"… and the British are the cooks"

I actually enjoyed British food on my trips over there in the 90s and later — decent pub food, Indian, this and that. But British food still has a rep as being awful. So … why?

A good historic perspective on that question. #ddtb

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Dining After 'Downton Abbey': Why British Food Was So Bad For So Long : NPR
Dining was a very, very big deal in Edwardian England — and the food, it turns out, was pretty sophisticated. So why was British food derided as boring, tasteless fare for much of the 20th century? He…