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

Sounds like the food was pretty bad by all accounts. I feel sorry for her suffering with her colitis and wanting some plain food. You may have different tastes but seems a bit uncharitable to sneer. Some autistic people (esp kids) only eat very plain food too. Also older people sometimes prefer the plain food they ate growing up. It’s very limiting but sometimes it can’t be helped. It’s not the way I choose to eat but I don’t have medical conditions that require it nor am I neuro divergent so who am I to declare it wrong or stupid.

Not what I wrote. Do you have reading comprehension issues? I objected to the statement that there is no point going abroad if you were not going to try the local cuisine. That is a very very stupid statement to make because there are plenty of reasons to go abroad, food is not even the main reason.

No problem. You made an arse of it because you didn’t read what I wrote correctly and want to behave like it was me. You go ahead.

That's ridiculous. Being a paying customer doesn't give you a right to anything other than what's one the menu.

Susan sounds like an idiot. According to the article there were pasta and salads served - hardly an exotic diet. Greek night consist of kebabs which you can get in any UK supermarket or high street.

I have one DC with a restricted diet so we always do self-catering on holiday so you have control over the food. Perhaps Susan should consider this option.

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.
This is what you wrote and a further judgy comment about her eating greasy processed food. Susan is someone who is a socially acceptable target for mockery and you dont even have the self awareness to ask yourself why you hate her so readily.

I received a pretty good education in Singapore and am confident of my reading skills.

I always take tea bags when I visit my home country. The local brands are very bad and the British ones are so expensive (a 20 bag pack of twinnings for 6€!)

I ordered a tea in a café once and they served me a cup of hot milk with a tea bag in 😂

The article gave my husband and l a good laugh earlier today. Who wants to eat chips everyday anyway?! Especially on holiday. If you're so fussy and stuck in your ways then why go on holiday.

Her compo face was about 7.5/10. But I suppose she was offered £100 of holiday vouchers which is way more than l would have given her

Do you know what “a face that would turn milk” means? It’s nothing to do with beauty of lack thereof. It’s that the person is pulling a sour, unhappy face. People would say it to kids who’re in a huff, ffs! Stop being so precious, your dying to be offended, aren’t you?

I assure you I don’t hate our poor Susan. I’m sure she’s a lovely soul. But if her diet is so specific, she ought to have checked what the all inclusive package details were. Self catering from now on, Suze!

No idea why you feel the need to mention the location of your apparent education.

Wow tourists taking food off people who have so little

The best compo faces come with a prop, I think.

A wheelie bin, a Sky TV bill etc.

I wasn't a tourist. I was travelling in Nepal and some local people I knew were going on an outreach program. They invited me along as they thought my presence would be helpful in a particular context.

Most of the "foreign" food here is catered completely for the British palette and not authentic at all

It's all about research. It isn't just food for the Brits, the Germans want similar. But they shouldn't have ran out of chips! I read horror, holiday stories on here and wonder why they've chosen that holiday. Trip advisor is a good starting point.
Speaking of the Germans, I'm sure they'd love the UK to provide a train service they are used to.

No it's not. It's based on chicken makhani which was invented in Delhi

Surprised someone with such concerning ulcerative colitis who was dependent on a set diet would go to a country with such poor sewerage systems that you can't flush toilet paper and have to put it in a little bin/basket.
Can only imagine the smell in her whole room if she had a flare up.

If you have dietary requirements then surely you speak with the hotel before booking or go to a resort that says we cater for your dietary needs.

Im not sure the need for bacon every morning counts as a need when others have said there would surely be some form of local breakfast meats, bread, cereals and usually various egg dishes but there are plenty of resorts with very large buffets available that cater for gf, vegan, local tourism, Brits wanting chips 3 times a day, cheese and cold meats, waffles, cereals, fruit, pastries plus a version of a cooked breakfast

A friend who doesn't drink coffee, ordered a tea in a Spanish town, which doesn't have many tourists visiting (its on the up). It was green tea with milk!

It would have been a bit rude of miraxxx if she had refused to eat with them.

Of course it is only Brits they have to cater for...😂

People who migrate here from all
over the world and bring their cuisine with them are an asset. Thank god they do this. They are not comparable with brits spending a fortnight in the Med complaining there’s no fry up option and the chips are shit.

You said she had a face that would turn milk and is a moron

So the poster accusing you of saying she is either ugly, or stupid, or both is correct - no?

What was that post saying about her then?

And it was an Indian bloke in the restaurant who put it together, so in the great words of 'Goodness Gracious Me' - Indian.

Going ai in Greece is crazy in its self so many nice restaurants and Greek food is amazing however I would expect everywhere to at least do chips

Probably luke warm and the milk was UHT!!

The 'english tea' sold in supermarkets is awful too, I carry a pack of Yorskshire Tea!