ENGLISH FOOD

English food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish and chips and pies.

Bangers & MashThis is mashed potatoes with sausages.
Black Pudding A thick sausage made with blood and fat.
Yorkshire pudding
A batter made with flour, eggs and milk and cooked in the oven.

A Ploughman's Lunch This is a very popular thing to eat if you go to eat in a "pub" at midday. It normally consists of a bread roll with a piece of cheese and a pickled onion. By the way there are many very good pickles that you can buy at the supermarket for example "branston pickle". Branston Pickle is not sold in any other countries but it is the perfect companion to cheese. (I always buy a jar when I go to England) British cheeses are very good. The most famous is Cheddar. Most of the cheeses are named after the region from where they come from egg. Red Leicester, Cheshire etc. There is a very good British blue cheese called Stilton although it can be rather expensive.
Haggis This is only normally eaten in Scotland. It is sheep's intestine stuffed with meat and vegetables.
Fish & Chips
You will almost certainly go to a fish and chip shop when you visit Britain. It is a shop which cooks fried potatoes called chips. They are usually accompanied by fish, pies, mushy peas, etc. The chips used to be wrapped in newspaper but now white paper is used. They often ask if you want salt and vinegar to be sprinkled over your chips. Be careful because sometimes they give you too much.

Pie
A pie is some food surrounded by pastry (pastry is a mixture of flour and butter). It is normally baked in the oven. The content of the pie can be sweet or savoury. Typical examples of pies are "steak and kidney pie" or "apple pie". There are variations of the pie such as cornish pasties. Pasties were originally invented so that working men could take their food to work with them. Someone told me that miners in the Cornish tin mines invented the cornish pastie. I suppose that if you work in a mine it is too much trouble to come to the surface to have lunch.
Bread & Butter
When the British eat bread they almost always cover it with butter or margarine. It is very common to see a plate of bread and butter on table when you eat. You can use it to soak up the gravy or juices left on your plate.

British Bread British bread is very good and if you go to the baker there are many different types of bread to choose from. However, although the bread is very good, the most popular type of bread in Britain is sliced white bread. This is sold in plastic packets and is not half as good as the bread which you must cut yourself.

Baked Beans
Baked beans are beans cooked in a tomato sauce. They come in cans and are normally eaten on toast. The British are very fond of baked beans.

More dishes in: britishfood.about.com/

13 Comments:

  1. Typical english food said...
    This work is very interesting.But some of these foods are horrible.
    I like the black pudding.
    xD


    Ivaylo
    Iraida y Teresa said...
    Iraida y Teresa: How do you have the bravery to show us all this food?! :) Your blog looks so cute!

    We like the main photo of the blog, the text, the structure Well done ^^ and good job
    Unknown said...
    Well, your blog is so fine. The pie looks delicious! :)
    the_princes's said...
    hello friends!
    our workshop is very interesting but silvia and I have also done a workshop of the food in england.
    we don't like Black Pudding but we like pie and Yorkshire pudding

    kisses!!


    silvia & almudeniita
    marinaysandra said...
    Hello we like your blog!Byeee!Kisses(K)
    andRea aLbii [anD] eRii* said...
    Helloo friends!!
    How are you?
    We think that your blog it's very cool. :D
    We hope that you sign us. :D
    kisses from computer number 4 xD
    andRea eRii anD aLbii
    • ~ siiL [and] naDiia ~ • said...
    Hi! What's up? We like too much your blog. We hate the black pudding. It's very common. But you have some curious foods. See you later! (:
    Vane e Iris said...
    hi!!
    I like it very much. Your images are fantastic and the recipes are very interesting. You trop are are original.

    KISSES

    IrIs
    Vane e Iris said...
    I hate you!! I`m very hungry and you teach me food!! Ouhh!!

    Well the blog it`s very interesting,i like it.

    kisses

    Vanesa
    #Laura;Abel said...
    Hi guys!

    I love fish&chips!♥ but I hate pudding. I like your blog.
    It´s a curious!


    Laura!
    Arantxa said...
    Well done. One suggestion: next time write more things on your own, you know a lot of English, so you can do an even better blog :)

    Arantxa
    marinaysandra said...
    hello!! your blogs is beautiful but we don't like the picture of haggis jaja bye kissiess
    MarĂ­a, Eva 'nd Iulia said...
    Hiii!!
    Mmmm ...well , the fish and chips and the pie looks good.... but the haggis.... i wouldn't prove it XD

    Nice blog, like it ♥!!

    Kisses, julia

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