A consumer rights champion has explained the rules after one woman had to eat Greek food every day on her Greek holiday
Imagine seeking out British food in fucking Greece.
Imagine seeking out British food
in fucking Greece.Imagine
seeking outBritish foodin fucking Greece.You mean chicken tikka masala?
Invented by a Pakistani Brit in Glasgow. However you think about it, it’s not Indian.
Invented in response to persistent questions of “where’s the fuckin’ gravy?” followed by threats of mayhem.
Greeh’vie
Fish and chips are kinda okay.
What the hell is going on with your thumb? It looks like a tiny dickhead peeping out from behind its foreskin
It’s barely passable
Least bad English food
Oh god, I just did. How horrible! 😭
To appease the Brits who are rightfully enraged, I have eaten some wonderful food in Great Britain. I have, however, also eaten the absolute worst of the worst I’ve ever tasted there.
To be absolutely fair, the good stuff was mostly from countries you’ve invaded in the past 😅
I’d rather not, thanks.
I’m about to go to sleep and I wouldn’t want to have nightmares.
Or indigestion
Dragons?
It’s easy if you try…
Someone went to the papers because she went to Spain and there were too many Spanish people.
There’s wee villages in Spain made of British “Expats” who basically live like they’re back in the UK. We literally have TV shows selling this lifestyle.
Brits go abroad purely for the Sun and nothing else.
What on earth am I even reading? 😂
Karen had a bad trip.
british karen at its finest.
Susan, who has ulcerative colitis, said: "On a morning you could have toast, a hard boiled egg, or something in sauce. There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.
Can I eat bacon with ulcerative colitis?
Spoiler: no, you should not eat bacon when you have ulcerative colitis. She was probably better off health wise on that vacation than she was at home.
Yeah… she is definitely a Karen
She’s an idiot but that guidance is not universal :( I have UC and I do fine with bacon
Or she’s just lying about her malady. She prob had a tummy ache, put the symptoms into ChatGPT, and it told her she had it.
bet she isnt controlling her UC symptoms.
I definitely misread “ulcerative colitis” and, while intrigued, I still thought it odd to bring up in an article about food.
The problem with vacationing in other countries is they’re so full of foreigners - that woman probably
“The problem with Scotland… Is that it’s full of Scots!”
This is absolutely NotTheOnion material. It’s refreshing and rare to see something SO fucking oniony. lol.
I’m the “father” or /r/NotTheOnion - building that place up to what it became. I’ve said before and say again that it’s hard to run a subreddit like that - or community here - because deciding what’s fun/weird vs. what is ACTUALLY truly “nottheonion”-y is hard. Truly nottheonion stuff is kinda rare. So it’s always a matter of - do you want that one really oniony thing once per month, or do you allow more stuff that’s less oniony?
Because articles like this one don’t come along that often. lol.
My point is just that this article was a truly wild ride.
It’s the mirror so it’s fake
"Susan, who has ulcerative colitis, said: “On a morning you could have toast, a hard boiled egg, or something in sauce. There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.”
Oh no Mozarella and tomatoes? Atrocious. Funny thing is fatty and processed foods like bacons and sausage are in the avoid list for people for ulcerative colitis (so is dairy to be fair but that is more case specific I think).
If you have a medical condition that requires a special diet… you have no option that planning ahead, you cannot expect the world to be ready for any possible medical requirement
Just reading those three words in that order, “mozzarella and tomatoes” just made me crave a Caprese salad.
So fucking good. What kind of loser whines about being served that godly combination of foods?
Idk, I have UC and the things she mentioned are fine for me. I struggle with scratchy fibrous foods: whole grains, seeds, fruit skins, raw veggies. I don’t have an issue with bacon or fat in general.
Yeah seems pretty person specific, where I looked it says soluble fibers are fine, dairy is bad if you are lactose intolerant, fatty foods are bad during flare ups.
Right? She “can’t” eat kebab, but demands bacon and sausage?
“We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot. There was fish, sardines and rice - I was sick to death of looking at rice. There was pasta and salads, none of this was marked (labelled). One night there was a Greek night and they had kebabs, I couldn’t eat that. It’s the worst holiday I’ve ever been on.”
