Brits bash American food, pour lemonade into beer

[KurtNYC]

I was in Prague and 3 British tourists sat down at the next table during lunch. They asked how the food was and I said fine. My father, for whatever reason, said the portions were small even though he didn't finish what they brought. So the Brits start in about American "Supersize" food and they say "oh American food (sneer): hot dogs"

The waiter, a Czech, is loving it. I am often not sure when Brits just want to enjoy some banter and when they are actually going off so I let them run for a while. But when they start talking about British food being good I had to say something, "You think our FOOD is bad? You should see our foreign policy!"

Stunned they paused, so I finish with, "oh yeah, it's YOUR foreign policy too."

The waiter is now in heaven. The Brits are stumped. They invented this language but suddenly haven't a thing to say in it.

"mack donald's pfft" says one of the Brits finally.

"And at least we don't ruin perfectly good beer by pouring lemonade into it," I add (they call it a 'shandy'; it's terrible).

"KFC" says Brit number 3.

"Hey, It's finger lickin good" I say with a smile.

And our little discussion ends. Later I overhear a Romanian woman telling an American *-supporter that invading Iraq was "stupid."

[billyskank]

1. They were being assholes

[Political_Junkie]

2. Oh, yes, I love it!

:yourock:

[Aiptasia]

3. Yep, just looking to pick a fight

And I like shandy's...

But i'd agree with a lot of people, English cuisine is tripe, and i've been to London. They eat a lot of curry there for obvious reasons, there's only so much kidney pie you can stand.

[DS1]

6. Yawn, jump on the British food bandwagon

:eyes:

[billyskank]

7. Only one good contribution to world cuisine from Britain

The chip.

[Kellanved]

9. what makes it British?

:shrug:

[billyskank]

13. I thought they were invented here

I must admit, my source for that info was one of Kevin Kline's lines in A Fish Called Wanda.... :dunce:

Anyway, a little googling suggests that the chip was actually invented in France. At first I kept getting references to George Crum, who apparently invented the potato chip 150 years ago, but that's referring to what we call here crisps...

[McKenzie]

15. I shouldn't rise to the bait lol...but

Cullen Skink, stovies, haggis and neeps (ok, acquired taste!), black bun, jugged hare, Arbroath Smokies (protected name under EU law and utterly divine) and so on.

But these are Scottish...I'm not being an apologist for English cooking here...they can keep their jellied eels and their mushy peas.

Yours in jest.

[Benhurst]

17. Which actually started out as

frites from (gasp!) France.

[billyskank]

19. Yes, I noticed

my bad :dunce:

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. What's a Pims?

[no name no slogan]

5. They're being jerks

And an aside about British "lemonade": it's not like the American kind-- it's more like Sprite or 7-Up in reality. It's clear in color (or "colour"), and doesn't have any pulpy bits in it.

And Shandys are not half bad, especially on a hot day. :)

[KurtNYC]

11. That was my impression but I have seen Brits

needle each other for hours and seem to enjoy it.

The shandy is not my thing but I threw it in mainly for the Czech since they take their beer pretty seriously.

[McKenzie]

8. may I apologise for their ignorance?

They're obviously uninformed if they start making snide comments without even trying to ascertain where you stand first of all.

Sorry, but we're not all as ignorant as the specimens you met.

[KurtNYC]

16. I was surprised that they didn't seem to have come backs once

I started to shoot back.

[no name no slogan]

10. ...and British "cuisine" is based largely on a dare, IMHO.

The only reason the British obtained an empire was to escape the lousy British CUISINE!

Just look at what the conquered: India (GREAT food), the West Indies (KICKASS food), the Americas (Good food), etc.

I used to work in a pub in London back in the early 90s. Every day, they made Steak and Kidney pies for lunch. KIDNEYS! They stunk so bad that we had to soak them overnight in Draught Bass JUST TO KILL THE URINE STENCH. And even that didn't do the trick completely. And then people ate them. I used to hate doing the wash-up after lunch, because you often got to scrub the kidney pot, which made you wretch, it smelled so damn bad.

If ANYBODY should not be bragging about cuisine, it's the Brits.

[DS1]

18. Hey Brainiac

You're saying the Brits colonized America for the food? Have you actually thought that statement out?

Jesus Christ on a kebab

[WMliberal]

12. i had a friend who went abroad and learned a new drink

"the 9/11" a flaming shot of jack daniels dropped into a tall glass of budweiser. basically a boilermaker.

i think that tops the "irish car bomb" as offensive.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

14. Lived in Chester for almost 2 years

The "salsa" at the "Mexican" restaurant was catsup.

Say no more.

[blindpig]

20. May the Lord have mercy on the people of England

for the terrible food these people must eat.

I mean, really.

[billyskank]

21. I eat great food

but if there's any mercy coming from the Lord, erm, I won't say no. :D

[blindpig]

24. twas a reference

to Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Opening lyrics to the Invocation, I believe. As sung by Theodore Bikel.

[noonwitch]

22. Let them go home to their steak and kidney pie, then

Or pickled eels. Those british have quite a national cuisine, althoug I am partial to fish and chips, loaded with malt vinegar and salt.

[Aiptasia]

23. The only eel I like

is Unagi... smothered in sweet sauce.

[roguevalley]

25. I adore Britain but when I used to visit during the eighties, I thought

I would starve to death. However, British breakfasts cannot be beat.