My British 100

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Awhile ago I spotted the Omnivores 100 meme on Becks & Posh which was started by Very Good Taste. It was a pretty good list but some of the entries would be better off on a meme of 101 things not to eat before you die.

For a start insects. Yes, I know we eat them all the time ground up in to flour. But I really don’t want to them (although I’ll contradict myself by saying green ants with smoked salmon are quite delicious). Spam is to be avoided at all costs and chitterlings just smell of what they are – bum.

Instead having just returned from England for the first time in years I was looking for something with more focus. I wanted to focus on the essential things to eat to make the most of my visit. I’ve just found that I’m not the first to do this a British 100. I think it started here.

This is my personal one and I’ve eaten every one (I’ve left out liquids). If you feel like joining in:

1) Either make your own list or copy this one to your blog.
2) Mark all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Delete anything you would never eat
4) Link back if you fancy.

I wouldn’t mind seeing an Australian 100 and Asian100. Anyone game?

1. Diver caught scallops

2. Dover Sole

3. Sea bass

4. Wild Salmon

5. Turbot

6. Cod and chips

7. Smoked haddock

8. Scampi and chips

9. Chicken in a basket

10. Salt and vinegar crisps

11. Jaffa Cakes

12. McVities digestives

13. English sweets stuck inside a paper bag ( usually with a few bits of fluff).Gobstoppers, humbugs, Lemon sherberts (aka lemon perverts in our household), liquorice.

14. Patum Pepperium

15. Branson Pickle

16. Pickalillee

17. Jellied eel

18. Cockles

19. Winkles

20. Haggis

21. Pork Pie

22. Potted Shrimps

23. Eccles cakes

24. Dundee cake

25. Sponge cake with raspberry Jam and cream

26. Scones with strawberry Jam and clotted cream

27. Cucumber sandwiches on white bread with crusts cut off

28. Smoked salmon sandwiches

29. Pork scratchings

30. Faggots

31. Marmite

32. Heinz Tomato Sauce

33. Heinz bakes Beans

34. Chicken Tikka Massala

35. Porridge

36. Toad in the hole

37. Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding

38. Eton mess

39. Strawberries and cream

40. Blackberry and apple pie.

41. Cheddar cheese

42. Stilton

43. Stinking bishop

44. Kippers

45. Arbroath smokies

46. Chips, rice and curry sauce (or chips, rice and mushroom sauce/gravy)

47. Lea & Perrins Worcester Sauce

48. HP Sauce

49. Daddy’s Sauce

50. Jacobs water biscuits

51. Dressed crab

52. Bangers and mash

53. Cumberland sausage

54. Cornish pasty

55. Welsh rarebit

56. Kendall Mint Cake

57. Game pie

58. Jugged hare

59. Grouse

60. Full english breakfast: bacon, sausage, egg, beans, fired potato, fried bread, egg

61. Mushy peas

62. Jersey royal new potatoes

63. Gooseberry fool

64. Rhubarb crumble

65. Butterscotch

66. Irish stew

67. Golden shred marmalade

68. Rich Tea biscuits

69. Ginger biscuits

70. Lemon sylabub

71. Fresh horseradish sauce

72. Greengage tart

73. Roast lamb with mint sauce

74. Roast goose

75. Fish pie (Two Fat Ladies recipe)

76. Scotch eggs

77. Lancashire hotpot

78. Summer pudding

79. Potato salad

80. roast pheasant with bread sauce

81. Brussel sprouts

82. Asparagus with hollondais sauce

83. Pontefract Cakes

84. Bubble and squeak

85. Trifle

86. Custard

87. Ploughman’s lunch

88. Steak and kidney pudding ( or pie)

89. Bakewell tart

90. Colchester oysters

91. Rabbit casserole

92. Smoked trout pate

93. Shrewsbury biscuits

94. Gingerbread men

95. Cock-a-leekie-soup

96. Cauliflower cheese

97. Buttered crumpets

98. Kedgeree

99. Hot English mustard

100. Grey legged Partridge

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