Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Mark Thorson wrote:
> > Janet Baraclough wrote:
> >> If you mean, you intend to serve only ingredients grown in Britain,
> >> you can have potatoes and
> >> tomatoes but still no coffee, tea and chocolate.
> >
> > Or black pepper, cinnamon, or brown sugar.
> > Are there beet-sugar refineries in Britain?
> > If not, no white sugar, either.
>
> The same can be said of much of Europe. Just look at the staples of
> European cooking and see how many of them came from the Americas.

An important distinction being whether the line
is drawn on ingredients that were originally from
elsewhere but are produced domestically now vs.
ingredients that have always been produced
domestically. Of course, if it's the latter,
how far back does "always" mean? Prehistoric
times? Roman times? Europeans did not always
have wheat. Heck, if you go back far enough,
they haven't always had any farmed food.