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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
No it’s fine and there are Michelin starred restaurants there. 

It’s from an older stereotype about how traditional British food was all boiled mutton and mushy vegetables compared to fine French cuisine or Italian favourites.
gpt
The stereotype comes from world war 2, when the americans came over when they got involved in the war, it had already been a few years, so we had to ration and mock everything. This is what the americans had to eat, so when they went home, that is what they explained british food tastes like, and it stuck