26 k accounts created ? Wow <| sep |> Karma Charger never forgives . <| sep |> I remember reading some article about food in Britain and according to this article , the stereotype of the bad British food was mostly born in the second half of the 20 th century , after WW 2 . Apparently , back in the 18 th and 19 th century there was the saying a good English meal and this was mostly because fresh produce on the Islands was easily available and therefore a lot of recipes were based on this . With a lot of population gradually leaving the rural areas and moving to the cities and eventually with WW 2 happening a lot of recipes stopped being used and were forgotten and in the aftermath of the war with fast food and ready meals becoming more and more available people literally stopped cooking at all .