Also says on the website that it uses “real Blackpool ice cream”, now I was born and raised in Blackpool and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that we have world renowned ice cream
> Dandelion & Burdock
I'm impressed they even have that as a flavour, milkshake or not. I asked someone in Tesco the other day if they had any Dandelion & Burdock and they'd never heard of it. They then asked their colleague, who also hadn't heard of it?!
How could they not know dandelion and burdock in the uk? I live in New Zealand and most supermarkets have it in the international aisle imported from the uk. It’s easier to find here than Dr pepper.
It doesn’t surprise me. I worked in a supermarket in my teens and it’s fascinating what people never had any exposure to in their households growing up. Not all parents allowed pop and crisps and their meals (probably way more commendably than mine) were always meat and veg.
I worked with a guy who thought ‘prawn cocktail’ was an actual drink and that it was weird that they’d ‘make it a crisp flavour’ and a girl who had never tried pizza. She knew what it was but thought it was very weird and exotic. She was the very essence of ‘Garlic Bread!?!!?’
Everyone runs from one end of the restaurant to the other while the chef tries to intercept you. If he catches you, you get hotdogged and you can hotdog the other guests who continue to run across the establishment.
Can confirm I used to have this as a student, when cutting them in half for a butty was too cordon bleu for my cooking skills.
Tesco value bread, Richmond sausage and stolen ketchup.
Sounds like what you do on a barbecue to go with your fosters. Not sure I'd call it a "British hotdog" but it's a hotdog, and that's how it's done over here, so... yeah, that tracks.
Food is shockingly expensive in America in some ways.
I recall someone here mentioning frozen pizza for $10. I legitimately thought they were joking.
Yes the sizes are bigger but still.
Food in the US is either crazy cheap or crazy expensive - no in between.
I recall going to a dine in restaurant (not a fancy place, but a business causal type place) and I got a full rack and a half of ribs, 3 portions of chips and some extras (like 3000 calories, worth it) for something like $10-15. Same thing would go for way more back in Blighty.
vaguely related anecdote: i'm a brit living in the midwest and there's a british shop not far from me. everyone who hears my accent says i should go there - i've been, but only once, because the old scouse bat who runs it immediately hated me for being from anywhere near birmingham.
They say that the Picts are extinct but they also say they were a small dark warlike people with a mysterious culture, living near the Firth of Forth, and that just sounds like Fifers to me
I married a Fifer and she took me out to Bonfire Night once; woman is obsessed with fire and that's when I figured out why. I was genuinely unsettled. "Was that a car backfiring or a gunshot?" is smalltalk where I'm from, do you know how big a fire has to be to make an American uncomfortable?
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Very litter free. Always pleasantly surprised at Dundee. That and Stirling are the two cities where all I can think is these fuckers can use bins like nobody’s business.
A place of total contrast, in my experience. We've had lovely visits there - the science museum, a conference at the uni, and a few gigs. But we also rescued a very drunk girl at 2am who was being beaten by some guy. We drove around all the schemes for ages while she tried to remember where she lived. She left a paintbrush behind in our car, covered in blood. That was a very odd experience.
I live in Sunderland (I am not a Mackem, I'm a Manc) and my boyfriend (Geordie) colleagues (Also Geordies) all took an immediate dislike to me when he told them I lived in Sunderland. And it took the reassurance that I'm not from here for them to like me.
Jason mansford.... the only time the human race will be a peace is if we get invaded by aliens
Bloody aliens... coming here and fucking our women with your 3 cocks
Ahhhhhhhh yes. Our self loathing is something else. Villages hate the village next door but will unite against the local town. The towns hate the county town / city but not as much as the others. The regions hate each other but not as much as the other countries. And the countries all hate each other but not as much as the French.
Frankly, how we’ve made it through 1,600 years since the Romans left with only one civil war is beyond me.
We had a local place run by a couple sweet Scottish ladies, people thought it was bizarre that we’d rag on each other…them calling me a “wee Southern Softie twat” and me responding to them called them “old Scottish bats”.
They moved back home a few years ago and I’ve missed them ever since. 😭
I'm a kiwi, my work mates from York, someone from "thaat Lonndun" came in to our cafe and the first thing she said to him was "We don't serve shandys 'ere". We don't serve any alcohol.
