National food of Great Britain

 

 

National food of Great Britain

Foreign people criticize English food

 

• Foreign people criticize English food. ‘It’s unimaginative,’ they say. ‘It’s boring, it’s tasteless, it’s chips with everything and totally overcooked vegetables’. 
• These visitors have experienced English cooking in Wimpy Bars and MacDonald’s Hamburger restaurants.
• If you ask foreigners to name some typical English dishes, they will probably say ‘Fish and chips’ and stop. It is disappointed, but true, that there is no tradition in England of eating in restaurants, because their food doesn’t lend itself to such preparation. English cooking is found in the home, where it is possible to time the dishes to perfection. Their basic ingredients, when fresh, are so full of flavour that they haven’t had to invent sauces and complex recipes to disguise their natural taste. But Cynics will say that British have no ‘cuisine’ themselves .
• We as other foreigners don’t know much about British food. Our questionnaire proved it. But we can’t learn English without learning traditions and customs in which food is one of the essential things.

Mealtimes

 

• There can be three main meals a day:
• Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00,
• Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
• Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal)

What is a typical English  Breakfast?

 

Most people around the world  seem to think a typical English breakfast  consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried  bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed  down with a cup of coffee. Nowadays,  however, a typical English breakfast is  more likely to be a bowl of cereals,  a slice of toast, orange juice and  a cup of coffee. In the winter many  people will eat "porridge" or boiled  oats.

The Traditional English Breakfast

 

• The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always served in hotels and guest houses around Britain.
• The traditional English breakfast is called the 'Full English' and sometimes referred to as 'The Full English Fry-up'.

 Lunch

 

If you go to Britain to  study English and you stay with a  family you will almost certainly be given  a "packed lunch" to eat for  your midday meal. Some factories and schools  have canteens where you can eat but  the packed lunch is the most common  thing to eat. A packed lunch normally  consists of some sandwiches, a packet  of crisps, an apple and a can of  something to drink, for example, coca-cola.  The contents are kept in a plastic  container and you take it with you  when you go to school or work. The  quality of the packed lunch can vary  from terrible to very good, it all  depends on who makes it. 

Dinner

 

Things are changing and most  British people eat meals from many different  countries for example spaghetti or curry.  In fact you could even say that the  British don't eat much British food. However  the most typical thing to eat for  dinner is "meat and two vegs".  This consists of a piece of meat  accompanied by two different boiled vegetables.  This is covered with "gravy" which  is a sauce made with the juice that  was obtained when the meat was cooked.  One of the vegetables is almost always  potatoes. The British eat a lot of  potatoes.  

English Puddings and Desserts. Р.1 

 

What is a Pudding ?

A pudding is the dessert course of  a meal (`pud' is used informally). In  Britain, they also use the words 'dessert,  'sweet'' and 'afters‘. 

English Puddings and Desserts. 

 

There are hundreds of variations of  sweet puddings in England but each pudding  begins with the same basic ingredients of milk, sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Many of the puddings involve fresh fruit such as raspberries or strawberries, custard, cream, and cakes.

 

Bread and butter pudding is old English favourite

Favourite Children Food

 

Although many foreigners find  British food disgusting, British teenagers  in the survey enjoy eating bacon sandwiches, baked beans, cheddar cheese and curry (well, it’s not British but it is one of Britain’s most popular foods). Also, we know it’s a British stereotype but many British teenagers still like drinking a nice cup of tea in the morning.

What food was “invented” in  England

 

1762: The sandwich was invented in England.

There is  town named Sandwich in  the south of England. John Montagu, the  Earl of Sandwich invented a small meal  that could be eaten with one hand  while he continued his nonstop gambling.