Ann likes fish and chips. What is your favorite meal at home? Have you eaten food from another country? Here is some information about some kinds of foods you might eat.

Dumplings are eaten in different ways around the world. Chinese jiaozi, Italian ravioli, Jewish kreplach and Polish pierogi are kinds of dumplings filled meat, cheese, or vegetables.

Pizza—an international favorite came from the city of Naples, Italy about 700 years ago. Pizza is the Italian word for pie, so you don’t need to say pizza pie.

Hamburger was first called Hamburger steak. Later, people just called them hamburgers. The hamburger was named after the city of Hamburg, Germany. Frankfurters were named after the city of Frankfurt, an American selling cooked frankfurters called them hot dogs because they looked like a kind of small dog.

Ice-cream cones were first sold at the World’s Fair in St. Louis Missouri, in the USA, in 1904. A scoop of ice cream was put into a cone. You eat the ice cream, then you eat the cone—nothing left to throw away. Sandwiches were named after the Earl of Sandwich, a rich man in England in the 1700s. While he was playing cards, he asked a servant to bring him two pieces of bread with a piece of meat between them. This was the first sandwich.

People in different countries have their favorite food. Italians like to eat pizza. Indians like to eat hot food. Japanese like to eat fish, but they don’t often cook it.

In England, people like to eat fish and chips. They usually buy them at a fish and chip shop. They put them in paper bags, and take them home or to their workplace. Sometimes they eat them in the park or on the road.

The most popular food in the world is American fast food. If you go to some important cities in the world, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips.

Fish and chips and Chinese takeaway (外卖) food are very popular in England. But they are less popular in the USA. The Americans eat takeaway food too, like chicken. But the most popular takeaway food is the hamburger. It looks like bread with meat and vegetables in it. Ham is a kind of pork (猪肉), but the hamburger doesn’t have any pork in it. The beef is inside a kind of cake hamburgers. They are delicious. They are also popular in England and Australia.