Sometimes good old Britain gets a drubbing and sometimes from Sootyj, for which he is sorry. Because let's face it Britain is great and everywhere else is rubbish.
So let's celebrate the manifold ways Blighty has the edge on Johnny foreigner!
1 Sandwiches. Years ago Britain established the holy trinity of sandwiches; cheese and pickle, egg and cress and tuna and sweetcorn. French cuisine and all that malarkey merely exists to compensate for their innability to get the basics right.
2 The royal family. Why bother trying to make a good impression? We've got an old lady, her bad tempered husband and their doley kids.
3 Sarcasm. We invented it, but you Americans are quite good at it. No really you are...honest.
She probably made the mistake of giving a guest both toast and fried bread at breakfast, which is cause for justifiable homicide under Hotel & Catering laws in this country.
