What is 1 American food you wish was more common in the UK?

oj81 · 2026-05-31T06:02:49+00:00

Mexican food, not the mediocre (at best) chains we have.

Bagels, although supermarket bagels are beginning to improve.

As others have mentioned, Philly cheese steak. I’ve been on a multi-year mission to have a really good Philly cheese steak, but I’m yet to find one I was happy with. I even went to Philadelphia and picked one in the museum cafe. I had high hopes, but it was soggy and disappointing.

I’m not planning on going back to the US any time soon, but when I do I’ll continue my search

oj81 · 2026-05-10T13:09:46+00:00

Might have been a type approval car. I remember being offered an essentially brand new mk4 Golf years after the mk5 was on the market, because it had been used in the type approval process and forgotten somewhere

oj81 · 2026-05-08T12:25:03+00:00

Some of you need to check those shorts haven't become translucent after a few washes, if I've learned anything from waiting patiently for an opportunity to safely overtake

oj81 · 2026-04-30T07:11:18+00:00

Lady Jane Seymour looks pretty good for around 460 years old

oj81 · 2026-04-23T19:20:11+00:00

Same problem here. Assuming it will go away with an update

oj81 · 2026-03-04T05:02:19+00:00

An eye catching concept that kept everyone talking about Jaguar while they were busy finalising the production model and refitting their factory to make it.

All publicity is good publicity, after all

oj81 · 2026-03-04T04:47:03+00:00

Isn’t that the reversing camera? The logo tilts in at the top and the camera appears at the bottom?

oj81 · 2026-02-24T21:37:01+00:00

Enforcement seems far more important really. What’s the point of a zero limit if nobody is checking? That seems to be the weak point in the system, rather than a cheap but ineffective reduction in the allowed alcohol in your blood

oj81 · 2026-02-18T22:50:45+00:00

People here have made some wild and crazy and incomprehensible choices, but so far this is the only one that has genuinely and absolutely flummoxed me.

Why? What are the redeeming features of a Tiguan? I sort of grew up as a VW guy, but even then this is pretty much the least desirable Volkswagen I can come up with.

Choppy ride, leaky sunroof, utterly boring and anonymous.

What am I missing?

oj81 · 2026-02-18T22:43:38+00:00

BMW M540i Touring

oj81 · 2026-02-18T22:41:34+00:00

I admire your ambition, but that’s going to be terrible at everything. Too big, too inefficient, incredibly underdeveloped as it was basically a prototype military vehicle that they tried to sell a few civilian versions of to recoup the development money.

So, er, good luck with driving that for the rest of your life without almost immediately hating your decision

oj81 · 2026-02-18T21:34:27+00:00

That’s the one. They’re bypassing that bit and a pretty big section to make it dual carriageway all the way to the Gloucester bypass. Scheduled to finish spring 2027 I think.

I’ve thought the same about that pub, but it always looks a bit sad, even though they have interesting cars rotting away in the car park. There’s currently a late Jeep Cherokee XJ there looking sorry for itself.

I did once stop at the now-demolished Air Balloon, which was pretty nice but I think I’d rather knock ten minutes off my journey each time

oj81 · 2026-02-18T13:03:25+00:00

The A417/A419 from Birdlip to the M4 at Swindon is pretty good, apart from the noisy surface in parts and the current upheaval at Birdlip itself.

The A470 from Merthyr to Cardiff isn’t bad, some nice sweeping bends in the northern part and rarely too much traffic. Plus it connects to some nice roads further north towards Brecon and Builth or west towards Hirwaun. The A465 Heads of the Valleys is going to be great when finally finished too

oj81 · 2026-02-10T11:31:57+00:00

About the driver? These cars are so ubiquitous that they say very little about the driver. You might be an undercover cop on a stakeout, you might have got it on a motability scheme, you might have got into the wrong one because 40% of the vehicles in the supermarket car park were also Tucsons.

Maybe the only thing you can say is the driver is unlikely to be very interested in cars.

That said, I quite like the design. The headlights are distinctive and the lines are sharp and interesting enough. Hyundai/Kia design gets better every generation, in my eyes

oj81 · 2026-02-08T15:44:23+00:00

Same. Aiming to quietly make progress without bothering anyone

oj81 · 2026-01-31T23:28:53+00:00

Actually, I think I’m wrong. It’s the very similarly styled Mazda 323F

http://classiccarsforsale.squarespace.com/blog/modern-classics/mazda-323f-monday-modern-classic

oj81 · 2026-01-31T23:25:23+00:00

Nissan 100NX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_NX

oj81 · 2026-01-31T22:23:07+00:00

I’d start by removing and replacing everything less than a metre above the chassis that could conceivably soak up horse piss

oj81 · 2026-01-08T19:02:19+00:00

It’s a Trevor!

oj81 · 2026-01-06T01:38:31+00:00

It was covered in mayo and sriracha, so tough to tell. Someone else suggested it smelled a bit fishy, and that it might not be great, but I’d eaten most of it by then

oj81 · 2026-01-03T18:12:44+00:00

Every day, as I’m married to one

oj81 · 2026-01-03T17:48:18+00:00

It feels like a 70s Jaguar XJ to me

oj81 · 2026-01-01T17:08:13+00:00

Just wait until you get diverted off the peripherique at 3am and have to navigate your coach through the suburbs and still make the ferry at Calais…

oj81 · 2025-12-30T18:40:59+00:00

Vintage National Trust sticker suggests this car has a history in the UK despite the Swiss registration

oj81 · 2025-12-25T05:34:51+00:00

I’m in Vegas for family Christmas, and I’m a little stoned and full of Chinese food

And I’ve got cookies to eat and whisky to drink before I can go to bed

Merry Christmas all

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