British Food?

Question

What are typical meals (not traditional, typical; please mind the difference) called (ie breakfast, lunch, dinner), and what do they usually consist of?

How common is it to have international dishes from, say: Italy, Mexico, China, etc. at home in the UK?

How common is it to have American chefs working for a household in the UK?

Answer 1

Okay, breakfast is usually cereal or toast. Some health-conscious people might eat non-fat yoghurt with fruit, but those people are few and far between! Many people are too lazy, or too late, to eat breakfast at all.

Lunch is often sandwiches. A typical 'packed lunch' consists of sandwiches, crisps (potato chips), maybe an apple, a yoghurt, or even a chocolate bar. When eating out, it's normal to eat lightly - a jacket potato with a filling for example.

Some people call 'dinner' 'tea' instead - but usually only if it's a lighter or quicker meal that they think doesn't DESERVE to be called 'dinner'! For example, tea might be egg and chips, or beans on toast ... now we're talking about students and single people who can't cook!! Dinner would be something like roast meat, or maybe grilled or fried meat, with potatoes, or rice or pasta and vegetables.

Common home-cooked international meals ... Italian food would normally be spaghetti. Usually with Bolognese sauce, or with a shop-bought sauce like Carbonara.

Mexican ... unless you count the occasional Chili-con-carne then I can't think of anything!

Chinese is usually bought from the take-away, but people do sometimes cook a stir-fry at home, or make sweet and sour using a shop-bought sauce (of which there is a HUGE variety!)

I've never known anyone in the UK who had a chef! But of those I've heard about I think 'foreign and interesting' chefs are normally European. However, if you're looking for work, I'd think that most RICH American families living in Britain would love to employ someone from 'home', so they could communicate with you - and complain about how things 'aren't like back in the states!'
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Answer 2

Hello: I am English, so here goes. Most Brits no longer have time to eat the traditional British breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, toast, marmalade, cereal and tea, etc, except at the weekends or on special occasions. Most Mums, nowadays, are far to busy to cook all that, and we are all as health concious as you are. Lots of us lunch at the pubs, where all sorts of good food abounds. When I was young, lunch was served at one-thirty, with a fully set table and at least two courses, always meat, poultry or fish, two or three vegetables and a starch. I don't know how my mother did it, even with help. Tea was at four, with cucumber sandwiches, crumpets, cake and biscuits, the kind you call cookies, all depending on the season, and that carried us over until dinner, at eight or eight-thirty, which was much the same as lunch, but a bit more elaborate. The British once had a large empire, and this taught us to like all kinds of food. We eat Indian a lot and, of course, French, Italian, Asian, Mexican, pretty much anything you can think of. We like our food fresh, and our packaged food and breads contain a lot less sugar than yours, though we eat vast amounts of candy. American opinions of British cuisine were colored by the first waves of tourists, who arrived after WWII, when food was still in very short supply, and found everything to be bland and dull. So did the Brits. Now, one can eat cuisine as varied and as wonderful in London, Paris, Rome or New York. I do not know anyone with an American chef. Most Brits would think of a Brit or a French trained cook first, but I do not think anyone would be averse to the idea, either. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Answer 3

There are a few meals I like Battered Sausage, Scotch eggs, fish and chips and toad within the gap, pigs in blanket and a couple of extra. Stuff I do not like cottage pie, meat pies!, british sizzling pot and a couple of extra. Not each person goes to love each and every unmarried british meals and a few men and women will like a few matters and a few would possibly not. We all have exclusive style buds which like exclusive meals. Also british delicacies may be very various now as a result of immigration adding curries which I love. But tons of Brits love Italian, Indian, Chinese meals I in my view love Mexican, Indian and Caribbean delicacies. But yeah there are so meals I do not like in view that they have got no style or the style is terrible. I hate bland meals...

Answer 4

um typical meals are
breakfasts...boiled egg and soldiers, cereal, toast, bacon, eggs, beans, sausage.
lunch. sandwich, fish and chips.
dinner toad in the hole, cottage pie, pie and mash.
very common to have Indian, Italian, Chinese etc at home
not common to have American chefs working for households

Answer 5

Some of the british foods are often forgotten by many..here is something from medieval period
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/pork-pottage-traditional-recipe-medieval-england-160500444.html

Answer 6

boiled meats
boiled noodles
boiled veggies
fish and chips (battered fried fish & french fries)
hot tea