1. Marmite (not just yeast extract on toast)
2. Heinz baked beans (canned food has never tasted this good)
3. Birds custard mix (foolproof and fail safe. There’s no other way to eat crumble)
4. Atora vegetable suet (you can’t make a steamed pudding without it)
5. Anchor butter (toast, crumpets, scones you name it, it goes with it)
6. Cotswold Legbar eggs (beautiful tinted blue shells and a yolk so yellow it’s orange)
7. Jamie Oliver (bringing sexy back to cooking)
8. Green & Blacks Chocolate (take a seat Hershey’s, you never stood a chance)
9. The Metric System (grams are more accurate than ounces. period.)
10. Bubble and Squeak (the only way to use up Sundays leftovers)
11. Sunday Pub Lunch (booze, roasties and football- what better ways are there to spend Sundays?)
12. Back bacon (more meat, less fat- isn’t that what we all want?)
13. McVities Hobnobs (perhaps the greatest biscuit of all time)
14. Porridge (oats, milk and water = cheap, healthy and satisfying breakfast)
15. Hula hoops (what other crisp can you nibble off of your fingers?)
16. Sausages (hands down better than any American Weener)
17. Jam Doughnuts (firstly, the spelling is better and secondly the jam)
18. PG-tips tea (voted Englands best tea served with milk, I travel with bags of the stuff)
19. Waitrose (the finest supermarket shopping experience you will ever have)
20. Maldon Sea Salt (crispy flakes of salt that melt in your mouth)
I’m feeling very homesick after reading this list… particularly excited about legbar eggs and hula hoops (not together tho!)
on the less healthy side – do ‘lion bars’ count as food? if so they could be on your list too!
Also how about polos, wine gums (only Maynards), liquorice allsorts and smarties?
What about Branston Pickle and proper Cheddar! mmmmm
Great list!