English pubs in spain
Annoying enough on their own but why advertise Sunday lunch with real Bisto gravy?

Real gravy is made with the fat and juices that run out of the meat when it is roasted - there is no such thing as real Bisto gravy

Bisto gravy is for people who are so shit at cooking/lazy that they can't even knock together a simple sauce

5 ingredients

Juices from the meat plus a small bit of cold water and gravy browning, add flour and mix into a goo/paste then add the hot water from the stinkiest greens that are being cooked to go with the meal (cabbage is ideal for this) and stir until at your preferred consistency

Easy isn't it

Ps if your going to live in Spain (or any other country for that matter) then please try to learn some of the language, think about how much you complain about bloody foreigners coming over here and then invert the situation.

I spent 12 years living and working overseas and if there was one thing that got on my tits it was fucking ex-pats who thought they were still living in Surrey but with better weather.
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Sun 4 May 2008, 13:42, 8 replies)

kind of
lost the plot there
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Sun 4 May 2008, 13:43, closed)

Indeed
They're often the same type of people that hate immigrants in the UK, when most immigrants in the UK aren't anywhere near as insular as that.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Sun 4 May 2008, 13:47, closed)

*laughs at losing plot
But I agree wholehearted with the 'Surrey in Spain' crowd, and a lot of brits abroad on package deals and such, 'I'm not eating/drinking/talking this filthy foreign muck!'.

THEN GO FUCKING HOME!!
( ..wil, Sun 4 May 2008, 13:50, closed)

This
Yes, I get really fucking hacked off with this. If you want British food (like, chicken tikka massala, or spaghetti bolognese) stay in fucking Britain.

The whole point of going abroad is experiencing the culture, food and way of life. Don't complain because the food's nothing like wot your mummy cooks, innit? Or it's too hot. You're in fucking Greece for God's sake, what did you expect the weather to be like????

*Silently fumes*
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 4 May 2008, 13:56, closed)

Totally agree
I've lived in Spain and now France and the expats who make no effort to integrate or learn a few words of the language really piss me off. I stay away from the "English" pubs in Paris unless there's a really important footie match.

The same goes for the holidaymakers - I spotted some in Turkey ordering burgers and chips. At least try the local food while you're over.
(lolwhites, Sun 4 May 2008, 14:02, closed)

Bisto gravy is delicious!
I can sometimes be found drinking it from a cup and then having to make more for my dinner because I've finished it all off.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sun 4 May 2008, 14:12, closed)

as an expat living in spain...
I cant agree more.
But then again the spanish don't exactly make any effort to integrate with us either.

Take for example, theres two irish pubs in the town i live in. One of the irish pubs is a fake irish pub, flogging overpriced crap and run by spanish people. Then you have a real irish pub, run by irish people selling proper guinness and its cheaper. Which one is the busiest? Yes the fake one because its spanish owned.

But aye I completely agree with the English pubs in spain. Especially in the tourist traps like Benidorm. I generally go for the spanish stuff where possible. But ive had visitors come over to stay and they want english food all the time.
(Miggyman, Sun 4 May 2008, 14:23, closed)

Nicely put, in a nutshell
Living in Greece pissed me off for that reason. Pseudo-English bars offering bingo / karaoke nights, showing old episodes of Mr Bean on obscenely gargantuan tv screens, proudly advertising *real* Heinz beans with fool Eenglish breakfast.

Archidia!
(Greek for bollocks)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 4 May 2008, 14:26, closed)