Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
Awww, what you should have said is:
Is it true that the English wear bowler hats, pinstripe suits, carry an umbrella ('brolly), drink tea religiously mid-afternoon, are insular but multi-cultural at the same time, can be at turns friendly and very cold, arrogant, ignorant, yet tolerant,
brave, but stupid, intelligent, yet naive?
;-)