Slashfood Ate (8): Foods the Brits export but don't eat

by Andrew Barrow (Subscribe to Andrew Barrow's posts)
Posted May 20th 2006 4:27PM
Filed under: British Isles, Trends, Newspapers, Slashfood Ate

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According to this great article from last weeks Guardian us Brits are ignoring some of our most exciting native foods. Not only do we ignore them but we export them overseas for others to enjoy.

Eight foods that need a appreciating in the UK

Pilchards - did you know pilchards and sardines are the same fish? Sardines are the babies, any longer than 15cm and they become pilchards.
Hemp - in hot demand as a source of essential fatty acids. The US is the biggest market because they can't grow it due to the visual similarity between hemp and cannabis.
Spider Crabs - spiky shells... huge claws... messy to eat... the British aren't into that.
Chicken Feet - after my experience of these in the back streets of old Shanghai I can see why we want to shove these over to Hong Kong and mainland China!
Pigs Trotters - had these in St John; can't really rave that much...
Megrim - a flat fish found around the British coast. Never heard of it myself which might explain why 1000 tonnes a month goes to Italy and Spain
Langoustines - now these I do appreciate but we export 20,000 tonnes to Europe every year.
Razor Fish - in huge demand in Europe and the Far East

Tags: british food, british food exports, BritishFood, BritishFoodExports, food and drink, FoodAndDrink

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5-20-2006 @ 10:28PM

Camille Bauman said...

I grew up on a farm and my mother raised chickens. She grew up during the depression and learned not to waste anything, especially food.
She would boil an old stewing hen for hours and make dumplings to go with the fragrant broth. She would eat the chicken feet and leave a neat little row of toenails on the edge of her plate. I thought everyone did that till I grew up. She even broke the bones and dug out the cooked marrow with a toothpick to eat.

5-21-2006 @ 1:33AM

Stephen Browne said...

Actually, hemp and marijuana are one and the same. The only difference in the cannabis used for commercially sold hemp seeds is that it has a psychoactive chemical content of 1% or less. The cannabis plant itself is illegal in the US, which is why industrial hemp cannot be grown here.

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