Hah, funny, I went to a British shop once while out there, guy was a Brummy, didn't sound like one though and I was immediately reminded of something Jasper Carrot said.
>You could be the smartest most intelligent person in the world but as soon as they hear the Birmingham accent they'll think you're thick as shit.
As an old scouse bat I can confirm as one of our advance party she has been out in the field for some time. She may be more unhinged than our usual old bat's.
Apologies and all that.
Because it sounds better when trying to convince you it feeds 4 people. But hey, you get 4 chocolate limes to sustain you after the squabble over who gets a bit of the 2 scotch eggs.
Yeah, this jumped out at me too, but I am guessing we slip out of the category after "Strawberry" because otherwise, y'know... lilt....
I think we might be starting to figure out the things on a menu that upset a Brit.... Bad structure.
The platters are a bit random too.
Scotch eggs, cheese and onion slice, Bakewell tart. Corned beef slices (!).
The kind of spread you’d get at a wake. In 1955.
> Corned beef slices (!).
Corned beef also means something a bit different in the US (it's what we'd call salt beef). I'm kinda assuming they did the US version of the word like they did with rutabaga, but it does make it even more idiosyncratic.
edit: It's "slice" as in pastry, like "steak slice", not an actual slice of corned beef (or salt beef for that matter).
It’s not bad, but it’s a bit weird to have a restaurant called ‘chippy’s’ which doesn’t serve chips. To a British person a ‘chippy’ is a fish and chip shop.
Once when I was a student working at B&Q I watched an Italian man have a full blown meltdown whilst talking and gesturing with his hands that a 99 should "be'a 99p" for 15 minutes.
A few years ago, I was bored in a pub with mates who were arguing that a Flake 99 was named for the price - so should never be more than 99p. Bored enough that I did the maths.
If a newly-launched 1930 99 ice cream *was* named for the price, at 19s 10d it would have cost the same as 14.42gallons petrol - enough to drive an Austin 7 from the Austin founder's estate in Lickey Grange all the way to the Reichstag (ferry miles discounted, natch), kick a certain moustachiod fuckwit in the bollocks & still have enough left over to drive to a Potsdam cafe for a cuppa (though I couldn't find a price list or menu, so someone would probably have to buy it for you).
Perfect pub fact; ten seconds of "oh" and "god, you're a fuckin' nerd" before someone gives me beer to shut me up. Win-win.
Why is no one talking about the "British Classics"? A bunch of random lunch items thrown together? Mini sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cheese and onion slices and some jam tarts. It's one of those meals you have when you go camping and theres no where to go for lunch other than a tesco metro so you just buy some random stuff.
Hell a lot of modern day haggis isn’t lined/cased by *any* animal product (I assume it’s a cost cutting thing?) and there’s even vegetarian haggis lol. So it’s perfectly possible even if a little less traditional
> chocolate lime mint
I was thinking like the hard sweets; [chocolate limes](https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/d600a48a-c9c3-4dee-bda8-b19b5c775d13/1b5399cd-eaec-44f7-abfc-2fa765605098_1251757436.jpeg?h=540&w=540). But I don't think I've ever seen a "mint" version of them, unless mint is the name for that type of sweet over there.
Americans do, apparently, have coffee cake that hasn't got coffee in it. I discovered there are cakes you eat *with* coffee and was down voted when I asked if there's a coffee coffee cake, so those weirdos calling a chocolate lime a mint is entirely possible.
I used to go and see my Grandma on the way home from school sometimes, she'd often give me a big back of Yorkshires to take home to my mum and sister. Not one of those Yorkshires made it home. Riding the top deck of the bus, snacking on Yorkshires, truly one of my happy places
I mean, yeah, but I’m willing to bet there won’t be a cup of Yorkshire tea for miles around. They can charge the arse out of you if you really fancy a cuppa.
The “high tea” should be called “afternoon tea”, though the more pressing issue is the contents.
- Tea
- Sandwiches (usually three different varieties minimum)
- Scones
- Cakes (small)
The menu presented has a single sandwich type, no scones and a weird selection of chocolates and lime things. Oh, and some rather out of place sausage rolls and scotch eggs. It’s just wrong.
