Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding
Test matches
Glorious gardens
Regional accents
Driving on the left
Queuing
Saying sorry when it’s not my fault
Fish and chips
The Weather
Stiff upper lip
The Queen
Last night of the proms
Donkeys at the seaside
Saying “How do you do?” and never answering the question
Marks and Spencer
Village churches
Allotments
(and Shakespeare's birthday).
What else is "quintessentially English"?
Strawberries at Wimbledon and afternoon tea.
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I know a great lot of us are English (in ancestry) but we certainly do these here too.
Cadburys dairy milk chocolate :)
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The BBC