saddlesores

haggis!!!!!!!!!!!!

djb

he probably will have to bike many, many hundreds of miles north to get that.

Rowan

Black pudding. But hold the cream

fietsbob

all these bene-suggs are out the window once you cross the ol' English Channel .. since Normandy and Brittany are in France.

contango 

If you like baked beans it's great. Personally I can't stand baked beans but I'd happily go for a baked potato topped with chilli and cheese, or cheese and ham, or at a push just cheese.

The thing with baked potatoes is they are best if they are cooked in an oven, but that takes the fat end of an hour. Chuck them in the microwave and they're ready much faster, you just don't get the same crunchiness in the skin.

Darth Lefty 

Beer, wine, cheese, bacon, sausage, beans, bread. What's not to like?

MichaelW

English wine used to be a joke ("Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine") but now the sparkling champagne style wines of Susses beat the real thing. the terroir of the chalk hills is the same.

Rowan

Is that meant to be Sussex?

I saw a sandwich board outside a bakery in Dover saying their baguettes were better than the real French thing. I didn't think so.

MichaelW

yes
Sussex Vineyards

Weatherby

I'd save my appetite and starve in England.

Tarts. I once stopped a Patisserie in France after doing like 100 miles fully loaded in the Alps and I ate every single tart that they had in the local village.....many 12 in total. I felt guilty afterwards.

In Normany, I usually get huge seafood platters.

Rowan

I think after my post about the Dover baguette that I should state I considered the food we had while in England and Scotland to be a great surprise. There was ethnic variety as well as quality in the local fare that, if you believe everything others say about Brit food, should have been missing, but wasn't.

The only "bad" meal we had was in London, near the Earls Court hostel where we stayed, when the canned spaghetti sauce was brought in from a nearby supermarket by one of the wait staff and then served up to us for a rather exorbitant bill. We did wonder at the time why it took so long for the plates to arrive at the table. Needless to say, we didn't stick around for dessert.

Caretaker

In England, fishn'chips, scones, curry. In France, just about everything except tripe. Steak hachette is meat chopped up with a hatchet and reassembled to look like a steak. Don't miss the 'menu du jours' for eleven or twelve Euro in most towns and villages. Four courses with wine but only available between about 12.30 and 1.30.

Rowan

Oh yeah! When in France, don't forget to try the steak tartare. It's a real surprise.

And try cheval and lapin. Tasty additions to the menu...

In other words, take a translation dictionary with you before you get too ambitious about ordering from the menu.

fairymuff

If you object to Cheval, I'd stay away from Tesco's Beef Burgers when in the UK...