I managed to find one good sausage roll at the Southbank market one time (lived there for 8 years and was actively seeking out acceptable sausage rolls and pies the whole time), I blew the mind of the guy selling it by suggesting he should make some with bacon and cheese in the sausage meat.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm feeling a bit defensive about UK food in this thread, but it's undeniably true that our sausage rolls are an absolute embarrassment. Supermarkets predictably are the worst -- gristly flavourless meat in anaemic half-baked pastry. Same goes for pasties.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I actually liked a lot of the food I had when I lived in the UK. Not necessarily all the cuisine as such (although plenty of it is fine), but I found in general that supermarkets had really good quality produce and ingredients for very decent prices, and I love cheddar and various other British staples. An English breakfast is great too, and I know this picture isn't representative.

But Australia and NZ have really perfected pies and sausage rolls, and they're far more of an everyday thing. You can get pretty decent ones basically anywhere. I moved to the UK after a couple years in France, where the food was of course great, but I was really looking forward to being able to finally get a good sausage roll. So you can imagine my disappointment when I couldn't.