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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

For me cooked fruit in pies . Not for me .

Happy Fridays everyone

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Marmite, squid, jellied eels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black pudding. Spam. Gray peas and bacon. Eel liquor.

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Black pudding. Spam. Gray peas and bacon. Eel liquor.

Try eating them separately it might improve the taste

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Marmite, squid, jellied eels

Haggis....fucking gross

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By *eeliciouschaosWoman
over a year ago

Wherever

I’m not British so I’d say most of it (sorry)

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By *olarbear73Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Welks

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"Marmite, squid, jellied eels

Haggis....fucking gross"
oh i don't mind haggis cooked correctly

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

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By *olarbear73Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Welks

Are they different from whelks?"

Nah it’s just the printer has pissed off for lunch and the “h” has fallen of the machine so this next batch is buggered

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Welks

Are they different from whelks?

Nah it’s just the printer has pissed off for lunch and the “h” has fallen of the machine so this next batch is buggered

Touché my friend

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By *adyinred696969Couple
over a year ago

Brecon

Jellied eels, urghh

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Black puddings are looking very black today mother,they're so black even the white bits are black"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marmite

Marmalade

Black pudding

Haggis

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

My gran used to boil tripe in a pan with vinegar. It stank and tasted worse than it smelled. Absolutely rank.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tripe I'm mean wtf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Liver tripe kidney

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trifle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Trifle "

And those daft little tarts with the cherry. Meh.

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Trifle

And those daft little tarts with the cherry. Meh. "

Bakewell?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Trifle

And those daft little tarts with the cherry. Meh.

Bakewell?"

Cherry Bakewell apparently. I really dislike them!

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Bread and dripping

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By *ustamanMan
over a year ago

weymouth

Spam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Toffee Apples..

The ones you used get at the fair or at the seaside.

Nearly broke a tooth trying to bite into one. And after a couple of bites tasted sickly.

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By *issMBWoman
over a year ago

North

Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one.

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By *lueDressWoman
over a year ago

Bath

Any form of Offal.Or cockles and mussels

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By *ackdaw52Man
over a year ago

Chesterfield

Mushy peas.

They took a tasty and nutrious vegetable and made it neither.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Chips and gravy

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By *ortney CocksWoman
over a year ago

Cockles

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one."

Fantastic when done correctly, a little brandy enhances it I’m told

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Mushy peas.

They took a tasty and nutrious vegetable and made it neither."

Doesn’t it still taste like peas and the nutrients are the same?

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By *issMBWoman
over a year ago

North

"Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one.

Fantastic when done correctly, a little brandy enhances it I’m told"

Get pissed enough to not notice how bad it is?

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

"Chips and gravy "

Begone foul southerner!

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By *MisschiefxTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Meat and 2 veg. Just the most bland uninteresting food I can think of.

Any boiled vegetables too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anything with offal in it. Liver and bacon, steak and kidney, tripe...

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Any form of Offal.Or cockles and mussels"

Battlefield carrion and sea snot.

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one.

Fantastic when done correctly, a little brandy enhances it I’m told

Get pissed enough to not notice how bad it is?

Or just set fire to it

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By *oofy321Man
over a year ago

moon base zero

Gravy

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
over a year ago

The last house on the left…

Not exclusively British but...BEER

Can anyone honestly say that after their first sip of Beer, your reaction was....

“Mmm, this tastes good”

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By *angOnBunnyCouple
over a year ago

Ipswich

"Not exclusively British but...BEER

Can anyone honestly say that after their first sip of Beer, your reaction was....

“Mmm, this tastes good”"

Yes, yes I can

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
over a year ago

The last house on the left…

"Not exclusively British but...BEER

Can anyone honestly say that after their first sip of Beer, your reaction was....

“Mmm, this tastes good”

Yes, yes I can

LIAR!

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

"For me cooked fruit in pies . Not for me .

Happy Fridays everyone

Oh Busman. How can you not enjoy a fruit pie?!

For me it’s things like jellied eels, cockles etc.

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

A lot of the foods mentioned above aren't just British though!

I'm not sure if there's any "British" food that doesn't have a similar cousin elsewhere in the world.

Gbat

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By *hrek101Man
over a year ago

Herts

Most of it TBH, never grew up with it

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed. "

*food

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one."

