Tardebrigge: Pete from Pete's Frootique used to have his own spot on CBC TV in Canada many years ago. He used to pick a different fruit and explain how to use it in recipes, etc. My Mother-in-law, who was a Brit loved him and would always watch. Later on he had a food travel show which he went to different countries and talked about the food that they grew. I remember him being in Australia at a Kiwi Fruit farm. He was one of the first "foodies" on TV all those years ago.
We have several British food outlets here in Vancouver these days but for years we only had one in a distant suburb of Vancouver and it was run by an older couple from Birmingham. It's still going but the couple from Brum have passed on. When we go to Steveston where this shop is I will buy
blancmange, Cadbury's chocolate made in Brum and at Christmas
English Christmas Puds. You can buy locally made Black Pudding although we have an English butchers close to us that has a line of Brit. groceries and meats.
Mom used to make steam puddings of all kinds I remember. She woukld also make bread pudding from time to time. Also, we ate liver and onions, roe. pigs trotters. Mom used to bring home faggots from a shop in Potters Hill as she worked close by. She would take a basin and bring them home on the bus covered with a plate. My father, whose family background was Wolverhampton, liked all kinds of different foods my Mother didn't like and we kids wouldn't touch.
We never had homemade chips so I only had them from the chip shop or
later on at friends homes. Everywhere we kids went for a meal there was always a large plate of bread and butter. You don't see that these days.