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G0TEZ > ITEMS 28.01.12 19:06l 64 Lines 2104 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
To : ITEMS@WW
No Bill. I don't think we agree. Dishes in England only represent parts of
England not the whole.
I was raised in Shropshire which has no local foods but my mother used to
cook Lancashire Hot pot and Sad cake which bemused the locals who called
ir "Unhappy Cake".
Yorkshire is the biggest county and the home of yorkshire pudding.
Cornwall has it's Cornish Pasties and Scrumpy. Then there are the various
sausages you mentioned as well as all the cheeses, all attached to one
small area.
The only food which has ever been associated with England is Roast beef.
In fact there is a pub in Toulouse in southern France, called the Frog and
Rosbif because 'Frogs' is our nickname for the French as we assume the all
eat frogs legs and their nickname for us is "Rosbifs" or "Biftecks"
because they think we live on roast beef. Not true as it is just too
expensive(Just like frogs legs in France).
We often refer to "The Roast Beef of old England" presumably from a time
when people could afford it. Not in my lifetime. As a boy we were happy to
get some Corned Beef. BTW 'Corned' has nothing to do with corn it is an
old word for 'salted'- and don't forget Spam, the staple of many a Sunday
dinner.
I do go out now to get a nice,mediun sirloin with all the trimmings but it
is just a treat about 4 times a tyear max.
I visit Holland which, like us, admits to having no national dish. Like
us, the Dutch eat Pizzas and Pasta and various curried dishes as well as
Chinese, they did used to have their 'Pankoeken' (Pancakes) burt they are
long gone.
There's a thought. Is there an American National dish ? apart from "Mom's
apple pie", which I am sure they don't often eat, there is only turkey and
spuds which they exported all over the world but never refer to as a
National Dish.
My lunch was cod and ships fried in oil, much cheaper thasn the stuff from
a fish n chip shop and better tasting.
Happy St Georges day in case I forget.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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