For ex-pats missing English food...

**Chico** · 1 September 2005, 20:04

Excellent Jacques Chirac - how wrong he was about British food!!!

**hyperD** · 2 September 2005, 07:40

Looks like a load of fried, tinned, processed gunk. Can't beat real home-made food with fresh ingredients whether it be French or trad English.

**Rebecca Loos** · 2 September 2005, 07:42

Agree with HyperD here

**Lucifer Box** · 2 September 2005, 08:20

Hear, hear, HyperD. I wouldn't call much of the stuff on there "food", traditional English or otherwise. Still, at least the owner of the slideshow will have keeled over from a heart attack soon.

**Chico** · 2 September 2005, 08:45

If only British food was more like this...

**hyperD** · 2 September 2005, 09:59

A small selection of British dishes:-

Kentish Pigeons in a Pot with Plums
Braised Haunch of Venison
Jugged Hare
Rothiemurchus Collops of Venison
Creamed Smoked Haddock
Jellied Eel Mousse with Watercress Sauce
Wandle Baked Stuffed Trout

There are a few restaurants that offer traditional, home made meals that taste fantastic - Rules, Simpson's, Bentleys, Mrs. T's Supper Room. Too many times we look to other countries saying that they have better food than we do. However, a culture of fry-ups, fast food outlets, supermarkets with appallingly overcropped and tasteless food and ignorance have done an injustice to good British cooking here.

However saying that, I think real sushi is the most beautifully presented food I've ever seen.

**Lucifer Box** · 2 September 2005, 10:08

I had a delicious jugged hare at Simpson's last week. That really was the true taste of British cooking.

**Francko** · 2 September 2005, 10:10

Originally posted by hyperD

Looks like a load of fried, tinned, processed gunk. Can't beat real home-made food with fresh ingredients whether it be French or trad English.

Funny scene yesterday at a supermarket. A father, probably south-american speaking spanish, shouting at his child not to eat that "mierda" (tulip) canned tin food. Do we need more illegal immigrants to bring up the quality of food here?

**WageSlave** · 2 September 2005, 10:23

Originally posted by Francko

Funny scene yesterday at a supermarket. A father, probably south-american speaking spanish, shouting at his child not to eat that "mierda" (tulip) canned tin food. Do we need more illegal immigrants to bring up the quality of food here?

But that was a supermarket, full of tins and processed crap in packets. A supermarket isn't cuisine. British supermarkets are pretty dire by world standards.
What are supermarkets like in Italy?

For ex-pats missing English food...