Me: escargot, chocolate covered ants, grasshoppers, raw oysters( foreign or not!). I don't know that many foreign foods. I love sushi, good Mexican food, Masala chicken, German sausage, love Italian anything, love Greek food, no Haggis.
I'm not afraid of it, it's just that some of it doesn't look very appetising to me. I do like one or two foreign foods though. I like spaghetti for a start, that's Italian isn't it?
Really, Andy? I thought us English types are so saturated in foreign foods - our own being so dubious (kidding) - that it would be near impossible to avoid. Or is it different up north, proper food like )
The fish is the Atlantic Wolffish, and 'Woof' is merely a corruption. :) Scarborough of course, because it's a major landing point for catches and has been for many centuries. Sadly it's numbers are dwindling. I found a pic and it's quite a handsome thing.
And that's all there is I'm afraid. No chips at all, even though it may seem blasphemous. There's quite a few names like this in the UK, perhaps the best known of which is 'Rock & Chips', (from the title of the 'Only Fools & Horses' precursor series). I remember asking for that when young and it was popular because it was cheap. But 'rock salmon' is merely a byword for any one of many species of small shark, lots of which are now experiencing pressure on numbers.
Ah, that puts me in mind of the euphemistic 'potato scallop'. 15p when I was a whipper snapper. (Handsome in a Churchillian sort of way, most definately)
Lucia, I guess it's because I like what I'm used to. I remember having spaghetti hoops as a child, so I am familiar with spaghetti. I knew it was Italian when I was about 7 (if not younger), but it didn't make any difference to me where it originally came from. I could see at that young age that it takes all countries to make up the world and I never had any prejudice against any country. Nevertheless, I still have a marked preference for what I'm familiar with whether it's foreign or not. Lol:)
Benedict Arnold 