This is madness. A full English (top tier) should have black pudding (apparently so-called bottom tier) on it. Madness, I tell you. And clearly a steak and kidney pudding is superior to a steak and kidney pie. It’s all to cock!
I’ll start saying I’m Brazilian and have never gone to the British islands, but I feel like this is wrong just by beef Wellington being so low. I’ve had a homemade one and it was the best thing ever, and even before having it, it just sounds so delicious!!! Anyway besides that everything above the lowest tier are def on my list of things I’d love to try at least once, while some of the lowest tier just make me not want to try because of the idea of what bit of meat I’d be eating, I would give it a try since I do enjoy a bit of liver every know and then, and chicken hearts are really good (at least in the Brazilian BBQ style) so I could like boss sausages and other things
Cornish pasty and welsh rarebit are god tier. Ploughman’s lunch and Lancashire hotpot are top tier. Yorkshire pudding is top tier. Haggis done right is a LOT better than you think (caveat, I was very very drunk when I tried it.)
I know this was made to get a rise out of the Brits, but putting the amazing Scotch Egg and Pork Pie in Low Tier is a hate crime
Thing is, while real pork pies and scotch eggs are great, lots of people might have only experienced the sad, dry, disappointments that are sold en masse in supermarkets. So in that context I can see why they rank so low.
Ragebait
I noticed it was a Yougov poll and then it made sense. I’ve lost all hope of the general population being able to make any reasonable decision. This might be the worst (best?) example yet.
It breaks my heart that apparently most of the British public have never had good black pudding.
And haggis.
Someone once convinced me to eat haggis in exchange for a free meal of haggis.
It was delicious!
I mean, that picture of removeds doesnt look too bad either.
They’ve probably never had unicorn meat either. Because neither of those things exist.
Tongue firmly in cheek here…
Stornoway black pudding is the best.
It’s basically like the Spanish blood sausage but using oats instead of rice right? I think that’s a downgrade but from a 10 to a 9 so I still love it.
Not even that hard to find. Had a great black pudding in Dublin not too long ago as well in a fry up.
Beef Wellington low tier? Who was asked for this poll?
Erin Patterson’s husband.
Jellied eels can do one but every other crap tier is very wrong.
Haggis in the crap tier and Yorkshire pudding in the top tier? Yeah, right 🤦
Yorkshire puddings are entirely all right but they’re not top tier. That’s like saying bread is top tier, it depends entirely on what you can buy it with. No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate that’s not a meal.
Welsh rarebit though is. That should be at the top of the list, if I ever go to a cafe and they have that on the menu I will 100% definitely have it every single time.
Yeah, why is Yorkshire Pudding at the top but Toad-in-the-hole is halfway down, when they are the same thing, except one is a proper meal and the other isn’t?
I’ve never had a good Yorkshire pudding. They are always disappointing. It’s irrelevant how much of the rest of your sunday roast you eat with it, it always makes the rest of the roast taste worse than it would had you not wasted your time with the Yorkshire pudding.
Wow thems fighting words. But i’m thinking you’ve perhaps been eating the wrong ones? I’ve had some truly dire ones, its not like its a recipie impossible to mess up, but most of them i’ve had are really amazing. Crispy sides, slightly soft bottom is the ideal imo, but you also can’t make up for bad ones just by the cooking, it’s also what they’re made of
I’ve had a few Sunday roasts (in the UK) in my time, and been to good pubs and bad across a variety of English locales to have them, they are always shit. Have even tried homemade ones by someone who everyone says makes great Yorkshire puddings. Disappoint always ensued. It’s always the same, a mostly tasteless piece of batter that takes more from a meal than it adds.
Or if you’re super lazy like me:
https://www.auntbessies.co.uk/ranges/yorkshire-puddings/12-bake-at-home-yorkshires
For if you don’t like rock hard yorkshires.
No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate
They were traditionally served as a starter. I’d have mine with a bit of jam when I was young.
Haggis is boss. S+k pudding and black pudding also don’t belong on the bottom tier - particularly as black pudding is a component of full English in the top tier!
I’d also swap Toad In The Hole with one the mince based pies above - the world needs to know about Toad In The Hole!
It never occured to my stupid Canadian brain that Chicken Tikka was actually British. But it makes sense in the same way that a lot of foods are “Canadian” because they were invented by immigrants adapting a dish to their new home.
Chicken Tikka is Indian. Chicken Tikka Masala is from Glasgow.
There is ongoing dispute around its origins.
British sources have a belief and can’t objectively prove it was first made there:
“One story purports that it was invented in the 1970s by Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑Scottish chef in Glasgow, who, to please a customer, added a mild tomato‑cream sauce to his chicken tikka" - Brittanica
“Ali Ahmed Aslam, a Pakistani‑immigrant chef in Glasgow, claimed he invented chicken tikka masala in the early 1970s using canned tomato soup and spices.” - NPR
Punjabi sources claim it had already been done at least a decade prior, also can’t be proven.
“A recipe for ‘Shahi Chicken Masala’ appears in this 1961 Indian cookbook, predating the Glasgow claim by a decade.” - Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery (1961)
“My grandfather was serving chicken tikka masala to Indian heads of state as early as 1947.” - as reported by NPR from an interview with Monish Gurjal chairman of Moti Mahal (one of the first restaurants to introduce Punjabi and North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world)
I find it utterly hilarious that a bacon sandwich is for one classified as a classic british food, but also tops the chart above some real originals like tika masala or the scotch egg.
No lettuce? No tomato? Just bacon between two slices of bread? If that makes it so high up I’d like to see them try an actual BLT.
The glory and purity of the bacon sandwich is ruined by this multicoloured, wet, squishy foodstuff.
Also, a bacon sandwich is a hot sandwich. BLT is a cold sandwich.
A great BLT has warm bacon and cold vegetables.
A BLT is a good, but entirely different thing to a bacon sandwich.
Bacon sarnies are served hot on a buttered roll or toast with red or brown sauce.
Sort of like the American grilled cheese, it ceases to be what it is as soon as you mess with any aspect of the formula.
You would ruin a bacon sandwich with lettuce and tomato; BLT is completely different.
I see your full English and raise you a full Scottish. Just like a full English but with haggis, fruit pudding, tattie scone, and guaranteed black pudding (English seems to only sometimes come with black pudding).
IMO English should always come with black pudding and a cup of tea, if it doesn’t have it, you’re just eating a fry up
You’re not wrong, it is definitely an improvement. Fruit pudding is such a weird juxtaposition, like a cinnamon tart, super sweet eaten alongside all of the salty.
Since I moved to the south east I have never seen a full english with black pudding and it saddens me. But I would rather make my own anyway as I can do it properly.
And Lorne sausage!
Oh aye! How could I forget. And if you’re hanging a wee tinny of Bru to wash it down
And my axe!
After visiting Scotland for the first time, I have to agree. The tatie scone is a stroke of genius!
According to the logic of this incorrect chart, the two added “crap tier” items would pull the whole thing down to the middle.
I prefer welsh breakfast, with the cockles. My cafe stopped doing it though.
God tier - I agree
Top tier - All low tier
Mid tier - Chicken Tikka Massala & Welsh Rarebit should be Top Tier (I had Welsh rarebit for the first time in the summer, regret not having it earlier)
Low Tier - Pork Pie & Steak & Kideny Pie belong in crap tier (replace kidney with ale and it becomes God Tier)
Crap Tier - black pudding should be top tier. Haggis mid tier.
Edit - Where’s beans on toast??
