No Wonder Brits think we are Fat and Stupid

[Standing Wolf]

Beef kidney is horrible. I had it once in Germany. I could read the menu only well enough to know I was getting beef.

I'd been reading stories set in England all my life wherein people were eating "beef and kidney pies", so one of the first things I did there was to buy one from a street vendor. I tossed most of it into a bin.

One funny thing happened at the train station. I ordered an Egg Salad Sandwich. Apparently the Brit idea of an egg salad sandwich is two pieces of bread with a couple of lettuce leaves and a sliced up hardboiled egg inside.

[The Booman]

I'd been reading stories set in England all my life wherein people were eating "beef and kidney pies", so one of the first things I did there was to buy one from a street vendor. I tossed most of it into a bin.

One funny thing happened at the train station. I ordered an Egg Salad Sandwich. Apparently the Brit idea of an egg salad sandwich is two pieces of bread with a couple of lettuce leaves and a sliced up hardboiled egg inside.

I'm sure an egg salad sandwich in an American train station would be better

[RMNIXON]

I've been grocery shopping in the UK; the only real difference is in brand names, which seems most significant for treats. Recipes differ and eating habits differ, but you can buy the staples anywhere (meat, vegetables, fruits, grains...). A slab of beef is a slab of beef, but Europeans will fight you if you try to claim the junk chocolate sold en masse in America is actually chocolate.

I only buy Dark Chocolate but this is damn good!






Been around since 1894!

[Red Lily]

The last time I was in London my friend insisted we go to a pub for a pie and mushy peas. Peas are one of the few vegetables I do not like and she well knew this but insisted I might like them mushy. She was wrong!

The pie was pretty good if you could find any of it not swimming in the mushy peas but, to me, it was spoiled by those horrible peas. They were everywhere!

[The Booman]

The last time I was in London my friend insisted we go to a pub for a pie and mushy peas. Peas are one of the few vegetables I do not like and she well knew this but insisted I might like them mushy. She was wrong!

The pie was pretty good if you could find any of it not swimming in the mushy peas but, to me, it was spoiled by those horrible peas. They were everywhere!

Yeah I never got the pea thing. Love the pies but the peas though...

[RMNIXON]

The last time I was in London my friend insisted we go to a pub for a pie and mushy peas. Peas are one of the few vegetables I do not like and she well knew this but insisted I might like them mushy. She was wrong!

The pie was pretty good if you could find any of it not swimming in the mushy peas but, to me, it was spoiled by those horrible peas. They were everywhere!

I like a Shepherds Pie and buy these:





I understand the traditional Brit version is lamb, but in America ground beef. Something I picked up at Renaissance Faire in SoCal long ago......

[The Booman]

I like a Shepherds Pie and buy these:





I understand the traditional Brit version is lamb, but in America ground beef. Something I picked up at Renaissance Faire in SoCal long ago......

Is that corn on the box?

[RMNIXON]

Is that corn on the box?

Yes and also very American!

[Red Lily]

Yeah I never got the pea thing. Love the pies but the peas though...

The pie was pretty good but I couldn't eat the pastry because it was literally covered in mushy peas from top to bottom and the pastry is half the experience of eating a good pie. Oh well.

[The Booman]

To be honest British people (we don't like to be referred to as brits) don't really see Americans as fat and stupid. Americans are perceived to be loud and obnoxious.