My family visited England when my sister got married (both USAF) and the food was ...... predictable.
The menu at every restaurant had fish and chips, some sort of beef, gammon (ham), “American style hamburgers” (dried out hockey pucks), peas, and fried mushrooms.
The Chinese restaurants were AWESOME!!!!!! Best Chinese I ever ate.
The Chinese restaurants were AWESOME!!!!!! Best Chinese I ever ate.
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They heavily season their cat and dog meat, while their cod fish comes from ‘white’ meat scraps sweep off the fish house floors.
The first time I traveled around Europe in the 1960s, we relied on Chinese and Italian restaurants in some of the bad cuisine deserts like the British Isles and outback parts of several of the other countries. Things have improved greatly over there since then. Television helped!