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Types of British food

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See how many of the foods shown on this page you can try while you are in the UK. When you are travelling, visit the local shops and try their specialities.

There are many interesting places to visit if you are interested in British food and drink, for example: farms, cheese producers, sweet factories, beer or cider manufacturers, whisky distilleries. Contact the Tourist Authority in the region which you want to visit and ask them about what is available (for contact details, see: Travel/UK).

You can taste fresh local products by visiting farmers markets: these are run by local producers who are selling directly. To find the locations and times of these markets, see: http://www.farmersmarkets.net/visit.

If you are not in the UK and you want to try these foods or give them to someone as a present, you can order many of them from companies which provide goods to British people living abroad.

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Cheese

Cheddar	Stilton	Red Leicester	Oatcake

Types of British cheese include: Caerphilly; Cheddar (see picture); Double Gloucester; Red Leicester (see picture); Stilton (see picture); Wensleydale.
For more details on British cheeses see the British Cheese Board site: http://www.britishcheese.com.
Cheese is often eaten on a cream cracker or an oatcake (see picture).

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Weetabix	Porridge

Types of British breakfast cereal include: Porridge, Weetabix

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Pork pie	Scotch egg	Haggis	Steak pie

Cornish pasty	Smoked salmon	Cumberland sausage	Scampi

Salad

Celery; Coleslaw; Cress (watercress); Cucumber; Tomato

Vegetables

Swede	Parsnip	Leek	King Edward potato

Asparagus; Baked beans - tinned soya beans in tomato sauce, very popular in Britain; Broccoli; Bubble and squeak; Carrots; Cabbage; Corn (American English: maize); corn-on-the-cob; Courgettes (American English: zucchini); Cauliflower; Leeks (see picture); Mushrooms; Onions (see picture); Parsnips (see picture); Pasta; Peas (or mushy peas); Rice; Spinach; Sprouts (often known as Brussels sprouts or Brussel sprouts); Swede (American English: rutabaga; see picture); Turnips; Yorkshire pudding

Boiled potatoes; Chips (American English: fries); Jacket potato (American English: baked potato); Hash browns; Mashed potato (also known as mash); Rings; Roast potatoes
You can find out more about potatoes from the British Potato Council: http://www.potato.org.uk

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Dill; Mint; Parsley; Rosemary; Sage; Thyme

Condiments

HP sauce	Worcester sauce	Malt vinegar	Mango chutney

Mint sauce	Branston pickle	English mustard

Apple sauce; Branston pickle (see picture); Bread sauce; Brown sauce; Chutney (see picture); Cranberry sauce; English mustard (see picture); Gravy; Horseradish sauce; HP sauce (see picture); Mint sauce (see picture); Pepper; Redcurrant jelly; Salad cream; Salt; Tomato ketchup; Vinegar (see picature) - many people like to add malt vinegar to the fish from a fish and chip shop; Worcester(shire) sauce (see picture)

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Apple pie and custard	Bread and butter pudding	Christmas pudding

Trifle	Rice pudding

Apple pie (see picture); Banana custard; Blancmange; Bread and butter pudding (see picture); Cheesecake; Christmas pudding (see picture); Fool; Flip; Fruit salad; Ice cream; Jelly and ice cream; Lemon meringue pie; Mousse; Pancake (Shrove Tuesday - pancake day); Plum pudding; Rhubarb crumble; Rice cremola; Rice pudding with strawberry jam (see picture); Roly-poly; Roulade; Semolina; Spotted dick; Steamed syrup sponge pudding; Strawberries and cream; Summer pudding; Tapioca; Treacle tart; Trifle (see picture); Yoghurt

Types of cream: Clotted cream; Double cream; Single cream; Sour cream; Whipped cream

Fruit

Blackberries	Strawberry	Rhubarb	Redcurrants	Gooseberries

Popular fruits include:
Apple - the most famous British apple is Cox's Orange Pippin (known as Cox's) - Bramley is the most popular apple for cooking; Apricot; Banana; Blackberry (bramble in north England / Scotland; see picture); Blackcurrant; Cherry; Gooseberry (see picture); Lemon; Orange; Pear; Raspberry; Redcurrant (see picture); Rhubarb (see picture); Strawberry (see picture); Victoria plum

If you are interested in fruit, you may wish to visit the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale in Faversham, Kent. Website: http://www.brogdale.org.uk
Location map

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Mars Bar		Flake

Wispa		Twix

KitKat		Toffee Crisp

Maltesers		Dolly mixtures	Fudge

Snowball		Liquorice sticks

Sweets (American English: candy, candies)
After Eight mints; Dolly mixtures (see picture); Flake (see picture); Fruit pastilles; Fudge (see picture); Humbug; Kendal mint cake; KitKat (see picture); Liquorice (see picture); Maltesers (see picture); Mars bar (see picture); Murray mints; Peppermint creams; Rock; Smarties; Snowball (see picture); Toffee; Toffee Crisp (see picture); Twix (see picture); Wispa (see picture)

Crisps	Twiglets

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Self-raising flour	Caster sugar	Golden syrup

Flour - plain or self-raising; Golden syrup; Stock cubes; Sugar - caster, demerara, icing; Vanilla essence

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