The UNITED KINGDOM is known as the "food desert", and British cuisine is recognized as unpalatable, and there is basically no food to hand. Why don't the British cook?
When it comes to British food, friends who have been to the UK will express such an emotion, and there is basically no food in this country.
When you come to the UK, you want to find a local specialty restaurant and feel the unique food culture of the country, but the restaurant only has fish steak, stew and fried steak, which are basically available in European countries. The only "local specialties" that can be obtained is fish and chips.
Compared with other European countries, such as French, Italian and Spanish cuisine, it is far from the same.
British cuisine is very simple to cook, boiled or fried, and then add salt, pepper, mustard and other spices, which is the daily eating habits of the British. There are also a few common ingredients: beef, lamb, fish, eggs, potatoes, bacon and some seasonal vegetables.
Nowadays, everyone can remember British cuisine, except for fish and chips and dozens of potato dishes, the rest is the dark cuisine of Britain.
For example, the famous "Look up at the stars", haggis with a variety of haggis in the belly, Sussex pudding wrapped in a whole lemon in the dough, and eel jelly, the "famous dish" in the dark cuisine world.
As the saying goes: the pursuit of food is a great pleasure in life, and it is also the goal pursued by people in every country. Once the "Empire of the Sun Never Sets", why are the dishes so unavailable? This is because the United Kingdom has experienced a series of historical events before it has a "gastronomic desert" situation.
1. Religious influence.
During the Reformation, the Puritan reformers raised a strong objection to the extravagant and hedonistic life of the Romans, arguing that the spiritual world of man was extremely important and promoting a simple life.
Later, the British Civil War also concealed religious struggles, and promoted puritanical ideas throughout the country, opposing hedonistic life and advocating a simple life. Gradually, the British also began to follow this concept, and the diet was mainly simple and light.
2. Industrial Revolution.
Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and in the second half of the 19th century, Britain had completed the mechanization of machine manufacturing, and the whole country began to increase productivity. At this time, the factory needs a large number of laborers, and workers need to work for more than ten hours a day.
People are busy in the factory every day, and there is no time to take care of three meals a day, let alone eat delicious home-cooked meals at each meal. As a result, canned food, which is convenient and easy to preserve, quickly spread to the British working class and became an important source of food for them every day.
Over time, the fast pace of life made eating canned fast food a habit for British workers, who simply didn't have the time or energy to figure out how to cook.
After the urbanization of britain, the lives of ordinary people have become very poor, busy with life every day, and they do not spend too much time on eating.
On the other hand, the British nobility were still very particular about eating. Unfortunately, with the outbreak of the two world wars, these nobles needed to go to the front to serve the country, coupled with the war factors, many ingredients could not be imported from the European continent, which led to the gradual loss of British aristocrats' cuisine recipes in the war.
At that time, Britain began a food rationing system, and the daily needs of butter, eggs, bread, milk and other ingredients were uniformly distributed, and could not be bought and sold freely.
This system allows the British to receive almost the same food, which ensures basic nutrition when filling the stomach, which also creates the characteristics of British cuisine that is practical and does not pay attention to taste.
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