Oink

Prawn cocktail
Gammon steak with chips and peas
Black Forest gateau

Alan2005

kippers.

pdarwin

You give 'Black Forest Gateau' as an example of British food as if you're goading us into challenging you. I sense there's a catch.

Oink

I was assuming it was British as my nan wouldn't eat foreign food and she always ordered this for her pudding when we went out for a meal.

Alan2005

What about coronation chicken? It's got foreign origins, but obviously made better by british chefs. I quite like it, but does it pass the "Oinks Nan" test?

Flogger

I like a nice bit of pineapple on top of my gammon steak. Not sure if this makes me look like one of them food snobs, or a bit of a poof. So instead, I go for a fried egg.

Oink

Pineapple? That is posh.

I had plaice for a treat once. That is obviously British as it said it was caught locally and were in a cafe in Margate.

bats

I think you will find, young man, that that dish was invented for the coronation of our very own dear queen, which makes it very British indeed.

foreigngirl

Black forest gateau is actually a German speciality. No? Schwartzwald (sp?) cake?

foreigngirl

I think we're going off topic here. What I wanted to say to the OP was: don't worry about the food!

bats

That would be the humour part that you don't get.

Greenhill

Have you tried Soggy Biscuit?

Danny B

Good
Drive through Banks

Bad
People not complaining enough

robert1234

Good:

* low crime rate maybe depending on where you go.
* no/fewer chavs different people that are just annoying, but maybe less of them?
* scenery again, depends where you go
* job market not so great right now, but better than the UK perhaps
* larger homes bland and not nearly as much character as british houses

Bad:

* lack of culture ummmm? Canadian culture is for the most part British culture with some French thrown in and then it's own unique quarks gathered up from the indigenous and the hundreds of years its had to develop separate to the UK. Just as much culture in Canada as there is in the UK.
* humourlessness Canadians are hilarious and some of the funniest people around. The advantage is that we understand and appreciate both American humour and British humour. Some people have said we aren't dry and sarcastic, I don't know who they are hanging out with in Canada but it is definitively not my crowd. Since living in Australia I've had real problems as no one seems to get my dry, sarcastic Canadian humour.
* accents That one can't be helped, if you don't like the Canadian accents, not much you can do about it.
* lack of British foods/good foods You can get pretty much any kind of food you want in Canada. I'm sure there's plenty of 'british' food, not sure why you'd want it though
* lack of good television TV situation in Canada is pretty poor, it's pretty much just American TV. The CBC tries, but can't really compete.

MarylandNed

Yep - in general I have found this to be true. The Aussies seem to get it better than most. It goes over the head of most Canadians and Americans I've met - although there are exceptions. I work with an American guy in the US who has the same, dark/dry/sarcastic sense of humour - but he is definitely a rarity.

Yep - but there are people like that everywhere. For example, there are many black people in the US that I simply do not understand at all.

Agree.

There is some absolute crap on North American TV. I do miss the BBC and decent newspapers. There are some decent newspapers in North America (e.g. Washington Post) but I prefer the quality newspapers in the UK.