Food
- Bangers and mash
- Bird's Custard - Alfred Bird
- Branston Pickle
- Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)
- Bubble and Squeak
- Cheddar cheese - modern cheddar cheese manufacture Joseph Harding
- Cornish pasty
- Cottage pie
- Cumberland sausage
- Eccles cake
- English mustard
- Fish and Chips
- Full English breakfast
- Gravy
- Haggis - Normally assumed to be of Scottish origin, but the first known written recipe for a dish of the name (as 'hagese'), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North-West England.
- Jellied eels
- Kendal mint cake
- Lancashire hotpot
- Lincolnshire sausage
- Marmite
- Parkin
- Pasty
- Piccalilli
- Sandwich - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Scotch egg - Invented by the famous London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in 1738.
- Scouse
- Shepherd's pie
- Carbonated water, major and defining component of soft drinks - Joseph Priestley
- Spotted Dick
- Steak and kidney pie
- Sunday roast
- Toad in the hole
- Worcestershire sauce
- Yorkshire Pudding
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Famous quotes containing the word food:
“Too much food spoils the appetite, and too much talk becomes worthless.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)