A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday
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.
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.
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.
"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. Funny thing is fatty and processed foods like bacons and sausage are in the avoid list for people for ulcerative colitis (so is dairy for some to be fair but that is more case specific I think).
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
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.
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?
Right? She “can’t” eat kebab, but demands bacon and sausage?
I have a disease that desires trash food too, it’s called shame, not ulcerative colitis. I think she got those mixed up.
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.
A full English breakfast too, is what she demanded. That is no small task.
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.
You have the right to fuck off.
A while ago I watched a YouTube video where an American creator gave the pros and cons of sailing in the Mediterranean. Since I only sail in the Mediterranean, I was curious to find out what the differences are between sailing in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. One of the pros of sailing in Greece was “There is a decent tavern in every small town/village.” The cons were “You can only find Greek (and sometimes Italian) food. No Chinese, no Mexican…”. My first reaction was WTF!!!
Americans are accustomed to having access to worldwide cuisine options 24/7/365. She must’ve had a psychological breakdown finding herself in the middle of the Mediterranean sea with only Mediterranean food options 🤣 How out of touch must some one be to not only subconsciously feel troubled by something so insignificant, but then to set up her ring light & camera to consciously rant about it out loud & post it on YouTube 🤦🏼♀️
It’s not that they don’t expect there to be Greek food or that they won’t want to eat Greek food. It’s that Americans used to having a huge variety of food available, and may need to be warned that they will not have that available.
I can get pretty much any style cuisine (my choice betweem authentic or Americanized version) for lunch any day. I could have Bao on Monday, Schnitzel on Tuesday, Tikka Masala on Wednesday, Carne Guisada on Thursday, and Injera on Friday all without having to travel more than 5 minutes.
And it’s not just urban areas. Even the tiny backwoods town my parents live in has country cooking, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian restaurants (though the Chinese and Italian are really bad)
Oh no a vacation of falafel, baklava, and lamb… Oh the humanity
We don’t do falafel in Greece. We’ve started adopting it over the last decade (mostly as a vegetarian alternative to meatballs and stuff) but it’s definitely not a traditional Greek thing.
Would you like some feta instead?
Spanakotyropites please!
Fuckin love feta and anything with olives Basamic vineger and oil Mmm
My favorite is fried feta covered in sesame, honey, and balsamic :D
The Mirror… Says it all.
She should have bring her own food, like the Dutch do when they travel to Spain/south of France.
It’s hard to survive without bitterballen.
When I travel I pack a couple Sheetz sausage shmiscuits to keep me from getting depressed from traveling.
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.
Can I eat bacon with ulcerative colitis?
Spoiler: no, you should not eat bacon when you have ulcerative colitis. She was probably better off health wise on that vacation than she was at home.
Or she’s just lying about her malady. She prob had a tummy ache, put the symptoms into ChatGPT, and it told her she had it.
She’s an idiot but that guidance is not universal :( I have UC and I do fine with bacon
Yeah… she is definitely a Karen
I definitely misread “ulcerative colitis” and, while intrigued, I still thought it odd to bring up in an article about food.
I’d pay good money to see her travel through Asia.
“Today I’m here in Singapore, eating in McDonalds.”
“Today I’m here in China, eating in McDonalds.”
“Today I’m here in Japan, eating in McDonalds.”
I don’t get the point of going to another culture……. To just eat and experience the Americanised stuff.
So they can say return home and ask their friends and family, “do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?”
“Ah’ll just ‘ave some chips an’ a Big Mac please, duck.”
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
English food is just horrible. They have the worst kitchen of the whole world.
Imagine seeking out British food in fucking Greece.
Imagine seeking out British food
in fucking Greece.Imagine
seeking outBritish foodin fucking Greece.Fish and chips are kinda okay.
It’s easy if you try…
You mean chicken tikka masala?
Invented by a Pakistani Brit in Glasgow. However you think about it, it’s not Indian.
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.”
Invented in response to persistent questions of “where’s the fuckin’ gravy?” followed by threats of mayhem.
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”.
Oh god, I just did. How horrible! 😭
To appease the Brits who are rightfully enraged, I have eaten some wonderful food in Great Britain. I have, however, also eaten the absolute worst of the worst I’ve ever tasted there.
To be absolutely fair, the good stuff was mostly from countries you’ve invaded in the past 😅
I’d rather not, thanks.
I’m about to go to sleep and I wouldn’t want to have nightmares.
Or indigestion
Dragons?
