The Friday Five

[dizzojay]

1. What are your top 5 favourite foods?

• Anything with Cheese, especially a real good old-fashioned, extra mature, blow-your-socks-off strong cheddar


• Anything with chocolate (milk or white)


• traditional British fish and chips


• Jacket (baked) potato with cheese and baked beans


• Hot meat pie – steak and ale or chicken and mushroom

2. Is there something similar between them?

Yes, they’re all unhealthy! :D

3. Can you cook them yourself?

I can knock out a Jacket potato without too much drama, but beyond that, nope!

4. Pick one, and tell us why it is so special.

I’m going to have to go for Fish and chips.  I think fish and chips is a national institution that is hardwired into most British people’s psyches.

Fun fact: Fish and chips was one of the only food products that wasn’t rationed in the UK during the second world war, and that was because the ingredients of fish and chips (eg: cod and potatoes) were very plentiful with the UK being a rainy and damp island nation, so their productuon wasn't too disrupted by the war.  Also, the government believed that taking the people's fish and chips away would be one morale blow too far. They actually believed it could have jeopardised the war effort! 

From a personal point of view, Thursday was the day my Mum got paid, and so Thursday evenings Mum, Dad and me went to do the weekly food shop and always came home with fish and chips, so it’s something that is very evocative for me, and it never changes.  The fish and chips I eat now tastes exactly the same as it did forty years ago.  Those delicious thick, soft, fluffy chips that only a chip shop can produce, with a sprinkling of salt and vinegar and the crunchy, salty batter combined with the moist cod is just to die for.  Add in a scrumptious chip butty with soft white, thickly buttered bread, and you have the food porn to rival them all!

5. Have you eaten your recommended servings of 2 fruit and 5 vegetables today?

No.  Today I’ve managed  a glass of orange juice a handful of green grapes, a banana, a couple of dried apricots and absolutely zero vegetables!

Comments

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

I LOVE fish & chips covered in vinegar! It's like heaven! The closest I've had to your "home town" fish & chips are the ones in Fake!England (as I lovingly call it [with all the other countries getting a "fake!" in their names too]) & that was like 10 plus years ago! T_T I wish I could have some right now! XD

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It really is delicious! I hope you get a chance to come across to the UK and taste it one day!

[casey28.livejournal.com]

I love your devotion to fish and chips! It's amazing that it tastes the same as 40 years ago. :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It's a very classic and traditional British meal!

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Fish and chips sound so yummy! I'm almost scared to admit this, but in our two trips to England, we only had fish and chips once. It was a terrible tourist trap pub and they weren't good. I have to try it again!

I love jacket potatoes with baked beans! What cheese do you use?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

No, to have 'real' fish and chips, you have to go to a proper 'chip shop', not a restaurant. If you ever come over to the UK again, I promise, I will take you for proper fish and chips and I promise you will love it!
For me, cheese has to be a lovely mature cheddar. Really 'blow-your-socks-off' strong!

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

I have to giggle with the fruit/vegetables answer. It is so hard for me to get those 2 food groups into my meals. I have yogurt every week day with a cup of fruit, other than that, my fruits are my OJ in the morning. I'm trying to work in to having a fruit smoothie every day, but haven't gotten to that point yet. Hopefully some day it will become a habit.

As for veggies?? I'm where you are. They are scarce. If I don't have a meal where I cook with peppers, then I usually don't get my vegetables in. I'm not keen on most all vegetables. Peppers though, I love and would cook with them in every meal if I cooked every meal. I like salads, but I have to be in the mood for them, and really only like to eat them if someone else makes it, or I get one from a restaurant or store. It's all still a work in progress and will most likely ALWAYS be a work in progress.