Yesterday I had the rather bizarre experience of eating in Frankie and Benny's, the faux Italian-American restaurant chain. On its website it claims:
I've been to Italy; I've not been to America but I've seen lots of films, and F&B's isn't even Hollywood-authentic. It's fun in a kitsch sort of way, until you have to eat the food which is actually fairly horrible, much worse than other similar low-budget restaurants – I pause before describing it as low-budget and a restaurant because it is hardly either. It was even worse than Pizza Hut and priced similarly to Pizza Express.
But anyway, I'm no food critic. What was especially weird was their attempts at authenticity, the decor having the feel of a diner and posters on the walls of what I assume are famous Italian-Americans. Whilst music played in the restaurant, inside the toilets was Italian language tracks, instructing how to say simple phrases in Italian.
A couple of good websites I've been wasting a lot of time on recently:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Littlejohn (my favourite entry)
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/
On a different note here's a clip from Panorama a while ago which helps to explain how the BNP appeared to creep into the mainstream at the European elections.
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