Is British Food Rubbish?
Ridiculed for years, scorned for generations, stereotyped mercilessly – is our food really that bad? Our restaurants get five Michelin stars for heavens sake! They must be doing something right, surely?
The main thing that people can’t really get past is the supermarket plastic food trend that so many British families buy in to. Whereas family meals in opposing countries are generally prepared fresh, English families usually do it on the cheap. Traditional British home cooked cuisine such as steak and kidney pies and puddings, hot pots, roast meat and sauces and smoked salmon can be just as delicious as continental dishes when prepared freshly with good ingredients. The problem is that these ingredients are so much more expensive here.
I am of the opinion that the English traditional Sunday roast is perhaps the best meal in the world. A purveyor of the roast, it has been the one meal I miss most in prolonged travels abroad. A tender joint of meat, nice roast potatoes, fresh vegetables and the best British food of all; the yorkshire pudding. I couldn’t believe my eyes when a recent American visitor left the yorkshire pudding wanting on his otherwise ravaged plate. “I thought it was just some kind of bread” he proclaimed to utter sighs.
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europe trotter said,
March 13, 2008 @ 5:12 am
I agree wholeheartedly with you! I’m living in France at the moment, and I never shy away from making a hearty English breakfast whenever I get my hands on baked beans!
The only thing is… as I’m always cooking to eat with French companions, I can’t make it any earlier than midday! The only time I can serve up a good English breakfast is as a main meal in the daytime or evening – it’s just not sweet enough to be stomached over here any earlier!
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