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Gregory Morrow[_412_] Gregory Morrow[_412_] is offline
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Default Food intolerance in Britain

blake murphy wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:06:05 -0800 (PST), Food SnobŪ wrote:
>
>> On Feb 8, 8:42 am, "James Silverton" >
>> wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> This report in the Telegraph seems to indicate that the British are
>>> just as worried as Americans.
>>>
>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...rton/7168007/F...
>>>
>>> "One in five Britons is now labouring under the misapprehension that
>>> they are suffering from a food allergy"

>>
>> I'm not sure that I could tolerate the food in England. My wife and
>> son are going to Iceland in August. (I have airplane phobias, so I'm
>> not going). I wonder what they'll find to eat there.

>
> i'm sure that they'll be so happy to be free of your hectoring they
> won't care what it is they're eating.



Maybe they can bring him back some rotted shark as a gift, that's one of the
national dishes of Iceland IIRC. It's shark meat that is buried in sand for
a whiles and then resurrected...an "acquired taste" from what I've read.


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