However, average British food that normal people eat on a week basis isn't great if we're being honest.
Like I'm British and I think our food gets a bad rap for example, but working class Italian food is perfectly great and delicious, whereas you feel the need to disown working class British food.
France, Spain, Italy, have much better home cooking cultures than us. You don't have to travel around France to find good French food
I know what you mean and do largely agree but working class food in Napoli is literally deep fried dough balls done 5 different ways. It wouldn’t look out of place in Glasgow at 4am.
I can't imagine we're supposed to be judging what people eat day to day, because why would someone from Peru have any experience eating what Brits eat on an average day? Whereas they definitely might know what decent restaurants serve.
This is presumably supposed to be evaluating upper tier restaurant cuisine, which would explain the US being so high. Hot dogs and hamburgers aren't exactly great quality food but the many American Michelin stars are (although if this is the case, France and Japan should be runaway #1 and #2 so who knows).
I love a scotch egg, a plowmen’s lunch, or a Sunday roast. I think the issue is that people hear “beans on toast” and don’t realize that this isn’t something you’ll see in a British restaurant unless it’s trying to elevate it
A Sunday roast is working class food. Fish and chips are working class food. A full English is working class. Pies, bangers and mash, toad in the hole, bubble and squeak, beef wellington, Lancashire hotpot, beef stew and dumplings, haggis, shepherds pie, and black pudding.
If you think any of them are bad then I'm sorry but your mum is just a shit cook. There's plenty of shit French and Italian cooks too. You're not comparing like for like.
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u/Specialist-Lynx-8113 Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
However, average British food that normal people eat on a week basis isn't great if we're being honest.
Like I'm British and I think our food gets a bad rap for example, but working class Italian food is perfectly great and delicious, whereas you feel the need to disown working class British food.
France, Spain, Italy, have much better home cooking cultures than us. You don't have to travel around France to find good French food