Benjamin’s English · engVid | Weird foods of the United Kingdom 🍗 @engvidBenjamin | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Just like language, food brings people together. Every region has its own tastes, and the UK is no exception. In this lesson, I will teach you about the local food found throughout the United Kingdom. You will learn a little bit about each part of our land as well! Did you know that in Scotland, you can eat sheep's stomach and deep-fried chocolate bars? Those are only some of the wonderful and unique things there are to eat in the UK. Watch the video to learn more, and do the quiz to see how many foods you can remember! I'm going to go eat some jellied eels! Mmmmmmm...
WATCH NEXT:
1. DRINKING TEA IN ENGLAND: youtube.com/watch?v=HcNAxWlFE_g
2. THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY: youtube.com/watch?v=jSDoxNzFMZw
3. WHAT NOT TO DO IN ENGLAND: youtube.com/watch?v=8hV7lJyC3Eg
TAKE A QUIZ ON THIS LESSON: engvid.com/weird-foods-of-the-uk
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back to engVid. So, getting to know a country is not just about speaking the language. We... We want to understand the food, because people are always going to be passionate about food, so it's good to be able to talk about it. I know we're not in France, I know we're not Italy, but there is some fine food to be found around the United Kingdom. So I'm going to be showing you, via my slightly distorted map here, some of the highlights that you can expect to find.
Okay, I think we'll start right up here in the top. Scotland, known for such things as the deep-fat-fried Mars bars. Okay? They also have "haggis". Haggis is sheep's stomach. Mmm, tasty. They also have black pudding, which in... Sort of another strange bodily part of an animal which is used in a sort of cooked breakfast. "Kedgeree" is perhaps slightly healthier and tastier, this is... It's kind of like a... It's not a fish pie, but it's... It's kind of like fishy, ricey type thing. It's really quite yummy. You have it in a bowl. Yum-yum. "Dundee cake", so this is like a fruitcake, raisins, it kind of looks brown. It's okay. "Pease pudding", this is in Northumberland. This is made with sort of mushed up peas with meaty flavours, mushy peas with a decent flavour up there in Northumberland where you have Hadrian's Wall and some stunning coastline. I've marked out Bradford here on my map in Yorkshire. It's not typical British food, but as a melting pot of Asian cultures, that's probably where you'll find the best curry in Britain.
Here in Derbyshire... Derbyshire, of course, on the map from my eccentric Britain video in which we learnt that toe wrestling originated here, also is the birthplace of the "Bakewell tart". I personally find it quite inedible, that means I can't eat it, not able to eat, Bakewell tart, but it's a pudding with strong almond flavours. The "pork pie", obviously made from a pig, so Muslim friends probably not going to be the best for you, but it's, you know, pork with a sort of hard, crusty pastry. Quite satisfying snack. You can get it... Often order it in pubs.
We're here in Norfolk. This part of England is called East Anglia, "Anglia" after the Angles and Saxons who came from Denmark, Norway, those people over there. They came here and they landed in this part of country because it was nearest, so this is now East Anglia. This is where most of the Turkeys in the UK come from.
I've also pinpointed this little town, here, seaside town called Aldeburgh, that was also in my video: "Difficult Places to Pronounce in the UK", "Aldeburgh" because it's spelt funny. Let me just write it down one more time because it's a lovely place to visit. Aldeburgh, great fish n' chips, have them on a beach, and a seagull comes and steals them all, but very tasty. This is Suffolk here. I won't tell you a joke about Suffolk and Norfolk, but you might be able to work it out, looking carefully at the sounds of the words and the spellings. This is where sausages and bacon are, you know, there's a lot of pig farms there. Very tasty.
Down here on the south coast... The south coast generally you're going to find pretty good seafood. I haven't quite finished this one off. "Jellied eels", mm-mm-mm. Personally, I've never eaten this in my life, but if you want to, you know, really get the authentic British experience, then jellied eels is for you. Dover, the stunning, iconic... That's a good word for you to have. "Iconic" means something that... An icon is like an image that you remember, so the iconic Dover cliffs are maybe a very famous site of the UK. Here in Dover, the "Dover sole", "sole" is a type of fish, it's a very flat fish, very good with a little bit of lemon. I've put London here. Yes, I know there are some other fabulous cities in the United Kingdom; Britain... Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, to name just a few, but I've put London here because I know it better than the other cities, other than next, down here.
