British Home Cooking Becoming Extinct

[Moozik: The Cure - Play For Today (Live Zürich 2008)]

Ahh, memories. And making me all rather hungry as well. British home cooking becoming extinct.

Traditional British dishes such as toad in the hole and spotted dick could disappear from dining tables by 2021 as households increasingly turn to foreign cuisine, it has been claimed.

New research shows that Britons rarely make dishes such as steak and kidney pie or jam roly-poly from scratch any more, and are far more likely to cook curries and pasta meals from recipes.

The survey by Tesco found that only five per cent of 18-40-year-olds had cooked a spotted dick, compared to 14 per cent of 41-55-year-olds.Simlarly, six per cent of the younger group had made a Beef Wellington compared to 15 per cent of the over-40s.

Forgive me as I drool at my keyboard. Steak & Kidney pie and Toad In The Hole obsolete? Say it ain't so. Mind you, if you do a Flickr search for Toad In The Hole, plenty of people still seem to be making it.