She even got kebab
Why even travel abroad if you won’t eat the food?
I have a disease that desires trash food too, it’s called shame, not ulcerative colitis. I think she got those mixed up.
A while ago I watched a YouTube video where an American creator gave the pros and cons of sailing in the Mediterranean. Since I only sail in the Mediterranean, I was curious to find out what the differences are between sailing in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. One of the pros of sailing in Greece was “There is a decent tavern in every small town/village.” The cons were “You can only find Greek (and sometimes Italian) food. No Chinese, no Mexican…”. My first reaction was WTF!!!
Americans are accustomed to having access to worldwide cuisine options 24/7/365. She must’ve had a psychological breakdown finding herself in the middle of the Mediterranean sea with only Mediterranean food options 🤣 How out of touch must some one be to not only subconsciously feel troubled by something so insignificant, but then to set up her ring light & camera to consciously rant about it out loud & post it on YouTube 🤦🏼♀️
There is definitely something cool to be said about living in a place where one day I can eat some amazing Greek food and then the next day have Chinese or Mexican. The US has some amazing options on almost every street corner (in a city, get fucking rekt suburbia)
It’s not that they don’t expect there to be Greek food or that they won’t want to eat Greek food. It’s that Americans used to having a huge variety of food available, and may need to be warned that they will not have that available.
I can get pretty much any style cuisine (my choice betweem authentic or Americanized version) for lunch any day. I could have Bao on Monday, Schnitzel on Tuesday, Tikka Masala on Wednesday, Carne Guisada on Thursday, and Injera on Friday all without having to travel more than 5 minutes.
And it’s not just urban areas. Even the tiny backwoods town my parents live in has country cooking, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian restaurants (though the Chinese and Italian are really bad)
its always western people going other countries expecting the countries to have the food that they are used to, very strange thing, you might as well stay in the country you are from.
“western food” is something that only exists in foreign countries anyways, like “asian food”. If it is something that is available, it’s not really what I’m used to from home, but some weird mish-mash of what someone thinks the typical american/british/german/other (in that order) eats. And on top of that, it’s usually terrible quality, not due to a lack of skill, just well, not having the right ingredients, not knowing the nuances of the food or what it’s supposed to taste like. So between a postmodernist interpretation of what someone thinks I eat, or proper local food, I really don’t understand why you’d ever not eat the local food.
But it’s not only western people. Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese traveling in Switzerland do like to buy/bring instant noodles and cook them at the hotel instead of eating local food (not that there really is local swiss food, there’s like 3 dishes and then it’s mostly an amalgam of italian, french and german cuisine). Part of that is the high price, but not only. And from the few times I traveled in other european contries with friends from those asian countries, it seems common enough that they prefer to eat at asian restaurants. Except for italy, where everyone loves the local food.
all-inclusive, £750 [holiday] … Susan, who has ulcerative colitis
It seems like she should’ve confirmed with the agency that there would be food she could eat made available. Or maybe made other arrangements for her meals, maybe brought some snacks with her.
Why would Karen take accountability for her self. It is the universe that should be thinking ahead for her. /s
She could’ve eaten the food described in the article just fine with UC. She’s just a massive Karen.
This isn’t about her disease. She specifically mentions wanting/missing fried bacon (and presumably also sausage, since those are also traditionally part of a full english), which are both terrible foods to eat with UC.
If she’d asked for white bread and baked beans, that would make more sense and be suitable for UC, but bacon ain’t it. She’s just a karen who’s using her disease as an excuse to bitch about not getting what she wants.
White rice, fish and cooked vegetables, which are at least some of the food she was complaining about, are conversely actually an excellent meal for someone with UC
As someone who doesn’t like Greek food I’ve come up with an easy solution to not liking the food somewhere: I just don’t go.
Most Balkan food is just… Mostly not overtly offensive.
Greece is amazing, but if you want a wild ride, try what passes for “Mexican” food there. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Makes Taco Bell look legit.
