British vs foreign foods?

I found this article rather strange, from the UK Daily Telegraph

Classic British dishes dying out
By Daily Telegaph Reporter
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 14/07/2008

Traditional British dinners are being replaced by 'foreign quick fixes' as they take too long to cook.

Classic dishes such as toad in the hole, bubble and squeak and hot pots are dying out are diasppearing from the family dinner table, a survey shows.

Researchers found almost one in three people now opt for pizza or spaghetti bolognese at the majority of meal times.

And more than a quarter of adults polled named Italian as their favourite type of food.

However, not all British classics are disappearing as the research found that roast dinners and jacket potatoes are still firm favourites.

Kathryn Race from The Potato Council, which carried out the poll, said: "It's a shame to see that some of our country's best loved foods are no longer seen on UK dinner tables - they are our heritage and something we need to keep.

"However, we are travelling the world more than ever now, and it seems we are trying to recreate the dishes we sample abroad once we get back home.

"Foreign foods and the ingredients needed to make those dishes are also readily available in supermarkets making it far easier to cook them back at home, although this is, it seems, at a price."

The study of 2,000 people found that 82 per cent think traditional British meals are disappearing from our dinner tables.

More than a quarter say they haven't got time to make proper British meals and another quarter simply prefer foreign alternatives. But three quarters of people think we should make more of an effort to bake traditional foods at meals times.

The research showed: Top foods for dinner 50 years ago
# 1. Stew and dumplings
# 2. Liver and onions
# 3. Toad in the hole
# 4. Bubble and squeak
# 5. Hot pot
# 6. Jacket Potatoes
# 7. Oxtail soup
# 8. Faggots
# 9. Gammon
# 10. Cornish pasties

Top foods for dinner now:
# 1. Roast dinner
# 2. Jacket potatoes
# 3. Spaghetti Bolognese
# 4. Pizza
# 5.Salad
# 6. Lasagne
# 7. Curry
# 8. Fish and chips
# 9. Pasta bake
# 10. Stir fry

What a biased article. When there is so much wonderful food available, why would anybody go back to eating bland stodgy so-called traditional British fare?

To describe other food as foreign, when the United Kingdom has people from all over the world living there is just arrogant.

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