FOOD WE EAT By Charlie Preece. CORNISH PASTIES Here in Cornwall, one of our most traditional foods...
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- FOOD WE EAT By Charlie Preece
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- CORNISH PASTIES Here in Cornwall, one of our most traditional
foods is the Cornish pasty. A pasty is basically a piece of thick
pastry wrapped around a filling of some kind and then crimped at
the edge. Around the 18 th or 19 th century, tin miners started
taking pasties down into the mines with them. The pasties usually
had a sweet end and a savory end: the sweet end was jam and the
savory end was a mix of beef, potato, onion and turnip. The miners
held the pasty by the crimp (or crust) and, after they had finished
eating, threw it down the mineshaft. This was because their hands
were very dirty and possibly covered in arsenic, a very poisonous
substance. There are now many flavours of pasty; cheese and onion,
steak and blue cheese; reggae reggae chicken and bacon, mushroom,
cheese and chicken. Despite this, people still argue about whether
these are proper Cornish pasties or not. The Cornish are very proud
of the original pasty (beef, potato, onion and turnip) and they
want it to stay that way.
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- PIZZA Pizza is actually an Italian dish that is really popular
in England and America. The pizza base is like bread, but stretched
out over a circular tray. The pizza is then covered in tomato pure,
mozzarella cheese and other toppings (listed below) and baked in an
oven. The mozzarella melts and goes stringy. It tastes amazing
(pizza is one of my favourite foods). Different flavours of pizza
you can get are listed below: Cheese and tomato Pepperoni Ham,
mushroom and olive Ham and pineapple Spicy chicken (These are only
a few of the hundreds of different pizza toppings)
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- FISH AND CHIPS Terribly unhealthy but tastes brilliant. Fried
potato slices and fish covered in batter or breadcrumbs. There are
over 11,000 fish and chip shops in England but where the dish came
from is not very clear. The Portuguese gave us the fried fish, the
Belgians invented chips, but it was in 1860 when a 13-year-old
Jewish boy came up with the idea of putting them together. By 1910
there were more than 25,00 fish and chip shops across the country.
By the 1920s, another 10,000 had been built. Nowadays, there are a
lot less fish and chip shops, because other takeaways have become
more popular. There are Chinese and Indian takeaways, burgers and
hot-dogs, but the one of the only truly British takeaway meals is
fish and chips.
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- ICE CREAM Ice-cream is a hugely popular holiday treat made of
semi-frozen sugar, milk or cream and flavouring. Different
traditional flavours include chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and
mint-choc-chip. Here in Cornwall, we are very lucky to have
Roskillys, a dairy farm that makes delicious ice-cream from their
cows milk. They make flavours like raspberry, gooseberry,
blackcurrants and cream and mango and passion fruit. These are some
facts about ice cream: On average, Americans eat 48 pints of
ice-cream every year per person. The biggest ice cream sundae in
history was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1988, and weighed
over 24 tons. Ice cream was sold to the general public for the
first time at a French caf in 1670. 19% of Americans say they eat
ice cream in bed. 3% eat ice cream in the bathtub. Waste from Ben
and Jerry's Ice Cream company was supposedly given to local farmers
in Vermont to feed to their pigs. Apparently the pigs like all the
flavours except Mint Oreo.
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- A Sunday roast is a meal had on Sundays to celebrate the
Christian belief that God made the world and everything in it. The
Creation Story (Genesis) is about how God created every single
living thing and when he created it. On the first day God created
light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light
"day" and darkness "night." On the second day he created an area to
separate the waters and called it "sky. On the third day God
created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry
ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." He also created
vegetation (plants and trees). On day four he created the sun,
moon, and the stars to light to the earth and to separate the day
and the night. These would also be used as signs to mark seasons,
days, and years. On day five God created every living creature in
the seas and every bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the
waters and the sky with life. On day six he created the animals to
live on the earth. God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve).
He blessed them as well and gave them every animal and the whole
earth to rule over and care for. On the seventh day, God rested and
watched over the world. This is why we have roast dinners on
Sundays. We celebrate the fact that God had finished creating the
earth. As its a day of rest, lots of shops close too. Roasts
usually include potatoes, carrots, broccoli, gravy and some sort of
meat. This could be pork, chicken, lamb or beef.
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