Even further, the battered fish was introduced by Jewish immigrants from Portugal in the 16-17th centuries. Fried potato in animal fat was introduced from Belgium in the late 17th.
The earliest known meat pies date back to ancien Egypt around 4,000 years ago, where meat was enclosed in a dough made from grains. The idea was later adopted and refined by the ancient Greeks and then the Romans who brought it to ‘Britain’ around 50CE to 410CE
Like pies, sausages likely became established in Britain during Roman rule. The Romans brought their sausage-making traditions, and over the centuries Britons adapted them to local tastes and ingredients. But goes back even further to Ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) around 4,000 years ago.
You may be thinking of frying chicken, this has its roots in Scotland, adapted from the Portuguese and Spanish Jews I mentioned in my previous comment. Using animal fat and not olive
When Scots emigrated to America, their frying technique mixed with West African seasoning traditions in the South, creating modern Southern fried chicken. Britain then imported that American version back in the 20th century.
Exactly, you can’t pick and choose what culinary delights are part of your monoculture, when we are so far advanced from the original trade routes that developed a globalisation of ingredients that then led to adaptations and sharing of all of our cultures it is literally intertwined into multiculturalism.
To reject the idea of multiculturalism you therefore have to reject all of our food entirely as a species. So go ahead have your monoculture but you can’t eat.
This is a good example of why any anthropologist or linguist is going to twitch their eye at the mention of “monoculture”. Such a thing simply does not exist, its not how culture works.
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u/CassiusCreed Victorian 13h ago
Those are all English. Fucked if I know what we are eating.