Leave it to ex-Brits to come here and trash an article which WAS NEVER MEANT FOR THEM!!! It says if you want to eat like a Brit during the Olympics, not live your food-life identically to the brits!

At least half the food on this list is edible, unlike most of the absolutely horrendous offerings suggested by those supposedly "in-the-know".

Ugghhh... never ceases to amaze me how people will always defend themselves, even when the defense was NEVER NECESSARY!

What about kippers, bangers and mash?

you dont know to much about british food, what about steak and kidney pie, steak and kidney pudding. smiths crisp golden wonder crisp(yummy) bangers and mash thats sausage and potatoes, even the fish and chips taste nicer in britain, so why mention marmite or pimms
not everyone drinks or eats that

You forgot Horlicks - plain or chocolate. Whenever I can find the chocolate one, I get it for my kids (who are now 32 but still remember a childhood with this).

Quirky, but iconic, British treats? These seem to fit the bill. Nothing quirky about steak and kidney pudding.

You have no idea whatsoever what British food is all about.
I am 66 and I have lived in Canada for more than half of my life. I go back to the old sod from time to time but it would be a lot cheaper if I could get regular food parcels sent to me on this (N Am) side of the pond
I grew up with Marmite (Vegemite to the Aussies), spotted dick, groatie pudding, haggis, toad-in-the-hole, Welsh rarebit, lard on my toast instead of butter, cold cabbage sandwiches, and a whole pile of other stufff that you don't even want to know about.
I grew up in England right after WWII and I still have the reamins of my ration book. I remember lining up with my mother for staples such as sugar, orange juice, and (my god) cod liver oil. I also remember under rationing that we used to take a bag of sugar to the confectioners in exchange for boiled sweets (candies)
Oh, happy days. Pork scratchings (left-over pig bits), chittelings (cleaned out pigs' intestines), tripe, tripe and onions, pig's feet (trotters)., jellied ells, winkles....
They told me that the only thing that we wasted was the oink or the moo...so true when I look back on it.
If I read any "what to eat for you health" web site I can only thank my lucky stars that I am still alive. Life is not about what you stuff in to your body...it is all about your mindset about what this stuff might do to you. I will be still here a lot longer than you guys who stress yourselves to death over "food"
Pig out, enjoy and realize that the major cause of death is stress, not "forbidden" food substances..or a debate about over-priced organic versus...what the heck is non-organic anyway?
Die happy :-)

Ha, British food ... known as the worst on the planet for centuries. Not a good idea. Their heart attack rates are astronomical and they are the most obese nation in Europe. The French asked them why they 'spend so much time and care growing vegetables only to take them into the kitchen and render said veggies into such horrible, soggy food' .. something along those lines.

Is that the best you can come up with?

what about Steak and Kidney pudding, not pie, Pudding.

try something like a real Cornish Pastie, or a Forfar Bridie., have it on its own or with chips for tea (supper)

what about the dozens of types of cheeses now add that to some hovis bread , branstan pickle. Now you have something to go with a pint of real ale, just ask for a ploughmans lunch at the pub..

what about , real fish and chips, haddock, cod, hake, usualy a choice or a side of jellied eels, awsome, or shell fish? cocks, welks, muscles and oyster.

toed in the hole?

not mention curries, japaties, ethnic ( non traditional) foods now seem to be as much brit as ant other foods,\\