I checked your other photos. I loved Piccadilly Circus and Soho at night! And you were near Hyde Park... you should have been going to the back room at the Churchill Arms Pub on Kensington Church St for the best Thai food ever! or Kew Gardens and eat cheap pasties. Agree that the bakeries make everything look wonderful, but they had the taste and texture of barely damp cardboard. Not worth eating. :p

Enjoyed your photos! thanks for posting. :)

Wow, so nouveau. In my day a scotch egg was a hardboiled egg wrapped in forcemeat, breaded and fried, then eaten cold.

Thanks for all the great photos.

I'm not sure I see how the Scotch egg pictured is different from your description, writersblock.

Sooz, you are exquisitely correct about the difference between shepherd's pie and cottage pie. Funnily enough, I was watching Gordon Ramsay on YouTube the other day and he said just the same thing (when he was served a "shepherd's pie" made with ground beef :-) ).

Not much different from when we were there almost 40 years ago! The peas look a little firmer though. When I was there they were peeeeeeeeeease, off color and mushy! I had a rought time eating there cause I was pregnant and couldn't handle fried food much!

A lady we stayed with (auntie Pearl) in Scotland was SOOOOO proud of her new deep fryer! URP!

Ricky, I did peek at the other pictures. I especially liked the wildly colored rhinoceros (rhinoceri?) and the sign of a steak saying "This is how our tigers see you". (grin)

It's a shame about those scones, they look so perfectly made. Just goes to show you that pretty isn't everything, in baked goods or in life, I guess.

Have a wonderful time the rest of your trip!

Annie

Enjoyed very much, thanks!

Wot - no Haggis???!!!

rita - We looked all over London for haggis with no joy.

There is no joy in haggis, or black pudding (which makes my tongue tingle). We were in a pub in Scotland and the menu offered a burger topped with haggis! And I have a photo of haggis flavored potato chips from a grocery store there. Foreign flavors, basically. I avoid scrapple and headcheese, as well. But...necessity is the mother of invention. Who was the first desperate person to harvest a sea clam or eat an oyster???

Oh no! You ate a dry scone? Noooooooo! You have to eat a scone with a pot of tea, a large jar of strawberry jam and lashings, but lashings of clotted cream. No one eats them naked. Lol

Haggis is disgusting and should quite rightly only be found in Scotland.

Brits don't only eat fried food, but if you eat in pubs.......its mainly brown food.

I loved looking at your pics of London and Paris. Amsterdam isn't working or are you still enjoying it?

Well, my scones ala Annie can be eaten as they are. Moist and full of flavor without any cream, clotted or otherwise.

On our way to Amsterdam right now. What do the Dutch eat besides cheese and sautéed tulips?

Scones aren't really meant to be eaten dry, or be moist. They are more like a US biscuit, a vehicle for other things.

Holland- Rollmops (pickled herrings), rookwurst, poffertjies (little teeny puffy pancakes), koeksisters (braided doughnuts dipped in syrup).

Holland: Pannenkoeken, French fries with all of the sauces, Kibbeling, Kaas...

Looks great. And yes, shepherd's pie done right IS made with lamb. (Otherwise the proper term is "cottage pie", although I don't see why "cowboy's pie" isn't a thing as a name... shepherds don't move cattle around...)

The fish and chips look lovely! Scones were indeed dry.

When I've been in Scotland and England, I simply loved haggis. I had two or three different preparations, and liked them all.

I did NOT like the blood sausage. I had that with a Full English Breakfast one morning, and it was the only part I didn't finish.

Did you get kippers? I tried them the last morning I was in Scotland prior to flying home. I liked them, but it wouldn't be something I'd want often.

I didn't have Scotch eggs over there, but made them here at home once (using duck eggs). Enjoyable.

The salmon is great over there! I also like the English tea sandwiches.