Strange food from Britain….. by Rebecca Portaleone Arianna Zanolli

Porridge Porridge is a dish made by boiling oats or other cereals in water, milk, or both. It is usually served hot in a bowl or dish. The ingredients of porridge are:  100 gr. of rolled oats  salt  cold milk or cream  sugar

Porridge is an example of nutritious, healthy and simple food. We can also find porridge in the traditional story of “Goldilocks and the three bears”.

Black Pudding Traditional British dishes are not so popular nowadays, but if you visit England, Scotland or Wales, you can still have the traditional food. What is black pudding? It looks like a black sausage. It is made from dried pig blood and fat. If we think of “polenta” and “sanguinaccio” we understand that things were not different in Italy.

Haggis is a dish containing sheep's liver, minced with onion, oatmeal, fat, lung, heart, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally simmered in the animal's stomach for approximately three hours. Haggis

PorridgeBlack pudding Haggis These are examples of food people used to eat when life was hard, poor and nothing could be wasted.

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