Re:Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
by teruakohatu on Monday August 10, 2020 @04:13PM
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Your local is a nice looking pub, and I like the doggie menu, but would you call it Birtish food? The starters seem British but the mains are burgers, ribs and fish.
Why would fish not be a British food? We are an island nation and fish has always been a big part of our cuisine.
The rib meat in that main is slow cooked, shredded meat from short ribs, not served as "ribs". And with a horseradish gravy, yes that's very british.
It's a shortened menu due to Coronavirus, usually there is a roast lamb and a pork belly dish too.
Plus there are three shortcrust pies, not explicitly called out as they are rotating specials, served with gravy and mashed potato.
All in all it's a very British menu, though yes there are two burgers on there. There are burgers literally everywhere these days!
Re:Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
by teruakohatu on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:15PM
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Sorry, no offense was meant. In my defense basic fish dishes are generic Western fare and burgers made up 50% of the mains menu. It does all sound delicious and that English take on ribs is mouth watering.
No defence needed, and yes, the burger has conquered the world :)
Re:Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
by teruakohatu on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:26PM
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One of these days I will summon the courage to try the famous English jellied eels :)
To be fair though, a lot probably wouldn't consider the main place you get "British" food, the pub, as "eating out" because it's rather less formal.
> but it is nothing to write home about
I'll grant you that it's very, very variable, and the quality of a lot of pub food is crap in a lot of places. However there are lots of pubs that you can get very good British food (my local, for example - https://www.dancingmanbrewery.co.uk/food-glorious-food/resta...). You just have to know where you're going. And probably pay quite a lot for the good stuff. And avoid the chains.
There are many good, British restaurants around too - places like the Hawksmoor in London, or the Oxford Brasserie here in Southampton (the menu is here - https://www.theoxfordbrasserie.co.uk/menu). I wouldn't necessarily say I was going out "for British food" when I was visiting them though.
Do Thai people say they're going out for Thai food if they head out to eat in their home country? (I have no idea!)