Yes, I too was surprised to read that British cooking had a higher reputation than French in the past. (In the Dark Ages?)
Here's another surprise:
Fish and chips, individual pieces, in batter, with extra thick crunchy chips. But Alaska-Seelachsfiletstücke! I spend a lot of my time in Germany avoiding Seelachs. It's probably coley, which we used to feed to the cats. Pollachius virens. Pollock sounds better, but still, I've never encountered that at a British fish and chip shop (cod, skate, rock eel/rock salmon, plaice, haddock).
Those are the first two of four pages. The others have mint sauce, mustard, brown sauce (Englische Würzsauce), caramel shortcakes, marmalade, jam, shortbread, salt and vinegar stick, Ribena substitute, and hand cooked chips ('Our Lidl quality UK brand Hatherwood' couldn't manage to say 'crisps', so a bag of these, with a picture of Tower Bridge and some tartan on it, could be a curiosity.
Do they have a British week at Lidl in the Netherlands, commenters?
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They're also doing frozen Indian meals:
As for British cooking, I'm pretty sure that it's easier to get a good meal in London nowadays than it is in, say, Paris. Though of course the chances of it being authentic "British cooking" (whatever that may be) are fairly low.
http://www.lidl.de/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_de/hs.xsl/index_74220.htm?detail=extensive
Oh well, I'll be over in Blighty next week (doing legal CPD at City University), so at least I can replenish our depleted stocks there.
There may not be a lot of demand, though: we already have marmelade and marmite(!) in our local supermarkt, and the battered fish market is well served by fresh kibbeling from the fish van that comes round on Saturdag afternoons.
Proper salt and vinegar crisps you can't get, but sea salt and balsamic is after all by no means proper salt and vinegar.
http://www.lidl.fi/fi/home.nsf/pages/c.o.Teemaviikko.teema3.index
Come on Lidl
Why don't they go the whole hog and present the fish & chips in a newspaper (look-a-like) ?
But Hatherwood is not a Scots company - it's just one of the many names used by Lidl. It gives no indication whether the food is made in Britain or Germany.