Home cooks reject British dishes in favour of foreign foods such as curry and pasta, new research has found.
16th September 2009
A poll of 1,000 people also found that half of Britons have not even tasted traditional fare including toad in the hole, Welsh rarebit and bubble and squeak.
Well, those don’t sound very inviting. At least with pasta and curry you know what goes into it.
A third of those surveyed could not identify toad in the hole and 64 per cent were ignorant when it came to Welsh rarebit.
Perhaps that’s part of the problem.
Marcus Simmons, managing director of iknow-uk which carried out the poll, said: “We think it’s a huge shame that British dishes which were previously commonplace seem to be fading into obscurity.
Perhaps because they taste like crap? That’s just a guess, of course. “British cuisine” isn’t one of those books you find in the food section at Barnes & Noble.