[Leica] Re: English food

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Marc wrote:

> You actually can tolerate those awful excuses for
> breakfast link sausage the English eat?  All
> filler, no meat, and ratty, to be polite, in
> taste.  And how about English steaks?  I
> acknowledge that you CAN get a great English
> steak, but this is not nearly as common there as
> it is in the US, where a good steak can generally
> be found a mile or so from where one lives.  And
> what about soggy, over-cooked Brussels Sprouts?
>
> I can go on.  British cuisine has its high points
> -- Yorkshire pudding, Steak and Kidney Pie, Bass  
> Ale, and the like.  But there is a lot which most
> folks with an interest in tasty food properly
> prepared would hold against the denizens of the UK.


The wonderful thing about English food is that nobody has to eat it  
anymore. Membership in the European Common Market makes all the  
foodstuffs of the continent available in supermarkets like Tesco or  
Aldi. French cheeses, German sausage, Swiss muesli, Spanish oranges,  
Danish ham and beer from everywhere can be bought at very reasonable  
prices. During our stint in Wales, we dined on gourmet foods that we  
could barely afford in the USA. True, the restaurants are higher  
priced than their equivalents in the US. A hamburger cost $5 at a  
Burger King in the UK. But the Brits seem to regard dining out as  
entertainment and the higher prices are regarded as an informal  
entertainment tax.

Larry Z