# What do Americans REALLY think of Brits.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298 "2003-09-03T10:41:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Galanthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Galanthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galanthus)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/181 "2003-09-10T12:46:45Z")

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> Kidneys can be eaten by themselves, but in a pie or “pudding” (just a kind of pie made in a basin, with suet pastry, and steamed instead of baked) with diced steak and a rich gravy, they’re indescribably good. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. \*\*

Oh gods, Steak and kidney pudding is my favourate food in all the world. Here’s me sitting eating a rather limp sandwich thinking of that … torture.

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**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/182 "2003-09-10T12:56:23Z")

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Hollands steak and kidney puds…drool, slobber!!!

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**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-americans-really-think-of-brits/199298/183 "2003-09-11T02:50:09Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Malacandra \*  
> \*\*People who’ve not tried it think that because of the kidney’s biological function it must taste terrible. This is like the story of the old woman who refused to eat tongue because it came from an animal’s mouth. She asked if she couldn’t just have an egg instead. 😃
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> Kidneys can be eaten by themselves, but in a pie or “pudding” (just a kind of pie made in a basin, with suet pastry, and steamed instead of baked) with diced steak and a rich gravy, they’re indescribably good. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it. \*\*

See though, it’s more the thought than anything else, but the thought alone would be enough to make me feel queasy.

I can’t eat liver either…or menudo…nothing that was once an organ, so to speak.

~J

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