British cooking, pre Industrial Revolution, was good - where do you think all those cooks over there learned those dishes that are suspiciously like our traditional dishes - they aren't all Indian recipes? British cooking, post Depression and with WWII rationing went through a bad patch. In the gap in between, there was good and bad, depending on where you fitted in society, or how close you were to the sources of food in the country.

This is a calumny that should die, along with references to grits and chitterlings.

Penny