"Chips!"
This is a very common question that kids ask here in the UK and chips (what you all call French Fries) is often the reply.
Tea means dinner, in case you didn’t know. Historically, it was “Afternoon Tea” and was just that, tea and cakes and was served around 4 pm. Somehow, the name became synonymous with dinner and dinner became the name for lunch. So, when your kids ask, “What’s for tea?” they mean dinner, and when you ask your children “What did you have for dinner?” you mean lunch. And yes, my kids are British, so I get to do all of that translating! Oh, and they still do a "proper" Afternoon Tea here, which makes it even more confusing.
Yes, the Brits are a confusing lot, and I’ve had the fortune, or misfortune (take your pick) to live amongst them for 14 years. I’m Afton, AndreaRed’s little sister, and hopefully I will be able to blog some of the interesting and fun things about British food that can be made out there in the US of A and the foods I miss and my various cooking woes and wishes.
My next blog will be, “Victoria’s Sponge Cake”... Yes, like my sister, I am also addicted to cake and it is all our Grandma’s fault. She made the best Graham Cracker Cookies when we were kids.
3 comments:
Cool! Tell me more!!!!
Welcome to the blog. We're finally up to a party of 3....
Not much to tell really. I have lived in England for almost 14 years, because I was married to a Brit. I have two girls, 12 and 10 years old. It's just the girls and I now, so I often wonder why I am still here. I think it's just because uprooting them would be a real pain.
I love to cook, but I find it is often soul destroying when I spend hours on a new recipe only to have them say they prefer eggs on toast.
I miss American and Mexican food so much, and desperately want to just fill up a crate of stuff in American grocery stores and have it shipped back here! Brits cannot make American or Mexican with any degree of authenticity, although I can still throw together those recipes with what they sell out here.
English food is generally pretty good, although they do have a few weird things, like most countries, I guess. They mainly have meat and vegetable type dishes, although Indian food is also very popular.
The thing that they're best at are what they refer to as "pudding" or dessert. They have some fantastic desserts, and hopefully I'll be able to share them with you, as well as some of the unique things that they eat over here! :)
Hi Afton! Man, I can't believe you've been in the UK for 14 years! Whoa! It's great to hear from you.
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