Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'
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Good on them abandoning the dreadful culinary influence of the Brits. A culture so captivated by spices, but one that never thought to get high on their own supply. No no, just keep boiling things
Brits are to spices like dragons are to gold: they only hoard with no way to use it themselves.
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Baked beans are definitely a VERY British thing, along with fry up in general.
Scotch eggs are Scottish in origin, I believe. I bundle them in with British, though a good chunk of Scotland would disagree. Definitely good, either way. Kippers and haggis are also Scottish/northern England traditionally.
As for Greggs... I personally consider them an example of how British food got screwed over by mass production. I've been disappointed most times I've brought from them. I know a lot of people swear by them however.
As for Yorkshire pudding. It's a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]As for Yorkshire pudding. It's a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.
Ah she's an incredible cook and I'm reliably informed that her Yorkshire's are legendary level. As with everything she cooks them from scratch (like even her bread is home cooked on the daily) so they were pleasant alright.
I do find her gravy a bit thin myself (again she does it from scratch like some crazy woman). I like my gravy thick AF and have no problem taking it from a tub haha. No bisto though. That's muck IMO. Anyway I might like them more with my thick peasant gravy as you say.
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Tap water is free and included
That's not in the article. It only says that water was £1.50. And the tap water on most of the islands is pretty bad.
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There's 3 sort of sections to British food.
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Old staples, things like stews, pies, roasts etc. We exported most of these, with the empire. They are also shared a lot with Europe, making them even more ubiquitous.
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Local specialities. Local traditional dishes, e.g. Yorkshire puddings, Cornish pasties, or Eccles cakes. These were town or region specific. Some have spread, others are still hyper local.
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Imported. Mostly from the empire days. We tended to "discover" spices and flavours. When they came back, they were often reimagined. E.g. the curry was a Scottish invention, using Indian spices. We mostly dump all the related dishes under a label of the country we stole the flavours from. E.g. Chinese food tastes nothing like what they eat in China.
Basically, there is a lot of really good British food about. We also set the baseline for a lot of the comparisons, making us look bland by comparison. The London restaurant industry also does a complete number on tourists, making us look even worse.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Scotland, by a Scottish chef of Indian descent, in the 1970s. Cleopatra ate curry.
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Brits are to spices like dragons are to gold: they only hoard with no way to use it themselves.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]At least in D&D the good and evil dragons do have a use for it.
The evil dragons eat it just before they die. If they don't show up with enough gold in hell, then Tiamat/Takhisis eats their souls.
The good dragons use it to fund various parts of their chosen civilization/ city/ town. So a gold dragon may create a perpetual trust to fund the defence force of a kingdom, or a silver dragon may fund a museum or theater.
I haven't come across any material that says what the neutral dragons use it for, other than a bed. Apparently when you're that big, gold is quite soft and comfy.
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She should have chosen a better hotel for her situation. There are hotels in more central locations and hotels that you don't have to walk downhill to the beach.
But that hotel is too dinky to be called all inclusive. And using TUI is not gonna guarantee a good value.
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Just kebabs, rice, salads, and mozzarella. I imagine there was even hummus. Basically inedible.
And pasta.
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Pretty dumb of her to not travel with a can of beans and a jar of mayonnaise
That sounds a little spicy for a typical Brit.
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Sounds like a pretty typically stupid tourist. I mean who goes somewhere foreign to eat foreign food? Oh wait, anyone who wants to try out new stuff. If you only want to eat the same things you always do, then stay home.
That's what I do. I (American) stay local and eat what I like. I don't fly to a foreign country and get mad that the food is weird and nobody speaks English. Unlike so many other entitled, stupid people.
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Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
These are all about penny-fucking, and ripping off tourists. I look at the pictures in the article and get PTSD from memories of some childhood trip to Bulgaria. At least we had the excuse of being a working family from a poor ex-socialist country, and any beach and hotel was fancy to us. But somebody from a developed country in 2025 pays for something like this, I don’t know what to say to them.
They could open their browser and book a cheaper trip, staying in an apartment on some Greek or Italian beach, and eating the best local foods. But these old British boomers are lazy and also probably incapable of grilling a salmon steak if their life depended on it. Or at least lift up their asses and walk 200 meters to a restaurant nearby, with edible food.
I would rather keep working in the office during a hot summer week, than go on a trip like this with half a dozen relatives.
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That's not in the article. It only says that water was £1.50. And the tap water on most of the islands is pretty bad.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I don't need an article to tell me that resorts have tap water. You see I have a brain.
Most resorts give one bottle per person in the mini fridge during service. If you aren't an asshole to staff you can get more readily.
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Isn't "English food" just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?
Don't forget soggy, vinegar drenched chips.
