Phil Hobbs wrote:

It isn't English food that's bad, it's English _restaurants_ (except the
foreign ones).

Show me a bad restaurant these days. If they can't cook decent food they'll go bust.


Real English food is stuff like roast beef with
Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes,

There's a classic. I challenge anyone to cook a meal that's really any more satisfying
than a really good roast. I additionally roast vegetables like carrot, parsnip and onion
in the the roasting dish with the meat. Make sure they don't dry out and you'll get a
wonderful gravy as well as a yummy vegetable accompaniment.


cold game pie, steamed
three-ginger pudding, rhubarb-strawberry pie, the kind of stuff Bertie
Wooster ate...and I grew up on. Amazing. We used to have Porterhouse
*roasts* when I was a kid. You just can't get it in restaurants.

On the subject of dessert, steamed puddings like spotted dick, apple charlotte, apple and
blackberry crumble.... all are delicious.

Graham