Recycled british...
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- uncle_helv
Can you think of anything that belongs to other countries, but have in a sense been hijacked and become part of British culture...
A couple of loose example might be...
Lambretta/Vespa: Italian, but because of it's place in UK popular culture (Mods) it can be seen as a kind of symbol of British-nessThe Balti: A Pakistani food, associated with England (Birmingham etc)
Any more things
- neue75_bold0
Helvetica?
- scribbler0
Cricket?
- Britain invented CricketADP
- oh, I thought it was India? Maybe I got it confused with Snooker, that was invented in India?scribbler
- I'd be willing to be bet that Britain invented snooker tooADP
- It was invented by a Britain but in India. So does that make it British? I guess maybe it does. Part of the Colony at the time I guess so technically. OK I'll give up, no more sport guesses.scribbler
- guess. OK I'll give up. no more random sports.scribbler
- Raniator0
Football
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Tom Cruise
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Intelligence
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Ability to spell
- Raniator0
*re-reads thread
Shit, I'm getting this the wrong way around...
- maximillion_0
tikka masala or korma - one of them was created for the british pallette and isnt "authentic"
- skt0
Tea
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Definitely Vegetables names
- neue75_bold0
the 80's
- Spookytim0
The Mini was created by a Greek man who copied an Italian interpretation of a German idea.
Or summat.
- neue75_bold0
Cocaine
- maximillion_0
the empire
- Spookytim0
Champagne wouldn't exist without us plucky brits though. We invented the super strength bottle that made it all possible. Before that, Johnny Frenchman was glugging flat champagne out of paper bags and hating every minute of it.
- wet iz ziz errible beg ov flet chompoigne? i doont lark eet une teeny leetle beet.Spookytim
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Colonisation
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haha, foil blocking!