People who expect British food on a foreign holiday

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Woman moans about no British food in a Corfu hotel https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tourists-nightmare-corfu-hotel-had-35327009.amp

If you refuse to eat foreign food, or worried about having a flare up of a dietary issue (she has ulcerative colitis), you don’t go on a foreign holiday!

How many people who go abroad and never sample the local food, have never tried it? Even Spanish omelette is egg, potato and onion! A late relative even refused to eat this, even though he was happy to eat these ingredients in a salad - boiled eggs, new potatoes and spring onions

Sorry but disagree. Same could be said for any one of the millions of migrants that now reside in the UK. Restaurants that cater to their diet exist everywhere, so why does it not read across. The woman in the article is a moron, but your more general point isn't valid in my opinion. Some people will expect to be catered for abroad, and as a paying customer they've a right to it.

Or, those people could go to Eastbourne which is very nice and has loads on good English grub

But a hotel has paying custumers from all the world. Hopless job to suit every foreigner.

They may be paying customers but that doesn't mean they get to force the hotel to serve what they want ("it's mooooi rooooite"). It's not in any way comparable to an immigrant opening up a restaurant that serves the cuisine from their home country.

I think it depends where you go. The costas, Corfu, Tenerife etc catered for British tastes from the off....deepest mainland greece, central American, France then no, you have to eat local food.

But this is the worst example of brits abroad since the woman moaning at the rep that the hotel served Brussel sprouts at breakfast and he had to point out it was an international hotel and that she didn't have to pick them!

I just Googled “foods to avoid when you have ulcerative colitis” and it said: red meat, processed foods, and drinks like coffee, tea, soda, and alcohol

So probably a good thing that the hotel did not serve her sausage, bacon, chips and bacardi and coke! 🤣

I just don’t care about the jip I may get for this. She’s made herself sound an absolute dick, perhaps with a bit of artistic licence help from the tabloid. Either way, hop off to Great Yarmouth for a week because nothing good will come from someone like that going abroad.

they have a right to pick a place that already caters for the kind of things they like, but they are ridiculous to expect international places to adapt their menu.

Migrants are different. I can understand someone wanting a taste of home once in a while, and it gives the rest of us a chance to experience their food.

Someone going overseas for a week and who can't face "foreign" food for a few days is ridiculous.

British tourists proud to travel with their baked beans and tea are embarrassing 😂

Oh goodness poor Susan. She really didn’t research her trip did she? 🤪

Doesn't have the weather though, does it...

Seems like she should have contacted the hotel before booking if she had particular requirements. Everyone knows they don't eat bacon for breakfast on the continent.

Does that mean any given restaurant in Corfu or Ljubljana or Riga or Mexico City should anticipate and provide for the dietary preferences of all the Swedish, Irish, German, Italian, Brazilian, French, Dutch, Argentinian, Anglo Canadian, Quebecois, Nigerian, Turkish, Greek, and Russian visitors, or did you just have the Brits in mind?

I’m hoping she doesn’t opt for the Caribbean in the future. That’s where I usually travel to. However if I see someone demanding bacon and Bacardi cokes with a sad face I’ll know she made it.

My thoughts as well!

I like her compo face though. Top marks.

It depends on what is being asked. I can't eat spicy food or too much rich food. How difficult is it for a restaurant to give me a piece of chicken without a sauce for example if they have a chicken dish on the menu?

And yes, I do take my own tea bags as the only hot drink I have is peppermint tea.

Stupid woman. No one has the right to expect British food when they go abroad. Much better sausages and bacon at home than on much of the continent anyway.

Most hotels I have stayed at in Europe, they do bacon, but it’s streaky bacon

I agree OP. Whenever I see a restaurant in Spain or wherever advertising traditional English breakfast or Yorkshire pudding etc I avoid. In fact if there are a lot of these places in one area, I avoid the area altogether. Not because the food might be of poor quality, but because the type of people who expect British food in Spain are also the type in my experience who speak to waiting staff in English without asking first if it's ok, and who tend to be loud and obnoxious and not the kind of people I want to be around on holiday.

Who've brought their cuisine with them and opened their own restaurants. And where locals eat.

See, I would never stay AI in somewhere like Greece where there are so many lovely (and usually affordable) restaurants.

That way you can eat sausage & chips at a different establishment every day if you want to 😁.

People with ulcerative colitis are advised to steer clear of sausages and bacon so the hotel did her a favour by not serving them.

We were walking past a pub in Turkey serving British food. The staff were trying to entice us in with the options of lasagna and chicken tikka masala. We were really amused as it seems that British people do actually enjoy foreign goods but don’t always realise it.

And yes, I do take my own tea bags as the only hot drink I have is peppermint tea.

My parents take decaff tea bags as no such thing abroad. Yet decaff coffee isn’t a problem.

Back in the mid 90s, I remember going to one of the Spanish or Greek islands (my childhood is a blur most of the time) and there was a British couple who took down a vanity case to
the dining room and it was full of tomato ketchup, brown sauce, jam etc

I used to think this until I was in China a couple of months ago and I did really struggle with the food.