Top 'British meals' revealed
From simple, tasty looking street food to a perfectly presented restaurant dish, sharing pictures of food on Instagram has almost become a ritual for many of us!
By calculating the total hashtag count for each dish, food worshippers at Netherlands-based Thuisbezorgd have looked into which staple British foods are most popular on the Instagram social media channel.
It won’t be a surprise to many to learn Fish and Chips is the most popular British dish on Instagram – by a huge margin!
Found in anything from an old school chippy to modern, high-end restaurants, this long-standing favourite has received a whopping 1,773,503 hashtags to date – more than eight times more than Shepherd's Pie, which comes in at a not too shabby third place.
The classic Traditional Sunday Roast finds itself in second place, while Steak and Ale Pie (a firm favourite with the Sorted crew) sneaks into the top ten with almost 14,000 mentions!
Here’s the top-10 list of ‘Instagrammable’ British foods…
- Fish and Chips
- Traditional Sunday Roast
- Shepherd's Pie
- Beef Wellington
- Potpie
- Pork Pie
- Bangers and Mash
- BLT Sandwich
- Pie and Mash
- Steak and Ale Pie
Away from Britain, Pizza is the most ‘Instagrammable’ food throughout the world with an impressive 86.3 million hashtags. Sushi comes in as a distant second, with almost half the amount.
What’s the old saying about there “being no accounting for taste?”
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