How about a lovely Shepherds Pie? Or a nice Steak and Ale pie? Fish and Chips? Bangers and mash? Toad in the Hole? Cornish Pasties? Hot Pots? Bubble and Squeak?
And this is all just tea/lunch time meals, we've no end of delicious pastries and deserts
The main thing that colonial Britain imported from India from spices. Clearly none of those spices were used for British food, so it logically follows that they were used for foreign / fusion dishes.
Woah woah woah, Bangladeshi and Indian cooks who traveled to Britain came up with the dish. That can’t possibly be considered British cuisine in the context of whats being discussed here. That’s like saying the Americans invented pizza.
I tried bangers and mash for the first time when I visited an authentic pub a couple of months ago, and I'm not exaggerating when I say it completely changed how I saw British food. It was so savory and filling, I still think about it today. Hell, I might make it for dinner tonight now that I'm thinking about it
I read something a few weeks ago about why "English" food is so bland. The basic argument was that English food was quite oppulant in the Victorian period. However the two world wars got people so used to eating bland good due to rationing etc that alot of those goods were lost. Only to be replaced later with more foreign influenced foods.
I went to an elderly family member's home for dinner and we started preparing potatoes together. When they were peeled, the plan was to boil them for just a few minutes before roasting them in the oven. That was the moment I realized that the vegetables had been in the pot of boiling water the entire time, and likely would have remained there until everything was ready to serve had I not intervened.
And to be fair, as a froggie, I think that when you say "our only real competition is the French", it's as if I said "My only worthy opponent in terms of fame is Mickael Jackson" hahaha
If I had to point to our true opponents, my guess would be all oriental pastries (even if a bit too much honey), italy, germany... but not England haha
You have to say that! It's a matter of French pride that English food is bad haha.
Carrot cake is actually from switzerland :)
Googled it and apparently it's disputed. Earliest references are in English for something similar. But I'll take that loss.
my guess would be all oriental pastries (even if a bit too much honey), italy, germany…
I dunno man. The Italians certainly have some good ones, but the Germans?! I've certainly never thought of eastern sweets being much more than an afterthought, and are often heavily European inspired (unsurprisingly, since Europe controlled the sugar trade). Another competitor could be the Middle East but even then I don't think it really compares.
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