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BRITISH REPRESENTATION

The United Kingdom has one of the world's largest music industries today, with many British musicians having had an

impact on modern music. Britain has had an impact on popular music disproportionate to its size, due to its

linguistic and cultural links with many countries, particularly the United States and many of its former colonies like Australia, South Africa, and Canada. The British Invasion, led by The Beatles, helped to secure

British performers a major place in development of pop and rock music.

The Beatles have been the inspiration for many ‘boy bands’ of the modern day including Oasis; Arctic Monkeys, One

Direction, Westlife and many others.

MUSIC

British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes

and one other vegetable. The most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include fish and chips, pies like the Cornish pasty, trifle and roasts dinners. Some of our main

dishes have strange names like Bubble & Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole.

The staple foods of Britain are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of our dishes are based on these

foods.

Other meal dishes include; Cottage Pie, Shepard's Pie, Cumberland Sausages, Yorkshire Puddings, Ploughman's

Lunch and of course a good old fashioned English Breakfast!

Some desserts would include Apple Crumble, Semolina pudding, Spotted Dick and The Victoria Sponge.

FOOD

1762: The sandwich was invented in England.

We have a town named Sandwich in the south of England. John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich invented a small meal that could be eaten with one hand while he continued his

nonstop gambling.

Worcestershire Sauce (Worcester Sauce)

1837 John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England started manufacturing Worcester Sauce (Worcestershire).

Worcester sauce was originally an Indian recipe, brought back to Britain by Lord Marcus Sandys, ex-Governor of Bengal. He asked two chemists, John Lea and William Perrins, to make up a batch of sauce from his recipe.

INTERESTING FACTS

The main drink of Britain is Tea. Britain is a tea-drinking nation. Every day we drink 165 million cups of the stuff and each year around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported.

Britain is also well known for its ale which tends to be dark in appearance and heavier than lager. It is known as

"bitter"

DRINK

CLOTHES

Lots of the ordinary clothes we wear today have a long tradition. The very cold winters in the Crimea in the war of

1853-56 gave us the names of the cardigan and the balaclava. Lord Cardigan led the Light Brigade at the Battle of the Balaclava (1854) A "cardigan" is now a warm woollen short coat with buttons, and a "balaclava" is a woollen hat.

Another British soldier, Wellington, gave his name to a pair of boots. The have a shorter name today - " Wellies "

FACTS