> A friend of mine said his wife had a kangaroo steak at a French restaurant in London. Just so I can avoid such stuff, I need to know: is that a French thing or British? Isn't London a long hop from kangaroo country? What have those people got against normal food?

Well, you have to put it in perspective. I mean, what our definition of normal food is could be, and probably is, completely different from what other people's definitions of normal food. In some cultures, people find it unbelievably outrageous that we eat cows.
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> The last time I was in London was in the '80's and remember the food as somewhat forgetable. It was hard to find American food like pizza, fried rice, and tacos.

Huh? Pizza is Italian, fried rice is Chinese, and tacos are Mexican. Most of our so-called American foods are taken from other cultures, anyways, only modified and fit to the American palate. Omelettes? France. Coffee? Carribeans. A whole bunch of stuff? Britain.
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> I knew a guy who went to Paris a couple of decades back and he couldn't get French Fries anywhere but McDonalds.

I'm not sure, but I believe that french fries didn't really originate in France.

> Then he went to Germany and after looking all over Frankfort and Hamburg, he finally got a hamburger at, you guessed it, McDonalds. He said he never found a real American hot dog, just German copies with funny names.

You got me there. But I think I would consider German copies with funny names still to be "normal food".
> Howard