[skinkinthegrass]

..May I suggest the Haggis? ..its from Scotland, consisted of ... :D

[SAJ]

This wog never had an English breakfast, what a crock. No tomatoes. Tch, tch, tch.

Without tomatoes, whoever served his ''breakfast'' would be treated to a stay in the Tower.

Or, this wog's a liar. Take your choice.

[Pompah]

food in the UK is Awful. Not True. It's not as good as Scotland, But it's not really Awful.

[MHT]

It also includes sauteed mushrooms, baked tomatoes, and toasted bread--NOT English muffins. Did I mention the blood sausage?

[Sir Gawain]

English breakfast is horrible. The other food is not much better either. You can't go wrong with Oriental though. The Chinese restaurants in London...mmmmm.

[zerosix]

Not if you love boiled meat, vegtable surprise, and bland.

[bannie]

Tower Bridge was actually different from London Bridge, something I didn't know before

The London Bridge has fallen down.

:-D

To tell the truth, I wasn't to enamored with the food in London...but maybe it was just me.

[Allegra]

I've heard that the food in the UK is awful."

I'd always heard that, too. But I spent ten days in London last year and had some great meals. There are a lot of excellent ethnic restaurants and the English steakhouses are good, albeit somewhat expenisve.

I'm going back in August and already have a couple of favorite restaurants I plan to re-visit. I'll be going to Brighton and St. Ives, too, so I'll see if the food outside of London holds up. ;-)

[bannie]

Gone...gone...gone

[GretchenM]

If he had to be such an ungrateful tourist, I'm glad he went to Britain instead of America, with his glass half empty and all.

[Deetes]

Do you care to comment Ping ? ;-)

[Finalapproach29er]

Time to renew the Opium wars?

[ApplegateRanch]

Smoke me a kipper; I'll be back for breakfast.

[Atchafalaya]

Should have steered him away from the Albert Museum and all that "stuff". Hope he doesn't tell anybody what else is in there.

[AZLiberty]

There's no better place for Indian food than London. Don't miss the fish and chips. And yes, those eggs-and-everything breakfasts are great, too.

[Atchafalaya]

Breakfasts were great at the B&B last I went (fresh squeezed juice, fresh fruit, baked bread, eggs, bacon, potato's, sauteed mushrooms and tomato's). I looked forward to waking up! After breakfast, well, it was all downhill. I did manage to teach two friends how to make a roux. They still use the skill.

[Allan]

Compared with the French, the British are quite cold and restrained.

Yes as any tourist will tell you the French are warm and hospitable.

(Stopped reading when I reached this line).

[RaceBannon]

SAVE money by staying in London????


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[Winniesboy]

British food seems to be one of those unexpected leitmotifs which crop up regularly in FR threads - and reading the transatlantic comments it's clear the subject is surrounded with as many myths as Wagner too. One of the problems of these discussions - quite understandable - is that they're always concerned excelusively with restaurant and hotel food, not domestic cooking. But if you're going to get the true feel of the cuisine of any country, you have to know its domestic cooks: and in the UK the revolution in domestic cookery over the last 30 years or so is even more extreme than in its restaurants. We at last have a large body of really skilled amateur cooks who know how to make the best of the superb quality of the ingredients available to us: we have, after all, one of the best climates in the world for growing most vegetables and fruit, some of the best seafood (if you know where to find it) and (and I know this is particularly hard for many Americans to accept) some of the world's best slow grass-reared beef and lamb - again, if you know where to look for it. This is not to say, of course, that there isn't still plenty of absolutely lousy British domestic cooking (as there is in most countries, including the USA!) but if you want to get some sense of the real passion of the British for good food these days, you only have to look at the extensive and learned coverage of the subject in the lifestyle sections of the quality newspapers, and the huge popularity of 'celebrity chef' series on TV.

[Northern Alliance]

They eat duck's feet but complain about English food??