English Menu for Swedish Visitors

[Super Sonic]

Angel Delight

[Sheets Tabuer]

Dunno if it's the same for swedes but when I host my colleagues from the continent all they want is a curry, if possible hot enough to burn your face off.

With extra chillies..

And a chilli Naan.

[Venisonpie]

Pork in cider
Shepherds pie
Fish pie

All from a Delia book, British and great with al dente veg.

[rev-erend]

Easy, the UK's favourite food.

Curry

[fiatpower]

My Swedish cousins only ever want one thing when they visit and that's a Kebab!

My suggestion though would be a roast dinner.

[Spydaman]

So we did beef in red wine with shallots and mushroom with mashed potatoes with treacle pudding and custard when they arrived. Full English breakfast with everything, ploughman’s lunch at a proper pub then fish and chips and lashings of proper beer. Everything went down well with them.

[sherman]

Did you serve the beef in large Yorkshire puddings (cake tin size)for the full effect?

[Hughesie]

Faggots Chips n peas

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Sporky said:

The use of "an" with "herb", makes me think this was compiled by one of our American friends.

Doesn't mean its not an interesting list, of course, it just caught my eye.

I'm pretty sure using 'an' with words beginning with H is proper olde-worlde English. Americans got it from us, obviously, and stuck with it. We should probably still use 'an hotel' or 'an house', especially when writing, but I would imagine only hardcore grammarians do so nowadays.

I definitely say, "I'm staying at an 'otel," but I think it's normal if you drop aitches all over the place and I'm fairly tripping over them 'ere.


Also, OP, deep fry everything.

[Sporky]

Nexus Icon said:

I'm pretty sure using 'an' with words beginning with H is proper olde-worlde English. Americans got it from us, obviously, and stuck with it. We should probably still use 'an hotel' or 'an house', especially when writing, but I would imagine only hardcore grammarians do so nowadays.

I definitely say, "I'm staying at an 'otel," but I think it's normal if you drop aitches all over the place and I'm fairly tripping over them 'ere.

That also makes sense.

[w1bbles]

paddy1970 said:

Top 50:

40. Sussex Pond Pudding

When I skimmed the list my brain saw this as 'Sex Pond Pudding'. Given the rise in hot tub ownership, maybe one for a future list...

[MBVitoria]

Simbu said:

Definitely a quality meat pie with mash, veg, gravy. All my continental colleagues are keen to try it when they visit and love it! They even take some home with them! Pies are typically sweet with fruit in, at least in Germany it seems.

Fish and chips if you have a good local near you.

Apple or rhubarb crumble with custard.

Crumpets with butter.

Sunday roast with trimmings, cauliflower cheese.

Full English breakfast.

+1 for toad in the hole, decent Cumberland sausages from the butcher

Bakewell tart or battenburg cake.

ETA: a decent ploughman's with some good British cheeses and a pork pie!

Ooh yes, all good suggestions.

[Silvanus]

Spydaman said:

So we did beef in red wine with shallots and mushroom with mashed potatoes with treacle pudding and custard when they arrived. Full English breakfast with everything, ploughman’s lunch at a proper pub then fish and chips and lashings of proper beer. Everything went down well with them.

Beef bourguignon, nice, good English dish

[Spydaman]

Silvanus said:

Beef bourguignon, nice, good English dish

Well spotted.

[ferret50]

Lashings and lashings of peas.

[Collectingbrass]

"Humorously" shaped vegetables

[RC1807]

ferret50 said:

Lashings and lashings of peas.

Not even illmonkey that posted that....

"lashings" refers to Ambrosia custard, surely, not peas?

[vikingaero]

Pop down to your local Ikea and stock up on meatballs, gravy, lingonberry jam and other assorted swedish fare. Present them with a cup/glass and tell them it's self-service refillable

[theplayingmantis]

Silvanus said:

For Swedish relatives I recently did Cullen skunk, followed by a proper Lancashire hotpot with braised red cabbage and a blackberry crumble and custard. It went down very well with them and they've made the same meal for their friends back home.

where did you get the skunk for the haddock soup?

[theplayingmantis]

2HFL said:

Mobile Chicane said:

Well.

Considering that traditional Swedish foods consist of either fish lips and aholes, or pork lips and aholes, the Northern Hemisphere is your playground.

I'd go for a curry, personally.

Personally I disagree….

Having a Swedish Mum I’ve been fortunate enough to experience all sorts of wonderful dishes, in the main all very healthy with amazing variety. Plenty of fish, meat, cheese, breads and salad options - delicious.

Makes you realise how very dull and non-existent English cuisine is in contrast, aside from a good old roast dinner!

the last bit utter rubbish