British Culinary Thoughts (Largely OT)

[plinsenmayer]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: British Culinary Thoughts (Largely OT)
Date: 8/4/00 6:09 pm  (ET)

Hi:

Well, having just spent 2 weeks in the UK earlier this year, I have a
few thoughts.

First, you can get the best Indian food in the world in the UK (IMO). We
ate Indian food in 3 different cities/villages and truly enjoyed it.

We enjoyed all our meals there, much to my husband's surprise since he had
some rather bad memories from spending 6 mths in London in the mid 1980s.

I do have to wonder about this potato fetish that Brits have though. <g>
We were honestly served french fries with pizza -- our first lunch in
London when we were jet-lagged beyond belief but making ourselves stay
awake. I don't think we had a single meal whilst there that did not
include potatoes, no matter how unlikely it was to pair potatoes with
whatever we'd ordered. Had lots of fried potatoes with a Cornish pasty
(which, I might add, was stuffed with potatoes).

Anyway -- I'm chiming in to defend British cooking. Admittedly, we did
mainly eat ethnic foods though . . . . <g>

I've actually grown quite fond of Harry's favorite dessert --
treacle pudding. I rushed out & purchased a pudding mold -- they're
wonderful. Well, the first one was made actually with treacle & wasn't
nearly as good as the subsequent ones made with golden syrup. Silly me --
I thought treacle pudding should have some treacle. :--)

Okay -- that's my silly post for the day!

Penny