Culinary / pics / fence

[hert0661]

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From: hert0661
Subject: Re: Culinary / pics / fence
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5749] British Culinary Thoughts (Largely OT)
Date: 8/4/00 7:18 pm  (ET)

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

To be honest this is British cooking, or at least the current mix of
foods. It has got to the stage where we are sending curry recipes to
India! I am not sure I would cook any traditional British food. I just
go for what I like to eat.

"I've actually grown quite fond of Harry's favorite dessert -- treacle
pudding."

Not a great fan of such heavy puddings myself. Never go by the name
for British food. It is quite often not what it says. Spotted dick
for instance!


"I do have to wonder about this potato fetish that Brits have though...Had
lots of fried potatoes with a Cornish pasty (which, I might add, was
stuffed with potatoes)."

I am not too sure. Chips with everything is an attitude that many kids
develope. It must just be the versatile nature of the potato! I belive
that to be traditional to the recipe. The idea being that in the pasty
you had a full meat and veg meal with a handy crust by which to hold it,
since being down in the mines gives you very dirty hands.

"The US editions have chapter header mini-illustrations that remind me
somewhat of the same sort of illustrations in the Narnia books"

In the British editions there are no chapter pictures. I knew about the
American pictures but decided that I would play 'ignorant' to see if I
could annoy however it was by reversing his arguement. It seems he ran
off before I got a chance to do so!

"As long as you aren't sitting on the fence..."

Do I ever? Well only when I decide to argue all sides of an arguement
and end up losing myself!

Simon