Odd, I always thought this was the British National thrift foodstuff:
By a strange coincidence, on a local Los Angeles radio morning show, one of the guests was a PBS travel show host named Rick Steves. His show is quite popular and he gives a lot of inside information about inexpensive travel. One of the radio hosts, who has travelled extensively throughout Europe, asked Steves why British food is so awful. Steves tried to not be critical of the food and offered that it is getting better do to a rise in the British public's acceptance of foods from its former colonies. This caused me to think of two questions:
1. Is there really an indigenous cuisine in Britain?
2. If Britain is turning to the quisine of its former colonies, will the Brits take over our uniquely American fare such as chow main, spaghetti and meatballs, chimichagas, and swiss steak (among others)?
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1552891.html
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22145/...-foreign-foods