Known for its comforting yet not necessarily colourful qualities, British food is often seen as one of the less exciting cuisines in the mix. However, there are plenty of weird and wonderful traditional dishes that 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 see some of the most peculiar British foods ever created – counting down to the most unusual of them 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