Why is English food the worst????

Answer 1

how can you say a roast beef dinner with yorkshire pudding is bad get a life

Answer 2

I blame the war. Rationing, canned food, convenience food, all things 'modern' and 'new' became better than the real thing, and then pretty soon, crap food became acceptable. (and cheap) It's only now that people are a bit more wealthy that we're realising what kind of pap we'd been eating all these years.

I think that English (British surely?) food has a bad rep because of all this, when actually now British food is among the best in the world. It depends if you mean that the food served in restaurents here is the worst, or if British culinary inventions(recipies) are the worst. Personally I think that both are pretty good, when done right - it's just that for so long, both were often done wrong.

Answer 3

I just recently visited the UK. I was there for 3 days out of a 15 day tour of Europe. I must say, their cheese was awesome! I'll admit, I usually thought English food was supposed to be bland and boring, but don't believe that anymore. Their food isn't bad at all. Actually every European country I ate in had amazing food. (esp Italy of course.)

If you are cooking English food yourself, maybe it is the recipe you are using. Perhaps you should find another one? If you're eating someone else's English food, then they either can't cook, don't use good ingredients, or again have a bad recipe. Really, English food can be amazing.

Answer 4

What do you mean by "English food"? If you have a roast dinner made properly, it's delicious. However, having something like that in a restaurant is oftem not that nice because the chefs are taught how to make things that real people never actually eat so they have no idea. My partner is a trained chef and can cook lobster and stuff like that but he has never made home-made chips nor has he ever made a "Sunday roast" on his own. You should try a real traditional English meal made by a real, traditional English family. Then, you might not think it's so bad.

Answer 5

English food is food for the workers. Quite simply, being one of the smallest and most powerful countries at the same time makes life hard. Farming, sailing, fighting, governing and controlling everything doesn't leave you with much time off so people prepared food quickly and sparingly, unlike those surrender monkeys over the channel who decided to try and pull off one of the world's greatest PR stunts by convincing humanity that mouldy cheese, insects, reptile body parts and cow brains are "good food". Americans can't talk because they haven't invented anything in the culinary world. We either showed it to them, or the french did. Australians just throw stuff on a BBQ which is cheating really because everything tastes good on charcoal and the Japanese can't even be bothered to cook, so the fish is raw! Now the Indians, Italians and Chinese know how to cook, but how can anyone compete with that?

So we aren't that bad, we just get a bad press because of things like Black-pudding and our tendency to batter and fry anything and everything that falls in our laps. English food can be fantastic, but we'd rather be out doing something useful.

Answer 6

I don't think it is, but English food is sometimes considered bad because of it's blandness and the lack of imagination involved in it's preparation. It's because England has an ideal climate for agriculture. Historically, animals that were eaten had a good diet therefore their meat was good and not much needed to be added to it to make it edible. Unlike in other countries.

If you can find a good organic butcher you'll see the difference.

Answer 7

Because it lacks spices.

Food from warmer climates tend to have more spices because application of spices or acidic compounds like lemon juice, kills bacteria that might be growing on these foods. This is especially important in warm climates where food can go bad. England is at a very high latitude and has a very cold climate and little need to preserve its food with spices, and there weren't many spices to be had in the area (they had to get it all from India and other regions), and so their food is bland and boring.

Answer 8

Compared to where? Germany? America? I love my food but after a while I struggled in both to find decent food.

England has some amazing restaurants - mostly due to our melting pot of culture/traditions in this country. Check out 'The Great British Menu' book/tv programme that used native produce to creative some lovely dishes.

You've obviously never been to England, or if you have, have not bothered to experiment

Answer 9

Sounds like you have already made a decision regarding this cuisine. It's cold there, they are a meat and potatoes kind of people, and the region isn't good for growing lots of spices. just an idea. Proper British tea, isn't really grown there and it isn't really British, more likely that it's African. Honestly though, if you go to Britain, they have a lot of great food from a variety of other cultures as well as their own.

The American palate is so used to eating rubbish that when you taste something good...you don't know it. Kind of like preferring Hershey's plasticky chocolate to a great Cadbury Dairymilk bar. don't know any better.

cheers

Answer 10

Spaghetti Hoops, Scampi Fries, Topic, Bourbon Biscuits, Monster Munch, Kraft Cheese Slices....etc. etc.
Feeling foolish yet?

Answer 11

Think about that question.....How can you say it's the worst?
So you don't like fish and chips?
You don't like a good great big english breakfast of a morning?
And you don't like a Sunday roast?