A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday
This is absolutely NotTheOnion material. It’s refreshing and rare to see something SO fucking oniony. lol.
I’m the “father” or /r/NotTheOnion - building that place up to what it became. I’ve said before and say again that it’s hard to run a subreddit like that - or community here - because deciding what’s fun/weird vs. what is ACTUALLY truly “nottheonion”-y is hard. Truly nottheonion stuff is kinda rare. So it’s always a matter of - do you want that one really oniony thing once per month, or do you allow more stuff that’s less oniony?
Because articles like this one don’t come along that often. lol.
My point is just that this article was a truly wild ride.
It’s the mirror so it’s fake
You have the right to fuck off.
Ok, but can I sue if someone tries to serve me English food in Greece?
Turns out, yes. Assault is a crime in Greece.
British diners and pubs are a blight in SE Asia
Jesus christ just post it to me woman. All of it.
"Susan, who has ulcerative colitis, said: “On a morning you could have toast, a hard boiled egg, or something in sauce. There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.”
Oh no Mozarella and tomatoes? Atrocious.
I have a disease that desires trash food too, it’s called shame, not ulcerative colitis. I think she got those mixed up.
If you have a medical condition that requires a special diet… you have no option that planning ahead, you cannot expect the world to be ready for any possible medical requirement
Right? She “can’t” eat kebab, but demands bacon and sausage?
Idk, I have UC and the things she mentioned are fine for me. I struggle with scratchy fibrous foods: whole grains, seeds, fruit skins, raw veggies. I don’t have an issue with bacon or fat in general.
Yeah seems pretty person specific, where I looked it says soluble fibers are fine, dairy is bad if you are lactose intolerant, fatty foods are bad during flare ups.
Just reading those three words in that order, “mozzarella and tomatoes” just made me crave a Caprese salad.
So fucking good. What kind of loser whines about being served that godly combination of foods?
What happened to her? (Wrong anwsers only)
she wants the guy beside her to just stop talking so she can enjoy her food
Her food was obviously prepared near spices
The didn’t have boiled meat and nuclear green peas.
She ate one (1) gyro and instantly shriveled up like a witch.
English diet
We said wrong answer only
Stray black pepper flake
The toast for her beans and toast was too rare but the waitstaff refused to take it back
She found an angel at the bottom of a lake who gave her a mince pie and from then on it was her birth right.
Watery tarts handing out pies is no means for a system of cuisine!
My favorite one of these is this from 2017: https://www.nine.com.au/travel/couple-thinks-all-inclusive-resort-wristband-covers-island-20170503-p5n9z3.html
In an embarrassing mix-up, a British couple holidaying on the island of Rhodes in Greece have walked out of a restaurant without paying – mistakenly presuming their all-inclusive resort wristband covered the whole island.
The couple were dining at a restaurant in town and stood up to leave without settling their bill. When they were stopped by wait staff, the confused couple showed their resort wristband – presuming that would fix the situation.
After an awkward back-and-forth, the couple finally settled their bill and left.
Slightly more concerning is that, according to local news source Dimokratiki, this isn’t an isolated incident. The tabloid reports that the very same thing happened to the owner of the restaurant late last year – and isn’t uncommon.
A consumer rights expert has explained what you can do if your hotel on a foreign holiday refuses to serve you a full English breakfast
Fuck all?
Lord do I hate people like this… I once sat, as a foreigner, in a small Japanese restaurant when some American woman started arguing with the young waiter about not wanting some ingredient (might have been eggplant?). She was loud, rude, and entitled. The poor waiter spoke very little English and our Japanese wasn’t good enough that we could help.
When you travel it’s up to you to know the words of foods you don’t like or can’t eat. If you get something you don’t like you politely eat what you do or order something else. Enjoy the cultural exchange ffs.
It did mention that there may be a case against the company that sold the vacation package if specific promises were made about the meals. Like something specifically marketed towards people with dietary restrictions.
International travel requires at least some flexibility and the lady in the article has none.
There is no dietary restriction that exists that requires a person to eat only full English breakfasts.
It’s called being a wanker.
Talk about being a cunt. The best part of trying new foods while traveling is not knowing what it is and going for it. I get that things like peanuts being able to kill you and all and well not everyone wants to eat a living squid but overall you’re there for the experience. Also, I would have told that American woman to just STFU or GTFO. Don’t ruin my meal or insult the staff. ugh
A full English breakfast too, is what she demanded. That is no small task.
The Mirror… Says it all.
What on earth am I even reading? 😂
Karen had a bad trip.
british karen at its finest.
This poor woman sure does seem to be living a miserable existence. Does the UK have voluntary euthanasia?
It’s called Butlins.
I wish
Imagine seeking out British food in fucking Greece.
