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What are the specialties of Britain?

1. Butter shortbread is a sweet and crunchy cookie, baked from sugar, butter and flour and usually cut into finger or round cookies. This popular cookie originated in Scotland, and the current recipe is said to be influenced by Mary Queen of Scots, who was an avid fan of fantail-shaped butter shortbread.

2. The roast dinner, or Sunday roast, is a traditional English meal, served only on Sundays. If it falls on Christmas Day, it's even more grand and sumptuous. A roast dinner typically consists of roasted meats (such as lamb, beef, chicken and pork), roast potatoes and a variety of vegetables, and is served with Yorkshire pudding and a variety of flavored gravies.

3. Fish and chips have long been the most popular takeaway food in Britain. There are more than 11,000 fish and chip stores across the country, and the fast food sells around 255 million servings a year. This traditional dish consists of fish (usually cod and haddock) coated in flour on both sides and fried, then served with English fries, which are thicker and chunkier than American fries. Traditional toppings at mealtime include salt, vinegar, ketchup or mayonnaise salsa, and pea batter.

4. Cream tea is a traditional food in Devon and Cornwall, and is available in all types of tea houses and coffee shops in the UK. Cream tea usually consists of black tea, scones (scones), strawberry jam, and clotted cream. In Devon, it is customary to spread the strawberry jam on the hot scones and then the cream. In Cornwall, on the other hand, the cream is usually smeared first.

5, Scotland's production of whisky has a history of 500 years, its products have a unique style, brownish yellow with red color, clear and transparent, smell of charcoal, with a certain smoky flavor, with a strong Scottish rusticity. Scotch whisky has a dry taste, mellow, strong, round and soft, is one of the best whisky in the world.