Well what are you having then.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Spaghetti carbonara for us.

[merc1_clocks]

Chilli

[malacandran]

These foods don't seem English at all.  Have some people stopped eating our native diet?

Which was beef and ale. This manly nourishment, in the past,  made Englishmen grow strong, and sail forth to conquer quite a bit of the globe. And so create the proud, magnificent British Empire!  We fought the Spanish - and fortified by British beef, vanquished the Dons' Armada!

But nowadays, all that has waned away.  The Empire has gone. Our diet is depleted.  We have to eat Spanish foods, like Chilli

[bitsnknots]

We had fish, chips and peas for lunch whilst we were out.  For tea, we've just had cheese toasties.

[stan3502]

Look's like I'm going all Italian then .................... with home-made Pizza and salad

[ginap.123]

Chilli is Mexican not Spanish. I've gone Italian, chhesy chicken pasta.
I've somehow managed to miss the rules that said because you live in England you have to eat 'english' food.
And beef and ale pie....yuk. beef yes, ale no, not neccessary

[**towery**]

quiche,  french fries,  betterave,  tomate and laitue

[ginap.123]

You ain't 'aving chips then 😅

[**towery**]

wasnt the  beitish empire born from many europeans?

romans  saxons  vikings ??

we would probably be eating  turnips and grass roots if it werent for the  'incomers'

[captainbovine]

British chips, British veg and British chicken.....

I may go foreign tomorrow.....

[ginap.123]

Did you chicken bring his passport?

[*chez*]

spaggy bol..... made with british beef mince, tomato sauce made from british tomatoes and pasta made from from british wheat...

followed by rhubarrb crumble......  very britsh rhubarb from my garden...

[merc1_clocks]

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@malacandran wrote:

These foods don't seem English at all.  Have some people stopped eating our native diet?

Which was beef and ale. This manly nourishment, in the past,  made Englishmen grow strong, and sail forth to conquer quite a bit of the globe. And so create the proud, magnificent British Empire!  We fought the Spanish - and fortified by British beef, vanquished the Dons' Armada!

But nowadays, all that has waned away.  The Empire has gone. Our diet is depleted.  We have to eat Spanish foods, like Chilli

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I don't HAVE to eat anything...but I enjoy MEXICAN Chilli...how rude you are IMHO

[bitsnknots]

I think that it is up to each individual what they eat and it does not have to be English or British for that matter.  A lot of posters on here come from places outside the English borders which I think is a good thing.

[malacandran]

merc, I don't mean to be rude. But our present obsession with foreign foods, seems to display a lack of confidence in the merits of good native English cooking.

Personally, I never eat "Chilli", whatever its Latino origin. Nor do I eat "Curry", the mere smell of it turns my stomach.

In fact I've never eaten either of these foreign products, and don't intend to, ever. They aren't right, somehow.

[**towery**]

maybe we have eaten  enough  boring british food and want a little  tittilation

[ginap.123]

Just because you don't want to eat something doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with others wanting to eat it, it also doesn't show disinterest or no confidence in British food. There are enough ocassions and meals in a lifetime to enjoy British food as well as all foreign cuisines.
Very arrogant of you to suggest that it isn't right just because you don't fancy it. Some of us are more adventurous.

[malacandran]

A little tiittalion might be alright, if we go to foreign countries, where they're starving, and haven't enough meat.

There they have to spin out the meagre meat, by coating it in disgusting "spices" or "curry powder". That's just to spin it out, and cover up their inability to make a proper meal.

But in the UK, we efficiently grow huge amounts of meat, and so can eat it plain in big pieces, without additives.

[stroppy*cow]

Personally I don't like curry or chilli, but I see no reason why others shouldn't enjoy it.

I had cream crackers and cheese with a few grapes - no idea where the grapes came from, but unlikely to be England

[malacandran]

Crackers and cheese with GRAPES?  You cannot be serious!