Why I'm proud to be British

Daniel reverses his earlier anti-British stance, expressing pride in British inventions, military victories, empire, food, weather, and national achievements. He jokingly praises British trains for enabling fare evasion, recounting a £20 fine avoided by submitting a fake address. He cooks five-minute egg fried rice with onion, bacon, egg, green onions, salt, and pepper, noting Japanese rice’s stickiness.

A usually critical expatriate briefly adopts an unusually celebratory, nostalgic British identity while retaining irreverent self-presentation.