Tribal People Try British Food

Every time the tribe has tasted british food: 12 videos of first impressions from villagers in rural Punjab, Pakistan, usually British food they have never seen before.

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What it is

British food: full English breakfast, fish and chips, Sunday roast, shepherd's pie, scones and cream, Cornish pasties, Marmite, mushy peas. The British ruled here for ninety years and left behind tea, biscuits and bakery cake, but not the dinners.

What to watch for

Roast dinners and pies make sense — meat, potatoes, gravy. Baked beans on toast is puzzling, Marmite is a genuine shock, and cold custard-based desserts are met with more caution than hot ones.

The village comparison

Tea with milk, plain cake rusk and 'chicken patties' are the British inheritance in Pakistan. The savoury dishes are new, and the general verdict is 'good but where is the masala'.

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