FOOD WE EAT By Charlie Preece

CORNISH PASTIES Here in Cornwall, one of our most traditional foods is the Cornish pasty. A pasty is basically a piece of thick pastry wrapped around a filling of some kind and then crimped at the edge. Around the 18 th or 19 th century, tin miners started taking pasties down into the mines with them. The pasties usually had a sweet end and a savory end: the sweet end was jam and the savory end was a mix of beef, potato, onion and turnip. The miners held the pasty by the crimp (or crust) and, after they had finished eating, threw it down the mineshaft. This was because their hands were very dirty and possibly covered in arsenic, a very poisonous substance. There are now many flavours of pasty; cheese and onion, steak and blue cheese; reggae reggae chicken and bacon, mushroom, cheese and chicken. Despite this, people still argue about whether these are proper Cornish pasties or not. The Cornish are very proud of the original pasty (beef, potato, onion and turnip) and they want it to stay that way.

PIZZA Pizza is actually an Italian dish that is really popular in England and America. The pizza base is like bread, but stretched out over a circular tray. The pizza is then covered in tomato purée, mozzarella cheese and other toppings (listed below) and baked in an oven. The mozzarella melts and goes stringy. It tastes amazing (pizza is one of my favourite foods). Different flavours of pizza you can get are listed below: Cheese and tomato Pepperoni Ham, mushroom and olive Ham and pineapple Spicy chicken (These are only a few of the hundreds of different pizza toppings)

FISH AND CHIPS Terribly unhealthy but tastes brilliant. Fried potato slices and fish covered in batter or breadcrumbs. There are over 11,000 fish and chip shops in England but where the dish came from is not very clear. The Portuguese gave us the fried fish, the Belgians invented chips, but it was in 1860 when a 13-year-old Jewish boy came up with the idea of putting them together. By 1910 there were more than 25,00 fish and chip shops across the country. By the 1920’s, another 10,000 had been built. Nowadays, there are a lot less fish and chip shops, because other takeaways have become more popular. There are Chinese and Indian takeaways, burgers and hot-dogs, but the one of the only truly British takeaway meals is fish and chips.

ICE – CREAM Ice-cream is a hugely popular holiday treat made of semi-frozen sugar, milk or cream and flavouring. Different traditional flavours include chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and mint-choc-chip. Here in Cornwall, we are very lucky to have Roskilly’s, a dairy farm that makes delicious ice-cream from their cow’s milk. They make flavours like raspberry, gooseberry, blackcurrants and cream and mango and passion fruit. These are some facts about ice cream: On average, Americans eat 48 pints of ice-cream every year per person. The biggest ice cream sundae in history was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1988, and weighed over 24 tons. Ice cream was sold to the general public for the first time at a French café in % of Americans say they eat ice cream in bed. 3% eat ice cream in the bathtub. Waste from Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream company was supposedly given to local farmers in Vermont to feed to their pigs. Apparently the pigs like all the flavours except Mint Oreo.

A Sunday roast is a meal had on Sundays to celebrate the Christian belief that God made the world and everything in it. The Creation Story (Genesis) is about how God created every single living thing and when he created it. On the first day God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night." On the second day he created an area to separate the waters and called it "sky”. On the third day God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." He also created vegetation (plants and trees). On day four he created the sun, moon, and the stars to light to the earth and to separate the day and the night. These would also be used as signs to mark seasons, days, and years. On day five God created every living creature in the seas and every bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life. On day six he created the animals to live on the earth. God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve). He blessed them as well and gave them every animal and the whole earth to rule over and care for. On the seventh day, God rested and watched over the world. This is why we have roast dinners on Sundays. We celebrate the fact that God had finished creating the earth. As it’s a day of rest, lots of shops close too. Roasts usually include potatoes, carrots, broccoli, gravy and some sort of meat. This could be pork, chicken, lamb or beef.

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