National dish

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Von Due

Should we ever take up raiding again, your fish&chips are coming with us I tell you. With malt vinegar that is food of the gods.

Reminds me of the time I was living in Holland and working as an Instrumentation Engineer (VAF Instruments BV Dordrecht)

Friday was the fish lunch day in the factory canteen and my second week there I asked one of the canteen cooks if I could have my fish fried because I wasn't impressed with the raw pickled herring my Dutch colleagues were eating.

One of my colleagues who was ex-Dutch Navy and had been to the UK sat beside me and said "You Brits are weird, eating fish and chips out of a newspaper" and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

today being Superbowl Sunday, I'm "noshing" on garlic bagel, onion, capers, fresh dill, with smoked salmon" for lockdown lunch; <me at favorite restaurant after day's sail with 'build your own nosh' and my bride has informed me: I'll B BBQing halibut with sliced marinated red & yellow bellpeppers on the Weber tonight!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

"You Brits are weird, eating fish and chips out of a newspaper" and I replied with a grin "At least we cook the fish first"

Tell me more about your English roast dinner, in you family, how is that prepared? We have a pot roast here, with a pork shoulder, carrots, onions, potatoes, and celery slow cooked. Is that similar?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Tell me more about your English roast dinner, in you family, how is that prepared? We have a pot roast here, with a pork shoulder, carrots, onions, potatoes, and celery slow cooked. Is that similar?

The roast dinners are usually made for a Sunday meal but not always, any day is fine depending on what you fancy.

The meat which can be chicken, beef, pork or lamb etc. is cooked slowly in the oven (don't know for how long because Ann does that).

Next you have your mashed potato (boiled in a pan of water prior to draining then adding milk and butter before mashing) accompanied by roast potatoes which are boiled prior to being coated in vegetable oil then baked in an oven until the outer is nice and crispy.

Next the veg usually consisting of tinned marrowfat peas, mashed turnip, cauliflower, broccli, cabbage and carrots.

Ann makes her own yorkshire puddings and the gravy is made from the juices from the roast meat and some gravy granules.

Hope that is understandable because my forte is making Indian and Chinese curries.

Oh, forgot to mention if we have chicken, we usually have stuffing with it but that comes out of a packet, Ann adding the sausage meat and onions herself.

[les green01]

reginal here be bbq but honest i can't turn any food down growing up in the winter time dad couldnt work cause of the weather so me and him hunted a lot
foods i liked
Texas chilli
Pecan pie which i can't have anymore
Southern fry chicken
crawdads
frog legs

[Rhodes]

Portuguese "Stew" is the translation, but every thing is boiled.

Grilled Sardines

and of course, Cod! One of my favourites, grilled cod with punch potatoes (funny translation of the dish name)

[Eisenwurst]

A Mixed Grill.

Lamb Chop, Pork Chop, Sausage, Steak, Bacon, Liver ( missing in this example replaced with I think Black Pudding - Yuck ), Fried Eggs, Chips, Grilled Tomato, and Fried Onions.

Used to be a Staple menu item just about everywhere, here in Australia. Not anymore due to "Gentrification" of the population.

We're still a young country, so if you discount Vegemite, Lamingtons, Fairy Bread , Meat pies, Chico Rolls.....I don't think we have a national dish, a Mixed Grill would probably come close.

[mapuc]

I may have misunderstod your comment, If this should be the case I apologize.

This thread is about national dishes. A dish which characteristic your country.

Let me give some examples.

Kidney pie -
If someone said to me:

If I say Kidney pie, what would you say ?
I would say Britain/England

If I said Haggis, what would you say ?
I would say Scotland.

In other words

Kidney pie is Britain/England
Haggis is Scotland.

Hope you understand.

Markus