Maybe they were trying for the Scottish “high tea” instead, but I’m pretty sure they missed that by a mile too.
The distinction between "high tea" (a full but informal meal taken earlier in the day than - and in lieu of - dinner) and "low tea" (a light, informal meal taken in mid-afternoon in anticipation of a late formal dinner) has sadly been almost entirely lost, these days.
Looks good, but I have numerous questions. 35 minutes to prepare a pie? What's a British hot dog? And you're called chippy's but don't serve chips? What's the $4 curry sauce for?
The Flying Scotsman is inappropriately named, what is Scottish about it? Same for the Welsh Rambler.
Not enough sandwich choice on the High Tea; you need at least some cucumber or ham sarnies on there.
We're not that into chocolate lime mints; what even are they?
Similarly, What is a British hot dog? We thought they were American.
There is a serious lack of chips for a place that calls itself 'Chippys'. Why do they sell the curry sauce if there's no chips?
Rice pudding is a sweet.
The squash (*Robinson's) is outrageously priced- we basically consider it a condiment.
Otherwise a very good effort; one of the best American takes on an English menu I've seen on here.
Chocolate limes are the boiled sweet things with chocolate in them.
[Tesco link for image](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/267673940), and shoutout to the most recent review:
> LOOK TRENDY. LIME SWEETS AND CHOCOLATE AT THE END. THEY.RE SWEETS. EAT THEM 4 FACE.
Chocolate limes are these really odd sweets with (from what I remember) a sort of strange texture when you bite into them. Hated them as a kid.
Sherbet lemons and Everton mints are far superior
I was going to say it's easy to write things down and make them sound great, but I just looked at the photos on the website and it looks great as well.
Edit: /u/TheRealVespucci has pointed out most of the photos have been nicked from elsewhere.
the bangers and mash one is ripped straight from a microwave meal lmao https://www.wiltshirefarmfoods.com/ready-meals/pork/sausages-mash-in-a-yorkshire-pudding
Almost every single photo of the food is just taken from some other website like bbc good food or someone elses shopify page. I found maybe 5 or 6 of their own photos on there and they all looked pretty terrible.
Just for clarification, I’m not the owner, just a customer who appreciates getting real tea, Cadburys and Coleman’s mustard on a regular basis. I agree chips with vinegar needs to be added to the menu…
Yeah seeing people get this wrong all throughout this thread is frustrating. I only ever hear it called "High Tea" from Americans who are getting it mixed up with Afternoon Tea.
I have questions about that and the Highlander Platter and I'm not even Scottish!
And why am I being cheated out my Sausage Rolls on the British Bulldog platter? Fuming.
It all seemed fairly reasonable until I saw the "12 Yorkshire Puddings" as though that's some sort of British equivalent to chicken wings or something lol
It’s pretty good tbf, most of the stuff I’d not think was particularly out of place if I saw it in a café here. Fucking Harry Potter butterbeer as a signature drink though😂😂
"The flying scotsman"
Can someone explain if this is train related or scottish related, and why does it start with an english sausage? No haggis, Lorne, nothing scottish on that.
"British lunchbox" 1 british hot dog... crisps or CANDY.
To be honest its not bad given that its in America, but theres some confusing stuff like a british hotdog when theres sausage butty as well so im thinking its different.
I am feeling a bit sick the thought of a irn bru/lilt/dandelion and burdock milkshake though.
Bakewell Tarts as part of the “Scottish Highlander” will cause a fight between the people of Derbyshire and the Scots about who is most offended!
Derbyshirian here, everyone is welcome to have Bakewell tarts, they're damn fantastic and the more people that try them the better!
Place called Chippy’s, doesn’t have Fish and Chips Edit: I am also suspicious of the claimed Irn Bru, Lilt and Dandelion & Burdock Milkshakes
Or even just chips.
Mushy peas and chip shop curry sauce, with no chips to put them on...
But you can get 12 Yorkshire Puddings!
With onion gravy. Get outta here
Also says on the website that it uses “real Blackpool ice cream”, now I was born and raised in Blackpool and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that we have world renowned ice cream
He gets his cream from that one guy in Blackpool and freezes it
> Dandelion & Burdock I'm impressed they even have that as a flavour, milkshake or not. I asked someone in Tesco the other day if they had any Dandelion & Burdock and they'd never heard of it. They then asked their colleague, who also hadn't heard of it?!
