“The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.” PeopleCountryFoodOrdinaryBritishSavagesOrdinary PeopleHamburgersNeatness Book:The Complete Unreliable Memoirs Source: The Complete Unreliable Memoirs
“When you cut it up, put the pieces in your mouth and swallowed them, the British hamburger shaped itself to the bottom on your stomach like ballast, while interacting with your gastric juices to form an incipient belch of enormous potential, an airship which had been inflated in a garage. This belch, when silently released, would cause people standing twenty yards away to start examining the soles of their shoes. The vocalized version sounded like a bag of tools thrown into a bog.” PeopleFunnyFormCausesPiecesCuttingMouthsStandingToolsEnglandTwentiesBottomShoesBritishEnormousVersionsThrownBagsStomachYardsJuiceGarageExaminingInteractingHamburgersBogsBallastGastricAirships Book:Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued) Source: Falling Towards England: (Unreliable Memoirs Continued)
“The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB” SecretBritishClassicHomosexualAlcoholicsSecret ServiceKgb Author:Clive James
“A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.” WayPlayerTvsRoundsBoxesBritishTraditionalClassicTennisCommentaryWimbledonFixture Author:Clive James
“In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.” YearsFunnySpeakNationsHumorousEnglandCompetitionCreditBritishBeerMcdonaldsHamburgersCoastersBrakeDiscs Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs
“In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.” FactsHumorFunnySimpleSweetKingsHumorousGainsIncludingBritishMealsItalianDishesTypicalBuilderPastaHamburgersLabourers Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs
