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So we made it to the restaurant… without getting raped by anyone, and almost instantly, red flag number three came up. Sophie immediately started in on the city, Americans, and the “slop” we call food, saying that Americans don’t know how to eat — the same slop, mind you, that I paid for because she was too broke to feed herself anything but McDonald’s. But slop or no slop, Her Majesty ate everything but the waiter. So, to answer that YouTuber’s question, when you’re in the US… or any country, for that matter, Rule Number One is: Don’t bite the hand that feeds you!”
to start in on | When you start in on someone or something, you start to criticize them or attack them verbally.Yes, Clara, I bought a new laptop. Please don't start in on me. I make my living on my computer and the other one was already ten years old.
[NOUN] or no [NOUN] | This pattern means «regardless or [NOUN]» or «putting [NOUN] aside» where the status of [NOUN] has no bearing on the situation at hand: Friend or no friend, I won’t have you talking about my sister that way!
slop | This is normally the half rotten food left over from cooking that is normally fed to pigs. However, we also use this word to refer to bad-quality food of any kind.I know this is your nephew's restaurant and don't mind paying for good food, but to charge $50 a head for this slop is highway robbery! I will not be back!
for that matter | This phrase lets you add a detail that just occurred to you while making a statement. It has a nuance of «now that I think of it». There's no hurry — you can pay me back tonight... or even tomorrow, for that matter.
mind you | This is another way of saying by the way, but with a bit of sarcasm in this case.Jimmy has always been good with languages. He taught himself to speak, read and write Chinese to the point that he could chat with his Chinese classmates...and mind you, he was all of ten years old at the time.
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