The English and their food

Many say that the English are not well known for the quality or taste of their food. The English have many dishes such as Yorkshire pudding, toad-in-the-hole, and their most famous, fish-n-chips. English food tends to be hearty in quantity and heavy in gravy or grease. When I was visiting, I noticed the differences between our two cultures foods when I received what is called an English breakfast. It consisted of mushrooms, hash browns, eggs, tomatoes, English sausage (which is different than American sausage), beans, ham, and toast. This breakfast is the equivalent to an American continental breakfast which is eggs, hash browns, and sausage, and toast. However, the quantity of the English breakfast is much larger. Pubs would serve breakfasts and I thought it was very interesting how the English would drink beer with their breakfasts; this is highly uncommon in the United States. In fact, if one would say they had an alcoholic beverage with breakfast one might think that person was an alcoholic. However, this is not the case for the British; beer is a part of their culture and can be drunk with any meal. Yorkshire pudding was another dish I tried when visiting London and this is one I would recommend. Although, the dish is adequately covered in gravy it is very good; it has a fluffy puff pastry and meat along with mash potatoes. I saw this dish, along with fish-n-chips, usually consumed with beer as a beverage. Ironically most of England’s most popular dishes are those served in pubs.