Sunday, August 22, 2010

FOOD by Hannah

Seeing as how I am the best food critic in this family I'm going to write a post on the good food and the lack thereof and the bad food in England. One of the major differences between american and english food is the english are lacking corn syrup. In basiclly everything, the ketchup, the soda, the candy all things that having corn syrup should be a nessesity.

Now lets talk about candy, first mistake I made was in thinking that milky ways were really milky ways so here's the confusing part, what americans call milky ways, the british call mars bars(which of course just happen to be lacking the good kind of chocolate) and what americans call 3 musketeers, the british call milky ways. Also very close in name are milky bars, one of the few things that england has food wise that america is lacking. Basiclly it's a bar of white chocolate like a hersheys bar but better. Now that is some good stuff, another candy that England has that we are unfamiliar to is minstrals which are basiclly like huge m&ms. Unfortunatley they do not have laffy taffy or starburst jellybeans in England. 8( :( There is also a major difference between their starburst, skittles, doritoes and other things similar, the taste is off here, it's not as good, probably again from the lack of corn syrup. Another huge difference between american and british food is their so called grape flavoring they use currant instead which is some time of a berry and is pretty nasty if you ask me. So basiclly they dont have any grape flavoring and so I don't get any grape soda here, which of course happens to be one of my favorite things in the whole world!!!! Though they do have an intresting drink here called appletizer which is basiclly like sparkling cider but they serve it everywhere like you would have your regular coke or pepsi drinks and then you would have your appletizer which is actually quite good.

Oh yeah and of course how could I possibly forget the difference between our ketchup's? While american ketchup is a sugar filled delicacy in England it is quite bitter and lacking in comparison. And yeah I could probably write a lot more about their food and stuff but writing this out has started to feel a bit to much like homework so just know this, if you expexted me to come here and fall in love with their food, you were dead wrong in this contest America wins. :P