Coffee culture and the americanisation of england.

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Purrfect South said:
This in a nutshell. Most of our decent coffee over here has come from Europe anyway. Starbucks is poor quality in comparison to most of the decent independent coffee shops. The Krispy Cremes, and burgers have become the staple diet of fat bassas all ower the country, and they're definitely an American import.
However, we've produced Greggs, beer (very fattening), and fish and chips. The OP does have a point though, but most are too blind to see it. Too busy sitting on their fat asses watching shite TV, and eating piles of cheap fattening shite from Asda (American).
I live in a very affluent area, but we do have a large Asda. It's become apparent to me that people have got fatter since they opened. You've only got to look in their trollies, which are heaving with cheap pizzas, cakes, and donuts.
If healthy foods cost less, people wouldn't become addicted to all that shite.
We've got a massive Govt campaign going on, to stop people eating so much sugar. Buy diet drinks, they advise. The same diet drinks, that are full of Aspartame, made by Monsanto (American).

Coffee's great, tea's great, pizza's great, donuts are great. All in sensible doses though, which is hard to do, when they're so cheap to buy.


me too, If I'm lucky :(
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Canny 800 words on "in a nutshell" there. Thick arse.
 


Slagging America and "americanisms" seems to be the cool thing to do on this board lately. I visited the US for 4 days originally and never returned to the uk.
I love the place and the people
 
Purrfect South said:
This in a nutshell. Most of our decent coffee over here has come from Europe anyway. Starbucks is poor quality in comparison to most of the decent independent coffee shops. The Krispy Cremes, and burgers have become the staple diet of fat bassas all ower the country, and they're definitely an American import.
However, we've produced Greggs, beer (very fattening), and fish and chips. The OP does have a point though, but most are too blind to see it. Too busy sitting on their fat asses watching shite TV, and eating piles of cheap fattening shite from Asda (American).
I live in a very affluent area, but we do have a large Asda. It's become apparent to me that people have got fatter since they opened. You've only got to look in their trollies, which are heaving with cheap pizzas, cakes, and donuts.
If healthy foods cost less, people wouldn't become addicted to all that shite.
We've got a massive Govt campaign going on, to stop people eating so much sugar. Buy diet drinks, they advise. The same diet drinks, that are full of Aspartame, made by Monsanto (American).

Coffee's great, tea's great, pizza's great, donuts are great. All in sensible doses though, which is hard to do, when they're so cheap to buy.


me too, If I'm lucky :(
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There's nee Greggs in the USA
 
I met a friend for coffee at some establishment lately and I told the barista girl I just wanted a "strong, regular coffee", instead I got some foamed up milk with a couple of shots of espresso in it - foul and expensive :confused:
 
barbieshellsaysFTM said:
I met a friend for coffee at some establishment lately and I told the barista girl I just wanted a "strong, regular coffee", instead I got some foamed up milk with a couple of shots of espresso in it - foul and expensive :confused:
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I don't like foamed milk or lots of milk. I ask for an Americano and add a splash of regular milk to it.
 
barbieshellsaysFTM said:
I met a friend for coffee at some establishment lately and I told the barista girl I just wanted a "strong, regular coffee", instead I got some foamed up milk with a couple of shots of espresso in it - foul and expensive :confused:
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f***ing barista man. :lol: It's a f***ing waiter or waitress. You swallow any auld shit you read. Another Americanism, dress up your job title to make your job sound more important than it actually is. Sandwich artist? 5 star burger flipper?
 
Lexingtongue said:
Tastes like vomit. I love chocolate but wouldn't touch their stuff.
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Tastes like it, because it is made from curdled milk.
Something they had to do during the war.

I couldn't believe people actually enjoyed this muck, so looked it up and found that.

Bournmoor filling station now has an 'American candy' section, next to the cash register, guys.
 
Some daft bint on the telly used the horrific word 'staycation', the other day...

Frijj said:
At the choice of our own citizens though.

If they wanted to keep their identity, then they wouldn't consume aspects of American culture introduced to the UK, would they?
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Some are easily lead.
It seems we, the minority, prefer to remain British, in the main.

I know cultures change and immigration and evolving language is how we progress, but this Americanisation of our lives has picked up some serious pace in just a couple of years.

Even in this very thread, people are using their terminology and words.

Where is our national pride?
 
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We were a nation of coffee drinkers before we got a taste for tea.
 
Seaham Towny said:
Things Americans do better than us.

Bacon
Certain sporting events
Television

Things we do better

Everything else. Don't mind the americanisation of some things within reason.

Their sweets are f***ing abysmal mind.
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Whoa whoa whoa.

That's American for stop a horse.

Bacon over here is shit. It's just the fat.

As with every time come up, I want to point out that it goes both ways and America has changed since the 80s, something people forget. It's as if anything that changes or evolves in society and people think is bad is an Americanism. People also ignore that we've had unhealthy fast foods since the 80s and consumed American food and drink (like Kellogg's, coke etc) for over 100 years.

McDonalds are on the way out, Chipotle and similar are becoming far more popular. I work in Uptown Charlotte and the most popular place for dinner is a salad shop, they literally queue for half an hour (for a f***ing salad). There are joggers all over the place, everybody I know goes to the gym all of the time. I can't speak for all of America, there are a lot of people over here eg. in the Midwest of German ancenstry. Those are fat bastards, but they are coming from long lines of people who are massive. From places I go to, like Charlotte and New York, there are no difference between the fatties here and at home. Far less people in wheelchairs here though.

It's all well and good going on about McDonalds. But I find that since I moved here, I eat far less unhealthy foods. I don't eat greasy Indian food, there are kebabs here, kind of, but not the same so I don't eat them. I think I went to McDonalds once, about a year ago and there isn't a KFC near me.

As I said, it works both ways. It's striking the amount of British influence in the mainstream media here these days. I'd say at least 20-25% of adverts have British voice-over actors, there is even an advert for bog roll where an English lass goes around asking people about wiping their "bums". There are a few British words that people here say more and more too, like "cheers".

It's funny too. I have no idea where there is a Krispy Creme shop here and they came from North Carolina. There are a few Dunkin Doughnuts, but still. Things like that are franchises, at the end of the day it's not like those doughnuts are forced at people. When they opened those shops up home those things were rammed, if people like them then what can you do.

One other thing I don't know if people realise, pretty much everybody I know doesn't drink lager. They are mad for those IPAs and there are endless microbreweries. Again, I don't know everybody at home or in America, but of the people I know, a far higher percentage of Americans drink beer (over lager). Of course, these things inevitably throw the old Budweiser cliche at the argument.

california_surf said:
People were drinking coffee before usa existed as a country.
American Bacon is crap.
Hersheys tastes like cheap advent calender chocolate
Tv shows have terrible timed adverts that disrupt the viewing and awful political/drug company adverts.
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That's why god invented DVR, I don't see why this is a problem, we have adverts at home too.

HBO doesn't have adverts in the middle of the programmes though.

Gonzo Mackem said:
But like Asda is now American.
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It's not really American though is it.

It's parent company is now American, but who are their shareholders? We live in 2014, it's not that straightforward any more.
 
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