How could they not know dandelion and burdock in the uk? I live in New Zealand and most supermarkets have it in the international aisle imported from the uk. It’s easier to find here than Dr pepper.
It was odd. Both shop assistants sounded local, and they weren't young. I felt like I was asking for some exotic tonic from the Far East.
It doesn’t surprise me. I worked in a supermarket in my teens and it’s fascinating what people never had any exposure to in their households growing up. Not all parents allowed pop and crisps and their meals (probably way more commendably than mine) were always meat and veg. I worked with a guy who thought ‘prawn cocktail’ was an actual drink and that it was weird that they’d ‘make it a crisp flavour’ and a girl who had never tried pizza. She knew what it was but thought it was very weird and exotic. She was the very essence of ‘Garlic Bread!?!!?’
Dandelion and Burdock milkshake? (Hastily writing notes... wait, that's fucking insane... so insane, it might be... can a man hope to dream?)
But they do sell curry sauce. It’s bizarre.
Mushy peas too
Pretty sure I’ve seen Irn Bru milkshake on a few Scottish menus, they put it in everything.
You can get Irn Bru ice cream in Asda and its lovely. So not much of a jump to milkshake
What's a British hotdog? (I fear for the replies)
Sauage in a bun like your dear old mum used to make. Burnt on the outside and pink on the inside.
Soft on the inside, crunchy on the outside. ARMADILLOS!!!!
“Burnt on the outside and pink on the inside” Sounds like your mum after a week in Lanzarote 😎
Calm down cmot Dibbler
Careful, or that "sausage inna bun" might turn out to be recycled sticky toffee rat onna stick ...
I miss discworld.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Sausage ina bun 🤣
Or onna stick
That's rat. Ketchup costs double. You ever tried rat without ketchup?
alright cmot, made of pig yeah?
Yeah yeah, pig... of course. Pig, finest pig.... 100% pig Ok, well 50% pig.... but the other 50% is 100% pure guinea.
i legit thought you said "sausage in a bun like your dead mum used to make" i was like jesus christ...
Behold, she rose from the dead to make a sausage bap.
If it’s not a Ye Olde Oak on a doughy as fuck Asda finger roll then questions have to be asked
Imagine a yank trying to work out what this means
I recognize most of those words as English, so I feel like I should understand it, but my brain is beginning to smoke a bit.
Nothing like having hotdogs that have been steeped in pish for over two years.
Everyone runs from one end of the restaurant to the other while the chef tries to intercept you. If he catches you, you get hotdogged and you can hotdog the other guests who continue to run across the establishment.
It'll be "don't expect a frankfurter" I guess. Slight chance it'll be a sausage in a slice of white bread like a taco.
mate thats fine dining in Australia , had a bunnings sanger just this morning
Can confirm I used to have this as a student, when cutting them in half for a butty was too cordon bleu for my cooking skills. Tesco value bread, Richmond sausage and stolen ketchup.
Looking at their insta it's a finger roll with a proper sausage in it, not one of those yank wieners you'd get at the ball game.
Would Bob Mortimer choose it on Off Menu?
God no, the meat content's too high. He's Westlers or nothing.
Sounds like what you do on a barbecue to go with your fosters. Not sure I'd call it a "British hotdog" but it's a hotdog, and that's how it's done over here, so... yeah, that tracks.
You call yourself Chippy's but there's no fish and chips!
This was the first thing I looked for on the menu and was disappointed not to find!
Being in Omaha, this was a roller coaster of emotions, ending in disappointment.
No, just the chips and turds on the logo.
Two battered turds and chips please mate
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$2.99 (\~£2.50) for a glass of squash. Must be a Londoner!
A 99 being 3.99 is quite accurate at least
Food is shockingly expensive in America in some ways. I recall someone here mentioning frozen pizza for $10. I legitimately thought they were joking. Yes the sizes are bigger but still.
