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sandwich
A sandwich is a dish typically consisting variously of meat, cheese, sauces, and vegetables used as a filling between slices of bread, or placed atop a slice of bread; or, more generally, any dish in which bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient food in the Western world, and over time it has become prevalent worldwide.
fries
deep-fried potatoes
curry
thumb|upright=1.2|Lamb Madras curry, Anglo-Indian, c. 1850 Curry is a dish with a spicy sauce, initially in Indian cuisine, then modified by interchange with the Portuguese, followed by the British, and eventually thoroughly internationalised. Many curries are found in the cuisines of countries in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
potato chip
deep-fried or baked thin slice of potato
biscuit
thumb|A custard cream and a [[bourbon biscuit; types of sweet sandwich biscuits]] A biscuit is a flour-based baked food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon. Savoury biscuits are called crackers.
pancake
A pancake, also known as a hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, is a flat type of batter bread like cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk, and butter, and then cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably eaten in prehistoric societies.
pudding
Pudding is a food which can either be a dessert or a savoury dish. In the United States, pudding means a sweet, milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, instant custards or a mousse, often commercially set using cornstarch, gelatin or similar coagulating agent. These puddings are known in some Commonwealth countries as custards (or curds) if they are egg-thickened, as blancmange if starch-thickened, and as jelly if gelatin-based. Pudding in America may also refer to other dishes such as bread pudding and rice pudding, although typically these names derive from their ori
fish and chips
hot dish of fried fish and fried potato
mashed potato
potato dish
potato salad
dish made from boiled potatoes
barbecue
thumb|upright=1.35|Meat being barbecued at The Salt Lick restaurant
haggis
thumb|Haggis on a platter at a Burns supper thumb|right|A serving of haggis, neeps, and tatties
cooked rice
rice that has been cooked either by steaming or boiling
domesticated turkey
species of bird
sponge cake
type of cake
tea house
thumb|Tea served in a tea room at the Shantytown Heritage Park in New Zealand thumb|Tea house in Moscow, 2017
grog
thumb|right|upright=1.2|Nondistinct Grog
sheep meat
meat of domestic sheep
sour cream
dairy product produced by fermenting a regular cream with certain kinds of lactic acid bacteria
fried chicken
dish consisting of chicken pieces which have been coated in a seasoned batter and pan-fried, deep fried, or pressure fried
British cuisine
culinary traditions of the United Kingdom
onion ring
deep fried onion slices dipped in batter
apple sauce
puréed apples
macaroni and cheese
pasta dish
roast beef
traditional English dish of beef which is roasted
beefsteak
thumb|Sliced steak with fries, known as steak frites.
baked potato
potato dish
shortbread
Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part white sugar, two parts butter and three to four parts plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda. Shortbread is widely associated with Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in Scotland, and some Scottish brands are exported around the world.
roast chicken
Whole chicken or large pieces of meat cooked by boiling or fried
fish finger
food product consisting of breaded and fried fish
English muffin
small, round, flat yeast-leavened bread
Welsh rarebit
traditional Welsh dish
deviled egg
egg-based dish
green sauce
family of cold, uncooked sauces based on herbs, including the Spanish and Italian salsa verde, the French sauce verte, the German Grüne Soße or Frankfurter Grie Soß, and the Argentinian chimichurri
meat pie
pie with a filling of meat
baked beans
dish containing cooked beans in sauce, usually tomato-flavoured
Sunday roast
traditional meal associated with Great Britain
home fries
potato dish made by pan- or skillet-frying chunked, sliced, wedged or diced potatoes
black pudding
British and Irish blood sausage
oatmeal
Oatmeal is a preparation of oats that have been dehusked, steamed, and flattened, or a coarse flour of hulled oat grains (groats) that have either been milled (ground), rolled, or steel-cut. Ground oats are also called white oats. Steel-cut oats are known as coarse oatmeal, Irish oatmeal, or pinhead oats. Rolled oats were traditionally thick old-fashioned oats, but they can be made thinner or smaller and may be categorized as quick oatmeal or instant oatmeal depending on the cooking time required, which is determined by the size of the oats and the amount of precooking.
white pudding
British and Irish dish of suet or fat, oatmeal or barley, breadcrumbs and sometimes pork filled into a natural or cellulose sausage casing
Hollandse Nieuwe
raw herring soaked in a mild preserving liquid
rissole
A rissole (from Latin , meaning reddish, via French , meaning "to redden") is "a ball or flattened cake of chopped meat, fish or vegetables mixed with herbs or spices, then coated in breadcrumbs and fried."
potage
Pottage or potage (, ; ) is a thick soup or stew made by boiling vegetables, grains, and, if available, meat or fish. It was a staple food for many centuries. The word pottage comes from the same Old French root as potage, which is a dish of more recent origin.
prawn cocktail
dish of prawns
coronation chicken
English chicken dish
full breakfast
substantial British and Irish breakfast
cobbler
baked dish resembling a pie
bangers and mash
British meal of sausages and mashed potato
whale meat
flesh of whales used for consumption by humans or other animals
faggot
traditional dish in the UK
bread sauce
Sauce made with milk and bread crumbs
Liver and onions
Prepared dish
sausage roll
pastry snack popular in current and former Commonwealth nations
pork chop
type of meat cut
hash
food
cheese on toast
snack
sweet and sour
cooking method
Gibraltarian cuisine
cuisine of the territory of Gibraltar
balti
type of curry cooked and eaten in a thin, pressed-steel wok called a "balti bowl"