| Question: | Whatﾒs the most mind-boggling English habit youﾒve encountered? |
| Thierry Henry: |
Ketchup! Ketchup here, ketchup there, you put ketchup on everything! Donﾒt you want to taste the food? [Laughs] Iﾒve got a friend here, and if you give him spaghetti bolognese heﾒll put ketchup on it. Any kind of food, heﾒll put ketchup on it. I say to him ﾓIf you like it so much, drink it! Put a straw in the bottle, go for it!ﾔ The other thing is gravy ﾖ all over the food, all over the plate until you can see nothing but gravy. At Arsenal we have a masseur who is just extraordinary. He takes his plate, and fills it with a bit of everything, everything on the same plate! He puts his starter on one side, then some mashed potato, some pasta, some rice. Then he slaps a bit of meat on top of it all and drowns it in sauce. I say to him ﾓPut your starter on one plate and then get up and go and get another one for your main dish?ﾔ I mean, if itﾒs a pre-match meal, OK, you might take a bit of pasta and a bit of rice on the same plate. Or if itﾒs an English breakfast, then you have several things that go together. But when I see them sometimes with their plates with salads, pasta, meat, sauce all together, you just have to laugh. |
