LONDON (AP) – What makes Britons British? Fish and chips, drinking tea, and the queen, according to them. The Beatles, a traditional cooked breakfast of sausages and eggs and Buckingham Palace also made a list published Tuesday of people, places and pastimes that define Britain. Top of the 100 Distinctly British Greats list was food—fish and chips tied with roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for first place, each nominated by 73 percent of people. Queen Elizabeth II was in third place, chosen by 64 percent of voters, followed by Buckingham Palace in fourth with 58 percent. Next came the cooked English breakfast (56 percent), The Beatles and the Houses of Parliament (both 55 percent), chain store Marks & Spencer (53 percent), the master painter Constable (52 percent) and drinking tea (51 percent). Other things that made the list were traits such as queuing, keeping a stiff upper lip and an unwillingness to tackle foreign languages.
—I love tea and roast beef, some of my best friends are queens, I can’t speak any foreign languages, I enjoy Beatles music and Constable paintings, and have even been to Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament!
Bloody 'ell, old toff, mayen’t I get a Green Card now?
Lesse…I love the Beatles…sausages…roast beef…I am allergic to fish, but I enjoy chips (those are fries…right?)…I am allergic to eggs…I drink tea almost everday…I have never been to London, but I am dying to go…and I have perfectly straight and white teeth (braces and whiting toothpaste, if you must know)
So what does that make me? Almost British? Poser British?
I think you will need to understand Soccer, Rugby and or Cricket as well.
I can just imagine Eve sitting watching cricket on a warm sunny day, reading a good novel and sipping a Pimms. Sorry but I think Eve is quite deffinately English, from somewhere in the Home Counties, but living now in a ‘little’ Chelsea pad.
“It’s a ghastly place. Huge gangs of tough sinewy men roam the valleys terrorising people with their close-harmony singing. You need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the placenames. Never ask for directions in Wales, you’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.”
I don’t like drinking tea, so does this mean Im not British? If not, what am I then? Oh, I’m so confussed! I like being British! I get to use words like ‘bloody hell’ and ‘snogging’!
I drink iced tea a lot. I like roast beef. I like sausages and eggs. I like fish and chips (fries, please!). I know lots of queens (hell, I am one). I’ve eaten Yorkshire pudding and liked it. I grew up Episcopal (The Ahmurkin version of the Church of England). Am I close?
I love tea. And fish-n-chips. Always felt a little attached to the Queen. Adore English breakfasts, the Beatles and I’ve actually watched a cricket match. And I’ve watched Man. Utd. play. (At a Mexican restaurant, but it still counts!)
Doeus this meaun I muust staurt adding extra letteurs to words at randoum?
