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I concur, lived here for a long time and I've noticed stuff like Spotted Dick, Toad-in-the-hole, Haggis, and Faggots (which are a kind of meatball).

If I were to point at a dish that was probably more popular in the past it would be fried eel, which you can still find in certain places in London.

BWS, never heard of it, family is British and they've not heard of it either.

Weren't eels usually boiled or steamed?

I messed up, I meant Jellied Eels.

yeh, which is how you get the liquor they are served with at the Pie, mash and eel shops

Fried eels would be too palatable

I'd say that copious amounts of hard liquor would be the only way to get me to consume any boiled or steamed fish :-)