As an english ex-pat, when I think of England I think of: builder's tea, pies, breakfast, dark beer and K Cider, London, squats, Indian take-away, baked beans, racist nans, wet bricks, round-abouts, little cars that all look the same, trains, Fruit Pastilles, JD Sports, juice concentrate, back gardens with ponds in them, door knockers and post flaps, crisps in pubs (esp. walker's cheese and onion), pirate radio, documentaries on prime time television, the news being eternally about missing children, "lemonade", sparkling or still, walk left stand right, please put your hood down sir, and people enjoying rocky beaches on cloudy, cold days.
im not sure he really likes
though thanks for making it clearer to me who the audience for these sorts of programs is.
I see your point here, but it's more a feature of modern documentary making than British cultural colonialism, isn't it? You can't just have someone telling you about something they know a lot about, you have to have James May asking them blokey questions about it and then frowning in concentration when they answer.did you even read what i wrote? i said they should know something about the subject. ie the food, its history, etc. its not expecting too much. food is meant to be their specialised subject. i accept every chef cant know about every cuisine but if they dont, get one who does. its not a difficult concept to grasp.
So what exactly do you have to do to prove that you "really like" Indian food, then?
confidence+stupidity=lethal combination.