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Where has English cuisine gone?
No, not just the bangers and the mash.
Why go to Chinese restaurants
To spend your hard-earned cash?
Has bread and butter pudding gone?
And the apple crumbles, too?
Where’s the tasty liver and bacon
And delicious home-made stew?
When did you last see emblazened
On a restaurant in the street:
“We serve only British cooking here –
Fresh veg, and local meat”?
The third Italian restaurant’s here –
You might think that this is good,
But my Italian friends all tell me
“We want to sample British food.”
When I speak of British cooking
I don’t speak of “mean-cuisine” –
A tiny piece of something strange
On a plate that’s far too clean.
I mean the kind of meals my mother made –
They’re the meals beyond compare.
The sort of meals worth waiting for
Made with love by one who cared.
Please be proud of your British cooking –
For other nations think it’s great.
Thank God for lovely British beef
With Yorkshire Pudding on our plates.
Copyright 2007