Foods to get in England
Let’s start with the meals!
Fish and chips
Deep-fried battered fish (like cod) with chunky french fries seasoned with vinegar and salt. If you go to a fancy restaurant, it comes on a plate with garnishes (like in the photo). Regular fish and chip shops will wrap it in a type of paper and put in it a white plastic bag. If you get it by the seaside, it’s wrapped in newspaper and comes with a small wooden fork. The chips can be covered in ketchup or mayo or you could eat them with baked beans, mushy peas or curry. Some people eat the fish and chips separately and some eat them together.
Cottage Pie/Shepherd’s Pie
Minced meat covered by crispy and fluffy mashed potato. If the meat is lamb, it’s shepherd’s pie. If the meat is beef, it’s cottage pie (I prefer cottage tbh). You can have it with peas and sometimes the mash has cheese on top so when you take it out the oven, the mash is extra crispy as well as cheesy. You can find this in any English cafe or “caff” as we call it.
Bangers and Mash
Mashed potato with sausages covered in gravy. I eat this just the way it is but some people have it with cooked onion pieces or peas (only just noticed how we eat peas with everything lmao
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Now for the sweet stuff!
Cadbury Chocolate
Cadbury is a chocolate company and there are LOADS of different chocolate bars here e.g Wispa, Flake, Twirl, Crunchie. I’d recommend trying out the dairy milk chocolate to start off with. It’s just plain milk chocolate. And not forgetting these 2 iconic chocolates:
Jaffa Cakes
Small sponge cakes with orange jelly and covered at the top with dark chocolate. During Halloween, the “slime” version is released which has lemon and lime jelly instead of orange. Jaffa Cakes are slightly controversial because some think they’re biscuits for some reason when “cake” is clearly in the title whilst others think they’re cakes.
Quick fun fact: There was an actual tribunal in 1991 which ruled out that they’re cakes.
Rock
Basically, a cylinder-shaped candy cane in plastic wrap. You can get these by the sea-side and they come in all flavours, stripes and colours. These take a while to eat.
BONUS: London
Chicken and chips
There are chicken and chip shops everywhere in London so you’ll have no problem finding this
What makes this different from fish and chips is that the chips are thinner and you don’t have them with vinegar and salt. You get fried chicken (wings, drumsticks, thighs) with chips in a box with a sauce of your choice (ketchup, mayo, burger/fry sauce). It usually comes in this iconic box: