somemightsay on Nostr: True. Their food is shit. I've been there more than once, so I know from first hand ...

True. Their food is shit. I've been there more than once, so I know from first hand experience. And everyone is cheap as fuck when it comes to the food that is served, when you're going out to eat, which is somewhat of a necessity, when you're traveling. Let me explain what I mean by that: there is no real meat, in anything, when you go out to eat, unless it's like pig balls or some shit that most people wouldn't actually eat or if it is decent, it's very skimpy. Like one bite of actual meat and the rest of your plate is fucking beans, potatoes in the form of "chips" aka "fries" and some shitty bread. If you order a tuna sandwich, is it White meat tuna? Fuck no. It's this garbage dark tuna soaked in fucking vinegar. Vinegar. Everything is in fucking vinegar. Everything is fucking beans, potatoes and bread, but the shittiest bread you can imagine. With vinegar. Maybe you have to go to the mega rich places, like where the royals and the politicians eat, to actually get meat that is decent and a decent portion, because you sure as fuck aren't going to get quality food in the every day places and markets that the "common people" go to. What else, nothing is refrigerated adequately. There's no such thing as a cold drink on a hot day, unless you go to one of the Japanese (from Japan) owned stores in one of the higher end shopping districts in London, like Carnaby Street. The Japanese stores are the only places with adequate refrigeration and air conditioning, during the summer. What else, everything is fried, but fried in the filthiest fucking "oil" or "grease," you can possibly imagine. It comes out of the fryer looking exactly like a "mish mash of filth and sadness," just as you said. In fact, I think that is the best description of British food, that I have ever heard. Seriously.
Another thing, I love the Brits, being that they are my ancestors and they make great music, great literature, great poetry and great clothes, but they eat like shit and drink too much. It's no wonder they age so horribly, the way they do.
Again, they drink way too fucking much and they don't get enough actual protein or fresh fruit and vegetables, for that matter. Good luck finding anything that we would consider "fresh" in the way of fruit or vegetables, in that country. They really need to figure out how to grow fruit and vegetables in green houses, because there is none, in that country; that isn't typically months old, wilted and full of bug and worm holes, because it comes over from parts of Europe, such as Italy and Spain and sits in warehouses and on docks, for weeks, with no refrigeration, before it gets shipped across the channel. Also, the famous "fish and chips" is typically complete crap, unless you go to the seaside. At least, that was my experience. I did manage to find some good fish and chips, with a large portion of fish, in Brighton. Anyway, great post.