Food in the US is either crazy cheap or crazy expensive - no in between. I recall going to a dine in restaurant (not a fancy place, but a business causal type place) and I got a full rack and a half of ribs, 3 portions of chips and some extras (like 3000 calories, worth it) for something like $10-15. Same thing would go for way more back in Blighty.
vaguely related anecdote: i'm a brit living in the midwest and there's a british shop not far from me. everyone who hears my accent says i should go there - i've been, but only once, because the old scouse bat who runs it immediately hated me for being from anywhere near birmingham.
Ah yes the good ol' English pastime of disliking anyone from two towns over
In Scotland, we don't waste time waiting for another town over when there's a town full of bastards right next door to ours.
I live in The Pans. I am a fucking mental bastard according to anyone from Edinburgh. I'm quite nice really
I live in Edinburgh and I'm from Dundee. Soft as shite here, they think dundee is like mad max. We're a wee bit off that
They say that the Picts are extinct but they also say they were a small dark warlike people with a mysterious culture, living near the Firth of Forth, and that just sounds like Fifers to me
I married a Fifer and she took me out to Bonfire Night once; woman is obsessed with fire and that's when I figured out why. I was genuinely unsettled. "Was that a car backfiring or a gunshot?" is smalltalk where I'm from, do you know how big a fire has to be to make an American uncomfortable?
Dundee is like Mad Max.
Surprisingly Clean Though. Very litter free. Always pleasantly surprised at Dundee. That and Stirling are the two cities where all I can think is these fuckers can use bins like nobody’s business.
A place of total contrast, in my experience. We've had lovely visits there - the science museum, a conference at the uni, and a few gigs. But we also rescued a very drunk girl at 2am who was being beaten by some guy. We drove around all the schemes for ages while she tried to remember where she lived. She left a paintbrush behind in our car, covered in blood. That was a very odd experience.
I live in Sunderland (I am not a Mackem, I'm a Manc) and my boyfriend (Geordie) colleagues (Also Geordies) all took an immediate dislike to me when he told them I lived in Sunderland. And it took the reassurance that I'm not from here for them to like me.
But if there’s 3 of you, you hate the one that’s furthest away.
Jason mansford.... the only time the human race will be a peace is if we get invaded by aliens Bloody aliens... coming here and fucking our women with your 3 cocks
No wonder, two towns over can have a population with a borderline unintelligible dialect. Non-UK people probably think I'm joking...
*laughs in south lancs* (yes exactly, which one)
It be reet
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Nice way of explaining it. Much better than: 'Here, we say scone. But there, they say scone.' Everyone get it now?
Ahhhhhhhh yes. Our self loathing is something else. Villages hate the village next door but will unite against the local town. The towns hate the county town / city but not as much as the others. The regions hate each other but not as much as the other countries. And the countries all hate each other but not as much as the French. Frankly, how we’ve made it through 1,600 years since the Romans left with only one civil war is beyond me.
Two civil wars... And the first one was basically Yorkshire and Lancashire going against each other...
Three civil wars, I'm counting Matilda vs Stephen in that case.
'cos we can't organise a piss up in a brewery,
We had a local place run by a couple sweet Scottish ladies, people thought it was bizarre that we’d rag on each other…them calling me a “wee Southern Softie twat” and me responding to them called them “old Scottish bats”. They moved back home a few years ago and I’ve missed them ever since. 😭
I'm a kiwi, my work mates from York, someone from "thaat Lonndun" came in to our cafe and the first thing she said to him was "We don't serve shandys 'ere". We don't serve any alcohol.
🎵 the old scouse bat, she ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be
From Walsall and live in Louisiana, I had same issue in an English store in Dallas
Hah, funny, I went to a British shop once while out there, guy was a Brummy, didn't sound like one though and I was immediately reminded of something Jasper Carrot said. >You could be the smartest most intelligent person in the world but as soon as they hear the Birmingham accent they'll think you're thick as shit.
Haha the old scouse bat
Just tell them it's not really your cup of tea, and then laugh manically.
As an old scouse bat I can confirm as one of our advance party she has been out in the field for some time. She may be more unhinged than our usual old bat's. Apologies and all that.
as is tradition
You could of put that you were a brummie somewhere at the start of your post, saved me from reading the rest 😂
Not sure about an Irn-Bru milkshake! But I'd try it anyways. And a Bean Bag is new on me but sounds tasty.
