Quote Originally Posted by SnappyPix
... over-ripe tomato (that's tom-ah-to, not tom-ay-to!).
Even if the food is predictably inedible, the British diner will unfailingly say "It's lovely, thank you" in the unlikely event that the waitress gives a damn enough to even ask.
My brothers and I tease my mother to no end on the "tom-ah-to" thing. Toooo funny!

Uh oh -- she's told me that after sampling my cooking....

~Bike "1/2 Brit" Momma