London Makes Adrian Clayborn Nauseous
October 19th, 2011
The fact the Bucs are playing a second home game in three years in London was enough to make a Bucs fan throw up.
Seems that may have happened to Bucs rookie Adrian Clayborn.
Just six days before the Bucs play the Bears before a collection of mainly curious sightseers, Clayborn decided to rub elbows with the blokes (that’s British slang for kickball-loving pukes) at a pub (that’s British slang for a tavern or a bar) to have some fish and chips (that’s British slang for some nasty cod and greasy fries).
Per Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune, Clayborn’s reaction to this gruel was about what Joe’s reaction was the last time he tried to eat Indian food (that’s not American slang not for maize) and his eczema flared up so bad he had to go to his dermatologist to get steroid shots.
Clayborn partook of some traditional fish and chips shortly after arriving here with the Bucs late Monday. All his dip into one of England’s most famous dishes did, though, was ruin his evening.
“It didn’t sit well with me at all,” Clayborn said Tuesday after suffering through a restless Monday night. “It messed up my stomach bad. It won’t keep me from playing, though.”
Well, thank the man upstairs for that. Imagine being forced to play a home game overseas and possibly losing your best defensive lineman because he decided to sample what the locals call food and had to puke his guts out so bad he couldn’t play? And for what? To be a glorified circus show for the hooligans?
Since Clayborn is from St. Louis, Joe suggests someone fly him a crate of belly bombers (White Castle) to settle his stomach down.
Good thing Clayborn didn’t try this p!ss warm beer they sell over there. Ugh!
As the great Norman Chad wrote detailing the history of sports television in his book “Hold on Honey, I’ll Bring You to the Hospital at Halftime:”
1773: Angry colonists disguised as Indians board three ships and throw tea into Boston Harbor, partly to protest the British tea tax and partly to protest bad British cooking. The colonists are helped by some questionable calls from Boston officials.
We Americans love our football and hate for it to be used as some international pawn while trying to eat British cooking. The two are not a good mix, as Clayborn can sadly attest to.
Leave our football alone!
October 19th, 2011 at 8:27 am
I don’t agree with your vitriol for the NFL going international, but I totally agree with your vitriol for British cuisine. The worst week of food I ever ate was in London. I might have been the worst week in my life.
I do not understand why tourists give a damn about going to a congested street, stinky, overpriced, rude citizen, horrific food having city. Perhaps the good food is in another British city because it certainly doesn’t exist anywhere in London.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:32 am
English food, the most god awful crap I have ever eaten and I have eaten some god awful crap prepared by TCNs (you military guys know the term) the Middle East, meat is not supposed to be gray, ever.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Joe, this one may really fire up the hand full of Brits on the site. I have to say though, that I like the beers from GB. The Irish beers are better than the English beers though. I love fish and chips, but have not had them in GB. They are suppose to have some of the best Indian food around.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:44 am
I’m actually from England and I do hear a lot about how americans hate our food.
London is an absolute hole that no question. The real England is not the cities its the villages and towns that lay around and away from the pollution filled congestive rude cities.
You want real english food you go to the older pubs, for roast dinners roast potatoes yorkshire puddings and beef. We don’t really do steak like the Americans love here, I don’t know why i guess its just not something we do.
If you wanna talk greasy food though i mean hamburgers are the epitome of grease. Speaking of Beer NO ONE drinks warm beer in England and we don’t drink any of that light crap you guys are so fond of either.
I live in America and I love it right now I’m in new Orleans for work and oh boy were the Saints fans pissed they lost they thought the refs screwed them over. I literally needed to run out the bar in case i got shanked.
October 19th, 2011 at 8:54 am
i bet it was the mushy peas, I mean its just fried fish with fries. But for the life of me i don’t know how that get peas a neon green color.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:00 am
I spent ALOT of time in England. The food is horrible, very bland.
The fish n chips are usually very good and so are the meat-pies.
You can usually get an excellent breakfast spread at the nicer hotels too.
When you are over there for a long time though, you can only eat that stuff so many times. I usually lost about 5 pounds every 3 weeks I was there because I didn’t eat alot.
The Bucs are in London though, so they have access to food from all over the world including some excellent Italian and French restaraunts.
Hopefully this just makes Clayborn even angrier on the field 🙂
October 19th, 2011 at 9:02 am
I dont know guys….I didnt mind British Pub food/beer at all. Black n’ Tans and guinness is simply better beer than piss water Bud/Miller lite/coors. As for the Fish n’ Chips…Hell, its just the #3 sampler from Long john Silver’s…whats not to like?