Imagine seeking out British food
in fucking Greece.Imagine
seeking outBritish foodin fucking Greece.Dragons?
You mean chicken tikka masala?
Invented by a Pakistani British in Glasgow. However you think about it, it’s not Indian.
Invented in response to persistent questions of “where’s the fuckin’ gravy?” followed by threats of mayhem.
That is highly contested mind you.
https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/who-owns-chicken-tikka-masala/
The British attempts to claim chicken tikka masala for their own have been heard in India, and they have raised ire. Rahul Verma, a New Delhi street food expert, bluntly rejects the Shish Mahal story, claiming to have tasted chicken tikka masala in Uttar Pradesh or the Punjab earlier in the 1970s. Hemanshu Kumar of the website Eating Out in Delhi, has gone on record calling out the silliness of the designation campaign, and offered an alternative origin for the dish in a recipe from the 1961 edition of Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery. And Zaeemuddin Ahmad, a chef at New Delhi’s Karim Hotel, which was established by the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, claims that his family invented the recipe for chicken tikka masala many, many years before all of this. The general consensus being that Sarwar’s Glaswegian campaign [to obtain European Union Protected Designation of Origin status for Chicken Tikka Masala] was anything from absurd to offensive and imperialist, pillaging South Asia’s culinary culture in a type of aggressive culinary neo-colonialism.
But the biggest problem for Sarwar’s campaign, and for any attempt to pin down the origins of chicken tikka masala to write it into the story of British food, is that the Glaswegian origin story is definitively a crock of shit. The real origins of the dish are incredibly diffuse. “Many chefs have claimed to have ‘invented’ [chicken tikka masala], but it was certainly not Ali Ahmed Aslam of Shish Mahal,” says Grove. “The restaurant did not open until the ‘60s and there was already a Glasgow claimant in the shape of Sultan Ahmed Ansari, who owned Taj Mahal and claimed to have invented it in the late ‘50s.” But more than just the fact that there’s an earlier Glaswegian tale of CTM [chicken tikka masala is so ubiquitous that it has its own acronym], the very story of the fussy patron and the tomato soup was pure drunken invention. “Along with Iqbal Wahhab, now of Roast Restaurant, I started the urban myth of CTM being tikka with added Campbell’s tomato soup and spices for a joke,” admits Grove. “Yet somehow it has become accepted as the official explanation the world over.”
Kinda? From what I can tell, CTM isn’t an Indian dish, it’s more a British dish made of Indian elements. Kinda like American Chinese food.
British dish made by the Indian diaspora. The people matter as much as do the “elements”.
Sure, same as with American Chinese food. But the dishes are also driven by western palates. It wouldn’t exist if some Glaswegian didn’t ask for sauce with their chicken tikka.
Fish and chips are kinda okay.
What the hell is going on with your thumb? It looks like a tiny dickhead peeping out from behind its foreskin
Oh god, I just did. How horrible! 😭
I’d rather not, thanks.
I’m about to go to sleep and I wouldn’t want to have nightmares.
Or indigestion
It’s easy if you try…
Someone went to the papers because she went to Spain and there were too many Spanish people.
There’s wee villages in Spain made of British “Expats” who basically live like they’re back in the UK. We literally have TV shows selling this lifestyle.
Brits go abroad purely for the Sun and nothing else.
As someone who doesn’t like Greek food I’ve come up with an easy solution to not liking the food somewhere: I just don’t go.
Most Balkan food is just… Mostly not overtly offensive.
Greece is amazing, but if you want a wild ride, try what passes for “Mexican” food there. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Makes Taco Bell look legit.
European tacos are the funniest shit.
Funniest as in “laugh or cry”
French tacos is uh… Something
I mean I’m aussie and ours aren’t exactly quality product but even I look at European “Mexican” foods and know that ain’t right
I’m picturing a crepe with beef crumbles
I was served a sausage wrapped in a savory crepe by a Balkan woman in Paris when I asked what the “authentic taco” was.
So like, not a taco. It was dope but it was not a taco.
Look it up online it’s quite something
I would prefer the worst Greek Mexican food over the best Greek food.
I think a food tour of what countries imagine other foods to be would be quite fun.
Can I ask what specifically you don’t like about it? I’m just curious, no judgement at all.
The combination of flavor profiles and textures just aren’t for me. For example, I don’t like feta cheese or olives and they’re in just about everything.
I do like me some grilled lamb, though.
Fair!
You’d lose your shit in Australia. It’s all souvlakis and open plate gyros
She added: “Is it reasonable to claim for a lack of ‘English food’ on a continental holiday? Probably not. However, at least one TUI customer has succeeded in claiming limited compensation for this alleged breach, although she has got to buy another holiday to use it!”
When even The Mirror is forced to tell the British boomers that they are shit outta luck, you know it was a garbage claim to begin with.