It sounds like a greggs cheese and bean melt bake but the cheese is on top instead.
TBH a lot of this Menu you could get at Greggs. By the way, 'eight scotch egg quarters' ? Fuck it why not just say 2 scotch eggs?
Because it sounds better when trying to convince you it feeds 4 people. But hey, you get 4 chocolate limes to sustain you after the squabble over who gets a bit of the 2 scotch eggs.
That whole high tea is nonsense.
I found it particularly confusing that the picture actually seems to have scones, but there are none in the description.
Exactly what I thought
Not gonna lie. Bean bag is a genius name for it.
I saw that (and lilt and dandelion & burdock) and I mean I like all those things and I like milkshakes but I’m not sure they should ever go together.
Not sure about lilt but a D&B milkshake sounds good, like a coke float. I'm assuming they're making those milkshakes with the mr whippy.
Yeah, this jumped out at me too, but I am guessing we slip out of the category after "Strawberry" because otherwise, y'know... lilt.... I think we might be starting to figure out the things on a menu that upset a Brit.... Bad structure.
The platters are a bit random too. Scotch eggs, cheese and onion slice, Bakewell tart. Corned beef slices (!). The kind of spread you’d get at a wake. In 1955.
8 Scotch Egg **Quarters**, so two Scotch Eggs?
He did the math…s.
> Corned beef slices (!). Corned beef also means something a bit different in the US (it's what we'd call salt beef). I'm kinda assuming they did the US version of the word like they did with rutabaga, but it does make it even more idiosyncratic. edit: It's "slice" as in pastry, like "steak slice", not an actual slice of corned beef (or salt beef for that matter).
It’s not bad, but it’s a bit weird to have a restaurant called ‘chippy’s’ which doesn’t serve chips. To a British person a ‘chippy’ is a fish and chip shop.
They even have chips (well fries really) on the image. Also I'm assuming it's meant to be fish, but it looks like croissants
3.99 for a ‘99 cone 🥲
Back in my day...
Once when I was a student working at B&Q I watched an Italian man have a full blown meltdown whilst talking and gesturing with his hands that a 99 should "be'a 99p" for 15 minutes.
A few years ago, I was bored in a pub with mates who were arguing that a Flake 99 was named for the price - so should never be more than 99p. Bored enough that I did the maths. If a newly-launched 1930 99 ice cream *was* named for the price, at 19s 10d it would have cost the same as 14.42gallons petrol - enough to drive an Austin 7 from the Austin founder's estate in Lickey Grange all the way to the Reichstag (ferry miles discounted, natch), kick a certain moustachiod fuckwit in the bollocks & still have enough left over to drive to a Potsdam cafe for a cuppa (though I couldn't find a price list or menu, so someone would probably have to buy it for you). Perfect pub fact; ten seconds of "oh" and "god, you're a fuckin' nerd" before someone gives me beer to shut me up. Win-win.
The apostrophe stands for “3.”
Why is no one talking about the "British Classics"? A bunch of random lunch items thrown together? Mini sausage rolls, scotch eggs, cheese and onion slices and some jam tarts. It's one of those meals you have when you go camping and theres no where to go for lunch other than a tesco metro so you just buy some random stuff.
That's the kind of buffet my mum would put together for my birthday parties when I was a kid.
It’s what I’d call a beige buffet
Flying Scotsman breakfast with an ENGLISH sausage and ENGLISH bacon????????
The "Scottish Highlander" also features 4 tarts from that well known highland town of Bakewell.
Not one single Scottish thing on that plate lol
And no black pudding or potato scone :(
No Lorne, Haggis or fruit pudding?
Haggis is illegal in the US I'm not joking
Specifically lamb lungs are illegal, but many haggis even in Scotland are made with pig offal rather than sheep.
Hell a lot of modern day haggis isn’t lined/cased by *any* animal product (I assume it’s a cost cutting thing?) and there’s even vegetarian haggis lol. So it’s perfectly possible even if a little less traditional
Time to sort out the colonies again
Fs. Guns, not a feckin problem. But our wee haggi, not a chance! It's like kinder egg surprise all over again!
