>>22939097for British mains? loads of stuff—my wife can sometimes be aggressively nationalistic when it comes to the food she makes
wild boar stew; steak and kidney pudding; Sunday roast (usually lamb or poussins in our house); venison in port sauce; myriad pies—steak and ale, chicken and leek, melton mowbray, etc.; pasties; anchovies on toast; broccoli and stilton soup; Scottish smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and potato cakes; scampi; fish and chips; curries
...many things come to mind which are preferable
probably even prefer a ploughman's over toad-in-the-hole, to be honest with you—but there's really nothing wrong with it per se, it's perhaps just a little boring after having it one too many times; I'd rather have my sausages as part of a fry-up, or simple sausage butty
and I know some of these things might seem a little weird from across the pond, with people poking fun without ever actually trying any of it—food presentation is obviously not our strong suit—but the ingredients are high quality (we export them all over the place), and the flavours are good
are you of English ancestry yourself and wanting to reconnect, or just curious?