10 "British" Foods That Aren't Actually British (Most Are From America)

10 "British" Foods That Aren't Actually British (Most Are From America) Britain has one of the most confident food identities on the planet. The tins, the biscuits, the pub classics, the Sunday roasts — the whole culinary vocabulary of a nation so certain of its own taste that it turned food into a form of patriotism. And almost none of it is what Britain thinks it is. Some of what you're about to hear was invented in American kitchens. Some of it came from immigrants who weren't yet welcome at the tables they were feeding. Some of it was built from South American plants, German chemistry, Italian citrus, and Greek dried fruit — then wrapped in an English county's name and sold back to the world as something ancient and native and irreducibly British. You've been eating the myth. Today you're getting the actual story. Subscribe now, because by the time we're done, you will never look at a biscuit tin the same way again.