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

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.

She should have given me her ticket, I will eat all of that regardless of where I'm at. A nice salad that wouldn't make me bedridden is a dream ('Merica, fuck yea)

Something about pound her with cheese? I didn't know they had such hard cheeses in France.

The toast for her beans and toast was too rare but the waitstaff refused to take it back

English diet

European tacos are the funniest shit.

Funniest as in "laugh or cry"

Jesus christ just post it to me woman. All of it.

It's called being a wanker.

"We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot. There was fish, sardines and rice - I was sick to death of looking at rice. There was pasta and salads, none of this was marked (labelled). One night there was a Greek night and they had kebabs, I couldn't eat that. It's the worst holiday I've ever been on."

She even got kebab

We said wrong answer only

French tacos is uh.. Something

she wants the guy beside her to just stop talking so she can enjoy her food

It's always fun to try it once while you are there, fast food chains outside of the us tend to taste better and sometimes have different options then back in the states. But it's usually a once and done type of deal, I want to try the local cuisine more than anything!

Her food was obviously prepared near spices

The didn't have boiled meat and nuclear green peas.

Why even travel abroad if you won't eat the food?

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.

That certainly is an element but whether that story is an urban legend or not is matter of much debate:

“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.”

https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/who-owns-chicken-tikka-masala/

Fair!

She ate one (1) gyro and instantly shriveled up like a witch.

Stray black pepper flake

Ok, but can I sue if someone tries to serve me English food in Greece?

I'm picturing a crepe with beef crumbles

Turns out, yes. Assault is a crime in Greece.

Watery tarts handing out pies is no means for a system of cuisine!

"western food" is something that only exists in foreign countries anyways, like "asian food". If it is something that is available, it's not really what I'm used to from home, but some weird mish-mash of what someone thinks the typical american/british/german/other (in that order) eats. And on top of that, it's usually terrible quality, not due to a lack of skill, just well, not having the right ingredients, not knowing the nuances of the food or what it's supposed to taste like. So between a postmodernist interpretation of what someone thinks I eat, or proper local food, I really don't understand why you'd ever not eat the local food.

But it's not only western people. Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese traveling in Switzerland do like to buy/bring instant noodles and cook them at the hotel instead of eating local food (not that there really is local swiss food, there's like 3 dishes and then it's mostly an amalgam of italian, french and german cuisine). Part of that is the high price, but not only. And from the few times I traveled in other european contries with friends from those asian countries, it seems common enough that they prefer to eat at asian restaurants. Except for italy, where everyone loves the local food.

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.

She's had to go, to Burger King.

There is definitely something cool to be said about living in a place where one day I can eat some amazing Greek food and then the next day have Chinese or Mexican. The US has some amazing options on almost every street corner (in a city, get fucking rekt suburbia)

British diners and pubs are a blight in SE Asia

It’s barely passable

You'd love "An Idiot Abroad," the show of an average British bloke (Karl Pilkington) puttering around like an idiot in other countries.

I still can't wrap my head around a whole country eating canned beans for breakfast every day of their life.

It's just bizarre.

"The problem with Scotland... Is that it's full of Scots!"

I mean it's her job to bitch on our behalf, that's not Karening, that's being good at an important job.

I refuse to go to places named like ointments for athlete's foot.

What the hell is going on with your thumb? It looks like a tiny dickhead peeping out from behind its foreskin

Greeh'vie

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.

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

You'd lose your shit in Australia. It's all souvlakis and open plate gyros

An American gyro with a big pile of iceberg lettuce and sliced onions and tzatziki sauce is pretty awesome. Can they do that?

she OD'd on too-spicy meth.

especially because those pies would have soggy bottoms.

My dinner last Saturday

That photo at the top of the article is just a random image the editor found.
There is a photo of the actual person who complained that she only got chips for one night of her 7 day holiday further down the article.

No lol you should look up what french tacos are, it's nothing remotely Mexican

Look it up online it's quite something