![]() "But, I think maybe.British food is quite.terrible?" When pressed on the subject, people will generally describe their impression of British food as bland, soggy, overcooked, and visually unappealing.īritish food looks so fucking depressing. "I miss Sunday lunch with my family,'' I once told a very polite Japanese man I was tutoring. It doesn't matter where you go in the world - the reputation of my national cuisine precedes itself. For me, as a Brit, this means unoriginal cracks about my oral health (our teeth are good, actually), snarky references to Brexit, and an insistence that I must come from a town called “Plumpton-on-the-Lea” or “Bobbleton-upon-Rockinghamshire.”īut the favorite jab of my international friends is to go for the obvious, and insult British food. But perhaps the worst part of it is the indignity of the constant jokes at the expense of your nationality. There’s the pain of knowing how rarely you might see each other. There’s the struggle to communicate across time zones. ![]() I consider myself very lucky to have friends from all around the world, but there are admittedly one or two downsides.
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