You’re right, there’s lots of great food, great ingredients, wine and great restaurants in England now.
And I can never seem to make my tea here as good as a good English cuppa, and I buy Yorkshire Tea bags (here in America) made by Betty’s Tea Room’s at my local “gourmet” (hate the word) market. The Yorkshire tea is really rich tasting. Sometimes I use PG Tips also.
Real scones instead of those giant things we have here. The milk, eggs, butter and clotted cream are great. British cheese is underestimated also. There’s good pub food now too.
My problem is that the prices of a meal in a restaurant, hotel rooms, etc seem God awful expensive to the less than rich Americans.
And what I like about the Brits is that they are such great and interesting talkers. They can talk your arm off.
I tend to use my local supermarket own brand and if you make the tea immediately the kettle boils and the water is still boiling (problem with tea in other countries they treat it like coffee and add water that has boiled not boiling) is is fine.
I must admit our hotel rooms and meal are very expensive but then so is our food my average weekly spend and I am not extravagant and often buy items from the lower end of the price range is about 70 - 100 dollars a week just for 2 of us.