"Alan Holbrook" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>> 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.
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>> 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)
>>
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> 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...

And the reverse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdo79znnHl8

Mike