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However,it’s difficult not to have some sympathy with foreigners who think that many British ‘restaurants’ should post health warnings and be equipped with an emergency medical centre.(There’s nothing wrong with British food that a good stomach pump cannot cure).It may come as a surprise to many foreigners to learn that British bookshops are bursting with cookery books and they aren’t all written by foreigners.The UK also has many popular television cookery programmes that usually feature eccentric (and excellent) chefs and scrumptious looking food.The British can console themselves with the knowledge that they (or some of them) at least know how to behave at the table,even if they don’t have much idea what to serve on it.
Drinking habits
Contrary to popular belief,the British aren’t all drunks and are languishing in a fairly lowly 12th position in the alcohol consumption league among the world’s top 30 developed countries.The British do at least know how to make a good cuppa (tea) and don’t believe in polluting it with lemon or herbs (just milk and/or sugar).The British recipe for any national disaster,whether it’s a cricket thrashing at the hands of the Aussies or a power cut during Coronation Street,is to make a ‘nice cup of tea’.Tea is drunk at almost any time (approaching 200 million cups a day),not just in the morning or ‘afternoon tea’.Many Britons drink tea in the same quantities as other Europeans drink mineral water or wine.