To the uninformed(不了解情况的) palate(味觉；口味), pindakaas(荷兰花生酱) is simply peanut butter. But some Somalis in Leicester, a city in the English Midlands, prefer the Dutch product. Jars of imported pindakaas can be bought in corner shops around the run-down(破旧的，失修的) St Matthew’s housing estate, near the city centre. So can Dutch oatmeal, Dutch vanilla sugar and condiment(调味品)s such as kruiden ketchup and romige fritessaus.
对于不熟悉这种味道的人来说，pindakaas 不过是花生酱而已。但英格兰中部城市莱斯特的一些索马里人却偏爱这种荷兰产品。在市中心附近破旧的圣马修住宅区周边的街角小店，可以买到进口的罐装 pindakaas。同样能买到的还有荷兰燕麦片、荷兰香草糖，以及 kruiden ketchup（香料番茄酱）和 romige fritessaus（奶油蛋黄酱）等调味品。
The Somalis of St Matthew’s developed a taste for(养成对……的喜好) such foods in the Netherlands, where many were refugee(难民)s. They gained Dutch citizenship then migrated to Britain under EU freedom-of-movement rules(自由流动规则). They are part of a large, diverse population of ethnic-minority Europeans in the country. Often overlooked(被忽视的), this population challenges British assumption(假设，想当然的看法)s about immigration and Europe.
圣马修的索马里人是在荷兰养成对这些食物的喜好的，他们中许多人在荷兰曾是难民。他们获得荷兰国籍后，依据欧盟自由流动规则移居英国。他们属于英国一个庞大而多元的少数族裔欧洲人群体。这个群体常被忽视，却挑战着英国人对移民和欧洲的固有看法。
The Migration Observatory(牛津大学移民观察站), a think-tank(智库) at Oxford University, estimates that some 800,000 ethnic-minority(少数族裔的) people in Britain hold EU passports. Most come from “old” European countries, such as France, Italy and the Netherlands, rather than the “new” countries that joined the union after 2003, such as Lithuania and Poland. Young Western Europeans in Britain are startlingly(令人吃惊地) diverse (see chart).
牛津大学智库“移民观察站”估计，英国约有80万少数族裔持有欧盟护照。他们大多来自法国、意大利、荷兰等“老牌”欧洲国家，而非2003年后加入欧盟的立陶宛、波兰等“新”成员国。英国的年轻西欧人构成之多元令人惊叹（见图表）。