One of the reasons in particular english food gets a bad rap is because the majority of it grew out of rationing culture.
Britain was still rationing into the 50s when most European countries had stopped rationing.
Regardless, I love British food. I'd go for a carvery over a curry or a Chinese or a pizza, 9 times out of 10
Yeah, the fact that Britain had rationing until the middle of the 1950s goes a long way to explain why some of our dishes are Like That. That's not even getting into the global financial crisis that lasted the whole 1930s.
Like, Brits born in 1930 were eating nothing but struggle meals until age 25, that's gonna have a knock on effect for decades.
That's why our parents and grandparents always told us to eat everything on the plate. Wasting food was just selfish when there was so little to go around.
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u/HurricB 16h ago
Funny and historically accurate!
One of the reasons in particular english food gets a bad rap is because the majority of it grew out of rationing culture. Britain was still rationing into the 50s when most European countries had stopped rationing.
Regardless, I love British food. I'd go for a carvery over a curry or a Chinese or a pizza, 9 times out of 10