[QUOTE=magiciansampras;7854189]I saw a couple of pictures of beans on toast and it looks good. I've never had it!
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A cuisine marked by such indigestible glutinous contributors to the national flatulence (which once hung over London and the parking lots of roadside "cafs" like a green miasmic cloud) as "Beans on Toast" or "Toad in the Hole" or "Spotted Dick" was inevitably to fall in the face of invasion by those loud and kilted McDonalds, waving their golden arches about like newly-whetted claymores, and the massed regiments of turbaned curry-pirates and their peppery Vindaloos, finding the English easy targets, accustomed to dishes which could best be described as either gooey lumps rady to be doused in HP Sauce or other condiments from greasy fly-spotted containers in the midst of the table.

Oh, what a cultural and culinary descent.... From the zenith, Jack Aubrey's toasted cheese to the nadir, fried bread! At least the wily Scots ha' the decency to serve haggis securely hidden in the sheep's paunch. Were it an English kitchen, the cooks would simply fix it in a pot and slop it on your plate with a big spoon.

I have a Belgian crony who claims that British food is so bad that even the local habit of dousing much of it in vinegar doesn't hide the flavor or general lack of any.