Food

The vast majority of pub food is reheated Brake Brothers or some other centralised, bulk producing supplier.

I suppose that it means that there is a certain pervading minimum level of quality, but it's not exactly striving for excellence. And it means that all pub food is the same, wherever you go.

Choice is minimal, and there is nothing like seasonal or regional variation.

French food is all duck & frites, so they can fuck right off too.

You can all stop with the misty-eyed romanticism of how there's a wonderful little bistro on every street corner, with their own home-pressed vin du table, and a trois-etoilled chef in the tiny galley kitchen.

It just doesn't exist, except on rare occasions, just as it exists on rare occasions in rural GB.

It's duck and frites, 80% of the time, every time.

French have a fantastic appreciation of their seasonal food. And overall they take greater pride.. But a lot of surrender monkeys have cashed in on the food tourism and gone for the packet sauce and chain shite. But on the whole the small outlet in France serves up better fodder than the jacket potato, omelette and ham egg and chips trash we get here... Don't even get my started on the shit sandwich shops that fill London!

I used to live at rive gauche near warren street, it would queue out the door and sell out by 3 every day. Amazing french bistro.

The overall standard has risen but prices have gone up by a greater degree. £12 for Sunday lunch at a pub! Chewy meat, spuds kept warm all day and a piss weak jus..

I have a rule of thumb where I won't touch a place that serves jacket spuds, has a menu with more than 20 main courses, serves Italian/Greek/thai etc from the same kitchen. Or serves food secondary to drink/entertainment etc. Overall I do well.

Surprisingly foreign food outlets tend to be better than traditional English.