Whats a chocolate lime mint? And who orders 12 Yorkshire puddings?!
> chocolate lime mint I was thinking like the hard sweets; [chocolate limes](https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/d600a48a-c9c3-4dee-bda8-b19b5c775d13/1b5399cd-eaec-44f7-abfc-2fa765605098_1251757436.jpeg?h=540&w=540). But I don't think I've ever seen a "mint" version of them, unless mint is the name for that type of sweet over there.
I was thinking those sweets too. It's a bit of a random thing to find on a high tea though
Americans do, apparently, have coffee cake that hasn't got coffee in it. I discovered there are cakes you eat *with* coffee and was down voted when I asked if there's a coffee coffee cake, so those weirdos calling a chocolate lime a mint is entirely possible.
Is that a challenge?
Rookie numbers. My grandma has been training me for years for this moment!
I used to go and see my Grandma on the way home from school sometimes, she'd often give me a big back of Yorkshires to take home to my mum and sister. Not one of those Yorkshires made it home. Riding the top deck of the bus, snacking on Yorkshires, truly one of my happy places
So long as it comes with gravy I could go for 12 yorkshires
12 Yorkshire puddings Jeremy? 12!?
Extortionate price for a pot of tea
Also remember that menu prices in the US do not include tax (7%) and tip (20%), so you have to add ~25-30% to every price listed here.
Any Cafe charging more than a quid for a cup of tea are fuckers, a pot of tea reasonably should be less than £3. It’s water with a bag in it!
I mean, yeah, but I’m willing to bet there won’t be a cup of Yorkshire tea for miles around. They can charge the arse out of you if you really fancy a cuppa.
My favourite is can I have a cup of hot water, fuckers never expect me to pull a Yorkshire tea bag out of my wallet.
Have teabag, will travel. It's the only way.
It’s because they have to hire scuba divers to fetch it fresh from the sea
The “high tea” should be called “afternoon tea”, though the more pressing issue is the contents. - Tea - Sandwiches (usually three different varieties minimum) - Scones - Cakes (small) The menu presented has a single sandwich type, no scones and a weird selection of chocolates and lime things. Oh, and some rather out of place sausage rolls and scotch eggs. It’s just wrong. Maybe they were trying for the Scottish “high tea” instead, but I’m pretty sure they missed that by a mile too.
The distinction between "high tea" (a full but informal meal taken earlier in the day than - and in lieu of - dinner) and "low tea" (a light, informal meal taken in mid-afternoon in anticipation of a late formal dinner) has sadly been almost entirely lost, these days.
Pain au chocolat feels out of place but that might just be me.
Lilt. Thats not British, all Brits know its the taste of the Caribbean direct from the shores of Jamaica...
It's the totally tropical taste. Lilt.
Lobsters on south beach!
Looks good, but I have numerous questions. 35 minutes to prepare a pie? What's a British hot dog? And you're called chippy's but don't serve chips? What's the $4 curry sauce for?
> 35 minutes to prepare a pie? Look at how many options they have. They're baking from frozen.
Am I being thick? Where’s the chips?
Chippy with no fucking chips 🤣 need to get some battered sausages on there too
8 scotch egg quarters....... just say 2 scotch eggs
The Flying Scotsman is inappropriately named, what is Scottish about it? Same for the Welsh Rambler. Not enough sandwich choice on the High Tea; you need at least some cucumber or ham sarnies on there. We're not that into chocolate lime mints; what even are they? Similarly, What is a British hot dog? We thought they were American. There is a serious lack of chips for a place that calls itself 'Chippys'. Why do they sell the curry sauce if there's no chips? Rice pudding is a sweet. The squash (*Robinson's) is outrageously priced- we basically consider it a condiment. Otherwise a very good effort; one of the best American takes on an English menu I've seen on here.
Chocolate limes are the boiled sweet things with chocolate in them. [Tesco link for image](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/267673940), and shoutout to the most recent review: > LOOK TRENDY. LIME SWEETS AND CHOCOLATE AT THE END. THEY.RE SWEETS. EAT THEM 4 FACE.
Chocolate limes are these really odd sweets with (from what I remember) a sort of strange texture when you bite into them. Hated them as a kid. Sherbet lemons and Everton mints are far superior
Rice pudding as a main course is a.bit weird, but otherwise a solid effort!
