On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:47:07 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

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> "Alan Holbrook" > wrote in message
> . 3.30...
> > "Ophelia" > wrote in
> > :
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> >>
> >>
> >> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>
> >>> I've also had it drilled into me that British food is bland and
> >>> boring. And yet, I used to watch The Two Fat Ladies and the food that
> >>> they made was not that at all. In fact any of their recipes that I
> >>> tried were quite good.
> >>
> >> I know, I get that here all the time) I can assure you that my food
> >> is neither bland nor boring and I don't need to use a load of spice to
> >> make them interesting. I think that is more about what one is used
> >> to. Our eldest granddaughter's other grandparents and family are
> >> American and she spends a lot of time there with them too, but she
> >> still loves my cooking and always has requests when she visits)
> >>
> >
> > I was about to post how I had the same preconceived notion about British
> > food until I actually got to London on business and the local office folk
> > took me to a restaurant in Kew Garden call Jasper's Bun in the Oven. A
> > very enjoyable experience. I googled Jasper's and discovered that it had
> > been sold to a multinational, to the detriment of the food quality, I'm
> > sure.
> >
> > And I'm also sure that anyone who thinks the British only like bland
> > cooking aren't aware of the national obsession for Indian and Indonesian
> > fare. The people in the Bristol office had a rite of passage for all
> > American visitors from headquarters that involved being taken to lunch at
> > an Indonesian place and fed something that had the word 'Dragon' in the
> > title. The title was well deserved...
>
> Oh dear ....

Shhhh.


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