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> For UK of course it's even worse, they're actively known for the bad taste and cuisine. Only by people who've no idea what they're talking about. British fo
by wtbob 10y ago
> For UK of course it's even worse, they're actively known for the bad taste and cuisine.
Only by people who've no idea what they're talking about. British food got a bad reputation due to, I think, three factors: first, it's the native cuisine of the English-speaking world (which means both that people don't notice it and that there are a lot of cheap, poorly-executed examples to hand); second, rationing during and after the Second World War badly hurt both availability of ingredients and folks' taste for ingredients; third, Victorian-era institutions were terribly efficient at churning out 'scientific,' 'cutting-edge' food-like substances which were almost but not quite entirely unlike the real article.
Native English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish cuisines are all delicious.
- coldtea 10y ago>Native English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish cuisines are all delicious. Anybody that cares for it the way people globally care about French, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Japanese, even German etc food? One can find more Korean BBQ joints than British restaurants the world over... Let's put it this way: some countries have more interesting (to the world) cuisines than others. Not every national cuisine is of the same caliber.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Anybody that cares for it the way people globally care about French, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Japanese, even German etc food? As I understand, there was a long down period essentially as a side effect of the way industrialization played out in Britain, but that's turned around recently internally and there is growing international acceptance of the British cuisines among people who are into food. It hasn't reached the same kind of popular currency as some other cuisines, globally, but I'd not be strongly inclined to think that's due to inherent quality factors, rather than awareness.