Possibly worth another try? For decades I would have said the same but then it tried it again and

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

Jaffa Cakes

Evil gits they are

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By *uncouple_12Couple
over a year ago

bristol

Liver

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By *aughtycouple1008Couple
over a year ago

west london

Peas pudding

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By *onameyet2Man
over a year ago

chorley

"Bread and butter pudding. It tastes of nothing and had a skin

unless I've just had a spectacularly bad one.

Possibly worth another try? For decades I would have said the same but then it tried it again and

Have a look for a Gary Rhodes recipe on line I remember that being excellent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tripe I'm mean wtf"

Yes! I was just about to write that!

I'm the same, tripe, bleugh!

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By *lueseasWoman
over a year ago

Leamington Spa

"I’m not British so I’d say most of it (sorry)

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By *lueseasWoman
over a year ago

Leamington Spa

Mushy peas...

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

McDonald’s. But then again, you really can’t put McDonald’s in the same category as food of any kind.

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By *aximus74Woman
over a year ago

Manchester

"For me cooked fruit in pies . Not for me .

Happy Fridays everyone

Mushrooms!!! Ewwwwww

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By *eronicaExplorerWoman
over a year ago

London

Vinegar on chips and oysters. Have you British lost your mind?

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

Vinegar makes chips come alive. It's the way forward.

Gbat

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By *he_Secret_GardenWoman
over a year ago

Naughty Lane

Pies...

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Haggis

Black pudding

Pea wet/liquer

Jellied eels

Whelks

Cockles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed. "

With you there, aniseed is wrong!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My gran used to boil tripe in a pan with vinegar. It stank and tasted worse than it smelled. Absolutely rank."

My mum used to make tripe and onions, she and one of my sisters wee they only ones in a family of 8 who liked it. My dad was the main cook but even he refused to cook it - the stench in the house when my brother and I came home from school could have knocked us out

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By *oppleWangerMan
over a year ago

Gods Country

Battered Fish.

Batter is greasy and fucking awful

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Sloppy sandwiches, I hate them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most of it tbh but especially Yorkshire puds. They’re alright but massively overrated.

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By *lubchuckerMan
over a year ago

Oxfordshire

Tripe should be banished for all eternity, evil smelly stuff

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

White pudding, black pudding, rice pudding, stargazy pie, the rubber jelly in pork pies, liquorice,

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By *WV9715Man
over a year ago

Nottingham

Lambs Liver I cannot stand

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

"Battered Fish.

Batter is greasy and fucking awful"

Sounds like it hasn't been cooked properly.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Blue cheese.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Marmite, Kendal Mint Cake and bread n butter pudding.

Nita

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline

Tripe and dripping

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By *glyBettyTV/TS
over a year ago

About 3 feet away from the fence

Pancakes.

Just a waste of eggs & milk...

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By *urchoicenowCouple
over a year ago

Ashford

Baked potato, just awful

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By *ANDA!Man
over a year ago

DUMFRIES

Black pudding. It's absolutely vile. What manky cunt thought "wonder what this pig blood would taste like if I kept it for a couple days till it congeals and I fry it?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I’m not British so I’d say most of it (sorry)

That’s me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"...those daft little tarts with the cherry. Meh.

Bakewell?

Cherry Bakewell apparently. I really dislike them!"

You guys did not just say that!

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By *eeper ThanMan
over a year ago

Dartford

Rollmops !!!!!

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By *londebiguyMan
over a year ago

Southport

Tripe.

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By *eronicaExplorerWoman
over a year ago

London

"Vinegar on chips and oysters. Have you British lost your mind? "

But the food I love from here:

Milk is amazing,

Butter in everything

Horseradish,

Lemon curd,

Wild garlic

Best carrots in the world

Celeriac preparations are delicious

Rhubarb pie

Sunday Roast

Cornish Pasty

Elderflower cordial

Gin Tonic with elderflower tonic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Black pudding. Spam. Gray peas and bacon. Eel liquor.

Spam is American

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed.

With you there, aniseed is wrong!"

I like aniseed in a bottle, it is usually spelled Ouzo or Pernod though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Black pudding. Spam. Gray peas and bacon. Eel liquor.

Spam is American"

You learn something new everyday!

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By *ortyairCouple
over a year ago

Wallasey

Tripe...its disgusting. But it's not just us. Went to Florence and they have it in a sandwich called a Lambredotto, it's so popular and I thought the Italians loved good food, obviously not, Mrs x

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Tripe

Jellied eels

All kinds of entrails of animals

Oxtail soup

Warm ale

Lots of things

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

"It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed.

