>>12526097Thing is I don't think it's necessarily objectively good, I bloody love it but I suspect that's because it has something to do with where you grew up, what you're used to and that kind of thing. It's definitely a hearty type of food, the batter is basically the same kind you'd use in a yorkshire pudding.
There's a lot of disagreement on this kind of thing inside the UK, the more middle class areas of the country frown upon this sort of thing, generally more the southern areas, but they're a fucking a fucking fairy boys most of who have never done a hard days labour in their life. Which is why I think originally it had something to do with basically making food as calorie dense as possible for men that were probably burning like 4000+ calories per day. The working class in the UK during those years it was absolutely fucking brutal, if you read something load Road to Wigan Pier.
>>12526101Yeah exactly. You'd have a gravy laden hotpot or stew or it all over sausage and mash, and then once you'd finished your meal you'd go to town on the plate with bread to mop up the mess to finish. Not finishing or anything going to waste was something you simply couldn't afford. Even sunday roasts would have the turkey or chicken carcas go back into the fridge after so the following days it could be picked clean like vulchers for meat to use in turkey sandwiches.
I tell you what if you do hard labour for like 10-12 hours and you're totally fucked and you come home to a hotpot or something like that you utterly fucking demolish that shit and generally thankful for its existence.
Pic related is a beef casserole in a giant yorkshire pudding.