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Nah mate. I don't know where you come from but if this is how you think about British food then your parents just didn't know how to cook. Shepherds pie, Roast dinner, Welsh rarebit, meat pies beef wellington, even simple meals like bangers and mash, toad in the hole, fish and chips are really good when you pit a bit of effort in.
Then not to mention desserts, scones, Victoria sponge cake, trifles, apple pie, sticky toffee pudding, tarts, custard, biscuits etc.
And the cheese, we have something like 700 different kinds of cheese in the UK famously including Cheddar, Wensleydale, Stilton, red liecester etc.
I mean this is also pretty true to the best of my memory. My stepmum could cook but she did Turkish cuisine.
I always thought shepherds pie was Irish but I just looked it up and I was wrong. It is infact British.
Never had Welsh rarebit or beef wellington so I'll take your word on it. They do look tempting though.
The roast dinners I remember weren't exactly great, but that might just be a me thing.
You're definitely right about the others though, can't believe I overlooked them, even if I do prefer Mediterranean fish and chips.
And yeah, you got me good on the deserts, some of those are something special.
You know what? Fair play mate. Consider me schooled.
Now imagine that count of (granted, good British dishes) multiplied by about 10x-100x and you just got Greek Cuisine, or Portuguese, or even Spanish (so not even mentioning French or Italian).
Mind you, it's not only the Brits that have but a handful of really good local dishes: from my experience of also living in The Netherlands, they're about the same in that domain: a handful of good dishes which is but a fraction by of what you would find in the local cuisine pretty any Southern European country.
While it's just outright deceitful to portray Britain as devoid of good local dishes, the local cuisine in general (both in variety and in terms of what the average person normally cooks at home) isn't exactly great.