Well, I'm off to try and find a butcher. The wife is handy at bread making and I grew up on Yorkshire pudding with roast beef, so toad in the hole won't be hard to do, assuming I can get some good quality sausage to work with. Almost everything here is full of chemicals.

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Well, I'm off to try and find a butcher. The wife is handy at bread making and I grew up on Yorkshire pudding with roast beef, so toad in the hole won't be hard to do, assuming I can get some good quality sausage to work with. Almost everything here is full of chemicals.

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Russ you can use pork chops in a toad in the hole if you can't get sausages.
Now another dish but not one you'll make at home unless you can somehow get the recipe, Pie, mash, jellied eels and liquor with some chilli vinegar. The pie is not your normal pie and the recipe is a well guarded secret, we even get some new pie and mash shops open sometimes that haven't got the recipe right, they close very quickly.

You can't find fish and chips here, although when we visited London last year we couldn't find it there either. Only curry shops and kebabs.

I live near what was known as 'The Black Country' and we have some singular dishes, such as Faggots and peas, grey peas and bacon and Grouty pudding. All of which are delicious and very nourishing.

Nothing wrong with a good piece of horse meat. Marinate in a sour sauce, serve with raisins, dumplings and red coal. One of the benefits of being near Belgium is that you can get proper Sauerbraten here not the cow-based stuff they sell you in other parts of germany

Best fish and chips I had was in Conwy, Wales in a small shop near Tudor place back in 2005. In general britsh cuisine is better than it's reputation once you realize they don't use as much seasoning as the continentals do (Or a lot more if you count the Indian cuisine - made the error of ordering "hot" in Carrick on Shannon. MILK!)

OTOH nothing beats properly prepared pig from your a small "bio" farmer that still breeds the elder races. The type of pig that runs down a rugby player for fun and still has the wild pig instincts (thankfully NOT the teeth)