Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'
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It was an all-inclusive trip. It should be free, anything else is a scam.
Tap water is free and included
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I went to the UK recently and my only food allergy is lactose intolerance. JFK I had a hard time finding food that wasn't full of some type of cream. It was a the worst part of a otherwise wonderful trip.
If you really insensitive to lactose then yeah its going to be very painful, milk is in just about everything baked or with most sauces that isn't stamped vegan. At least most reputable places will take it seriously and have a proper allergen book.
I am Coeliac, and its like me going to Japan, just about everything has wheat added to it. Soy sauce? Gluten. Miso? Gluten. Whats annoying is that traditional Japanese recipes for Miso and Soy do not use wheat, it was added later after the American occupation. You can buy both soy and miso gluten free outside of Japan very easily, but in Japan, even though they made by Japanese companies? Ha good luck.
The worst part is that nobody in Japan takes it seriously as there been like two people in the last five years who were diagnosed with a gluten intolerance let alone Coeliac, so even if you take a Japanese speaker along and they explain it politely to the chef, you still get gluten.
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Pretty dumb of her to not travel with a can of beans and a jar of mayonnaise
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Hotel food always sucks. I was in Corfu last summer. There were plenty of great local restaurants.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Because we didn't do our research, we ended up at a hotel in Mallorca that were filled with people in their 20s partying all night and the included food fitted the price, for instance one night they served thin slices of meat-ish-spam with overcooked greens.
But we didn't let it ruin our holiday!
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Hotel food always sucks. I was in Corfu last summer. There were plenty of great local restaurants.
Not true actually, there are many hotels with excellent food. There is a hotel not far from me where a lot of people go to their restaurant even if they aren't staying at the hotel, it's just a really good restaurant in it's own right.
I've also been on holiday where we had excellent breakfast options in the hotel, even the ones included were very good. You just need to check for those when selecting a hotel. I've definitely had worse meal in some restaurants than I've had in some hotels, there's plenty of overlap there.
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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.
You forgot the fourth section: yellow / brown with beans.
- fish fingers and beans
- beans on toast
- fry up (beans essential)
- everything in Wetherspoon's
Only taking the piss of course.
Scotch egg is peak for me. Incredible invention. 99% sure that's British? Introduced to me by an English man anyway.
Used to love smoked kippers as a child. Different English man introduced me to them. They strike me as a very British thing also.
Never quite got the Yorkshire with a roast thing myself but my sister lives over there and is fully converted on them. I mean they're good like but I'd happily live without them.
Got gifted an Eccles cake by a lovely Scouser I know last year. Also delish with a mug of tea.
I do love a good pastie too (is that Greggs or am I mixing up?).
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Isn't "English food" just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?
Comes with being the winner, every time
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There was no English food at a Greek island resort?
You don't say.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Just kebabs, rice, salads, and mozzarella. I imagine there was even hummus. Basically inedible.
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Isn't "English food" just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?
With the seasonings removed
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You forgot the fourth section: yellow / brown with beans.
- fish fingers and beans
- beans on toast
- fry up (beans essential)
- everything in Wetherspoon's
Only taking the piss of course.
Scotch egg is peak for me. Incredible invention. 99% sure that's British? Introduced to me by an English man anyway.
Used to love smoked kippers as a child. Different English man introduced me to them. They strike me as a very British thing also.
Never quite got the Yorkshire with a roast thing myself but my sister lives over there and is fully converted on them. I mean they're good like but I'd happily live without them.
Got gifted an Eccles cake by a lovely Scouser I know last year. Also delish with a mug of tea.
I do love a good pastie too (is that Greggs or am I mixing up?).
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.
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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.
