I'm a very big exponent of British culture. British culture is absolutely dominant globally. We invented computers, our language is the Lingua Franca and the language of programming, science and the internet. essentially all the major sports were codified by Brits and spread around the world. the discovery of gravity, the industrial revolution, the world wide web, splitting the atom, TV, the documentary, lots of modern medicine etc etc etc.
But I will say that our food really is not great. Compared to France or Italy or Japan or even S Korea or Spain. We lost the culture during rationing in the war and we're only slowly getting it back. it really isn't that great and I don't want to defend it falsely. we just don't put as much effort and care into it as other countries do. people accept a lower standard here.
a really bad restaurant in Japan is better and cheaper than 95% of restaurants in the UK and that's not an exaggeration
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u/Dasterr 22d ago
I recently went to scotland and ate fries once. they were absolutely terrible
the rest was great though