Why is English food so disgusting?

[irafranken]

Yuck!

[andy hughes]

Food is literally a matter of taste - maybe you need to widen your diet, and try eating in other places - you can find good and bad food anywhere in the world, it's down to what you eat, and where.

[rja211077]

begs the question what is "English food"?

[mez]

I guess we're talking Shepards Pie, Cottage Pie, Cornish Pasty, Cumberland Sausage, Lancashire Hot Pot, Black Pudding (and Haggis if you want to talk "British" food) here, to name but a few. It is all simple, economical and sustaining "working" food originally. High energy, balanced food for hard-working folks in the fields and down t'mines that used local and seasonal produce. As Andy says it is a matter of taste. Such food does not translate well to today's current obsession with light, trendy, cosmopoilitan, continental style foods however. But who is to say tastes are not cyclical - British food may make a comeback someday! ;-)

[oblique]

because we are criminally unimaginative.

[aloha]

English food is disgusting because of a secretive and subversive campaign from the French Board of Tourism. But surely you had come to suspect this, non?