Quotes About English Food

“I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.” –Martha Harrison

“English Cooking: You just put things in hot water and take them out again after a while.” –Anonymous French Chef

“Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.” –Jackie Mason

On London restaurants: “All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.” –Hugh Casson

“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.” –Waverly Root

“But since he stood for England
And knew what England means,
Unless you give him bacon
You must not give him beans.”
–G.K. Chesterton

“All in all, I think the British actually hate food, otherwise they couldn’t possibly abuse it so badly. Americans, on the other hand, love food but seldom care what it tastes like.” –Bill Marsano

On the English: “As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.” –George Orwell

“English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone’s time and money.” –Jay Rayner

“”England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.” –Katherine Mansfield