ironsofcanada 6:38 Sat Oct 12
Are you bucking the food trends in Britain?
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"A survey has revealed that one in four British people no longer eat meals considered traditionally British.
A quarter of people asked said traditional English food like toad in the hole was a thing of the past and one in five said they thought that sort of food was boring.
Almost half of Brits (43%) find food from other countries to be far tastier and more exciting.
One in five British families (20%) said they had stopped eating or drinking dairy, choosing nut or soya milk alternatives instead."
... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/50006321
I eat one of those pretty regularly. Care to guess.
(What is the food in the icon?)
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Vexed
7:36 Sat Oct 12
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People that choose to drink Soya milk without a good reason are fucking try hard cunyflaps.
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Kaiser Zoso
7:38 Sat Oct 12
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With you there vexed.
Big fat sweaty messes from Sheppey do my swede in as well, you pikey cunt
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Nurse Ratched
7:41 Sat Oct 12
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I cook English dishes as well as foreign ones. If Aliens landed, I'd probably have a go at their cuisine, too.
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Hammer and Pickle
7:49 Sat Oct 12
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‘bout to do one of standard English fruitcakes as it happens. It’s got treacle in it so round here, it might as well be alien food.
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Vexed
7:53 Sat Oct 12
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Kaiser Zoso 7:38 Sat Oct 12
I guess it's lucky none of those things apply to me then! You silly cunt!
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gph
7:59 Sat Oct 12
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I have a longing for a proper steak and kidney pudding with proper suet pastry.
When this longing becomes great enough to overcome my aversion to pastry cooking, I'm going to try and emulate my long deceased Mum's achievements in this field.
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Nurse Ratched
8:07 Sat Oct 12
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Ah yes. That aroma when you peel off the paper and foil and cut into the bugger... 😊
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Far Cough
8:15 Sat Oct 12
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Kidneys are the devil's food
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Hammer and Pickle
8:18 Sat Oct 12
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It rankles that my wife won’t let me do kippers but I bear it gracefully.
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Pocket
8:25 Sat Oct 12
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I’d of thought she’d be knocking up a stir fry with cream of sum yung guy Pickle?
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BRANDED
8:33 Sat Oct 12
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Traditional from when?
Food from different times and different social groups is massively different. Depends how far you go back and what group is eating what.
Another words, complete bollocks like most things.
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4ever-blowin-bubbles
9:16 Sat Oct 12
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there is more to choose from nowadays and lots of the non english food does taste very well
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ironsofcanada
10:05 Sat Oct 12
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BRANDED 8:33 Sat Oct 12
Some valid points there.
Pies (or coffins, when they used to hold the entire animal) and sausage (though not called that) seem to be older than the English.
The potato of course was not available until the end of the 16th century and then only for the rich.
Similar with tomatoes.
Baked beans were Native first and again not available until mid-Early Modern times in England. And not available canned in current form until the early 20th.
Cauliflower cheese is in Mrs. Beeton's in the mid 19th century so probably around 20-30 years before. (Usual rule with recipes showing up in cookery books.
Not here but tea and sugar is relevantly new. Coffee was more important much earlier as the English had better access to its source, early.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:08 Sat Oct 12
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Jesus wept...
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gph
10:16 Sat Oct 12
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According to Alice Roberts, low-class prostitutes were the only women who went to ale houses in Regency times, higher-class ones went to coffee houses, and only tea houses were left for respectable women.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:20 Sat Oct 12
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Regency Hoes
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ironsofcanada
10:40 Sat Oct 12
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Gph
May well be true
Recency is 200 years after coffee and chocolate (only a drink then) houses began to pop up.
(You always enjoy The religious angle: coffee was considered more Protestant and chocolate Catholic initially, why some think coffee initially took hold in England.)
The transatlantic slave triangle made sugar semi affordable within the intervening years. And tea had been had been introduced mainly via the coffee houses.
Tea houses are beyond my era and I do not know much about them. My research also focused West alot.
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gph
10:43 Sat Oct 12
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Shit, I think I've misrembered.
Put chocolate instead of tea in my post below.
I've probably got time-travelling Tex into a lot of trouble...
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stewey
10:58 Sat Oct 12
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Far cough your correct devilled kidneys are superb
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ironsofcanada
10:59 Sat Oct 12
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gph 10:43 Sat Oct 12
Makes more sense.
Thomas Gage is an interesting read about chocolate. Catholic friar, just trained in Spain supposed to go to Phillipines but hopped ship in Mexico tells stories of people addicted to chocolate, maybe himself.
Eventually came home converted to Anglicanism. Shifted with the politics and eventually was a guide on Cromwell's Western Design which failed miserable to gain any of the Spanish Main but did lead to Jamaica becoming English and providing the first regular source of sugar.
All comes round.
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