How do you get sick from a peice of fried fish and french fries? I think it was drinking real beer that hurt him…not that St Louis Budweiser crap.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:02 am
As far people always saying the beer in England, Scotland, and Ireland is warm…. BS. They haven’t been there or don’t get out much when they are there.
99% of all the places in Great Britain serve beer cold.
The problem is other drinks. God forbid they drop an ice cube in a drink once in awhile.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:05 am
It’s OUR game, OUR team and this London “home” game, the second “home” game there in two years SUCKS!!!
The NFL prides itself on having an even playing field. Well? How is this fair?
October 19th, 2011 at 9:53 am
“Well, thank the man upstairs for that. Imagine being forced to play a home game overseas and possibly losing your best defensive lineman because he decided to sample what the locals call food and had to puke his guts out so bad he couldn’t play?”…
That would have been a disgrace Joe if he didnt play sunday cause of a little food poisoining he got on monday.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:41 am
The nation that gave us McDonalds and BurgerKing is complaining about British food? Wow. Still, just like all American food isn’t bad burgers, so all English food isn’t bad fish and chips. In reality, if you didn’t find good food in London, you weren’t looking very hard. There’s great Indian and Chinese (not just the Hunan-Szechuan you get in the States), anything from Polish to Portugese if you want European, and pretty much anything else you can think of. Of course, anyone can stay in their Holiday Inn, eat crap and complain about it, but that’s not London’s fault.
October 19th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Fish n Chips made him ill? Glad he didn’t try the Haggis or Blood Pudding!
October 19th, 2011 at 11:57 am
For a guy that was accusing the British public as a whole of being racist a few days ago, you’re really verging on xenophobia towards the English here Joe. Pot calling the kettle black?
October 19th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Joe here,
@Jimmy — You are completely false in all that you wrote above. Why make stuff up?
October 19th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Seriously?
October 19th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Joe,
You don’t like Indian food??? Man, Indian food is the truth!! I love that stuff! Maybe you ate with the wrong person and was recommended the wrong stuff! Try tandoori chicken, garlic naan with chicken tikka masala or garlic naan with butter chicken! mmmmm, now im having indian food for dinner!!!
October 19th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Amar:
1) No, Joe doesn’t like his eczema flaring up. 🙁
2) Indian food (not talking maize and buffalo meat) doesn’t like Joe.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Joe is hater to anything that Joe doesnt like.
October 19th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Joe, I love your site and your up-to-date and always interesting to read articles!
BUT…how can you make a comment about bad beer in England when basically all you get to drink each week is the crappy stuff that is called beer in the US? Oo
*walks back to his fridge to grab a bottle of cold German beer*
October 19th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Ash…most people are. I am pretty sure Joe was going for a jolly proper chuckle with this one you bloke!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Maybe he should have had the Banger and mash…At the game they can sing…
why won’t you call and come home?
please call and come home
and i know you won’t come just for the cash
will you come for my bangers…
my beans and mash!?
Don’t worry Adrian, when life hand you a jeffery, pet a furry wall!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
@McBuc, Remove the stitches that connect your lips to Joe’s a$$ bloke
October 19th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Why, cause you cannot read a joke? Why so serious, get over yourself. I do not agree with everything Joe writes, and I disgaree with his thoughts on this article. I still had a chuckle at it. You want to point out that someone, this time Joe, hates on things he does not like…Well, maybe you are hating on the article because you do not like it. Logical right? Nice 12 year old mentality comeback though.
October 19th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
I come here because its the best news site for the Bucs but get tired of Joe always poo pooing on anything that he doesn’t enjoy and having to skim through all that opinion to get to the bucs news, ie fantasy football, soccer, now English food, etc. Like damn man open up your mind to something thats not in your wheel house every now and then. If that makes me hating on this article then I guess so.
October 19th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Ash
One question, who owns and runs this site?
I’m sure yours, as would everyones, would need to be skimmed through too!
BTW this post is about Clayborn getting sick on British cuisine!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
point taken OAR
October 19th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
British beer is way better than the beer flavored seltzer anheiser busch products so many people like here…and if you can’t find good food in a huge multicultural city you aren’t trying or have never been anywhere in your life before……and sorry joe..Indian food is awesome..sorry you can’t handle spicy food! Put down the Mcdonalds my friend!
October 19th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
There are very good American made beers but not the pisswater that is served at the games… or gas stations for that matter. Take a trip to ABC or Total Wine and educate yourself.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
I thought the British Fish and Chips were very good. That North Atlantic Cod is hard to beat, if done right.