Help please?

[Whisk_Luva]

Ok so I got given a piece of RE homework today (Oh joy ) and I have to ask people what they think is British... (like a cup of tea etc) and why they think that....(it can be a very simple reason LOL!)

So people, any help?

Thank you!

[Catty1]

PEAS, the universal vegetable! I have heard that from people who have travelled there, and they said peas were 'served with everything'!

I don't know if they were mushy ones or not.

[Karen]

Afternoon tea - the "English aunts" always had this
Kippers for breakfast - described to me and made me go "ewwwww!"
Fish 'n' chips wrapped in newspaper - I don't know, literary culture references I guess
Stiff upper lip - just a cultural thing I've always associated with being very English
Hats and gloves for fancy ocassions - all media coverage, and English ladies of the elder generation I have known in person, hats (and gloves though less often) were de rigeur for weddings, parties, etc. I ended up, for some reason, holding the hat of my friend's English cousin for practically a whole wedding reception, as she couldn't manage her drink and cigarette AND the big hat, too.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Anytime I hear the word "Queen," I first think of Queen Elizabeth, I suppose because she is well known here.

I also think of colonialism, since Great Britain had many colonies.

I also think of British rock- i.e. the "British Invasion" of the 1960's- The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc.

[Muddy4paws]

British bull dogs!

Fish and chips and mushy peas!

Scones and afternoon tea..

The Royal family

Big ben

Bad weather

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Crumpets with your tea. Something called "clotted cream".

Jack the Ripper! Big Ben! The royal family. Scottland yard. The Bobbies (police here). London Bridge.

[Whisk_Luva]

Jack the Ripper! Big Ben! The royal family. Scottland yard. The Bobbies (police here). London Bridge.

Thanks so far everyone I have till wednesday night so keep them coming

Police here too!

[vinjashira]

Fish and Chips and Full English Breakfast

the two things I miss when I leave UK

[Freedom]

Cream teas, YUM!

Rain, rain, and MORE RAIN, he he he.

More accents in a small area than any place else I've ever visited! I mean British accents -- Cockney, Liverpool, Yorkshire, -- I'm not refering to foreigners' speech.

Yorkshire pudding, with roast beef, SUNDAY dinner, oh to die for!

Tea MUST be made in a pot, none of this pouring water over the tea in the cup or mug. AND when you DO pour it out of the pot, you MUST pour tea until there is some in the saucer. It just isn't full unless it is over the top!

Bangers and mash; and bubble and squeak. Mom made both for us, often!

And something, I think it was called a Farmer's lunch? Bread, cheese, apple, and CHUTNEY! Oh yes, chutney is defininteely British.

And at the hols, the Christmas pud, which you pour brandy over and light it. Is it bread pudding? I'm not even sure, he he! Mom always bought one of them as well. She'd had quite a time finding one over here, often started looking in November; she didn't make it herself.

[Edwina's Secretary]

How strange...my reply disappeared....again then...

Great literature, ladies in large hats, royalty, The Tube, politeness, pubs, having dinner and calling it "High Tea", country estates with lots of sheep, BBC masterpiece theater, London Monuments, Winston Churchill, Lady Edwina Mountbatten...

[sirrahbed]

fancy hats, the Queen, tea & scones, Wedgwood china, rain, 4th of July, polo....

just things I think of when you said "British"

[critter crazy]

Since everyone has already posted most of what I would have, I only have one more to add..................The Beatles!!!!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Oh, and Charles Dicken's The Christmas Carol, and the Tower of London.

[Alysser]

Harry Potter

[Freedom]

History: The British Armada, battle of Trafalgar and Nelson, and 1066 (Mom always made SURE we knew 1066; funny, it never came up on OUR history exams, he he.) Celtic warriors. The Bruce!

Ellie, what does the RE stand for? No one else asked, I must be the only doofus who can't figure it out.