“I have to be careful because I have ulcerative colitis so there’s certain things I can’t eat.”
“There was no bacon. For breakfast there was mozzarella and sliced tomatoes. There was no hot bacon or sausage.”
Sounds like she had some valid criticism for the hotel as well. All inclusive package, but pay extra for water? Wtf.
But honestly, I have no idea why she would expect English food in Greece. Spain only does it because of all the English tourists, it’s not an international standard to serve English food or something.
To provide some context: Corfu received strong British influence in the past and was under the crowns reign for a few decades. It has remained a frequented destination for upper-class British tourism into the early 20th century as I have heard.
Good on them abandoning the dreadful culinary influence of the Brits. A culture so captivated by spices, but one that never thought to get high on their own supply. No no, just keep boiling things
Brits are to spices like dragons are to gold: they only hoard with no way to use it themselves.
At least in D&D the good and evil dragons do have a use for it.
The evil dragons eat it just before they die. If they don’t show up with enough gold in hell, then Tiamat/Takhisis eats their souls.
The good dragons use it to fund various parts of their chosen civilization/ city/ town. So a gold dragon may create a perpetual trust to fund the defence force of a kingdom, or a silver dragon may fund a museum or theater.
I haven’t come across any material that says what the neutral dragons use it for, other than a bed. Apparently when you’re that big, gold is quite soft and comfy.
We’re in the 21st century.
It reads like she didn’t check ahead of booking, if you have some sort of allergy, she she appears to, its essential to check ahead.
It also reads like excluding tax, they paid about £600 for flights, transfers, hotel and all inclusive, each. I am not surprised that the food and drink would be closer to the budget end for that price.
I went to the UK recently and my only food allergy is lactose intolerance. JFK I had a hard time finding food that wasn’t full of some type of cream. It was a the worst part of a otherwise wonderful trip.
If you really insensitive to lactose then yeah its going to be very painful, milk is in just about everything baked or with most sauces that isn’t stamped vegan. At least most reputable places will take it seriously and have a proper allergen book.
I am Coeliac, and its like me going to Japan, just about everything has wheat added to it. Soy sauce? Gluten. Miso? Gluten. Whats annoying is that traditional Japanese recipes for Miso and Soy do not use wheat, it was added later after the American occupation. You can buy both soy and miso gluten free outside of Japan very easily, but in Japan, even though they made by Japanese companies? Ha good luck.
The worst part is that nobody in Japan takes it seriously as there been like two people in the last five years who were diagnosed with a gluten intolerance let alone Coeliac, so even if you take a Japanese speaker along and they explain it politely to the chef, you still get gluten.
It was probably bottled water they’d been buying as they didn’t want to drink the stuff out the tap.
Didn’t want to risk getting ill with her condition I’m presuming.
She was looking for bacon, sausages and fries, pretty sure greasy food is worse for her condition.
Good point, fatty foods won’t help much
Yeah but if alcoholic beverages are included in the all-inclusive, why not bottled water? Or at least sell it at a sane price.
£1.50 doesn’t seem too bad for a bottle of water, if I’m being honest. Especially by hotel/resort standards.
It was an all-inclusive trip. It should be free, anything else is a scam.
Tap water is free and included
That’s not in the article. It only says that water was £1.50. And the tap water on most of the islands is pretty bad.
I don’t need an article to tell me that resorts have tap water. You see I have a brain.
Most resorts give one bottle per person in the mini fridge during service. If you aren’t an asshole to staff you can get more readily.
There was no English food at a Greek island resort?
You don’t say.
Just kebabs, rice, salads, and mozzarella. I imagine there was even hummus. Basically inedible.
And pasta.
Unlabelled pasta, the horror.
If your idea of the world stops at Malaga, then that would be a suprise to you.
Isn’t “English food” just an amalgamation of foods from cultures they subjugated in the past, and beef?
I read somewhere that England eats like they’re still hiding out from the Blitz. Seemed accurate.
