The English in terms of tea, roast-beef and rain

The English can be explained by their Anglo-Saxon heritage and the influence of Methodists. But I prefer to explain them in terms of tea, roast-beef and rain. A people is first what it eats, drinks and gets pelted with.
Pierre Daninos, Major Thomson and I, (1957) from the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous quotations, p.109

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