Just like language, food brings people together. Every region has its own tastes, and the UK is no exception. In this lesson, I will teach you about the local food found throughout the United Kingdom. You will learn a little bit about each part of our land as well! Did you know that in Scotland, you can eat sheep's stomach and deep-fried chocolate bars? Those are only some of the wonderful and unique things there are to eat in the UK. Watch the video to learn more, and do the quiz to see how many foods you can remember! I'm going to go eat some jellied eels! Mmmmmmm...
WATCH NEXT:
1. DRINKING TEA IN ENGLAND: youtube.com/watch?v=HcNAxWlFE_g
2. THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY: youtube.com/watch?v=jSDoxNzFMZw
3. WHAT NOT TO DO IN ENGLAND: youtube.com/watch?v=8hV7lJyC3Eg
TAKE A QUIZ ON THIS LESSON: engvid.com/weird-foods-of-the-uk
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back to engVid. So, getting to know a country is not just about speaking the language. We... We want to understand the food, because people are always going to be passionate about food, so it's good to be able to talk about it. I know we're not in France, I know we're not Italy, but there is some fine food to be found around the United Kingdom. So I'm going to be showing you, via my slightly distorted map here, some of the highlights that you can expect to find.
Okay, I think we'll start right up here in the top. Scotland, known for such things as the deep-fat-fried Mars bars. Okay? They also have "haggis". Haggis is sheep's stomach. Mmm, tasty. They also have black pudding, which in... Sort of another strange bodily part of an animal which is used in a sort of cooked breakfast. "Kedgeree" is perhaps slightly healthier and tastier, this is... It's kind of like a... It's not a fish pie, but it's... It's kind of like fishy, ricey type thing. It's really quite yummy. You have it in a bowl. Yum-yum. "Dundee cake", so this is like a fruitcake, raisins, it kind of looks brown. It's okay. "Pease pudding", this is in Northumberland. This is made with sort of mushed up peas with meaty flavours, mushy peas with a decent flavour up there in Northumberland where you have Hadrian's Wall and some stunning coastline. I've marked out Bradford here on my map in Yorkshire. It's not typical British food, but as a melting pot of Asian cultures, that's probably where you'll find the best curry in Britain.
Here in Derbyshire... Derbyshire, of course, on the map from my eccentric Britain video in which we learnt that toe wrestling originated here, also is the birthplace of the "Bakewell tart". I personally find it quite inedible, that means I can't eat it, not able to eat, Bakewell tart, but it's a pudding with strong almond flavours. The "pork pie", obviously made from a pig, so Muslim friends probably not going to be the best for you, but it's, you know, pork with a sort of hard, crusty pastry. Quite satisfying snack. You can get it... Often order it in pubs.
We're here in Norfolk. This part of England is called East Anglia, "Anglia" after the Angles and Saxons who came from Denmark, Norway, those people over there. They came here and they landed in this part of country because it was nearest, so this is now East Anglia. This is where most of the Turkeys in the UK come from.
I've also pinpointed this little town, here, seaside town called Aldeburgh, that was also in my video: "Difficult Places to Pronounce in the UK", "Aldeburgh" because it's spelt funny. Let me just write it down one more time because it's a lovely place to visit. Aldeburgh, great fish n' chips, have them on a beach, and a seagull comes and steals them all, but very tasty. This is Suffolk here. I won't tell you a joke about Suffolk and Norfolk, but you might be able to work it out, looking carefully at the sounds of the words and the spellings. This is where sausages and bacon are, you know, there's a lot of pig farms there. Very tasty.
Down here on the south coast... The south coast generally you're going to find pretty good seafood. I haven't quite finished this one off. "Jellied eels", mm-mm-mm. Personally, I've never eaten this in my life, but if you want to, you know, really get the authentic British experience, then jellied eels is for you. Dover, the stunning, iconic... That's a good word for you to have. "Iconic" means something that... An icon is like an image that you remember, so the iconic Dover cliffs are maybe a very famous site of the UK. Here in Dover, the "Dover sole", "sole" is a type of fish, it's a very flat fish, very good with a little bit of lemon. I've put London here. Yes, I know there are some other fabulous cities in the United Kingdom; Britain... Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, to name just a few, but I've put London here because I know it better than the other cities, other than next, down here.
