Traditional food in Britain

Fill in the missing words People in the UK usually have breakfast, lunch and dinner at home. All our meals are less formal than years ago. Most families try to have at least one meal a day together, but today members of a busy family may all eat at different times. Snacking is very popular, as is eating meals in front of the television.The English national meals, fish and chipsand roast dinners, are also the traditional ones. The stereotype is fish and chips served as a take-away meal wrapped in newspaper. However, wrapping food in newspaper is now banned under EU hygiene regulations. Fish and chips is a balanced meal of carbohydrate (chips), protein (fish), and fats (in the batter around the fish and in vegetable oils). Sprinkled with lots of salt and vinegar, and red or brown sauce, it lacks dietary fibre and some vitamins so it is not recommended that you eat it every day. Roast meat (pork,beef, lamb) is usually served with boiled or roast potatoes, peas, Brussels sprouts, carrots, Yorkshire pudding and, of course, gravy. Gravy is made by taking the fat and juices from the cooked roast meat and mixing them with flour and vegetable stock and perhaps some gravy browning. This is mixed together into a liquid, brought slowly to the boil, seasoned and then poured over the meat. It is quite unlike any omáčka you will have tasted. Yorkshire puddings are also made with flour and fat and are like hollow crispy buns. Tikka masalais said to be the nation’s most eaten meal today. Chicken tikka masala, one of the most popular Indian dishes in the world, is covered with a tomato gravy with cream or coconutcream and various spices. Fast food burgers and sugary drinks are causing havoc with the health of young people. A recent campaign to improve food in schools and ban the dreaded fizzy drinks, chips and ‘turkey twizzlers’ was run by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliverand has gone from a television programme to government policy. Obesity in children is, however, increasing and the nation is in denial about the problem. Where else can you go and hear a very overweight person order for themselves “A TRIPLE burger, LARGE fries, a DOUBLE chocolate ice cream…and a diet coke”? Watch the video and summarise the information you get in your own words