Re: Pudding and pies

Salvatore Volatile wrote:
Alan Jones wrote:
The separation between sweet and savoury foods is of relatively recent origin. Before the Victorian age, the courses of a meal (the "removes") included both:

Ah, that might explain why the mixing of sweet and savoury seems to be near-taboo in present-day British culture, surprising from an American perspective. This applies, for example, to the way the two peoples eat Anglo-American breakfast food: you might see Coop at the Cracker Barrel dipping his jam-covered toast in some runny egg yolk, while such a sight would shock and disgust the British observer, who would be careful to eat his toast only after he had already consumed his eggs 'n' bacon. I understand that in Australia all this is taken a step further: one cannot eat the eggs at the same time as the bacon.

Well, I'm not sure about that. I like bacon and eggs for breakfast when I get it, and I like wiping up the remains of the yolk / white mixture with a piece of bacon. Having said that, I wouldn't actually compose a utensil-load of bacon together with egg bits.

Traditionally, sweet foods, with the exception of honey, jam, or marmalade, are not consumed for breakfast in Australia. Even one of the more popular breakfast cereals, Weet-Bix*, contains very low levels of sugar, and its equivalent competitor, Vita-Brits, has no added sugar.

Recently, Kellog's had a marketing campaign in which Coco-Pops were presented as being nutritionally virtuous.

* I have won money wagering that a person cannot eat (and fully swallow) a dry Weet-Bick in less than 5 minutes. No lubricants of any sort are permitted.

Stupot
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