Food Map of Britain and Ireland

Food map of Britain and Ireland

People in Britain and Ireland eat a lot of international food, like chicken tikka masala from India and chow mein from China. But traditional British and Irish food is also popular. Here are some favourite dishes from around the British Isles.

Barmbrack People in Ireland like eating this special fruit cake at Halloween. Traditionally, there are a few surprises inside the cake. A ring in your slice of cake means true love next year, but a bean means a future without money.

Devon cream tea A cream tea is a scone (a special type of bread with a few raisins in it) with cream and strawberry jam. You have it in the afternoon at about 4 p.m. with a cup of tea – with a little milk in the tea, of course!

Cornish pasty This is a pie with beef, potato and vegetables inside. There are a lot of tourists in Cornwall in summer and their favourite holiday food is a Cornish pasty.

Haggis This is a big sausage with the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep inside. It’s popular on Burns Night, a Scottish festival on 25 January to remember Scotland’s famous poet, Robert Burns. One of Burns’s poems is about haggis. At a Burns Night dinner, someone reads the poem and cuts the haggis with a big knife.

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