This, though for some odd reason, people round here call them pikelets, never did find out where that came from.chumpzilla_69 said:
British food stereotype?
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Tends to be the drier ones, I know that much but not really sure beyond that.Nevyrmoore said:
I do know that eel-based foods were very popular with the nobility in the medival times. There are records of some folks paying their taxes in eels because of it.
I spent a month in Ireland and Scotland this summer, and I have to say they both had great food.
Lots of great seafood, roast dinners, good breakfasts including black pudding and beans, I liked it all. I did miss the variety of beers while I was in Ireland (not a huge selection there, nothing compared to America). Better beer selection in Scotland. Also, I love haggis, I miss you haggis =(
Plus, it only rained like 3 days out of the entire 4 weeks I was there it was beautiful, great luck eh?
Edit: Oh yeah, and Irn Bru! That stuff is addictingly delicious.
Lots of great seafood, roast dinners, good breakfasts including black pudding and beans, I liked it all. I did miss the variety of beers while I was in Ireland (not a huge selection there, nothing compared to America). Better beer selection in Scotland. Also, I love haggis, I miss you haggis =(
Plus, it only rained like 3 days out of the entire 4 weeks I was there it was beautiful, great luck eh?
Edit: Oh yeah, and Irn Bru! That stuff is addictingly delicious.
To be fair, Didn't cave men invent "roast dinner"?
I did have a question for you though,
I believe in America, what we call cookies, sweet little round bits of dough, they call "biscuits" in England. Fine, fine. What then does England call what we call "biscuits", fluffy rolls of bread? Thanks if you can answer.
I did have a question for you though,
I believe in America, what we call cookies, sweet little round bits of dough, they call "biscuits" in England. Fine, fine. What then does England call what we call "biscuits", fluffy rolls of bread? Thanks if you can answer.
The British food stereotypes I grew up hearing in the American Midwest were 'fish and chips', 'the English drink enough tea to drown Russia', 'the Scottish boil and/or deep fry the hell out anything that is edible (and some that isn't)', 'the Irish practically bathe in whiskeys and Guinness and incorporate potatoes into EVERYTHING', and of course, Spotted Dick.
To be fair, I have a can of spotted dick on my shelf as a joke gift. I had two, but my family tried to eat it out of curiosity. Either we boiled the can wrong, or it's inedible in natural form.
As for the other stereotypes? Being part Scots-Irish, I can partially confirm the potato thing. Or maybe that's just my family.
To be fair, I have a can of spotted dick on my shelf as a joke gift. I had two, but my family tried to eat it out of curiosity. Either we boiled the can wrong, or it's inedible in natural form.
As for the other stereotypes? Being part Scots-Irish, I can partially confirm the potato thing. Or maybe that's just my family.
Down in Cornwall there's Cornish pasties and Cornish Cream Tea. Those are all pretty damn awesome though. I went to Cornwall over summer and pretty much ate those every day.
(Cornish Cream Tea is simply tea served with scones, which have clotted cream and jam spread over them. It's up for debate which order you spread them on, though.)
In my home area of The Black Country, near Birmingham, the stereotype is 'Bubble and Squeak' (not entirely sure myself what it is, but I'm not a fan, it's something involving cabbages and potato I think...), and Bread Pudding (which I absolutley love, there's no greater desert than bread pudding with custard. Especially the way my dad does it...).
And in my adopted city of Leeds, since we're in Yorkshire, we all have to eat Yorkshire Puddings everyday. Hah. I wish. If only I could afford them every day, because they are divine...
(Cornish Cream Tea is simply tea served with scones, which have clotted cream and jam spread over them. It's up for debate which order you spread them on, though.)
In my home area of The Black Country, near Birmingham, the stereotype is 'Bubble and Squeak' (not entirely sure myself what it is, but I'm not a fan, it's something involving cabbages and potato I think...), and Bread Pudding (which I absolutley love, there's no greater desert than bread pudding with custard. Especially the way my dad does it...).
And in my adopted city of Leeds, since we're in Yorkshire, we all have to eat Yorkshire Puddings everyday. Hah. I wish. If only I could afford them every day, because they are divine...
Huh?pinky75910 said:
A cookie is this pretty much everywhere:
It is its own dish. A biscuit to you is like a scone to us. A biscuit to us is a cookie to you, because for you cookie also means any of these,right?
Methinks it comes down to you being looser with the definitions?
How Fish and Chips comes to mind I will not understand since us Aussies are more of the fishing, beach bum stereotypes as opposed to British. (So I hear)
As far as I can gather, we just don't have as much of an attachment to our food as, for example, those wacky folks over on the continent. Traditional British food is, I guess, a pretty unadventurous 'meat and two veg' kind of arrangement (snicker). I mean, a roast dinner is excellent, but it's scarcely a work of culinary art. Cook meat, cook vegetables, put on plate, submerge completely in gravy. We have plenty of good restaurants and such, but passion for food isn't an everyday thing, and our cuisine is certainly not as central a part of our national identity as it is in, for example, France or Italy. At least, that's what I've gathered from books and such.
And 'high tea'? Well, my sister was entertaining an American friend once and they went for afternoon tea. Apparently the friend genuinely believed that this was an actual British thing that is done. It is not.
And 'high tea'? Well, my sister was entertaining an American friend once and they went for afternoon tea. Apparently the friend genuinely believed that this was an actual British thing that is done. It is not.