It is commonly said, even by the English themselves, that English cooking is the worst in the world. It is supposed to be not merely incompetent, but also imitative, and I even read quite recently, in a book by a French writer, the remark: 'The best English cooking is, of course, simply French cooking.'
Now that is simply not true.
Hi Rebecca,
Did you know that Orwell wrote a booklet in 1946 called "Food in Britain" that was never published? You can read Orwell’s recipe for Christmas pudding and see some images from the manuscript.
It's pretty cool. :-)
By including haggis and english sausages, he makes the oppositions point. He is essentially saying "all this terrible tasting stuff I've developed a taste for is hard to get elsewhere". For good reason. Where else can I get bread sopping with bacon grease. Tasteless sandwiches with warm coke abound. Of course there are good things, like clotted cream. It would be pretty improbable for a large country to have no food of note. For the most part though, when I go to England, I look for Indian food.