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

Her usual diet would be awful for her condition.

If they go to the Algarve tell them to go to Apolonia (they have several branches) and they'll get everything they want😁. At a price though

Agree. When I go away all I want from food is the nourishment and energy to see the sights, have new experiences and enjoy myself. Thinking the whole point of being away is eating is really weird to me. Especially as in this day and age eating food from different countries is hardly a groundbreaking cultural experience. Unless you never venture beyond the carvery or chippy at home, there's plenty of opportunities to discover the food of other cultures.

OMFG I am not interested in talking to different sorts of people and looking at different kinds of art when I am on my holidays. I am flipping knackered from work and want a week lying in the sun. This is not possible where I live as it pisses it down most of the time.
As it happens I do like trying different food. But some people go on holiday to chill out and have a rest, not to do cultural homework 🙄

Therefore there are plenty of resorts where you can eat/drink what you do at home, but it's sunny. There is loads of demand for this. Next time I guess Susan needs to research a bit more as it's not like the AIs she's been to before, but other than that I can't see any need to slag off the places that "people not like you" go to on holiday.

Im bit mixed on this. I'm fairly open to trying different foods but after a few days my stomach does act up so I need a bit of what I'm used to. I was at an all inclusive recently and really struggled with the food after a few days. It was all good quality but combinations I wasn't used eg lots of fish at breakfast, very meaty dinners. I liked it but I was just craving foods I normally never do😅

Surely if all you want is nourishment and energy, you are happy to eat local food for that? You don't bring half of tesco in your suitcase for fear and refusal of being contaminated by"foreign" food?

I went on Tripadvisor and all the pictures of food are of sausages, bacon and chips

Why, what impact would her eating/not eating have on you?

Yup. Happy to eat anything as long as its vegan and healthy. That wasn't my point. I was agreeing with pp that saying there's no point going abroad if you're not going to 'try foreign food' is daft. Other countries offer so much more than just an opportunity to eat.

Oh crikey I’d have struggled not to express disappointment that there were other Brits there ie them. Part of the joy of a holiday abroad is not understanding what people are chatting about, I know they’ll be having the same conversations as the Brits and I include myself but I don’t want to listen to it. It also makes for a far more interesting breakfast seeing what other nationalities eat.

Have you read the reviews? Apparantly they cater particularly well for Scottish guests, even serving square sausage!

I avoid places attended by such holidaymakers.

I take tea bags with me when I travel. I travel relatively frequently and I do not find overseas tea bags as good. There are many hotels in Spain and some parts of Greece and Portugal that will provide English food. I cannot see anything wrong with this. It is a little different if you go to somewhere further afield, perhaps Hong Kong or Thailand and wonder why you cannot get a full English... though again, in many places you still can...

Is that not the absolute fun of going abroad? In south east Asia we asked for vinegar and it came out on a little plate with such ceremony it was fab. I’ve been offered milk in the uk with all kinds of tea that doesn’t lend itself to milk.

I blame Stelios Haji-Ioanno

Tea is drunk here (I´m in Spain) without milk and if you go to a tetería you can find all kinds of exotic teas and some served with milk, but they are specific places.
For my aunts and grandmother tea is something you drink when you´ve got a stomach bug.

Or you could try going to my local garden centre cafe! I asked if they had peppermint tea and the man serving told me yes they had it and pointed to green tea on the board. I said no, I actually wanted peppermint and he said it was the same thing as peppermint is green! He absolutely wouldn't have it that green tea and peppermint tea are two different things.

I don't have any medical conditions and I'm not at all fussy so maybe my opinion isn't valid here. However I reckon I would really struggle to find nothing eat if I went away (especially to Greece as I love Greek food) and even if I did struggle, I'd just know it wasn't for me and I wouldn't go back.

Haha I knew it! All this nonsense on here about how the newspaper have taken advantage of this poor lady.

Jog on, Susan ya torn faced grifter. 😆

I thought that was a spoof review 🤣

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Yeah, they probably went too far with the haggis! 😂

Hopefully it's free range haggis 🤣

You were both right.

But in that case he wasn't right, it really was disgusting green tea! I've never tried peppermint green tea but I don't think I'd be able to get past the taste, no matter what it was flavoured with!