2007-04-25 02:41:39 · 16 answers · asked by Florence 1 in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
THE ONE OUR HUNTER GATHERER ANCESTORS COULDN'T CATCH!
2007-04-25 09:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Up to the late 19th century the oyster was the food of the English poor. Brought to London alive from places like Whitstable, they were served straight from the barrel.
Chop houses were very common in the 18th-19th Century providing a convenient portion of meat for all classes.
Pies and Pasties were also convenient ways of serving or in the case of the pork pie preserving meat. Traditionally the Cornish miners pastie was a complete meal, with meat & vegetables at one end and fruit at the other.
In 19th Century London there was a long Jewish tradition of frying fish in batter. The Irish fried their potatos in beef dripping. The genius who first served these up together created a classic dish and a countrywide industry.
Other fast foods that fed the poor were Saveloy and Pease pudding, that is a smoked, highly flavoured (and coloured) sausage and a yellow pea puree. Pie & Mash, which were often associated with jellied eels (whos juice provided the stock base for the famous parsley "liquor").
American style fast food in the form of the Wimpy Bar arrived in the 1950's, with its beefburgers in a bun and curved frankfurter with a grilled tomato in the centre.
About the same time the first generation of Sandwich shops often run by Italians and other Europeans appeared in our Cities, associated with the Milk and Coffee Bar movement.
The Sandwich was the original 18th Century Aristocratic fast food, named after its creator Lord Sandwich. Long the staple of the workmans lunchbox, it soon became the staple food for the City worker "too busy to do lunch".
2007-04-25 04:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by pwei34 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fish N Chips just after the 1st World War
2007-04-26 05:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by scottie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faggots and peas take your own dish along and jug to the pub but only in the jug and bottle bar for 2 pints of beer =3 p todays money
2007-04-25 04:31:51 · answer #4 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Northern saying. A run round the table
2007-04-25 03:58:43 · answer #5 · answered by aslan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pie, mash & liquor.
fish & chips
roasted chestnuts, which have been sold on the streets of London, since the turn of the last century.
can't think of any more.
2007-04-25 05:16:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish N chips!
2007-04-25 02:45:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think it was fish and chips or things sold outside pubs like cockles and mussels.
2007-04-25 02:45:08 · answer #8 · answered by Outhval 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st pie and mash
2nd fish and chips
3rd wimpy
4th pizza
2007-04-25 02:54:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably pie and mash shops!!
2007-04-25 02:44:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wimpy?
2007-04-25 02:44:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