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03/08/2008: "British ethnic cooking being replaced by imports"
Traditional British dishes such as toad in the hole and spotted dick could disappear from dining tables by 2021 as households increasingly turn to foreign cuisine, it has been claimed.
New research shows that Britons rarely make dishes such as steak and kidney pie or jam roly-poly from scratch any more, and are far more likely to cook curries and pasta meals from recipes.
The survey by Tesco found that only five per cent of 18-40-year-olds had cooked a spotted dick, compared to 14 per cent of 41-55-year-olds. 71 per cent and 62 per cent of under-40s had made spaghetti bolognese or curry, respectively.
[ Although much of English cooking is disgusting, not all of it is, and they're losing out on knowledge passed on between generations that gives them a path through life instead of a random, baffling array of meaningless choices. This is not to say that we are against curry or spaghetti bolognese, but that these "convenience recipes" are replacing real family structures, real culture, real knowledge and real interaction with other human beings. ]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/ncook108.xml