Your Favourite British Thing(s).

[Treblaine]

Sauces, Condiments and cheeses.

It's what the British Empire was based on, "buying" fancy foreign herbs and jarring them. I really like american food but they just fall so far short when it comes to sauces.

Hellman's Mayonaise = perfection. I tried "American" mayonnaise, and all of a sudden I understood all those American jokes about mayonnaise... it was more like lard, disgusting, i would hesitate to even use it as a base ingredient in cooking.

Though I will admit American food in general I prefer. I'll have a cheeseburger over a pastie, a hotdog over a sausage roll, or Kentucky Fried Chicken over Coronation Chicken, etc. Also, call me a philistine but I prefer american style pizza over more traditional italian style.

 

[Vkmies]

Your television. Little Britain, Smith and Jones, Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Top Gear, Awesome Documents are made there... Jesus. America has THE WORST DAMN DOCUMENTS! They get me pissed.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

For me, it includes Doctor Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Harry Potter, and possibly Red Dwarf - if I ever get around to watching it...

 

[Danny Ocean]

Yeah, but there's tons of different accents in America. I'm sure there's differences in some parts of Britain, but I don't sound like anybody from California. I actually sound like what's stereotyped as Texan, but I'm from North Carolina. So many on Xbox Live have asked if I'm from Texas.

There's Boston accents, New York, Southern, blah blah blah...

Oh I know! Many regional dialects are quite endearing and Texan accents make me melt!

 

[LostTimeLady]

The best thing about Britian is everything as far as I'm concerned.

Food, telly, books, history, cities, countryside, actors, singers, comody... for all people could claim we're just the 51st state or just a county in Europe I'd say the best thing about Britian is there's a certain I don't know what about it, a Britishness if you will.
That's the best thing and it's part of everything else that can be claimed to be British, from Doctor Who to the England Cricket team. (Sorry to brag Australia, but it's been a while since we could brag about anything in Cricket really and if I'd made that quip a few mounths ago it would have still stood, prevously it was quinticentially British to have a bad cricket team and make jokes about it.)

 

[Reaper195]

Its hard to decide between Monty Python and Stephen Fry. They're both so great it hurts.

If only the two had ever combined. It would have destroyed all other comedy in the world!

 

[EmzOLV]

MINI EGGS!
CREME EGGS!

*sigh*

I love Cadburys. Or at least what it used to be! When you used to visit the factory or at least the visitor centre in Bourneville you could measure yourself in fudge bars.

Totally rocked.

 

[trooper6]

I (American) grew up being a *huge* Anglophile. I thought the UK was just the bee's knees. Then when I visited some friends there, I all I heard was how terrible America was--all. the. time. How we're the cancer of Europe and how terrible it was that McDonald's was in England and how the US doesn't make any good TV or film and how we were all bad in every way. It got old really quickly. Especially since it seemed to really be all weird defensiveness and the inability to deal with America's ascension and Great Britain's decline post-WW2.

Nonetheless, I'm still very fond of the UK, though I've taken it off its pedestal...especially after I've spent lots of time studying its social and colonial history.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

British theatre. That includes all movies, television, any acting whatsoever. Nobody does it better. NOBODY.

 

[LupusDei]

Yatzhee, the accents, Monty Python...

And what the hell is a queue? I thought that was a selection of documents a printer had to print, or a list of something to do, something along those lines.

One more question - do Brits think we Americans sound funny, and (I doubt it, but I think it's worth asking) do you ever try an American accent? Because tons of people here try a British accent, and the only one who seems to be able to pull it off is my brother, for some reason.

I've met a Brit, too, by the way, and he seems quite similar to Americans except for the accent.

Lol, "what's a queue?" Heh.

I think most of us think most of you sound annoying thanks to the stereotypical California 90210 crap. We're kinda desensitised to it now, though, thanks to shows like scrubs and friends.

We are quite similar in many ways. Many of your political ideas come from English sources, after all. Also,

[HEADING=1]The NHS![/HEADING]
I cost the state Eight Million Pounds.
I would've died almost anywhere else in the world!

Yeah, but there's tons of different accents in America. I'm sure there's differences in some parts of Britain, but I don't sound like anybody from California. I actually sound like what's stereotyped as Texan, but I'm from North Carolina. So many on Xbox Live have asked if I'm from Texas.

There's Boston accents, New York, Southern, blah blah blah...

Tons of different accents in america? Theres probaly more accents in britain which is tiny compared to America. Just like a scouse doesnt sound like a geordie or a mancunian. Theres multiple different accents in london alone not to mention lots more in Northern Ireland. British accents also vary massively, no two sound the same in most cases.

 

[linkvegeta]

their accents and way of life. It just seems better.

 

[WingedFortress]

Marmite! HA! Just kidding. No Offense to my English friends.

Umm...I'd say Paddington Bear. But he's from Peru, now isnt he?

Lionhead is okay when they arent hyping things to death.

Led Zeppelin was a good one. So were the Beatles and the Stones. Also, thanks for turning Metal into something really great. If it werent for the big 4, America never wouldve stood a chance.
The streets are pretty legit too.

Also, I want to thank all you british for travelling all over thus forcing even the smallest south american hamlet to serve an english breakfast. Its all that took me through Bolivia.

Other than that..the humors been covered..foods been covered.

I guess now we just need to make a thread of least favorite british things.

I vote for the Queen and the fact Canada is still attached to your country at the hip. Not cool son.

EDIT - Punk rock. You guys really worked your hearts out on that one.

 

[Jroo wuz heer]

The english language ?
Plus medieval literature that is actually fun to read and translate.

english language is from germany

OT: cool slang

 

[Fetzenfisch]

The english language ?
Plus medieval literature that is actually fun to read and translate.

english language is from germany

OT: cool slang

not quite right, while not completely false

 

[Morten Dall]

Sticky Toffee pudding!

 

[hellsdinner]

THE INVENTION OF SARCASM!!!
And breakfast... Hmmm english breakfast...

 

[TipsyPeaches]

Stephen Fry, black pudding, and Irn Bru.

 

[narwhalman218]

I really love doctor who, top gear, and this one weird British cookie whose name I cannot recall.

EDIT: It's called hob somthing