Posted on 08/20/2004 1:39:00 AM PDT by BritishBulldog
Like 'Pushy' mother, like daughter By REBECCA ENGLISH, Daily Mail
08:30am 20th August 2004 Tall, Blonde and statuesque, Lady Gabriella Windsor has clearly inherited her mother's looks. In addition, Princess Michael of Kent appears to have passed on her tendency to rub the Americans up the wrong way.
Months after graduating from university and starting work as a writer, 23-year-old Gabriella has already run into a spot of bother.
In an article on food for the Spectator magazine, she describes British fare as 'bland' and consisting of 'warm beer, grey curries and unidentifiable soup'.
Her real venom, however, is saved for cuisine in the U.S., where she has spent the past four years studying. 'American food is overrated, unhealthy and revolting and the sooner my friends wean themselves off it, the better they will feel,' she says, writing under the name Ella Windsor.
The biggest purveyor of junk, she says, is the popular family restaurant chain the Cheesecake Factory. 'Grotesque' is the word she uses to describe its slices of dessert the size of bricks.
'It must put a strain on family life, having to watch your nearest and dearest eating this gunk,' she says. Ella singles out for attention the Tons of Fun Burger, described as: 'Double patties, double cheese, triple sesame-seed bun and secret sauce served with fries'.
She writes: 'A pastrami sandwich comes with a good six inches of meat in the middle - how do you get your mouth around something that is bigger than your head? After a few attempts, any appetite you might once have had is gone.
'Have you tried an American apple? They look perfect - enormous, red and shiny - but have the consistency of cotton wool. 'It's the same with the meat: huge, juicy-looking steaks and chops, perfectly grilled, pink inside, but tasting of wet paper.'
Back in the UK, however, Lady Gabriella, who is 30th in line to the throne, still isn't happy. 'I flew back from America looking forward to shepherd's pie and pints of beer only to be confronted by an upsurge in American fast food in London.'
It is not the first time that the outspoken royal has risked the wrath of her friends in the U.S.. Shortly before graduating from Brown University on Rhode Island she wrote a 'searing exposé' of her fellow students' alcohol abuse, drug taking, sexual licentiousness and all-round bad behaviour.
And recently her mother - dubbed Princess Pushy for her regal airs - caused a storm on both sides of the Atlantic when she allegedly told a group of black American diners to 'go back to the colonies'. In an interview to rebut the claims she stirred up even more trouble by using the world 'half-caste' and referring to black South Africans as 'these adorable people'.
Ella's attack on U.S. food was greeted with disdain by experts.
Sally Clarke, of Clarke's restaurant in London, credited with bringing Californian-style cooking to London, said: 'Fast food is bad food wherever you go in the world and unfortunately she seems to have lumped it together with every other type of American cuisine.
'I can honestly say that I have learnt more about food in America than anywhere else. In terms of quality, freshness, seasonality and taste, the restaurants there are second to none.'
YUM!
Sausages baked right into the Yorkshire Pudding with a gravy(can't remember if it is poured over or in with the entire lot--I know it is a similar gravy to the type put in Shephard's Pie though--beef or onion gravy). It is good stuff!
Meijers has great food here in the Midwest. Supposedly many local chefs in the area by their produce there in a pinch. I concur--they get some awesome blueberries in season and at 97 cents a pint on sale, you can't beat it!
Also, as an Aussie, I feel I must point out that vegemite is better than marmite - but I confess to saying that out of patriotism and nothing else.
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LOL, my mother will only claim Marmite in an act of patriotism as well!
Oh friend, my British Grandpa only died last year at 81 and he ate like that and finished his meats down to the bone, fat and all. Of course in world war II the man inhaled fuel from his boat that sank and lived so I guess to his body that fatty food was nothing after that.
Everything boiled to death.
Yup, that is my mother with veggies.
Loved Warwick Castle btw, one of my favorites to visit when we went there as kids.
My mother loves mangos and the like. We lived in Florida for years and I despise mangos, papayas, and the worst--guava and cream cheese pastries--think it is a Cuban pastry--yeeuck!
Not all steak in the US is not fed the same way and it changes the taste. Some of the beef in US is imported form Argentina and has a very strange flavor, like COD liver oil. Range fed, corn fed are the two most likely. In Florida steaks are wonderful (bought in the right stores), it is corn fed. While in CA Range fed is usual and it is tougher meat, but the flavor is good.
Next time her royalty visits here she should make sure she gets an invite to Ruth Chris Steak House. Expensive but lovely!!!!! I do have to say that I really loved the Angus beef in the British Isles.
I agree--their menu is huge--as is their portions. I usually share if something can be agreed on. I love their orange chicken dish(something like sweet and sour chicken).
That is hilarious!!! We call the sweet muffins just plain ol' muffins, and the Egg McMuffin the English muffin. You learn something new every day!
She should try tomatos purchased from a grocery store - Bright red and perfectly shaped, with the consistancy of an apple and an utterly bland taste.
What about toad in the 'ole?
They don't drink it "warm"; they just don't drink it ice cold. I keep my (homebrewed British ales) beer fairly cold, but drink it slowly, and the best flavor is after it's warmed up a bit.
But that's the difference between light American lagers and British style ales: you actually want to taste the latter.
I"ve heard that about Aussie wine too.
How about a chip buttie?
That explains it . . . she's inherited a lack of class from Mum there. Sheesh, don't y'all have any non-embarrassing royals to trot out? ;)
I can't do the lamb thing either. My mom used to be big on the mint. She used to grow it. She hasn't used mint for a long time now but I always remember her having it around.
And where you can get Brussels sprouts as a pizza topping
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