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What even counts as UK food? Maybe its harder for me to say because I live here so to me a lot of it is just food. There are probably things I see as normal foods but someone outside the UK may not have heard of it and I am going to be unaware of that.
Look at regional recipes perhaps? Cornish pasty or haggis. Well both of those have black pepper and that is certainly a very common ingredient here for pretty much anything savoury.
Garlic is fairly popular, IIRC it was once considered as something for the poors because it grows easily here while the rich would have imported more exotic spices. This would likely influence a lot of recipes that get written down too, and why things like curry are pretty popular.
There's a London dish called Eel Jelly that used to popular when the Thames was full of them. I'm genuinely curious about it since I'm not British and I hear all the time "Haha colonialism they don't even use the spices" so I'm wondering what they actually use in traditional recipes. I'd guess onion, garlic and leek with pepper coming in with the Indian colonisation instead of immigrants.
Not from London but found a few recipes online and it appears to always include: eels, gelatin, onion, black peppercorns, salt, vinegar. Then sometimes: bay leaves, carrots, parsley, lemon juice, cloves, fish stock.