Having been on holiday for a week and eaten out every day tonight’s repast was a cheese and ham baguette. Sometimes plain and simple can’t be beaten.
I remember years ago having spent three weeks touring France and Italy and eating in restaurants all the time when I got on the Stenna line ferry to come home I sat down to a plate of chips and beans. Bliss.
Hehe, based on this thread's prompting, I noticed Marmite in the supermarket today. And to this point have eaten almost half a wholemeal loaf, toasted with butter spread and a thick layer of Marmite. I'm eating it like a forbidden fruit. Why do I leave it so long each time?
I also love returning to more familiar fare after a holiday. Makes you appreciate it more, however nice your holiday was. Really applies if you visit America where the food sounds lovely on the menu but not so good in reality.
That happened to me in New York. I ordered a meal based on the menu description and what arrived was terrible. My daughter insisted we have a meal in TGI Fridays on Broadway. Service was dreadful for the USA and the food was all deep fried rubbish.we have a reputation for poor food which we do not deserve.
I whole heartedly agree. All my continental colleagues who travel to the UK from Germany, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, all complain about British Food. They too often eat in their hotel or at the chain restaurants we have on offer. I take them somewhere decent and they are very surprised.
That’s cruel. The food in NY is great but not in the chains ... and TGIF!!! This Goo Isn’t Food We have great food here you just have to seek it out and avoid chains unless you are happy to accept what they produce
Hated it. Read a theory that if you try something 14 times you'll like it. Tried it the next 14 or so times my wife had it on toast. Now quite like it. Vin
Have no doubt that you can get nice meals in America....had a great Italian meal in NY, but on holiday I don't tend to eat big meals...just want light lunches and IMO any average pub in the UK could give you something tastier than I managed in a fortnight in the US. When on holiday with an odd hour to spend you haven't time to find the gems that the locals know. The height of dreadfulness was a bowl of soup...no one can ruin soups surely...just open a tin of Heinz for God's sake. It was salty water with floating bits of cardboard that they hadn't even bothered to reconstitute. I had it twice because in my foolishness I thought the first bowl was a mistake....I can only assume it's a local speciality.
All this talk of food means that I have to remind you to stock up with food or you will starve to death post Brexit. Our box room looks like Sainsbury's storeroom at the moment but don't think you'll get your hands on any of it because I have a shotgun. You can all ****ing starve as far as I am concerned as you all voted for Brexit.
I agree...made by Italians though probably Actually, I had a lovely pizza when we went to Milan, and a lovely Bolognese, and a lovely Chianti or two
According to Tony Adams autobiography, that sounds like a staple of the menu Arsene Wenger introduced to the canteen at Arsenal’s training ground; before that it was pie and chips with beans, another area in which British football was miles behind the rest of the world.
Yeah think it is widely accepted now as the “cleanest” meal for training. I eat a ridiculous amount of chicken, definitely have it 12+ times a week. Seeing as I only eat 14 times you get the idea