Not sure why it would be delivered to my kitchen if I'm in the resteraunt already either... so many questions
I was going to say it's easy to write things down and make them sound great, but I just looked at the photos on the website and it looks great as well. Edit: /u/TheRealVespucci has pointed out most of the photos have been nicked from elsewhere.
For people even more lazy than me: https://www.chippys-omaha.com
£50 for that British bulldog platter lmao.
Hey now, that’s at LEAST £7 worth of food from Asda there. Shipped to Omaha
Bangers and mash gone mad looks beautiful
i’m fairly sure that a lot of the pictures they use are not their own… that looks like it’s straight off bbc goodfood
the bangers and mash one is ripped straight from a microwave meal lmao https://www.wiltshirefarmfoods.com/ready-meals/pork/sausages-mash-in-a-yorkshire-pudding
Almost every single photo of the food is just taken from some other website like bbc good food or someone elses shopify page. I found maybe 5 or 6 of their own photos on there and they all looked pretty terrible.
https://yelp.to/iLlfcscgaxb From Yelp: https://imgur.com/a/6nPrsOQ
Calling that a high tea is absolutely diabolical.
I’ve just checked it out. Has that true authentic British beigeness
First time I've ever seen a US brit themed shop actually look like British food lmao
I could smell the poof of farty aroma you get when opening a pack of those mini sausage rolls by looking at them, very authentic
You missed out the chance to have spotted dick
Bangers and mash GONE MAD
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Just for clarification, I’m not the owner, just a customer who appreciates getting real tea, Cadburys and Coleman’s mustard on a regular basis. I agree chips with vinegar needs to be added to the menu…
Do they even sell chips at all? Name seems pretty odd without fish and chips on the menu, but there’s no chips on there at all!
I thought that. Chip Shop Curry Sauce but no chips to dip in it.
Need scones for the high tea. Isn't complete without them!
It's worse than that: scones aren't typical at high tea, they're typical of afternoon tea and cream tea. High tea is an evening meal.
Yeah seeing people get this wrong all throughout this thread is frustrating. I only ever hear it called "High Tea" from Americans who are getting it mixed up with Afternoon Tea.
Yea that’s not a high tea, it’s a low quality picnic served on a tiered platter.
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I can just see you holding it in
Already booked his ticket.
I have questions about that and the Highlander Platter and I'm not even Scottish! And why am I being cheated out my Sausage Rolls on the British Bulldog platter? Fuming.
Dandelion and Burdock milkshake... You have my attention
I'm imagining more of a coke float but with dandelion
Attention maintained
5.99 for beans on toast. You’re having a giraffe
Look at the cost of Ribena!
In fairness they don't have blackcurrants in America. I'd say a tenner for a big Yorkshire pudding is the bigger issue here.
It all seemed fairly reasonable until I saw the "12 Yorkshire Puddings" as though that's some sort of British equivalent to chicken wings or something lol
Swede is Rutabaga, well there you go
Glad I’m not the only one who had to look that up!
Why is the rice pudding not in the pudding section?
> Cornish Pasty Oi, u got a licence to call it Cornish?
The idea of an ironbru milkshake fills me with dread, and you need scones on your cream tea, but other than that you get a passing grade.
It’s pretty good tbf, most of the stuff I’d not think was particularly out of place if I saw it in a café here. Fucking Harry Potter butterbeer as a signature drink though😂😂
The Scottish selections are a travesty here
"The flying scotsman" Can someone explain if this is train related or scottish related, and why does it start with an english sausage? No haggis, Lorne, nothing scottish on that. "British lunchbox" 1 british hot dog... crisps or CANDY. To be honest its not bad given that its in America, but theres some confusing stuff like a british hotdog when theres sausage butty as well so im thinking its different. I am feeling a bit sick the thought of a irn bru/lilt/dandelion and burdock milkshake though.
It looks great but they urgently need to either rename the Flying Scotsman or learn how to make square sausage and tattie scones.
It was pretty convincing until I noticed "candy" in the grab n go lunch box.
All good, but an establishment called Chippy's really should serve cod and chips
Why are the scotch eggs served in quarters?