>>212211276It is, though. Their food got fucked by industrialization harder than almost anyone else. Even if you start from the low bar produced by urbanization and industrialization in the 19th and early 20th century and the effect that it had on their food supply, the 20th century was still pretty grim.
>WWI rationing 1914-21>Great depression 1929-39>WWII rationing 1939-54It took longer to die out in the country but the wars put English cuisine on death's doorstep; then, starting in the 50s and ramping up by the 70s, they started importing millions of Chinese/Indians/etc. who filled the vacuum and many of ancient and traditional British foods exist in either a degraded format, are incredibly localized or are on the verge of extinction if they're not gone already. Plenty of bongs will point to a shop selling pies or a restaurant still doing puddings but stack up the number of those places versus the number of places selling chinese or curry or beef patties or kebab and you'll get a more accurate look at how fucked things have become.