European tacos are the funniest shit.
Funniest as in “laugh or cry”
French tacos is uh… Something
I’m picturing a crepe with beef crumbles
I was served a sausage wrapped in a savory crepe by a Balkan woman in Paris when I asked what the “authentic taco” was.
So like, not a taco. It was dope but it was not a taco.
Look it up online it’s quite something
Ok a vegetarian version of that would slap tho. Absolutely not a taco, but I’m in
I mean I’m aussie and ours aren’t exactly quality product but even I look at European “Mexican” foods and know that ain’t right
No lol you should look up what french tacos are, it’s nothing remotely Mexican
I would prefer the worst Greek Mexican food over the best Greek food.
I think a food tour of what countries imagine other foods to be would be quite fun.
Can I ask what specifically you don’t like about it? I’m just curious, no judgement at all.
The combination of flavor profiles and textures just aren’t for me. For example, I don’t like feta cheese or olives and they’re in just about everything.
I do like me some grilled lamb, though.
Fair!
You’d lose your shit in Australia. It’s all souvlakis and open plate gyros
An American gyro with a big pile of iceberg lettuce and sliced onions and tzatziki sauce is pretty awesome. Can they do that?
My favorite one of these is this from 2017: https://www.nine.com.au/travel/couple-thinks-all-inclusive-resort-wristband-covers-island-20170503-p5n9z3.html
In an embarrassing mix-up, a British couple holidaying on the island of Rhodes in Greece have walked out of a restaurant without paying – mistakenly presuming their all-inclusive resort wristband covered the whole island.
The couple were dining at a restaurant in town and stood up to leave without settling their bill. When they were stopped by wait staff, the confused couple showed their resort wristband – presuming that would fix the situation.
After an awkward back-and-forth, the couple finally settled their bill and left.
Slightly more concerning is that, according to local news source Dimokratiki, this isn’t an isolated incident. The tabloid reports that the very same thing happened to the owner of the restaurant late last year – and isn’t uncommon.
This would be so terrible. I hope no one ever does this to me, but forever. I would so hate to eat Greek food for all 8 meals per day for the rest of my life. That would be so bad please don’t do that.
8 meals a day?
Breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, noonsies, lunch, tea, dinner, and supper.
Did they stutter?
Yes, but if it’s Greek then especially 8, I don’t want to miss out on any suffering
…do you not?
Consumer rights expert Helen Dewdney, known as The Complaining Cow
They’ve got a Super Karen!
TBF Helen Dewdney is a consumer rights person. She generally explains and advises on misleading consumer practices. She is not championing the ladies gripe, she is commenting on the complaining ladies rights, which were provided by the travel provider, who kinda lumped everything under the idea of a ‘package holiday’ providing everything you require. She did actually say that it was probably not reasonable to expect English food as part of that.
There’s a big difference between knowing and advocating consumer rights and being a super karen. The internet has made standing up for your rights a aspect of shame or ridicule rather than something you should protect and practice.
And she’s a self proclaimed cow!
I mean it’s her job to bitch on our behalf, that’s not Karening, that’s being good at an important job.
her last name was totally made up in her parents head.
OMG. I just remember my ex-MIL pulled this shit in Morocco. She ordered a salad expecting leafy green. She was given a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers. Didn’t like it. Picked from our pates instead.
Oh no a vacation of falafel, baklava, and lamb… Oh the humanity
We don’t do falafel in Greece. We’ve started adopting it over the last decade (mostly as a vegetarian alternative to meatballs and stuff) but it’s definitely not a traditional Greek thing.
Would you like some feta instead?
Spanakotyropites please!
She should have given me her ticket, I will eat all of that regardless of where I’m at. A nice salad that wouldn’t make me bedridden is a dream ('Merica, fuck yea)
A consumer rights expert has explained what you can do if your hotel on a foreign holiday refuses to serve you a full English breakfast, after a woman got £100 from TUI because she couldn’t get British food on her Greek break.
Planning a trip where meal options depend on what food the hotel one happens to be staying at serves sounds like a very limiting choice to make.
