"Tristán White" > wrote in message
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> <SNIP>
> >"British Food... that's an oxymoron, no question about it, eh.:
> >
>
> Sigh! I'm British and live here. I was just wondering when the last
> time was that you guys actually went out to eat around London, and
> tried some excellent British nouvelle cuisine.

Don't worry about it. You can't change anyone's mind on the subject. It just
rolls off their backs missing their ears on the way. They enjoy their little
prejudices.

> Back in the 60s and 70s British food was nasty and insipid.

Nonsense. British food has always had it's good cooks and bad cooks just as
has every other culture. Traditional British foods are excellent when cooked
correctly.

> It's a nasty stereotype...

Certainly it is; and totally unfounded.

> it would be like a Brit assuming that
> American cuisine is all McDonalds and Burger Kings and TGI Fridays and
> all the horrible fast food joints that litter cities worldwide.

Until recently, Burger King was a British company. ;-)

Charlie