With you there, aniseed is wrong!

I like aniseed in a bottle, it is usually spelled Ouzo or Pernod though

A nice cold one on a hot afternoon nibbling on some olives or a creamy anchovy dip, yummy

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By *onnydom100Man
over a year ago

Whitehaven

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Biscuits and branston pickle

Cant say im a huge fan of salad cream either

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Branston pickle

Bread and butter pudding

Pickled onions

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Chips, roast dinners

Mr M.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Trifle

And those daft little tarts with the cherry. Meh.

Bakewell?

Cherry Bakewell apparently. I really dislike them!"

What??? I absolutely love a cherry bakewell

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By *zeroMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

The absolute fascination that we have with gravy.

More of a cockney thing but never seen the appeal of jellied eels

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3

Black pudding. urgh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pease pudding. Dumplings. And piccalilli.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Black pudding. It's absolutely vile. What manky cunt thought "wonder what this pig blood would taste like if I kept it for a couple days till it congeals and I fry it?""

Probably the same manky cunt that thought if you over feed a goose till it's liver bursts it makes better pate....

And the same cunt is probably the one that keeps young calves in dark barns with blindfolds on to keep the veal 'white/pink' before they rip it's skin off, discard its head, cut off its flesh and sell it for profit.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

There's no such thing as British Food or any other food..... it's ALL the SAME food just prepared differently or cooked differently.

If I have to HATE a food it would be any highly processed foods.....

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"The absolute fascination that we have with gravy.

More of a cockney thing but never seen the appeal of jellied eels"
this..... Gravy.... And or Jellied eels.... Yuk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jellied eels. Wtf.

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

Well this thread has made me laugh! With only a few exceptions all my favourite foods have got a mention. Maybe that's why I get them reduced for quick sale with so much knocked off the full price in supermarkets. That way I can eat very well at knock down prices.

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By *ixiePoisonWoman
over a year ago

Darlington

Lamb, cauliflower, any offal, seafood and almonds for me *bork*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Celery

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Fish roe and tinned fish roe.

Cheese board.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Steak and Kidney pie.

Great way to ruin a Steak pie.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The love of chips. Before I moved here I've never seen chips basically served everywhere and with everything

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By *ommodoCouple
over a year ago

OX16

Brawn. pigs trotters. tripe marrow.

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Teriyaki

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By *dmundwilsonMan
over a year ago

Llandudno

Weatherspoons

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By *ldgeezermeMan
over a year ago

Newcastle

"It’s not a British dish per se but it is a good stuff that I don’t understand how anyone likes.

Aniseed.

With you there, aniseed is wrong!

I like aniseed in a bottle, it is usually spelled Ouzo or Pernod though

Add sambucca and hierbas

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By *inkyguyUKMan
over a year ago

worcester

English food abroad. People who go to a country and yet prefer to pay over the odds for badly made imported or locally recreated British food over trying the local food. Insane

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By *andE2000Man
over a year ago

Bathgate

"Black pudding. Spam. Gray peas and bacon. Eel liquor.

Same!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pancakes.

Just a waste of eggs & milk... "

It would be if it was just eggs and milk, but you need flour in there too

talking of pancakes….

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Adding cream to spicy foods. Weird.

Also, adding raisins/currants to savoury dishes.

Can’t stand it.

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By *mf123Man
over a year ago

with one foot out the door

Bread based puddings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pork Pies. I think they look nice from the exterior but once I see that jelly layer I’m done. Get in the bin!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pasties. They just are not that nice and who ever finishes one? They are massive.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know how you have the sheer audacity to pubically say that you dislike any cooked fruit in a pie.

That being said

Liver and onions are mank and stink the house out.

Any of that funky shit the fella in the white van pulled up to social clubs trying to shot.

Jellied eels, Cockells, crabsticks, welks, any smelly seafood shit that only sailors and gardparents eat.

Kippers.

Basically any seafood but cod.

Also eggs, it's chicken period mate and smells like fart.

I don't care about the hate coming my way, "let's av it!!"

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By *cotty_01ukMan
over a year ago

birmingham

Pineapple on pizza no no no

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By *stwo2023Couple
over a year ago

Worcester

Literally would eat all of this thread

Evie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"For me cooked fruit in pies . Not for me .

Happy Fridays everyone

Tripe or anything in a shell

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