British food is generally seen as one of the less exciting cuisines, more known for its comforting qualities than anything else. However, plenty of weird and wonderful traditional dishes challenge that image. From the fancy to the frugal, the slightly strange to the stomach-churning and the delicious to the downright alarming, these are the most bizarre British foods of all time.

Click or scroll through our gallery to discover Britain's most peculiar traditional foods – counting down to the most unusual of all.

We've based our ranking on the obscure nature of each dish, and on the opinions of our well-travelled (and well-fed) team. The list is unavoidably subjective.

Ranked: the weirdest traditional British dishes of all time