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The fish and chips stereotype

me any English stereotypes that are false? Uh, we eat fish and chips every day. That is very true. Yeah, it's fish and chip. They have a fish and chip supper every Friday. That'...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: English stereotypes and cultureSubtitles: en

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episode. Can you give

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me any English stereotypes that are

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false?

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Uh, we eat fish and chips every day.

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That is very true. Yeah, it's fish and

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chip. They have a fish and chip supper

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every Friday. That's a tradition here

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with English people. Okay. Um, yeah,

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every English person, friends here, they

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they generally have fish and chips at

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least once a week, you know. I don't

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think there's anyone that I've ever met

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that doesn't like fish and chips, I

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think.

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So, I'd say we do like fish and chips

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style rice though. And the crumpets as

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well. Like I think we see that a lot as

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well. My friend had like a bag of

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crumpets in her kitchen when we went to

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visitors. I was like, "Okay, this is

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like a stereotype." That's true. The

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food in England, is it all beige and

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disgusting?

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No, I don't think so. I think that's

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very typical for children's food, but I

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think adults are quite I think a lot of

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English are quite foodies. Okay. Um,

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what kind of food uh what would you say

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is your favorite dish then that would

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defy this? It's probably not an English

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dish. It's probably like I do like

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Indian and Asian foods and things like

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that. How often would you two eat fish

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and chips? We're not massive fish and

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chip eaters, are we? But we like we

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enjoy one as like a delicacy or as like

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a treat. But yeah, once a year. I

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probably say more roast roast dinners

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for us, isn't it? We quite like a roast

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dinner. I love a curry. And yeah, we

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love curry as well. Yeah, that's

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interesting. And the curry one's a big

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one that no one's mentioned

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