Half of today's teenagers have never sampled the delights of a pork pie

 

Last updated at 02:34am on 5th July 2007 Comments (12)

So good - and yet so few today have tasted it

 

 

They eat burgers with relish, think pizzas are topping and know a chicken tikka masala from a lamb rogan josh.

But more than half of today's teenagers have never sampled the delights of a Melton Mowbray pork pie, it is claimed.

 

A similar proportion have yet to experience the joys of steak and kidney, while Devon clotted cream, faggots, haggis and Caerphilly cheese are also a mystery to them.

 

Instead they are filling up on ready meals, fast food and takeaway curries, according to a study into the eating habits of today's youth.

 

The changes in their diet have been driven by an increase in the number of working mothers combined with the demise of school meals cooked on the premises and home economics classes.

 

The fact that many traditional foods would raise a red flag among nutritionists and dieticians could also be a factor. Sainsbury's, which compiled the study, is launching a national campaign to save both national and regional delicacies from extinction.

 

It says the traditional foods which are most endangered include haggis, faggots, colcannon, which is made from mashed potato and kale or cabbage, and Arbroath Smokies, a Scottish smoked haddock which can trace its origins back to the 1800s.

 

Regional foods already on the brink of extinction include Richmond eel pie, a puff pastry filled with chunks of boiled eel, onions and egg. Just 2.2 per cent have ever eaten it.

 

And only 4.1 per cent have tasted a Bedfordshire Clanger - a complete meal encased in suet, savoury at one end with vegetables and gravy, and sweet at the other with homemade custard.

I don't think I wont to have kidney.

 

I cook some different stuff sometimes.

Oh yea Pork pies are real yummy!!