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.