26 British Food Quirks That Brits Don't Realise Are Weird
Eating everything on toast, for a start.
1. Eating beans on toast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
To us, it's a versatile meal. To others, it's kinda gross.
2. Spreading Marmite over buttered toast.
If you forget the butter or use too much Marmite, this is a horrible meal. But lots of Lurpack and a little bit of Marmite makes it the world's best breakfast.
3. Basically, putting anything on toast. Especially spaghetti hoops.
To British people, spaghetti hoops on toast is the ultimate sick day lunch. To everyone else, it's just a soggy mess.
4. Pairing jelly with ice cream.
We ate this at every kids' birthday party we went to.
5. Take out sausage rolls.
Every Brit knows that a Gregg's sausage roll is the ultimate hangover cure.
6. Batter in general.
The rest of the world is really missing out on delicacies like toad in the hole and Yorkshire puddings.
7. Putting chips in a bread roll and calling it a chip butty.
For the best result, you want chip shop chips and the kind of bun you used to get iced for pudding at school.
8. Proper clotted cream that goes solid and kinda fuzzy on the top.
It's literally our best invention.
9. Mushy peas.
To everyone else it looks like lumpy green mash. But to us, it looks like Friday night dinner.
10. Covering chips with gravy.
If the chips don't turn into mush the moment you stab them with a fork, you need more gravy.
11. Or worse, covering chips with curry sauce.
Literally the world's greatest drunk food.
12. Dunking custard creams in tea.
What's not delicious about a slightly soggy biscuit with a solid custard filling?
13. Putting Branston pickle in every cheese sandwich.
It totally transforms any sandwich.
14. Prawn cocktail favoured crisps.
They shouldn't taste great but, my god, they do.
15. Eating all types of cheese on a cracker.
Others opt for fresh bread with their cheese; we opt for slightly cardboardy crackers instead.
16. Especially Red Leicester.
It's the kind of cheese that tastes exactly like a block of solid milk, but we Brits love it anyway.
17. Serving two types of carbs with curry.
Every Brit knows that the best carb is double carb.
18. Putting fish fingers in a sandwich.
The ultimate comfort food.
19. All forms of school potato, like cubes, smilies, and curly fries.
All delicious in their own special ways.
20. Pub snacks in general.
Snacks like scotch eggs and pork scratchings look gross, but taste great.
21. Covering baked beans in ketchup.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with covering beans in tomato sauce with... tomato sauce.
22. Brown sauce as a condiment.
Kinda vinegary, kinda delicious.
23. Covering crumpets in astonishingly large quantities of butter.
If your dad doesn't ask whether you want a crumpet with your butter, you're doing it wrong.
24. Viennetta for pudding at your nan's house.
You can still get these in most petrol stations and corner shops.
25. Making toasties that look like this.
We eat these at the garden centre and when we're visiting our nan.
26. And finally, eating all of this for breakfast.
Everyone else is just doing breakfast wrong.