one of my dad's old colleagues went to tenerife with his wife every year
for the same 2 weeks, to the same resort.

every year, they took a separate suitcase, packed with english teabags, walkers crisps and other such british delicacies. because god forbid they should accidentally eat any spanish food. they even took oxo cubes with them.

i wish this were a "one year the wife forgot the oxo cubes and the husband had to go to the shop and say, 'ast any bisto'" pun. but no. the truth is sadder than any pun. even an amorous badger star wars pun.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 13:44, 9 replies)

I thought all Spanish restaurants were owned by British ex-pats and as such only served proper British food like bolognese and curry?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 13:50, closed)

yer
but you can still catch spanish from the environment, if you don't stay in your own apartment every night
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 13:50, closed)

they probably complained that it was too hot as well

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 14:02, closed)

undoubtedly
and that nobody spoke english properly
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 14:26, closed)

It is not the shop, if you want to get the joke right.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 14:51, closed)

he complained that they only had cheese sandwiches too...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 15:59, closed)

Walkers crisis aren't British.
They're Frito-Lays/Pepsi's merciless attempt to conquer the British market. Smith's Salt'n'Shake would be more fitting.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 15:24, closed)

Or Seabrooks
Still made in Bradford*

*this may have a positive or negative effect on their Englishness
(squigbobble existed, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 17:13, closed)

And presumably, this couple are still happily married and happily taking the same holiday.
What purgatory man will endure, eh?
( joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 24 Apr 2014, 16:34, closed)