Britain's greatest contribution to world cuisine?

vasselmeyer

What is Britain's greatest contribution to world cuisine? I'm going to include Ireland here as well. 

My family just had a long debate about it (around the dinner table, quite appropriately) and some the opinions were Sunday Roast, whisky and Guinness. My choice was a full fried breakfast. 

What's yours? 

mudslide73

Cornish Pasty.

ICBM

Chicken Tikka Masala

Placidcasual79

Who invented the fish finger butty?

CHRISB50

Fish and chips seems to be the dish most foreign people that I've met and asked, associate with the UK. 

Rocker

Guinness is Irish @vasselmeyer. IMHO the Melton Mobray pork pie is probably the best example of British cuisine.

Chalky

Steak and kidney pudding?

Lodious

We refined the pizza for the italians by putting baked beans on it. We took the worst aspects of American food, cost reduced it and sold it as 'American' food to a public who think american food is crap because they have eaten at TGI Fridays. We took Indian food and added loads of sugar to mask any subtleties in the spices. 

Our own national dishes have been distilled so they can be prepared by either microwave or deep fat fryer in chain pubs for fat fuckers who judge the quality of the food by how many chips they get.  There are hardly any decent bakeries left. We made ice-cream shit by pumping it full of air and hydrogenated fat. We are one of the few countries in the first world who think that instant coffee is acceptable.

Any foods cannot be ruined by mass production (like steak or fresh veg) are ruined by overcooking.

In short, the only thing we have contributed to world cuisine is to make food shitter than any other civilised country would even consider.

Flink_Poyd

    Bombay Bad Boy  Pot Noodle

Sassafras

Camberwell carrots.

Octafish

CHRISB50 said:

Fish and chips seems to be the dish most foreign people that I've met and asked, associate with the UK. 

The fried fish part is borrowed from Spanish and/or Portugese cuisine, probably bought to this country by immigrants... 

bingefeller

Scones.

Hootsmon

spice...........Posh Spice in a pot with some carrots

beed84

A big Yorkshire Pudding filled with mince, onions, veg and gravy.

ourmaninthenorth

Black Pudding off Bury Market.

Food to invade other countries on. 

Fretwired

Talk to Michelin starred French chef's and they always say puddings .. many British puddings have been copied and adapted by the French themselves .. and our game recipes.  The French also rate the humble black pudding, cheddar and stilton cheese and of course chicken tika masala which is now being exported to India. Whilst India has claimed the dish as their own it appears after research that a Pakistani chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam, proprietor of the Shish Mahal restaurant in the west end of Glasgow, invented chicken tikka masala by improvising a sauce made from yogurt, cream, and spices.

guitarfishbay

Black Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding 

hotpot

Yep Full English breakfast (gotta have Bury black puddings) Which I partake in 5 days a week. Cant beat it.

stimpsonslostson

Haggis. 

cpcompany

Fretwired said:

Talk to Michelin starred French chef's and they always say puddings .. many British puddings have been copied and adapted by the French themselves .. and our game recipes.  The French also rate the humble black pudding, cheddar and stilton cheese and of course chicken tika masala which is now being exported to India. Whilst India has claimed the dish as their own it appears after research that a Pakistani chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam, proprietor of the Shish Mahal restaurant in the west end of Glasgow, invented chicken tikka masala by improvising a sauce made from yogurt, cream, and spices.

My lass is from West Bengal and genuinely thought Chicken Tikka Masala was from India. They serve it in high class hotels over there. 

i am gong for ham and pease pudding stottie as the daddy of British food. 

mellowsun

Beans on toast