Let's try British cuisine
Jun. 9th, 2024 06:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calzephyrSo you might be wondering, what the heck am I looking at here?
There's no shortage of jokes about British cuisine, but the bean-covered meal was cheap and ridiculously delicious! Milton Keynes has this amazing mall with an outdoor food fair with more things than our bellies could fit. After London, where we ate overpriced ice cream, it was a relief to find some budget-friendly fare. For example, the London hotel buffet breakfast was 22 pounds and in MK it was 13 pounds. The Canadian dollar was not in our favour either. $1 CAD = 1.77 pounds.
Somewhere on Instagram prior to our trip I discovered bean-covered baked potatoes are a street food and I joked to hubs about how I had to try it. My wish was granted! What you're looking at is 1.5 baked potatoes covered in butter, then covered in shredded cheese, topped with beans and crispy onion bits on the side. Different toppings were available, like chicken, but I wasn't feeling that adventurous :D Honestly, I'd have it again in a heartbeat.
Other foods we tried--Nutella-filled chimney cakes, a "French taco"--which is a filled burrito pressed to perfection in a panini grill, Gregg's famous sausage rolls, scones with clotted cream and jam, fish and chips (of course) and meat pies. We had a hotel hamburger since we landed late at night and it was interesting. The beef certainly was different from back home, but still delicious.
Getting back to meat pies, we tried two different kinds. One was more traditional and the other was this giant man-sized pie with thick crust. Both were amazing in their own right. Hubs tried jellied eels at the one pie place and I couldn't watch. Bleh! It was so unappetizing.
We visited a Bangladeshi restaurant in London because hubs just had to try chicken tikka masala. The British concoction is best described as dessert butter chicken. It's super sweet and heavy on coconut flavour. Here at home it would be a spicy feast--but the British way is so inoffensive and unadventurous.
Two Turkish restaurants and a fast food donair place were within walking distance of our hotel, so we tried all three. The lamb iskender was so tender at the fast food place and the olive dip amazing at all three. Mmm!
We didn't try a lot of snack foods. I bought a hazelnut Aero bar and it was super sweet, even for me.
If you visit the UK, be prepared for a lot of salty, greasy fare--I was definitely hankering for a green vegetable by Day 4 of our trip!
There's no shortage of jokes about British cuisine, but the bean-covered meal was cheap and ridiculously delicious! Milton Keynes has this amazing mall with an outdoor food fair with more things than our bellies could fit. After London, where we ate overpriced ice cream, it was a relief to find some budget-friendly fare. For example, the London hotel buffet breakfast was 22 pounds and in MK it was 13 pounds. The Canadian dollar was not in our favour either. $1 CAD = 1.77 pounds.
Somewhere on Instagram prior to our trip I discovered bean-covered baked potatoes are a street food and I joked to hubs about how I had to try it. My wish was granted! What you're looking at is 1.5 baked potatoes covered in butter, then covered in shredded cheese, topped with beans and crispy onion bits on the side. Different toppings were available, like chicken, but I wasn't feeling that adventurous :D Honestly, I'd have it again in a heartbeat.
Other foods we tried--Nutella-filled chimney cakes, a "French taco"--which is a filled burrito pressed to perfection in a panini grill, Gregg's famous sausage rolls, scones with clotted cream and jam, fish and chips (of course) and meat pies. We had a hotel hamburger since we landed late at night and it was interesting. The beef certainly was different from back home, but still delicious.
Getting back to meat pies, we tried two different kinds. One was more traditional and the other was this giant man-sized pie with thick crust. Both were amazing in their own right. Hubs tried jellied eels at the one pie place and I couldn't watch. Bleh! It was so unappetizing.
We visited a Bangladeshi restaurant in London because hubs just had to try chicken tikka masala. The British concoction is best described as dessert butter chicken. It's super sweet and heavy on coconut flavour. Here at home it would be a spicy feast--but the British way is so inoffensive and unadventurous.
Two Turkish restaurants and a fast food donair place were within walking distance of our hotel, so we tried all three. The lamb iskender was so tender at the fast food place and the olive dip amazing at all three. Mmm!
We didn't try a lot of snack foods. I bought a hazelnut Aero bar and it was super sweet, even for me.
If you visit the UK, be prepared for a lot of salty, greasy fare--I was definitely hankering for a green vegetable by Day 4 of our trip!
