Bad British cuisine has been depicted in many books. Yu Sato, a rookie diplomat who trained in Russian in England, wrote about bad British food in his memoir, "My Story of England" (Shincho Bunko). Sato said that when ordering at a pub, you should choose dishes that "don't require much effort. If you order a dish with extra steps, it will be difficult to eat. Perhaps the reason is that combining ingredients and adding flavorings, which is a delicate task, is not something that British cuisine is good at.

The fact that British cuisine is said to be unpalatable also has something to do with Britain's historical background. As the British Empire, it had colonies all over the world. Not only in the countries of Africa, but also covers a huge area such as India, Pakistan, Myanmar and so on nowadays, and even has colonies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and so on in Asia. In other words, Britain's colonies all over the world gathered cuisine from all over the world. Therefore, it seems that there would be no need to develop their own country's cuisine, then it is only natural that this is difficult to eat.

Because Britain's native resources are poor, the people have been in extreme poverty for a long time, and where you are poor, you don't eat too well. Britain's native production is only wheat (half of the area can be planted, the other half of the place due to the land is too poor and can not), rye, barley, beans (they did not invent the tofu, so they can only be cooked and eaten, the texture of the problem can not be solved), and then there are a number of milk, butter, meat, fish (the amount of all the serious shortage, resulting in a family's head of the man can only eat a meal of meat every day, and as an appetizer to eat, and the other members ate meat once a week at most). So, the traditional English diet was bread, boiled beans, bacon, sausages, baked pudding (a savory pudding is a pie nest with sauce in it), bread buttered, meat often cut into small pieces and stewed (because there was no such thing as a fork for a long time, you had to use a spoon), with milk and barley brewed beer.