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

And my beloved Singaporean dishes - if there were restaurants that were promising even poor facsimiles, I'd be running there helter-skelter.

I hated going to Corfu because all I wanted was some tsatsiki and hummus except everything we ever ordered came with chips and chicken nuggets

Spanish people we know in Spain will always try and get us to go out with them to an Indian or Thai, they sort of see that as something special and different. And we wont go and they laugh because when we're in Spain I want to eat proper Spanish food (not just tapas), I can eat Indian and Thai flavours every day of the week thank you. Its fairly bog standard to me.

Ooh yes, had a great KFC in Windhoek once 😂

I have also eaten pretty much everything else on offer - love a chickens foot, or a snail, but I can understand how people struggle with food. Sad face in the papers, less so.

Oh dear, poor woman. How embarrassing for her. Someone really should have stopped her from doing the article, they're making a laughing stock of her.

I'm reminded of the review of a hotel that I was looking at on Trip Advisor a few years ago, complaining about too many Spanish people.... in Spain!😂

@miraxxx if you watch those airport tv shows about customs etc, they regularly have someone from China or similar part of the world with suitcase(s) full of dried fish and other food the destination country which are banned.

Susan’s review is there! Plus her friends and family.

There are some amazing parts of the world and lovely people who eat food I really don’t want to eat. So I have some sympathy with folk who find local food unpalatable.

To be fair I take tea bags the the US 🤣 but that's the only thing I take

And mine! 😂

I open to some degree of sympathy if she'd been been assured that the restaurant menu offered a diet that met her needs and they renaged when she arrived. Not ideal.

But she eats and drinks some utter shite. There's no way that bollocks is better for UC than the dishes on offer. Her line of reasoning is crap (I'm not in Gastro so open to correction but yes I have medical training).

Plus her idea of British food is diplomatically embarrassing.

Top compo face tho. Best I've ever seen.

These are usually migrants or shady trafficker types rather than tourists. What is your point here?

I stayed in that hotel for two nights!🤣

I will agree with her, the food was absolute muck and the spirits tasted like paint stripper but anyone going abroad expecting to have exactly what they eat at home, is a stark raving lunatic.

Well it depends how it's cooked, often the chicken is cooked in the sauce as it adds taste, and then it's impossible to serve one without the other. You can scrape the sauce off if you don't want to eat it.

My point being, if you ask nicely most places will try to accomodate you but it's just not always possible depending on what your needs/expectations are. And if your needs/expectations are significantly outside the norm, it's up to you to plan your holiday accordingly.

Why! U.K/irish as we know and like it can be very hard to get outside of U.K./Ireland. I have travelled all over and eaten all sorts but I like a nice cup of tea first thing so I bring my own. Can’t abide Lipton and that’s often all that’s available

So if a person has dietary requirements then they should not go on holiday abroad? Yabu

I have been to places where even the water is undrinkable from a single rusting standpipe in a remote tribal village that you have walk for two hours to access. No food but what the locals kindly offer you from their own provisions. In my case, it was a big mound of rice and dhall on the single tin plate the family owned. I observed the family pig eating my leftovers from the same plate. Loveliest and kindest people in the world though.

Scraping off the sauce is pretty pointless as it’ll still have the spices on it! I would expect any restaurant or hotel that has chicken (just an example) to be able to provide plain chicken. Obviously I would ask nicely but wouldn’t be impressed if they said no!

I read the reviews of the hotel- there are bad reviews going back years. But Susan in particular is someone a lot of you find very easy to mock. I wonder why is that is?

Look at the face on her in that photo. Would turn milk. She’s a moron whose UC could definitely benefit from some foods that aren’t bacon-based.

Went on a bus holiday to Germany a number of years back and the rest of the bus were very "we must have tea and biscuits!!" They were completely appalled to discover that the fish supper one evening was not the expected battered cod and chips but really nicely prepared carp.

The queen bee of the group announced loudly one morning that she didn't understand why the Germans were incapable of making a nice fried egg with bacon, couldn't serve a nice pot of tea and where was the marmalade??! Not like the Spanish who knew how to do a decent bit of English food.

That advert about the lost case of baked beans suggests a few people have at least thought about it! TBH most places I've been do offer most types of food in a lot of hotels-obviously I've not been to all of them. A lot of the food we eat regularly here is served wherever we go on holiday-many of us eat Italian food far more often than we have a fry-up. I try to learn a bit of the language and get the kids to know a few phrases, but often have staff telling me it's just easier if we speak English.

Maybe because there are bad reviews going back years but she somehow thought it would be better?

I stand corrected then. I thought it was normally a cold buffet of croissants etc - but then the last time I went on an all inclusive it was to communist Yugoslavia, so not exactly recent. I may or may not have whinged about the lack of proper British food :)

Maybe because she went whinging to a newspaper and put on her best compo face for the photo? People getting stung by their own failure to plan for their significant dietary “requirements” then playing the wounded party deserve ridicule.