British Expatriate Network

I always find these things interesting. It's a journal kept by an American woman of British food.

http://www.girlalive.com/food/016.html

Here's what she gave Marmite -

It is all the worst flavors in the world, concentrated into one devil-spawn foul mix. The texture is like really sticky smoker's lung. Only stickier. It is salty and sour and bitter all at the same time. I think I may cry. The flavor is indescribable, but it is similar to what I imagine it would be like to give a blowjob to a diseased hobo.



I'm with you dear.

Bollox, I love marmite, she has no taste and is obviously not hard enough to eat marmite... grin

And I love you too
:grin:

True :mrgreen:

The poor dear ate Cornish pasties out of a tesco plastic packet. Surely in the current pc-centric climate they must have to relable them cornish-style pasties..? roll

I saw the list of foods she ate and sorry but i mostly agree with her. I love , custard ,cornish pasties , toad in the hole , spotted dick, bubble and sqeak , crumpets .

never did get to like marmite and agree you either do are you dont like it ..

dont eat hot dogs english or american style

Does your wife know you have these toughts? :grin:

Food has changed a lot since I last lived in the UK.

When I came to the States in 1967, I'd never seen or heard of Pizza and the only spaghetti I ever had was from a can.

The BBC once did an April fools joke showing spaghetti being harvested from trees, most people watching were taken in by it and actually believed that spaghetti grew on trees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witne...362667.stm

Pshaw. I'm hard enough to eat sesos and watergate salad without flinching and I would rather eat my own kidneys than eat marmite.

Blimey :shock:

Damn, I remember that. Dimbleby kept a very straight face. I had had real spaghetti before that. Somewhere in the mid fifties, some espresso bars opened, and their main food dish was spaghetti bolognese, I used to go to one on Kensington High.