You joke, but yes the limited food availability before (WW1, Great Depression), during, and after World War 2 has had a lasting and profound effect on England’s cuisine in particular.
It was never as well respected internationally as other European cuisines, consisting mainly of hearty soups, stews, savory pies, puddings, and roasts, but it’s identity shifted dramatically during that time, often incorporating more international flavors and giving up on most of the needed longer (and less fuel efficient) cooking times.
Funnily enough many of those traditions were maintained more cohesively in some of the further-a-field colonies like Australia.
I wasn’t really joking lol
Fair!
With the seasonings removed
Hey now, that’s reducing English food to an extremely narrow stereotype… You forgot to mention that they also boil their meats, or turn everything into pies.
How could they not have English food like pizza, curry, or kebabs??
The article says they had kebobs but claimed she couldn’t eat them yet wanted sausages and bacon for breakfast.
There’s 3 sort of sections to British food.
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Old staples, things like stews, pies, roasts etc. We exported most of these, with the empire. They are also shared a lot with Europe, making them even more ubiquitous.
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Local specialities. Local traditional dishes, e.g. Yorkshire puddings, Cornish pasties, or Eccles cakes. These were town or region specific. Some have spread, others are still hyper local.
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Imported. Mostly from the empire days. We tended to “discover” spices and flavours. When they came back, they were often reimagined. E.g. the curry was a Scottish invention, using Indian spices. We mostly dump all the related dishes under a label of the country we stole the flavours from. E.g. Chinese food tastes nothing like what they eat in China.
Basically, there is a lot of really good British food about. We also set the baseline for a lot of the comparisons, making us look bland by comparison. The London restaurant industry also does a complete number on tourists, making us look even worse.
Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Scotland, by a Scottish chef of Indian descent, in the 1970s. Cleopatra ate curry.
You forgot the fourth section: yellow / brown with beans.
- fish fingers and beans
- beans on toast
- fry up (beans essential)
- everything in Wetherspoon’s
Only taking the piss of course.
Scotch egg is peak for me. Incredible invention. 99% sure that’s British? Introduced to me by an English man anyway.
Used to love smoked kippers as a child. Different English man introduced me to them. They strike me as a very British thing also.
Never quite got the Yorkshire with a roast thing myself but my sister lives over there and is fully converted on them. I mean they’re good like but I’d happily live without them.
Got gifted an Eccles cake by a lovely Scouser I know last year. Also delish with a mug of tea.
I do love a good pastie too (is that Greggs or am I mixing up?).
Baked beans are definitely a VERY British thing, along with fry up in general.
Scotch eggs are Scottish in origin, I believe. I bundle them in with British, though a good chunk of Scotland would disagree. Definitely good, either way. Kippers and haggis are also Scottish/northern England traditionally.
As for Greggs… I personally consider them an example of how British food got screwed over by mass production. I’ve been disappointed most times I’ve brought from them. I know a lot of people swear by them however.
As for Yorkshire pudding. It’s a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.
As for Yorkshire pudding. It’s a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.
Ah she’s an incredible cook and I’m reliably informed that her Yorkshire’s are legendary level. As with everything she cooks them from scratch (like even her bread is home cooked on the daily) so they were pleasant alright.
I do find her gravy a bit thin myself (again she does it from scratch like some crazy woman). I like my gravy thick AF and have no problem taking it from a tub haha. No bisto though. That’s muck IMO. Anyway I might like them more with my thick peasant gravy as you say.
Chinese curry, however, is a British invention, bizarrely.
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You can reduce anything like that if you want.
Italian food is tomatoes, meat and pasta or tomatoes, meat and bread.
Not even British and this is such a gross oversimplification. It’s like calling a french bakery full of bread.
Yorkshire pudding - name of locality of origin included. Generally only served with a “Sunday roast” dinner as a side dish. It is made from a batter and not a pastry.
Cornish pasty - again name of locality of origin included. Wide range of fillings available nothing even vaguely similar to a Yorkshire despite your poor attempt to lump it in.
