@BorisOspasky you're right in that, although Nature was generous to me, She didn't include the gift of being a clown.
Now, I claimed several time my comment on English food is ancestral wisdom (although post-modern ideologies want to ignore this wisdom completely). Since you keep insisting, I will back my claim.
> What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.....It is putting cabbages in water. It is roasting meat till it is like leather. It is cutting off delicious skins of vegetables.....A whole French family could live on what an English cook throws away.
--Virginia Woolf
> Doctor Johnson defined a sauce as something which is eaten with food, in order to improve its flavor. It would be difficult to believe that a man of the intelligence and culture of Dr. Johnson....had expressed himself in these terms, if we did not know that Dr. Johnson was English. Even today his compatriots, incapable of giving any flavor to their food, call on sauces to furnish to their dishes that which their dishes do not have. This explains the sauces, the jellies and prepared extracts, the bottled sauces, the chutneys, the ketchups which populate the tables of this unfortunate people.
-- Alberto Denti di Piranjo
> On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
-- George Mikes
> Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.
-- Waverly Root
> I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
-- Margaret Halsey
> The British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal.
-- Bill Marsano
> All in all, I think the British actually hate food, otherwise they couldn't possibly abuse it so badly. Americans, on the other hand, love food but seldom care what it tastes like.
-- Bill Marsano
> More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
-- Joseph Lelyveld
> The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
-- Oscar Wilde
> Britain is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than the sex.
-- Jackie Mason
> The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.
-- Clive James
Finally, it is interesting that you should have mentioned roast beef in your attempted defense of English food, thereby confirming the following observation :
> The art of cooking as practiced by Englishmen does not extend much beyond roast beef and plum pudding.
-- Pehr Kalm
