In about two weeks, Lee and I are coming. Worrying. I've taken her to Italy three times, and France once. Now she's got to adapt to English cooking, and locals whose bad English has no excuse!

England, you have been warned

As long as he doesn't stray over the border into Wales............

Cheers - Phil

Should've come to Scotland

Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 June 2018, 09:43:21 AM
Should've come to Scotland

Wish I could. I'm a quarter haggis myself, and I've never been there. Disgraceful. But time...!

And their where i thinkin it wear gonna be abaht  late Victoriana, la. Dialect eh? what a jape! Does keep the foreign Johnnies on their toes though.

Were dat suposedd to be cockernney ?

I've alerted border force to approaching undesirables, wall going up

IanS

If you pass Brum do wave

Although we might be down in Pembroke again by then, which is far nicer!

What's all this baloney about English cooking. English restaurants are as rare as hen's teeth these days. However you should have no difficulty finding Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese, Lebanese, Moroccan, Italian, Greek, French, Spanish, Turkish, US, Mexican, Chilean, Argentinian, Brazilian or West Indian, and you may even stumble across Hungarian, Austrian, Russian and Scandinavian.

The classic "English Restaurant" is probably Nando's, serving chicken in interesting hot sauces from everywhere except the UK

Mind you can always get a fry up or a roast dinner.

Traditional English food - balti, it were invented in Brum....

Best Indian dishes in the world are made in Brum

Usually from Pakistani-Kasmir end cuisine by people whose families are from Bangladesh, using ingredients from Europe and North Africa.

Now that's proper British for you!

*goes off humming "Curr-rr-y will unite the human race" to the tune of "The Internationale"*

James Nicoll's quote about the English Language could easily be adapted for British cuisine

"The problem with defending the purity of British cuisine is that British cuisine is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow ingredients; on occasion, British cuisine has pursued other cuisines down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new recipes."

 

Goes well with "the British conquered the world in search of a good restaurant"

It's easy to eat well in the civilised parts of England; just not to eat good English food there. I agree, btw, that I've had better Indian and Chinese nosh in the UK than in their countries of origin.