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

If you’re flying 1,500 miles only to demand beans on toast, just stay home and pop into Wetherspoons – no passport required. Imagine going to Corfu and acting shocked that the tzatziki isn’t Heinz. Honestly, if your tastebuds don’t like adventure, maybe your suitcase shouldn’t either.

The article was written to draw ridicule for the clicks. Joining in pointing and laughing just feeds the beast.

CBA to read the article.

YABU to say anyone with a dietary requirement / bowel disease should never go abroad.

Wow. I’ve seen some jumps on Mumsnet and then some. But really? We’re holding the Greek nation to account for all migration to the UK and the subsequent diverse food offering on UK soil?

Virtually all food in most Greek resorts has been anglicised. People now think greek food is all grills and chips. It isn’t and never was, you just made it appear so.

I guess you are happy with this sort of cultural imprinting though?

Well, 93% of Mirror readers who completed the post-article poll said that Susan was not right to complain at all! These Daily Mirror articles are there purely to provoke. Susan will have been 'helped' to express her views by a journalist looking for sensationalist copy.

Who are you to decide this? People travel for many more reasons than food ffs! This whole thread is to mock people with more than a tinge of class snobbishness and to performatively show off.

Stop that. It’s an opinion, it’s valid

I’m the opposite i complained to the hotel there was insufficient Spanish food (half the food was pasta and pizza, they said it’s what their German and Spanish customers like)

I know exactlement what she means.

I'm here in France, researching for my next book (working title 'Why Don't You All F*ck Off With Your Constant Moaning') and you can't get a proper English meal here at all, like Chicken Vindaloo or Egg Chop Suey, and the beer is COLD.

I was in Corfu once and they tried to fob me off with something covered in sucker things - we had a blue one at home in the bath for sticking the soap to the side of the bath. I mean you don't eat them do you? Funny lot, them on the Continent - incontinent more like!

Same with this thread. I Live in South east asia btw and cook 5 types of cuisine competently : Indian (southern regional), Chinese, Malay and Thai and the odd western dish. But I loathe food snobbery. If people want to eat nothing but beans on toast, leave them be.

non-spicy chicken is not cultural, no one said you can't ask for reasonable requests. People do it in their own country.

I find the bring your own tea bag very strange however!

Stop that.
What? Only you can express your opinion?

I’ve just come back from a lovely hotel at a small resort in Spain, excellent food (most people Full Board) lots of choice. Two different British holidaymakers upon hearing my voice expressed thanks that there were some other English people there, one complained that the hotel was full of “all sorts”. It was probably majority French, some Spanish and a few Germans and handful of British. No idea why they expected there to be lots of British people there.

She has left the hotel a one star review on Trip Advisor,as have her travelling companions.Brains of rocking horses.

it's not food snobbery though, is it. If people want beans everyday, they do what they want at home. If they want to stick with McDonald in every country they visit, if it's there, it's a non issue (McD menus vary from country to country too, talk about experimenting)

It's incredibly rude to go in another country and declare that their food is not good enough for someone superior as yourself and demand English food (which is famously not... renowned or for totally the wrong reason 😂)

and so narrow-minded to not want to experiment with the local food when you decide to visit another country. Why bother in the first place?

It's always crap food people insist on taking with them, that's the amusing part.

My sister and OH went on a holiday to Rhodes. Hotel was changed to another hotel and resort. They only knew this when looking for their transfer.

New hotel was one of those who had no Greek food. Both love Greek food. Went to very popular restaurant which was used by the locals. Very cheap and delicious

Clearly the poster you’re replying to thinks it should only be English people that applies to! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

what on earth is "show off" in eating local food in the country you are in?

You find international restaurants and various international food in most countries as it is, demanding the exact menu you'd make when you shop in your local tesco is bizarre, precious or downright pathetic.

Who can't survive on something else than fish and chips for a few days?😂(various versions of fish and chips exist in many countries, of all the things that were worth sharing with the world..)

Why is it strange? Not everywhere has peppermint tea so what am I supposed to drink? It's also cheaper than buying something there. I made that mistake the first time we went to the US!

Its not about "food snobbery"

She's complaining because they didnt have exactly what she wanted on offer...bacon and sausage. And Bacardi .

To me, thats what makes her sound ridiculous. Its small minded to complain and leave a 1 star review on a hotel in another country because it doesnt serve bacon and sausage every morning and chips every night

She admits that there was toast and eggs, which are often considered "British type breakfast foods" and not exactly exotic

May I draw your attention to this epic review of the place. Gotta love some Scottish humour. Check out this review of Lido Corfu Sun Hotel on Tripadvisor: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g776025-d498316-r1010893791-Lido_Corfu_Sun_Hotel-Benitses_Corfu_Ionian_Islands.html

I used to be snotty about people with restricted diets, until I learned a bit more about the issue and realised I was being a dick. It doesn’t affect you that some people feel happier with food that they are used to, does it? As long as they aren’t rude or obnoxious about other cuisines, then they can crack on and eat what they like. You’re not superior for having broader tastes. It’s actually a bit cringeworthy to sneer at other people’s food - I’m sure I remember Hyacinth Bucket sniffing at the “egg and chips brigade”.

If you have a dietary need, or a want of particular food you book somewhere that can do that. We’re in spain at the moment, before we booked we made sure an allergy and being vegetarian could be catered for without living on salad before we booked. It really isn’t hard, especially as we no longer rely on a few pictures in a holiday brochure when we book somewhere.

We are heading out to a villa next week and I am taking some of the chilled peppercorn sauces from Lidl. I don’t care, they’re glorious and will go perfectly with my barbecued steak.

In fairness, the woman has probably had a somewhat justified complaint about poor choice and quality at a TUI AI resort twisted by the journalist to make her sound ridiculous. I've never been to an AI that didn't offer fruit, pastries, cereals, different types of eggs, etc and where chips were plentiful and served every night. It's also not unreasonable to complain that there were no labels on the dishes or at the limited range of alcoholic drinks and the high additional charge for water. Theyve no doubt cherry picked the comments that make her sound most like a little Englander.