Eccles is a sweet treat. The pastry is nothing like either a Yorkshire or a pasty.
Most of the more obvious ones are intended as travel food. Wrap something tasty, nutritious, or expensive in a semi disposable, edible wrapper. It’s a basic stable of most of mankind. England tended to use pastry or batter for this. Battered fish and burgers are other examples. Other as regions might use leaves for the same job.
If it was in a good state, you could eat it. If it wasn’t, then you could still eat the good bit inside. The crust of a Cornish pasty is intended to be thrown away. Coal miners could take them down the mine, and eat them without washing their hands.
Other dishes are a thing. They tended to be more family orientated however. The recipes wandered over time, with less stable traditional dishes. Bangers and mash, or a ploughman’s would fall into this sort of category.
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Don’t forget soggy, vinegar drenched chips.
Comes with being the winner, every time
No, it’s instant soups and cookies.
Pretty dumb of her to not travel with a can of beans and a jar of mayonnaise
That sounds a little spicy for a typical Brit.
In my experience it’s the Dutch travelling with their own mayo, they don’t like the French stuff (too spicy).
We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.
This will be the biggest nail in the coffin of the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel management in their crimes against humanity trial.
NEVER FORGET!
Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
These are all about penny-fucking, and ripping off tourists. I look at the pictures in the article and get PTSD from memories of some childhood trip to Bulgaria. At least we had the excuse of being a working family from a poor ex-socialist country, and any beach and hotel was fancy to us. But somebody from a developed country in 2025 pays for something like this, I don’t know what to say to them.
They could open their browser and book a cheaper trip, staying in an apartment on some Greek or Italian beach, and eating the best local foods. But these old British boomers are lazy and also probably incapable of grilling a salmon steak if their life depended on it. Or at least lift up their asses and walk 200 meters to a restaurant nearby, with edible food.
I would rather keep working in the office during a hot summer week, than go on a trip like this with half a dozen relatives.
Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the “testing ground” for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.
Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our “manager’s conference” was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a “tax writeoff” and then be drunk for the rest.
First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just…borrowing…one.
The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it’s share of stories.
So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I’ve ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.
I have, more than once. Although I do pay extra care to book resorts known for the quality of their catering. But yes, you xan have a huge buffet with restaurant quality food. That also means you see a dozen cooks standing behind the buffet preparing the food, and pricing reflects this as well.
Costco does well, but that’s not quite agency-organized. Their travel insurance is also really inexpensive compared to competitors like Travel Guard.
Sounds like a pretty typically stupid tourist. I mean who goes somewhere foreign to eat foreign food? Oh wait, anyone who wants to try out new stuff. If you only want to eat the same things you always do, then stay home.
That’s what I do. I (American) stay local and eat what I like. I don’t fly to a foreign country and get mad that the food is weird and nobody speaks English. Unlike so many other entitled, stupid people.
She should have thought ahead and packed some Marmite and toast or a bit of Stilton and some crackers just to be safe, that was common for older people in the 1960’s.
She should have chosen a better hotel for her situation. There are hotels in more central locations and hotels that you don’t have to walk downhill to the beach.
But that hotel is too dinky to be called all inclusive. And using TUI is not gonna guarantee a good value.
Hotel food always sucks. I was in Corfu last summer. There were plenty of great local restaurants.
Not true actually, there are many hotels with excellent food. There is a hotel not far from me where a lot of people go to their restaurant even if they aren’t staying at the hotel, it’s just a really good restaurant in it’s own right.
I’ve also been on holiday where we had excellent breakfast options in the hotel, even the ones included were very good. You just need to check for those when selecting a hotel. I’ve definitely had worse meal in some restaurants than I’ve had in some hotels, there’s plenty of overlap there.
Because we didn’t do our research, we ended up at a hotel in Mallorca that were filled with people in their 20s partying all night and the included food fitted the price, for instance one night they served thin slices of meat-ish-spam with overcooked greens.
But we didn’t let it ruin our holiday!
