Posted on 06/26/2005 11:06:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fish and Chips is a good culinary export from the Old Dart.
A few pints followed by a curry has sustained many late night London party-goers. The next morning is another matter however.
And the fact that none of these restaurants is from New Orleans shows that those compling the list are idiots and certainly know nothing about good food.
My late mom told me London has very good Chinese restaurants but the prices are somewhere in the stratosphere. 
If you want decent Chinese food you have to go either to the San Francisco or Los Angeles areas; this is where you have very large ex-patriate Hong Kong and Taiwanese populations.
"We had an empire to run"
My wife was served a dish with custard and and raisins at Christmas time, called Spotted Dick.
She asked the host, "What do you call it without the raisins?"
That's very funny! I don't know if it is a true story or not, but regardless, thanks for the laugh - good example of the English sense of humour, too!
I actually like Brit food. Shepherd's pie kicks ass. So does steak-and-kidney pie. Dunno who could dislike any food with a good Whitbread to drink along with it, anyway.
We have good friends in Orpington, Kent, who come over here to the US every couple of years, and we thoroughly enjoy their visits. They are older than my wife and me, but very active and outgoing. We have gone over there a few times, and I kind of enjoy the Ploughman's Lunch, Fish & Chips, and I love an English Breakfast!
Both stories are true, I promise!
That is fried bread and black pudding.
A boiled egg, wrapped in bacon and covered in a crust of sausage.
Some good little restaurants in Brighton too. Veges, ethnic and fast, take your pick! Cook your own in Genghis Khan's! All easy to walk to from the centre. Don't forget to do the antique shops in 'The Lanes'
I live next door just down the coast in Eastbourne.
Many of what we think of as traditional European cuisines are based on foods from the New World. Think of Italy with all it's tomato sauces, Irish & German potato dishes, Hungarian paprika, the beans in French Cassoulet - all New World foods.
Isn't the London Bridge in Arizona?
Britain has some great food - you just have to know what to look for: Steak & Kidney Pie, Roast Beef w/ Yorkshire Pudding, Ham & Veal Pie, Dover Sole, Stilton, Cheddar & Cheshire cheeses, Cornish Pasty, Shepherd's Pie, Piccalilli, Simnel Cake, Plum Pudding, Shortbread, Gooseberry Fool, crumpets, scones, Devonshire cream, clotted cream, rhubarb crumble, trifle.... (have to stop - getting hungry)
Smoke me a kipper, Listy?
Yes, truly awful food. No wonder they're thinner than we. The fish and chips were okay, breakfast was horrid, (beans? yech!) but the Crispy Duck from the local Chinese take-out place was excellent. Nothing like what you'd get in the states.
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