United Kingdom

Fish and chips

Battered cod and thick-cut chips with salt and malt vinegar, wrapped in paper.

Sunday roast

Roast joint, potatoes, gravy and Yorkshire pudding, served in pubs from noon.

Full English breakfast

Bacon, sausage, egg, beans, tomato, mushroom and toast on one crowded plate.

Shepherd's pie

Minced lamb under mashed potato, forked into ridges so the top catches.

Steak and kidney pie

Slow-braised beef and kidney under suet or puff pastry, gravy dark and thick.

Cornish pasty

Beef, swede and potato crimped into pastry, built to be eaten down a tin mine.

Bangers and mash

Sausages on mashed potato under onion gravy, the cheapest good dinner going.

Toad in the hole

Sausages baked into Yorkshire pudding batter until it rises around them.

Ploughman's lunch

Cheddar, pickle, bread and apple on a board, a pub invention with a rustic name.

Cheddar

Cloth-bound West Country cheese aged to a crumbly, nutty sharpness.

Haggis

Sheep's pluck with oatmeal and pepper in a casing, piped to the table with neeps and tatties.

Welsh rarebit

Sharp cheese sauce with mustard and ale grilled onto toast until it blisters.

Bara brith

Welsh tea loaf of fruit soaked overnight in tea, sliced thick and buttered.

Ulster fry

The fried breakfast with soda farl and potato bread added to the pan.

Afternoon tea

Finger sandwiches, scones and cakes on tiers, with pots refilled without asking.

Scones

Split warm and loaded with clotted cream and jam, in an order Devon and Cornwall dispute.

Sticky toffee pudding

Date sponge drowned in toffee sauce, served with custard or vanilla ice cream.

Eton mess

Strawberries, cream and broken meringue stirred together without ceremony.

Pimm's

Gin-based cup with lemonade, cucumber and mint, poured through the summer season.

Real ale

Unfiltered beer conditioned in the cask and pulled by hand at cellar temperature.