Fish and Chips is Jewish food, and became popular in Britain with the coincidence of a large wave of Dutch Jews arriving in the country and the development of a rail network sufficient to deliver fresh fish anywhere in the country.
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arc99@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYes all those other things are distinctly British. Britain didn’t function in a vacuum and I’m sure there are influences to everything. But if you eat a British pork pie you absolutely know what it is. Same for fish and chips. Same for all those things.
Since we’re comparing to Italy where do you think tomatoes came from? Do you think pasta wasn’t independently invented in many places? Do you think olive oil, or bread, ragus, salted pork etc weren’t also done elsewhere?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
arc99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like I said, Britain didn’t function in a vacuum. Fish and chips is still a uniquely British thing however.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
But it isn’t. Its portuguese.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And if you were to say, for example, that pasta with tomato sauce is an Italian dish, I’d argue it’s not, as pasta was eaten across the whole Europe, and likely first added tomato happened in Britain.
Bolognese sauce with pasta on the other hand would definitely be Italian dish. Do you see the distinction?