To many Brits in #Amiga.org

[odin]

:bump:
The original post still holds truth..

[Cyberus]

Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)

[Methuselas]

Pssh.

Sure you do. :roll: Especially you, huh, Cyberus?  ;-)

[Agafaster]

@cyberus

at this juncture its worth pointing out that Cricket also could be argued to be initially a french invention.

dunno if anyone else already has, but I cant be ar5ed to read the thread through first :-)

[Agafaster]

'Thlingan Hol ? ;-)

[Ferry]

Cyberus wrote:
Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)

...as long as you are not talking about food, that's it  :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[ashbyuk]

do you have a problem with British people?

[Cyberus]

Ferry wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)

...as long as you are not talking about food, that's it  :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

Actually, we have great food here in Britain. Because we have traditionally been a country of immigrants, you can find some of the best food in the world here :-)

In my town you can eat Indian, Thai, Chinese, Polish, Belgian, Greek, Turkish, Mexican, French, Spanish food, to name a few. I think that means we have pretty good food here, don't you :-)

Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

(Belgians and Germans excepted)

[Vincent]

Cyberus wrote:
Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

Don't forget about the whiskey!!!

[Cyberus]

Vincent wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

Don't forget about the whiskey!!!

:-o

Don't forget to 'drop the e'!!

;-)

 

[odin]

Yes...the Irish make very good whisky  :-P.

There are lots of Brits here because we gave you the English language. It is "Too many Brits" not "To many Brits".   :-D

Come back again when you have mastered the English language. LOL

 :-D

[Ferry]

@Cyberus

Well, I can't talk for other countries' food, but most of the times what you have there as "Spanish food" is what you Brits think a "Spanish food" should be, but many times it has little to do with it. Anyway, I guess that happens in most countries. Even in Spain, most restaurants, mainly in the coast, give to tourists what they want, what they think is "typical Spanish", doing sometimes such kind of mixtures that a native would hardly consider it as "typical". I guess same happens all around the world with Chinese food, heavily "occidentalized" and different from what Chinese people is really used to.

Same happens with other things as well: for example, do you now what's the best seller souvenir in Barcelona? MEXICAN hats!!! When asked, Brits, German and even Italian tourists said they bought it because they thought it is a "very representative Spanish symbol"... a MEXICAN hat?!?!?!?!  I can understand it when told by tourists from the States, but Europeans? Well, that's the way things are...

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[Cyberus]

100 posts :pint:

True, and it does happen wherever you go.

We have 'Indian' dishes that have been created in England, similarly I believe there are 'Chinese' dishes that have been created outside of China, e.g San Francisco.

We have a lot of influences in our cooking because of our multicultural environment, perhaps it would have been better to say that.

Anyway, I don't think any country has 'typical' food, just the food that people stereotype for that country e.g. fish and chips here, frogslegs or snails in France, sausages in Germany whatever, just silly national stereotypes - traditional food in the north will probably be different from that in the south, or sometimes the traditional food is just a memory, and no-one eats it anymore.

[uncharted]

There were dozens of people wandering about Canterbury yesterday wearing novelty huge union-jack hats.  Tourists are the same wherever...very stupid. ;-)

[Plaz]

Wow, you guys are really kicking the dust off an old thread. Since I'm not a Brit I'll have a look. But I personally love the Brit's sence of humor.


Plaz