双语：这10种食物的发源地让你意想不到

　　羊角面包来自法国，黑森林蛋糕来自黑森林，咖喱鸡来自印度，披萨来自意大利，德国泡菜来自德国。果真如此吗?

　　真相可能跟你想的并不一样。

　　1. Haggis 肉馅羊肚

　　Scotland’s national dish was in fact first recorded in an English cookbook, the fourteenth-century ‘Liber Cure Cocorum’. Nor were the Scots the first to have the brainwave of putting hideous offal in a stomach and then eating it: some gastronomic historians argue that an ur-Haggis was created by the Romans in order to feed their troops.

　　事实上，苏格兰国菜肉馅羊肚最早记录在14世纪的英国食谱《Liber Cure Cocorum》上。苏格兰人也不是最先想到将动物内脏放进羊肚来吃的人：一些美食历史学家争论说，肉馅羊肚是罗马人为了给士兵填饱肚子发明的。

　　2. Croissants 羊角面包

　　Not French, but Viennese. Indeed there is a (kind of dubious) story that their crescent shape harks back to a triumph over the Turks. Is nothing sacré?

　　发明羊角面包的不是法国人，而是维也纳人。关于羊角面包的月牙形状，据说跟战胜土耳其人有关，不过这故事可信度存疑。连羊角面包的起源都能出错，还有什么是值得相信的呢?

　　3. Chicken tikka masala 咖喱鸡

　　This one is contested by Indian chefs, but a Glaswegian restaurateur called Ahmed Aslam Ali claims he invented Britain’s favorite curry in the 1970s.

　　据说，咖喱鸡是印度大厨发明的，但是苏格兰格拉斯哥一位名为艾哈迈德·阿斯拉姆·阿里的餐馆老板宣称，英国人最爱的这道咖喱菜是他在上世纪70年代发明的。

　　4. Pizza 披萨

　　Funnily enough, the Italians were not the first to embellish bread with toppings. The ancient Greeks put oils, herbs and cheese on their flatbreads, and while this concoction didn’t include tomato, neither do modern “white pizzas”.

　　有趣的是，意大利人并不是最早在面包上加馅料的人。古希腊人会在面饼上放油、蔬菜和奶酪，不过古希腊人的“披萨”上不放番茄，和现代的“白披萨”一样。

　　5. Tea 茶

　　Nineteenth-century Britain somehow contrived to make a national drink of a shrub produced on the other side of the world. Tea was first brewed in China, and is for the most part still produced in Asia.

　　不知何故，19世纪的英国人把产于世界另一端的灌木变成了自己的民族饮品。茶最早是在中国发明的，而且时至今日大多数茶叶依然出产自亚洲。