Culture of England The same period saw a similar growth in a wide range of other cuisines (albeit not always served authentically), including dishes such as Italian spaghetti bolognese, lasagne and pizza, Greek moussaka, feta and taramasalata, Turkish doner and shish kebabs, Middle Eastern hummus, Chinese stir fry, Thai Green curry, and Tex-Mex Chilli con carne, tacos and guacamole. Light meals and snacks include green salads served with salad cream, cauliflower cheese, macaroni cheese, Welsh rarebit, fishcakes, baked potatoes, cheese on toast, beans on toast, mushrooms on toast, spare ribs, Cornish pasties, Scotch eggs, sausage rolls, pork pies, gala pie and bacon sandwiches.
Welsh rarebit this; what is more, Ben Jonson died almost a century before the term Welsh rabbit is first attested. According to the American satirist Ambrose Bierce, the continued use of "rarebit" was an attempt to rationalise the absence of rabbit, writing in his 1911 "Devil's Dictionary": "RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that "ris de veau à la financière" is not the smile of a