We need something to accompany all those cups of tea, after all. Speaking of pavlovas, the Eton Mess is our version and is laden with fresh fruit. Spotted dick might sound like a medical condition but cover it in custard and it’s up there with the pavlova as one of the best fruity desserts you’ll have. Myth: Pommie food is just deep fried stodge.įact: You won’t see us giving up our fish and chip suppers in a hurry, but there is great British food out there. If we really were just moving abroad to find a hotter version of home there are many sunny places in Europe which don’t cost us 20-odd hours and a 600-quid plane ticket to get to and from.Ĭamera Icon British treat spotted dick. You’ll often hear people say they moved here “for a better life” - and it’s true. Myth: Poms move to Australia looking for “Britain in the sun”.įact: There are undoubtedly some Poms who congregate together drinking Carling and watching Corrie, that’s not the case for most of us. Camera Icon Do Brits really drink warm beer? Credit: AP
and we drink lager just like you: cold, freezing cold. Granted, the English room temperature is a bit cooler than WA.
And the posher you sound, the easier it is to be rude without people noticing at first glance.įact: Well, sort of true, but only ales, which shouldn’t be chilled but rather room temperature. It’s just we’re somehow able to cover that we’re being rude with “sirs”, “madams” and “I’m terribly sorry, buts”. So here are our top Pom myths busted wide open.įact: We can be as rude as anyone else, more so, actually. As experts in all things Pom, we felt we should do our part. Over the past few weeks, readers of this newspaper would have seen many of our colleagues busting the myths that abound in their fields of expertise.
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