[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: chips chips chips more chips and pizza

[Neil Ward]

Starling said:

<<<i pity you brits, who have just pizza hut.  i tried a pizza hut in
vienna...never again.  eeew yuck.  and don't eat their chinese food either.
and i've had british (ok, scottish) chinese takeout...that's another thing
that isn't better in translation...oh well.>>>

- cough - Well, we don't have *just* Pizza Hut - that really would be
depressing!

I think it's generally agreed that Pizza Hut pizzas taste of antimatter (the
boxes are tastier).  There are other imported chains here, such as Pizza
Express, Pizzeria Uno and the Chicago Pizza Pie Company, but as I implied
earlier, the best pizza here will be found in solitary restaurants (usually
Italian family-run places, it has to be said).  Even the 1 pizza slices you
can buy from stands/kiosks in the main shopping streets are quite good, IMO
(not that I buy them that often).

The same applies with Chinese food, although the British Chinese community
(like the Indian/Pakistani community later on) definitely adapted its
cuisine to British tastes: they sell chips in most Chinese Takeaways!
London and Manchester both have a Chinatown quarter, which is a safe bet if
you want something a little more authentic; like New York's Chinatown, these
areas and the restaurants are frequented by Chinese people, many of whom
live and die there (not in the restaurants... oh, you know what I mean).
The supermarkets are great too...

I know I poke fun at the British diet from time to time, but I'd hate to
leave non-Brits with the impression that all we eat is HP feast food,
plastic pizza and 'chips with everything'.  Joking aside, that is such a
huge myth (although it's a huge myth keenly observed by many tourist traps,
the majority of football louts and most of the pubs in London!).

Neil is now working, unpaid, for the British Pizza Marketing Board.
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