Battenburg Cake
Battered sausage
Bird’s custard
Biscuits (garibaldi, hob nobs, digestives, jammie dodgers, custard creams)
Black Pudding
Branston Pickle
Bread and Butter pudding
Bread Sauce
Bubble and squeak
Chelsea Bun
Chicken tikka masala
Chip Butty
Chipolata
Christmas Pudding
Cornish Pasty
Coronation Chicken
Cottage Pie
Cream tea
Crisps (wotsits, monster munch, KP skips, quavers, frazzles)
Crumble (apple, rhubarb)
Crumpet
Cucumber sandwiches
Custard Tart
Eccles Cakes
Ecclefechan Tarts (Scottish: a cross between a mince pie and a treacle tart)
Eton Mess
Eve’s pudding
Faggot
Fish fingers
Fried Bread
Fruit Malt Loaf
Full English Breakfast
Gentlemen’s relish
Greasy spoon
Haggis
Haslet
Heinz baked beans
Hot cross bun
Iced Bun
Jaffa Cakes
Jam roly poly
Kedgeree
Kendal Mint Cake
Lancashire hot pot
Lardy cake
Laver bread
Lemon curd
Marmalade
Marmite
Mince Pies
Mint sauce
Mixed Spice
Mushy peas
Parkin
Pavlova
Pease pudding
Piccalilli
Ploughman’s Lunch
Pork Pie
Rock cakes
Salad Cream
Sarni/ Stottie
Sausage rolls
Scotch eggs
Shepherd’s pie
Simnel Cake
Spag bol
Spotted dick
Squash
Steak and Kidney pie
Sticky toffee pudding
Summer Pudding
Sussex pond pudding
Sweets (polos, rhubarb and custard, barley sugars, fox’s glacier mints, wine gums)
Syllabub
Tea cake
Toad in the Hole
Treacle tart
Trifle
Twiglets
Weetabix
Welsh rarebit
Yorkshire Pudding
memories lol! I love twiglets, and of course marmite.
Didn’t see marmite on your list, spread it on toast, muffins or crumpets, use it for gravy, or a hot drink.
Okay technically it isn’t a stand alone food, but it is a very important spread and the way I use it the crumpet is secondary lol!
I did have marmite and twiglets listed on there – I have written about marmite a lot as I am a complete marmite addict! Let me know if there are any other British foods I have missed. When I have time I hope to add explanations and some photos.
Seems like you missed scones, meat pies and Rice pudding
Does anyone know where to get English breakfast sausages to make at home?? I miss them soo much!
I don’t think that there is anywhere to get English sausages but English sausages vary a lot and many of the brats are quite similar. I like the brats from Blues Creek and I love their autumn sausage mix.
you can buy english sausages online at myers and keswick in ny: http://www.myersofkeswick.com/
the sausages are delicious.