Why doesnt England have its own cultral food?

I cant even say Roast Dinner is British as Im sure many countries eat meat potatoe and veg on a plate and dont call it a roast. Only thing we can claim is fish n chips.. all thats left is a few pastries like pasties. Quite **** really.

Is it salted and boiled?

Good, it's "English" food now.

:x

What foods are they?

If you salt and boil anything it becomes English. Cabbage? Bam, English. Lamb? English. Robert Downey Jr? Where do you think we got Bendaryl Cabbagepatch?

You just have to make it as blaaaaaaaaaaand as possible. So don't overdo the salt. One grain is usually more than sufficient.

This might be bait but just to prove you're wrong:

Pan Haggerty
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies
A traditional Sunday Roast is British - it was traditionally eaten on a Sunday after church services from the 18th Century.
Spotted **** (lol).
Sausage & Mash
Cornish Pasties
Yorkshire puddings
Crumpets
English breakfast
Cottage pie
English Muffins
Bubble and Squeak
Eton Mess
Scotch eggs
Piccalilli
Toad in the hole
Scones
Afternoon tea
Sticky toffee pudding
Shephard's pie...

The list goes on...

We also have Anglo-Indian dishes such as chicken-tikka masala.

This is also not mentioning cultural dishes that are native to the other home nations (i.e. NI, Wales, and Scotland).

Lol, nice troll.

This might be bait but just to prove you're wrong:

Pan Haggerty
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies
A traditional Sunday Roast is British - it was traditionally eaten on a Sunday after church services from the 18th Century.
Spotted **** (lol).
Sausage & Mash
Cornish Pasties
Yorkshire puddings
Crumpets
English breakfast
Cottage pie
English Muffins
Bubble and Squeak
Eton Mess
Scotch eggs
Piccalilli
Toad in the hole
Scones
Afternoon tea
Sticky toffee pudding
Shephard's pie...

The list goes on...

We also have Anglo-Indian dishes such as chicken-tikka masala.

This is also not mentioning cultural dishes that are native to the other home nations (i.e. NI, Wales, and Scotland).

Facetiousness aside, 5 of the list you provided are literally what I described.

Also "picalili" is not a British dish, it's a *******ization of a traditional Indian dish.

I'd also argue several of the other things on your list are variants of the same dish, and the idea that "afternoon tea" is somehow a "dish" is absurd. Plus, the drink of tea originates in India and China - you now, the former that we colonised partly to take advantage of this, and the latter that Britain maintained lucrative trade connections with throughout much of it's history.

Facetiousness aside, 5 of the list you provided are literally what I described.

Also "picalili" is not a British dish, it's a *******ization of a traditional Indian dish.

I'd also argue several of the other things on your list are variants of the same dish, and the idea that "afternoon tea" is somehow a "dish" is absurd. Plus, the drink of tea originates in India and China - you now, the former that we colonised partly to take advantage of this, and the latter that Britain maintained lucrative trade connections with throughout much of it's history.

P.S. I don't think you even know what "afternoon tea" is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)#Afternoon_tea

A meal is not a food, nor is it a dish.

I'm aware of what it is, but tea is Indian or Chinese, versions of foods identical or near identical to scones have existed in many cultures as the basic idea of a quickbread that is made without yeast is not uncommon, and sandwiches are of debatable origin but it can be almost universally agreed that they're definitely not uniquely originating in England or restricted to England in modern forms of food. Also most modernly consumed pastries originated in continental Europe.

Like, as a concept it's fine, but trying to suggest any aspect of it is purely an English invention and that it isn't simply a combination of foodstuffs co-opted from it's colonies for the benefit of the imperialists is silly.

Watching British people try and ascribe to themselves some greater meaning and culture on the basis of their imperial acquisitions in years previous is like watching Americans puff up their chests because they're from Boston which is FOUR HUNDRED years old, when there are many cities in the Middle East which have been continually inhabited for millenia (until the aforementioned American's imperialism desotryed the geopoltiical stability in the pursuit of unsustainable resources and cheap political power plays, and to prop up it's failing manufacturing industries through contrived wars).

It's just so...déclassé. Have some self respect. Jeez.

So what you're basically saying is I cannot be proud of where I come from? Okay, thanks.

I'm asking a question to try and understand your argument - I didn't suggest you were arguing for it.

My argument is that you can't call something that is a product of colonialism, taken and co-opted from a culture which has cultivated that practice, convention, or whatever for often thousands of years, and claim that it is your own culture's.

There's no reason you can't enjoy it. But don't go around trumpeting how it's quintessentially British and and example of the heights of British culture.

I mean...most of modern Britain, culture or otherwise, is attributable to the Roman Empire anyway.